Alexis's POV Everyday was the same, streamlined into another so fast that I could feel it, my life was slipping through my hands and it was becoming so hard to convince myself that I had done the right thing, I couldn't just come to terms with the fact that she was nowhere to be found. The last encounter I had where I had met my father wasn't so helpful either as he didn't believe what I had said either, but had said if I meant what I said, then I should leave, and I had no other choice than to do so, if it was going to convince him that I didn't love her then I was ready to do so. Dressed in silk pajamas, I weaved a hand through my head thinking of the next action I was to take, everything was beginning to spiral out of my control, with her out, there was nothing I could do. The company was fine, but I could feel it without anyone telling me, I could sense it also. I was slipping out of control, I could barely eat and was barely able to think without missing her. She had grown
Nortia's POVI was packed and ready to go after the discussion I had with Maxwell who had tried everything to get me to have a change of heart but that was never going to happen. I swallowed, thinking so hard of what else I was missing when Genevieve rushed in, swapped a gaze at me before stalking back out, I couldn't help it but take note of the frantic look on her face, the one which seemed to color her face before she stepped back in. “ I will be back soon, just a minute.” I wanted to enquire what had her that way, why she seemed to be in such a haste but I swallowed it, gulping in it. Maybe it wasn't the best thing to do at the moment. “Don't take too long, we have to be out of here soon” I reminded her before her step faded. We had to move into an apartment closer to the hanger when we found out where we were compromised, I should have known that, it was better to trust anyone else than Maxwell, and he was always one sorting out public attention, but I hadn't. It was the las
Alexis's POV The tabloid told a different story from what I had expected, even if I was asleep and I was woken up at that moment to identify who exactly was in the video which was just posted online, I would be able to do so. In a fleet of rage, I had searched my phone, punching in Maxwell's number to place a call across to him when it dawned on me that I actually had no right to, I would have had that right if indeed we were still married, but not with me divorcing her, she was free to do whatever it was that she wanted, with restrictions from me, and that included going out with anyone she wanted to. But why does it have to be Maxwell, there were numerous other men she could have gone out with, why does it have to be him? The one person she wasn't supposed to get in contact with. When my secretary stepped in, my eyes brimmed with anger while I waited for her to say what it was she was here for. “You have a visitor”“Who?” I questioned, my parents haven't gotten across to me sin
Nortia's POV“ I just have to run a check and we will be gone” I said to Genevieve while still thinking if indeed I was doing the right thing because it didn't feel that way to me. It felt so odd and awkward that I was going with her to Switzerland when I knew nothing about where exactly we were going, on last minute, I had decided to look into it, the scenery was nice and perfect as well, but it also look like the place where I was going to miss Alex even more when I wasn't supposed to, but could I help it?It was going to take a while to get my feelings out, but I knew that it would happen eventually, it might take time but then,I knew it would eventually. My eyes flickered around while the doctor ran a tube over my stomach which wasn't bulging yet, my emotions have been out of place recently and I knew the least I could do was make certain that my child was okay as well, the public had rained abuse on me, with a lot of them calling me a golddigger without even knowing the story b
Alexis's POV Every single day that had blurred past was the same, the same routine, the same emptiness which I felt and I wondered when it was going to end. Somehow the news had gotten to the public and it was worse because it made everything drop, from the company stocks to my parents blood pressure which had gotten so high that all I wanted to do was hide somewhere away from the pressure. The only good thing which had come from this even when Nortia was being called a gold digger was the fact that somehow, someone got to know that she was the rightful heir to the Edward corporation and she was being called the right owner, also her uncle was in a loophole because of the constant attention, thrown on the company and so he knew he had to make sure everything went on well. He couldn't file bankruptcy not without going to jail and when he found out about it, he stormed my office in rage throwing words at me, talking about how I had the same thing with Nortia, we made everything wors
Alexis's POV I couldn't recount how exactly I had gotten here, but somehow I knew I had driven over here after getting myself so drunk that the only thing I had wanted to do was touch and hold her. I knew I had no right to, hell, I was asking for too much and I knew I wouldn't be granted such, but a man didn't have the right over his emotions at the moment. I had waited, watching so keenly but she didn't step out. I could go in, give orders and use my position as the head since this was underneath me and one of my subsidiaries but I knew I was never going to do such, I will never do anything such as that since it felt like abusing my powers. But when exactly have I ever cared? The only time I had cared well enough was when I was with her and now, I wasn't so I knew I had to use it. Damn everything else, and any damn conscience I was beginning to have at the last moment because it wasn't important. Pulling out the breath freshening spray out of the car, I sprayed some in my mouth
Nortia's POVMy hand went underneath my chest in a fold while I tried to come up with what I was to do now and the next step of action to take but there was none that I could think about as my mind was blank. I knew that the best thing to do right away when get rid of the child but there was no way I was doing that neither would there be any way I will tell Alexis about this especially with how he had reacted at first, that amounted to him not wanting the child, but what Gerald had said changed everything and left me with conflicted feelings, which I needed to be sure about. How possible was it that he loved me that way and had no problem letting me go? I was having a hard time placing my hand on it as it seemed so out of place. If he actually loved me the way he had said, why had it been so easy for him to let me go? Running a hand across my eyes, I forced back the tears not wanting to complicate things than they already were, the emotions weren't going to be good for the child a
Alexis's POV Peering outside the window, I tried to ascertain what she would be doing right now, the gateman had stepped in not too long ago, given me details of how she had stepped out briskly not listening to anyone speaking to her before she walked out. He hadn't tried to stop her because no one else was supposed to but that didn't stop him from walking in here to get an answer on if she was supposed to be out there. I had waved him off, with a flick of my wrist, watching as he did what I had instructed without saying a word, now left to my thoughts, I had placed a call to Gerald giving orders that he should get in here, to take the papers to the lawyer. Time was ticking and although I really wanted to know what my parents would say if they found out what I had done, I will keep that away for now. My mom wasn't going to like it, I wasn't going to as well, everything was out against me and I really wanted a break, one from everything. When he was taking more time than he was s
Nortia's POVI wanted it to be a joke, it had to be an expensive joke as it had happened so suddenly and there was no reason why he would do such a thing, we haven't had any arguments that would warrant this, so why exactly had this happened? The tears ran down my cheek, unending and no matter how hard I tried to make it stop, it just wouldn't stop, there were a lot of things that I wished had gone wrong instead of this, our marriage. Where had it all gone wrong? Where exactly was it that I didn't take note? Was it when I had insisted that he should let me be? Was that it? Had I taken it to the extreme? I plopped to the ground, chewing on my lips. I would have taken the money, that was what I owned but even at that moment, my rage had taken over. It would have been stupid to take that, I was never going to believe that he didn't love me. Alexis did, he loved me so what exactly had happened? My hand patted my chest, which ached so bad I was unable to take in air. My hands clenched