(Lola’s POV)
“What the hell did you do?!” The yelling of a familiar voice woke me up, Daniel, or was it Noah?
“I played it safe.” Diana’s voice replied.
“We agreed to let her pregnancy move further along before we did this!”
At least Diana wasn’t lying about Daniel’s involvement in this. So much for trying to convince him to let me go. I would have to think of something else.
“You might have just put the child in danger.”
I felt a hand on my forehead; my eyes opened just slightly, and even that was a struggle to do.
“H…” I tried to speak but couldn’t.
“Don’t worry, I won’t let anything…”
I zoned out, and I didn’t hear the rest of what he said.
“Jeez, Noah, one might think you are in love with her.” Diana mentioned it sarcastically, offhandedly.
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(Alphonso’s POV)I was too excited to go and meet Lily for me to stop and think that I had to plan for a lot of things before I could just get up and leave.I had stormed into Gemma’s house, and the moment she gave me the name of the town, I was already calling the airport for the first flight I could get out of the country and see her.Thankfully, the flight was late in the evening, so I could plan a few things about who would take care of Frank while I was gone, who was going to be running my company, and inform Don that I wasn’t going to be around for a while.I didn’t know what I was going to find when I got there, but I needed to be realistic and know that it was definitely not going to be a single-day affair.The first stop was to see Catherine, the nanny. I trusted her way more than I trusted Lola, whom, come to think of it, I hadn’t seen for days now.I shrugged it off.I got to t
(Diana’s POV)I had been thinking about my conversation with Lola. She helped me reminisce about a time when I was very happy in my relationship with Noah, but she also made me look at the relationship in a different light.“I hope you didn’t put anything in the food this time.” Noah stated with anger in his voice. What was he even angry about? I asked myself.“Why would I put anything in her food?” I placed the dishes in the kitchen sink.“You went against our agreement when you got her here; maybe you decided to do something else without consulting me.” He shrugged as he walked away.But I wasn’t done with this conversation.“You could be much nicer to me, you know,” I said, following him. “She wasn’t even thinking of keeping the child; she wanted to do away with it.”Noah scoffed loudly. “She would never have done that until s
(Third Person’s POV)Alphonso had not left Lily’s side since he came to Deadwood. The nurse had become his friend, but he couldn’t say the same about Chris.Chris didn’t seem to want him around.Alphonso had taken over from the nurses and had appointed himself as Lily’s caretaker. He cleaned her, turned her on her bed to avoid her getting bedsores, and fed her—at least he ensured that she was taken care of.A nurse, Miss Denning, walked into the room with a smile on her face as she came to check on Lily.“How are you doing, self-appointed nurse?” Denning asked Alphonso, who was holding Lily’s hand, and sat beside her.Alphonso brushed Lily’s hair, “still worried. How is the baby doing?”It had been about two weeks since Alphonso had come to Deadwood, and he hadn’t even gone back to his hotel room. He didn’t trust Chris to leave Lily al
(Third Person’s POV)Lola knew that she had to play her cards right while she was in this situation. She didn’t think the planting an idea in Diana’s head would work, and she needed a backup plan.When Lola noticed how Noah was the only one coming to see her now, she thought, why not? She wanted to poke the bear.“You remember that night you came back from an event, angry because your rival was there?” Lola tried to make Noah reminisce back to when she was playing a character in her life.It worked though.Noah gave her a small smile, “you did this thing where you helped me relax by washing my hair, drying it, letting me lay my head on your lap, then you would twist my hair till I fell asleep.”Lola smiled.While Noah believed that Lola was smiling at the memories, in reality, Lola loved that she didn’t even have to try that hard to get in between their marriage.Noah and Diana thought they were in control of Lola but Lola was bored with her life as a mother after what she had gone th
(Catherine’s POV)I had always tried to be the best version of myself when I was at work.Not only because I loved kids, and had kids of my own, but I guess when I was hired by the handsome billionaire who happened to be kind and handsome, I thought that I was in a romance book of my own.I smiled as I looked at the massive apartment.“Cat! Cat!” Frank called out my name excitedly as he was trying to come down the stairs.I felt bad about thinking this but I often found myself attached to Frank more than my own kids.I would sometimes find myself ignoring my kids when I was with them, and would daydream about my life with Alphonso and Frank.“Careful, you might break something!” I called out as I approached him half way through the stairs.“Daddy wants to talk to you.” His little hands handed the huge tablet to me.I smiled sweetly at him, “don’t run around the stairs though.”I turned to look at the screen, my heart skipped a beat when I saw Alphonso. He looked rugged and exhausted c
(Alphonso’s POV)I turned in my bed groggily.I definitely felt much more rested than before I went down, but now I couldn’t help but wonder how long it had been.I didn’t get much time to contemplate about that as I turned and felt myself fall back into sleep, not even recalling what had awoken me in the first place.But then I heard it again and it made me shoot up to a sitting position, “what?” I murmured as I rubbed my eyes.I looked at the door, my eyes half closed, wondering if I had imagined the whole thing. My mind was too exhausted to even think straight.But I recalled why I was here in the first place and jumped out of my bed.I hope Lily is alright. I thought as I opened the door and my eyes went wide when Frank rushed to me, “daddy!” He exclaimed excitedly.“Hello son.” I carried him up, “what are you doing here?”“I bro
(Diana’s POV)I had made sure everything was okay with Lola even though I could sense that she and Noah were planning something against me.I looked at myself in the mirror, the tight red dress reminded me of my time with my late husband, Henry.I chuckled. This wasn’t my style but once in a while he would push me to get out of my comfort zone and bring me something… different.Noah was nothing like Henry.The thought of Noah just made me want to puke. I couldn’t believe that I had once even considered him the love of my life.“Black or red?” I thought to myself out loud as I looked at the multiple pairs of five inch heels in my closet.“Black,” I bent and picked them up, “to match with my trench coat and purse.”I was grabbing the trench coat when the door to my room suddenly swung open.“I think Lola is about to give birth!” Noah
(Gemma’s POV)I hadn’t planned a trip to Deadwood to see Alphonso – or bring Frank to see Alphonso.As a matter of fact, I didn’t want to be here babysitting Frank, despite how much I like him, but rather be with Abigail and Oscar.I had moves to make if I wanted to be able to get out of the mafia business and pursue my passion of being a mother and a wife – hopefully.But it was hard to make those moves with Don watching over my back all the time.My guess is he didn’t trust me yet and he needed someone watching over me. I believed that Don preferred it be Alphonso in charge of me, and he didn’t want anyone else.My line of thought was what had me going to pick up Frank, I couldn’t even say goodbye to Abigail as she would have wanted to come along with Frank and I.I never thought that I would have ever wanted to give up my life of crime for a chance to have a normal li