Ethan's POVWhen I got home, I met Chloe and Ariana studying together. I stood behind the door to watch them for a while, and I didn't realize that I had been smiling.I loved the way Ari's eyes shone and the way she smiles and giggles any time she understood something. Then her face will fall if there was something she was finding difficult. Chloe on the other hand was a wonderful and very patient teacher. She took her time, explaining and breaking everything down for her in the simplest terms. I knew that I could not teach like that.Ari suddenly looked up and saw me. "Ethan is here!" She pointed, getting up. I loved how excited she always got anytime she saw me. She was very fond of me. The only thing that would make it better was if she actually called me 'Dad' instead of my name. But I would take what I was getting for now.As usual, she rushed into my arms and I picked her up."Mommy told me that you gave me a hundred dollars today. I thought it was two dollars."I chuckled, peck

Ethan's POVIt was a Saturday morning, so Chloe and I didn't go to work. Today was the day she had decided to move out. She had rented and paid for that apartment with her money, and I knew that she didn't have much. She was just so fucking stubborn.Last night was the worst I had had in a very long time. I couldn't help the awful feeling in my chest as I thought of the house without her. She had only been here for a month, but it felt like she brought a spark of light with her, and now she was leaving, I could feel the spark dying.I thought she couldn't frustrate me more than she had been doing for the last few days, when she refused to speak to me. She was angry at me, and she wanted nothing to do with me. But even her silence was better than her absence. I felt as if something was being ripped out of me, like something was stolen from me.I went to Ariana's room where she was, hugging our little girl. She had packed her bags and placed them in her car last night, so that Ariana wo

Chloe's POVI left Ethan's mansion last night with a completely shattered heart. I cried all the way from his home to my new apartment. For a moment, I was glad that I didn't come with Ari. I didn't know how I would had hidden my tears from her.I didn't plan it, neither did I realize when it happened, but my heart opened to him, and he crawled his way inside, occupying every bit of it like he belonged there. I was still mending my broken heart when I heard a knock on the door. I opened the door to meet the object of my desire staring at me with so much longing in his eyes. He was so near, yet he seems so far.I longed to hug him, to kiss him, to even smell his familiar musky scent, but I held myself back. But then he said the word that made my heart leap."I broke up with her."As much as I felt bad and guilty for Ashley, I could not help but rejoice within me. Anyway they would had just made each other miserable.He tried to kiss me, but I held him back. I wanted to be absolutely su

Chloe's POVEthan and I spent the rest of the day with Ari in the living room. She decided not to let us be. I loved my daughter so much, more than anything or anyone in this world, but at this moment, I wished she was far away.My body was burning with need for Ethan. I had been suppressing my desires for him for too long now, because of his finance, but now that they were broken up, I wanted to have him. Even though he had given me an orgasm, I was very eager to feel his fullness inside of me. But then my very precious daughter choose that moment to knock and not leave.After having our time to her fill, she fell asleep. I tucked her in her bed, kissed her forehead before going to my room.I locked the door and smelled the big shirt I was wearing. It smelled so nice and I just want to continue breathing it in. He had a particular perfume, and all his clothes smell that way. Fucking appealing.I knew that he would probably be waiting for me by now. He asked me to come back to the liv

Chloe's POVI left for work about two hours after Ethan. I felt better this morning, and I knew that it was because I spent my night with him. But the lingering feeling of Ashley's threat still hung thick in my mind. It reminded me that I was just an insignificant thing in their world of wealth and power.I wanted to be with Ethan, I really did. My body craved him, my heart craved him, even my soul felt incomplete without him. But would life with him be worth putting my daughter in danger?'Leave now and take the benefits, or have me force you away and you will lose everything you have right now.'Those were his father's exact words. I didn't care about his benefits or anything he could give me. I didn't even want it at all. I was just scared of what he would do to me or my daughter. He did say that I would lose everything I have.A knock on my office door made me jolt, before I pushed all my thoughts to the back of my mind. I thought I was going to be sharing an office with someone, b