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
JOLIEI was putting my makeup on when my husband, Jenson walked in. He kissed me on the cheek and I had to smile and pretend as if I liked it when the truth was, I wanted to throw up so bad. I looked at him, a soft smile on his face. "You are back from the office so soon?" I asked. He nodded his head, "Yeah, I wanted to come back and spend time with my darling wife," Jenson said. I frowned, Jenson was a workaholic and that was one of the reasons I had married him back then. He could go off and work all he wanted while I spent his money. But every now and then, he would get the urge to show off the fact that he had a beautiful wife and he would ask that I go out with him. "Baby, you know I would love to spend time with you today, but didn't I tell you that I was going to see a few of my friends? We haven't had time to catch up, and I really want to hang out with them? We can do this another time, okay?" I asked, pouting my lips so he would feel sorry for me .I actually had no
JOLIELucas and I lay panting on the bed heavily after a few hours of having sex. Although I was now married to Jenson, I was never loyal to him. He was an old man who could not get me off and I was just waiting for him to die so that I could get my hands on more of his money. It was a wonderful arrangement for me because he would never guess that I was cheating on him. Besides, I was much smarter than when I had cheated on Adam. I made sure to cover my tracks well and Lucas knew better than to say anything about our relationship."So what are you going to do about your husband? Don't tell me that you are still going to stay married to him?" Lucas asked me. I eyed him coldly, every time I came to see him, he would try to convince me to leave Jenson. Of course, I would never ever do this. "I already told you that you should stop talking about this. I have no intentions of ever leaving my husband," I said. "Really? That man is old enough to be your grandfather and you're alread
LUCIAN It's been five years....five long years, of watching the people who had ruined my life live happy lives and act as if nothing had ever happened. Five years since I had to run away and go into hiding so Adam wouldn't kill me. At some point, I had lost all hope. I really thought I had reached the end of my life and that I would have to spend the rest of my life hiding from Adam. But then, I discovered something just a year ago. I had a father! Not just any father, my father was one of the richest men in the country! My mother had never told me about my father, in fact, the only thing I knew about him was that he had kicked her out when she was pregnant with me. She hated him her whole life, and even when she was dying, she refused to tell me who he was. I never cared anyway, since I hated the man who abandoned my mother and I. That was until a year ago, when I stumbled upon the truth. I still hated Jenson, the man that was my father, but I was no longer a little kid. I
ADAM"You mean.... Selena's father, is involved in the mafia?" I was on the phone with the private investigator who worked for me. A few days ago, I had asked him to investigate Selena's family and tell me all he could shoot them, and he finally had news. "Yes, they are a really rich and powerful family that are based abroad. They used to be based in the country, but twenty years ago , after their daughter went missing, they went abroad. On the surface, they run a multi billion dollar company, but they are also involved in the mafia and in the trade of firearms. The government has tried to catch them many times but they always fail. In fact, the true network of their family is unknown," the private investigator told me. I shook my head, I could not believe this. It wasn't that Selena's family would affect my opinion from her, but the fact that she was from such a rich family was enough to blow my mind. I was having a hard time believing it. "I can't believe this....she's...." I w
ADAM I looked from mother to daughter, Selena was a sobbing mess and Ariel was glaring at her mother, trying her best not to cry. "What is going on here?" I asked. Selena and Ariel both looked at me at the same time.Ariel ran to me as soon as she saw me. She dove into my arms crying, I comforted her, while staring at Selena angrily. I knew that she wanted to see her daughter, but did she have to come here without talking to me about it first? Selena looked hurt when she saw Ariel do this, but I didn't care. Ariel was the most important person here now. "Ariel....I am your mommy....are you really saying that you don't want your mommy anymore?" Selena asked, hurt evident in her tone. Ariel didn't say anything, she was just crying in my arms. "What are you doing here, Selena?" I asked her calmly. Although I was angry at how she showed up here without even talking about it without me, I could never really take out my anger on her. "I just wanted to see my daughter, you can't k
ADAMSelena did not dare to meet my eyes when I asked her this, she looked away from me, and the guilt was evident on her face. "Why aren't you saying anything? You told me that our son was dead...but he's alive, right? Even Lily saw him. Did you really think that she wouldn't tell me about it?" I asked Selena angrily. I was really trying my best to be understanding towards her because of everything that she had been through but I was having a really hard time holding myself back! She actually dared to lie about our son! She would have kept him away from me forever had I not found out about it. "I can see that you're having a good time with your wife, you're even talking about our kids. Well, let me just make it clear to you that...." "No, no, no, Selena. You're not going to do that. You're not going to turn this on me. You know damn well what the relationship between Lily and I is like. And besides you're the one who tried to hide our son from me. Did you forget that you just to
ADAM"Please don't say that about your mom. You know, your mother has always loved you. She couldn't come back all these years because she got badly hurt. Remember how she fell into the sea? She managed to survive, but she ended up blind. She couldn't come back because she was working on getting her eyesight back. She rushed back to see you as soon as she could see!" I explained to Ariel. Selena and I may be fighting now but if there was something we could agree on, it was that we both loved our daughter a lot, and we would give up anything to let her have a good life. Ariel looked up at me, worry in her eyes when I explained Selene's situation to her. "She...is she okay now?" She asked me carefully. I nodded my head, "yes. Thankfully, your mother is okay now. Why don't you cut your mother some slack, Ariel? She really loves you... Besides, you have your brother now. Do you really not want to get to know your brother?" I asked Ariel. She had two brothers, actually. Ariel and I h
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