IVY**Luther has been different ever since the day his father died. He's usually cold and all but it's different. I've been a shadow before, so I know when someone's becoming the same.He's depressed, he's acting like he's fine but he's not, it's like every second he's slipping away. I know what it feels like to be this, I've been this way all my life.I know I can help him but, he's not going to let me in.He didn't show up for his father's funeral, he's barely at home, the few times he's around when his family comes to see him he puts up this fake profile of being happy, but I could see through it, clearly.I strolled downstairs and met Ben in the living room, this was a week after the funeral."Uhm hey, is Luther around?", I asked."I can barely even track his movement", he said sounding genuinely worried.He sighed and raked his hair."He's depressed", I said, "The death is affecting him more than how he's making it seem", I said."He keeps saying he's fine that it's a phase an
I sighed, "I never got over them, I never got comfort, never got closure, I was carrying this invincible pain that no one could see. I started things up, got a scholarship to go to college, got multiple jobs, graduated well, and got a good job. I loved my job; I was so good at it. It made me think less about my sad life and focus more on building the company. And that's what I did. Until I lost it, I started slipping into depression again, Kathy could see it all over me. And to top it all up, the day I lost my job was my parents death anniversary, so it was a lot. I went to their graves after I got my resignation letter, and I cried my heart out; I cursed them, and I cried that I missed them. I was alone in this world, and nothing made sense to me anymore; I didn't even see the use of living because what was I living for? I gave myself more than enough time to grieve. When I was done crying, I went to the club that day, and that was when I met you..", I slowly slipped into th
LAURA**I threw away what seemed to be the remains of the 7th cigarette I had lit today."That was your mistake, not mine".Those words Luther said to me still echoed in my head. I have been a fool all my life. All I've ever done was beg for love from someone who never wanted me.I knew it, I knew he did but I couldn't bring myself to believing it, now it was all clear, very very clear.Luther's father had given Ivy the position of the Cowper's father heiress whether or not she decides to stay with him, she was now officially part of the family; a family that I played on role in building from scratch.A one night stand just walked in and stole everything from me.I cursed and poured myself another glass of alcohol.Obsession is a cruel thing, it truly is."Rough night?", my mother asked coming behind me.I rolled my eyes, I am not ready for any of this, at all."If you're here to convince me that I shouldn't give up on Danger then please leave", I said calmly.She was part of the fa
IVY * * Laura was sitting in Luther's office when I walked in, I sighed, here we go again. She turned to me and smiled, "Hello, Ivy," she said in a tone I'd never heard her use. I looked at Luther; he looked back at me; we had the same look on our faces; What the fuck?? "Uhm... Hello", I said. "You look pale; pregnancy is a bitch, huh?" she asked again. I looked at Luther again, "Uhhh... yeah". "What's going on?", I asked. "Laura said she wanted to see you", Luther said finding it hard to believe himself. He had a gun on his table, so I'm guessing he doesn't trust her to be genuine and he's ready if she tries anything funny. "See me?", I asked. The last time we spoke, I said a lot of things to her that I do low-key regret, so I know she has nothing good to tell me. "Well, we never actually got to know each other well, and all, so I thought we could do some girly stuff while at it, maybe go shopping or something. " Luther laughed. Yeah, girly stuff like st
"You know this would have been a lot better if Ben wasn't hawking around us", Laura groaned."So you can kill Ivy and hide her dead body and let Don kill me? No way", he stated.She rolled her eyes, "Anyway, how do you like this Chanel bag?" she asked, handing me this ginger-colored bag.It fit my hair color perfectly."It's beautiful", I stated.Oh, and it's also $10,000. Yeah, I'll pass."Good let's add this to the cart and head home", she said.I paused, "Let's be for real here; what are you playing at? Why are you doing all this? The last time we spoke, you looked like you were going to kill me, and now, all of a sudden, you want to be nice to me?"."Exactly; the last time we spoke, things went ba,d, okay? And you're going to be my boss soon, God knows the things you could do to me, I'm trying to not let you think about all of that ", she said."You're still obsessed with Luther; how could you just be okay with it all of a sudden?"It's a silly crush; I'll get over it with time; a
Someone had been ringing the doorbell for a long time now, and no one answered it, so I went to check it out myself. It was a delivery guy. "Hi", I said. "Good day, ma'am; we're to deliver this to an Ivy Cowper?". My cheeks flared, he didn't just call me that, did he? "That will be me", I said. "Okay, it came in from Mr. Luther Cowper; please sign this here", he said, handing me a pen. Luther? Why is Luther sending me something when he can just get it here himself? I signed it anyway and took the box from him, thanked him, and went back inside. I dropped the box on the couch. What if it wasn't from Luther? What if it was from Laura and it was a bomb or something?? No, Laura wouldn't go that far to kill me, at least not yet. Or so I think. I opened the box and paused in surprise. It was a dress, a green dress, a very, very pretty green dress. I have no idea how he knew he knew my favorite color, but this was so pretty, and it had a pair of silver heels to match it. The
IVY * * I smiled. No I was blushing!! "A helicopter?", I asked smiling. "Yeahh, you scared of height?", he asked. No it's just... I... I've never been in one before ". "Good, there's a first time for everything ", he said. "I... I'm sorry what is going on?", I asked nervous as fuck. "Where's going on a date on a Helicopter, what else?". "Why?", I asked calmly. He shrugged. "We should get to know each other better, right?" I nodded slowly... right. "Good", he stretched out his hands. I took it and he walked me to the helicopter. It was so loud when we get closer. He gave Ben and sign and he responded and then left. He helped me up and we got in. "Wait are you the one flying this?", I yelled because I could barely hear my voice. ,He nodded. Okay I shouldn't be worried?? I mean should I? "Do you even know how to fly it?", I asked genuinely worried.He chuckled."Yes Ivy", he said strapping a belt on me and him."Now just sit back and relax", he said.Relax? hell no
Ivy **This was the Luther I met that night at the party, and the best part is that he's not drunk, there are no people around to say it's pretence, it's just the two of us so I know this is real."Living in an orphanage was kinda a bit fun if we're being honest. I had like 99 other siblings. We got to share everything together, from food to clothes and all.But then as time went on the people I was close to got adopted and for some reason, I was never picked"."They're all crazy not to pick you , I'd literally pick you in a room filled with kids, literally ", he said munching down on his pork chops.I smiled a little, he's been saying things to make me smile a lot tonight.Like he is so sweet and caring.I could never imagine him being like this to me, I've pinched myself like three times already and it's actually real."Okay so I want to ask, what was your relationship with Laura before I got into the picture? be honest".He shrugged, "Wasn't anything serious ", he said."With the
A MONTH LATER IVY**I haven't been myself ever since I saw Laura kill herself , right in front of me.The image will be stuck in my head for the rest of my life for sure.I blamed myself at a point, I felt like it was my fault all of this happened. Maybe if I hadn't gotten pregnant for Luther in the first place, maybe everything that happened wouldn't have mThat's what I used to drown myself in guilt, Until Lexy called me.She was so sad about everything, because she warned Laura about it too, she begged her to stop going down that path but she didn't listen.I told Lexy it was all my fault, that the night she died still haunts me everyday.Lexy reminded me of something else, if I never met Luther, I would never met my real family. I probably would have gone suicidal by now, or even the worse could have happened.She reminded me that my life has gotten so much better since I met him. Yes the adventure was there, the suffering too, but it all worth it in the end. I found my family,
"You shot Ivy?????", I raged loosing my shit."You see why I didn't fucken come tell you? do you see? I shot her but it wasn't my doing, my mother got into my head, she knew why she didn't do it herself that night, because she knew she was going to use it against me and torture me with it. I hated myself after that moment, you think if I wanted to kill her I would have missed? Why do you think after that I started becoming very close to Ivy? why do you think I started protecting her? started trying to keep her safe? drop indirect tips? why do you think I told her to go to Italy and not come back? because Martins was going to kill her, he was. And I knew I couldn't tell you because you wouldn't believe me that I was forced to shoot her, you wouldn't because she is all you care about, I become a skeleton, I walking corpse and was turned to a puppet because I was afraid to tell you that I shot Ivy and I didn't mean to. Had to live with everything going on, even took Therapy from your
LUTHER ***It was 3:45am when we got to the place. Asher had tracked her location to San Diego and this was where Laura's last phone call was made 16 minutes before we got here.We disabled all the armed men that got here very easily. We all know what we wanted."Haven't held a gun in months, I could say a year plus", Aaron mumbled as we stalked into the house quietly."Yeah, that's because you're a family guy now", Asher mumbled, the chuckled.It's how they can be so calm in the middle of all this that scares me.But then I remembered, they had gone through a whole lot, this was nothing to them.We searched the Entire house, it was empty.We barged into the living room, Mrs Ann's body and Martins body was found soaked in blood.What?Martins?I ran to him to check his pulse, he was gone.Oh my God."He's dead", I whispered coldly."Who is that?", Amber asked."My step brother",I replied coldly.If Both Mrs Ann and Martins is dead, then.....Laura what is happening here, what game
LAURA **I Sprang up from my bed, memories of everything that had happened in the past couple of years swimming into my head at once. I stopped myself from screaming as everything flooded my head.I was sitting on my bed shaking, physically shaking.The last thing I remembered was my mother attacking me.I stood up from my bed and went downstairs, hearing voices from there.It was Martins and My mother."Laura, you're awake, Martins and I were just -""You wiped my memory", I whispered slowly.They paused, exchanged glances and then looked back at me."What are you -""You both fucken wiped my memory, I remember everything, ever fucken thing!!"."Sweetie, I think you just had a bad dream, have you been taking your meds?"."No I haven't, because I noticed it was different from what the doctor prescribed, then I went online and did my research and realized that you've been feeding me with medications to make me forget everything that had happened! i skipped it for 4 days and everythin
IVY **It was shocking actually, when I heard Laura found out and she wanted us to talk. I honestly thought she's really maturity, which was definitely a good thing.She was kinda faking the smiles in the beginning but she just straight up told me that she's honestly not happy cuz she's been in love with Luther her entire life, so it was sad seeing him with another woman, again.But everything went well surprisingly, honestly really really surprisingly.When we were done she offered to drop me off at my estate."We should do this some more time", she said in the car."Yeah, that'll be nice", I replied.We went quiet for a moment and rode in silence."Do you know a girl named Jenifer? Luther's ex girlfriend?", She suddenly asked."Yes, he mentioned"."Do you know how she died?", she asked.I'm guessing she's trying to scare me off, typical Laura, she would never give in completely."I heard she was killed and hung in front of Luther's house", I said calmly."Do you know who killed he
LUTHER***I woke up this morning sensing a very negative energy. Something bad was going to happen, I could feel it but I didn't know what.I called Ivy to make sure she was okay, she said she was at work and everything was normal, nothing out of the ordinary. I could just feel something was wrong.I called Laura to check up on her if she was good, she didn't pick up.But she posted on her Insta this morning so I assumed she was fine, but something was off, I could feel it.I had a meeting in San Diego later so I started preparing for my movement today. I told Ben about how I couldn't shake off the sickening feeling that something bad was going to happen.But everything has been good lately, I have no fear of enemies attacking me or anything, I'm with the woman I love and my family is better than it use to be, what could possibly go wrong?Laura called back few minutes to my flight take off."Hey", I said."Hi"."How are you? are you good?".She sighed, "My mom just told me everyt
LAURA***Mother walked into my house by 6pm.She noticed my cold mood, even from the way I spoke with her over the phone to come over, I could swear she heard the terror in my voice."You wanted to see me", she said trying not to act bothered, but it was all over her face."Sit", I said calmly.Mother knew that when I wasn't in a good mood the worse thing she could do was make me angry. I could forget she was my mother for the moment actually.She did.I picked up my cigarette and lit it."You know Blu right?", I asked.She swallowed hard."Yes", she said "Well I went to her club last night, was with her till this morning and we had a chat, a long one actually. And she told me somethings", i started calmly."What did she tell you?", she asked."She said when I was in the hospital you denied her access to see me. And apparently also texted her to stay away from me. As if you knew that if I meet her I'll find out something you don't want me to "."Laura... Laura I can-""Don't fucke
LAURA **These past few weeks have been terrible, honestly terrible.It's like I'm living another person's life. I can't remember shit happening. A lot of things have changed, so badly that it's affecting me. Owen's dead, my godfather too?And everyone seems to be keeping secrets from me, I don't even know why.I walked into my mom and Luther talking today and it was about telling me something, something that I feel like Is the last piece to fixing my memory completely. But my mother told me she'll tell me in the morning and said I should go to bed after taking my pills.Something is wrong somewhere and I just know it and I can feel it. Everyone I ask about it either brushes it off or tells me that I should be happy I have forgotten all those cruel days I had.There was only one person I knew that I told my secrets to and will tell me too.Blu.I immediately got out of bed and found something simple to wear.I got out of my room and headed to my car."My mother asked coming outside
I barged into Mrs Ann's house."Luther is 2am in the morning, what the-""We have to tell Laura the truth, the complete truth, everything. We cannot keep pretending; I cannot keep pretending.""It's not that hard Luther, just pretend like you're both dating for now until when she's ready to hear it"."And when is that going to happen? huh ? when ??? because I cannot keep up with this lie. What's going to happen when she finds out we're playing her, or when she gets her memory?"."Luther I -""No I'm going to talk to her""And you think she'll listen? that's worse, what you're attempting just so you know. Lying to her about everything? she deserves to know the truth "."Luther for the first time since almost 3 years, my daughter is exactly how I have known her. She's happy, she looks and feels alive and she's herself again. Just so you know everything started changing and crashing the very moment she found out about Ivy, and now you want to do the whole thing again? relive the whole th