_________________...Ki turned two months old today. And of course, Gabby had to go and buy a huge ass cake. "She can't even eat it, you dumbass." I smacked her head as she gleamed up at it. "Her aunt will eat for her." Gabby clapped like a toddler. "Sure she will..." I rolled my eyes. "Oh my." Rory walked in with baby Ki in her arms, looking pretty in a yellow sun dress. "What's going on?""We are celebrating Ki's months and years from now on with the exact same cake that woke her mother up from a coma," Gabby announced. "Until she is old enough to tell us what kind of cake she wants." She added. I nodded. I could agree with that. "She can't eat cake or any solid food for another four months, you idiot." Rory handed Ki over to my waiting arms. "That's what I said," I told her. "I don't care. Cake is cake. Everyone should get a cake for the smallest of smallest occasions." "Are you endorsing cakes now?" Eric appeared. "Who gave him the pin to the apartment?" Gabby turned
______________..."I don't think she will be happy to see me back." Eric stood there, running his hand through his hair as I was about to put in the code for my front door."Just say 'I love you' and see her change her decision like this!" I snapped my fingers together."I don't think I am ready for that step just yet." He said.I sighed. Men are dumb. I was dumb once and now he was being dumb. It was a Canon event that could not be changed. Men and their dumbness. "Alright. But Ki turned two months today. You need to come to eat the cake. It's too huge for the refrigerator."He nodded with a small smile on his face and I opened the door.Rory and Gabby sat on the living room couch, Rory's hand on Gabby's."It seems like Gabby has gotten to know the story behind your personality as well," I whispered to him and he looked at me, panic in his eyes."I am sorry. It was only right that she knew." Rory shrugged at Eric. "I know you will be mad but it was unfair for my sister to feel th
_______________...Everything was a mess.It had been over a month since I lost my memory and woke up from a coma. But I had no flashes or echoes of my past. All the movies do is lie.If this was a movie, then I would have had one recollection of something... anything... whatsoever. But no, I was stuck in Nadaland."Lost in thought again, I see." Rowan sat down opposite me, sipping a cup of coffee and placing a glass of watermelon juice in front of me.I had such an amazing husband and all I did was suspect his intentions when I was not busy swooning over his actions and affection.It really was messed up.I needed more information."Cupcake-"Rowan splurted out his coffee back into the cup while I snorted, laughing at his shocked face."I thought you liked me calling you cupcake," I said."I do." He nodded eagerly as he placed his cup down and pointed at the glass for me to take, which I did, for his sake. "But as I said, it never caught on and you never called me that so I was sh
_________________________ . . . "Rory, do you even hear her?" Sonya yelled as she came down the stairs, stomping her thigh-high boots. I looked up from my laptop and lifted my hands, shrugging. "I didn't. What's going on?" I asked as I closed my laptop and got up from the living room couch. "She's being disgusting. That's what! I am sixteen years old. What does she take me for?" Sonya came to a stop in front of me and pointed at the stairs where I saw no glimpse of her mother. I knew better than to listen to a sixteen-year-old's one side story so I waited for her mother and my mother-in-law, Elizabeth Keller, to come down the stairs. "What's going on, Beth?" I asked her, a small smile playing on my lips. Teens and their mothers made up for some fascinating drama, and I missed that experience with my mother because I was in a boarding school on another continent, but watching Elizabeth and Sonya fight over the smallest things was very endearing. "You need to come upstairs and
~2 years ago~"This is such great news!" Bianca Stanley, my best friend, squealed as she jumped around in our apartment. I rolled my eyes, sitting back on the couch and resuming the movie I was watching."I know." I smiled. "Dad finally thinks I am ready to face the world."Bianca stopped hopping around and looked at me with a wide smile on her face and pride in her eyes. "My baby is all grown up." She sniffed dramatically as she wiped away invisible tears making me roll my eyes. "You make Momma hen so proud.""All right drama hen. Sit down!" I patted the spot next to me on the couch. She sat down excitedly and gave me a side hug, not failing to rearrange a few bones in the process. She had too much strength that she wasn't aware of."We will go clubbing!" She exclaimed. "I will inform all our friends and we will go clubbing to celebrate you finally getting the job that you wanted in your dream company."She was already on her phone as she spoke and I knew better than to try to talk h
_________________________...~The present~"I want a divorce.""What?" "Is there any connection problem, Rowan? Did you not hear me clearly? Should I text you instead?" I sass, rolling my eyes. "I think there is, Aurora. Because you clearly could not have just said what I think you did." Obviously, what I said must have gotten rid of all of his sleep because his voice is clear and alert now."Try listening more carefully now Rowan. I said I want a divorce." "Excuse me?" The indignancy in his voice makes me almost want to snort. He is reacting as if he did not see that coming despite his actions."You heard what I said, Rowan." I roll my eyes again as I take the turn to our penthouse. "I am going into the apartment and packing my bags right now.""We signed a contract!" There is shuffling on the other side and panic in his voice. He cannot get a divorce now, because if he did, then Simon will pull out all the investments he has made for the new project.It is one of the reasons
_________________________...Bianca and Roselyn wanted me to move in with them until I find a place for myself. They said that it is my apartment and Bianca and I used to share the place before my marriage. But I refused, feeling that I should not invade the privacy of the married couple. And also because I may be the landlady but they are tenants who pay their rent on time.My first thought was to stay at a hotel until I found a place, but then I realized – why should I pay to stay somewhere when I have a friend with a uselessly big condo all to himself?Eric is out of town due to a conference but on calling him, he informed the security guard to let me borrow the spare key he had. The idiot asked me to try to clean up the place while I am staying over, but I have a feeling that he was saying that just to lighten the mood.He might be a monkey and a complete womanizer – worse than my ex-husband-to-be – but he is an amazing friend and he knows to respect people, unlike my ex-husban
_______________________...I wake up to twelve missed calls and twenty-nine new messages. Wow, this is probably more than all the calls and messages he has made to me in the last two years.I am contemplating whether to call back and see what he wants or let him worry some more about the fate of his company when the doorbell rings.I stand up from the couch and with my hand wrapped firmly around my phone, make my way to the door, pressing on the security cam button.I raise a brow when I see that it is Joshua Steelman, Rowan's secretary. The dude is so desperate to get in contact with me now that he sent his secretary looking for me huh?I open the door."Joshua." I smile at the middle-aged man but get no smile in return. Like Boss, like secretary!"Mrs. Keller." He addresses me, his lips in a thin line. I have told him one million times that my name is Ms. Lewis, not Mrs. Keller, but the man just does not learn.This dude is a total ass-kisser and does whatever Rowan wants him to.