ALANNA Waking up to Nolan by my bedside felt like old times. Only that this didn't feel like old times. In old times, Nolan would have come home late from work, hung over from his frustration of having a father who only saw the worst in him. He would reek of alcohol. In old times, Nolan would be grumpy and yell at me, he would scream about how our marriage was a mistake and wish I could just disappear. In old times, Nolan hated me, and I grew to hate him too. “Alanna, don't think too much about it,” Nolan whispered and that was when I realized he wasn’t sleeping and had been staring at me for a while. I rose from the bed, sitting up straight and resting my back on the headboard. I pulled the duvet to myself because I realized how bare my skin was in the silk nightgown. “Nothing happened, we just slept,” Nolan added, standing up from the bed, he could see the concern in my eyes.“Nolan, this isn't right, you are married and I think we should just leave it at that. We are not su
ALANNAIt has been less than twelve hours since I came back from my Vegas trip with Nolan and I was back to the office. We had taken a flight that night and came back to town. I didn't want to risk staying another night with Nolan because I feared what might happen. Nolan didn't disagree with me, instead, he said something like.“It is fine, Alanna. I know I disgust you and you are irritated by me but for the sake of business can we just at least tolerate each other?” he had asked, he wasn’t asking anything too much. I mean, tolerate Nolan Westbrook, I can do that. Or so I thought.As soon as I got out of the Elevator, I saw Brad, beaming at me. Had he been standing there waiting for me?“Alanna,” he called out, gesturing a wave towards me. Honestly, I would rather avoid everyone this morning. I gave him a half smile as he approached me, placing a kiss on both cheeks in a somewhat formal way.“Hey Brad,” I greeted as I began walking to my office. “How was your trip with Nolan?
NOLANI am a gentleman.I swear I am, but when it comes to Alanna, everything gives way and I am no longer in control of my body. Doesn't she know the effect she has on me? walking in here, looking as gorgeous as she does, acting all bossy and sassy at the same time.Doesn't she know how turned on I get at the mere sight of her? I immediately go under the influence when her hazel-green eyes pierce through mine.Gosh, she takes my breath away in every sense of the word, nothing and everything makes sense when I am with Alanna.“Nolan we agreed to keep things professional from here on out,” Alanna whispered and I stared at her, she still had her back to the table and all I could think about was turning her over, pinning her to the table, and thrusting deep into her. I miss her in that kind of way too. But instead, I loosened my grip on her hands and she took a few steps away from me and straightened her posture in a way she appeared more composed. “You make it so hard Alanna for m
NOLAN“Woah, woah men slow down, what do you mean by get a divorce, this would be the second time you are getting that,” Jake cautioned with his eyes widened in perplexion. “I can't stay married to Chloe,” I retorted. “There is no feeling between us, it is more like two strangers, living together, I am sure I am doing her a favor by setting her free,”Jake stood up and walked to me, taking the bottle of wine off my hands and placing it on the other side of the counter before I poured myself another glass, “One glass is enough for you, clearly alcohol makes you irrational,”“I am not being irrational, you know these things already, I have been complaining about my marriage way before Alanna showed up,”“But you have never thought about divorce until now and do you know the crazy thing, Alanna doesn't even want you, she had made it clear a thousand times,”I sighed, and collapsed on the stool, close to the counter, “She doesn't mean it,” I tried to defend but I wasn't sure because I
ALANNAI stared at my phone screen, my jaw dropped at the headlines of the recent breaking news. BILLIONAIRE NOLAN WESTBROOK CALLS OFF THE LAUNCH OF HIS COMPANY'S NEW PRODUCT, NEW DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON. I couldn't believe my eyes, Nolan changed the date for me. “I wonder what you said to scare the devil out of him that made him change the date,” Angela said interrupting my thoughts. I gazed at her, “I am not sure he changed it because of me,”I knew he changed it because of me, but what I wasn't sure of was, WHY.He would be facing a lot of backlash because from the looks of it, the announcement came from his page and not the official website of the Company, and that means he made the decision solely on his own. “Oh please, Alanna, don't be modest, it is no coincidence that one minute you are confronting him, and the next minute he is changing the date for you, talk about female power,”I chuckled, “ There is no such thing as that,”“Of course, there is, just like there is su
NOLAN“Chloe, I think we should get a divorce,”The words were out there now and I couldn't take it back, there was no going back from here on out, I stared at Chloe as she gazed at me with perplexion, I watched her gaze go from rage to fury. She clenched her fist, it was as if she was trying to hold back the outburst of tears from flowing down her eyes. “What do you mean, we should get a divorce Nolan?” she asked but I didn't feel like there was any use in repeating those words. She knew what I meant. We stood there gazing at each other in silence, till Chloe decided to break the silence, “It is because of her right?” she wasn't asking. “Chloe, let us not do this,”“It is because of that bitch, Alanna, I knew this was why she came back, to take you away from me, ever since she came back it had been nothing but trouble,”“That is not fair, Chloe, you and I know that our marriage has not been working out way back before Alanna was in the picture, it isn't fair to say it is because
NOLANI could hear her but I chose not to respond, instead, I made my way out of the room, and into my car, I started driving and driving. Her words echo in my head.Is Alanna worth the fight?Is Alanna worth losing half of everything I had worked out my ass to get? It wasn't fair that Chloe wanted to do this to me. Why didn't I just get the damn prenup?My mother wanted me to, and my lawyer advised me to but I kicked against it because I felt like it was an insult to my spouse. My father had a prenup when my mum and him got married. That was why she stayed, “I stayed because of that damn prenup” my mum had told me, she knew after slaving and enduring the worst kind of abuse in the hand of this man, walking out of this marriage would mean her walking away with nothing. It would mean, I had no place in the inheritance, so she stayed, she stayed for the money. I didn't want that for Chloe, I wanted her to not feel tied down to a marriage because of a prenup, and to have the freedo
ALANNASitting before the Vogue lady has to be everything I ever wanted happening in a day, it has to be the most alive I have ever been in a long time.It felt like sitting before an angel, only that I was the one with the wings floating in the clouds.She poured me a cup of coffee and sat beside me in one of the twirling visitor's chairs and gave me the most cheerful smile I have gotten in a long while.“Please pay no heed to Lucas's attitude, he can be a pain in the ass sometimes, in fact, most times,” she apologized, and I chuckled at her sense of humor. “It is nothing, I am sure he is just being protective, that is all,” I responded trying to sound polite even though I also thought he was a jerk and a literal pain in the ass too. “Protective huh?” she gazes at me, “Or possessive, I feel like being in an industry dominated by men, they tend to look down on women a lot and we have to work twice as hard to prove ourselves even though we shouldn't,” she spoke in an all familiar ton