THEA"Why do you care about Tyler after all he's put this family through?" This question rang in my head. How would I explain it? Yes, Tyler had helped us, but it wasn't enough for the amount of care I felt entitled to show him.I looked up and met father's gaze, he stared at me expectant of a reply. "When you left, I and Cora moved to Manhattan." I watched his eyelids flutter at the mention of Cora, no doubt he was starting to get emotional."Things were pretty rough, I struggled to build an enterprise from the start before deciding to come back here in quest of revenge against Tyler, but as life would have it; things changed. A lot of things changed.""What changed?""I found out Tyler had a pretty good reason for leaving us, I couldn't really blame him. All he did was try to save us, everybody including you. Also..." I trailed off, unsure of how to break the news of Lily to him."Go on, I won't judge you." I didn't really care about his judgement, I just wasn't sure it was right to
THEAI saw him first before Lily and I immediately went to stand in the doorway. Lily was by my side, holding a welcome home banner she designed herself and I was holding one too. I couldn't help but feel a mix of emotions.Excitement to see Tyler again after a whole lot of time and then the thought about how he would react to the party. As I thought of that, a hint of sadness washed over me and I immediately deleted it from my mind. Although our time together had been cut short by his accident then I was glad he was fine.He would be receiving the rest of his treatments and recovering at home. The doctors said he was healing well, but I knew I would still see the faint scar on his chest, which would be a reminder of the traumatic event that had brought us together - Lily's kidnapping. I took a deep breath and stepped forward when I saw him enter the house, holding out the banner. "Welcome home, Tyler!" I exclaimed, trying to sound cheerful but deep down I was bursting with excitement
THEAI excused myself and went outside. I didn't want to imagine that Tyler left without telling me. He was all smiles when we were planning the surprise birthday party, he couldn't leave without a word. As I stepped outside, lashed by the cold fingers of the wind, I was taken aback by the sight of someone sitting on the staircase. For a moment I stood still, then remembered that the person's clothes looked familiar. It didn't take long for me to figure out it was Tyler and when I cleared my throat, he turned back, his eyes fixed on me with a mix of awe and longing. My heart skipped a beat as I made my way towards him, my senses heightened by the tension between us."Hey," I said softly, sitting down next to him on the step. "What's going on? I thought you left."He chuckled and turned to the moon, his eyes still filled with wonder. "that," he replied, his voice barely above a whisper as he pointed to the cloudless sky. He continued to stare at the moon for what seemed like minutes un
Thea’s POV If there was anything I absolutely loathed, it was asking for help.It was something I was never particularly excellent at. I was always the 'I can handle it all by myself girl.' and I usually could. I wouldn't call myself a perfectionist as everyone seemed to think I was. I just preferred to do things a certain way. Okay, maybe I was a perfectionist but it wasn't a bad thing. It got things done most of the time, even though it meant living exclusively on caffeine and oxygen.I was at the Capa Decal Hotel, a seven star hotel in Manhattan. I was here to do the one thing I hated the most, to ask for help. Normally I wouldn't be so bothered by it if the person I was to seek help from wasn't a renowned douchebag and asshole.My eyes wandered around the restaurant when I reached the door and within seconds, I spotted the man I had come to see. Tyler Blackwood, the CEO of Blackwood Oil. He was sitting beside the glass wall of the restaurant. Tyler was our biggest competitor in t
Thea’s POVI hated how gorgeous I looked.I was standing in front of the mirror in my walk-in closet, staring at my reflection in irritation. It wasn't that I didn't look good, because I infact did. It was because of who I was looking good for. Tyler fucking Blackwood. I couldn't exactly pinpoint when I had made the decision to take his offer but at some point I had. I had decided to swallow my pride and shame and sleep with a man for my father's sake. I hated the fact that I had to do this, but I was running out of options."It's only sex." I muttered for the upteenth time to convince myself as I stared at my reflection.The red silk dress I wore hugged me in all of the right places. The dress was a slip red dress that was tight enough to accentuate my curves and loose enough to form a sexy silhouette around my body. My entire back was bare, the dress only joining right above my ass. The length of the dress wasn't any more chaste than the rest of the dress, stopping just an inch belo
Tyler's POVI watched as the beautiful blonde woman slept like a tired kitten on the king size bed of my hotel room. She looked peaceful in her sleep. I had been with a lot of women, but I had never had one as hot and eager as her in my bed, nor one I wanted to take to bed again. I stifled a groan when memories of her mouth sucking me off flashed in my mind. I felt my cock twitch in response. No, no, no. We can't.I remembered the first time I had seen her was at a conference meeting for business owners. She had been with her father and I had thought her to be gorgeous even though for some reason she was wearing a very unflattering dress that covered all her curves. She had smiled at me and we had talked for a while mostly about business. I knew from our interaction that day that she was an intelligent woman and I had wanted to fuck her. I wanted to approach her but then, I didn’t like to mix work with pleasure. She was the daughter of the man I wanted to do business with and if some
Daniel’s POV What I wanted most right now was to get to the tallest building and jump down, without feeling any pain as life slowly leaves my body.I felt like hell. Hell was an understatement, I had lost everything that ever mattered to me, I felt useless and devastated and the pain shoot through me like dagger stabs, radiating all through my body and making me feel less alive than I did as I called that Blackwood boy. I looked at my hands, my fingers, they had typed the simplest, but deadliest message to the young blackmailer called Blackwood, simple words of "I accept your offer."I wasn't in the right state of mind as I sent that to him, I was obviously afraid to lose, to go back to being penniless after all I've been through to build my oil empire. Even my wife contributed to the growth of the business, now, with my own hands, I sold it out in less than twelve hours.Slowly and painfully, I let my mind flow back to the disastrous meeting that put me in this dilemma. The moment I
Thea’s POVI splashed water again on my face, refusing to accept the consequences of the recent happenings in which I was somewhat involved in. Tyler fucking Blackwood had ruined my family, and my life along with it.While I was busy enjoying his hands over me, he had his own evil scheme planned out in his head, and unluckily for me, he got away with both things. I felt worse than I did when I dressed up to meet him at the hotel. It was my fault either ways, I should have read the handwriting on the wall.My reflection stared back at me, if she were a different person, she must have been disappointed and heavens knows, I was disappointed. How did I let this happen? Why didn't I see this coming? If I had, maybe I could have prevented it. But, perhaps, somehow, shamelessly, I wanted to warm Tyler's bed, I had seen him on several occasions and he charmed my imagination, but pride made me ignore him.Damn me! Even in the midst of all this shit, all I could think of was sleeping with Tyler