Hayley“Please remember what I told you, Lanie. They should stay inside.” I mentioned again, my voice sounding weak as I stared at Lanie. “Do you think this is the best thing to do?”At her question, I nodded in response. I did not know the best thing to do really, everything was happening so fast with me and it was overwhelming. “Think about it again, dear. I knew this day was always going to happen, but I did not expect it to happen soon.”“Thinking is literally the only thing I’ve been doing, Lanie,” I let out an exasperated sigh. “I fear it’s not even the best for my health anymore. Please just stop with all the questions and help me take care of the children, I will be back soon.”As I turned to leave, Adriel and Adriella rushed to where I stood, “Mommy,” They chorused. “Why did you ask that we stay back home today instead of going to school? Is anything the problem?”“Our school is not on fire, right? Because Adriel has been saying that you want us inside because our school m

DamonThey were arriving at noon, and right now it was fifteen minutes past eleven. The cleaners were almost done with setting the house up, and Marco was finalizing things with the house dealer. Everything was slowly falling into place, but the speed of the progress wasn't exactly satisfying.My eyes darted around the house trying to fish out any signs of imperfection. Adriel and Adriella were visiting today, and I had to make sure everything was perfect for them. Though my intentions had been to stay in a hotel for the entirety of my time here in Texas, I hoped to stay some longer time there as the hotel staffs were really welcoming. But circumstances changed, and I had to move into a house faster.There was no way I was going to receive my children in a hotel room, not only was it unprofessional, I considered it nothing less than bad parenting. For their sake I had one of my escorts, Tim, search for the best available penthouse. And when he did, I immediately made the purchase. All

DamonIt had been a week since I last saw Hayley and the kids, and life was not getting any better than it currently was. In fact, things seemed to be getting worse for me. For a full week now, I had done nothing but wrap myself up in misery and anguish. And seeing Hayley completely having a good time with Alex, was my breaking point. I did not want to hate him, but I was already beginning too. It pained me more when I had sent Hayley a text, telling her of how I hated that she was with Alex, and I only wanted her to myself, she gave no reply. She did not even look at it, and instead, went on laughing with Alex like I completely meant nothing. I wanted my children and Hayley too, and with Alex around, it seemed almost impossible.My mental health was hastily deteriorating, and it affected the company as I was taking longer time to approve plans. And the only reason why a query had not been raised at this time, was because Liam was helping me with majority of the things that I was

HayleyI checked my phone for the fifth time to make sure I had not misread the time, as I did for four previous times but the time was the same as it was. Alex was late.It was quite surprising because Alex was never the type to be late, he always kept to time especially after he promised not to be late. Something felt off, something felt weird I was sure of that. It was so not Alex to be late for anything.I was supposed to go along with him for the conference but why was he not here?I picked my phone from the counter and dialed his number but as it rang and no one answered the phone, I was certain that something wasn't right and I was clearly running out of patience. "Yvonne, you can go home when you're done, I'll be out for a while.""Yes ma'am." I packed up, leaving the office and walked towards my car but then again I didn't feel the need to actually use my car to find him. I walked towards the road and continued my walk down the path as I knew that he would follow this path. M

HayleyI let out another sigh as I took out the chicken breast that I intended to use to prepare soup for Alex from the fridge. Why did Damon have to go as far as kidnapping Alex? Alex had not talked about it since all of the events happened the previous day, and I silently hoped that he had no idea that Damon was in the middle of his kidnap. Sure, if they were to go into a physical fight if Alex finds out, and goes after Damon in rage, Damon was definitely going to win the fight. And not just that he was going to win, Alex might not come back alive. He was human, as opposed to the beast that Damon was suddenly becoming to me, and I feared for Alex. I was wishing deep inside of me that for my sake, Damon would have no thoughts of doing anything evil to Alex, but it was hard to predict him anymore. The whistling from the kettle that I had left with water to boil, so I could prepare coffee for Alex before the soup took me out of my reverie, and at that instant, I rushed to turn of