He grinned at me, flashing me his perfect set of teeth and I quickly realize that he played me. And he could only do that because he could tell what I was feeling and how I was needing him. Angry at myself other than him, I pushed him away and the elevator came to a halt. He grinned even more at me, not minding that he had pissed me off. He brought out the card, swiped it through the elevator, then the door opened. I walked out first, too embarrassed and angry to even be with him. I froze when I found a lot of people in there, each sketching, drawing, typing, and moving about. It was a literal mess in there with how much papers were flying and how much people were in there, all working and going crazy. No one took note of me, though I could see their eyes linger on me and look away like I was not even there. Then I perceived Jordan’s perfume behind me and the entire room came to a halt and went silent like a ghost had just walked through. My heart clenched when I realized that they sa

JORDANI glanced at my watch and gritted my teeth as I saw how late it had gotten. It was never my intention to end up missing dinner and definitely not a plan of mine to not pick Genesis up. I had just got caught up with work again and had lost track of time. I thought of how pissed she must be, I was supposed to pick her up from the studio and instead I had missed it, and even missed dinner all together. My head was racking and I was already thinking of an apology, a speech I would give to make it all perfect again. It was perfect all day, and I had to ruin it.My thoughts were still restless and my heart was beating loudly inside my chest. My uneasiness over missing her and missing dinner was much, too much in fact but I thought nothing of it, not till my phone rang and I found that it was one of the security men I had kept with her earlier. My throat went dry and for a strange reason my hands became sweaty. They had no reason at all to call, not unless something had gone terribly

JORDANMy knees grew weak and my legs buckled underneath me as I heard those words. Relief flooded my heart and tears clouded my eyes in an instance. I relaxed into the wall and shut my eyes to shut the pain I had felt before, then I allowed my heart to dance for a little bit. There was no scenario I had not thought of. Genesis was going to wake up and hate me for life, she was going to hate her life and the beautiful smile she had always had on her face would disappear into nothingness, and I would disappear along with it. If she would not be able to smile, what would be left of my miserable life? I had brought nothing but bad news to her, nothing but bad to her and countless times she had been put in danger because of all this. Guilt had taken over me and my chest was beginning to hurt at the thought of rubbing ill luck on her but just now, the doctor had changed it all with just this one news.“It must have been hard to have heard the kidnapper say something like that,” the doctor

I gulped hard, the question itself frightening me to my very bones. But when I saw the serious look on their faces, I knew that they meant it. Samantha deserved death, but not just death, torment, pain and fear before death. But she was a human being just as much as I was, and I don’t think I wanted to wish someone else dead. Their blood might be on me and I didn’t want it. Taking her to the station and filing a law suit against her would do the trick. But after remembering the last time and how she had escaped and also since she was a Brandon, I doubted that a cell would contain her for too long. I could not let her go free though, she would not stop scheming till I was out of the way and I was not going to give her that satisfaction. In fact, I wanted to rub it in her face.“Nothing,” my response came.“You can’t be serious,” Jordan responded coldly from behind me.“But it’s okay. We can still handle her ourself,” Alden entered and my head snapped to him.“Don’t do anything to her,”

“How can I? when I only just got married,” he teased and I chuckled again. His words lifting a huge weight off my chest and I took a deep breath. My fear suddenly diminished.“Are you scared of getting a disease?” he suddenly asked at my distance and I grinned.“Whatever disease you have, I think I have already contacted it.” his eyes went wide and he frowned at me.“I don’t have any disease,”“Oh, I guess I’m not going to die from not seeing you anymore. I thought you were intoxicating but since you no longer have a disease, I guess it was not you from the beginning,” I went along. His eyes went wide again and for a moment he glared at me. I grinned at him and felt my cheek heat up when I realized that I was expressing my feelings foolishly to him.“I have a disease. An incurable one and you have contacted it,” he admitted and I laughed at how silly he was. The heaviness and fear in my heart suddenly leaving and for a moment, I remained happy. When I was done with my fit, I turned to