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
ADAM"If I didn't pay attention to you back then, what makes you think that I am going to do that now? Are you crazy?" I asked her coldly. I eyed the woman in front of me. I really didn't remember her. Whether she went to college with me or not, I was not sure of that. But it didn't matter. Lily looked like she was about to cry when I said this. "How...how can you be so cruel to me? You don't know how much I love you! I went abroad and worked hard because I wanted to be someone who was worthy of you! You have no idea how much effort I have put in. You have to consider that I..."I did not let Lily finish. I was getting tired of her throwing a pity party. "There are lots of women who are in love with me Lily. I am charming, and I am rich. Of course there are a lot of people who want to be with me. Are you saying I should reciprocate their feelings just because they are in love with me? What kind of confidence do you have to come say these things to me and think it'll make a differe
ADAMSelena looked away from me when I said this, but I grabbed her chin and forced her to look back at me. I inched closer to her, wanting to kiss her. Selena did not move away this time and I rejoiced in my heart. She was finally starting to warm up to me again right?Just as I was about to kiss her, a sleepy eyed Ariel came down and interrupted us. "Mommy! You said you would wake me up when daddy got here. You lied to me!" Ariel accused Selena. I pulled away from Selena immediately, I didn't want to, but I could not let Ariel see us in a compromising position. I walked over to Ariel and picked her up. "I just got here baby. Your mother was going to come call you," I explained to her. "Daddy...I don't ever want to go back to that place," Ariel said as she pouted. I knew that she was talking about my parents house. I nodded my head. Since she did not want to go back I would never make her go back. Anyway those people who called themselves my parents were not fit to be grantpa
SELENAI was busy at work the next day when someone knocked on my office door. I frowned when I heard the knock. What I hated most was being disturbed while I was working and I had given an order to my secretary stating that she should not allow anyone to come disturb me today. Who was this person?"Who is there? I thought I said no one was allowed to come see me today?" I asked angrily. The door was pushed open and Adam's grandfather, Peter, whom I had not seen in a few years, walked in with a big smile on his face. "You came back to the city a few months ago and you forgot to come see me. Since you have refused to come see me I have no other choice than to come see you myself right?" He asked me as he walked towards me. A smile lit up on my face when I saw him. This man had shown me a great deal of kindness and me and my daughter would not have even survived this year if it wasn't for me. He gave me money when I needed it the most and he also gave me the resources I ended to st
SELENAPeter waved his hand in a dismissive manner. "You don't need to speak up for my grandson. I already know the kind of person that he is. I really don't know why you fell for a person like Adam. After all the things he did to you, I thought you'd be smart enough to stay away from him now. But you're still going back to him. I don't even know what to say to you!" Peter said. I blushed even more when he said this. "I....I am not going back to Adam. He told me he wanted to get back together, but there are still a lot of things for me to consider our daughter...""You don't need to explain to me. I already know you're going to fall for his sweet words. It's Adam good luck that a good woman like yourself fell in love with him. I just hope that he knows how to treasure you this time. You should also not make things easy for him. He is going to think that he can treat you however he wants and you'll come back if you don't make things a bit difficult for him!"I was surprised to hear
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