[ Colton ]The conversation with Evangeline didn't end how I planned it. I went to her house with a leaping heart. I wanted to take her and Chase out for a dinner at Brandon's restaurant, of course, under tight security but what I heard in her garden broke my heart.She still sees me only as Chase's father, which is reliving for me but I want to be more than that. I want to be the partner she needs in all thick and thins. I want to old her hand whenever rough phase comes in our lives. I want us to watch our children grow. I want to die in her arms so I can have the peace I have been earning since a long time.But for that, we need to be together."Colton, I think we should deal with Miss Hailey in a different way or I don't think she'd open her mouth. These guys have either fed her a good amount of money or blackmailed her with something she holds dear. I highly doubt it's the latter." Brandon said who had been saying a lot of things but I didn't pay any heed to his words but this sen
[ Colton ]"What the hell!" I stood up as anger bubbled up in my body.This woman sitting in front of me had completely lost her mind. She was calling my daughter as hers."Hey, please calm down and listen to her. I know she wants to share more." Brandon tried to cool down my anger but the more I recall her words, the more my head started spinning.However, he nudged me to sit. Reluctantly, I sat down and focused on her."Miss Hailey, please don't play tricks with us because it's not working." Brandon said in a calmer tone."Why would I lie about my own child, Mr. Black. She is my daughter whom I gave birth on the same day, Evanca Black delivered a dead baby. I was only seventeen back then and had no one to support me with the baby. My parents were really poor. They were hardly providing to me and my three siblings. Evanca came up with a proposal. She offered my parents a huge amount of money and a bigger house in a good locality if we hand the baby to her. I wondered how Evanca came
[ Evangeline ]"You're going to Mexico?" My heart dropped in the pit of my stomach as Colton told me that he and Brandon were going to leave for Mexico in a few hours."Yes, we are leaving in an hour." He said taking a glance over his wrist watch which caught my attention.Nostalgia ran through my blood as I remembered this watch. It was my gift on his first birthday after our marriage. He didn't even opened the gift and ordered the maids to lock it in his spare room with other gifts."I have been using it since you gave it to me, Freya." He said as he noticed me staring at the limited edition watch.I bought it with my own savings.A smile crept on my lips. I vividly remember the day when I searched the whole city to find a perfect gift for him which might earn me his attention. I found this watch and immediately bought it but didn't get the chance to wish him let alone give him the gift as he celebrated his birthday at Brandon's hotel where Evanca came. I saw the pictures on Evanca'
[ Colton ]What the hell just happened!I had the most intimate moment with Evangeline and it intensified the desire I had been harboring for her. How much I wanted to explore her and satiate my uncontrollable desire for her, I had to stop. I must take a step at a time.She tasted so good!I had done something I hadn't done after my high-school. I jerked myself in the shadows of bushes in her garden as I had no time to take a shower.I would soon have her and worship her goddess like beauty. The pregnancy had added more glory to her beauty."Col, I have been ratting here for last ten minutes but I guess you don't hear a word I'm saying." Brandon's pissed off voice rang in my ear.I titled my head sideways to look at him. He looked really annoyed. My lack of interest drove him crazy. I felt bad for him. He left his work, his life and sleep to help me but here, I was busy dwelling in my wild imaginations."I am really sorry, Brand. Please continue." I apologized sincerely."I won't lect
[ Colton ]"What were you saying, son? Can you repeat it for your old father's ears?" Francis's vicious voice echoed in the walls of the living room of the house.I balled my fists. He had my daughter on a knife's point. What a coward? He used a little child to shield himself."You heard me right, Francis. Leave her and fight me like a man." I challenged him and in response, I heard his laughter resonating in the air."I am fighting you like a man but with my mind, son. I wish you could learn from me but you took after your pathetic mother who turned you into a chicken. I wanted a son who follow my steps but you only brought shame upon me." His smile turned into a hard look as he glance down at me with disgust."You're a monster, Francis. I can never follow you. In fact, you're long dead to me." I spatted under gritted teeth."You hurt my feelings, Colton. I didn't raise you to see this day. You should be thanking me for everything I gave you. You're ruling over an empire which I buil
[ Evangeline ]I didn't know why but my heart wasn't at peace. I felt a constant hollowness invading my heart everytime I tried to distract my mind from everything going around me. I tried calling Brandon and Colton but their phone went directly on voice-mail which increased my anxiety. I didn't send Chase to school though my Dad ensured me that he would be fine but I was a mother whose child was once taken away.I couldn't afford another risk.Unable to sleep or rest, I slipped out of my bed and walked upto my window, it's already evening but there's no sign of Colton nor I received any news from their side.Suddenly my phone screen light up with a text alert. It was a private number which grew my fear.With shaking hand, I opened it and what I read, drained the blood out of my body. It was from Dominic."You're looking really pretty and ravishing in this sexy gown of yours. I must say maroon is your color, Eve. Please don't open your window, I don't want every men passing by your w9
[ EVANGELINE ]Our lips moved like our lives were hanging on the connection between our lips. He was kissing me with urgency. He seemed terrified but relaxed at the same time. My own heart found it's peace which had been anxious since he left. In that moment, we forgot everyone around us."You have no idea how much I'm relived to see you, Freya." He said joining our foreheads."How are you?"I asked him and scanned for any possible injury on him but I found none."I am fine. We have gotten Mia." He told me and I broke away from him to look at the sleeping girl in Brandon's arms."How's she?" I asked Brandon who looked exhausted."She's traumatized and it will take time for her to recover from the horrible incidents she witnessed otherwise she's fine." He told me.Mom, who was crying by now, took her from his arms and peppered her face with kisses."My poor baby." She hugged her close to her chest while my Dad also had tears in his eyes."You all must be tired. Please come inside and ta
[ Evangeline ]"There's something I have to tell you, Colton but promise me that you won't freak out or take an impulsive action because stress is the last thing I want now." I said taking a hold of his hand as I put the last tape on his bandage.His tired eyes looked up at me, the creases were back."What is it, Freya? You're scaring the shit out of me now?" He asked impatiently as I predicted earlier.This man has his own way of reacting weirdly in different circumstances.I exhaled a deep breath and tightened my hold on his hand,"Dominic is keeping an eye on me, I mean all of us. He knows what are we doing right now. May be he installed cameras in every single corner of this house or we have an insider mole who is giving him our information." I told him.He stared at me for a moment, an excruciatingly slow moment when I was unable to read his expression so I could guess what was going inside his complicated brain."How can you be so sure?" He asked and I could see the veins on his