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
"What's going on in your head?", he asked calmly.I shrugged, "Uhm, I don't know, a lot"."Ivy she's not carrying my child", he stated."And if she is?", I asked.He sighed and rolled his eyes, "If it's ever possible, it means I was raped in my sleep", he said sarcastically."I don't know", I mumbled scratching my arm."Listen you have-"He was interrupted by a knock on his door, it was Ben."The emergency meeting you called for earlier, with the district staffs; they're here", he stated.He turned to me and then back to Ben."Alright then , bring them in", he said and Ben left."We'll have this conversation later", he said and I stood up and went back to my room.I shut the door and sighed and crashed to the ground.I just knew it, nothing good can ever last this long.But then again, I'm not suppose to feel anyway. Luther can have as much women as he wants.He's not my boyfriend or my real fiancee or even my husband, he's my soon to be baby daddy.Nothing too special.I'll just have
LAURA * * My life is falling apart in a million ways. And I can't do anything about it sadly. First I have to put up with pretending to like Ivy and now that son of a bitch is claiming to be carrying Luther's child. Like what is wrong with this man? is he deliberately trying to anger me? I pull up in front of a club. "Hi ma'am", the friendly bouncer says. "Is Blu in?", I asked. "Yes ma'am", he says and let me in. I walk straight to the VIP table and sit my ass down and sighed then I ordered two bottles of whiskey. "Is it me or do you reek of annoyance", Blu said walking over to the table. She was the owner of the Club, it was a women only strip club. "Annoyance is the least things I reek of, talk about rejection and hate", I said. "It is and Danger?", she asked sitting beside me. "Yess, Gosh I'm trying to tolerate his little shitty fiancee and this girl walks into his office the other day saying she's pregnant for him". Blu starts laughing, hard! "Bitch you're joking
Four weeks had passed and uhm, I can't say things have been normal.For some reason, Luther has gotten distant again. He disappears almost everyday and comes home late and barely even talks to me.I mean I would have thought work, but then this sick thought in my head kept telling me that he was going to See Tasha all the time..And I mean that's not suppose to be a problem because, she's pregnant right? and she might be carrying his child right? it's okay that he goes to check up on her but this regularly that he doesn't even talk to me?And before you ask why I'd think of that, Tasha has never showed up again after that night, ever! and if she's coming around it means she's not getting Luther, but now that she isn't coming around anymore what do you want me to think?Although she left the house that night in a creepy way and said some creepy things but in all honesty I'm still convinced he's seeing her.Am I jealous? what no of course not, I mean why will I be jealous the Luther is
FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THIS CHAPTER, READ MY BOOK, MARRIED TO THE DANGEROUS DON. IT'S A SEQUEL TO THIS BOOK.The results were out.I was staring at the file with shaky hands.If the test is positive, I have a family? an actual family??But how? the question is how??I'm so scared and confused.I really really am.I opened the file and read it.... everything All three DNA result came out positive.All of them.My heart was leaping.This was real?? this was actually real??I grabbed my phone and called Luther."Hello Ivy"."It's positive... it came out positive, they're... they're my brothers", I said out of breath.I could hear the excitement in his voice."Are you serious? oh my God I'm so happy for you, have you told them?"."Not yet, I want to arrange a meeting today, I really need answers, my curiously is killing me.""I'm so happy for you, honestly, this is good news Ivy"."Thank you ", I said so honestly."I wouldn't have found them if I didn't meet you, I'm... I'm so grate
There was a knock on my door.Which was weird because ever since I moved here, no one has ever done that, except my next door neighbor Mrs Pudgy that came to welcome me with some homemade cookies and gelato.I opened the door and I was standing in front of four men.I panicked, Damn it Laura knows my house, what if she sent them to kill me?I grabbed my umbrella and pointed it at them, dumb move Ivy, dumb move.They actually looked delighted to see me, and then when I grabbed the Umbrella, they looked confused."She's acting like Lexy", the guy at the back with light brown hair said.I cleared my throat, "Who are you and what do you want?"."Hi, I'm Amber... Amber Matthews", he said nervously."Uhh, this is getting awkward, please could you drop the umbrella", the small one at that back with black curly hair said.I did, slowly."She looks a lot like mom", another one said at the back."Too much like mom, she's the one", the curly hair said."I hope so", the Amber guy said."These are
There was a knock on my door.Which was weird because ever since I moved here, no one has ever done that, except my next door neighbor Mrs Pudgy that came to welcome me with some homemade cookies and gelato.I opened the door and I was standing in front of four men.I panicked, Damn it Laura knows my house, what if she sent them to kill me?I grabbed my umbrella and pointed it at them, dumb move Ivy, dumb move.They actually looked delighted to see me, and then when I grabbed the Umbrella, they looked confused."She's acting like Lexy", the guy at the back with light brown hair said.I cleared my throat, "Who are you and what do you want?"."Hi, I'm Amber... Amber Matthews", he said nervously."Uhh, this is getting awkward, please could you drop the umbrella", the small one at that back with black curly hair said.I did, slowly."She looks a lot like mom", another one said at the back."Too much like mom, she's the one", the curly hair said."I hope so", the Amber guy said."These are
LAURA **Luther is playing games with me, very dirty games. Because tell me why I walk into the managers office and I'm seeing Ivy."Eww", I said unable to hide my disgust.She looked pretty surprised to see me."What are you doing here?", she asked surprised."Luther fucken set this up ....ughhh", I grabbed my phone and called him.He picked up."Don Danger", I said calmly."Yeahh"."Why the fuck am I seeing Ivy here?"."She's the manager"."You're doing this on purpose!"."No, I'm not, it's the reason I can't do it myself, I can't meet Ivy right now and you know why, so please, swallow your pride and put aside your differences and work this thing out, and make sure she doesn't know we're moving drugs, remember your profit in all of this, Bye Laura I have important things to take care of", he said and cut the call.I turned back to her."You work here now?", I asked."Uhm... Yeahh, I'm Guessing you're the shareholder I'm supposed to meet today", she said."Unfortunately", I mumbled
5 MONTHS LATER**LAURA "Danger?", I asked surprised,so surprised."Hello Laura", he said with a warm smile."What are you doing standing in front of my house... how did you even know this is my... what are you doing in Miami?", I asked so surprised..I haven't seen him in months ever since we moved away from there."Can I at least get a hug?", he asked with his arms spread out.This was unusual, very unusual. Regardless I still hugged."I've missed you", he said.I pulled away, "Okay what is going on?"."Can I come in?", he asked.I let him in regardless."How's Miami? how's everything? how's your mom and all?", he asked.I dropped my glass of wine and took a good look at him."I'm the one asking the questions here", I said."okay", hr replied."What's going on? why are you in Miami? how did you find my house? why are you acting so.... bright?"."Nothing is going on... I came to see you... finding you isn't difficult at all... and uhm, I think I'm acting normal ", he replied.I cro
"Martins, Privately please", he said casually."No, last time that happened -""I'm not going to repeat myself", that was more of an order than I thought.Surprisingly, Martins actually left.What kind of damn authority does this guy have over people."Hi, how are you?", he asked.I shrugged, "I'm okay"."I'm so sorry about... everything that happened... I shouldn't have let you leave alone that night, I should have let Martins wait for you, everything is just -""It's nothing, really, I'm over it", I lied."How are you feeling? how's your health? I suggested Therapy but Martins said you didn't want it"."Yeah, I've always believed therapy is bullshit", I replied He nodded."Okay, so uhm, I got a call from my friend, he said you applied for the managerial position and you got in?"."Yeah I did. Gotta start from somewhere at least"."I'm happy for you... so uhm, you're moving to Miami?,he asked."Yes I am"."How soon?", he asked."Next week latest, gotta use this week to get things to
IVY**The days are a lot slower lately. It's long and depressing. Everyday I touch my stomach and.... it's just... it's just not the same anymore.I literally went to hell and back for this baby and I lost it.. just like that. I don't even know where to start from or where to proceed from.I'm having dark days, very dark days and sometimes I wish my life would just end.After two weeks of being indoor and suffering, I decided it was time to get my life going.I reached out to the owner of my company and reintroduced myself, explained how we met and all, he was very much excited to hear from me.He sympathized with me for loosing the pregnancy, apparently, the news that went out was that I went into early labor and lost the pregnancy at child birth. At least that was a better story that being shot by a bus stop and almost died and lost my baby.We met the very next day and apparently my boss had been demoted, all her dirty deeds came out and the only reason she still worked there was
IVY **All I could feel was this excruciating pain in my abdomen when my eyes open. it took me a while to process everything but I remembered I was about taking a bus from Cathy's back to my hotel when I saw a tinted car pull-up from a distance and before I knew what happened next I was shot, twice!And I'm alive, I'm actually alive."Glad to have you back Miss Ivy", a doctor said beside me.I turned my head a little, "I'm alive?",I choked out in a whisper."A miracle I must say, a very big one", he said.I smiled a Little."You're just lucky that people found you right on time honestly, we really are", he added.I nodded slowly."But we are truly sorry for your loss", he said.I was confused, my head was trying to make sense of what he was saying."What loss?", I asked."I'm sorry miss but, we lost the baby", he announced.I stared at him unable to say anything.Shocked!My heart started beating fast, terribly fast that the machine started beeping."Hey hey hey calm down, calm down
LUTHER *Everything happened in slow motion after I heard the news. It came from Ben. Ivy got shot twice while waiting for a bus and she's dying.At first, it was hard to believe, very very hard. Took me a couple of seconds to process it.Didn't know when I left my house, didn't know how I got to the car or who drove, I just knew that I was standing in front of the hospital. It was like I had skipped time.I went straight to where she was, Martins was already there."WHAT HAPPENED TO HER ?? I LEAVE HER ALONE WITH YOU FOR FEW MINUTES AND SHE'S SHOT?!! WHAT THE FUCK!"."Hey don't yell at him, if I remember correctly you were supposed to go home with her but you didn't, she's in your protection now and you let her be alone all by herself by this time of the fucken night!",Ben defended me.I wasn't there, I wasn't listening to them exchanging words, I was just looking at her Ward door, my mind was in too many places right now. Very dark places.The door opened and I jumped to meet whoev