Hey guys, sorry i didn't drop any chapter earlier. Was so tired that i slept off halfway
VALERIE POV“Mommy, when will Miley be back? It’s been hours already” A concerned Miles whined for the fourth time just this evening. “Aww, do I hear worry in your tone?” Nanny Beth cut in teasingly, “Miley has been gone for barely 3 hours since and you can’t stop asking about her, you miss her don’t you?”“Huh? Me, miss her? No!” he responded sharply, while rushing to his seat. “I don’t miss her at all!” His denial only fueled Nanny Beth’s teasing,“Oh? I think you miss her even more now! You miss her so much that you’re starting to feel sick! Val dear, are you sure the ballet school doesn’t accept boys? We should register Miles before he drops dead from all this lovesickness!” Nanny Beth announced loudly, her voice echoing playfully as Miles hurried away to hide his face in one of the living room’s couch pillows.A series of chuckles filled the air at his behavior and I decided to add fuel to fire just a little bit, “Really? You want to join your sister for her new ballet classes? I
VALERIE POV“Yay! We won! The girls team won!” Miley’s voice rang out and almost immediately sharp excited squeals filled the air with the girls jumping around and holding hands right in the living room. “No, you didn’t. Look! there’s still one block left” Miles interjected, breaking the girls out of their screams.“Hey! That wasn’t there before!” Aby protested, “Right Mason? That wasn’t there before, right?”All eyes flew to Mason immediately, who sat beside Miles. Surprised by the sudden attention and Miles demanding gaze that he should side with him, “Why are you asking me that? Don’t you see the block yourself?” he fired at Aby. “Yes, we can, but it could easily have been placed by Miles because he wants to cheat!” Miley cut in, coming to a slightly flustered Aby aid. “You don’t tell lies Mason, so tell us. Was the block placed there by cheating Miles?”“Hey! Don’t call me that” Miles protested, “You lost, the boys win! Right, mason?” Miles pressed on, looking to Mason to come to
HUDSON’S POVHow is it that I plan to do something else, but then end up doing a completely different thing anytime I cross paths with Valerie. How?! It was almost as if I always forget myself around her, cause how the fuck did I end up dancing with her?!Having my arms wrapped around her simply curvaceous frame that I knew I shouldn’t even be coming within hugging radius talk more of touching her! holding unto her waist as every turn she took had that soft body of hers pressing more and more against mine, sending all her body heat sipping into me, which totally shut down all rational thoughts from my mind.Let me not even get started about that perfume of hers, does she have to wear that scent every day and everywhere?! What sort of distracting fragrance is that!Just imagine Aby hadn’t walked in on us at that moment, just imagine someone else had and not her! What was I going to say? That we were just dancing? But we were dancing! There was nothing wrong with that right? Aby said so
VALERIE’S POV“Ma’am? Can I ask you something?” Rob said quietly as we drove off further and further away from the dancing school. “Sure” I responded easily while going through the documents he gave me.“Do you have to do this? Like, is this necessary? Why are you spending so much time doing things like what you did today? Why?!” He fired, his voice rising as he clenched the stirring wheels. Taken aback by his outburst, I managed to say the first words that came to my lips. “What is wrong with you? And why are you yelling at me?”“Because I don’t understand you! I really don’t get why you want to involve yourself with him so bad! What is the problem exactly? Tell me, I can help you. I want to help you out, let’s sort it and get done with it! You don’t have to do all this to get to him, you don’t need him! Dammit!” he said, cussing loudly as well.I was in shock at the end of that second outburst. Because, what? My mouth just fell open and remained hanging there in that position, this
VALERIE’S POV“What? the location has been changed? Why?” I asked over the phone, surprise evident in my tone. At the other end of the line, an explanation that didn’t seat well with me sounded through making me wish I never asked in the first place. “Ugh, you know what? It’s okay, I will be there. Its okay” and with that I ended the call.Letting out a deep sigh, I moved to clear off my desk from all the paperwork I had been checking out for about 40 minutes now. I was almost done filing them until I stumbled upon an oddly yellow file with my name written on it. ‘Valerie Ann Maria; Case file’.Hmmm, strange… “What file is…” I mumbled as I pulled the slightly heavy document. My eyebrows furrowing as I quickly came to the conclusion that I had indeed not kept it there.First of all, the color of the file was a yellow, which was a stark difference from my usually brown colored files. Meaning, I didn’t file the contents in it and it only made me what to know more. But as I turned its cov
CHARLOTTE’S POV“Isn’t my skin just glowing at first glance?”“It is Madame!” Kate gushed excitedly, “It’s so much bouncier than before!” I let out a small laugh at her enthusiasm, “I meant, doesn’t it look even better than usual?”“Of course, it is Madame” another voice belonging to my skin specialist cut in, “Your skin is so smooth, so soft, oh! I’m so jealous!” She gushed in similar patterns as Kate but it didn’t make me happy like it was supposed to. “I’m not talking about the massage!” I snapped, pausing their excitedly squeal instantly.“Don’t you guys see the natural collagen?” I murmured, frowning as I stared back at myself in the mirror. “Natural collagen?” they asked together like the word was not of this world. “Can’t you see the natural collagen from Huddie’s love on my skin?” I repeatedly, getting irritated by their absurd looks now.“Oh, yes, yes, we see it!” they chorused, smiling apologetically but I didn’t want their comments again. It was bad enough that despite how
CHARLOTTE'S POV“I even heard she had held the post once already when her eldest child was in the same class! What more does she want then? She thinks it’s her family’s heirloom or what?! Humph! I absolutely cannot tolerate someone like her holding such power when we have young, sexy, beautiful and sophisticated women like you Mrs. Charlotte, in our gathering. So, I seized the position from them and came to meet you here to celebrate! I am willing to bear the title in name for you Madame, but the actual power will be in your hands”By the time she was finished, I was beyond speechless. I didn’t know whether to smile or be skeptical about her. It was almost unreal but it was actually happening before my eyes. “So, Mrs. Charlotte, will you be our Parent Representative and the real power of the position?” she asked with a smile but I said nothing, still contemplating it all in my head as she continued speaking.“I went a bit overboard and ordered a jewelry set you can use on the day of i
HUDSON’S POV“We won’t be able to tell of her improvements unless you bring her in for checkup, Mr. Rodriguez” the doctor explained calmly after going through Aby’s monthly report. After that last time, she was diagnosed, a routine report on her behavior was requested every month and I had ensured I submitted.Not skipping a month or make excuses because in a way, it also helped me keep track of Charlotte’s contributions/ changes towards Aby. And I thought everything was going well, at least not until I was called in by the doctor earlier today. “She has shown signs of improvement from your reports but we cannot be sure it is not her mind building a coping mechanism to make her seem like she is well, which is not that bad actually. Just that, the dangers of this situation, is a mental break down. The day the coping mechanism doesn’t work like it usually did, the mind will be thrown into a frizzy and might drastically affect her personality. I advise you bring her in for us to be sure”
VALERIE’S POV“Mommy, are you ready yet?”“No, sweetie. But I’m almost done!” I responded, trying another set of earrings.“Ohhm” he groaned softly at my response, making me smile because I knew he was doing the whiny dance again, where he stomps his foot around in circles as he complained. It was supposed to be some sort of protest, but I just couldn’t help the chuckles that leaves my lips anytime he did it.Frankly speaking, I was surprised he still came to ask, cause he has at least done this 5 times already under the span of 30 minutes. And all the times, I gave the same response to his overly excited self.“Why are you taking so much time, Mommy? Grandpa’s waiting for us,” Miles asked, moving to check out my face from the vanity mirror I currently sat in front of. “Are you done now, Mommy?”Argh…“Yes Miles! Yes, mommy is ready now” I responded to him, ruffling his hair for a bit. Excited cheers filled the air as he ran out of the room. To tell the others, I’m sure.As you know,
CHARLOTTE’S POV“I think you made a mistake, Madame”“No”“I didn’t. I couldn’t have” I muttered quietly, just enough for Maria that stood beside me to hear.“But Madame… he-they- they all look very happy!” she insisted, choosing to voice out my inner worries rathe than have faith like I wanted. And that alone, annoyed the shit out of me!With a death glare I turned to her, “Go and try to contact those greedy bastards, again! They still have my videos and I want it!”How dare those criminals?!First, they contact me and tell me they have the videos ready, even requesting for a ridiculous sum as payment! An amount I couldn’t even afford at the moment, all because Hudson had my cards connected to his accounts frozen!Then, when I finally came up with a tangible sum to at least get one video, those bloody twats decided to go mute on me! To ghost me! Like what the actual fuck?!“You make sure you keep calling, text them! I need that video now!” I whisper yelled at her, my eyes housing my
HUDSON'S POV“It feels like I haven’t seen you since forever! Hudson wouldn’t even let me meet the kids, claiming you all needed some family time! He’s so stingy…” Grandpa complained, narrowing his eyes at me as Val chuckled before guiding him to a seat.“We are back now though, so you can come visit the kids whenever you want! I’m sure they will love that” Val comforted, taking a seat beside him. And almost automatically, my smiles fell. “You’re sitting there?” I questioned, gesturing to her.“Why?! You’re so far from me! Come over here”Almost immediately, Grandpa grabbed her hands stubbornly. “Huh? Why does she have to do that?! You’re not a child and you most definitely don’t need her to care for you right now!”“Well, I do!” I retorted seriously, not liking how he was arguing about my woman with me. She was my woman and not his!“I do need her to take care of me! I’m hurt! Only her can help”“Huh? You? Hurt? From what?! Falling off your ego, now?!” Grandpa taunted, his voice loud
HUDSON’S POV“To the mansion, James!”“Yes, Boss!” he responded solemnly, his attitude reflecting my mood as we drove off from the darned restaurant.I knew this was a bad idea. I just knew it!Now, here I was getting all worked up from seeing her again. Fucking crazy woman!She still didn’t give a shit about her child! Everything else was important to her, everything else held value in her eyes except her daughter! Her very own flesh and blood! If I hadn’t watched over her all through her pregnancy and even the delivery, I would honestly be doubting f Abrille truly was hers!Because how do you explain this? How?!Even postpartum depression wouldn’t make someone this selfish! How could my own… how could such a little girl be tied to this self-absorbed person?!It broke my heart the more I thought about it. Just how much my little girl had to suffer because her mom was like this.But I won’t let this continue. I won’t allow her life to be destroyed simply because of this! I will make s
CHAPTER 231VALERIE’S POV“What happened?!” I whisper yelled as soon I flung the door open. My eyes frantic as I scanned the room for the one person I was looking for. And the moment I spotted his tangled-up self in the sheets, my feet moved on their own accord, next thing I knew I was all over him. My heart beat suspended in panic as I rushed to help him out.“Oh, my goodness, what happened here?!” he winced from pain as I pulled on a side of the sheets. “Oh my, sorry! Sorry…does it hurt? Does it?” he nodded gently to my question. His expression pitiful as slowly, I untangled with from the sheets that had wrapped him up like a sausage roll!“Hold on, let me see” I cooed softly, helping him relax as I gently checked his bandages. Everything looked good. There were no blood stains or any signs of an added injury, so we were all good. But only after I had calmed down did, I realize just how quickly our sleeping arrangements had changed.Nanny Beth’s orders were strict; no sharing of bed
CHAPTER 230VALERIE’S POV“I don’t-I don’t know…”“You don’t know? You don’t know what exactly?” he questioned; his tone perplexed. “Charlotte, you accused me of emotional abuse! On national Tv! I have even received a copy from court concerning the details of YOUR sue! And you sit there to cry that you didn’t do it? It was someone else and you don’t know who that is?! Can you hear yourself?”“I’m sorry, I’m so sorry baby” were the words she kept whispering. Her cries filling the air as I listened, as we all listened. Myself, Hudson and Charlotte herself!“I’m sorry Huddie, I will fix this I promise! I will close the case right now and-” she whispered; her voice thick with emotion as she addressed him.“No need!” He interjected, his voice firm. “Just send the documents after you’ve signed them, if you want that is. Otherwise, see you in court, Charlotte. I’m not letting you ruin my daughter!”“No. No way! No Huddie, no!” Charlotte cried out, her voice panicky and I knew he was leaving.
CHARLOTTE’S POV“Char?”“Ohh Charlotte…” the voice sang out, its mocking laughter following soon after as it echoed everywhere in the hotel room that I currently stood in. Looking all confused and properly scared to the bones as I couldn’t find the source of the sound.Someone was definitely talking; laughing and taunting at me, right here in this hotel room I had booked after no luck at getting into Hudson’s other buildings that he owned! Everything he owned had cut me off! All the entitlements I enjoyed and had been enjoying all these years, framing my lavish lifestyle… everything has been cut off!It was just me now.Me and this hotel room, plus the voice I as currently hearing inside it!“Don’t tell me you don’t recognize me now, Char” the voice continued, sounding clearer and clearer as a silent sob left my mouth. My lips trembling as I refused to believe it. I refused to believe the obvious truth that was right before me.“No,” I whispered, my hands flying to my ears to block ou
HUDSON’S POV“I’ve just talked with Charlotte, she decided to move out of the house. You don’t need to worry about the kids anymore, I got you!”A smile crept to my lisp as I read that last line; ‘I got you’. It felt extremely comforting to hear, just as it was having her sleep beside me on the hospital bed for the rest of the day before she finally went home to the kids.That was also before we publicly announced the end of our partnership as well. An extremely closed off event to be honest, not the way I would’ve wanted it but the situation demanded it. Plus, Val absolutely refused for me to be on my feet for more than an hour. A bit laughable if you ask me, but I loved every minuet of it! To watch her fuzz over me brought me so much assurance and comfort that finally silenced the constant doubtful voice in my head. It has always been there, making me feel like what we had wasn’t real and Val just tolerated me for sex and the kids. But now, I was sure. I was so sure it wasn’t like
CHARLOTTE'S POV“Get out!” she said simply, moving towards me again. Her gaze purposeful and dead serious, I could tell she wasn’t playing but before I could give a response. “Get out of here!” she yelled, pushing me backwards again, this time with more force compared to earlier.That was when I knew this bitch wasn’t playing at all. What the hell did she mean by doing this? Right here! In front of everyone! To disgrace me?! To proof she had the man and I didn’t?!“Hey!” I snapped, aiming to push her back as well as my anger broke free. But she immediately snapped my hands away, clenching it tight before pushing me backwards again. This time, into a clique of nurses close by. “Get security!” she called out, “She is not allowed here”And like a movie, a nurse ran out. Obviously to do as she had spoken. That means, I would be… thrown out? Thrown out of a hospital that my Huddie laid in all hurt?! I didn’t even know if he was okay! First, I hurt him. Maybe not literally but still, it was