(Sky’s POV)“Olivia, calm down!” I breathed out, feeling glad I was with a doctor, so I was sure somebody would help me immediately if I had a heart attack. My heart was perfectly fine until she started crying on the phone, telling me about Lalaine and Angela, and that was it. I could not understand a thing she said.“Anj is fine, Sky,” Finn took the phone from her. “I didn’t know what came into her big brain, letting her in. Now Olivia and Nina are crying.”“Nina?” My forehead creased, thinking if my brother was talking about the same Nina at home. “Nina? As in Olivia’s nanny?” I asked as I looked at David, kneeling and lighting a candle in front of Eve’s tombstone. I walked a few steps away to give him moments with her.Finn chuckled. “Elenita told Nina you’d fire her.” I heard Olivia crying hard. “It wasn’t entirely her fault. Anj said to let her in, but damn, brother! You should have seen her. Wow! Angela in action!”I wrinkled my nose, trying to hold my patience, but to whom I di
(Anj’s POV)My lips curved a smile, but I bet Sky found it creepy since what my eyes said differed from the smile plastered on my lips. If he did not come with Dr. Greene, I wanted to confront him about what Lalaine told me. Although I knew she was only bluffing, still, I could not help feeling mad and jealous about it.They came in time for dinner, and in this place, it seemed this meal was vital for them as they were all here unless any of Steve’s children had important tasks to do at work or school. At the dinner table, with Dr. Greene sitting across from Leyanne, my daughter was gaping at her.“Are you really a doctor?” she asked, causing Dr. Greene to smile. She only nodded and focused again on her food.“Why did you ask?” He threw a glance at her and then at me.“I want to be a doctor when I grow up, but not with pets and insects, but I want to help people, just like Grandma Jocelyn and mommy,” she explained.I leaned on my side. “Mommy’s not a doctor, baby,” I corrected, my fac
(Anj’s POV)“If I hear the truth, would I have the chance to debate with you about it?”Cracking a joke seemed a good way to calm my heart from thumping hard because my clenched fist-size organ inside my body was doing a jumping jack at this hour. My big brain was already making an invisible board to note the pros and cons of the truth he would tell me.Steve sighed and turned to Sky and Dr. Greene, giving them the signal to enter his bedroom.I breathed out, my lips quivering as I forced a smile at Sky. “You had it checked if I could produce five sons at once, hadn’t you?” I accused him, only teasing him because seeing them join us made me nervous.“Could you?” Sky pressed his lips, stopping himself from laughing at me, but like me, he looked unsure of what was happening.I sneered at him, almost wanting to tell him that I was able to carry four, so why not five? Yet this was not the right place to mention Cloud to Steve. He would feel heartbroken about it, and I have no intention of
(Anj’s POV)My hand flew to my mouth.“Eve came to me that night, crying and asking for help. I was so heartbroken and angry. My poor Eve… my beloved Eve. My friend. I encouraged her to sue Leonard, and I’d do everything in my power to help her, but your mother said no one would believe her. She said, ‘Who would believe a daughter of a servant?’”Feeling like fainting, I leaned to Sky’s shoulder. My body went cold, my heart stopped beating, and my eyes welled with tears, rolling down my cheeks without warning. I heard someone sobbing, only to realize the sound was coming from me.“Dad, enough,” Sky said as he wrapped his arms around me. “Enough…”I didn’t think he was pretending to be mad at his father because I could feel his muscles trembling, and like me, he was heartbroken, hearing the story for the first time.His dad has no plan of stopping. He wiped his tears and continued. “Eve got pregnant.”When I heard it, my eyes gaped at him, not believing I was a product of a sexual assa
(Sky’s POV)“Dad!” I uttered in anger, narrowing my eyes at them when Angela threw the DNA test result on the bed and sobbed. Although I knew it was not enough to ease her pain, I wrapped my arms around my wife. David stood up, pacing furiously, but I wasn’t sure to whom.“I didn’t know. Your mother kept you from me,” David cried, looking hurt.My mouth gaped open, and I stared at David, not expecting him to be Angela’s father.“If only I had known, I wouldn’t let this happen. Eve knew how much I loved her. She’s the only woman I loved, and she knew I didn’t care where she came from.”He sat down and lowered his head while his hands gripped his hair. “The first time I saw you, I had my suspicions because even with spots on your face, you looked exactly like her,” he gritted his teeth in anger but suppressed the pain. “I didn’t even know what happened to her. She was just gone.”Dad released a bitter laugh. “Ha! I didn’t expect that. The genius David and Eve.”David ignored him and
(Anj’s POV)After kissing me, Selene called her sisters to the steps of the pool, and as if it was something crucial only for them, they started talking in a hushed sound.“Hmm… That’s a first,” I mumbled, wanting to say more, but Sky molded his lips to mine, kissing me with such fire in the early morning. I saw him last night checking on me, but I was glad he gave me time to be with my mother, even if I only had her things with me.“Good morning to the most beautiful woman in the world,” Sky said, planting another searing kiss.“Mmm,” I moaned, breaking our kiss because I could feel eyes gaping at us as if we were in a movie."Really? I just heard that last night that I was the most beautiful woman in the world," Anya teased, nudging Dylan.Sky laughed. "You are, Anya." He kissed me again. "But for me, only my Angela."“Aww! I need a girlfriend,” Finn uttered, looking at Elenita and smiling at her as he waggled his eyebrows.Elenita wrinkled her nose. “I’m too old for you, Finn, and
(Anj’s POV)Olivia and the kids went back to the swimming pool, Steve excused himself to take his medicines in his room, and Finn told us he would feed his pets, inviting Dylan to go with him.Anya and I were the only ones left on the table. She stood up, sitting on the empty chair beside me. When I looked at her, she was in tears.“Why are you crying?” I asked, wiping my tears too. “I’m glad Sky and Dylan weren’t here,” I said as we laughed and cried.“I’m just so happy for you, Anj,” She sniffed, breathing out, hoping it would stop her tears from falling.“Me, too, Anya; I’m so happy for you,” I held her hands. “I’m sorry about yesterday and last night, Anya. I really wished us to talk, but -” I sighed, not knowing where to begin.She nodded. “Sky explained to us you’re not well, and even if we suspected he was lying last night, I wouldn’t dare pester him last night. Sky looked tired and worried about you.”“He was,” I answered and then raised my eyebrows at her. “But tell me the go
(Anj’s POV)Without Sky, my life felt empty.For five days, even if we would do video calls many times a day, I still missed him, and when I woke up at night, I could not believe my heart wanted his warmth beside me. Yesterday, when Frank told me he was at an important meeting and couldn’t talk to us, I could hardly eat, and all I wanted to do was curl in bed and hug his pillow. He was only free to video call us last night.Today, my Mighty Sky is coming home. I smiled as I left our room but stopped in the next bedroom and peeked at the door to check on my daughters.My girls excitedly listened to the interior designer about how she would decorate their bedroom. I would catch her glancing at me nervously as my daughters told her what they wanted to add. She had to please her little clients, who had lots of demands just like their father, or else she had to answer from Steve or Sky.Sky told me I should give them whatever the girls wanted, but I told him I didn’t want to spoil our kids