Charlotte's POV Mia was pregnant?And the only way she thought of telling me was this?I swallowed hard and forced a smile."Congratulations... I guess?" Why was I telling her congratulations when she was pregnant for Drake? The father of my kid.She scoffed. "Thank you. So, you see? You can't be seeing Drake any longer. We talked about it and he wants to be responsible for this child. We are having a family so stay away from him." She spoke bluntly.That was the Mia I knew. Mia who would speak to me with so much spite on her face. I forced a smile on my face so she wouldn't see that the news hit me hard and bore into my heart. "You want to have a family with Drake?... I see... but he had a family before you returned from your trip years ago but you didn't seem to care when you returned, about his family. You took him from his family anyways." I retorted. Her smile had now cleared off her face."What you two had back then wasn't a family dealing. You two were practically strangers
Charlotte's POV Toria returned with two plates of spaghetti bolognese and the nanny followed behind her with two glasses of orange juice.“I thought you were bringing me food? Why are there two plates instead of one? I thought you wanted to make me eat?” I looked at her with inquiry.She shrugged as she set the plates down. “Let's say I'm also eating to encourage you to do the same.I scoffed and rolled my eyes. “As if. You are now eating too much in my house.” Toria didn't reply to me again and she sat beside me.“Eat up. You need your strength to look for Sabrina and worry all day.” There was no need to struggle or argue with her. I picked up the plate she dropped before me and stirred the food with the fork beside my plate.“How is ivy doing?” Toria asked, concerned. “She's good. I guess. I’ve been so busy that I lose track of the last time I washed my hair. I’m grateful for her nanny though. What could I have done without her? She holds the house together while I go out there
Charlotte's POV I couldn't put off the fact that I saw Sawyer and he threatened to take everything I held dear away from me.And my thoughts morphed into inspection. From thinking about how he was able to watch my movements and track me without me knowing, I began to suspect the places he must have had his own hidden cameras.He must have known that I would check the place out at some point and he followed me and laid in wait just so that I would walk into his trap.Although Drake said it was a cliche threat, it didn't feel like it. It didn't feel like something he would tell me just to put fear in me. I saw his eyes. I heard his voice.He was not the Sawyer I used to know. He was something else. Something more dangerous.And no matter how I tried to relate to him and get him to listen to me, the connection was not there any longer and he regarded me like a predator looking at his prey.I was restless and Ivy's nanny noticed it. She walked up behind me where I stood in the backyard.
Drake's POV I patted her gently on her back since she didn't want hugs from me.She calmed down after some minutes and wiped the tears off her cheeks."I should go now." She walked to her car and in a matter if seconds, she was out of sight.I walked into the house to meet the dining table set and Mia sat casually on the sofa in the living room with the remote in her hand."You're back." She greeted."Is Charlotte gone already? You should have invited her in." I arched a brow but shifted my gaze and feigned looking around the living room to hide my expression from her."You made food?" I asked instead."Yea." She shrugged."How are you feeling?" I asked again. It would be insensitive of me not to ask when I knew her condition. "I'm feeling alright. Thanks for asking." she smiled.Although we agreed that it was not going to affect our relationship with ourselves and others, I didn't want to be insensitive. I went upstairs first to get a new change of clothes and when I returned dow
Drake's POV Charlotte came out of my house and my chest hurt knowing that she had already seen Mia. I had no idea why it hurt over something like that but I couldn't stop the feeling.Charlotte walked to me, her expression unreadable. I didn't talk about Mia since she had something more troubling to talk about. "Where did you see Sawyer?" I started and reached out for her hand."Are you hurt? Did he touch you?" Anger coursed through my vein at the thought that he touched her.She shook her head. "Little. But I am alright.""I went to the mall this morning to see if I could uncover something concerning how she was taken but after going round the mall, I met a dead end. I decided to extend my search to the neighbouring streets and there I saw him.""He stood behind me and approached me. He was fully masked and covered so I didn't think that it would be him. At least that wasn't what I thought when I saw him at first. I thought he was a thug sent to steal from me so I told him that I
Charlotte's POV I woke up and found myself sitting on the floor with my back pressed against the wall of the warehouse. The wall was made of bricks and it hurt my back.My eyes were heavy the first I opened them but after they cleared up a bit, I looked around and noticed that I was alone in the street.Sawyer and the stranger who fired something in me were nowhere to be seen.I pushed myself up with a strain and searched my body to see if anything was taken from me but I was still intact and it was crazy because he could have taken me if he wanted to but he didn't.It only meant that he was serious about what he said concerning making me suffer. I thought he would be convinced to take me instead and leave Sabrina to go but he was adamant. I didn't want anyone else to suffer for my sins. I won't be able to forgive myself and he knew this that's why he is using it to punish me.I shot up from the floor and ran out from the street to the mall. It was already past noon by the time I wo