Hearing the sound of the doorbell at this time of night, Elaine knew it was Cannon there, behind the door as no one else visited her this time. But she didn't get herself to answer it. She was still angry at him for showing up at her work place and making her work on his project. She just looked beside her. Ryan was peacefully sleeping snuggling to her.A sweet smile was lingering on his lips. Smiling back, she kissed on his forehead only to get Ryan showing little dimples on his cheek as his smile broadened which was enough to vanish the smile from Elaine's face.Elaine tossed on the bed being restless when Ryan did the same turning to other side after a while.Though she was happy a little earlier with Cassandra for not answering the door, now it got bothering her.Elaine checked the time. It was 10 minutes past 10. Half an hour passed already but there wasn't a sound of doorbell ringing again.He must have left by now. Elaine thought to herself but got out of the warmth of the comf
It was still dark outside when Sam woke up from sleep feeling thirsty. Sleepily, he made his way to the kitchen to satisfy his thirst.After getting done when he was about to go back to his room, his eyes caught the sight of Cannon. He was sitting on the couch in the living room. His head rested against it and his eyes were closed.Being confused, he walked to him. Sam was totally awakened when he reached Cannon. Even in sleep, Cannon looked sad. Last night he didn't get back to the penthouse with Sam.Sam could feel nothing resolved between Elaine and Cannon seeing Cannon's face. He hesitated for a moment to call him thinking him asleep.Proving him wrong, Cannon opened his eyes the next moment and sat straight. Seeing him standing there, he spoke up softly, "Why are you awake now?" He looked nothing like waking up from sleep or something.Sam sat beside him and ignoring his question, he asked him, "What happened?"Cannon kept silent for a long time but Sam remained persistent. Findi
"I love you, Mrs. Elaine Henderson."Double of these three words. They were like daggers flying to her chest.Three words that Elaine had longed to hear from Cannon back then. That he loved her and acknowledged her as his wife. Two things, he never did. Not even in his facade. But now that he finally said them, these words had lost all their meaning to her. And she wasn't sure if he was even serious or he was just saying all these without meaning it.Elaine wondered. Was saying 'I love you' to someone whom you didn't really love that easy? Would anyone do it just to get.."Elaine?" Cannon softly uttered her name pulling her out of her thoughts as he stared at her, realizing how emotionally raw and vulnerable he felt at that moment."I thought people get to be called like that after getting married or before that and here for me, it's happening after getting divorced only. Should I be happy for this?""Elaine, please. We aren't divorced. We are..""Right. We aren't divorced. Because fo
Cassandra tried to say something but didn't at last and waited for Ryan to react instead. Ryan saw the ice cream, excited to no end, and looked at the person offering all these to him.His reaction got changed to a confused one as he stared at Cannon for a few moments.Cannon spoke up, tears rolling down as his vision cleared, "Which one is your favorite?"Ryan pointed at the chocolate one after looking at the ice cream scoops and examining the color."Take it." Cannon uttered softly as he pointed at that. Ryan hesitated for a few moments but then took it.Like Cannon's face reminded Ryan of something, he asked him with excitement flashing his face, "Is it ready now?"Cannon gave him a confused look and uttered, "What, baby?" much to Ryan's disappointment. He uttered sadly, "My room!"Cannon was perplexed at the information that his son knew his plan, "How did you get to know?"Cassandra heard them but remained silent. Looking at Ryan's sad face, he pleaded, forgetting his inquiry for
Elaine wasn't back yet when Cassandra got back home with Ryan. She was busy in her work in office. It was late in the evening when she got back. She was pleasantly listening to Ryan's ranting about his time at the park. Cassandra tried to make up a story when she heard Ryan talking to Elaine about his new good friend and Elaine gave her a questioning look. But by the end of Ryan's ranting, Elaine didn’t pay much attention to that new friend of his, seeing her so happy son. As she was tired working all day, keeping eyes glued to the laptop screen to plan the marketing strategy, she called it a day earlier than usual. Ryan slept peacefully beside her but Elaine got awaken up at some point of the night dreaming about her elevator time with Cannon. His phone calls, texts and words from earlier kept distracting her that's the reason she took time to complete her work and thus she came back home late today. She couldn’t allow her to get into his words. Sincere or not, Cannon was late f
The Next day In the morning after getting Ryan to freshen up, Elaine took him to the dining table to get him breakfast. Cassandra joined them there after a few minutes. Elaine again tried to remind Cassandra but she cut her off, "It won't happen again." Nodding at her and she turned to Ryan who was still taking his cereal while ranting about something. Elaine spoke up softly as she went near him, "Ryan, Mom is leaving, baby. I will try to come back early. Now, don't stress out Cassie. Be good. okay?" Ryan looked at her and smiled sweetly, "I am a good boy." "Of course, you are. You are my son." Elaine said as she kissed his cheek, "Bye, baby." As she made her way out, Ryan waved at her, "Bye bye, Mom." Smilingly, she waved back and nodded at Cassandra as she got out of the house. Completing Cannon's project as early as possible was her only goal now. But just after she settled down and barely opened her laptop to start her work, Rivan reached there. "Elaine, Sir is calling yo
Elaine moved her gaze to Cannon only to find him staring at her already. He looked calm. Elaine lowly whispered to him, "You can still stop all this if you promise that you won't bother me anymore.""No." Cannon shook his head in negative, "I told you I am not going anywhere leaving you two.""Are you crazy? I can send you behind bars in a few minutes.""If that's what you wish, do it. But I am not leaving." Cannon replied, his voice solemn."Excuse me. Is there any problem here?" The cop asked noticing the crowd.The man who called the cop spoke up, "Yes, sir. This man was harrasing this young lady."The cop narrowed his eyes and took an overall glance at Cannon and Elaine before speaking up, "Is this true?"Infuriated, Elaine wanted to show Cannon that she was not going to fall for his fake acting anymore. And she wasn't going to be easy on him after trying to get Ryan in his drama."Yes, Sir." She answered the cop. "This guy is stalking me and my son for several days." She pointed a
The doorbell again rang. Cassandra tried to get up as she spoke, "Should I answer it?""No. I am going." Elaine spoke and made her way to the door with the intention to make Cannon leave from the gate itself.She opened the door, "Why don’t you just.." but stopped mid-sentence when the person at the door came to her sight. Both of them stay paused for a moment."Mom, look. They killed the monster." Ryan jumped in his place drawing their attention to him.Elaine glanced back at her after a moment and said, "Hina. You?" sounding pleasantly surprised. Hina glared at her in response. She walked past her to face Ryan and stood at a few steps' distance from him. Ryan gave her a look of curiosity written on his face.Elaine walked to her and said to Ryan, "Baby, say hello to my friend." earning another glare from Hina. But she didn’t bother that. She was busy mentally praying for Ryan to behave well with Hina. Happening of otherwise was the last thing, she wanted to happen now.Ryan stared a