“And what has that got to do with the darned dress you got her? How you shamelessly flirted with her all night and your goddamn hand in my wife’s hair!” I yell in his face, only realising my mistake after the words left my mouth. “Wife?” Silence settles in the room the moment Leslie says that. Whe
KIAN’S POVThe elevator door is already closing after her when I catch up but I stick my feet in, stopping the door before her form can fully disappear behind it. She looks at me in surprise, her gaze sharp but she doesn’t say a word and just shifts to a corner of the elevator. She creates space fo
I got us a ride back to the airport and soon we’re in the air inside my private jet, making our way back home after the one day trip. The trip that went from a meeting to a twisted man’s desire for my humiliation. She sat far away from me this time, making sure I was already seated before she found
“You’ve been walking on eggshells around me, buying me things and setting me up for a meeting, all these while Beverly is carrying your child and still very much present in your life! What? Were you hoping all these things will make me come back to you?” “Leslie, that is far from—”“I don’t want yo
KIAN’S POVMy position as a CEO makes me an acquaintance of all sorts of people. You never know when you need someone so I keep close contact with people whose help I might need later. The guy I called is one of those people. He’s much younger than me and is a fresh college graduate that I met at a
LESLIE’S POVI watch with immense pleasure as giant cardboard packages get lifted off delivery trucks and loaded into the company’s storage. Dianne stands with the men doing the heavy lifting, notepad in hand as she takes inventory of the packages getting loaded into our storage. The thud of the p
********************Home. What a joke. It’s the only joke bigger than me who came back here and who still can’t leave even after finding out it was all a part of Kian’s plan to have me back in the palm of his hands. I have realized that whether consciously or not, I must have also used grandfathe
KIAN’S POVGrandfather is leaving.That should make me happy, right? Because it means I won’t have to constantly worry about his health or worry about him finding out about the divorce. It means I finally get to breathe in my own house. But it also means having absolutely no reason to keep Leslie a