Alexander's POVWe are currently in Houston, we have been in Texas for a week and we still haven't found my wife. To say that I was losing my mind would be an understatement. I don't know where she is, I am not even sure if she even in this God forsaken place. It was hot, too hot and I was sweating bullets. " I hate it here man." I said to Jack." I know, I hate it too buddy." He said. We were sitting at some restaurant. We have searched high and low for her, we have asked a lot of people about her and no one has been able to tell us anything, it was like she had disappeared off the face of the earth. I hate it. I know that I messed up, I am man enough to admit that and if she could only give me a chance to talk to her, I know that I can fix this. I always thought that love was just comfort food for the week and uneducated. Now I know better. Falling in love is like nothing I had ever imagined. This sh*t hurts. I am usually a well reserved person, always in control of my emotions. I
Dustin POVDo you believe in second chances? I didn't but I think that the universe might think that. I say that because the last week might just have been the best week of my entire existence. I can't remember the last time I was this happy. A few years back I went to Havard to get a business degree. This wasn't always the plan, I had always known what I wanted to be from a very young age and that was a farmer. I grew up in the South, my family owned a huge piece of land that I wanted to put into good use. So I studied Agriculture and farming. To most people it comes naturally but I wanted to do it the right way. When I was done with that degree, I realised that I would need more than just good farming to build a business, I had to learn how to run a business, so I went to Harvard for a business degree. I remember my first day there. I was lost and I bumped into this beautiful girl. Her books and papers were everywhere. Most people would have bit my head off, but she didn't. " Oh s
Ella's POVI have been here for a a little over a week and it seems to be working, well most of the time. One good thing is that the nightmares are gone. I don't know if it was the environment I was in or the fact that I had shut the world out but I was doing pretty good for myself. Alex is still very much in mind, more than I would care to admit but seeing a friendly face has made things seem a little better. Being in the farm is the best decision I have made in a long while and I couldn't be happier. Dustin has been the perfect gentleman. He takes me on long walks around the farm. He makes sure that I eat and he has even got me running. I know that I am a bit thicker than most girls and I don't have any problems with that and I am not trying to change it, infact I love my shape, I have Kim Kardashian body and it it's all natural but Dustin said that it's a good way to clear my mind and I agree with him. It was a good way to clear my mind. As wonderful as being in the farm has been
Alexander's POV" So we are just going to sit here all day?" Jack asked me. I came into the dealership to buy myself a really nice car, some retail therapy after the last week was exactly what I needed. I never thought that it could lead me to solving one problem. While he was busy with the paper work, Jack found something that could lead us to Ella. It was a long long shot but seeing her picture in her office gave a little bit of hope. I mean he could be the only one who could lead me to Ella. The thing is that I just couldn't out right ask him about Ella and whether he has seen her recently, it could possibly raise red flags because I wouldn't have known what Ella told him about me. The last thing I needed was for her to disappear on me like she did in Venice. I couldn't risk it. All that I knew was that he was going to lead me to her, he was going to help me and he didn't even know about it. " Do you have a better idea?" I asked him. " What if they haven't seen each other in ag
Ella's POV" Oh my god! OMG!" I said as I ran to the room I was using. Dustin was right behind me. " Ella... Hey talk to me." He said as he bugged into my room. "I am so so sorry Dustin, I don't know how he found me." I said as I opened the closet. I was like a mad woman. I know I said that I was ready to face him but this was not the way I planned it. How the hell did he even find me here? No one knew where I was. No one. " Ella will you calm down for a second?" He said. " I can't, I am sorry but I have to get out of here. " I said to him. " Because of him?" He asked me. " Yes because of him, I am sorry Dustin, I can't be here." I said and pulled out my clothes from the closet. " No, I won't let him get to you, I promise you, I can protect you." He said. I realised in that moment that the way Alex acted and the way that I was acting right now might have sent the wrong message to Dustin. I realised that I owed him an explanation. He didn't have to take me in but he did, he didn
Alex's POV"I don't get it! Why wouldn't she come with me? I am her husband right?" I said in anger as I threw the glass of whiskey in my hand. " Will you calm down?" I asked him." I saw her, that man was giving her flowers, he was giving my wife flowers and you want me to calm down? Why wouldn't she come with us?" I said to Jack. " We have eyes on there and that is a good start, tomorrow is a new day. Call her and apologies for your behaviour." Jack said. " My behaviour? She leaves in the middle of the night without even calling me? Did you see how scared she was to see us? What if she remembers what happened? I don't think you understand the magnitude of this whole situation." I said to him." You don't know that, maybe she was just surprised to see us there, I know that I would have been. " Jack said. He was so calm about the whole situation. " What if she tells him what happened? Can we really afford to risk that? I don't think that I can, which is why tomorrow I am going to
Ella's POVWhen I was younger, I was a girl and so I did girlish things, I wish I knew then what I know now. Growing up has got to be one of the hardest things any human should have to go through, now that I am older I have to put away girlish things and become an adult, that means making hard and difficult decisions. One of them is having to make a decision to choose from two different men. On one hand Dustin is the perfect gentleman, he always had been and I actually even liked him at some point. Had it not been for my best friend then I don't where we would be today. It has been years since I even thought of him that way. Back then I couldn't allow myself to feel anything for anyone, especially since I was so vulnerable. Right now the tables have changed, we are both older and wiser, we have both loved and lost. This time would have been the perfect time for us to explore our feelings for each other but I am still very much married. I got into this marriage with my eyes opened. I
Alexander's POVI don't know how today is going to turn out but I know that I am not leaving Texas without my wife. I honestly don't have any idea what happened that night, I don't know why she could have left the way she did but I know that we have to sort this out. I woke up this morning feeling hopeful, she did agree to see me so that is one step in the right direction. I know that when this marriage was not what we both planned on but we have come so far since then. I don't think Ella knows how much she means to me. I have never in my life had another woman get into my head like she does, I mean I can't even get it up for anyone else and if you know me, you would know that it was strange for me because I love sex, yet here I am trying to find a way to bring back only but one woman in my life. I don't care about the business deal, all that I know is that I love her and that we have things we need to talk about. I won't lie, after the way things turned out when I went to see her,
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