jOLIE"Get out of my way!" I pushed away the secretary that was trying to stop me from going into Adam's office. It has been five long years since I have been here but I still remember the way to the office well. "Miss, you have to get an appointment if you want to speak to the CEO!" The secretary was still trying to stop me when I pushed Adam's door open, and walked into the office. Lily was seated facing him, and I could hear her negotiating with Adam. "If you want a clean divorce, I would suggest that you give in to my demands instead of trying to fight it. Remember that I don't have anything more to lose, you're the only one who will lose out if our marriage keeps on dragging," I heard Lily telling Adam. I sneered, even as Adam stood up angrily and started to approach me. "You really can't wait to throw yourself into Selena's arms right? You did the same thing back then. You framed me for cheating on you and ran to her as soon as she came back. And you're doing it to Lily th
JOLIE Selena walked outside of the house, holding two kids with her. There was a happy smile on her face, and I quickly realized the older girl was her daughter, Ariel.As for the boy.... although I was some distance away, I was still able to tell that he looked exactly like Adam. I remembered just then that Selena had indeed been pregnant five years ago when the incident happened. So not only did she survive, even the child she was carrying survived? How the heck was she so lucky? Why did she have such a good life, damn it! A man walked out of the house just then, and Selena hugged him affectionately. I saw red when she did this, the man was really attractive, and I finally knew how Selena was able to afford living here. After leaving Adam, she was still able to trick an unsuspecting man into getting married to her. I was almost insane with jealousy. How was it that Selena was able to get a man as handsome as that while I was stuck with a man who was old enough to be my gra
JOLIE My face was pale even as I walked into the house. She remembered....Selena did remember after all! I could not remember how I even managed to get home. Selena had told me that she did not forget about what I did to her and that she was going to make me pay, and somehow, I had managed to drive home. "Where are you coming from, Jolie? And why do you look so pale?" I looked up to see Jenson looking at me worriedly. Today, I wasn't in that mood to play a loving wife to him, not after what I had just discovered. My entire life could be destroyed all because that bitch was back. I could not shake off that fear. "I....I am.....I met a friend, and I am tired," I muttered slowly. "What friend did you meet and why do you look so pale just because there you met a friend? Is there someone bullying you again? You know if someone is making things hard for you you don't need to keep it to yourself. Tell me about it and I will make the person pay! " Jenson assured me. "I...." "Bull
"A billion dollars? You can go ahead and rob a bank then!" I thought he would ask me for a few millions, fifty million at most, and since I was Jenson's wife, I had not been stupid. I had a few hundred millions to my name already, and it wouldn't be too much for me to pay him off with fifty million. But he actually wanted a billion? Was Selena worth that much? "You can go ahead and do it yourself if you don't think that it's worth the price. Anyway, I won't mention your name if I get caught, and I will go to jail for a few years for murder. Don't you think that a billion dollars is enough for this?" Lucas asked me. I stood there as I thought about what he had said. Lucas wasn't wrong. Getting away with the murder of Selena won't be easy, especially since she obviously has a rich family besides her now. But if Lucas was willing to take the whole blame for it and go to jail for some years well, a billion would be worth it. I would just take it as I was buying my peace for the re
ADAMI stared blankly at the man in front of me, and I found it hard to believe that he was actually the one standing in front of me. How....how was this possible? What was going on? "You.....what are you doing here?" When Lucian disappeared five years ago, I could not find any traces of him, no matter how hard I tried. I spent a lot of money and energy trying to find him, but it was useless. I just assumed that he had died somewhere....so how the heck did he show up in front of me, and as Jenson's son , at that? Was the universe playing some kind of sick joke on me? "How....how is this possible?" I mumbled under my breath. "Adam, it's been just five years, don't tell me that you don't remember me anywhere? Although a lot of things happened between us, I think we have a really strong bond, what do you think?" Lucian flashed a smile at me. I was boiling in anger when I saw that smile on his face, and I really wanted to wipe it off. How dare he show up here and act like nothin
LILY "What do you mean you agreed to get a divorce from Adam?! Have you lost your mind?" Philp yelled at me. When he called me and told me that he wanted to see me in his house urgently, I already knew what he wanted to talk to me about. I almost did not want to go, but I knew I had to put an end to all of this before it was too late. Anyway, my relationship with Adam was over and I would be getting a large chuck of money from him. I no longer wanted anything to do with this family. "Yes, I agreed to get the divorce. It's been five years, I have spent my whole life trying to get him to love me. But no matter what I did, he will always see me as a bad person. You are his parent so he won't be too harsh on you, but as for me? Even a criminal is better than me in Adam's eyes. Anyway, I am going to hand Daniel over to him. He's your grandson, anyway. And you guys can do whatever you want with the kid! " I said coldly. "I can't believe that you're this kind of woman! If I had known,
SELENAI stepped on the brakes and I was able to avoid hitting the woman before it was too late. However, the man was still shocked and she fell to the ground. I rushed out of my car to help her, but I froze in place when I saw who it was. What was Janet doing here? "Janet...." I called out to her. The past five years had given me mixed feelings about this woman. She was Adam's mother and she was also the main reason why we had to be separated. I could not even bring myself to hate her, because I knew that she could not control being sick, but that did not mean that I did not resent her a bit. They were unshed tears glistening in her eyes and I helped her stand up immediately."Are you okay? I will send you to the hospital" I said as I helped her get into the car. Janet shook her head, panting heavily. "No, I don't want to go to the hospital" she said. "Are you sure about that?" I asked her. "We can go to the hospital and make sure that you're okay before anything else," I
SELENA"You let him push you around and use you as his punching bag. Adam did so much to get you out, but you refused to leave. You weren't concerned about the effect your husband's actions had on your son. You just cared about yourself. You left your eighteen year old son to cater for himself. Philp is a bastard, and I don't expect anything from him, but do you think you can be considered a mother? After all of the things you've done?" I did not hold back when I scolded Janet, and she was crying when I was done. I rolled my eyes at this. She really knew to make use of her tears. "I know I made mistakes but I ..." "You didn't just make mistakes. You abandoned your son. That's what you did, Janet. Five years ago, he let go of the love of his life, he let go of me and married someone that he hated because he wanted to save your life. Despite all of the things that you did, he still saw you as a mother. And now, you're saying that you don't know what you're going to do about this?" I
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