Chapter 14SARAH'S POV The Airport was crowded with people entering and leaving the terminals. It was tidy, orderly and strangely quiet for the number of people finding their way through the doors.The plane had just landed in London and I headed towards the arrival door where my cousin Laura would be waiting for me. I was tense, shaky even. It had been nearly twenty years since I'd seen my cousin and we had been very close.I took in a deep breath and walked briskly towards the door, dragging my bag behind me."Sarah!" A high-pitched, excitement filled voice yelled at me, drawing the attention of everyone leaving the airport. I shook my head in utter embarrassment and hid my face behind my palm. Laura hadn't changed a bit.She jumped and waved at me until I looked at her and greeted her with a smile. How could she be so cheerful after everything that had happened between us. I had expected a cold greeting or none at all. This was entirely different.She wrapped me in an embrace and
Chapter fifteenTRISHA'S POV.The traffic was bad and it was pissing me off. It was Friday night so everyone was out and about having a great time. Everyone except me.I'm out here on the street, chasing after my boyfriend who doesn't care about me or my feelings. Why was he shopping with another woman at a boutique he knew I went to all the time? The people there had seen the both of us together and rumors were already going around that we were in a Relationship, and then he did this. He made a complete fool out of me.Maybe our relationship hadn't really been labeled but who cares about titles these days? I'm Trisha Greene, one of the most sought after, rich and powerful women in Mexico. No one could refuse me. I pulled up in front of the club house and got down from my car. The sound of the music was already thumping with my heartbeat, forming a steady tempo."Where is he?" I typed on my phone and clicked the send button."In the VIP room." Came the reply.I had eyes and ears eve
CHAPTER SIXTEENANDREW'S POVThe music calmed me, not because it was cool and slow or relaxing like jazz music. No, it was hard and blasting from a hundred speakers, the bass echoing in my chest. I liked it that way because it was catharsis for me. The music helped me vent, mirrored my emotions and drowned me in it's loud solitude.Ace Club was more like a home for me than my real home was. I hid here when I had a lot on my mind and just needed to be alone, so naturally, no family member knew I owned this place. Macho helped me run it. He was my friend from college who dropped out because he wanted to follow his dreams of becoming a DJ. I helped him achieve that, and he brought me money from the business in return. Everyone else knew me as a VIP guest and not as the owner of the place. We sold some wine I made that my father didn't let me add to our products because he didn't think it was good enough. He didn't think anything I did was good enough. But my drinks sold here, in millions
Chapter 17ANDREW'S POVThe car pulled up at my familiar compound and even in my drunken state, I could tell I was home. Connor was the designated driver I called on whenever Alfredo was indisposed or had been sent on an errand. He knew where I lived without following my GPS and he was always excited when I called him to drive me home, because it meant he would be making more money than he had the entire day. Connor and I met three years ago when I had gotten into his taxi after a heated argument with my father and made him drive me around the whole day without a destination. He was a lively kid, about eighteen when we met and twenty-one now. He made my mood lighter with his non-stop chattering during the drive, not bothering to ask me if I had enough money to pay him for making him drive around for hours. He took me around the city and showed me parts of it I hadn't seen or was just too busy to notice. He drove me home later that day, fully compensated for his time and gas. He'd foll
Chapter 18SARAH'S POV"Small world."It was just a term, a cliche. I thought the world was pretty large and meeting someone you never thought you would was fate, destiny even, and not a function of how small the world was. So when I ran into someone I'd never thought I would, in a place I never thought was likely, I didn't say "small world," I just thought it was meant to happen. That was how I felt when I met Ariana for the first time. Fate brought her to me because it was meant to be and as I stared at the photograph in my shaky hands, I realized I was right. The world wasn't small but destiny connected people together in places and ways you never thought possible.If it wasn't so, why would Laura know Ariana Shepherd? The same one that came to me pregnant and helpless. Why would I be holding a picture of her in my hands right now?"You mean to tell me that you worked in the same company?" I asked, unsure if I had heard her correctly. I didn't need to ask because I was looking at a
Chapter 19LORENA'S POVI couldn't sleep a wink last night. I looked at the mirror now and noticed the dark circles under my eyes. I grunted and kicked my feet. He would know. He would know that I'd thought about him the whole night, that my intimate areas still throbbed from his touch. My nipples hardened as I remembered his teeth on them and I felt the moist between my legs as I remembered what his fingers did down there. Why did I let him do that? He was drunk, but I wasn't. I had no excuse as to why I let him touch me. All I knew was that he made me feel things I had never felt before.But he was bad news. He was a loan shark and a thug. He had a gun pointed at my father's head for goodness sake!I looked at the mirror again and noticed the blush on my cheeks."Get it together Lorena!" I chided myself. I couldn't let Andrew see me like this. If I continued to blush for no reason, he would know that I hadn't forgotten about last night like he had asked me to.I went into the bath
CHAPTER 20ANDREW'S POV.Alfredo called. He'd been calling for quite a while but I couldn't answer it because I still hadn't gotten over my hangover and hearing about work would give me a headache, so I ignored it. He sent me a text afterwards and when I read it, I didn't know how to feel."That man Tanner has been visiting the casino and making a scene for days now. He's begging to see his daughter." The message read.I almost forgot about Mr Marcus Tanner. There was no way he would sit still and do nothing when his only child was with a brutal creditor of his. I guess being with Lorena blinded me to the real world. I'd been wrapped up in my bubble for too long and it was time to get out.I was angry with my father but I knew he lived for the company and I still had to prove to him that I could handle it when he eventually retired. I needed him to see that the son he had looked down on could end up being what the company needed to expand its reach. That was the best revenge I could h
CHAPTER 21LORENA'S POVMy father never could hide his emotions. He didn't have a solid poker face, I guess that's why he loses at the tables. He has never won a game, at least not any one worthwhile. So when he hugged me and kissed me, happy that I was alright, I knew something else weighed on him.I tried to brush it off, maybe he was just worried. Why wouldn't he be distraught when his only daughter was forced to pay for his own carelessness? It was probably just guilt. I was happy to see him too, but a part of me was upset, angry even. He was supposed to protect me and not expose me to the danger that was Andrew.I looked around, realizing that he was alone. Why was mother not with him? This might be quite the scary place, especially for someone like my mom who'd never really done anything apart from bake and take care of us. But that notwithstanding, she would forget everything else if it involved protecting me. She should have come along. Where was she?He must have read my mind