Ella's POVI was beside myself by the time we got to New York. I had so many thoughts running through my mind and so many questions about what could have happened to my restaurant while I was away. I don't know why but I feel like this was not an accident because it didn't make sense to me. the last time I was at the restaurant we didn't even get to use the stove and ever since Chad tested them out they haven't been used. I suppose a part of me is refusing to accept that this was just an accident. I didn't even go home when we landed I just told Alexandra to take me straight to the restaurant because I needed to assess the damage and see how bad it was. I was on my way to the restaurant when I decided to check on the internet about what the report said about the fire, I managed to find a few articles were one of them says that a homeless man was walking by when he saw smoke coming out of the restaurant, it was said that a few minutes later he heard an explosion coming from the restau
Alexander's POV I still can't believe that someone actually burnt down the restaurant on purpose. I don't know what kind of evil person would ever do this to someone else especially after she had worked so hard to put it together. I knew that there was going to be damaged after the fire accident but I never thought that it could be this bad. I am not a construction worker but even I can tell that everything in this place needs to be redone and that there is no ways she can open a restaurant in the next coming weeks. I also hate the fact that I don't know where to start looking for this culprit. I can see that whoever it was was clearly targeting My Wife and for a specific reason. I know not only have a job or finding out who might have done this terrible thing but I also have a job of finding out why they did it. I was questioned by the police where they were asking me if I had any enemies who would want to hurt me through my wife. I am a successful young man and I am sure that a lo
Ella's POVIf someone told me that I was cursed, I would certainly agree with them, I am not a superstitious person but the way things are going right now, I might be a believer. I don't understand how can one person go through so much in such a short space of time. The last couple of months have been both the best and the worst days of my entire existence. I find myself at the end as I can see that I am fighting a losing battle. I don't know how I am going to be able to rebuild my restaurant.I simply do not have the money to rebuild it and I am sure that the insurance company will take their time. Thanks to Michelle who made sure that I was covered from the moment I signed the lease . She told me that the insurance company will pay up after they are done with their investigations.I had so many plans for my restaurant, plans I will have to put on hold because it could be months before the insurance pays up. I don't know if I even have the strength to rebuild the restaurant. I was in
Ella's POVI was not ok about the fact that someone is after me. I suppose I can never be ok with something like that but now it is worse because my son is involved in whatever this is and I hated that. I am a mother and my first priority is to my children. I am supposed to be the one that protects them but Asian like I am failing them instead. I don't know what to do all that I know is that I cannot let my children be in danger. I have decided that edit before the better if I left with them. I can't believe that a man is sexually coming after a little boy. I suppose it takes a sick and psychotic person to threaten a child and that scares me more than anything. I hate the fact that Alexandra won't be coming with us. I know he thinks that he can control the situation but it is clear that even if he can't. I know that he is trying to act like he is not worried but they both know the truth. I am not going to take this threat lightly especially since I was once kidnapped by some lunatic
Alexander's POVI am not a perfect man, I know all of that but even with all my imperfections I can never deliberately harm a woman or a child especially one as innocent and as little as my son. I suppose a lot of people can say that I am a thug in a suit but even this thug has standards. I come from a very long line of men who had been on the wrong side of the law but they all had one unspoken rule that they respected. That is to stay away from women and children. I have always said that you have to have some type of a demon inside of you if you can actually hurt a child. I always have a cool head on my shoulders because I know that there are people who are depending on me especially my children. I suppose a lot of people might say that I have control issues but I think that I am just being extra cautious when it comes to my family and their safety. I am always in control of the situations around me so I didn't think this one would be any different.I started to panic the moment I r
Ella's POVThey say that being a parent is one of the most fulfilling jobs anyone could ever ask for and I suppose I can say that I agree but at the same time I know that it can be the most stressful time for any parent. I never thought that I would ever be a helicopter parent like I am being right now. I don't know how to explain it but there is just an unsettling feeling I just can't shake off, it happens every time I think about my son and the fact that he is oceans away from me. I will admit that I thought that sending him away to a new school seemed like a pretty good idea at the time, now I am having doubts. It has been a week since Alexander took him to the new school. I was not there and I can't seem to remember why. I wish that there was a way for me to talk to him, just so that I can hear his voice. It is hard knowing that he is all alone in a foreign country. I wonder if he has made any friends as of yet. I just wish that I could remember all the things that I seem to ha
Alexander's POVI have been trying to find my son for a weekend I think that I am about to lose my mind. I know that no one will take my son for absolutely no reason and that is why I am going crazy because no one has made their demands to me as of yet. I had so much hope and faith that we would have been able to find my son but we haven't and that scares me more than anything in this world. I hate the fact that I can't even talk to my wife about it.I have been keeping a lot of secrets from my wife and I knew that it was only a matter of time till she remembers something. I have had to do a lot of convincing on my part because I know that doesn't think that it makes sense for her to just forget everything that happened on that day that our son was sent away to England. I suppose she can see that there is holes in my story, which is why I am making sure that the therapist tells her everything I tell her to. I gave her the injection so that she can forget the painful memory of our son
Ella's POVAfter my bodyguard insisted to go inside the room with me, my therapist told her to wait outside for me. She insisted that this needs to be a closed session. I was not complaining since I wanted this to be a private and closed session. I will admit that it was not easy and first. I was beginning to think that my husband might have gotten to her because she was still trying to convince me that I had a concussion. As a safety measures she agreed for the bodyguard to search the place before I went in." Doctor S... I am sure you understand why I want to do this. " I said to her. " Yes I understand and I will tell you that you are not wrong... about your husband. " She said and my heart sank. In that moment I knew that Alexander tried to meddle in my business. " What do you mean? What did he say to you?" I asked her. " Mrs Black you need to understand that your husband might not be the man that you think he is. " She said to me. " What do you mean by that ? Look I know that
Alexander's POV **** Fifteen Years Later**** " I am sorry Mr Black but we can't allow him to come back to this institute, your son is brilliant, he has a brilliant mind but he is the worst student this institution has had. " The Dean of students said to me. This is the fourth call she has made to me in the last two months about my son, he has been involved in fights and brawls ever since he went to university. I have three other children that I need to worry about and the person I should be least worried about is giving me stress. " I am sorry Dean, I will talk to him. " I said to the Dean. " Mr Black I don't think you hear me, we are beyond talking at this point, your son has proven time and again that he doesn't want to be here. " She said to me. " Dean I heard through the grapevine that you are about to host a gala dinner, something about raising funds for a new division at the university. " I said to her. " We haven't made a notice, how do you know about this?" She asked me.
Alexander's POVI knew something was up with Jack when he kept on dissappearing without any explanations. Not only that but he kept on asking me to give Michelle a job so that she would miss the wedding. I know that we have a lot of history together, that we are basically brothers but I don't know if I can let my wife down like that. Ella doesn't have that many friends, she only has two that she holds close to her heart, that would be Isabella and Michelle, both of which are part of the wedding celebration. The same wedding celebration I flew everyone here for, I booked out an entire resort for everyone. I didn't even understand why he would ask me that so I told him that I wanted a reason why he would even ask me to do something like that, especially after I told him that I want this wedding be perfect, I told him that Ella has to have the wedding of her dreams, if she had told me that she wanted to have dolphins at our wedding, believe me when I tell you that I would have made it h
Ella's POVThe last couple of days have been stressful, having a destination wedding is never easy. I wanted a beach wedding out of the country. I know that Tatiana is behind bars but after all that she has done to me, I can't let my guard down. I didn't tell Alexander but I have been having nightmares about the day of the shooting, I keep on releaving that moment in my mind, I wish I can say that being shot at was the worst part of it but it was not, it was the way Alexander looked at her that scares me to death. I can't help feeling like she will always find a way to ruin my marriage, to ruin the good thing I have going with my husband and family. I know that as long as she is truly out there, I will never be truly happy. She might be in jail but she won't be there forever. I have a fear that one day when I am truly happy, when my children and husband are happy, she will come and turn our lives upside down. She will snatch everything away from me. I have had to put Brad through ca
Alexander's POVI don't usually follow people's advice, especially when it comes to my personal life, I thought that I had all the answers, that I could really be a different man but I soon realised that I was wrong. I suppose talking to Minty helped me to make a few things clear for me, it made me realise what I wanted and why I wanted it. At first I was doing BDSM to deal with issues I couldn't control, I never thought that there was another reason for doing it but after I talked to Minty, I realised that I was using my troubles as an excuse. The truth is that I have always been that kind of a man. I have always had a taste for the extreme, from jumping out of the plane to diving with the Sharks, I have always been the one to live on the edge so my sexual tastes was also extreme. Even before I knew about the BDSM works I always had a thing for bondage and spanking but even then, not even when I was drunk out of my mind, I never did it to Ella, I didn't even think I could. I am abo
Ella's POVIt has been days since the Gala dinner and I honestly don't know what happened but I have been seeing a lot of changes in my husband and as much as I told him to stop buying me expensive gifts, it is like he is purposely trying to ignore me. On top of a very expensive necklace that he got me, he decided to get me an art piece, a very expensive art piece. Last night we went to an art gallery, one of his friends was having his work shown there and so he invited Alexander. It was the first time I set foot in a place like that, up until last night I didn't really think much about art. To me a painting was just a painting and a statue was just a statue but that changed last night. His friend had one of his destopian art pieces and I fell in love with it instantly. The statue was just full of life, the raw materials used were just out of this world and I could somehow imagine that in our home. I didn't tell Alexander that I wanted it, but I told him that I liked it and this morn
Alexander's POVI don't know how she managed to pull this off but I am happy with the work that she has put in to make this night a success. I will also say that I didn't think that I would see some of the faces I saw here tonight, especially faces that had no business being here. I am talking about the women in my past, the women I have had to let go and all for various reasons. I also realised that my parents were happy about the work my wife has put in to make this night a success. I still can't believe that this is where we are, that we are finally going to get everything we have always wanted. In a week I will see my wife walking down the isle once again and this time, I can't even wait for the day to come. I am at a place in my life where I feel like everything has finally fallen into place. I am about to become a father again and I will tell you now that there is no title in my life that I hold in high regard than the title of father. Two years ago I was not even thinking abo
Ella's POVIt has been three weeks since I got shot, three weeks since I have been back home with my family and I am only a week away from my wedding day, not only have I been planning my wedding, I have been planning the restaurant's official opening and also tonight's Gala dinner. It is the first time I have had to throw a party so big but with the help of my friends I was able to pull it off. It is an annual event that was had been organised by his mother since it was founded a decade ago. I will admit that I never thought that my life would turn out like this. That I would be a wife to a man like Alexander or even the fact that I would be responsible for events like the one I organised tonight. Alexander's mother said that she was tired of running the organisation and that it needed some fresh blood, I was not too keen on the idea of taking on something as big as this and in such a limited space of time. The gunshot wound was healing and now I felt like I was ready to take on the
Alexander's POV I did not want my wife to find out about my previous lifestyle and what used to happen between me and my ex's. I know that if it was up to me she wouldn't have found out at all but she wanted to know and I told her. I told her what was happening and I thought that she would ask me for details which would have been the worst because I don't think I could have been able to utter the words to her. The more I thought of it, the more I hated myself for it. All this time I thought that I was using Lacey as a coping mechanism but that is not true. The truth I that I was taking it all out on her because I was not dealing with things. I also realise that my wife was right when she said that I could not cut off that part of me like it didn't exist. I didn't want to hear that especially coming from her but that still doesn't change the fact that she was right but I also know that I can never do to her what I did to all those other women. I told her and left because I didn't wa
Ella's POVI will be the first to admit that Alexander caught me completely by surprise. I know that the insurance said that they would take some time to pay out and I was wondering if I was even able to start all over from the start again. I had put in a lot of work into making that restaurant what it was before that crazy woman burnt it all down. I kept on asking myself what I had done to have so much bad luck and now I know that it had nothing to do with bad luck at all. It had to do with the fact that another woman wanted my husband so bad that she was willing to ruin everything I had in order to get what she wanted and for a moment it seemed like she was going to do it, that she was going to get everything I had. My husband, my daughter and even my marriage. After weeks of worrying about my son, I couldn't just sit and do nothing. I don't know what I would have done if it was not for Michelle, she really came through for me and I don't even know how to thank her. I don't know w