Bella's pov I couldn't believe that I had been so careless to leave his boxers out just like that, my blood was boiling with the fact that that insolent bitch had actually threatened me. My hatred for her grew every single day after going through the efforts of poisoning my own son so that I could get rid of her. I was still burdened with seeing her face every single day. The only little consolation that I had was the fact that Gray was not as kind to her as before and he was treating her the way she was supposed to be treated like trash but at the same time, I could still see a flicker of emotion in his eyes whenever he looked at her and it made me sick down to my stomach. My relationship with him did not particularly improve whenever I was in front of him and standing with Calista he will pretend as if we had gotten into a better relationship but I feel like it was only meant to make Calista jealous and bit her which only made me feel worse in contract and then when we were alo
Calista's pov I was really surprised that after that interaction with my adoptive sister Bella she actually stopped pestering me as she normally did before. My life is not exactly perfect now but she was not going out of her way to make sure that I regret waking up early in the morning. Now the problem was my husband, Grey. Before he was mostly ignoring me and pretending as if I didn't exist at all but now it was as if he realized that Bella had become more laid-back and decided that he should find new ways of humiliating me and he did. In the afternoon, someone walked into my doorless room with a strange expression on his face scanning it from one corner to another as if he was looking for something. Then finally he paused and his eyes came down to me as if he just noticed my existence. "Good afternoon…" I greeted him with a cautious expression on my face and then he walked over to the little table that was in my box shaped room and swiped his finger over the furniture, rubbin
Grey's pov I really despise that we had to keep up images in front of the public this was one of the problems of having the background that I did sometimes I was not allowed to live my own life and I had to live under the gaze of other people and what they were thinking of me which was why I was going to allow Calista into the party if not left to me I would have kept her in her room away from everyone else but I didn't want anyone to start talking crap about my family. It was just so hard looking at her everyday, the person that I used to love and adore and now I despise her with so much vigor that it shook me sometimes.If I didn't even have any affection for her just like I didn't have anyone for her sister then it would have been easier to just ignore her existence altogether but the problem was that I still crave to see her and my body still yearned for hers.But yet every time I would lay eyes on her I was reminded that she had attempted to kill my only son and that was not s
Calista pov The moment I walked into the party all eyes were immediately focused on me I didn't mean this in a culture where but that was how it actually turned out it was as if every single participant that has decided to come to this party was looking at me and before I knew it dozens of pairs of eyes were all focused on me. But there was one that held me and completely captivated me and the moment I noticed that she was looking at me my legs felt like jelly, and they were almost wrestling not to fall immediately as I tried my best to gracefully make my way down into the party. When I finally got down I saw that all through the way his eyes followed me and then finally coming down to face him he stared into my eyes and then he leaned over to whisper to me. "What in the world are you wearing?" All the while I was thinking that he was actually admiring me but he was probably just criticizing me for what I was wearing the look of disgust on his face could not be misinterpreted an
Calista's povThe man was struggling with my zipper and seeing if his life depended on it and after the sight that my eyes had been very sure to see. I couldn't imagine fighting back. It had been a weekend for me more than a bullet piercing my heart directly, my eyes could not even be there looking at them a second time just then I heard a growl entering my ears and causing a shiver to run down my spine. "It couldn't be…" I said to myself in denial because it made the most sense but when I brought my eyes over the direction of the sound that was deep and gravely. I saw my husband standing there and he was marching toward the direction of the spot where Bella and Grey were supposed to be standing together and yet I didn't see any of them. Was that a hallucination? Well, I didn't have time to think about it and what happened next was so fast that it was like a flash of lightning running past my eyes. The man was grabbed and his whole body was swinging from side to side before he
Calista pov Even if I had done my best to be brave in front of my husband I was very afraid because there was no time that he had threatened me and he hadn't lived up to the threat. I wish that he lived up to the love that he also promised me. But he couldn't do that. So when I finally settled down in my bed I was afraid and worried about what he would do to me but then when I looked at my room but didn't even have a door I realized that there was really nothing that this man could do to me anymore that could degrade me more than he had already done. After all, he had literally made me his servant when I was his wife and even the people that were supposed to be servants in the palace looked down on me. What else could possibly take away from me that I valued? So I went to bed realizing that it was ridiculous to imagine losing everything I had when I barely had anything else or was he going to take away my children. I chuckled at the thought. The next morning I woke up and bega
Calista povWe finally arrived in the living room. My heart was still inside of my throat at this point because I knew that there was definitely something that he was going to do to me that will make me regret what I did to him last night.I should have cleared up everything with him but I guess that it was already too late to do that now he will probably just think that I was making up lies but then I tried to convince myself of the reality that even if I try to explain myself the night before he would have still believed that I was just lying to him.So I decided to do stuff whatever he was going to throw at me after all he could not be worse than all the other things that he already done it was some documents after a laid on the glass table in the living room and then he settled on one of the couches spreading out his hands pointing to the other was opposite him. I was wondering why he was pointing to the other couch but I was soon roughly inform me of that as he yelled at me to s
Calista povHe was going to take me to court? Over my own kids that I had literally had to give birth to and raise all by myself?Now he wanted to take them away from me, my heart was drinking with a lot of pain.My husband has done a lot of things to me and honestly I was able to forgive him to a certain point for all of them because I knew that I would never really stop loving him no matter what he did and right now everything that he was doing was under the belief that I had actually tried to murder a child and honestly as much as I despise Bella I would never do something like that to an innocent child but if I heard the same information about him then it was proven to be true without any doubt I would also despise him as well no matter how much affection I had for him. But at the same time this was far too much because I would have at least given him the benefit of doubt, something that he thought I didn't deserve at all. Throughout the day I thought about the documents and wh
Epilogue Calista pov "Kids don't get so close to the water!" "Don't worry Mom, we aren't that close!" I eased my back into my reclining chair with a groan. "Gosh, they can be so stubborn at times... I wonder who they take it from," I said looking at my husband and he smiled back at me his eyes sparkling through his sunglasses. "Come on, sweetheart, you know they take it from the both of us." "Actually..." I was about to deny it and then just resigned to my fate trying to enjoy the sun at the beach, my eyes straight over to the beach as I saw my three children friends playing together and the sight alone was enough to make my heart immediately bubble-up with joy. When I was much younger I remembered Bella and her parents getting ready for the beach but I was never allowed to come with them on the rare occasion that I was actually allowed to come along. It was just to be their maid. I honestly thought that I would never have a family of my own. I sighed, this was going to mak
Calista povI was really planning to wait for the police but that was until I heard the cry of my children coming from inside the warehouse that I had traced Bella's phone to. Unable to hold myself back anymore I decided to enter inside of the warehouse through a back entrance. I had actually been familiar with this place before when I had first married my husband, however the business here had eventually collapsed and it was abandoned so I knew a secret entrance in the back way.The place was now so abandoned that trees were even going around it and it looked like a miniature wood, this proves to be in my advantage eventually because when I went to the back I was able to pick up a dead branch and then when I saw some thugs that wear circulating around the place probably as good as I was able to knock both of them cold with the branch that I had the second one proved to be a bit of a problem so I had to hit him a couple of times but when I checked out he was still breathing.My throat
Grey povAt my very last breath I told my brother to leave because I was not going to tolerate any of his nonsense anymore however instead of shutting up right there I'm turning around while he stroke his head what he just said to is something I could not bring out of my head he then said that there was no need for me to be in denial that Calista had never been satisfied by me and so she went over to see a real man that could do it.And that was indeed the last straw that broke the camel's back the next thing that happened was that I instantly zoomed over my office until I was standing right in front of him and before he could even blink his eyes I grabbed him and pulled it up squeeze his neck so tight that he could barely even breathe and he was kicking his legs about but I just kept on squeezing him my mind was telling me that if I just put in a little more effort his oxygen supply will be completely cut off and then he will just die.Revenge that had been driving me for what felt l
Grey's pov Even when I was keeping an expressionless face everything inside of me was telling me to brush this woman's head against the side of the wall but it's that I was somehow able to keep myself and I remembered everything that Calista had told me about how I was always losing my temper but this was a lot for a man to bare and when she finally said that the children beautiful twins that Calista were not actually mine. I was ready to squash her skull at this point then Calista came forward with her hands planted on her hips and then she asked Bella what was the source of that horrible accusation that was when she presented the contents of the envelope stating that it was a DNA result between me and the children and then she said that it was more than enough proof to show that I was not the father of them. I took the envelope and I looked at the contents then after I was done doing so I really began to shred the paper up as if it was nothing and so it this woman was nothing mo
Calista povThe fury that was coming out of him right now could be felt from a mile away and I thought that I was going to suffocate by just looking at him I have seen my husband angry before ulcer of many of the times does anger was directed at me but I had never seen him this furious this bloodthirsty and I knew that stiff look in his eyes he wasn't joking at all when he said that he was going to kill both his twin brother and Bella. But I just couldn't let that happen because nobody would even care about the crimes that have been committed behind the closed door if he killed them rather the only thing that will be advertised on was the murder that everyone was going to witness because I seriously doubt it when he said that he was going to murder them even if they were in a public place or not with the way his eyes were burning with fury which was exactly why I could not let him go.I tried to tell him that they were definitely going to get what's coming to them and then we began t
Calista pov The drive back to the palace was not as quiet as the one into my father's house because as soon as we were far enough from my father's house Gray asked me what my plan was after we had gotten all the information we needed on Bella, and she eventually got the punishment that she deserved.I was looking out the window screen at that moment when he asked the question trying to ignore him but I decided that if I didn't answer him he was just going to keep talking about it throughout the entire ride back to the palace so admitted to him that I was going to have a simple life with my kids and raise them alone he almost packed abruptly if it wasn't for observation that we were in a busy road then his eyes were over to me as he asked me what I meant by that. I looked at him straight in the eyes and told him that I meant every single word that I said and I seriously doubted that it needed any kind of explanation.His voice suddenly rose not in anger but it was definitely rising, h
Calista povI really miss to the days that I see my children all the time at least I didn't have to wait for literally weeks before I could look at them it could be a handful at times but when I didn't see them like this always feel anxious it was only the fact that they were under the care of their grandfather that made me able to sleep at night if not I would have been so troubled if they were actually in this Palace with Bella next door.After realizing that this woman was actually capable of poisoning her own son it would be no surprise to me at all if she attempted the same thing on my children and I was not going to let her get the chance to do something so horrible.While we were leaving the palace Grey said that we should take one of his less more conspicuous cars and that he was going to drive I really didn't care who drove as long as we got to see my children then when we8 approaching the car he went ahead of me and open the door to the front seat I just passed him by and we
Calista pov "I'm going to see my children today," I told Grey. He responded by his face contouring up with confusion though I don't understand what was so perplexing about what I just said. I had come to his room with the intention of taking his laundry to wash while I was actually there to tell him that I was going to see my children that very day. There was also another reason why I came here but this was one I was telling him about for now.He have been looking at me so expectantly the moment I walked in as if he was expecting me to jump right into the bed with him I could even see how he was intentionally closing on the way to attract me so I intentionally kept my eyes away from him but the time I was actually looking at him he seemed so frustrated but I was ignoring him."Don't you think it will be better if we visit the kids together?" He said suggestively and I mused on his idea then after a couple of seconds I shook my head negatively showing that I was not interested in tha
Calista pov The next day did not go exactly how as we planned it it was almost as if we have forgotten that the nanny was supposed to take care of the son because that was the worst timing possible the child fell sick, meaning that she was not allowed to leave his side for the entire day as he was not going to school so she would have to cater for his needs the whole day.The night before I had actually given her my number in the living room so that we will be able to communicate without meeting each other physically and avoiding the situation where I have to hide in the wardrobe from Bella she called me and it seemed as if she was about to burst into tears when she confessed that the child had suddenly fallen ill and she had to take care of him for the whole day.Just like that the time that I have been relying on since last night after she was shouted at by Bella but then I asked her to explain exactly what Bella did as usual she was a little hesitant but this time it was easier fo