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2024-10-29 19:42:56Lily’s POV
The wedding reception was just as amazing as the church ceremony. Even though I was surprised the couple refused to exchange vows, the bride’s beauty was all I could think about. She didn’t look excited or happy throughout the ceremony and she had a frown etched on her face which she hid anytime she was introduced to guests at her wedding reception.
“Why did your friend refuse the vows?” I asked Derek on our way home. The couples left a few minutes earlier than we did. What couples leave their own wedding so early?
“He said he was busy,” Derek replied. I shrugged, not believing what he had said.
“The vows wouldn’t take more than five minutes or even less, I can’t believe a groom wouldn’t say the vows at his wedding because he was time conscious,”
“It was an arranged marriage,” He finally replied and I still di
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Derek’s POV I took a step closer to Lily, not sure what to do or say. After Lucas had said those horrible things the other day, I was expecting something crazier or less crazy about Lily or how my mom found her. When my mom first introduced her, I wasn’t in my right senses to actually think about her name but now, it suddenly made sense. “My mom gave you a new name last year,” She nodded. “Yes for a reason that I can’t tell you,” She replied, breathing heavily. “Why?” I inquired. She had been repeating the words for some reason because she doesn’t want to say what I actually want to hear. “I’m sorry,” “I’m not asking you to apologize because you haven’t done anything wrong, I’m just asking you to tell me why you’re Lily Miller instead of whatever name you’re supposed to bear,” After a long silence, she managed to say. “It’s a long story,” “Luckily
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LILY’S POV On Monday, Mrs. Miller called me as I was getting ready for classes. The college has been reopened and the administration said they were in the process of investigating the cause of the riot and those behind it. Mrs. Miller asked me what happened between Derek and me and I had no answer. I know it was my fault, I was the one who told him the story behind my name and when he wanted to know more, I flopped.“I’m sorry, Mrs. Miller,” I apologized. I sat back on the bed, instead of leaving the house with the phone pressed to my ear.“Lily. You don’t have to apologize for anything. I only want to know how it happened. Why did you tell him?” She asked again.“I don’t know what to say, Mrs. Miller,” I denied instead of telling the truth.“It's okay, my dear. The only problem is how persistent Derek can get. If he finds out one, he&rsq
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LILY’S POV “Good afternoon, Miss, how may I help you?” “Hello, I’m Lily Miller and I’m here to see Derek Miller,” The text I received from Mrs. Miller was about Derek and she told me he was at work, sick, and being too stubborn to leave so his father demanded I bring him home. On my way here, I’d tried calling his number but he wasn’t picking up. I tried calling Q as well but he also didn’t pick up my call. If I say I wasn’t worried, I would be lying. “Do you have an appointment with him?” She asked and I nodded. “I think I do,” I answered. The lady nodded, she looked down at her laptop, checked then looked back up at me. “I’m sorry Miss Miller but I’m afraid you don’t have an appointment and I can’t find your name on the visitor log as well. I’m sorry,”“You’re saying I can’t see him without an appointment, right?” I asked here. She nodded with a smile again.
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LILY’S POV “Are you being this nice because you’re sick?” I asked as he cleaned my tears with his finger. I wasn’t crying because he stood up for me earlier but I was emotional because he made me take his hand despite not knowing anything about me.“Is it weird?” He asked, laughing.I nodded. “Really weird. It makes me want to ask where the sailor that I know is?” “Sailor. Arianna is a bad influence,” I wanted to tell him it wasn’t Arianna who called him that even though she triggered it.“She’s a cool person,” I commented. That’s all I could say for the two times that I’ve met her.“Cool? Maybe when she’s not trying to plot my death. She keeps calling me her favorite cousin and still, she wants to suck the life out of me every minute,”I&rsq
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Derek’s POV “You were the last person I was expecting to see in my house this evening,” Caster clicked his tongue, and walked into the kitchen. I got discharged from the hospital a few minutes ago and arrived at my house to meet Caster eating at my dining table. It wasn’t something I’d expected in any way and that was the same way I didn’t expect to be hospitalized yesterday at the hospital. After the doctor ran some tests and found out it wasn’t anything major, I was surprised when he said I had to stay back for the day so they could monitor my health status. I argued for a long time but he won’t change his decision or bulge and I didn’t have a choice but to stay. Remind me next time not to use that damned family hospital again. “I thought you died,” Caster replied, walking back into the dining room. I cocked my eyebrow. “Were you disappoint
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LILY’S POVWhat I wasn’t expecting was Derek’s reaction. I had thought he would flip, get angry, and question why I decided to go to a party but he didn’t. He stared at me for a minute before nodding.“That’s okay, you don’t have to ask for my permission about that,” He shrugged his shoulder. I kept on staring at him. I had a strange heavy feeling in my stomach. Why am I disappointed about his response?“You can come with me if you want to,” I asked him.He pointed to himself and laughed. “You must be joking,”“I’m serious,” he raised an eyebrow and shook his head.“I should attend a party organized by a group of kids who wants to appear cool to their fellow student. That’s ridiculous, Shortcake,” He snorted.I didn’t see anything wrong with him attending the party with me
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LILY’s POV“Girl, you look so good,” Scarlet gushed as she moved closer to me. She placed her nose on my neck and sniffed. I moved my shoulder and shifted her head while giggling. “You smell like a bag of money, God!” I laughed. “What’s up with you, tonight?” I asked her.Scarlet wasn’t the type to layout compliments like that. I don’t know if she was as reserved as I was or if she was giving out the same vibes she got from me but she had never been that loud about how I looked or how I smelled.It was Friday night already. When I told scarlet I would be attending the party with her, she was super excited about not going alone. She decided to pick me up tonight by eight and this was two hours after Derek left the house. He didn’t say anything about the party or asked me to be careful like I expected from him. I was actually surpri
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DEREK’S POV I was at the club when Q came to inform me that Lily had called my phone. It was unusual and I knew she was supposed to be at the party as well. Thinking something could be wrong, I walked out of the club because of the noise and called her back. I didn’t act as though I could remember she had a party to attend before I left home even though I was dying to ask for every little detail about the party.“What’s wrong?” I asked as soon as she picked up the call. “Can you pick me up?” She begged. Her voice was shaking as she sounded so desperately.“FUCK! Where are you?”“I don’t know, it was Scarlet that has the address,” I searched my pocket for my car key and marched towards the parking lot.“Open your Google map and share your location with me. I’ll be three in a minute,”&
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LILY’S POV ONE YEAR LATER “Love, can you please check up on the baby? I need to pee,” I called out to Derek before rushing into the bathroom. I heard him saying something that sounded like yes but I didn’t bother to listen. I was so pressed that if I didn’t rush into the toilet like that, I would’ve messed myself up. Once I was done, I took my time before coming out. I knew Derek got her, he’s been by her side the moment she was born and never left mine either. He has proved to me that he was a good dad and I’m so proud of him. Three months into my pregnancy, I told him I got a job but he was not comfortable with it and I had to convince him that it wasn’t anything strenuous. I’d learned how to program as a starter and I got an internship program that helped developed me into a junior developer. I know it's stressful when combined with college and the baby but I took a gap year to focus on my career and my child. Once I’m ready, I’ll get back it college and maybe change my degre
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DEREK'S POV “Would that have made you feel so much better about yourself? Would you have felt accepted by the family? Would that have been enough to erase the fact that you’re nothing but a bastard?” I gritted my teeth.He started growling like a wild dog, repeatedly.“You shouldn’t have messed with Lily. She wasn’t a part of the family from the start, she shouldn’t have had to pay for the sins of our parents, she had enough already on her plate. Q wouldn’t have died and the family wouldn’t be in so much pain,” I told him.“She chose you and that was her offense. I had my eyes on her since she was at mom’s agency. I’ve always wanted to have a taste of her but mom took her to you and even when I moved into your house, all she wanted was you and not me, why? I would rather kill her than listen to that answer,” Inodded, realizing he was an unapologetic, unrepentant and crazy bastard.“I’m not disappointed in you, Caster because I knew just who you are, I could see through you when othe
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DEREK’S POVI banged my hand on the table, controlling the anger that was already boiling inside of me. I was at the police station with my parents, Alex and Arianna. Lily had refused to come to see Caster on the excuse that she had a class but I knew it was because she didn’t want to see him or she wasn’t ready.I don’t know how Arianna summoned the courage to come with us but if I was her, I wouldn’t have been able to. Alex, on the other hand, had tried talking to Arianna but she wasn’t bulging. I was the only person she was talking to, the rest were being ignored and I mean my parents.“You’re telling me that someone knew Caster messed up with Lily’s car but you had to wait till the accident before you did something, right?” I asked my dad again for the third time because I didn’t want to believe the answer he was giving me every damn time.“I’m sorry, Derek, the guy I hired said the only way they could lure him out was to wait for the accident to happen. There’s no way Caster woul
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DEREK’S POV We decided to keep the pregnancy news from the family. It was a mutual agreement between Lily and I. we thought it was for the best for the safety of both mother and child. The family was still dealing with Caster’s case and we didn’t want to put ourselves in danger by revealing the news.“Why did all these pregnancy symptoms decide to wait for two months before hitting me?” Lily groaned as she walked down the stairs.“Did you throw up again?” She nodded.“For the second time this morning alone,” Damn! That was bad. I was beginning to get worried about her. Even though the doctor said it was normal, I still wasn’t okay with it.“You should’ve called me, baby,” She laughed as she walked into the kitchen.“Meanwhile, what bomb have you been cooking up in here? Everywhere is a mess,” She started laughing again. I could only smile as I watch her laughing her ass off at the current state of the kitchen.“Well, I’ve been preparing pancake,”She stopped laughing, her mouth fell
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LILY’S POV “You can leave now, my family will soon be here for me,” I dismissed the woman standing in front of me.“You don’t have to be so mean, Ataraxia,”I gritted my teeth as I glared at her. It took everything in me not to face her and yell like a lunatic right now.“My name is Lily, not Ataraxia, and thank you for your help, I’ll compensate you if you want,” I told her again for the tenth time and still counting.A few hours ago, I was on my way to get some groceries from the store when my car’s brake stopped working all of a sudden. I couldn’t even hold my emotions together as I saw my life flash in front of my eyes. I could only beg God to take the wheels because, at that point, death was calling. My car maneuvered out of the road and hit a street pole.Even though that stopped the car, both the car and street pole were damaged. Smoke was everywhere in the car and as I tried to open the door, I realized that I was stuck. I couldn’t find my phone to make a call and help wasn’t
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DEREK’S POV “I found out that Roman returned to Italy a few weeks ago, precisely two days after Q was buried,” Sebastian informed us.Well, we were currently meeting at my office together with Luke. Someone has been messing up with things a lot around my house and the mansion. My parents don’t feel safe and my dad had to suggest for my mom leave town for a few months till we can get things back to normal.Caster is still MIA but we could all tell some of those things were his handwork. Threat notes were being sent to our homes, strange calls as well as someone messing up with the car tires while we were out. It’s like he’s stalking us all every minute.“Your Intel is fast, I’ll give him that,” Sebastian rolled his eyes at Luke’s comment.“Are you serious right now? I’m trying to help here, what have you done?” Luke scoffed.“It took you and your Intel a few weeks to realize that Roman wasn’t in town and probably not helping Caster. Stop giving yourself more credit than you should, Se
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DEREK’S POV “Uh, I still want to sleep,” Lily groaned as I drove to my parents’ house that Saturday morning. I had to wake her up by eight and she grumbled for more than thirty minutes as we got dressed and left the house. “You should have some sleep before we get there,” I advised. She mumbled something incoherent before she closed her eyes and slept off. I smiled as I took in her features; her plump pink lips, those butterfly eyelashes, and her beautiful nose, I want to keep kissing them for the rest of my life. A few minutes later, we arrived at the house. She was already awake, complaining about how she still needed more sleep. “We can officially call you sleeping beauty now,” I joked. She glared at me and I smiled. “You don’t have the right to throw a joke at me right now,” I frowned. “Why?” “Why didn’t you tell me earlier that we’ll be visiting your parents this morning? We were at the club till 1 am and you still didn’t let me sleep when I got back,” I grinned. “Don’t
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DEREK’S POV It took everything in me to not stand up and punch Damien when he walked into my club a few hours after the show started.The artist that was invited had already concluded his performance and left after signing and taking pictures with some of his fans. I thought Lily would love a picture with him but my girl stood back, shook her head when I mentioned it, and told me she wasn’t a fan. She was just here to support me and accompany Brandon and Scarlet.After the concert ended, about a hundred thousand fans of the guy wanted to party at the club but I had to turn down about 90,000 of them. Ten thousand people were enough, I couldn’t risk having such a large number of people in such a place. It’ll be bad for business.“Don’t do anything crazy, Derek,” Lily pulled my hand, already noticing how I was glaring at Damien. He had told me he won’t be here, so what’s with the surprise?“I promise, I’ll only hit him once,” I smirked, letting her know he was getting his ass beaten up
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LILY’S POV On Friday afternoon, after my final paper, I came out to find Brandon and Scarlet waiting for me. I was surprised that Brandon would actually be here. I know I told Scarlet that I would be giving them free passes to the concert at Derek’s club but I still doubted Brandon’s presence because of what happened with Derek. That was the last time I saw him though. He’s been MIA since then around me and even though Scarlet and I met a few times after that, he never showed up.“I wasn’t expecting you to show up, Brandon. I thought you still hate me and Derek,” He snorted. I couldn’t help smiling.“I might hate Derek but I don’t hate you and who am I to say no to a free pass to that concert. So many people are trying to buy the ticker but can’t. It’s not even available anymore,” He said excitedly.The concert has been the talk of the town and for like a week now, everywhere I turn to in school, people were talking about buying the concert. I’m so proud of my man.“So, am I off your
