Two weeks later I dressed up in some of my clothes that have not been incinerated by my adoptive sister and then I went over to go and see my kids at my dad's place they had missed me so much and they almost made me fall as they all run down to me in front of the door and then they asked me many sorts of jokes that I almost fall down like and we all laughed about it they didn't know that I had been mostly been in pain as they surrounded me raising their hands for me to carry them but I was too weak to do due to what I have been through in their father's house so I did not even have enough energy to pick them up but I did my best to pretend as if I did. Even though I was able to hide this from my kids I don't say that I'll have the same luck with my father and I was right he asked me if I was being treated well in my husband's house I didn't look that and he might realize that's why I told him the truth about what I was truly experiencing in the house then he was definitely going to m
Calista's pov That night, I lay on my bed with my heart in my throat because I didn't know what would become of me. Under this roof, everyone was out for me and it was just so frustrating. I turned my head on my pillow as it hit me like a sledgehammer that my own husband wanted me to wash my adoptive sister's clothes and then he was so offended when I said no. Wasn't I supposed to be the one that was supposed to be in a bad mood because of what he said to me? It made very little sense that both of them were the ones that were angry when that was supposed to be me instead. These thoughts ate me up as tears ran down my cheeks like a waterfall, I wiped them away with the back of my hand until I finally fell asleep out of sheer tiredness. Somehow, I managed to be more tired after I woke up. It took me a couple of seconds to realize that I was surrounded by darkness everywhere, and then dust filled up my nostrils causing me to sneeze as well. Where was I? I began to feel my way
Calista pov I now became a servant in my husband's house because there was no way that I could escape. He took me back to my room and then he said to me, "Give me your phone…" I looked at his defensive expression with my eyes wondering why he would need something as personal as my phone. "Why do you want my phone?" The look on his face hardened like cement "I said give me your phone Calista…" I had no choice. I had forgotten that I was merely a servant that was trying to convince herself that she was still a queen. With a sad look on my face, I gave him. my phone and I let my eyesight follow him as his fingers moved on the screen until finally, he gave it back to me then he turned around and left. Initially, I thought that he had just taken from me just to scare me. Little bit that was until I noticed that my father's number was no longer on the phone. He had actually deleted my father's contact? I thought that it was just my imagination so I went on to look for it, go
Grey's pov"There's a condition?" She asked me her doe eyes looking at me and I nodded maintaining a monotone voice as I spoke to her and also a sharp and cold look. I had not expected her to come and ask for this but I could guess that a mastermind like herself would have come up with a shameless plan like this in the long run eventually. Ever since the day that I found out that she tried to kill my son, an innocent child that had done her no wrong, I couldn't ever imagine being with her or even looking at her the same. That was because every time I did look at her all I saw without fail every time was a heartless creature. I would have even found it easier to forgive her if she had actually tried to get back at her adoptive sister, Bella more directly but instead of that she had shot at an innocent child that had barely gone anywhere in life. And maybe I could have tried to see that it was my family and those that adopted her that had pushed her to tell that but she still had t
Calista's pov "Mommy! Mommy!!"All of the pain that it had been feeling in this place felt like it had all disappeared when I saw my two little treasures stepping down from the car that they had come down from.I hugged them both till they had to complain to let them go and I did so and my son placed his hand on my cheek and that was when I saw the tears that he had taken from my cheeks. "Mommy, why are you crying?" My daughter asked and I laughed, whipping off the rest with the back of my hand."I'm just so happy that I'm crying…I've missed you so much…" I said to them but I knew that it was more than that , I almost felt like someone that was being released from a prison for a while. "What about me? Has nobody missed Daddy?" I looked back to see Grey, right this was the condition the only way I could see the kids was if he was hovering over me like a darn helicopter. "Daddy!!" They yelled as they ran towards him and they picked them up as if they were both feathers, I felt my
Calista povAfter the kids left I was going to be a punching bag for their father and I was not wrong about that one bit. He was so sweet before he started behaving this way and now I have been reminded of the fact that he was that way before and it hurts all the way through now. The way I see that hurts more than anything else could. "The kids are gone now…" he said from behind me as he was waiting for me to get back to the place I was at last time and I was trying to cling to the little memories before he wiped them all out. "I want to be with the children…" I said as I crossed my arms together and faced him, I don't know why I bothered him when he was a man that did not like to go back on his own words. Unless when he was loving me, the rest were as hard as stone. "After what you have done, do you have any right to even be around any children?" He told me that and my heart froze up for the words that he said to me with such ease that it hurt for such a long time. Jus
Calista pov The fact that my husband and both of the families thought of me going to hurt a child without considering my best victim would be his insufferable mother blew me away. "Bella, can you tell me what it would take for you to leave me alone?" I asked her and she just looked at me as if I was the only one that had troubled her in her life and that she had to treat me this way all the time and she was close to snapping my little patience for her and her antics. "I'm just making sure that you are doing well and this is a great pain for me you know…" She said as she brought even her clean clothes and claimed that they were going to be really dirty if she allowed them to carry more dust and she was not joking at all. So with her clothes packed to the brim, I decided to go back to Grey's room to make sure that I didn't miss anything initially when he saw me and the mountain of clothes it looked like he was ready to spill a little bit of pity for me but I was reaching o
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
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