Ayva’s POV“What are you doing here?” I asked Aiden with a frown as soon as I pulled the door open. I had been preparing to go to bed when Olivia told me that he was at the door, asking to see me. “Can I come in?” He asked. “We need to talk.” Since I left MI fashion company a few hours ago he’d been trying to get my attention, claiming we needed to talk but I didn’t pay him no mind. I didn’t return his texts or his calls because I had nothing I wanted to discuss with him. And now just when I was planning on going to bed, he’d suddenly appeared at my door, asking to talk. “No, you can’t come in,” I said sternly. “Whatever you have to say, I’m sure you can say it here,” I said, making sure that my body was blocking the doorway in such a way that he wouldn’t be able to enter or look inside my house if he tried to. He sighed, his left hand moving to rub the back of his neck. I looked up and met his eyes, a little surprised by his action. I remember that Zion usually did the same thing
Justin’s POV“I’m confident that we can win this case, J.” Carter, my attorney and friend from law school said. We were currently seated in a courtroom, we had been sat there for over an hour waiting for the judge to arrive. It frustrated me to no end that I couldn’t leave despite having more important matters to tend to at the office. I was sitting on one side of the courtroom with Carter while Bella was on the other side with her lawyer. The divorce had taken a drastic turn all because Bella had chosen to do things the difficult way. I’d filed for a divorce with her infidelity being the reason for the divorce and she’d sued me for emotional abuse and a bunch of other things I didn't do. And now, I was going to have to be frequenting the courtroom more often than I’d ever like. My phone beeped, I was getting called from the office again. I had a board meeting scheduled in the next few minutes, an important meeting I could not miss. I glanced over at the doorway for the umpteenth
Justin’s POV"What's happening here?" I asked, my eyes darting between Bella and Ayva, then back to Bella again. "Why are you here?" I snapped, unable to hide my irritation and dislike for Bella in my voice."Of course, I'm the only one you have a problem with seeing here. You've been living here with her, haven't you?" Bella accused, her eyes filled with hatred. "Let me remind you that you're still a married man, and until our divorce is finalized, being with her is cheating on me!" She spoke with a heaving chest, clearly upset."Can you please stop talking about me as if I'm not here?" Ayva said, her face showing a slight frown. She gave Bella a disapproving look. "Remember, you called me to come here."Bella did? Why? I looked at Bella with a questioning gaze, wondering why in the world she’d called Ayva to the house. What was she thinking? Ayva didn’t even know the details of our divorce. So why?"Yeah, I called her here, but don't act like you weren't planning to come tonight an
Ayva’s POV“Ayva,” I heard Justin call my name from behind. “Wait, please.” I didn’t listen, I didn’t wait. I was too upset and I couldn’t let him see my face at that moment. I could let him see that I was on the verge of tears and so I increased my walking pace and tried to make it to the roadside before he could catch up with me. I’d barely managed to step out of Jace’s compound when Justin appeared in front of me, blocking my path. “Get out of my way!” I spat, making sure my head was lowered so he wouldn’t even be able to tell that I wasn’t as angry as I sounded but rather upset and hurt. “Not until you listen to what I had to say, please Ayva, it’s not as it seems, I promise.” His voice broke a little, he sounded desperate and genuine and it annoyed me that I couldn’t force myself to leave after knowing that, it annoyed me that I’d chosen to wait and listen to his explanation because he’d asked for it. I mean it wasn’t as if the explanation would change anything so why wait an
Justin’s POV“Thank you for driving me home,” Ayva mumbled before moving to open the car door. It was the first and only word she’d said to me in the past thirty minutes. Our lack of conversation wasn’t because I didn’t try to bring up something because trust me I did try, but rather because Ayva had seemed so uninterested that she’d chosen to reply to my questions with either a nod or a shake of her head. I figured after my third question that she didn’t want to talk to me and as much as that made me feel down, I respected her wishes and shut my mouth all through the ride. At least she’d let me take her home ‘cause I definitely would have felt like shit if she’d turned me down when I offered to take her home. I got out of the car as she stepped out and when she gave me a questioning look, I felt compelled to explain myself. “Um, I just wanted to know if you’ll be free tomorrow,” I asked awkwardly, my hand reaching to scratch the back of my neck. She threw me another questioning gaze
Justin’s POVI was late for the family meeting. I kept glancing at my wristwatch as Aiden did his presentation on the new design he and his team were proposing we worked on. The presentation was supposed to have ended an hour ago but due to some technical issues, we weren’t able to start the meeting on time. My phone buzzed in my pocket. I brought it out and checked it under the desk to see that it was a text from Emily. ‘Mom just got here.’ The message read. “What the fuck!” I cursed under my breath. Why the fuck was she there? She had no business there. The meeting was arranged by Bella’s dad and I knew it was going to be about my divorce with her. My mom had no business being there especially because my dad would be there with his lover. It was almost as if she went there to get hurt. How did she even find out about the meeting? I’d warned Emily not to tell her and I very much knew that Emily kept it from her. ‘Tell her to go back home now. The meeting doesn’t concern her.’ I
Ayva’s POV“What are you doing out here like this, alone?” Olivia’s voice said, interrupting my thoughts. It was a dark night and there were a lot of stars in the skies. It’d been a while since I stared at the stars since I talked to my baby and so I decided to lie on the porch that night and pour out all my heart to her. And by the spooky look on Olivia’s face, I could tell that she’d heard a part of my conversation. “Just stargazing,” I said as I pulled myself into a sitting position. Her gaze was skeptical, she didn’t believe me and because I didn’t want her to start getting worried or thinking that I’d started to go crazy again, I quickly tried to change the topic. “There’s something I haven’t told you,” I said, tapping the empty spot next to me on the bench for her to take a sit. “What is it? I don’t like that tone.” She said as she took the seat. I glanced down at my hands sitting on my lap and then up at the skies. I wanted to tell her about Bella’s pregnancy about how I wa
Justin’s POV“Congratulations Mr. Mount, I heard that your wife is expecting another child.” Aiden’s obnoxious voice rang across the corridor. I’d been on my way to the accounting department, to discuss the increase of my employees' salary when Aiden popped out of nowhere and dropped a piece of information I did not need my employees to know. “Congratulations, sir.” My secretary, Samantha, and just like that, every employee on that floor followed suit. All congratulated me as if it was the determinant of whether they would be paid their wages at the end of the month or not. I threw Aiden a hardened look and he returned it with a smug smirk. He lowered his head in a mock greeting as he started to walk towards me. “I want to believe you’ll have some decency now and let Ayva be.” He whispered just before he walked past me. I turned around, glaring at his retreating back. I didn’t need him to turn around before knowing he had a scornful smile plastered on his face. It pissed me off to