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,
Ella's POVI honestly had no idea how my morning was going to go, I knew that there was going to be some very uncomfortable conversations but I didn't think that they would be directed at me. Alex found out that I was pregnant with his child, I don't know what scares me the most, the fact that he found or the fact that the he doesn't know the whole story. Right now he wants to know what happened to our child. He thinks that I terminated the pregnancy which is what I would think if I was him but the truth is that I did not. I find myself at the crossroads having to question everything about myself. I thought that he was cheating on me, he said that he didn't and I still don't know if I should believe him. I just couldn't stop there. I wanted the truth, nothing but the truth so I asked him about the pregnant woman. He said that he was just trying to ruin things for him, I don't know why she would do that but I believe Alex. I don't know why but I do. Which is why I am so conflicted rig
Alexander's POV" Just In! Businessman Brian Black who is the founder of Black Enterprise's has been arrested by the FBI, it is has been said that he is mastermind behind the drug pandemic in New York city, he has been linked with the Columbians cartels who has also been arrested by the FBI, more details at ten." The reporter said. " What the hell?" Ella asked me. I switched off the TV." I thought that you were in the shower." I said to her. " I was but I am done now, is that true? Has your father been arrested?" She asked me with a shocked face. " Yes, it looks like that. We have to go back home." I said and got off the couch. I can't really say that I was surprised that my father had been arrested. I told Knuckles what I wanted from Berner and it looks like he has kept his end of the deal. I just saw my father being taken by the FBI. " This is going to be a PR disaster, why the hell would they think uncle Brian is involved with drugs? This is crazy. " She said. " Yes, I am sur
Ella's POVWe have been back in New York and things haven't gotten any easier infact they have just went even more South. My father in law is still behind bars, Alex said that he doesn't think that they can be able to get him out anytime soon. He said that the FBI apparently has some serious evidence against him. To be honest I don't know what to think anymore. I thought that he was innocent but now I think that I might have to see things for what they really are. The fact of the matter is the the FBI cannot make up evidence that doesn't exist. The fact that he hasn't even gotten a bail hearing is beyond me. What I do know is that since his arrest, my husband has been a little paranoid. The press is not making things any easier. I say that because I haven't been able to leave the house since we came back to New York. He has the house surrounded by bodyguards, I swear he thinks that someone is out to get him, he said that his father's arrest didn't exactly make things easier. It has b
Alexander's POVThey say that when it rains it pours, that is the situation with me, everything was going according to plan, Berner changed his statement with FBU and my father was brought in and in that moment I thought that I had it all in the bag. I thought that I could do it and actually get away with it, my father found out that I was behind the whole thing, not only that he found out that it was Berner. I promised Berner that I would protect him from my father so I made a plan and got him out of the country. I should have know better, even though my father is behind bars, he still has eyes and ears everywhere and so he knew that I was taking him out of the country and so he found a way to get to him. We haven't been able to contact him in days, our contacts told me that Berner didn't reach them and neither did his escort. I know it for a fact that they are being held up somewhere by my father. Now it seems like I am back at the beginning of where it all began. I went to see my
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