Hi everyone.
I am sorry I haven’t updated the book as often as I would like.
My personal life is a mess at the moment. We had some unfortunate and unforeseen things happening, and I don’t have the time to sit and write. You all know I work full time (40+ hours per week, and I have a toddler).
I am trying my best when I’ve got a few minutes to type something, but it’s complicated, and honestly, if I write, I will end up killing everyone because of everything that is happening to me.
My life is literally upside down at the moment, and writing is not coming easily.
I do apologise to all of you for the wait.
I don’t know when I will be updating, but I’m hoping that my life will be a little better by the 7th of June.
I don’t take change very easily, and besides all the problems I am facing, my mental Health is being affected as well.
I hope you all understand.
Stay safe
Love
Peyton
Logan POV I have been watching the news, and when I see Mike leave the house with Beth, I just knew he was coming here. Now the question is, will he bring her with him? What the hell is happening? I know we haven’t been together long. But we complete each other. And I actually need him to explain what the fuck is going on and why he is getting married to Beth. He said he would sort all of this out, and I can’t see that happening. All I saw was an engagement announcement and Mike not rectifying the situation. He is digging a hole that he won’t be able to get out that easily, and he is dragging Beth with him. I don’t want the man that I love to marry someone that is not me. I wouldn’t say I liked the fact that he shared his life with someone who is not me, even if that someone is Beth. A girl I watched grow into a beautiful and independent woman. I’ve been completely in love with Mike since the moment I met him. It was like the floor open
Michael POV As I break the Kiss with Logan, I see Beth’s eyes covered in desire, and she liked looking at us. I can see how she looks at Logan, and she looks at him with the same Lust that I do. I can’t blame her. He is sex on legs, his whole body calls in for sex, and the fact he’s not even wearing a t-shirt and his beautiful body is exposed makes it even harder not to desire him. Beth flushes as both our eyes fall on her beautiful face and body. Logan scoops Beth’s face between his large hands and pulls her in for a kiss; Beth melts against my body at the same time Logan’s lips touch hers. She stays very still, but I feel her body warmth getting higher as their kiss gets more intense. I can see Logan’s dominance on her, and she loves every second of it. I can’t lie that I am enjoying this more than I thought possible. Watching the men, I love with the only woman I’ve ever been attracted to has a massive impact on me. I adjust my coc
Author Note: Trigger warning This chapter contains themes that might trigger some readers. If you are triggered by sexual violence, please don’t read this chapter. Elisabeth POV Michael’s kiss is intense as if his life depends on it, he is taking me in, sucking the life out of me, and I can’t think straight. His tongue dances with mine as if they were made for each other. His hands moving up and down my exposed legs makes me even wetter than I already was. Logan’s breathing on my neck while his lips touch my soft spot makes me want to scream in pleasure, Michael moves to adjust his bulging cock under me, and I stand up. No, No, I can’t do this. What is wrong with me. I am not the kind of woman that just gets sex in the first time she goes out with someone. Both Logan and Michael are now standing up and looking at me. I can se
Elisabeth POV I woke up with a sore face and lip. Slowly I open my eyes and realise I am late for work. Great. I jump out of bed and get myself ready for work. I put on a maxi dress to cover the bruises on my legs. What can I say? I bruise easily. While I brush my teeth, I start to think about how I will conceal the marks on my face. It wouldn’t be the first time doing it, but it definitely the first time covering to go to work. To see people that actually care about me and that will ask why I’ve got a cut on my lip, why I have a cut on my cheek. But, unfortunately, I can’t conceal that, so I will have to come up with a random excuse to tell people. And I decided that today I will be going to see Michael Lockwood at Lockwood enterprises and end this fake marriage once and for all. I can’t do this to him. I can handle Samuel’s anger, and I don’t mind him hurting me if he leaves Michael alone. I know that h
Michael POV As I walk to my office, my new secretary walks to me, passing some files to my hand. I take a deep breath, and I let my mind goes blank. “Good morning Mr Lockwood” - she says “I told you to call me Michael, Sarah”, - I reply, and she nods her head as we keep walking into my office. Sarah closes the door behind her while I take my place behind my desk, taking my jacket off. There’s already some coffee waiting for me, but I smile internally, looking and the travel mug with coffee that Logan got ready for me. “So what do we have today?” - I ask while Sarah sits in front of me with her iPad going through the agenda for today. “Board meeting at eleven with Mr Lockwood present”, - she says, and I pass my hands through my hair. Great, just great. That’s all I need, dad coming to interfere with business. “What else?” - I ask. “Lunch at your fa
Logan POV I’ve been sitting in the car for about twenty minutes. I don’t know what I am waiting for, but I honestly know that sitting in the car won’t get me anywhere. So why am I acting like a scared teenage girl? All I have to do is go inside, come up with some lame-ass excuse to get Beth out of her class and talk to her. I take a deep breath, and I open the car door. There’s a group of teenage girls near their cars, and I can see them checking me out. I hate teenagers. They only get us in trouble, always with their make-up and a fake ID. I close the car door, and I start walking into the big building in front of me. This is some rich school; I’ve always attended public schools, and trust me, they don’t look like this. This looks like a freaking castle. I wonder how much it costs a month to run. Why do I think about that? Get a grip and get the girl Logan.
Michael POV Daniel keeps pushing my buttons, and I am not pleased about this. “I said no” - I let out, and Daniel looks at me. Dad crosses his arms in front of his chest and takes a deep breath. “But you will be family”, - Daniel says “That’s still to be seen”, - I say between greeted teeth. “What did you say, boy?” - Daniel asks, and I shake my head. My phone starts to vibrate in my pocket, and I pick it up. It's Logan, but I can’t answer right now. This asshole thinks he can manipulate every single aspect of my life, and I am getting tired of it. I reject the call and focus my attention back on Daniel that is looking at me as if I was the enemy. “Daniel, your nephew won’t work here, he will never work here, he will never have access to my business”, - I say “Don’t be an overdramatic boy”, - Daniel says, taking one step closer to me “Drop it, Daniel, I haven’t worked my ass off to leave this company to
Elisabeth POV Michael pulls away from me, and I feel as if I can’t breathe; my body is taking for his, my lips want more of him, my skin needs his touch, but he pulled away. Of course, he pulled away. He is with Logan; I am just the beard for their relationship. I am just a contract. Michael pulls a small box from the pocket of his jacket, and my hands fly to my mouth, covering it. When I see the ring, my heart almost comes out through my mouth. It's simple, elegant, beautiful. It would be the king of the ring I would love to get when I am actually getting married. Now he’s ruined that for me. No other ring will ever be better than this one. “We can’t be engaged without a ring”, - he tells me, and he is right. Michael slides the ring on my finger, and it fits to perfection, as if it was made just for me. I grew up having all the jewellery I’ve ever wanted,
Michael POV Today I am meeting my son, I can’t believe this is actually happening. Elisabeth has been in bed rest for three months and now Elisabeth is being taken to the operating room where she will be having a c-section for the baby’s to be born. Elisabeth had a complication during the pregnancy as she developed diabetes and that put the baby’s at risk. Her food was monitored and she definitely wasn’t happy about it but she knew it was for the best for the twins. We are having a boy and a girl. We decided that the kids will know who their biological father is but we will make no distinctions between them. We love them both equally. “This way”, Logan says running down the corridor with me following him. Elisabeth has been in the hospital for the last two days and today is the day, thing is we were home when she started to go into labour.
Michael POV It’s been three days since the wedding and I couldn’t be happier, the press is making a spectacle out of everything, they are making me look like a dick, being with Beth and Logan, luckily a lot of people support me and them. It’s not the end of the world to love two people unconditionally, I am just lucky that I have found two people to love instead of just one. Some people might not even find one in their lifetime and I have two, two people that I love unconditionally and that love me more than I ever thought possible. Today we will be finding out the results of the DNA test and I can’t help but feel a little nervous. I am quite anxious and so is Logan, I can tell. I haven’t been able to sleep properly last night. I even left the room while Logan and Beth had a steamy make out session. I just couldn’t focus as I am worried, what if the kids are not mine? What if they are Logan’s? I know that I will love them the same as if they were min
Logan POV The ceremony has ended and now it’s time for the party, Mel, Olivia, my mom and Beth went all in on this, I stayed out of it and so did Mike. None of us has a death wish, messing with wedding arrangements seems wrong and I know that whatever I suggested would’ve been denied, so I stayed away. Besides Beth is extremely hormonal and everything makes her cry, so I would always end up doing whatever she wanted just so she wouldn’t cry. Elisabeth wanted to be married to us before the babies were born, we will be finding out the DNA of the twins, we decided to do it before the wedding and find our after, like that it doesn’t matter who’s who, we are all married, we all share responsibilities and we will all love those kids. I can’t help but think that I would love the twins to be mine but I know how broken Mike would be if they are not his. After all twins run in his family and not in mine, so the probability of them being his are higher than min
Michael POV “Are you ready?”, Mel asks as she opens the door, I am sitting in the corner of the room finishing up the laces of my shoes. “Almost”, I say and she smiles as she sits in the end of the bed. “Have you seen her?”, I ask and Mel nods her head in excitement. “She looks absolutely beautiful”, Mel says and I smile at the same time Gabe walks in without knocking. “Are you ready?”, he asks me and I nod my head standing up in front of the mirror looking at my reflection. “Your father would be so proud”, Mom says as she approaches me from behind. I turn around and pull her into a tight hug. I see tears rolling down her eyes and Mel tells her she needs to stop or she will ruin her makeup. I look at the mirror and think about dad, I never looked like him or had anything in common with the man but he was my dad, he was the most important man in my life, he was th
Elisabeth POV As soon as Michael and Logan leave the house, I walk back into the bedroom, picking up the white dress Michael got me from the back of the closet and placing it in the bed. I have a quick shower and do some light makeup, and I leave my hair down, cascading down my back. I put the dress on, and it hugs my figure perfectly. I smile at the mirror, looking at myself. I look like a bride. The dress is long, covering the length of my legs, it doesn’t have a back, and the small straps fall on the side of my shoulders. I pick up the little box Michael left for me in the dresser. I see my beautiful ring in it, and I put it on; I am not expecting Michael to propose to me again, we talked about it, and I know how committed he is to propose to Logan, and I don’t want to put more pressure on him. He already proposed once, and I am okay with it. I walk out of the room, and as soon as I open the
Logan POV Michael is taking me out on a date today. It’s our first official date as a couple out in the open. I can’t lie, I am really nervous. Beth is helping me to get ready as she chooses a grey suit to match my eyes apparently. It makes no sense as I have blue eyes but I agree with her. She has been extremely hormonal this past week and I decide to say yes to everything, she is ruthless. “Come, put this on”, she says offering me a blue tie. I look at her shaking my head, I put a limit on tie, I will wear the suit but a tie? Really? Where is he taking me? To the freaking opera? “Do I really have to? It’s just not me”, I say and she looks at me dead serious. I think that at any point smoke will start to appear from her ears, she looks that upset. “If you are not going to wear what I give you, why did you ask me to help you?”, she asks throwing the tie at the bed and walking out of the
Michael POV After a long soak in the bath with me and Logan Elisabeth is having a nap all wrapped up around him, I kiss the top of her head and he smiles at me. He is reading the newspaper on his phone, I get out of bed and walk out of the room typing on my phone. I put my shoes on as I get ready to leave the house. I need to share the news with my family. I think this kind of good news will do them good. I will tell mom later, she is in a spiritual retreat somewhere, basically she is getting drunk and eating her weight in ice cream and carbs in a expensive hotel somewhere. You know what? Good for her. She needs to rest and she needs to grieve. Gabe and Mel are meeting me in my apartment, I don’t know why I still own an apartment, I am basically living with Logan and Elisabeth in Logan’s apartment, but we will have to move to somewhere bigger, we need more space with the twins and I will have m
Michael POV “Are you sure you’re okay with this?” I ask Elisabeth as we walk into the private room in the back of the jewellery owned by Gabe. She offers me her hand, and I take it without hesitation. The manager takes us to a small closed room right at the back, it has perfect light and privacy, that’s exactly what I need. The room is elegant and well decorated, providing the privacy I need to choose this ring. He offers us coffee, and we kindly accept as he puts some cushioned displayers in front of me, all of them with wedding bands and engagement rings. How am I supposed to choose? I look at Elisabeth that is looking carefully at each one of them until her eyes stop and they shine. She offers me a smile, and she sees a thick gold band with a small, almost invisible diamond in the middle, her eyes shine, and I know what she’s thinking. “This is the one”, she says, and I smile at her, grabbing the ring with my left hand. “Are you sure?”. I
Logan POV Elisabeth and I have been keeping to ourselves, I don’t want to interfere with the ceremony and Beth is feeling a little under the weather, after all her father got killed the same day. Although she had no emotional connection to the guy she still cried after he dies, it was her father after all. Mike has been with his family this entire time and he always looks deep in thought, I haven’t seen him shed a tear, in fact the only person I’ve seen crying was Olivia, while Gabe, Mike and Mel haven’t showed their emotions today. I don’t think that is healthy but who am I to say anything, they feel how they feel and one thing I know is that they are all messed up in some way or another. River is standing in the end of the room talking to some people and she gives me a small wave. I wave back and all of a sudden Mike stands up and walks towards us. “Hey, how are you feeling?”, I ask M