JOLIE Tears gathered in my eyes but I held it back. I really didn't want to cry because of Adam and Selene. I did not think that both of them were worth my tears. "Adam ..you are going to regret this. You are going to regret ever treating me like this. Selene is going to hurt you and leave you again. Then you are going to realize that I am the only one who's truly here for you!". I snapped at Adam. I turned and started to walk out of the bedroom. It used to be easy for me to seduce Adam. Even if he hated me before this, he did not refuse having sex with me for any reason. But ever since Selene returned ...he changed. "Jolie.." Adam called out to me. I turned to look at him, excitedly. I thought he was going to apologize for the way that he had treated me. He was going to tell me that he was sorry and that he did not mean to treat me in the way that he did. "I really don't care what you do, but you had better leave Selene alone. She did not do anything to you. But you've been t
JOLIE When I opened my eyes the next morning, I was lying on a strange bed. I looked around me and I realised that I was in a hotel room. I jumped up at once as I tried to remember what happened and how I got here. The events of the previous day started to come back to me. Adam had been mean to me as he usually was and I felt like I could not take it anymore. I had gone to the bar to drink and somehow I was talking to this guy and then we left the bar. I remember that he had brought me back to the hotel....I didn't want to go in with him at first but I was really drunk and there was no way that I could stop myself. I ended up having sex with him.Just thinking about it made me want to slam my head on a wall. I really hated that I had been so foolish! I knew better than to have sex with a man that I barely knew! Besides, I was married to Adam! If Adam found out about this, it would be the end of our marriage! He had been looking for ways to divorce me and this was the perfect exc
Jolie had a pitiful look on her face when she asked me this but I knew better than to fall for her tricks. She was just doing this to make me feel sorry for her, then she would be back to being the evil woman she was. "I thought you had decided you didn't want to continue with this marriage anymore. I was really happy when you left. I am disappointed that you decided to come back!" I told her the truth. I seriously thought that Jolie had had enough and that she was going to leave me on her own. I should have known that a gold digger like her would never do that. Jolie looked like she was going to cry. "For goodness sake ,.I am your wife. I left the house really late yesterday. Anything could have happened to me. Don't tell me that you don't care about me at all? Even a little bit?" She asked me. "I really don't care at all Jolie. What exactly do you want to hear from me? I already told you I didn't want to be married to you anymore. Did you really think I would care for you?" I a
SELENA "What do you mean? What exactly do you want?" I asked Adam. I looked away from him when I said this. I knew the kind of effect Adam had on me and I knew that I would not be able to control myself around him if things continued like this. He just approached me. I tried to walk away but Adam had already gotten to me. He grabbed my hand and pinned it to the chair. Then he looked at me in the eye. "I love you. I already made that clear. I never stopped loving you. I just want you to give me a chance to show you that I can be a really good husband. Why can't you just do that?" He asked me. Tears gathered in my eyes but I held it back. I was not going to break down and cry here. "No, our relationship is already over. When you refused to believe me when I told you that I didn't chest, I knew there was no trust between us and that our marriage should never have happened in the first place!" I said firmly. I wasn't as confident as I sounded, but I had to do something, just about
SELENA"What do you mean she has leukemia?! My daughter has been fine up until this point! How can she just have leukaemia out of nowhere?! It doesn't make sense!" I already stood up and I was pacing around the office. My heart was beating fast against my chest and I had a hard time believing what I had been told. There was no way I could just accept that my daughter has leukemia just like that. It did not make sense to me in the slightest. Not at all !"Please ma'am. I need you to calm down. It's Fortunate that we were able to discover it in the early stages or else there won't have been enough time for us to find a matching bone marrow donor for her. It happens like this sometimes. The kid is fine up until the point that she's not. You need to calm down and you need to be strong for your daughter. What is she going to do if you break down now?" The doctor asked me. I managed to sit down, but I was still very worried and scared. Ariel was my whole life. She was the reason why I sur
JOLIEI knocked on Adam's door. Ever since I cheated on him, I had not been able to rest easy. I kept feeling as if he was going to find out that I had been cheating on him. I had never been able to rest easy since that day. I took a deep breath as I knocked again. The door was pulled open from inside and Adam stood by the door to keep me from going in. I scoffed when I saw him do this. Did he really think of me as that much of a threat? So much that he was not willing to let me come in at all? "I need to talk to you. I understand that you're experiencing a lot right now since Selena just came back but are you sure that you want to throw away the time that we spent together just for her ? Do you even think that she is going to appreciate it if you do something like that for her? You don't know the kind of person she is and she won't care about you! I know that I haven't been a good wife lately, but I promise to do better from now on. I think we can give our relationship a second c
SELENAI glared at Lucian after he ended the call. "Who told you that you could call him? This is a decision that I have to make on my own. I will tell him about Ariel when I decide that it is the right time. She is sick. Do you think that now is the right time for Adam to find out about it? Do you think that I can get involved in a custody battle with him right? " I asked Lucian. I was really angry. He had told me that I needed to tell Adam about Ariel and also tell him about her condition so that he could get tested and see if he was a match for her. I was still contemplating what I was going to do and if I really needed to tell Adam the truth when Lucian called Adam and asked him to come to the company. I was really upset. This was a decision that I should be making on my own. I did not need anyone else to make the decision for me. Lucian sighed. "Look, Selena, I know that you suffered so much to have your daughter and raise her. I didn't want to get involved before this. I wo
SELENA"What?" "I asked a question. Where can I get tested? We can't waste anytime and we all need to try and see if we are a match for her. Saving Ariel's life is what is most important right now!" Adam told me.I shook my head at this. "No, no you really don't have to do that for me and my daughter. We are going to figure something out. You don't have to go through surgery just to save her" I said firmly. "Look Selena, I know that you hate me right now. And I don't even blame you for it. I was a really terrible husband to you in the past and you have every right to hate me for the things that I did to you. But right now, Ariel's life is the most important thing. We need to make sure that she is saved. So can you please put on whatever hate you have for me on hold and let me see if I can save her? Adam asked me. I looked at his face intently. Adam was staring right back at me, waiting for me to make a decision. I cleared my throat and looked away. "I don't want you to do this j
SELENAI was really scared, I had no idea what the man was going to do to me. He was standing outside, and I had thought about escaping, but I knew that I could not get away from him fast enough. I would just be putting myself in more danger if I decided to run away. I just decided to pray that whoever decided to kidnap me was not doing it because he wanted me dead . I just hoped that Adam would realise that I was missing and he would come running to help me. We had argued before I was kidnapped. What if he thought that I was angry and that was why I didn't want to see him?And my daughter, Ariel, I was really worried about her. I wondered what she was doing now and if she was fine. The door was pushed open just and the masked man walked in again. He walked over to me and untied me. Then, he pulled me up and started to drag me away. "Hey, where are you taking me?" I asked him. He scoffed at me. "You don't get to ask me any questions. Just come with me and do as I tell you if y
I had no idea how long I had been awake for. I thought the person who kidnapped me would come see me soon, but I had been waiting for quite some time and yet no one had come into the small room. "Hey, is there anyone out there?! Can you please let me go? I am someone with a lot of money. I can change your life. Please....please just let me go and I will pay you right?" I begged. The door was pushed open and a man walked in angrily. He was wearing a mask and so I could not see what he looked like. "Shut the heck up or else you are going to get it from me. What the heck are you making a mess for?" He yelled at me. Even though I was really scared, I tried my best to act like it was all fine. "Who sent you to me?! You have to let me go now or else you are just going to regret it!"" I yelled. The person walked over to me and he raised his hand at me, as if he was going to hit me. My heart was beating fast against my chest but the slap that I was expecting, did not come. "You had be
LUCIAN"Do you really think that Selena would be touched if you do these things for her?" Jolie asked me. I glared at her with a menacing look on my face. "What did you say?" Jolie scoffed and looked at me straight in the eye. "Do you really think that she cares for you? You are doing so many things to break her and Adam up but even if they break up, what are the chances that she will get together with you? Think about this carefully. You are just like me, Lucian. Selena and Adam don't care about both of us. You are just wasting your time with her!" Jolie snapped at her. "Shut up! Shut up right now!" I yelled. What I hated the most was being reminded of the fact that despite being in Selena's life for a long time, she had never really looked at me. She was always running after Adam no matter what he did to her. That really drove me mad. She scoffed when I said this. "Oh please. You know that you're just wasting your time with her and that is why you're mad at me! I am not the
LUCIAN "What do you mean she's not been here all day? She is your CEO for crying out loud. Are you telling me that not a single one of you thought about calling her and finding out where she is?" I yelled at Selena's assistant. I had come to her office to see her because I wanted to talk to her but I was told that she had not come in to work today, and I was really worried when I heard that. I knew she was a woman who cared about her work a lot. There was no way that she would stay away without a word. The assistant looked away from me guiltily. "I.....I called her and she didn't pick up. I assumed that she didn't want to come in today because she's been working really hard...." "You know that she would never stay away from work on purpose...you...." I wanted to go scolding the assistant, but I stopped myself. It wasn't as if it would help me find Selena. Finding out where she was and making sure that she was fine was the first thing in my mind. I brought out my phone and calle
SELENA"My father is a man who only understands the language of violence. I have tried to talk to him several times over the years, but he just refuses to listen to me. I want to speak to him in the language he understands!" Adam told me. I shook my head. He really was not willing to be reasonable. "Do you think that just because he is my father I am going to let him get away with doing whatever he wants? I have already washed my hands off him and my mother. I know that she is never going to leave him. But I am not going to let him act the way he wants under my roof. Ariel was in that house yesterday. What do you think would have happened if she had seen him slap my mother yesterday? I just want to be a good father? " Adam asked me. I shook my head. I felt like Adam did not understand any of the words that I had been saying to him from the beginning. He was just doing whatever he wanted and using Ariel as an excuse. "It seems you didn't listen to any of the things I have been sayi
I was sitting on the ground as I watched Adam pull Selena away. I was boiling in anger just watching them go. All of this was that woman's fault. She was the one who caused this. Adam wasn't that kind of person before! Ever since she came into his life ...I was upset just thinking about it! I wanted to get rid of her! "Someone....someone help..." I heard Philip call from inside the office. I rushed inside to help him and I gasped when I saw how beaten up he was! Adam was crazy! He was fucking crazy! "Call.....call the ambulance!" He said. .I nodded my head and started to make the call. ....Janet rushed to the hospital as soon as I called her and told her the situation. She was there in less than ten minutes. "What....what happened to him?" She asked me as she rushed to me. I eyed the older woman in front of me. I felt like she was also to blame for this. She and Selena were the cause of this situation. Adam hit his father because ha wanted to stand up for her. She was s
"You want me to leave? I am sorry, but I didn't do that. I am not going to leave. You are quick at using your fists on defenseless women and children right? Well, since you like violence so much, I figured you would like it when you're the one on the receiving end. What do you think?" I asked. My father started to move away from me. "Adam, I don't know what your mother told you, but I know that you can't just listen to one side of the story. She..." I did not want to hear whatever excuse he had. I punched my father hard. He fell to the ground in no time. Time had really taken a toll on him and he was not as strong as he was in the past. It was better for me ..he had picked on me when I was a weak defenseless kid and I would do the same to him. "Adam! I am your father! How dare you treat me like this?" He yelled at me. I kicked my father, without a single care for our father son relationship. "It's exactly because I am your son. Where do you think I learned from this?! It's fro
SELENA Ariel and I went back home together the next day. Because she was not willing to part with her father just yet, Adam drove with us back home. They even played some more before he had to leave. I felt awkward around Adam and I did not know how I was supposed to act. We had sex the previous night ..did that mean we were together? We did not get a chance to talk about it because Ariel had come knocking and we had to make ourselves presentable. I was tired of running away from Adam. I knew I loved him, I would never love another man the way I loved him In fact, I would never fall for anyone else. If I didn't get together with Adam, I would stay single for the rest of my life. I knew that he was really putting in effort to change and to be a better man for our daughter. I didn't want to keep running away from him when he was doing so much. I walked out with him when he was done playing with Ariel. I thought Adam was going to talk about what happened between us last night
"I will always be here for you " I said and kissed him on the lips. Adam's eyes went wide when I did this. He had not been expecting this. I pulled away from him and smiled, but just then, Adam grabbed my waist and pulled me back to himself. He kissed me. It wasn't just a peck. This time, he properly kissed me. I responded to the kiss, and we pulled and tugged at each other's lips. The kiss made me realize that I wanted more, so I did not hesitate when Adam led me to the bed. I helped him when he took off my clothes, and when he entered me in one swift stroke, I felt fulfilled. ......LILY "What was all of that about ,Philp?" I asked. I could tell that something was wrong when I saw Janet leave. In fact, I could already guess what had happened to her. There wasn't a single person in our circle who did not know that Philp hit Janet. This was the reason I did not take her seriously. I knew she could not help me when it came to Adam and so I did not waste my time on her. She