LILYPhilp's face paled when I asked him this and I leaned back on my chair, comfortably. I knew I had him where I wanted him right now, he would have no other choice but to help me. "Do you know that I am not the only one who will go down if you do this? You are also going to get dragged down with me. Are you sure that you want to face the consequences of that?" He asked. I just shrugged when he asked me this, I didn't care. I was already on the verge of losing everything. "I don't think I can stand to lose anything else as it stands. Adam already hates me, and he is always thinking of ways to get out of this marriage. The most he would do is divorce me if he finds out that truth. But you.....you're his father. How are you going to survive if Adam decides that he wants to come after you?" I smirked at Philp, and I could see that he was shaking in anger. Although he had his own assets in his hands, Adam could easily take it all away from him if he wanted to. "I am going to talk
ADAMI slipped my hands into my pocket and approached my father with a cold look on his face. "What did you want me here for?" I asked coldly. I knew he would only ask me to come here when he wanted to ask me a favour. It wasn't like I was going to do it, I just wanted to hear it so I could reject him in person. My father cleared his throat, "Is this how you talk to your parents?! Only God knows how you are raising that daughter of yours when you can't even be respectful to us. No matter what happened before, it's all in the past. Don't you think that we deserve to move on?"My father was getting more and more disgusting. He was even twisting history to make it seem like he didn't do anything big. I held back my anger when I thought of how I had to get back to Ariel as soon as possible. I could not let my daughter down. "You don't need to worry about my daughter's upbringing. You can be rest assured that she will not grow up with a father who knocks his mother around!"A pale l
ADAM"Adam, your father and I are not living happily like nothing happened. We are sorry about what happened to her. But you can't put all of the blame on us. We didn't mean for it to happen. She.. "I turned to my mother and glared at her sharply at her. "Have you forgotten that this happened because of you? Have you forgotten that it happened because I was trying to protect you?!" I snapped at her."Adam! Don't talk to your mother like that!". My father warned me. "Oh so you're suddenly a good husband who cares about his wife now?!" I snapped at him, unable to hold myself back. I was really angry. "Hey! We are still your parents no matter what!""I don't care about any of that, and I also don't care about Lily and that child of hers. You are the one who wanted to have that child. So you are going to be responsible for it. I said five years ago that I wouldn't get involved with him! I am planning on standing by my words!" I could not hold myself back anymore and I was on the ver
SELENA "Where is he?" I asked the secretary, who kept looking at me with a guarded gaze. I could not recognize her and that only meant she was working here five years ago. She did not know who I was. Not that I cared anyway. "I already called the CEO, he said he would be here soon" she said, still giving me a guarded look. "That's fine, I'll just go in to wait for him," I said, trying to enter the office. However, the woman stood in front of me, refusing to let me in. I raised an eyebrow, taking her in fully. She looked no older than twenty two. "Do you know who I am?" I asked her. She shook her head, "I don't know who you are, but knowing who you are is not part of my job. I am not allowed to let anyone into the office because there are a lot of important documents in there and...." She was still talking when I pushed her away from the door lightly. "Don't stand in my way next time if you don't want to lose your job" I said coldly.Before and could protest more, I walked in
SELENA I sneered at Adam, I could not believe that he actually thought that he was dreaming. "Why? Did you think I was dead?! I am sure you must have been happy these past five years thinking I was dead, right?" I could not stop myself from being sarcastic towards him. I told myself I was not going to mention the things that happened in the past since I just wanted all of this to be over with, but I could not control myself. I was filled with anger when I remembered how he had kept me hostage five years ago! "Selena, you know that's not true. That's just not true. I love you....I really love you. These past five years. I have been looking for you. I ....refused to accept that you were dead no, matter how many times people said that. I.....I knew you were alive. Thank you so much....thank you so much for coming back to me," he said to me. Adam was teary eyed, and he tried to hug me again, but I just pushed him away. No way I was going to let him sweet-talk his way into my life a
SELENAI stood up and pointed a finger at Adam angrily. "I don't care about you and Lily. Adam, I am only here to take back my company and my daughter!" I yelled at him. I did not give a damn whatever happened to him and Lily. He could get a divorce all he wanted. I just didn't want to be involved in it. Adam looked hurt, and his face paled as he stared at me. Like he could not believe what I was saying. He got up and tried to take my hand again but I just slapped his hand away again. "Don't even think about touching me!" I snapped at him. "Selena....what....what happened to me? We....I thought that you were back for us! For Ariel and I!" He said. I sneered, "Well, you thought wrong. My coming back has nothing to do with you. I know you're the one in charge of my company now. I want it back, and I want my daughter back. I am prepared to go to court for both my company and the custody of my daughter!" I yelled. I felt like I could not stay in the office anymore. This man had
LILYI had just put Daniel to bed when I heard voices coming from downstairs. I frowned, because it seemed like someone was shouting my name for me to come down. I had no idea who it was but I knew I had to go see who was going on. When I arrived downstairs, I saw my mother trying her best to hold Adam back. A frown appeared on my face just then. Adam had never been in this house ever since we were married, and I wasn't happy that he was finally here. I knew that he could not be here for anything cold. I smiled coldly as I approached him. "What are you doing here, Adam? Don't tell me that you are thinking of repairing our marriage?" I asked sarcastically. "Lily! How can you talk like that?! You haven't seen your husband in a long time. You should be nice to him!" My mother chided me. I just rolled my eyes at this. "Whatever mom, I don't care. Don't you think that we should stop pretending already? We all know what the state of our marriage is!" I said, for the first time in
ADAMLily looked away from me just then, and I knew instantly that Selena had lied to me about the baby being dead. My heart hurt when I realized this. I knew she was mad at me and she hated me right now, but was there any reason for her to be so cruel to me? Did she have to tell me that the baby was dead?!It did not make sense for her to go so far. "What baby? I don't know what you are talking about," Lily denied it. "Lily, I have never pressured your father's company before this. Although I did not help, I did not make things even more difficult for you guys. If you think you are having a great life right now and you really want to lose the company, you can keep lying!" I snarled at her.This was my son! I had really been looking forward to the birth of that child when Selena was pregnant! Because she fell into the cold water, I did not dare to imagine that the baby had survived. And when Selena told me the baby died, although I was sad, I consoled myself that it was fine as
SELENAI got into my car angrily. I was prepared to drive over to the house of Lily's mother and question are about what was going on. How could her daughter have the audacity to pass off someone else's child as Adams child for five years?However just as I was about to start my car I failed a gun pressed to my forehead. I turned slowly, and Lucian was in the car, staring obsessively at me. Adam had told me that Lucian was back and that he was the son of one of his business partners. I knew that I would run into Lucian sooner or later and I was worried about what the meeting was going to be like. But I never in my life thought that he would be in my car with a gun to my head. "Lucian what is the meaning of this? Do you know that this is a crime? How dare you point a gun at my head?" I asked. "Get the heck out of the driver seat. I am sick and tired of doing this with you, Selena. I keep waiting and thinking that you will come back to your senses and you will see that Adam is not
SELENA"So you are saying that you want to get back together with Adam? Look, I know that you love that man, and I guess I should have known that you were going to go back to him when you insisted on coming here. But are you sure that you can really do it this time? This is the third time that you will be getting back together with Adam. The first two times did not work. Why do you think that it is going to work now?" Ryan had a worried look on his face as he asked me all of these questions. Although my brother sounded a bit harsh I knew that he was just asking me this because he was worried about me. "I have already made up my mind Ryan. I am going to get back together with Adam and I will make sure that our relationship works out this time. We have been through a lot together and we have grown a lot. So we can definitely make it work as long as we put in the effort. We are already together, anyway. And even though you and dad might not like it, we have a right to be happy," I sai
My heart sank to my chest when I heard the familiar voice of Jenson. I turned back slowly, and I saw the man who was supposed to be dead, sitting on the bed, a cold look on his face. I screamed, and my phone fell from my hand. "You..... aren't you.... aren't you dead?" I asked him. I shook my head, forcing myself to think quickly. He wasn't dead just yet! I couldn't let him realise I was trying to murder him! I threw myself at Jenson and started to cry. "Jenson ...baby ...I am so glad that you are alive. I was so scared ...I was calling the ambulance and Lucian....I really wouldn't have known what to do if you had indeed been dead. Can you please not scare me like that next time? I don't think I'll be able to live on if you die!" I said, crying real tears. I was crying because my plan had failed when I was so close, but he didn't need to know that. Jenson just needed to think that I was crying because he almost died.Jenson pushed me away coldly, a sneer on his face. "Do you
JOLIEI left Jenson into the house that I had rented out for our vacation. I made sure that it was a place far away from the city so that it wouldn't be easy to trace what would happen back to me. He was already old anyway, and I was sure that his death would be chalked up to a heart attack. Besides, Lucian wouldn't really care to find out what happened to his father, not when he was busy spending his money. The past few days have helped me realize that Lucian was only sticking around for the money that he could get from Jenson. He really didn't care for him as a father, and I thought that Lucian would thank me even if he found out what I did. I got rid of the man standing between his inheritance , he should be thankful to me. "Are you sure that it's a good idea for us to come here, Jolie? There is hardly any network. How am I going to communicate with the people at work?" Jenson asked me as he looked around the house. "Come on Jenson, you said that you only have today to spare
SELENA I was disgusted when I heard Lily say these things. I always knew that she was not a good woman, but the fact that she could just hand her son away and demand that and didn't want to hear from him ever again...it was really really cold. "Lily, what kind of mother are you? This is your son! Adam wants custody of the kid but that doesn't mean that he wants to take the kid away from you forever! He still wants you to be in his life. Why are you doing this to the kid?" I asked. I looked at Daniel who was clinging on to his father, and I felt my heart breaking for him. He was a kid who clearly needed love, but with a mother like Lily, it was obvious that he never got any of that love. "Oh please, you don't have to pretend like you're such an amazing woman, Selena. Isn't this what you wanted? You have your man back, and you even gained a son in the process. You should be happy since you beat me, why are you acting like you care?" Lily sneered at me. "Some of us have kids that
ADAM"Philp, I want a divorce. I am sick and tired of this. I can't tell such a crazy lie, and I can't continue to live with you. I want to leave. Please let me go," my mother said.There was complete silence after she said this. I could not believe that my mother had really asked for a divorce. I had tried to get her to feed a divorce from this man several times but she refused to listen to me.She was convinced that he was the love of her life, and there was nothing that could change her mind. "Janet? Are you mad?! I brought you here to fix the issue that you created and you are telling me that you want a divorce? What are you going to do when you get a divorce?! Where do you think you are going to do if you leave me?" My father yelled at her. My mother smiled, and for the first time in my life, I saw her relaxed. It was as if she had let go of all of the burdens she was carrying as soon as she said that she wanted to divorce my father. "I don't know yet, I am going to get a jo
ADAMMy mother was a sobbing mess and my father had an angry look on his face when I walked into my living room. Selena had been really close to agreeing to being with me again, and so I was dealt mad that these people had come to disturb me at such a time. I was especially angry at my father. I could not bring myself to give him even a single shred of respect, after all of the things that he did to me. "What are you doing here?" I asked coldly, without looking at my father. The tempo of her tears increased but I didn't let it affect me.Although my mother had nothing to do with what happened back then, I could not help but resent her a bit. If she hasn't been "sick" I would never have lost Selena. She was the catalyst for what happened five years ago. "Adam, I don't know what your mother told you yesterday, but she was imagining things. She's old now and she's thinking all kinds of things in her head. You saw her medical records back then, now why on Earth would I fake her hav
SELENA My head was hurting when I woke up the next morning. It took a few seconds, but I recalled what had happened the previous night. Adam and I slept together once again. My lips twitched, this was not what I wanted. This was not how I thought things were going to go when I decided to come back. But nothing was going my way ever since I came back. I knew that with Adam and I, it was never really simple. I had to think about what I was going to do about our relationship now, especially since we already had two kids together. I could not ignore the elephant in the room. Just then, Adam walked out of the bathroom, wearing his pyjamas, and with his hair still wet. It was obvious that he had just taken a bath. He flashed me a smile that made my heart melt when our eyes met. "Are you awake? Ariel has already been sent to school, if you want breakfast, I can make something for you," he offered. I laughed lightly, "Do you even know how to cook?"The Adam I knew in the past was dis
SELENA"Can you please stop doing this, Adam? I know that you're angry, but do you think that drinking yourself to a stupor like this is going to solve anything for you?" I asked, feeling really drained. After his mother had left, Adam had come to the bar, claiming that he needed to drink to forget the things that had happened. I could not just leave him to himself, what he found out was pretty damaging, and so I decided to come with Adam to make sure that he didn't hurt himself or someone else. A sad look was on my face as I watched him gulp down all of the beer. At this rate, he was going to be sick. Did Adam think he could get anything out of acting out like this? "You can just leave if you don't want to be here with me, it's not as if I am forcing you anyway," he said coldly. Even though I knew he was drunk and I shouldn't let his words get to me, I could not help but feel a bit hurt. I could not understand why he was acting like this. Did he really need to be such an assho