LAURA**I threw away what seemed to be the remains of the 7th cigarette I had lit today."That was your mistake, not mine".Those words Luther said to me still echoed in my head. I have been a fool all my life. All I've ever done was beg for love from someone who never wanted me.I knew it, I knew he did but I couldn't bring myself to believing it, now it was all clear, very very clear.Luther's father had given Ivy the position of the Cowper's father heiress whether or not she decides to stay with him, she was now officially part of the family; a family that I played on role in building from scratch.A one night stand just walked in and stole everything from me.I cursed and poured myself another glass of alcohol.Obsession is a cruel thing, it truly is."Rough night?", my mother asked coming behind me.I rolled my eyes, I am not ready for any of this, at all."If you're here to convince me that I shouldn't give up on Danger then please leave", I said calmly.She was part of the fa
IVY * * Laura was sitting in Luther's office when I walked in, I sighed, here we go again. She turned to me and smiled, "Hello, Ivy," she said in a tone I'd never heard her use. I looked at Luther; he looked back at me; we had the same look on our faces; What the fuck?? "Uhm... Hello", I said. "You look pale; pregnancy is a bitch, huh?" she asked again. I looked at Luther again, "Uhhh... yeah". "What's going on?", I asked. "Laura said she wanted to see you", Luther said finding it hard to believe himself. He had a gun on his table, so I'm guessing he doesn't trust her to be genuine and he's ready if she tries anything funny. "See me?", I asked. The last time we spoke, I said a lot of things to her that I do low-key regret, so I know she has nothing good to tell me. "Well, we never actually got to know each other well, and all, so I thought we could do some girly stuff while at it, maybe go shopping or something. " Luther laughed. Yeah, girly stuff like st
"You know this would have been a lot better if Ben wasn't hawking around us", Laura groaned."So you can kill Ivy and hide her dead body and let Don kill me? No way", he stated.She rolled her eyes, "Anyway, how do you like this Chanel bag?" she asked, handing me this ginger-colored bag.It fit my hair color perfectly."It's beautiful", I stated.Oh, and it's also $10,000. Yeah, I'll pass."Good let's add this to the cart and head home", she said.I paused, "Let's be for real here; what are you playing at? Why are you doing all this? The last time we spoke, you looked like you were going to kill me, and now, all of a sudden, you want to be nice to me?"."Exactly; the last time we spoke, things went ba,d, okay? And you're going to be my boss soon, God knows the things you could do to me, I'm trying to not let you think about all of that ", she said."You're still obsessed with Luther; how could you just be okay with it all of a sudden?"It's a silly crush; I'll get over it with time; a
Someone had been ringing the doorbell for a long time now, and no one answered it, so I went to check it out myself. It was a delivery guy. "Hi", I said. "Good day, ma'am; we're to deliver this to an Ivy Cowper?". My cheeks flared, he didn't just call me that, did he? "That will be me", I said. "Okay, it came in from Mr. Luther Cowper; please sign this here", he said, handing me a pen. Luther? Why is Luther sending me something when he can just get it here himself? I signed it anyway and took the box from him, thanked him, and went back inside. I dropped the box on the couch. What if it wasn't from Luther? What if it was from Laura and it was a bomb or something?? No, Laura wouldn't go that far to kill me, at least not yet. Or so I think. I opened the box and paused in surprise. It was a dress, a green dress, a very, very pretty green dress. I have no idea how he knew he knew my favorite color, but this was so pretty, and it had a pair of silver heels to match it. The
IVY * * I smiled. No I was blushing!! "A helicopter?", I asked smiling. "Yeahh, you scared of height?", he asked. No it's just... I... I've never been in one before ". "Good, there's a first time for everything ", he said. "I... I'm sorry what is going on?", I asked nervous as fuck. "Where's going on a date on a Helicopter, what else?". "Why?", I asked calmly. He shrugged. "We should get to know each other better, right?" I nodded slowly... right. "Good", he stretched out his hands. I took it and he walked me to the helicopter. It was so loud when we get closer. He gave Ben and sign and he responded and then left. He helped me up and we got in. "Wait are you the one flying this?", I yelled because I could barely hear my voice. ,He nodded. Okay I shouldn't be worried?? I mean should I? "Do you even know how to fly it?", I asked genuinely worried.He chuckled."Yes Ivy", he said strapping a belt on me and him."Now just sit back and relax", he said.Relax? hell no
Ivy **This was the Luther I met that night at the party, and the best part is that he's not drunk, there are no people around to say it's pretence, it's just the two of us so I know this is real."Living in an orphanage was kinda a bit fun if we're being honest. I had like 99 other siblings. We got to share everything together, from food to clothes and all.But then as time went on the people I was close to got adopted and for some reason, I was never picked"."They're all crazy not to pick you , I'd literally pick you in a room filled with kids, literally ", he said munching down on his pork chops.I smiled a little, he's been saying things to make me smile a lot tonight.Like he is so sweet and caring.I could never imagine him being like this to me, I've pinched myself like three times already and it's actually real."Okay so I want to ask, what was your relationship with Laura before I got into the picture? be honest".He shrugged, "Wasn't anything serious ", he said."With the
"So I heard you Went on a date with Danger last weekend", Laura stated. I could swear she's been wanting to talk about it the very moment she saw me. "Yeah", I said moving over to the other side of the boutique so she wouldn't talk about it again. But she followed. "Helicopter date huh?, that's cute", she chirped in again. "Yeah it was ". "I mean it's cute but I would never became like, I'm supper scared of heights", she said again. Bitch I don't care. "Oh ... okay" "Yeah, so did you have fun?". "Yeah I did", I said picking a by green lacy dress that looked so gorgeous. "Oh Danger doesn't like that color, I wore it one time and he said I looked like a twig", she said laughing. "Oh really? because that's kinda the color of the dress I wore to the date last week, which he got for me ", I stated. Laura looked shocked, she tried to maintain composure. "Oh... oh wow", she tried not to scoff, "That's, that's so surprising, I could have sworn he called me a twig when I wore som
I placed my hands on my head and sighed.I turned to Luther, he was busy doing stuffs on his Laptop not even caring about what is going on here."Now you listen the fuck to me you piece of shit", Laura started."I can tolerate anyone in the world, I can tolerate Ivy, but you? hell no. So if you know what's good for you, pick your ass up, remove that bastard in your womb and get the fuck out of here before I make you disappear with no traces"."Are you threatening her?", her other friend started."Well what else does it look like I'm doing?"."Look I've been taking care of myself for the past 8 months all alone , and there is no way I'm gonna take care of this child alone, so you better be ready to be a daddy Luth-""Don't fucken call me that", Luther said looking at her calmly.She immediately regained her composure."Now Tasha, I get it, you're pregnant and you're broke and you're looking for money, I'll give you $5000 cheque, go make a life out of it and stop disturbing me with this
LAURA **Gosh, Ivy makes saving her life a lot harder! I thought I asked this bitch not to come back until I say so??And why the fuck is Martins attempting to blow up her house if he's trying to use her as a bait to get to Luther? what the fuck is wrong with all these people?Luther called me to please help him check up on Ivy since I was in Miami and he wasn't.Ivy had to move to one of her estates to stay there cuz it was a lot safer and all.Something she would have done from the beginning instead of living in that shitty neighborhood.I mean she's a manger of one of the biggest accounting firm, what was she thinking?Sigh.When I got to the gate, I had to go through series of security check and drop all my guns at the entrance before they let me in."Bitch I thought I made it very clear that you should not come back to the United States until I told you to", I raged immediately I got inside."Oh my God Laura, please, how could you have expected me to trust you when you're not e
The wedding was over, had a lot of drama to be honest. Amber pranked Lexy to think he got kidnapped to keep her busy so they could do a royal wedding. Yes an actual royal wedding in a castle.Now the reality had kicked in, I need to go back to Miami. I've tried reaching Laura but she's been unavailable.I don't even know if I should be trusting her, she has never given me a reason to trust her, ever, so why should I believe her this time?I asked Amber about it and, he said he spoke to Luther and the only thing odd that had happened was Owen dying. Amber said he asked Luther if I was safe now that he was back in the game and Luther said I was, that there's nothing out of the ordinary happening right now.He's just trying to find Owen's killers.Amber told Luther about the people that came to my house that evening and investigation was carried out and apparently, there was a Halloween party happening down the street and some teenage boys did mess around the neighborhood that evening.I
"What?""Yeahh, I've been hearing rumors of it, but I didn't think it was true, I was doing low-key investigations though, didn't want to tell you about it because I didn't want you to feel insecure or anything"."Amber, my house was surrounded by armed men few days ago, they left immediately they realized I was watching them and one of them gave me a sign that he was going to kill me, of course I'm going to be insecure about it.""Are you serious? why didn't you let anyone know?"."I called the police, they said they'll be high on alert, plus I told my boss and he said I could stay in one of his private houses until everything cleared up"."Ivy you need to be careful, okay? I don't know what's going on in particular and why they're after you but I'm going to contact Luther and let him know".Then I remembered what Laura had said."No no ... don't tell Luther, don't "."Why not?"."I don't think I can trust him anymore, I don't think I can trust anyone at the moment "."Ivy it's Luthe
IVY **I was scared as fuck, but Laura didn't look like she was playing when she told me to get into the car. I would have refused honestly, but two days ago, I spotted suspicious activities around my house, and I haven't been sleeping there at all. I told my boss about it and he said I could be staying in one of his private houses for a while until everything had cleared up.I only got back today to get more of my clothes and make dinner and leave.Now We're in front of the airport. "Laura you need to calm the fuck down and talk to me, what's going on? the last time you said I was unsafe being around the Cowper's and two days ago, some men with weapons surrounded my house surveying the place until I had to call the police, so please, you need to tell me what is going on".She looked at me for what looked like hours."Go to this side of the airport, you'll see a Cowper airplane, it's a private jet, tell them you're Ivy Cowper, unfortunately they know you with that name, they'll con
LAURA*Martins slammed my head in the desk, choking me tightly and I swear he was going to kill me.What is with these Cowper men and always choking me?"Martins, please", I begged."You fucken told Ivy to about me? are you out of your god-damn mind? are you insane!", he barked."You're choking me... please stop", I begged running out of breath."Do you know you're sabotaging our entire plan!", he screamed."Martins let her go I'll deal with it", My mother said coming from the kitchen with a bottle of champagne.He looked me dead in the eyes with fury and then slammed my head on the table again and let me go.I collapsed on the floor, breathless. I had a cut close to my eye brow, I was bleeding."Mom... you just sat there and watched him almost kill me?", I sobbed.What is this woman turning into? isn't she the same person that swore she'll always have my back?"If we're being honest, if you weren't my daughter I'd instruct him to kill you. Why would you do that? Ivy is clearly the o
LAURA*Martins slammed my head in the desk, choking me tightly and I swear he was going to kill me.What is with these Cowper men and always choking me?"Martins, please", I begged."You fucken told Ivy to about me? are you out of your god-damn mind? are you insane!", he barked."You're choking me... please stop", I begged running out of breath."Do you know you're sabotaging our entire plan!", he screamed."Martins let her go I'll deal with it", My mother said coming from the kitchen with a bottle of champagne.He looked me dead in the eyes with fury and then slammed my head on the table again and let me go.I collapsed on the floor, breathless. I had a cut close to my eye brow, I was bleeding."Mom... you just sat there and watched him almost kill me?", I sobbed.What is this woman turning into? isn't she the same person that swore she'll always have my back?"If we're being honest, if you weren't my daughter I'd instruct him to kill you. Why would you do that? Ivy is clearly the o
The internal struggle is something else. Confusion, fear, more confusion.I've been so off lately even my boss noticed it.It's the conversation I had with Laura.I know Laura is usually always scaring me and threatening me, but this one wasn't a threat it was a warning.Plus Owen died, and Laura is not looking herself at all. There's so much going on, and I don't know how I'm roped into any of this.This is the exact reason why I ran away in the first place.I got back from work later that night and I was so tired, I just wanted to get into bed and sleep, but I noticed my front door was slightly opened.My heart started beating fast.I pulled out a pocket knife from my bag and walked in slowly.Immediately I got in, I turned the lights on to find who it was leaving the door open so I can run out anytime I wanted to.It was Martins.Usually, I would have relaxed but from what Laura just told me? I can't trust anybody."What are you doing here? how do you have access to my house?", I
LAURA *Anyone who had seen me these past few days said the same thing; Something is wrong with me.It was all over my face and body. I used Owen's death as an excuse to cover up but in reality I was dying, I was slowly dying.I barely ate, I took antidepressants like how I'd drink water, I was too deep into drugs because that was the only thing keeping me sane.I hate my life, but I hated my mother even more."What are we going to do now that Luther's got the seat back?", Martins asked my mother who was pacing around the house."I think we should just... call this off and go our separate ways, I'm tired, really really tired. And it's worse cuz now Owen's death was a waste.""Laura you are not helping right now", My mother Said restless."Ivy", Martins said."What?"."Look, we need Luther to step down, because if he does, there's no other suitable candidate except Laura, now he's obviously not going to want to step down anytime soon unless he finds a cause to.We're going to use Ivy
I got a belated birthday gift from Luther the next day. It was a basket full of flowers, White roses were my favourite, I use to collect them a lot when I was still in his house.I'm guessing he noticed, All Martins ever brought me were red roses, he never asked me if I loved them or if I ever wanted them.Luther was going to make moving on from him harder than I imagined.I honestly thought he forgot, because everyone else did, including Martins, but he didn't.I put the basket in my room and carried on my entire week pretending like everything was fine.I just couldn't help but feel so sorry for Luther.He wanted out so badly, he really wanted to, and now Owen is dead? it's so heart breaking.I got back from work and met a very shocking visitor in front of my porch."Laura?", I asked so surprised because this is the second time I'm seeing her here.She had a cigarette in her hands, she wasn't crying but she really looked messed up."Can I uhm... can I have some of those your homemad