Before I even managed to take 2 steps into the house Bella was already waiting for me with her hands crossed and then I looked at her and that sinister smile that was on her face then greeted her from the corner of my mouth not eager to get into any unnecessary fight.But as I was walking past her she immediately took some steps back making me stand in front of her again and then I raised my eyebrows in boredom."Bella, do you mind giving me some space to pass?""Come on lighten up a little bit I just wanted to ask you about your date I'm sure that it was wonderful,"Immediately, flashes of that said date went across my mind and then it hit me again that it has been included with my date practically standing me up midway and leaving me with that annoying man.But of course, I was not going to be stupid enough to tell her that."Oh my gosh, he even bought you ice cream and flowers now this guy is a keeper…"As she was saying that she was reaching her hands down to touch them but I imme
GREYSON POVThe night of my engagement finally came and with the way everyone was being prepped for the occasion, I could see that my parents were not going to let it slide if I lost interest in this engagement, not like I had a lot, to begin with in the first place.But I just have to do this so that they will stop nagging me and maybe also when the absurd rumors that were flying around me stop.Also, the Walters adopted daughter would make an interesting it was fun to tease, I knew that much I'm just watching her assist my trump was far more entertaining than it was supposed to be to me besides all that I was already ready for the night properly dressed for the occasion and I could already see the girls falling for me the moment I will step into the party but I wasn't really interested in any of them I have loved once and that was more than enough for meSuddenly my chest tightened up and as I closed my ideal eyelids my vision was painted with blood and I quickly opened them up. No,
Callista's POVI scratched up my nose in irritation after being made that comment that I couldn't come along with the rest of the water family for the engagement party, it wasn't my fault that even when I dressed as simply as I could I would still much more beautiful than her who was overcrowded with makeup and looked like a clown's bride.Mrs. Walters gave me one nasty look before walking over to her husband and whispering something viciously in his ear, then after a while, he sighed tiredly then he told Bella and his wife to go ahead outside and inside the car that you would join them very soon and then when they were gone, he came towards me with the sympathetic look on his face."Look my dear I know that you have made a lot of sacrifices for this family and I truly appreciate you for them""It's really nothing," I assured him, Lenny went ahead to see what he had intentionally wanted to do at the start."You see if it was only left to me I would have allowed you to come with us to
GREYSON POVI thoroughly enjoyed the look of lamppost shock that slipped into her features the moment she heard my voice and turned around to face me and a smirk came over my face as I took in the look of her eyes sparking like two rocks that have been smashed together.She was so very very fun to tease.It was when Leon spoke up that I realized that her house was interlocked with his and the site made my stomach twist up a bit though I didn't know why."Leon, I am so glad that you could make it, considering your extremely busy schedule and everything," Leon instantly waved his hand and laughed, obviously not sensing the tense atmosphere that was thickening between me and the girl in his arms."I suppose this was your date from last time, Caroline was her name right?""Callista," she instantly corrected through gritted teeth."And as much as I would love to catch up she said with as much sarcasm as she can muster from the looks of it."... but I'm sure that you will probably be busy w
GREYSON'S POVI was able to figure out the situation in about 5 seconds and after I realized the embarrassing position that I put myself in. In an instant, I let go of her but she still held onto me which left me in shock. "Are you okay?" I asked her looking down at her and her eyes looked up to mine holding them aggressively. "How can you be asking me that question when you are the one that almost had a panic attack?"My heart jumped to my throat and then instantly it sank down to my stomach at the same time."I wasn't having a panic attack," I instantly denied." I was actually...I was actually…" The words were pinned in my throat and no lie was able to slip through my lips for a while until I gathered myself a bit."I was just stressed," I insisted and she looked at me. "Are you sure that is all there is to it?" My mouth went wide with shock at seeing this side of her. Usually, whenever her eyes locked onto mine they were filled with intense anger but now they were soft and bea
CALISTA'S POV I staggered back into the party with unsteady legs, and the Alpha King walking behind me. Occasionally from time to time I could feel his fingers gently fiddle with my hair, brush my waist or gently tug on a piece of my dress as if he has to be in contact with me at all times or I would disappear into thin air. And each touch left an electric feeling rushing over my skin that made it anticipate the next, now that I was fully aware that he remembered that night there was no way I could not be embarrassed around him at least I could put up your face before but now? Now my cheeks were as red as oversized tomatoes, and I didn't need someone with clairvoyance to tell me that he enjoyed putting me in this kind of uncomfortable situation and teasing me. I tried to distract myself by focusing on the dance floor and then my eyes stretched over it but I did not see any site of the date I had tonight. Has he decided to bail on me again? The Alpha King seemed to notice
I couldn't get the number of looks of shock on both Leon and Bella's faces when they saw that they are working hard for me and this revenge was far more sweeter than confronting him and asking him why he had been shoving his tongue down my sister's throat. While Leon looked like someone that was actually reflecting on his mistakes Bella stumped up to us as gracefully as an elephant that was upset and stabbed a finger at me."You little, ungrateful plotting b*tch!" She yelled and the lovely music that had been playing before in the background abruptly stopped as the sound of her high pitched and cracked voice. I wanted to warn her with my eyes but I guess she couldn't see the warning since there were so many tears in hers."Bella, please we can talk about this later…"I said in a harsh whisper but she was not ready to listen."My parents picked you up like a piece of trash that they found on the street and took you in even if you were not their real daughter…and from the first day I s
GREYSON'S POVI woke up the next morning with the disappointing realization that my fiance had been able to control herself enough not to sneak up and join me in my bed, but I didn't have much to worry about. After all, soon we would be officially married and I would have all of her to myself. It was only when I was taking my shower that I realized she was the first thing I thought about the moment I woke up that morning and I asked myself as the water began to trickle down from my hair to the ground. The realization sank deeper and deeper like a needle. Was it possible that I was actually… "No, don't be ridiculous," I told myself as I raked my fingers through my wet hair. I was just growing a little fond of her, nothing more and nothing less there was no need to think about it any deeper than that but every time I traveled away from my thoughts she was quickly returning back in only a couple of seconds. A grunt of frustration escaped my lips as I decided to think about work def
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