When he realized that she was not going to stirr in her sleep, he wore clothes again and went to the kids room, still holding that glass of milk. Roseanne couldn't finish full. Some of it was still left. When he entered the kids room, he saw that Leon was still awake. It was quite late at night. Leon was not supposed to be awake. When Roseanne checked on him before, he was fast asleep. “Why are you awake?” Nicholas asked him in concern. Leon told him, “I'm making a card.”He was busy drawing doodles on the blue card that he was holding at the moment. “For?” Nicholas couldn't help but ask. Leon said, “My English project. I'm supposed to make a card.”Nicholas understood that Leon could not sleeo because he was burdened with his homework. Although the kids were not going to physical school, their classes were online. It helped them to be familiar with studies. “What's the topic?” Nicholas asked hin. Leon answered, “The man who is my idol.”“Who's your idol, Leon?” Nicholas couldn
The next morning, Roseanne wakes up and finds Nicholas sitting on the sofa. She realized that it was almost noon and he was still there in lounge wear. She felt a little pain in her body but it felt kind of sore but in a very delicious way. “Why are you still here?” Roseanne asked as she saw him sitting on the couch in front of her bed. He was not supposed to be here. And she did not want to see him the first thing in the morning. This time was supposed to be the one where she would assess what her action plan was going to be. Everything had been done last night and now she had to bear the consequences, right? Of course, whatever happened between them was absolutely consensual. She gave in to her human desires. Nicholas mockingly greeted, "Well, good morning, Princess." She shot him a tired glare, annoyed that he would tease her so soon after waking up. "Why aren't you off to work or whatever it is you do in secret?" she inquired, raising her sleepy eyebrows. "You're usually gone
Nicholas had called all the servants in the hall and they were standing in a line. Investigations were being made to them. Johnson and his other trusted aides were helping him in investigating while he and Roseanne were looking over the whole process. “Did you serve Leon?” Nicholas asked the woman who looked to be in her late thirties. She was one of the oldest maids in the house and she was to serve Leon on the order of Ellora who made sure that only her trusted people were near her grandchildren. She was not going to take any chance in the service of her grandchildren. The lady answers, “Yes, Mr Hart. It's my responsibility to look over him when he plays in the garden or anywhere else. I also take care of his other things that Madam tells me to do.”Nicholas asked the woman, “Did you notice anything suspicious around him when he was playing in the garden?”“Nothing much,” The lady said. Suddenly, she added, “He usually plays in the garden but most of the time he looks back as if h
“Emery!”Nicholas opened the door to the room and entered inside. He saw his sister sitting on the bed. He didn't care how the whole room was pitch dark while it was broad daylight out. “Why do you want to hurt my son?” Nicholas asked her.Emery burst into a fit of laughter as she said, “First, I killed your wife. Now, I will kill your son!”Nicholas' eyes burned with anger. He could not see how Emery did not look right at the moment. He could not read the background of the situation and only believed her words. “If you come near him, I will throw you somewhere you can't return,” Nicholas threatened him. Emery smirked at him. “As if I fear you.”“Trust me, you will,” Nicholas said. “I will throw you will that boyfriend of yours. You both can die together!”Emery's eyes burned as she heard him mentioning her boyfriend. “Don't you dare touch him! I will kill you! I will kill your son! I will kill your family!”Emery began shouting. “Shout as much as you can but take it as a warning
“What are you talking about?” Roseanne asked her. How could Emery recognise her? No, she couldn't. “I helped you.” Emery stared at her while she said it. She added again, “Anne, I helped you to escape this hell.”Roseanne said it again, “I don't know what you are talking about.”Emery said again, “I know you.”“Who are you talking about?” Roseanne asked. Roseanne was pretending that she did not understand what Emery was even talking about. Suddenly, Emery began mumbling. Those incoherent words were not making sense to her. She added, “I know you.”Suddenly, the nurse came inside. When she saw Emery awake, she began asking questions but the latter was just mumbling things. “Did she say anything to you?” The nurse asked Roseanne. “If she said, please don't mind her. She has been speaking incoherent things that do not make sense to anyone. You might feel that she is saying those to you but she is not.”Roseanne furrowed her brows and asked, “What does it means?”The nurse said, “Sh
“Then, why didn't you correct it?” Roseanne asked. “I was never in the position to,”Nicholas answered, frustration evident in his eyes. “When my wife died, my sister pushed herself away from everyone. She started a new life and I kept my distance, thinking that it's what she wants. I respected her decision to be away from the family. How would I know that these things are going in her life?”If there was anything missing in his family, it was respect for people's decisions. He was respecting his sister's decision when she declared that she did not want anyone from the Hart family to come anywhere near her. He believed that it was the best thing that happened to her. “As for now, I have no idea how to enter her life again,” Nicholas said with regret evident in his voice. “As for what happened today, it's hard for me to trust this family anymore. My mother hides things from me. My father tries to kill the woman and children I love so much. My brother who left our lives a decade ago and
“You were checking up on her?” Nicholas asked, surprised. “Why?”“What do you mean by why?” Nathaniel asked him. “She is my baby sister. I might have left the Hart family, not her. Although I couldn't meet her, I never stopped checking up on her.”Nicholas felt ashamed hearing this. Nathaniel was doing a better job at being a brother than him. However, he did not like what he was hearing. Why would Nathaniel be checking up on Emery and not on him? If Emery was his sister, he was a brother too, right? Why does this man have to do so much discrimination always? “What happened to her?” Nathaniel asked in a very softened voice. “Did your father have a hand in it?”“I don't know about my father's hand in it,” Nicholas told him. “That man broke up with her. She couldn't bear it.”“Oh…”Nathaniel reacted. “Are you not going to do anything to that bastard?” Nicholas asked him. How could Nathaniel not feel angry at that man? He felt like killing that bastard for hurting his sister. Nathanie
As Roseanne looked out of the window, she smelled a different air. It smelled like Oranges and lemons. She would not say that it was a bad smell. She quite liked it. The landscape was beautiful with vast agricultural lands, filled with citrus trees and other fruits everywhere. The place where they were supposed to stay was a villa in a small town. She had never seen life in a small town in America as she had always lived in New York and was used to life there. Even Italy was different from here. Her life in Italy was not fast as in Italy. However, here she could feel a slowness in the air. It was comforting for some reasons. As they entered the crowded part of the village, she saw the main street occupied by locally owned businesses like family-owned diners, hardware stores, and boutique shops. It was like all those small-town romances that she read came before her eyes. She was getting the same feeling that she would while reading those books. It was weird how memories could be tri