“I hate her so much,” Bree cried as she buried her face on Caspian’s arms, her tears streaming freely down her cheek. She hates her so much, her very own mother. If she was given a chance to choose her mother, she would’ve never chosen Nary, the woman who always made her feel like shit, the woman who was no mother and was just a birth giver. No mother would harm their daughter’s mindset without even a ounce of regret. Her hatred for her keeps increasing day by day. “Bree?”“Bree.”“Mommy.”Spencer’s turned to the direction of the voices to see Gaspher and the rest family members climbing down the stair hurriedly. They ran to Bree’s side and squatted beside her. “Bree, what’s wrong?” Gaspher asked, his hands on her shoulders. She refused to say a world and clung onto Spencer the more, her tears wetting his shirt. “Mommy.”Even at the call of Ariel, she still refused to speak. All she did was hug Caspian and held his arms to herself like it was a possession she never wants to release
“Where should we have dinner? My house or yours?” Spencer asked as they walked out of the ice cream shop, heading back to Bree’s condo. “Mine of course. Besides, I don’t even know where you live.” Bree locked her hand around Spencer’s arm and with the other, she brought the ice cream cone to her lips. It has been two days since the Nary incident and everything has been fine with them. Unlike the other day when they had sex and Spencer blacked out, he repeated his words to her again and again after she woke up.Her joy knew no bounds. They were finally a couple even though it hasn’t been made official. What was important was that she loved him to death and he loved her too.“This is a good chance to know it then.”Bree fake yawned. “What if I don’t want to? The condo is closer. You know everything about me but I don’t even know your home.”“We should go to mine. I’ll cook.”“You, cook?” She laughed. “Ariel was the one who taught you how to make an ordinary sandwich. Cereal too.”“Who
Mommy, Daddy. Are you two like… a couple?” Ariel asked the next day during breakfast. Throughout the night, her parents had refused to leave each other’s sight. They were glued at the hip that she felt abandoned and slept without anyone’s kisses for the first time in her life. She was beyond pissed when she woke up but her anger soon disappeared when she got out of her new room and saw her parents cooking together, holding hands lovingly.“Wh…who told you that?” Bree stuttered, trying to remove her hand from Spencer’s hold. He held her throughout the night and even refused to let her go now that they were having breakfast. “What? I’m not stupid.” Ariel leaned closer. “I know that Mommy and Daddy are dating.”“And how do you even know what dating means?”“I do know what it means. After all, I have a boyfriend.”“What?”Spencer spat out his food at the child’s words. His eyes snapped to her, glaring daggers at her. “What did you just say, Ariel?”“I have a boyfriend.”He felt his blood
Following her time with Iris, Bree found herself nervously steering toward the Bennett company, her hands gripping the steering wheel in nervousness. While it wasn’t her first body to the Bennett group, it was her first as Spencer’s girlfriend. Last time, the employees only knew her as an FBI agent who came to interrogate their boss. Driving her car into the parking lot, she retrieved her bags from the passenger seat and exited the car. On her way to the company, she’d decided to get him coffee. One she knew he would like. As she made her way into the company, the eyes of the employees fixed on her, forcing her to grip her bags tighter. “She’s the one in the articles,” a voice whispered. “She is?”“It’s true after all.”The murmurs and gossip of the workers got to her ears and she found herself hurrying into the elevator and pressing the buttons for the CEO’s office floor. Her fingers tapping together nervously, her breath fast and rough. Just before the elevator could ping close,
”What the hell do you mean by she’s not breathing? Do something. Anything.”The nurses all rushed to her, conducting CPR, trying to keep the patient alive as the machine beeped. Just then, they arrived at the hospital. Spencer climbed down from the ambulance before helping the nurses roll the stretcher out. With his hands on Bree’s hand, he joined the nurses in pushing the stretcher into the ER. “Mr Benett, you have to wait outside while we take care of the patient,” the doctor stopped him before he could get into the room. “I’ll go in with her.”“You can’t go in.”His hands clutched the collar of the doctor’s coat and grabbed him. “You have to do everything to save her. Hire the best doctors in the world, and do whatever it takes. If anything goes wrong with her, just so you know, you’re carrying the cross.”Shivering, the man nodded. “Now, be fast.”As the ER door closed, he slid down the wall to the floor, clenching his hair in anger. If he had chased Emily from his company, if
“Where is she?” Spencer asked as he walked into the underground basement of his biggest warehouse. As he walked into the building, he grabbed one of his security guards and punched him in the face.“Bastard. Weren’t you in charge of elevators? Where the fuck were you?”“Bo…boss.” His legs turned into a puddle. “I asked a fucking question. Did you fucking help the damn girl tamper with my fucking elevators?” Spencer was never the type to curse. He cursed once in a while, never the type to curse four times in a sentence. “Boss, please have mercy. I didn’t mean to do it.”“What do I do with you now?” He pushed him to the floor harshly, his head banging on the floor. Immediately, he got on his knees. “You’re dared betray me? How much did she pay you? Sharp speaking before I cut off your goddamn tongue.”“She…she promised to give me a…a night. I didn’t know it was your girlfriend in the elevator.” He regretted listening to Emily when she promised him a hot night of pleasure. She was a ho
Two days later Ariel was still yet to leave her mother’s side. She clung onto her, lying in the tiny space just beside her mother on the bed, her eyes on her as if she wasn’t sleeping. On the couch was Iris who, like Ariel, refused to leave Bree’s side except for when she got work to do or to change her clothes. “Ariel, have you had dinner yet?”Ariel's eyes broke away from her mother to Iris. “No. Daddy will be back soon.”“But it’s almost twilight.” She said, staring at her wristwatch. Deciding to wait for Spencer who’d left an hour ago, she slumped on the couch again, scrolling through the fashion market. Just then, Ariel’s gasp reverberated in the room. “Aunt Iris?”She quickly sprang up from the couch. “What’s wrong, baby? Are you okay?”“It’s Mommy.”She ran to their side, gently picking Ariel up from the bed and placing her on her feet. “What’s wrong with your Mommy?”“Mommy’s fingers moved. I saw it. They moved.”“What?”“Her finger moved.”Iris broke gaze with the child
A week later. Bree had already been discharged on the second day after she woke up. The doctors confirmed her good health and gave her medication to prevent any more episodes of asthmatic attack.As Bree cleaned the couch in her condo, she thought of everything that happened a week ago, wondering how anyone would go to lengths just to get rid of another. It was a Friday evening and she was alone at home. Ariel had left to spend some time with Iris and Spencer. He probably said he had work to do at the office. She'd started work again two days ago but decided to reduce her closing time. After cleaning the other couch, she placed her hands on her waist, sighing in exhaustion. Boredom had caused her to remember that her house hadn't been cleaned for the past one hundred and seventy-five hours. “Perfect.” She admired her work. Everywhere was sparkling clean unlike how it was in the morning. Just as she dropped her cleaning rag and decided to make her way to the bathroom, the doorbell