CHARLOTTE’S POV“You Idiot!”“You fucking dumbass idiot! You’re a piece of useless shit, an absolute moron!!” he yelled, his fingers entangling with the roots of my hair as he pulled the shit out of it, leaving me grunting and crying out in pains. But all that fell on deaf ears as he threw me to the tiled floors of the living room, all the stuffs from my bag scattering to the floors in a total mess.I could feel the exposed flesh of my legs and arms burning from the rough contact to the spotless floors, but he wasn’t stopping just yet.“All you do is eat and put on makeup on that stupid face of yours!” he cussed loudly, the entire house echoing with his voice but regardless no one came to my rescue.Who would dare though? When my father gets angry like this, someone gets hurt! No one would want to be at the receiving end of that. “You don’t even know anything about that man of yours! First, you couldn’t get him to put the ring on your finger to make things official and now, you can’t
CHARLOTTE'S POV“Didn’t you two hear me? Get her down there!” I heard his voice yelled and I was quickly jerked back to reality. No.No!I was not going to end up like that. I was different from her; I won’t end up like her. Never!And so, I did the only thing I could think of-beg.“Daddy!”“Dad…please, daddy. Don’t send me down there.” I pleaded, getting on my knees and rubbing my palms together to plead with him. My every effort desperate as tears streamed down my cheeks. “I’m sorry for being so foolish and not listening to you. I’m so sorry! But I will listen now, I will do as you say. I won’t cause problems anymore, I won’t get myself under the spotlight anymore, daddy! Please…”He scoffed loudly at my behavior and moved to leave but I quickly held on his legs, cuddling it desperately to my chest as I screamed whatever came to mind. Anything to stop him from sending me there. “I will make sure to get back control over Hudson. I will make sure to totally get control over that famil
VALERIE POV“Goodness! I have no idea which rapid dog bit my son that day when he married you.” I clenched my fingers unconsciously around the damn papers while my “dear” mother-in-law rained insults on me.“Not only did you stop him from marrying someone decent like Charlotte, you also went ahead to hurt her and my grandkids!”“I never pushed her! Sh-”“You’re a monster!” she yelled venomously. I took shaky steps backwards in disbelief. Me? A monster!?“Aren’t you going to say anything?!” I spat angrily at Hudson, the very man who was supposed to be my husband.“You mean defend your lies?” He questioned; his expression was cold and mocking.“How about you tell everyone how you secretly stopped donating blood for Charlotte, huh?” I froze at his words. How did he find out? That was just two months ago.I had been feeling weak a lot and missed going one time, and the second time I went for it, I found out I was pregnant. I was finally pregnant after trying so hard for three years.Surel
VALERIE POV It’s been over an hour since I signed the divorce papers and left the entire Rodriguez family gawking in surprise downstairs, and yet here I was still crying.I may have been quite bold downstairs but honestly? It hurt, so fucking much! My heart felt like a thousand horse had stepped on it and I couldn’t breathe. My 4 years obsession had finally come to an end and with it my shattered heart. For 4 years of my life, I had loved and cherished one man, did everything in my power to make him see me but somehow it only seemed to make him hate me more.I stared down at the little garden below my window, a rose bunch that Grandpa had specially planted for me. Poor man, he didn’t know what had gone down today. The flowers danced happily with the gentle breeze, as though mocking me. "Go ahead, laugh at me," I croaked, my voice cracking with emotion. "I'm pretty stupid, aren't I?""You most definitely are." I spun around immediately, my anger flaring as I faced the evilness herself.
HUDSON’S POV“Who would have thought that we would be free of that ungrateful brat?” Mom beamed, casting me a meaningful look.“I know, right? Good riddance to bad rubbish." Aunt Claire added with a chuckle. “What’s important now is for Charlotte to nurse her health; my grandson can’t suffer any more stress, okay?”“Yes, aunt, I will be careful now,” Charlotte said with a big smile.“Nonsense, call me mom,” my mom gushed out. And it only made Charlotte smile brighter.It was comforting to see her smiling now, rather than shed those tears that broke my heart.Suddenly, Valerie’s crying face flashed through my mind. Her pouty pink lips, trembling from holding back tears that dripped down those soft cheeks. A strange feeling overtook my body at the memory and left a bitter taste in my mouth, but I immediately pushed it down.She tried to hurt Charlotte and my unborn children as well. That’s unforgiveable!“Baby, baby, are you okay?” Charlotte gently tapped me. I blinked in surprise. “Yea
VALERIE’S POV “Ma’am?” Rob, my assistant, called out for the third time since we arrived at the building for the signing. We are currently in the underground parking lot kept specially for VVIPs. It's been almost 30 minutes and I still couldn’t find it in me to get down from the car. Trust me, this was not the first time I had to come for a partnership signing, but this was the first time I would be seeing Hudson after our divorce. If I said I wasn’t tense about it, I would be lying. It’s been 5 years already, but it still seemed like yesterday. The memories of him and his family are still fresh on my mind. And especially today, it felt more like an open wound. Liam had repeatedly offered to come on my behalf, to save me the heartache, but I refused. This was my fight. After my experience with them, I fought constantly to be who I am today, building up my walls and confidence that they had trampled upon so ruthlessly. And I most definitely cannot let one meeting shatte
VALERIE'S POV“Mommy!” “Oh no,” I moaned, paused mid-air, and gritting my teeth at my poor attempt to tiptoe to my room.“I can see you mummy, there’s no need to hide” Mason said in his ‘as a matter of fact’ tone.I sighed ‘Okay Okay, you got me.” I said with a soft smile and raised my hands in defeat. But he didn’t seem phased at all, he just stared at me with a bored expression.I had to change tactics then. “Oh, baby, you shouldn’t be up, look at the time. Gosh!” I exclaimed.“Mommy you deceived us!” Miley voice rang out from the kitchen. “Me?” I replied with fake disbelief.Almost immediately sounds of her little flip flops filled the air as she ran to the living room, with an …ice cream coated hair??“Whoa! What’s with your hair?” I exclaimed and touched her hair; it was indeed ice cream.I looked at her tiny frowning face for explanation, but she just huffed and turned to the side. “Little Miss dramatic huh?” I teased as a slight chuckle left my lips.Just then, I heard tiny fe
HUDSON’S POV “James?” “James!” I roared, glaring daggers at anyone that dared gave me side glances. “Yes, boss” he replied and immediately appeared at my right-hand side. “I need every single detail about Valerie and all her movements from the last 5 years!” “Yes boss, I completely understand” he replied hastily. “And this time, do it right!” I barked and tugged the keys of my black Bentley out of his hands. With anger surging inside of me, I just turned on the car and sped off, away from the building for the event. Most important guests were gone already and that bloody twat was the very first to leave!The nerves! Leaving me behind to the guests like I was some errand boy of hers! She even dared to threaten me. Me! "Can you believe it?" I chuckled darkly, my annoyance increasing. After 5 years of her disappearing on me, she shows up and does this? Pretending like I never existed? That gold digging bitch! She had clearly found a new rich man to prey on, one that even allow
CHARLOTTE'S POV“Didn’t you two hear me? Get her down there!” I heard his voice yelled and I was quickly jerked back to reality. No.No!I was not going to end up like that. I was different from her; I won’t end up like her. Never!And so, I did the only thing I could think of-beg.“Daddy!”“Dad…please, daddy. Don’t send me down there.” I pleaded, getting on my knees and rubbing my palms together to plead with him. My every effort desperate as tears streamed down my cheeks. “I’m sorry for being so foolish and not listening to you. I’m so sorry! But I will listen now, I will do as you say. I won’t cause problems anymore, I won’t get myself under the spotlight anymore, daddy! Please…”He scoffed loudly at my behavior and moved to leave but I quickly held on his legs, cuddling it desperately to my chest as I screamed whatever came to mind. Anything to stop him from sending me there. “I will make sure to get back control over Hudson. I will make sure to totally get control over that famil
CHARLOTTE’S POV“You Idiot!”“You fucking dumbass idiot! You’re a piece of useless shit, an absolute moron!!” he yelled, his fingers entangling with the roots of my hair as he pulled the shit out of it, leaving me grunting and crying out in pains. But all that fell on deaf ears as he threw me to the tiled floors of the living room, all the stuffs from my bag scattering to the floors in a total mess.I could feel the exposed flesh of my legs and arms burning from the rough contact to the spotless floors, but he wasn’t stopping just yet.“All you do is eat and put on makeup on that stupid face of yours!” he cussed loudly, the entire house echoing with his voice but regardless no one came to my rescue.Who would dare though? When my father gets angry like this, someone gets hurt! No one would want to be at the receiving end of that. “You don’t even know anything about that man of yours! First, you couldn’t get him to put the ring on your finger to make things official and now, you can’t
HUDSON'S POVA broke ass man that would be scared of their mommy’s wealth?? Hahaha! Never did I see this coming when I introduced myself. “Yes, mommy is smart too, she will help you okay? She will help your business grow, don’t be scared” My little girl finished, patting my hand on the table sympathetically for more emphasis, leaving me feeling even more flabbergasted.I couldn’t believe my ears at all. I couldn’t believe these kids!As if it wasn’t enough, James deep chuckles kept resounding in the air. He was most definitely having a blast watching us right now. “You guys… “I started, clearing my throat as I prepared to set the records straight.“You shouldn’t jump to conclusions like this. It’s bad! I don’t need your mommy to take care of me, because I have my own money! I am a very rich businessman as well. One of the richest in the city! I can and will take care of all of you! Your mommy included! She wouldn’t even have to work and we would still have money, that’s how much I hav
HUDSON’S POV“Daddy!”“Look! It’s daddy, he came back!” the voice of the little girl that was now officially mine filled the air, even before I saw her. The smiles on my face knew no bounds the moment I saw the car open and her absolutely excited self, came bouncing down as she ran to me.“Yay!” I found myself exclaiming as I took her in my arms for a warm hug, chuckling as I did. “You came back,” she whined, pouting beautifully as she did. Seeing her relived expression filled me with an unexplainable joy, especially now that I had the DNA test results in my pockets.It was incredible, really. It was like feeling that same as the joy I felt on the day Abrille was born, all over again. Yes, that was what it felt like! Like I had just became a father for the first time all over again. Even if my baby was all grown now and look around 5 years old already. “I promised I would, didn’t I?” I whispered to her, admiring her features as I smiled. “I won’t leave ever again, okay? I promise!”My
CHARLOTTE'S POVThe sudden pause in the music quickly caught her attention and she turned in my direction. “You, owe me. You owe me an apology, and I suggest you get right to it, right now!”“Oh?” she exclaimed, cocking her head to the side as she released a mocking laughter. Totally unfazed by my glares, “You really are dumb, aren’t you?! Apologize to you? Unbelievable!” she mocked, laughing some more while I neared my brim in keeping in anger in check.“But then again, you couldn’t figure out where your darling Huddie got that music from, how could you possibly understand me now?”“What the fuck are you talking about?!” I snapped, moving even closer to her.“Oh Charlotte…lonely little Charlotte. How do you think I managed to get so close to you, if you weren’t so lonely? I honestly don’t get you; you know! You have been living with a man that barely hugged you for all the years you two lived together. He didn’t even have sex with you at some point, right? So, why then did he suddenl
CHARLOTTE’S POVHudson hasn’t come home.He hasn’t come home at all ever since I stupidly blurted that slutty bitch had kids for him! Gosh! Why did I do that?! Why did I fucking do that?! It was so stupid. So fucking stupid of me! I mean, what was I even thinking?!Who loudly announces to her man that the woman he had been sleeping with, cheating on her with had kids for him?! Who does that?! Only idiots! And I was one for sure. I was a total idiot for not realizing just how bad I had fallen for that bitch’s trick!She dared to do all of that with him and never once mentioned their kids! It meant she had something else up in her sleeve, only a fool such as myself didn’t realize it on time. He didn’t even know she had kids; thought she was pregnant when I mentioned it. If only I had kept my mouth shut, held a tight grip on my anger that day, then this wouldn’t have happened.But could you blame me? I was literally going blind from rage at all the details she gave me free of charge! Sh
HUDSON’S POV“The heavens are punishing me, aren’t they?”“They are angry with me. After everything I’ve done… they should be angry right?” I asked quietly, staring out the car windows in the silence of the night.“No boss, they’re not punishing you” James responded, like he had been doing ever since he met and literally helped me to the car from Valerie’s gates. “They are. I’ve been so clueless. So irresponsible…a rubbish excuse for a father, that’s what I am. Why didn’t I search more back then when I had you to find Valerie? Why didn’t I keep looking? Why did I stop?! If I hadn’t…I wouldn’t have made me kids live like they were fatherless all this time. I’m so useless!” I whispered intensely, punching my right thigh at the agony clawing at my heart.Abrille stirred a little beside me after that action and I tried to calm down a bit. Holding it all down as I watched her sleep peacefully, not knowing what a trash her father was.“Boss, we’re here. We are here at the mansion” James sai
VALERIE’S POV“I’m so sorry,”“I’m so sorry” were the words he kept muttering as his body shook with silent tears. A cry so strong that his voice was choked with it, and I knew right then; that he meant it. He meant those words; I’m sorry’.I almost couldn’t watch. I couldn’t bear to. Standing there, watching them cry over each other was a constant struggle to remain strong. I was literally fighting back the lump in my throat, holding my breath while repeatedly blinking my eyes in other to stand strong but all that proved useless the moment, I watched Miley moved to wipe his tears despite her own crying face, before rushing to pull Miles closer, so he could hug Hudson as well, it completely broke my heart. I had to turn the other way, otherwise, I would’ve end up crying more than they did.I didn’t bargain for any of this when I made up my mind to let him meet them. I didn’t think I would be so affected or feel so guilty for keeping them apart for so long. It was hard, it was hard to
HUDSON’S POVThe minute that question sounded through from the inside, my heart rate quickened instantly. I had always made it a point to avoid bringing up conversations about her son when we were together, simply because of my selfish thinking that she had another man’s child. Like I didn’t a child with Charlotte as well… as much as I hated to admit, I did moments where my thoughts were simply nonsensical. Thoughts that I shouldn’t even be having in the first place! It was shameful to say the least…But I could not continue that way anymore. If I wanted to have Val in my life, I had to accept her son too. I had come to terms with that, the few days she had gone off the gride without talking to me. But right now, I wasn’t so sure what to think.That child of hers could actually be mine. He could be the same baby she was pregnant with back then when I was so stupid not to see past my selfish plots! But then at the same time, he could turn out not be mine. And belong to another man. But