EMELIAI've been trying to get Aurora out of bed but she hasn't budged, I've done everything in my poser to do so. I installed a dancing pole in her room, gave her a show and asked her to join but she wasn't feeling it. It's like everything has lost meaning together with her losing custody of Layla. It's been a while now and she only sleeps when Caelum comes around, somehow he manages to convince her to eat a little. However, my brother has been a no show since yesterday, he has made calls to Olivia who was with Aurora last night to check in on Aurora.I'm cutting rearranging the kitchen cabinet when my phone buzzes with a message, it's Cassian letting me know he's just pulling up outside. I make quick with my work and go back into the living room, to my surprise Aurora is on the sofa. She's still in her pajama shorts and tank top, her hair is tied in a bun above her head. I'm told my brother washed her hair last time he was here and thank God he did, it was a mess.“Hey,” I smile.“H
AURORAI go back to the first line to ensure I'm not misreading anything in the document Cassian handed me. I've been deluded these past few days so I wouldn't put it past me, but even as I read it a fourth time, the sentences in the first paragraph are still unchanged.The lump in my throat is too big to swallow and all the tears I've kept at bay since I last cried in the bathroom this morning fall free. They fall with a heavy force, I don't intend to cry this hard but it happens, I can't help it and I can't surmise the document. “Is this for real?” I cry out, now sure that I've not been misreading anything.“What?” Emelia asks, this time seemingly pissed off.My gaze falls on Caelum and I sniff, watching him closely for a reaction, anything to help me fathom the document in my now shaky hands. “Caelum, I know you your jokes are of poor taste but Cass, if you're in on it..I-I'm-”“It's not a joke, I promise.” Caelum assures me.I look at the document again, rereading the first paragr
AURORAEver since I saw the custody papers, my spirits have been very high. Mom dropped by yesterday afternoon, and she was impressed with how good I was doing prior to the day before that. My sisters have all been calling to check in on me, and so have my friends. Olivia being the closest one here has been coming to my door nearly every hour to see if I'm okay and truly I am. Losing Layla forever broke me but now I have a second chance, one I fully intend on not overlooking. I'm going to love and protect so much, I'm going to be one of those parents clinically obsessed with their children and their joy. I'm going to make sure she knows just how much I appreciate having her in my life, and how wonderful she is as she continues to grow.With everything that's been happening these past few days, I've been so out of touch with reality that I totally forgot about Arabella. She was very supportive, the most supportive of my siblings if I'm being impartial. She's so young yet she more than
CAELUMAurora returned an hour ago, and I've kept a close eye on her since then. She's absent, sitting opposite me while customizing a piece of lingerie. She's gotten a lot of orders lately and they've mostly piled up but I see how enthusiastic and precise she is with her work. She loved it, she loves making these and I wish she had all the right equipment and labor to help her achieve her goal faster and without much struggle. She needs her own space, I can definitely see it, her brand could grow, it could be big she just needs a bigger platform. One that she will get when her lingerie wins number one at that competition she signed up for.“Fuck.” she softly utters when the needle she's using to thread pricks into her thumb. She instantly brings the thumb to her mouth and sucks on it, her gaze meeting mine. “What?” she murmurs around it.“You were using the needle like a weapon, safe to say you wanted to hurt yourself.” I tell her, to which she rolls her eyes. “Come on,” I pat my thi
EMELIAI never thought I'd say this but I hate my fucking job right now, I hate it. I miss choreographing for the elite dancers, I'm handed with the new dancers who are vying to be the next rumor. The club is falling apart without a Rumor in sight and Caelum has his head too far up his ass to see it's affecting my career and his income too. If it weren't Cinnamon, and Trixie the club might as well have been closed by now.The sex acts are still very popular but not so much when the dancers come into the mix, I mean Cinnamon is good on her own but the moment we try to pair her with a substitute to do Rumor's parts it all goes down hill. The chemistry Cinnamon and Rumor had is unmatched, or maybe it was simply Rumor, she was brutally trained to have chemistry with everyone. You could put her in a room with a dummy doll and still see the explicit, raw chemistry.I'm on the verge of quitting my job at Fantasy Elite, but the knight's sex club isn't much better. With Caelum preoccupied with
AURORAIf there's one thing piece learned over the last few years, it's that when things stop to go my way, they sure do take a turn for sure. Right now could be a perfect example, a less painful example to say the least. Not only have I lost the lingerie competition, but I've also got a rumor saying I plagiarize my lingerie since I purchase other peoples already made plain lingerie then customize and to top it off, the next three days won't be kind to me, I just know it.However, two things went right. For starters, Arabella got accepted into one of the most reputable schools in the country. Her first one was just as good but this one is better, more disciplinary and it natures high achievers. She gets to start Monday, and that itself is enough to be happy with but I also have my daughter back, my sweet little doll. She's been extra clingy since she returned, I've considered putting her in therapy but she doesn't show any signs of trauma except the throwing of her plate when she does
SCARLETTI'm at the end of my rope with thinking. I'm honestly, running out of ideas to recoup my marriage to it's previous state. As if it wasn't enough that Caelum and Cassian manipulated and threatened Estelle into giving Aurora the child, he's ignoring me more so lately.Estelle gave back nearly every cent I gave her because she thinks the child's wellbeing is most important and she was an absent mother. I've been relying on the competition to bring her some distress but she nearly won that too, but I made sure she lost. Xenastra is salty she supported a losing brand but she deserves it, for not keeping her cousin under damn control.Caelum, is the biggest of my current problems, he won't help me, help us recoup our marriage. I know for a fact that this is the last month he will be with the stripper and soon, we'll go back to our lives. I'm ready for it, I truly am. I'm committed to him and giving him everything he ever asked for, only now, he doesn't want or seem to in the near f
EMELIAThe anticipated moment is here, party moment. As Disney tunes burst through my dance studio where the children's portion of Halloween is being held, I can't help but smile a little more. I wasn't planning on hosting a kids Halloween party but I realized most of my associates have children, and so do my siblings. Grace helped me plan the party, while Aurora, Deborah and Sienna dedicated their hearts to making the children's party memorable. The kids get to go trick or treating around the block with supervision of one grown-up per four kids or a slightly older child. “Emelia, hi.” Estelle calls out once again, for the sixth time since she arrived which is one too many times than I would like to associate with her. “Yes, how can I help you Estelle?”“I came to check in on the children and Layla wasn't happy to see me.” she signs to her costume. The cheerleader costume she has on now stained with chocolate. “I need to clean up.”“Err, sure. You know the bathroom I showed you earl