Adam’s POV
“So? What’s the verdict?” I asked the doctor as soon as he stepped in. He had a grin on his face as if he had just won a lottery and it was slightly funny to see. Bringing my mother to the hospital was starting to look more and more like a pleasure trip.
Hilarious.
I had only been back from Hawaii for two days and yet I had seen enough warning signs to know my mother was in danger. She could deny it all she wanted, but the day I had arrived in New York she had a fever and headaches non stop. Anabelle had discovered it too late and after giving her an earful on negligence, I had carted mother off to the hospital.
“There is no need to sound so tense, Mr Stone,” The doctor said, flipping through the documents on his clipboard.
“Doc, you might want to speak up early,”My mother chuckled, looking
Madeline's POVI had hit the fucking jackpot.Oh it had taken a long damned while, but I had finally done it. All that planning, scheming, stalking finally paid off.And yet my plan had just begun.I peeked through my lashes at Adam who stood a few meters away, his face livid. The man looked like his mother had just said she was transferring her entire property to me.Which I would not mind of course. After all, I just got 'scammed' and would need to find a way to get back on my feet. I laughed mentally at the thought. Oh wasn't that just a blast? All I had to do was make up a very believable lie, make it even more believable with proof and then win the heat of gullible sweet Mrs Stone.Fucking perfect.The only person who could possibly impede my plan was the man who
Tom's POV"All good Mr Harrison?" The contractor grinned at me.I gave him a small nod and looked back at the view before me. It was the new location for a business mall that Adam finally agreed to build with me. Right in New York.I had to hand it to him, the jackass was picky as hell. He had sent a rather fancy e-mail telling me all the reasons his analyst hadn't been in support of the land property in Hawaii. One of them had been severely annoying to find out.The land was filled. The bastards who had told me about the property had filled a marshland with sand, making it look sturdy. If we had built a casino right on it, all the billions of dollars spent that building would sink into mire, literally.When I read that in his mail, I felt like a dumbass. Those bastards had almost got me good. If I had paid in full for
Adam's POV"How's the project with Harrison going?" I asked Lillian as we trudged out of the seminar room. I'd attended a webinar and had to take part in a few activities here and there and if I could name one thing I desperately needed right now, it was a bottle of ice cold soda.Perhaps when Lillian went for lunch I would tell her to get me a nice bottle. I hadn't had soda in years. One wouldn't kill me would it?"Well? I guess," I didn't have to look back to know that Lillian shrugged behind me. She had a complacent look on her face when we left the webinar and I had a niggling feeling something was wrong.I just didn't know how to ask in a way that wouldn't see I was meddling in my employee's affairs."I need stats, Lillian. Wake out of that slug and give me the answers I need." I snapped and that seemed to jolt her back to life
Tom's POVI took a sip out of my juice and glanced up at Eve to see her cleaning her mouth with a napkin. She was done? Damn that was fast. Usually she tended to take forever when eating meals, I had complained about it a gazillion times. Now, watching her eat quickly made me feel an uncomfortable ache in my chest.Now that I think about it, she ate her meals very quickly these days. Sometimes, when I came back home, she would have had dinner and would be up in bed napping. Was sleeping the only damned thing she knew? That was all she had done in Hawaii as well. Slept like a fucking panda every single day.No, that wasn't right. There was that one time when I had gotten back to the resort in the evening and she wasn't in the room. I'd searched the lobby and fountain for her and she'd literally disappeared until I sent a text asking where she was.I ha
Eve's POVI held my breath, waiting to hear the sound of Tom's car driving out of the garage into the distance. It didn't come, not yet.That meant he was still home.It was several minutes past eight in the morning. The sun was looking particularly bright and so was I. I was brimming with excitement. Tom's schedule since we had arrived from Hawaii had been a bit weird and I hadn't wanted to open the gift Adam had given me just before we left when he was around.It had taken everything to conceal the gift parcel from Tom. I had to pack my clothes early, way before he woke up so I could hide them in the many folds of my clothes. And when we got back to New York city, I had managed to find a hiding spot for it among the shoes.And I hadn't touched it since then. I had been afraid that Tom would see the parcel and then I would lose it
Tom's POVThe day started well enough. I had a great breakfast. A couple of meetings and by the time it was eleven, I was having a blast. Until my phone pinged with a message.Barlow.I didn't bother reading it because I was too damned busy to be running around doing his bidding as if I was a damned slave or something. What the hell was the pig's problem anyways? We had signed a deal together, that didn't mean he got to boss me around now, did it?I ignored the message and continued reading through the files when barely thirty minutes later, the phone rang and of course it was Barlow.I sighed as I stared back at the screen. Had something happened? Did the police find him? No, it couldn't be the end yet. Not yet.After contemplating for a while, I picked the call, wincing when the bastard yelled right into
Eve's POVI sighed and turned on my side, staring into empty space. The room was dim. I had turned off the lights except for the lamp on the bedside table. I had tried turning that off as well but I'd gotten terrified at the pitch blackness that resulted and stuck with the lamp.The darkness was terrifying, it felt like I was locked up in the basement again. With the light on, it felt easier to breathe.I wished that made it easier to sleep too. I had moved to the bed an hour ago after staring at the boring TV screen. And yet I found it hard to sleep. Perhaps that was because I had slept a bit that afternoon.The room felt hot despite the cotton nightwear I wore and I sighed, sitting up. What was the point in trying to sleep when sleep eluded me anyways? I shuffled out of bed, turning on the lights in the room. It was almost ten at night and Tom wasn't back.&
Tom's POV"Shit! Shit! Shit!" I muttered as I stormed into the study, my body trembling like a damned leaf in autumn. What the hell? What the actual hell? I could see it all over again, playing over and over in my damned mind. Barlow. The gun. The kid on the floor. The blood around him. Dammit! I let out a growl, marching towards my desk to pour the contents to the ground. My hands trembled as I shoved it all to the ground, watching the perfect set of stationeries fall to the ground. The noise was a bit comforting. It drowned the crazy sounds in my head for a while. The sounds that called me names. Murderer! Killer!"I didn't kill him," I scoffed at the voice but there was that damned tremor. That shaking of my voice as I denied what my head and heart decided to be true. "I didn't kill him, I didn't!"My words came out as a whisper. I glanced down at the blood on my shirt. I hadn't known it was there. I thought I had gotten rid of the evidence by destroying the coat. I
Eve's POV"Madam?!"Ah crap. I snuggled deeper into my husband's arm, wishing Nuren would disappear. Why on earth was she at our door?!"Madam?! Madam you have to wake up!"No I do not!"No she does not!" Adam yelled groggily, hugging me tighter. He must be mad at her for running our sleep as well."But she has to!" Nuren said stubbornly."Ignore her," I mumbled to him, running my hands over his skin.He hummed in response. "It's a fucking Saturday. We ought to be allowed to sleep in,""Not like
Eve's POVGolden.He was all I could see. All I could feel. His scent drove me heady and aching with desire. I gripped the counter, hanging on, waiting, anticipating.Cold air whipped against my exposed skin as he yanked down the dress and tossed it aside. His breathing was ragged as he trailed kisses down my arched back, to my ass.He let out a hiss, smacking the cheeks, sending painful thrills up my spine and down to my pussy."Adam," I moaned, pushing against him. "Oh please, please."‘Ah fuck, I love it when you beg," he mumured huskily, giving me another smack. Heat pooled between my thighs and my juices spilled down my thighs. Another smack and soon he had me writhing and mewling begging him to give me what I wanted. What we both wanted."So fucking eage
Adam's POVI watched Eve walk side by side with her mother on the patio. It had taken a great deal of work and patience to convince her mother to come. I had to send the video of Tom molesting Eve to her and that seemed to change everything.That seemed to reveal the truth.They seemed fine now, happy.They had hugged and held each other for hours, weeping buckets while I stood there watching. It tore me to bits, seeing her cry. But she needed it. I knew that."You did good," Mother said, joining me on the balcony where I stood. "I'm sure you've made her very happy.""Thank you mother," I murmured while taking a sip from my brandy. "That was the goal.""Oh," my mother arched her brow in a manner that told me she had something else to say. "And the goal
Eve's POV"Wake up Eve,"A pair of lips teased and tickled my ears. I moaned, melting deeper against his touch. His very familiar touch."Mhmm," I purred, moaning softly as his hands stroked my arm."Are you up, my pet?"Oh I was . I was now. I had spent the past few days in Adam's arms.But as much as I enjoyed his presence,I feared that it would all end. I tried to push away those thoughts, telling myself that I was just being paranoid.As I opened my eyes, I saw his face looming over me, a smile playing on his lips. It sent a shiver down my spine and a soft sigh slipped from my lips. Adam leaned in closer, his eyes darkening with desire. The air between us crackled with tension.“Hey,” I whispered.“He
Eve's POVAdam drove us down to his house. Nuren had cried her eyes out when he had announced to everyone else that he was taking me with him. With the way she had cried, you would think Adam was carting me off all the way to the moon. But I was sure she was only too happy for me.The drive was quiet. And yet it felt so... Peaceful. The days after the incident at the warehouse had felt like that. Slow and peaceful and it was good.In the meantime.His house... Scratch that, his mansion was huge!The gate creaked open as we approached, revealing a long driveway lined with blooming cherry blossom trees. The mansion loomed ahead, its grandeur taking my breath away. Adam guided the car to a stop in front of the massive oak doors, and I stepped out, feeling small against the backdrop of opulence.“I thought y
Adam's POVFour days. They passed by in a blur. I couldn't remember much about what happened, but I could remember how I felt every single second.Afraid. Terrified. Devastated. Nothing had prepared me for what I had seen. Nothing had prepared me to lose Eve.When Tom had shot her, I was pretty sure I went mad. It had taken Micheal and the police to pry me off a bloodied Tom by the time I was done. The ambulance took its damned sweet time to arrive so while I called the pilot to the private jet, Micheal had checked her wound and helped do first aid. And I had held her in my arms on the flight home.Pale. She grew pale rapidly. Her pretty skin had lost its color until she looked so drained it terrified the shit out of me.I could feel the weight of her in my arms, her breath shallow and weak against my chest. Panic surged thr
Author's POVWell duty called.Micheal Hamilton sped down the road that led outside New York city, a happy grin on his face. One would think he was on his way to attend a freaking birthday party with how excited he looked."Will you stop grinning like that?" Adam who sat in the passenger seat said with a concerned look. "It's fucking creepy man."Micheal chuckled and took a sharp turn at the same time, earning a glare from his best friend. It had been a while since they left Isabella Stone mansion and frankly he had expected Adam to rain down his questions.Instead, his best friend behaved as typical as anyone would expect Adam Stone to. He sat in the passenger seat quietly, occasionally glancing at him. If Micheal had to guess , he would say Adam was trying to connect the dots and figure out who or what he was exactly. 
Adam's POV"Your mother says, your little miss Eve is hanging around somewhere,"Those were the first words Micheal said when I met him at the gate. He had the damned cocky grin on his face as if something permanently amused him."Perhaps I do," I chuckled, slipping my hands in my pocket. "With that grin on your face, I'm not so sure I want you to meet her.""Oh please, I have to. I need to know the woman who makes you do the craziest of shit," Micheal crackled, walking ahead of me into my mother's house."Try not to say shit when you meet her,""Shit like what?" he asked innocently and I just knew he was going to try something crazy when he saw Eve.We stopped by Mom's study to say."Hello, boys," Mom greeted us with a warm smile. She looked
Tom's POV"That bastard!" I spat as I scaled down the wall with Eve, gritting my teeth in disgust.I had watched him stroll with her. As if she were his. As if he had the right to.Now it all seemed to be clear. To be so fucking clear."Take her to the spot," Barlow ordered, jumping in right after me. "I'll signal the men."After a whole damned argument session with Barlow, he finally agreed to help. But what could possibly be much more valuable to Adam Stone? If we could get him to take back the charges and then say he had come up with the fake proof and lied that we were trafficking then everything would be solved.There was nothing the word of a billionaire could not accomplish. But the problem however had been discovering how to make Adam Stone give in. I had snuck into his mother's hou