When her supposed happily-ever-after turns into a nightmare of broken glasses and bleeding hearts, Kenya Brown finds herself alone in the cold house of her marriage. She did all she could to save her marriage with the man she thought was the IT for her, only for her to be left alone, sick, and pregnant. Years later, she comes back as a changed woman. She is stronger than her former self, and her source of strength is the black-eyed boy who looks exactly like her ex-husband. Royal Carter has all the money and fame, yet he can’t fight the loneliness that eats away at him. He finds out about her ex-wife’s return and about the boy. After years of regret, he decides to pursue the love of his life, with grim determination to win her back. He cannot live without her and will do whatever it takes to have his wife and son back. Will they be able to bury the past and create new memories, or are the odds stacked and standards too high to move past them?
View MoreChapter 24: What is the…?KENYA POV My eyes almost dropped to the ground like marbles as the Uber pulled behind a black Bentley Bentayga parked right outside our two-storey townhouse. What shook me wasn’t the Bentley, no! It was a whole Truck that carried a small sparkly brown, goldfish Bentley continental in front of it. I got out of the Uber and walk-ran to the front porch where Anna was sitting with her knees brought to her chest, her eyes snapped wide, and staring at the two vehicles.“I thought it was our Amazon delivery.” She called out as soon as I was in earshot, then stretched her hand out at me. I clasped it and yanked her to a standing position, then turned around and stared at the truck. The doors of the Bentley thudded closed, and two men finely dressed in blue suits came charging towards the house. “You couldn’t even let them into the house?” I whisper-yelled at Anna as we watched them walking gracefully towards her. One was carrying a clipboard and the other held a
Good GriefKENYA POV The days that followed next were pretty much a dragon, and neither Luke nor I brought up the conversation about the business dinner night where we almost humped like dogs in heat right there against the floor in the VIP section. Whatever discussion we had was the feedback from our teams about how the auditions would commence shortly after the screenplays were finished.You could have sworn that all of the heavy sexual tension was pretty much a hallucination and the only thing that remained as evidence of that night was the Manila envelope containing signed papers.Anna had been livid when she heard the news the next day, and the shameless her almost sent me right back into the arms of the man that made me think with my vagina and not my brain. "What harm will sleeping with him do? You haven't had sex since you got pregnant with Lucious. And that's forever ago." her words came tumbling to the front of my mind, and I died a little from embarrassment. Gosh; I am su
Temptations IILUKE POVTemptation smells like apples, roses wine! And it was seated inside my car.I cleared my throat before gripping the steering wheel, a futile attempt of calming myself the fuck down because if this continued, I would go back on my words and just…. I would do something out of character and live to regret it later. Kenya Brown was supposed to be a chip in my long-calculated revenge game. Yet she was slowly becoming something else entirely. Of course, like any other piece of shit holding a grudge and determined to ruin someone else's life, I did a little digging on her past and found out that she and Royal had a more than complicated relationship and that she was his wife before he left her for fame. And that they had a son whom Royal had no idea about his existence until a few weeks back. And yes, the plan was to use her and get a hold of that piece of crap. But now, I just didn't know anymore. There was something developing in my chest, and that somet
The Missing PieceROYAL POVThe universe possessed a sick sense of humor. That was the only thing I could think of at that particular moment as I stared back at one little human who looked like the younger reflection of me. There was this tightness that held my chest captive, the kind that made me feel like I couldn’t breathe when I listened to him talk about how great his mommy was to him. It was the good kind of sensation though, the feeling you got when you were on the cross between overwhelmingly excited and downright nervous you could break down at any moment. And I was damn glad because I knew that although I had fucked up the only good thing in my life, I somehow managed to create this beautiful soul with the woman I loved. It was in the way my heart raced as though I had completed a marathon the entire time I sat there watching him smile, and his deep black eyes that made guilt harden to dread inside of me with the idea that I wasn't there the times he and his mom needed me
Chapter 20: The Missing PieceROYAL POVThe universe possessed a sick sense of humor. That was the only thing I could think of in that particular moment as I stared back at one little human who looked like the younger reflection of me. It was in the way he smiled, and his deep black eyes that made guilt harden to dread inside of me. I had been such a dick to miss out on the life of this amazing human. “Does your mommy have a boyfriend?” I couldnt believe i had asked thatquestion. But i was fishing. And i had to know.“What’s a boyfriend?” Luc tilted his head to the side, adn I couldnt help but chuckle when Amara’s questions came tumbling to ther front of my mind. I glanced outside to find Kenya deep in conversation with whoever that was on the other end of the line. “Let me get this straight, he buys you one hundred and one roses which, as the delivery claimed, symbolise eternal love, continues to tell you he knew that Lucious was his, and then tells you that you guys will be rais
Falling into place. KENYA POVTwo bottles of red wine and three tequila shots; and I still couldn’t stop fidgeting in my seat.I checked Lucious for an umpteenth time to find him busy with the match-tile game on the iPad, utterly oblivious to my mini-breakdown happening right beside him. Anna was watching me intently, her gaze almost pushing me to the edge of insanity, and I tried with all my might to not think too much of it. This whole fiasco was supposed to go all easy: meet Royal out in public with little Luc and spend a few hours together before doing anything a little extra to make Luc all used to him. But now that I was here, sitting in this kid-friendly restaurant slash bar, I was convinced that maybe this wasn’t all such a good idea. “You know you can simply call him and reschedule the meet-up? Come up with some excuse that something came up and you gotta attend it. Instead of looking like you are going to evaporate in that seat.” She gestured my way with her chin, making
Second Chances ROYAL POV The bustling sounds around me seemed to even hype me more. The white noise of people dragging their luggage around, the whirr of the planes as they ascended into thin air, and the normally annoying screeching sound of their wheels touching the ground… The occasional intercom announcing arrivals and departures of different, countless aircraft… On a very normal day, I would be super pissed to be here, especially when I was not in the business or first-class lounge. But something inside of me was alive, and I couldn’t care less. Not even the fans that brazenly stood in front of me to take pictures of me. Nothing could get me in a bad mood. I felt too good to even care about anything. My foot kept tapping lightly against the floor, a sign that I had been here for far too long and I was growing impatient. “Uncle Roy…” My attention was ripped from my phone by a cute little girl with her hair pulled in piggy tails, charging towards me. I got up from my seat
Too Hot To Think StraightKENYA POV“Let me get this straight, he buys you one hundred and one roses which, as the delivery claimed, symbolize love that does not fade, and continues to tell you he knew that Lucious was his son even before you confessed; which means he went behind your back to get the DNA test, and then tells you that you guys will be raising the Lucious together?” Anna glared through the top of her beer glass, disbelief resonating from her while her body like smoke.I nodded as I popped a fry into my mouth and then brushed my hands together.“That’s more like it.” I continued chewing on the crunchy potato, focusing on the greasy taste rather than the thought of what had transpired last night.I don’t know what happened, but I swear I was not in my right mind.Royal mentioned that he was going to be involved in Lucious’s life and like an idiot, I just nodded and smiled at him. “You gave in too easily, girl.” She called out, then shook her head in disbelief before pinn
Chapter 13: DINNER IIROYAL POVI was about to swing the phone I clutched to my ear into the thin air when a hand landed on my shoulder and started moving in a subliminal way. I turned to the side and murmured a small ‘wait a sec’ into the device before glaring at the entity beside me. I am saying entity because it was my first laying eyes on the woman standing before me yet she was smiling at me like we had slept together for the past twenty-plus years. it was almost exasperating: pulling along the attention of the entire female population wherever I went, of course!Especially now when I was trying to right the wrongs of my past. I couldn't afford to mess this one up! The past four years were excruciatingly long and lonely, and I would rather die than go through all of that again.“Apologies to disturb you, Mr. Carter. Miss Brown has arrived.” The lady thinned her eyes at me, and no not in the all ‘I am going to bash your head in’ kind of. Hers were inviting sending all kinds of se
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