Chapter 7 – Anastasia’s dateAnastasia BeatonPOVGracie called me in excitement last night telling me Axel’s daughter’s mother had passed on. She heard from someone, that she was driving while a drunken driver drove her off the road injuring her. they had to do an emergency C-section on her, to save the baby. a week later she succumbed to her injuries and died during surgery.I obviously didn’t understand why she was excited. But when she started telling this was my chance to get close to Axel I finally understood. I obviously rejected her idea.I might love Axel, but I wasn’t going to pounce on him when he was still mourning her death. And I’ve already given up on being with Axel.Which was why I was getting a blind date set up by my older brother. The man was a forensic scientist who works with my brother. His name was Reed Barnes.I ran into a bit of a problem what does one wear to a date? I didn’t have any girl friends other than Gracie and she’s not speaking to me after I declin

Chapter 9 – Murder CaseAxel KingPOVWhen I walk into the house, I’ve this ominous feeling. The place is creeping with cops. I bite my lip before walking up to my partner Atlas.“What’s going on?” I ask him.“It’s crazy, a girl was raped and killed. We were called because of the murder, but cyber is taking the lead.” He says causing my heart to skip a beat.She was going to be here? I didn’t expect her to be called. Or that we would ever work together again, we just left each other an hour ago, I didn’t know what to say to her. What was I supposed to say to her?“Yo King what’s up with you?” Atlas asks snapping his fingers in my face.I push him off glaring at him.“Come on let’s go and check out the scene.” I tell him walking toward the stairs.He bumps into me walking beside me. “The girl was only eighteen. From what I’ve heard there has been a string of rapes recently and the cyber team has been working on this case because they’ve discovered video tapes of the rapes on the dark w

Chapter 11 – She’s pregnant.A month laterAnastasia BeatonPOVIt’s been another month and we still have no leads. They’re no longer following me, or that’s what we believe to be the case. I’ve been staying away from my family and asked my brothers to stay with my father to keep him safe. We’ve been working day and night to catch the people responsible for Jessica Walkers murder and the other ten girls who reported being raped. There might be a lot more cases but they’re afraid to speak up about it.Axel has noticed a trend all the girls are virgins. They were going after girls who swore to wait until marriage to have sex. Girls who wore purity rings.I haven’t gone to work all week and I’ve been booked off sick. This point I can’t even get out of bed. I’ve caught a cold and have been throwing up, my stomach is working, my head is killing me. and I constantly feel nauseous. I’ve decided to drag my dead body to the hospital to have myself checked out. I couldn’t take it anymore. The I

Chapter 13 – Speaking to her father and brothers.Anastasia BeatonPOVToday it’s seems as though had I woken up on the good side of the bed. I woke up with no nausea, my stomach didn’t feel like I needed to be plastered on the toilet, so I called my father and brothers asking them to meet me at my childhood home. I was going to break the news to them about my pregnancy and impending engagement.I didn’t know how they were going to take it, Axel’s telling his brother’s today, we’ve decided to wait to tell his parents until we go to the hospital and figure out what to tell them. Though he promised we’d act in love when he meets my father and brothers. That was the only reason I was currently sitting in my car outside my childhood home.I swallow the lump in my throat. I haven’t been here since my mom passed. I would meet my father at the restaurant not far from here, or we’d meet at my place or one of my brothers’ place. This place brings back too many memories of my mother. Right here

Chapter 15 – Telling his parents’.Axel KingPOVWe were silently driving to my parents’ house, I couldn’t believe this, twins. Two children. I’ve heard my brother complain about how out of control the twins were, when one cried the other would wake up as well. How were we going to cope with River and two other babies as well?My mom wouldn’t be able to help. The nanny I hired would for sure quit. She didn’t have to, but she helps my parents with the three babies. Damon and Jessica’s two and River. Damon pays her of course. She wouldn’t want to help with Oakley and the two in Beaton.I pause and look at her belly. That’s where my babies were resting, growing. In just six months they’d be born, and they’d be in my arms. I’ve been in such a panic I almost forgot about the magical moment I experienced crying staring at a damn blob. I didn’t even know what I was looking at, at first. But then when I realized that was my baby, my baby growing inside of Beaton, there was this feeling of pea