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 at Jolie's bruised neck and frowned. "How did you get that?" I asked her. Jolie smiled bitterly and looked down. "I am sure that you must have heard the rumours by now, Selena. Everyone's been spreading it. The last time Adam was here, he choked me in the elevator. He was really going to kill me. If someone had not seen him then...who knew what he would have done to me?" Jolie asked, her voice trembling with fear. I sighed, I had indeed heard the rumour of Jolie getting choked in the elevator by a man a few days ago, but I didn't want to believe it was Adam. Sure he was the only one who was here that day but Adam was not a violent man. And he definitely was not someone who would hit a woman. Even if Jolie had done anything to provoke him, he wouldn't choke her... right? "Are you sure that's what happened?. Maybe there's a misunderstanding and..." Jolie chuckled, interrupting me "You don't need to look for excuses, Selena. I know that you're not going to believe
SELENA The last time they called me, my daughter was rushed to the hospital. It could not be that something had happened to her again right? My hand was shaking and my heart was beating fast against my chest . I was too scared to take the call. "Is there something wrong?" Adam asked me. I shook my head as I tried to calm myself down. It probably wasn't anything. Ariel has been doing really well lately. I picked up the call, "hello?" I said into the phone. "Hello, Miss Selena. We are calling because something happened to your daughter. She was taken away by someone..." I did not let the teacher who was speaking to me finish. I jumped up just then. "What....what do you mean by my daughter being taken by someone?" I yelled. Adam and Lucian got up too when I asked this. "What do you mean? What do you mean she was taken?" Adam asked me urgently. "Please calm down Miss Selena, we are trying to find her right now. She .." "I will be there in twenty minutes. You guys better have m
SELENA"He's inside," Adam told me .He walked into the house together. The first thing I saw when we walked into the living room, was Ariel sitting on a couch with a sad look on her face. Her eyes were wet and she looked like she had been crying. A middle aged woman was crouched in front of her. "Ariel, I am your grandmother, don't you like me? Tell me what you want to play with, I will get it for you. But please stop crying okay?" The middle aged woman said. My mouth fell wide open when I realised who she was. It was Adam's mother. It was almost impossible to recognize her. She was just a shadow of her former self now. I remember I had met the woman during my wedding with Adam. She looked the part of a rich man's wife. She didn't like me and she turned her nose up at everything that I did at every chance she got. Right now...she looked like she had been sick for years! I looked at Adam, hoping for some kind of explanation from him, but he looked away and I knew then that he
SELENAJanet screamed and I took a few steps back and hugged Ariel tightly to myself. I did not want my daughter to see her father being so hostile to someone else. "Adam! Have you lost your mind? That's your father! How can you treat your father like this?" Janet cried out. She went to her son and pulled him away from his father. Adam looked like he wanted to kill Philip. I could not help but shudder in fear as I watched this. I thought about what Jolie had told me. Was Adam really a violent person? Maybe he had been able to keep this side of him away from me and I never found out about it? Thinking about it scared me even further. I didn't want Adam to be in Ariel's life if he was a violent man. "He's not my father. He's your husband. You and your husband had better stay away from my daughter! Don't even think about taking her away. If you dare to say nonsense like this, I will make you pay for it!" Adam threatened his mother and father. The woman called Lily bowed her head.
ADAMI stormed back into my father's house angrily. I had forgotten that Ariel was around and lost my temper at the man. And that made me even more angry. My mother was cleaning my father's burst lip and Lily was standing by the side when I walked in. "What the heck are you doing here? Get out of my house now! I'll just forget that I had a son like you! I don't want to have anything to do with you!" My father yelled at me. I sneered. "Do you think I want to be here either? I really want to forget that I have a father like you too! Are you going to keep your words? Are you going to leave me alone?" I asked my father. He scoffed and looked away from me, and I knew that he was not going to leave me alone so easily. My mother stood up just then. "Philip, Adam, that's enough from both of you. I am tired of this. You guys have been fighting for years, don't you get tired of it? You are father and son is there really anything that can't be solved between you two? I am tired of being c
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