I rolled my eyes, highly irritated. I was tired and I was definitely not in the mood to argue with this man. "I know I have been divorced two times. You don't need to remind me about it!" I snapped at my father. I walked over to my grandfather and took his arm. I helped him sit down on the couch,while I completely ignored my father. I knew that my father was angry, but I did not care. He brought this on himself. My grandfather was the one who raised me while my father was busy doing whatever. I was not going to show respect to a man who had never cared about me before. "Do you think that this is a joke, Adam?! Do you know that you're a laughing stock back at home?! Everyone knows that you've been married and divorced many times! No matter how rich you are or how great your company is, they will still see you as someone who can't keep a marriage! Do you know how that affects your mother and I?!" My father yelled at me. "I don't know why this would affect you, Philp. You already to
ADAM"You...this is not over yet! You have a responsibility to fulfil as my son! I let you do whatever you want all these years, I am not going to let you do as you want anymore. You've already proven that you can't take care of your affairs on your own!" My father said. He walked out of my house angrily. I knew glk that this was not the end. I was going to hear from my father again. He was someone who would go extra miles just to get his own way. Anyway, I was going to be prepared when he came back. There was no way I would let him push me around . "Do you really have to be so cold to your father?" My grandfather finally spoke up. I sneered at him. "I thought that you were not going to say anything," I said. "Well, from the look of things, you were able to handle it. No matter what, that man is your father. You don't have to be so cold to him!" My grandfather said. "Well, he has never been a father. He can't just come demanding that I help him when he has always treated me ba
ADAMMy grandfather looked away guiltily when I asked him this. But I was not going to drop the topic. If he knew that Selena was pregnant, then he should have told me about it! Why did he keep it away from me?!"Grandfather What were you thinking? Do you know how much time in her life I have missed thanks to you?! You could have just told me! If I had known that Selena was pregnant with my child back then I...." My grandfather did not let me finish what I was saying. "And what would you have done if you had known that she was pregnant with your child? Would you not have kicked her away coldly?! You were convinced that she cheated on you back then and nothing anyone said was able to change your mind. You should have thought about this before you made a foolish decision back then. Selena was hurt by your actions and if she didn't want to tell you about her baby, then she has every right to keep it away from you!" My grandfather told me. I really hated the fact that he kept reminding
"Ariel how about we..." I was about to say something to my daughter when I heard someone call out my name. "Selena!" I turned to see the person who called me once. I frowned when I saw his face. It was Adam's father. Philip. What was this man doing here?!He had always hated me. He hated the fact that I was married to his son and he made sure to make my life hell in the years I was married to Adam. He and his wife did not even bother to come to the wedding. What was he doing here?I knew that the man hated me, and I felt the same way towards him. I did not think that a person like him was fit to be a father at all. I didn't see him after the divorce, who knew I was going to run into him here? He did not even live in this city, so what was he doing here?!"I see you are back. You are such a cunning woman. Since my son already divorced you, then you should leave him alone. Why the hell are you still showing up around him? Do you think that you still have a chance to be with him?! As
SELENA"You....do you really think that you're doing yourself a favour by acting like this?" He asked me angrily. I didn't want to hear anything else that Philp had to say. I was about to leave with Ariel when I saw Lucian approaching us. I frowned when I saw him. Why was he always everywhere I was? It was starting to get a bit suspicious. What was he even doing here, anyway? Lucian had a big smile as he walked over to us. Ariel was the first person that he acknowledged. "Ariel...how have you been?" Lucian asked her. Lucian had visited her a lot when she was in the hospital and they had both become good friends. Ariel seemed really happy to see him. "I am fine! How are you doing, Lucian?! You said you would come to see me after I left the hospital, but I didn't see you. You don't want to see me again?" Ariel asked as she pouted. Lucian laughed and shook his head, "no. Of course not. It's just that I have been busy. But I'll definitely come to see you from now on. You don't hav
ADAM"This is the grand business plan that you have? You want me to work with my father? What the heck were you even thinking when you came up with this? Why did you even think this is going to work? You know the relationship I have with my father!" I reminded Lucian. I was really upset with him. When he told me that he had a new business plan that ha was working on, I trusted him, because I knew that Lucian would never let me make a bad deal. At least that was what I thought until now. That did not seem to be the case. "Adam, as long as you are willing to put the prejudice you have against your father aside, you'll see that it's not really a bad idea for you to work for him. It's really great and I assure you that you are going to enjoy the benefits!" "Well, I can't put my prejudice aside. You have no idea what he has done to me. I don't want to ever have anything to do with that man in my life!" I said firmly. "Well, even if you don't want to, you should think about Selena. She
ADAM"Can you please not say that? No matter what, Ariel is my daughter and I don't want anything to happen to you. I know that you care about her. But I also care about her," I tried my best to convince Selena. I knew she was still guarded against me but we were not going to get anywhere if she wanted to continue pushing me away like this. Selena took a deep breath. "Fine. If you want to protect Ariel, I want you to make sure that your father doesn't ever come close to her. I know that he hasn't never liked me, and I really don't care. I just want you to keep my child away from me!" Selena told me. I nodded my head. "Of course, I am going to make sure of that. Even if you didn't mention it, that man will never come close to our daughter!" I said. I would never endanger Ariel's life by letting my parents have access to her. After all the things they put me through when I was growing up, I did not think they were fit to be grandparents. "And also...it doesn't matter if my father
ADAMI was leaving Selena's company when I ran into Jolie. She was leaving too and we got into the elevator together. I sneered when I saw her, not bothering to hide my disdain for her. Jolie had a smile on her face. She looked a lot more different now. The Jolie I was married to in the past would have started to cause a scene as soon as she saw me. What happened to her? Why did she change so much?!"You aren't even going to acknowledge my presence? I know that you hate me...but I was once your wife," Jolie finally said something. "And if there's a way for me to erase the tears I was married to you, I would gladly do it," I told her. "I really am not here to cause trouble for Selena. I am here because I need a job!" She said to me. "I don't believe you, Jolie. You, getting a job? You are not someone who would get a job out of your own will!" Jolie had always liked to leech off others. That was why she stuck with me so long. I just could not believe that she had a change of heart
SELENAI looked up at Adam, "where is Lucian?" I remembered that he was the one who saved me. Adam patted my hand, "Don't worry about it. He is fine. You just have to make sure that you are fine. That person did not do anything to you right? Did you see his face?"I shook my head at this. I had a feeling that Adam was trying to change the topic. What happened?!"I did not get to see his face. He was wearing a mask and I could not see what he looked like..." I let my voice trail off when I said this. "Don't worry, I am going to find the person who did this to you. Don't you worry," Adam assured me. I nodded my head. "But...I remember that he said something about the person who had asked him to kidnap me. He said that it's not someone that I can afford to provoke. Anyway, I could tell from his tone that it was a man. There aren't a lot of men who hate me" I looked at Adam when I said this. I did not want him to think that I was accusing his father, but there was no other person I c
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