Derek and Ava had to postpone their vacation by another two weeks because Derek had to deal with some stuff at work urgently.At Harper’s request, they got permission from the parents of her new best friend in school, a little girl named Amy, to take their daughter along with them on a three-day trip to Disneyland for Harper’s birthday.Amy’s mother came with them, and she, in turn, invited Harper to Amy’s birthday party, which was going to be held a few days after they got back from vacation.Finally, the new scheduled date of their vacation arrived, and of they went for it. The novelty of the long-awaited vacation was drastically reduced for Ava because she was suddenly feeling a little under the weather.She wasn’t about to ruin the experience for her daughter, or even Derek, so she took some pills, plastered a smile on her face, and pretended like she was fine.She and Derek hadn't gone out together in public since they became cool with each other again, and so Ava had all but for
She couldn’t help but notice that he was sort of ‘avoiding’ her … for lack of a better word. To put it more precisely, he was avoiding having too much physical contact with her, which was quite silly, as far as she was concerned.After all, they were going to be sharing the same bed, for crying out loud, and besides, only a few weeks ago, they were literally shoving their tongues down each other’s throats, as well as doing even more intimate things than that, so she didn’t get why he was acting all prude now.On the first night of vacation, she was too ill to do anything but take a hot shower, and go straight to sleep, so she didn’t really notice it or care that much.By the time she woke up the following morning, she felt much better and was able to convince Derek of this fact, so he stopped worrying, and they started to enjoy their vacation.The island was breathtakingly beautiful and there were tons of things to do at all times, both for kids and for adults too.Ava signed up for a
Ava stared at the woman in disbelief, sure that her ears were playing tricks on her, or that the woman was trying to pull a nasty trick on her. The word 'pregnant' sounded like such a foreign word.“Excuse me? That’s not possible.” Ava said.The woman nodded indulgently at Ava’s words, no doubt thinking that this was welcome news, judging by the smile that hadn’t left her face since she told Ava about her suspicion.“Well, you did say you’ve been sexually active recently, and you haven't seen your period in well over a month …”“Yes, I did say all that, but it's just not possible. I mean, I’m on the pill, and we used protection, and also, it’s not the first time I've missed a period, and we'll, um…” Ava trailed off helplessly, aware that she rambling and zoning out as she tried to process what the doctor was telling her.This couldn’t be happening. Not again. How on earth could it be happening? Deep down, though, she knew that the woman was right.The signs were all there, now that sh
“Expect it to be done in a few days time,” Logan said to Amanda without preamble, walking into her living room and pouring himself a drink like he owned the place.Amanda didn’t mind though. She was in love … true love this time around, and how ironic was it that it was one of the men who was responsible for her mother’s untimely death that she had fallen in love with.Her mother would understand though, after all, it hadn't been Logan’s and the others' intent to have her killed, and besides, Logan was now helping her fulfill her late mother’s wish, so it was all good.He was even talking about marriage and kids, which obviously meant that he loved her just as much as she loved him, and how awesome was that?It had always been her mother’s wish to see her settled and happy, and now that she was in love, her mother would surely be happy wherever she was. Amanda realized that Logan had just said something, but she didn’t even remember what he said because she was too busy admiring
Bugging Ava’s house after receiving her spare key from Steve and making an extra copy of it had been the easiest thing in the world to do.Amanda had had Logan do it and according to him, it was such a seamless operation. For someone with such a high profile baby daddy, Ava sure as hell did not care about her safety.Prior to bugging the house, Logan had had the house monitored and noticed that no one was around for days, which made the whole thing easy enough.By the time Ava got back from wherever it was that she went to, Amanda could listen in on her conversations as much as she wanted.The one thing that absolutely disgusted her to listen to were the horrible sounds that the bitch made whenever she and Derek were going at it … which seemed to be any little spare time that they could get.Good gracious, Ava was one randy being! Amanda wondered how she and Derekalways managed to find time to have sex, considering that they had a little child in the house.However, it was none
"You’re kidding, right?” Steve asked Amanda, staring at her aghast. He had known that she would want something dangerous in return for helping him, but he hadn’t been anticipating something as dangerous as this.“I wish I was, but I'm not. You’re in the best position to do it. Logan, for some weird and stupid reason, refuses to do it. According to him, he doesn’t want anything to do with harming children, which is stupid as fuck, if you ask me. It has to do with his principles, or whatever. The child knows you though, and trusts you, so …”“She used to trust me. She doesn’t trust me anymore. Her stupid father poisoned her mind against me, so no surprise there.”“It doesn’t matter. I'm sure you can find a way to get her to come to you. That’s all you literally need to do. Grab her and bring her to me, and you're no longer indebted to me.”“And how do you propose I go about doing that? Enter into her mother’s house and snatch her under the watchful eyes of her mother or nanny or w
That awful day dawned bright and early. It was such a beautiful morning that belied the tragedies that would unfold later that day. Birds chirped happily, people went about their businesses and everything seemed quite fine.Harper was beside herself with excitement because that day was her friend’s birthday party, and Derek had bought her loads of gifts days ago, which she was to present to the celebrant.Ava had noticed that despite how young Harper was, she enjoyed giving, just like her father, and that was a lovely trait to have.For some reason, despite how normal the morning was, Ava had a deeply unsettling feeling in her gut, but she couldn’t for the life of her figure out why this was so.Derek had left her place very early this morning so he could fly over for his conference, so it was just her and Harper in the house. Ava couldn’t wait for him to come back so she could know exactly where they stood.Around three in the morning, when he had to leave so he could go to the airpo
Contrary to what Amanda thought, snatching up Ava’s daughter turned out to be a herculean task. She had prepared adequately for the day but definitely didn’t think that it was going to take as much time as doing it took. Logan had had to travel three days before with the guy who he had hired to kill Derek, so it was just her, Steve, and Denise, whom she had told about what she intended to do. They followed Ava’s every move right from when she left her house with her daughter until she dropped off the child at the park where the party was going to be held. That was when Amanda began to realize that snatching the kid wouldn’t be as easy as she had thought it would be. For starters, there were adults who supervised the whole thing everywhere. They didn’t let the kids out of their sight for even a minute, which meant that going close to any of the kids at that point was going to be very obvious and an alarm could be raised, which would not bode well for them. Still, she had anticipate