All Chapters of Xander's girl: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

PrologueSometimes life has a way of wearing you down. You realize no-one is coming to rescue you and you’re tired of being strong. -Nicole Young. HayleyI keep dialing his number like a mad woman. It goes straight to voicemail. Despite the overwhelming evidence, my heart cannot comprehend what my mind is telling me to be true. That I’ve been played. That the last year of my life has been a lie. That the person that I thought loved me….doesn’t. An hour earlier…. “Hayley, I don’t know how to tell you this but if it where me I would want to know.” Says Callie, my work colleague.“The guys have been talking about Keith, they say he's engaged to someone else”.“What?” I say uncomprehending.Keith is my boyfriend of twelve months, we work for the same company in diff

Grandma Helen It has been a while since I've been to the beach. I used to go all the time with my husband Peter when we were younger. We would bring our little girl Annie and watch as she had the time of her life chasing sea crabs and building sand castles. I can still hear her sweet giggle as each new wave crashed to where she was patiently waiting for them on the shore. I stare out into the waves as I reminisce about the past. Peter and I had only been blessed with one child… and then my child left her only child to me to take care of. Both my beloved Annie and Peter are gone. It's just me and Xander, Annie’s son now. A lone tear rolls down my cheek as think about the ones I have loved and the time that has passed without them. Xander, is my blessing in all the sadness. My greatest joy. I am proud of the man he has turned into but I want more for him. I want him to feel what I had with my Peter. He has good friends, a good life, but the w

Hayley  Grandma Helen has a specialist appointment today and asked me to come with her. I offered to pick her up but she insisted we meet there. Strange but ok. I've grown really attached to the older women. My own grandparent’s passed away a few years back and so it’s nice to have her around. I'm busy texting a whatsapp message as I enter the reception area of the doctors suite. Then I decide to delete the message altogether. It’s a message from my ex. Yes, the cheating a**hole, that’s now married. It’s just a simple “hi, how are you” message, but I refuse to respond. I am not getting dragged into that mess again. I put my phone away and plaster a bright smile on my face as I look up to greet gran.Only grans not alone. Beside her is Mr green eyes himself, in all his sexy glory. What on earth? I stand there staring at them not quite being able to putt two and two

Hayley My alarm goes of at 4am and I press snooze. I do this two more times until I can’t put of getting out of bed any longer and finally pry my eyes open at around 5am, give or take a minute…or five. To say I love sleep is an understatement but unfortunately with my shifts at work, its really hard for my body to adapt to any sort of regular sleep pattern. I don’t have time to grab breakfast as I rush out the door at 6am but this isn’t anything new.I get to work and two people have called in sick with the flu. We are so short staffed. My day goes by in a blur as I handle queries and try to process as many urgent patient samples as possible.By the end of my shift , I’m mentally and physically exhausted and all I want is a hot shower, food and my bed. In that order. The last thing I’m prepared for is to see grandma Helen waiting for me outside my office building. How did she even know where I work, let

Hayley   You make a spur of the moment decision and then the next morning it hits you…like what have I done? I've already met with gran Helen again. We’ve gone over a plan of sorts. I'm to meet Xander later. Play it by ear and basically agree to whatever his proposal might be. Gran and I spoke about my family this morning and what I would say to them and we both agreed it would be best they think this marriage is real. How I'm supposed to convince them of that, I have no idea, especially after my anti social life-style these last few years. All of this is assuming Xander is even going to propose marriage! What if gran has it wrong and he has something completely different that he wants to talk to me about? That would be the biggest joke of all I think as I chuckle to myself like a lunatic.   I’ve been standing in front of my white built in cupboard for the past hour and getting more depressed by the minute. Nothing looks good on me!