---"I'm scared mom, I'm scared all we've been working for would go to waste.""Stop saying rubbish! I'm trying to think here!" Austin's mom scolded Ciara."What's the point of thinking? Nothing you do ever work out.""How dare you insult me like that? Have you no respect?""Nothing I said was a lie.""You bi-" she was cut off by the sound of the siren.It was quiet for about some minutes and someone walked into the house, it was Austin's dad.She was shocked to see her husband, she wasn't expecting to see him until Austin's wedding day."Carla!" He called her name. He rarely calls her by her name."Honey... I... I wasn't expecting you." She stuttered."I never thought you'd stoop this low, Carla." He said to her. She gulped. He sounded really angry but was calm. Mr Kings (Austin's dad) had always been calm and gentlemanly."You'd hurt your own family to get what you want..." He continued."What are you talking about?" She pretended not to know anything of what he was saying."I found
~**** Tessa's POV ****~It was all over. The nightmares were over, and my enemies were gone. Vick was gone.I guessed Austin already knows everything... His mother's scheme. "Since you have nowhere to go, for now, you can come to live at my family house... Well at least until you get back on your feet." He said. I frowned a bit. I didn't like him saying it until I get back on my feet. Yes, I want to be independent again, but I didn't want to leave him. Didn't he want me?I just nodded my head.~It was about a few minutes' drive, and I did not want the ride to end, it was Austin who drove the car. I sat in the back seat with Anne in my arms and Zara next to me. I caught Austin staring at me several times through the mirror. My heart pounded inside my chest. 'I love you. He loves me.We got to Austin's place. It was really huge. Like extra huge. He did say it was his family home. Austin got out quickly. He opened the door for me. I looked up at him.His handsomeness somehow always ma
"What kind of a person would leave their child to suffer? I cried day and night, praying you'd come back and take me home... But you never did! You left me to die... You-""I didn't Tessa, I promise I didn't.""Really? Aunt did so many wrongs to me, but everything she said about you was right! You are a whore, a big liar, a-""Stop it, Tessa!" She cried. "I promise, I was going to come back. I left so you could have a better life! But my plan backfired against me. You can call me a whore, anything you want to call me but not a liar. A whore? That I am, I left you to be with a rich man, hoping to gain something so you would go back to school, if you recall, we had nothing and I did... I was going to come back but he wouldn't let me. I was kept as a prisoner in his home, I cried and longed every day to see you. My communication was limited but I tried to call your aunt, I got her phone number from my old jotter but her line wasn't going anymore. A month ago, he died from leukaemia and t
I was on my way home from work. I had to leave earlier than my closing time. I have been sick lately. I just have to relax, I guess. My body felt sore, easily gets tired, and had headaches and so on, I should be worried but I wasn't because I was never almost sick. That doesn't mean you can't get sick. I sighed, I drove slowly because I felt dizzy, maybe I should just come down and take a cab or something? That would be stressful so I decided to continue my slow drive home. Soon I got home, Carson, my husband, won't be home by now, he left earlier today to go sign some contracts, which was good because I don't want him worried about me being sick. Whenever I am sick, Carson stresses himself and refuses to go to work just to take care of me. I giggled remembering the day I had a fever. He refused to go to work so he could be with me. Fulfilling all of my wishes. I am seriously so lucky to have someone like him in my life. I drove into the garage and stopped the car. I got out of my
"Well, I don't love you, I never loved you, Tessa." "You don't mean that., I said, it came out as a whisper. "I fucking meant it, sign the papers and fucking leave my house." He gritted out. The glare he gave me scared me a lot, with a shaky hand and took the pen, hoping he would stop me from actually signing the paper. My hand moved on the paper, creating my signature. That was it? We were no longer together? I can't stay here anymore, no. I can't, I rushed upstairs to the room I was sharing with him, packing my stuff together. More tears flew down my eyes, and soon I was done packing, I went out of the room, and I noticed a smirking Sara behind a door. I still can't believe she had done this. I looked away from her and walked out. What was I going to do? I have no family, yes my parents are alive, but the last time I saw them was when I was 6-10 years old. My dad was an abusive man, he abused my mother and me, after some time he left and we never heard from him again, though
What? What? My eyes widened, what am I going to do? I could have been in my hotel room, on my bed, crying into my pillow if I wasn't so distracted by some stranger. "There's a staircase we could use." He said behind me. Thank god! "Oh, there is? That's a relief." I say and he chuckled but there was a hint of surprise on his face as if he was surprised that I didn't know there was supposed to be a staircase. "Come with me." He walked forward and I followed behind him. We got to a staircase. A long staircase, if that's the only way down, I have to use it. Ugh, how was I going to drag my luggage down this staircase? There was so much work. It felt like I could collapse at any given moment. My body was weak. We walked down slowly, it felt like I was going to fall. "You okay?" He asked. "Yeah," I replied, okay, I was not okay. My legs were giving up, after walking for what seemed to be like forever, Jake halted. For a moment I thought we had reached, "are you sure, you don't look oka
I wore a pink gown, not bothering to check how it looked. I know I look like a mess, whatever guests she has, I don't know them. I sighed walking out of the room, I mobbed to the sitting only to see aunt smiling widely at two men standing in front of her. "Of course! She would love to go now! Cara!" She called beaming, Cara is her only child and daughter, she is a year older than me. Cara waltzed in, her face was heavily stashed with makeup, I'm, I'm not surprised. "And, there's my niece, Tessa, she's just like a daughter to me." She motioned for me to come closer. Just like a daughter to me my butt. I walked closer, don't know Why But I already hate the two men in front of me. "Let's sit down." I sat down on the seat next to Cara, I noticed the side glare she was giving me, she has never liked me. The rest was a blur, seriously, I wasn't even listening, my mind was on so many different things. I felt someone's eyes on me, looking to the opposite side was one of those men, wh
I gulped looking at the man before me. It was a setup! What an idiot am I, I should have known. A huge grin plastered on his face. He walked closer to me. "Don't come closer!" I screamed at him, but he didn't even seem to hear what I just said. His grin was sickening, I looked around if there was anything I could use to protect myself when he suddenly jumped on me resulting in the two of us falling on the bed. "Help! Somebody help! Please!" I screamed for help but no one came. The man pressed his body against mine, he brought his head to my neck and started kissing it, my effort to push him away was in vain. He was so much stronger, tears spilt out of my eyes, "stop, please, don't do this, I beg of you!" I cried. He stood up from me, he quickly unclasped his belt I thought this was my chance to escape, but his arm suddenly wrapped around my waist pulling me back. Kicking and screaming did nothing to him. I spotted the vase on the stool behind the bed, I stressed out to reach it,