(Author’s POV).“Miss Winters, I am sure you are well acquainted with the panel of judges and committee members that are present tonight. My name is Jennifer Belfire, representing my brother Julian today. He can’t make it to chair this meeting today. So, let’s keep this matter short as we are all busy people” Jessica was known as sharp and attentive to details. She found the matter trivial and thought it was just an act of jealousy between designers.But, her duty was to conduct a fair hearing before deciding on a decision.Waving her hand, she requested for her assistant to flash images of evidence on the large screen facing the judges. Images of the submitted files with condoms were one of the pieces of evidence seen.Another image that was flashed was an intimate picture caught between Ashley and Nikolai at the entrance of a hotel. It was the night that Ashley had asked Nikolai to help her get invitation for the Masquerade party to get evidence that Helen was behind the pack of co
(Ashley’s POV).I was trying hard not to flood my cheeks with my own tears. I swiped my eyes with my fingers and those damn tears came down anyways. My father never said those kinds of words to me before.It was lovely. Touched my heart, definitely.My eyes were then staring at Nikolai who was smiling at me. My focus was no longer on the judges but on what should I do next after I get back home in Amberose City.Would he follow me back home? Would our relationship work being so far apart living in different countries? I sighed not knowing what sort of future would be for us. I had hope we would find a way that would make my son happy.For the past few days living with Nikolai, I had never seen Teddy so happy. Nikolai was good to us and I knew it would be hard to tell my son we were going home soon. We would need to find a way to make this work. I wanted it to work. I hoped Nikolai would do the same.With the support from Ashton Knight, my father, I knew the hearing would be in my fav
(Nikolai’s POV).Outside Waiting Room 3, I was pacing around and looked at the time on my watch. It has been five minutes which felt like an hour to me. I wondered what was going on with them inside the room. I hoped it was not them trying to convince Ashley to leave me.I would fight them to death!I would strangle Philip’s neck with my own bare hands!A call came in to my handphone from Drake. He said it was urgent. I walked to a corner of the hall and answered the call in an impatient way, “I’m busy. Make it quick”“I got the DNA results from one of the Hospital but it differs from the result from another Hospital which Ivan had sent to check. Strange” Drake said while what sounded like he was driving.Different DNA results to prove Teddy was my son. How could that be?“Did one of you made a stupid mistake? How can it be different?” I asked and rubbed my face with my hand.In the first place, I wondered why Drake and Ivan had seen the results without my consent. I would deal with
(Ashley’s POV).I walked out the room feeling quite the opposite as compared to when I first went in. Earlier, I was confident that I wanted to end any ties to my family and move on with my new life as Tiana Winters.But. seeing my father showing nothing but love to me, I was moved by it. He showed me a side that I have loved and respect before. Also, it felt as if he understood me better than before.I was not sure what changed him. Did Erique, my grandfather do something to make my father changed his mind? Something seemed not right.Whatever it was, I loved the new version of my father who listened to me and tried to fix our relationship. It was all that I wished for to happen in the past.As for Philip, he begged for my forgiveness and wanted us to start again. I could not do that, obviously. The memory of him on bed with Helen was still fresh in my mind even though it has been five years ago. It was not easy to come out from it.It was not easy to accept the fact that I had lost
(Nikolai’s POV).We reached my penthouse and she had wasted no time to pack her things to get on the next flight back to her home in Amberose City. That was all we talked about in the car ride to my penthouse.I did not want her to mention Philip’s name at all. I had made that clear, twice.I could see how excited she was to finally be able to go back home with Teddy. She was seen very happy after I told her I would take her there.I honestly did not know what came to me when I told her that.I had a lot of unfinished business to deal with in Averna but I also did not want to be separated from her. Not even a minute. Losing her would be the death of me.“Aren’t you going to pack your things? A change of heart, Nikolai?” Ashley bit her lips and looked a little disappointed seeing I was just standing at the door watching her packing her things, all the time.Smiling at her, I got closer and pulled her body closer to me by her waist, “I pack light. Will do it later. We can leave tomorro
(Ashley’s POV).I was worried that Nikolai would not be in favour of living in my modest looking two-bedroom apartment. My whole house was probably as big as how his kitchen was back at his luxurious penthouse at Averna. Getting a house in Amberose City did not come cheap especially when I had chosen to stay in the high-end district.It was a strategically located apartment situated near my small boutique of dresses and most importantly it was at a walking distance to Teddy’s new pre-school of gifted Witches and Wizards. An exclusive school only to children who could pass a very difficult examination and could demonstrate how powerful they are.My son was of course, very powerful for his age.The school was also where my mother had attended before, then me and now I was a proud mother to have my son joining our little legacy. Dave had helped me to get Teddy ready for the school last year. He had also forged some documents to show that Teddy’s father was a Wizard, not a Werewolf.The
(Author’s POV).“Oh my God, N-Nikolai” she squealed as he pushed in deeper and faster. One hand was placed on her tummy while the other on the wall, “Oh f*ck, I’m cumming”Her wetness and tightness had pushed him close to the edge of exploding inside of her. He grunted and moved his hand to caress her fold as he moved to pushed her closer to the wall. “Not yet, my love. Not yet”They were trying their best not to make much of a noise in the bathroom that would wake up the sleeping Teddy. But, the excitement had made Nikolai moaned a little louder. “I’m going to turn you around, honey”Her cries of pleasure were getting louder that Nikolai needed to close her mouth with his in a passionate kiss under the running water of the shower. Facing each other, Nikolai carried her back to the wall as her legs wrapped his waist.Ashley panted as Nikolai kept pushing in deeper inside her core. She had tried to keep up with his rhythm but it proved to be difficult as her knees were getting weak, “
(Ashley’s POV).It has been five days since we were back home in Amberose City. A lot has to be done for me to complete the submission to enter the design competition. I had Cindy staying over at my place so we could finish up the drafts on time to meet the deadline.My apartment was getting a little crowded with Drake and Frankie too sleeping over at the couch in my living room. They were taking turns to watch over the surroundings of my place at night. Nikolai was not comfortable with the security of the whole apartment building.“Honey, why don’t I take Teddy to school so you could focus on your work” Nikolai walked behind me and wrapped his hands around my waist while I was frying some pancakes for everyone.“That would be nice but you know that you are not that well-liked by the teachers at the school. I can take him. It is not that far” I placed the pancakes on the plate and pecked his lips. “And, don’t you have work to do? I heard you on the phone last night talking about a me