EDENBelle was crying when I entered the room.Dropping everything in my hand, I rushed to go and meet her, kneeling before her and looking at Quinn in confusion.“Hey baby, is everything okay?”I tired to remove her had from her face but she was till sobbing.“Belle, look at me."She finally put her hands down and looked up at me.“What is going on?. Why're you crying?”“The dress."I frowned.“What dress? The purple one?”“Yes. Princesses didn't wear purple. No princess wore purple. I'm not going to be pretty."I smiled a bit and pulled her I to a hug, slowly soothing her.“You’re right. But do you like the dress?”She looked at it as it lay on the bed and then nodded.“Then you are going to wear it. Besides, you are a princess. You can wear what you want!xI ticked her a bit to make her laugh and she wiped the tears away from her eyes.“Belle, your dress is pretty.” Coco commented.I'd completely forgotten that she was there..Belle smiled.“Coco! You came!"She pulled the girl int
EDENIt wasn't very hard to get angry at Roman. He was naturally infuriating and if he had any gifts, it would be his ability to piss people, especially me off.He had picked me off from work as we had planned.“Hey, remember everything right?”I nodded, even though my heard was thumping loudly in my chest. I felt like I was about to go on a mission.“If you keep looking like you're about to give a speech in front of the entire nation, he's going to know that something is wrong.”I rolled my eyes and ignored him.“Take that over there and put it in your ear."He pointed to something on the dashboard and I picked it up and put it in my ear.There was a static before it became clear.“Can you hear me? Eden?”“Oh yes, I can hear you. This is really happening."I saw Roman roll his eyes again.“Well, I'm sorry for being nervous but you're not the one who has to go out into the open and pray to fall into the arms of the man who's after their life.”“Can you guys just cut it out for one sec
EDENI ran out of the cab to meet Alicia who was standing with a couple of teachers and some police men.“This is her mother.”Everyone turned to look at me as I met up with them.“Alicia, what did you say happened to Belle? Where is she?"“I don't know. I came to pick her up and she wasn't there.”“Ma’am, I assure you we are doing everything we can to find your daughter-"A car and up to the driveway and Roman stepped out.“Roman, Belle. They say she's not here.”We both knew what that meant. The reason why Ryker didn't nahe a move on me even though I was all alone, was beaking I wasn't the target. Belle was.“Excuse me sir, who are you?”“I’m her fat
RYKERShe was pregnant?For a Lycan?That ungrateful bitch had the guts to betray me and open her legs for a beast! I was patient with her, even when she told me that she wasn’t ready but she went ahead and got pregnant for that beast.I should have known she was a promiscuous whore. That baby...that child is a bastard and I would never let her give birth to it. Eden is mine and mine alone and nothing will change that?That stupid father of hers is so greedy tha he willingly gave it to him! How could he? How could he extend his hand to the enemy just because of money? If it was money that he wanted, I would give it to him.After that Lycan bastard left, I went into the room to look for Een to have a word with her and tell her that I would never allow her to marry him.I couldn't find her in the house so I went to the back of the house but she wasn't there either.“How could you allow this to happen?!”I paused.. It wasn’t Eden’s voice but I still want to know who it was.“What do you
EDEN“What do you mean? What do you mean by that? Roman, what's he talking about?”lI was trying very hard to keep breathing properly but the more I tried, the more I lost my breath.Roman had broken out in a sweat and he was avoiding eye contact.“I need an explanation, goddamnit!”“An explanation? I think it's pretty easy. As a matter of fact, it's very relatable to you. My slut of a birth mother cheated on my father with another bastard. And they had me.”He wasn't making any sense. How was it possible?“Roman, did you know about this? Quinn?”Neither of them could say anything. Roman had suddenly become dumb. Then it hit me.The day Quinn brought Ryker's file. When Roman was going through it… this is what he was hiding from me. He knew all this while… .“That stupid mother of mine had the guts to deny it.” The more Ryker spoke, the more I realized how more unstable he really was. And it bothered me because Belle was still at his mercy.“My daughter has nothing to do with what hap
EDENIt's been a week since it all happened.Roman had been the one to fire first.He'd shot Ryker in the foot but the latter still managed to get away.It wasn't until Roman wanted to chase after him that we had seen that Rykers shit had actually hit him. He was bleeding profusely from the side and I called for Quinn to call the ambulance.Ran almost didn't make it to the hospital because he's lost a lot of blood. I wonder how he didn't know that he had been shot but looking back at that night, I understand why now.The police ended up catching Ryker a few blocks down. Turns out Quinn had called them while we were still inside and he got arrested.When I heard the news, I wasn't very happy. I had hoped that he would die from his wounds.It felt unfair to think but I couldn't help it… for the safety of Belle.Ryker wasn't going to give up any time soon. But right now, I had more pressing issues to face.Roman was hospitalized but at least, he wasn't in a coma. He had lost a lot of bl
EDENI tucked Belle in for the night. She'd caught the flu somehow and it had dragged her down.I wanted to take her to the hospital but she was being such a baby so Roman somehow convinced me to leave her here and call the doctor.Belle was responding to treatments but she was still Ill.“If you keep checking up on her like that, she'll never actually sleep.”Roman's voice startled me.“I just went to tuck her in to actually get some sleep.”He nodded. And then the awkward silence that I had been avoiding for days settled in again.Once he got out of the hospital and came back home, I avoided him because I wasn't ready to have that conversation I knew he wanted to have.First off, I was afraid of what I'd said. I was afraid that I actually meant it. I know I did but I didn't want to admit it to him.Second of all, I was afraid he was going to say it back. Roman wasn't the kind of man that understood what love meant.“I’ll get some sleep now.”As I walked away, he did the one thing I
RomanI watched her as she slept, listening to her silent snores.Last night, I felt something, something I thought was dead. Something I didn’t think I could feel again.Eden really was the one for me. It wasn't a coincidence that she bore the only child I have and it wasn’t a mistake that I had found her and we had ended up together.I just wish she had things easier earlier on and I wish I had made things easy for her as well because I also had a hand in the things she went through.But I’m glad that we’re here now, with her in my bed.She was still sleeping soundly so I decided to check on Belle. She’d fallen sick as soon as I got into the hospital and I didn’t want to take her back there so I somehow convinced Eden to keep her here.I knocked lightly before I entered her room. When I pushed the door open, I expected to see her in bed being just as miserable as I was when I came down with the flu but she wasn’t.In fact, she was nowhere near her bed.“Belle! Belle!”I walked out o