“Hello, my little jungle!” Bella’s voice rang out in the living room.At the sound of their grandmother, all the children ran to her. Their faces lit up with excitement as they saw her. Bella was their favourite person in the entire universe. They loved her deeply and she loved them more than anything. “Leon, my grandson! My favorite little devil!” Bella exclaimed as she hugged Leon. “Your gift is waiting for you outside!”Knowing Bella, it had to be something extraordinary. Leon’s eyes widened with anticipation as he ran out the door, only to be greeted by the sight of a red Ferrari parked right outside. His jaw dropped and crazy excitement ran through him. "Oh my god! Oh my god!"He rushed to the car and opened the door to look at the interiors. He could hardly contain his excitement as he bounced on his feet. His joy was over the world. He yelled out, “This is the best birthday gift ever!”Anne stood back, watching with a soft smile. She approached Bella and said in a gentle tone
The birthday party had started and it was quite grand.Jacob had come to celebrate his grandson's special day. When Anne noticed him standing alone, she approached him and asked, “Dad, you didn’t bring Sia?”“You know her. She would never come to events with me,” Jacob replied, shaking his head. “She said she has an exam tomorrow and is busy preparing for it.”Sia was indeed a brilliant student but she struggled with low self-esteem, especially when it came to the Hart family. Interacting with them often left her feeling insecure and inferior.As the time for cake-cutting approached, Leon scanned the room as if he was looking for someone but it seemed he didn’t find who he was searching for. Coco asked, “Baba, where is Alesia?”“Don’t you all have the math Olympiad coming up?” Jacob said. “She mentioned she was preparing for it.”Coco pouted in disappointment. “My bestie is such a bookworm!”“Leon, let’s cut the cake!” Anne brightened the mood.Leon paused for a moment, taking in the
“Baba, when will these plants flower?” Callum asked his grandfather, who was busy in his garden, planting seedlings in the soil. Callum had learned the art of gardening from his grandfather and he loved coming to visit every Sunday to watch the garden that he helped his grandfather bloom. He would either harvest vegetables and fruits with his grandfather for taking them home for his mommy to cook delicious meals for his siblings or ask Leon to cook some of them right there at their grandfather’s house. They always share such precious moments together.“In about thirty days, they will start giving us vegetables,” Jacob said, calmly guiding Callum’s small hands to plant the fragile seedlings in the soil. Callum was just over five years old and he stood in the soil with his hands dirty, but his face beamed with joy.“Mr. Swift, it's getting hot. Please go inside,” Sia said worriedly, approaching them with a glass of water that she had mixed with electrolytes. “Please have this.”Jacob loo
They drove to Jacob’s house and were greeted by the chaotic scene in the living room. Rhys, Abella, and Coco were dancing to loud music as they were laughing and spinning around without a care in the world. Meanwhile, Callum was quietly sitting in the corner who was absorbed in a thick encyclopedia about butterflies and seemingly unaffected by the noise around him. Leon and Sia were nowhere in sight.In the kitchen, Leon was washing the dishes while Sia was cleaning the counter beside him. They worked silently but their actions were in sync. Suddenly, Leon broke the silence, catching Sia off guard. “Did Jackson Kingsley harass you again?” he asked very calmly. Sia froze, then swallowed nervously as she looked at him. Seeing Leon’s constant gaze on her, she quickly shook her head denying about the harassment by the other boy.He nodded as he was seemingly satisfied with her response and went back to scrubbing the dishes. Once he finished the dishes, he noticed her struggling with the
When Leon's parents shared their plan with him, he took a week to think it over before giving them an answer. Eventually, he agreed to go to the school in Switzerland. With his admission process underway, Leon continued attending his current school. A few days later, Sabrina also confirmed that she was moving to Switzerland, and Coco was asked whether she wanted to live with Anne or Sabrina.As much as Coco loved Anne and Nicholas, she knew Sabrina was alone in the world. Anne had the entire family by her side but Sabrina had only Coco. So, Coco made the difficult decision to stay with Sabrina. Knowing Leon would be there made the decision a little easier for her, but it didn’t make the thought of moving far from her family any less sad.In the final days at school, Sia seemed the most affected by the news. She was losing her bestfriend all of a sudden. “We will still be best friends for life,” Coco declared. “I will visit whenever I come back home and you can come see me with Baba.
Sia sat quietly by the window, staring out into the dark night. The thought of losing her friends burdened heavily on her mind. She had fought so hard to open up to Coco and Leon, to let herself trust them, and now it felt like all of that was slipping away. They were leaving and she would be left alone. Again. It wasn't their fault and she knew that. But it was her heart that betrayed her. It always clung to people who would move on and leave her behind with nothing but empty echoes of their memories. Coco left the room, announcing that she was going to grab more snacks from downstairs. Leon and Sia were left alone. Sia continued to look out of the window until Leon cleared his throat. She turned to see him holding a small box in his hand.“This is for you,” he said, extending it toward her.Sia blinked, surprised. “What is it?”Leon smiled faintly. “Open it and see.”With hesitant fingers, she took the box from his hand and opened it. Her breath caught at the sight inside. It wa
The Mafia’s Possesion SYNOPSIS: Alessia Swift was seven when she first developed a crush on Leon Hart, the brother of her bestfriend. She was thirteen when he confessed his feeling, catching her offguard. He chased her for five years to make her believe that she could trust him and accept his love.She was eighteen when she mustard up the courage to finally express her feelings but a secret kept by Jacob Swift and sense of obligation towards him, flipped her life upside down. Forced to marry a man to pay off Jacob’s debt, she married a man with a hope that she might have a family of her own but she was tortured and abused everyday in that relationship despite her trying to be a perfect wife. Five years in the relationship and the man threw her aside, using her talents to build an empire for himself. At Twenty three, Alessia killed the woman she once was to defy her destiny and emerged as a villainess who cared about nothing but Vengeance. …….Leon Hart spend the last ten years b
“Sia, can you please do one thing for me?” Jacob's voice was weak, his breaths shallow as he lay on the stretcher in the ambulance. Alessia clung to his hand as tears were streaming down her face and her heart was heavy with the weight of the secrets he had just confessed.“Yes, Baba,” she replied, her voice breaking. She couldn’t understand the gravity of everything he had revealed and it crushed her to know how much he had been hiding. But in this moment, he wasn’t a killer, nor the man stuck in his past sins. He was just her father, the only family she had left, and he was slipping away from her. She felt helpless.Jacob coughed, the effort drained what little strength he had left. Alessia sobbed harder, the panic rising in her chest. "Baba, I will call Anne. She should be here with you."Jacob shook his head weakly. “No. Don’t call her. I can’t die seeing her face, Sia. She will hate me forever when she knows the truth, and I can’t hide it from her. Please... don’t let her come.”"