ADAMI was taken aback when Lily told me this. I chuckled lightly, because I truly wanted to believe that she was just joking. "Please, Lily. Don't joke around like this. My mother is really sick and I don't have the time to play games with you. Please tell me what you want. I am going to do my best to satisfy you. Be serious," I said. Lily smirked and leaned back on her chair, "I already told you what I wanted. I want to become your wife. I just want to be with you. I understand the relationship you have with Selena. I don't care if you want to raise your daughter yourself or if you want Selena to raise her. I don't even care if you don't break up with her. As long as I am your wife in name, it's fine. I will make sure to do a good job as your wife. I think I am understanding enough" Lily declared. The smile on her face made me realize that she was not joking. She really meant everything she said. "Look, Lily, I can help your father's company. I can give you a lot of contracts an
ADAM"Mr. Adam, we really don't have anymore time. Your mother's condition is getting worse and she is no longer accepting treatment. We need to get the kidney transplant done as soon as possible" I was in the doctor's office, and he was giving me updates about my mother's condition. "Actually, Mr. Adam, most people aren't actually able to get the transplant. Your mother is in a lot of pain. I think you should talk with your family and come to an understanding. You should not put your mother through so much pain. She's only surviving right now because of the life support. Perhaps it's time for us to pull the plug and put her out of the pain" the doctor explained to me. I shook my head. There was no way I would be doing that. "No, don't pull the plug on her. I am going to save her. She has to be saved!" I said urgently. The doctor shrugged. "I am just letting you know what could be done. If we leave her like this, then it's just going to cause her to be in pain up until the last
ADAMThe next day, Lily and I walked out of the civil affairs office holding a pair of the marriage certificates. I had a dark look on my face, feeling as if I had just signed my life away. I was walking to my car, with Lily following slowly behind me, when a car pulled up in front of me. Lucian got out of the car and he punched me hard on the face. "What are you doing?" Lily shouted. She stood in front of me to protect me, but Lucian just pushed her away. "Are you crazy?" Lily yelled again. "You had better stay the heck out of this!" Lucian shouted at her. She wanted to argue, but she went silent when she saw the look on Lucian's face. I looked at Lucian coldly. "What are you doing here?" I asked him, calmly. "You are really shameless, you know that right. What are you doing?! How dare you do this to Selena?! You claim to love her, and this is how you are going to show your love for her? By getting married to another person?" Lucian asked me angrily. He was upset, but he
JOLIEI was sure that there was a way I could get out .Because Lucian was not around, I could move around the house, although I wasn't allowed to step out. I knew the layout of the house well now.I snuck out of the bedroom, and I walked towards the main door. No one stopped me, and I thought there was no one else in the house. My heart beat fast against my chest as I thought about how I would be free soon. However, as soon as I opened the door and stepped out of the house, a loud noise went off. I looked around me, and I realized that I was in trouble. A few armed men came rushing out and there was nowhere I could run to! I should have known that Lucian would not make it so easy for me to escape. One of the men grabbed my arm and pulled me back into the house. Tears fell down my face as I was pulled back in. "Let me see Lucian. Tell him that I want to see him. He should face and tell me what it is that he wants to do with me. Why the heck is he playing these mind games, anywa
LUCIANJolie looked up at me, shocked when I said this. "What....what?" She asked me .I sneered, "that bastard made it seem as if he could not live without Selena, but he got married to someone else. His mother has kidney failure and she's in the hospital, so I am sure that Adam struck some kind of deal with that woman. But then.....he left Selena to get married to some other woman. And he is planning on making Selena his mistress. How dare he do that to her?!" I yelled. Jolie looked shocked for a second, but then she burst out laughing. "Hahah...haha....I can't believe that Selena would have a day like this! She made Adam get a divorce from me as soon as she got back, and now someone else has stolen him from her! This serves her right! Karma is really great! I can die peacefully knowing that she is not going to be with Adam!" Jolie said happily. I shook my head as I watched her, she had really been driven mad with jealousy. "Do you think Selena would ever be on the same level
SELENA"Are you thinking of leaving me, Selena?" Adam asked me. I was so angry that I laughed. Was this person, crazy?? How could he turn around and blame me when he was the one who left me to marry someone else?! "Adam , are you crazy?? What I do is none of your business. Please just leave me alone. You are a married man now. You never thought of me before you got married so what the heck is the meaning of this? " I snapped at him. I was really upset. Did Adam enjoy playing games with me?.Adam tried to take my hand but I pushed him away roughly. He did not give up though, as he approached me once again. "Please, Selena. Please just listen to me .let me explain, this is a really huge misunderstanding. I..." "Adam, are you not married? The news has already reported that Lily is your wife. And she's going out of her way to flaunt it. Are none of these things true?" I asked Adam. He looked away from me in embarrassment, and I shook my head..Besides anger, I was all feeling disgus
SELENAMy face was pale as I watched Adam .I had a bad feeling about this. The way he looked at me, and the way he sounded, I had a feeling that he had already done something. "What have you done, Adam?" I asked him slowly. He smirked, a victorious smile on his face. "I already have Ariel with me as we speak. I picked her up from school. I can't lose you, Selena. But I also can't tie you up and force you to stay by my side. It's different for Ariel, she is my daughter!" Adam reminded me..This just made me even more worried. What was this crazy person planning on doing?."And what the heck is that supposed to mean, Adam? What did you do?" I asked, raising my choice this time. "Ariel is with me...as long as you come back home with me without making a scene, I won't force you to be separated from your daughter. We are going to be a family. As for Lily...you don't have to mind her .she will never show her face in front of you. In two years, I will divorce her,and we can be a happy f
SELENAI scoffed at Adam's question, "Do you really think that you could keep me locked up here for the rest of my life? You don't even let me go to work. I am just your puppet for you to do whatever you choose. You can go out and be a happy couple with your wife but I am supposed to spend the rest of my life locked up here?" I asked Adam hatefully. I really hated this man with everything that I had inside of me. He had ruined my life. I really thought our love for each other was greater than anything and that I could give him another chance, but I could see how wrong I was now. I was never going to make that kind of mistake again. Adam sighed, "I already told you that you don't have to worry about your company. I am handling everything now. The company is fine. Just stay here....until it's safe for you to come out. Do you think that I am doing this for myself? I am also doing this to protect you. My father and Lily....do you think that they would let you off if you were running aro
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