تسجيل الدخولFIVE YEARS LATER…ANIKA'S POV“Give it back!”“No!”“Ruby!”“Zayden!”I closed my eyes and pinched the bridge of my nose.There was screaming, and the noisy sound of little running feet.Not to talk of something that sounded suspiciously like glass marbles rolling across my living room floor.And somewhere in the middle of all of it, my Zayden and Ruby still had enough energy left in them to still argue over some toy.“That’s my dinosaur!”“Well I touched it first so it’s mine!”I groaned.Today was supposed to be a calm and beautiful day.Keyword being supposed, because clearly it was anything but.Today was also Zayden's fifth birthday.Which meant our house had been transformed into complete and utter chaos, because for some reason, I had made it a must to celebrate all of his birthdays.Call it a response to my own trauma or whatever, but birthdays were to be taken seriously in this house.Colorful balloons floated across the ceiling.Birthday decorations covered every available s
ANIKA’S POVI could already hear the music playing.Somehow, it did absolutely nothing to soothe my rapidly beating heart."Deep breaths, pretty Anika," Ruby whispered beside me, squeezing my hand gently."I am trying."I really was, even though I felt like I was seconds away from passing out.This was really happening.Again.But still…The first time Liam and I got married, I remembered being so happy. I remembered thinking that nothing could possibly ruin that moment.And then Bree appeared with a gun and turned what was supposed to be one of the happiest days of my life into a nightmare.A day that was supposed to represent love became one filled with fear, blood, and heartbreak.But now...The universe was giving me a second chance.After everything that had happened, after all the crying, the pain, the questioning, and the moments where I wondered if happiness was something I would ever truly have again...Yet somehow...Here we were.Things were finally looking up for us.A mon
ANIKA’S POV“Christ's sake.”I was ignoring the phone again.At this point, it had become a routine.The prison would call, I would stare at the screen for a while like it was out to get me, and then I would decline it.I knew who was making that call, and to be frank, I was not interested in speaking to her. Heck, I wanted to forget about her existence.It was even a miracle that she was able to survive that gunshot, and yes, she was my sister, and I was happy that nothing serious happened to her in the long run, but I really did not want anything to do with her anymore.Bree had done so many horrible things to me in my lifetime.But stabbing me that day… that took the crown for sure.Unfortunately, Liam had noticed.Of course he had.The man noticed everything.I was curled up on the couch with my feet resting on his lap while he absentmindedly rubbed my feet."That's the third call this week," Liam said softly.I sighed. "Don't I know it.""You should answer it."I looked up immed
ANIKA’S POV“Liam?”My eyebrows furrowed in confusion when I entered our room and I did not see Liam, but instead, all I saw was a box in the middle of the bed and a small note that said, ‘Wear this, Princess.’What was this man up to this time?I walked toward the bed and carefully lifted the lid of the box, my breath catching almost immediately.The dress was absolutely stunning.A baby blue sequin dress that stopped mid-thigh, framing my body in the most delicate way possible with just enough cleavage to tease but not exposing. And it was also so soft.A smile slowly spread across my face."Liam..." I whispered to myself.I took a bath before getting ready. I tied my hair in a half-up bun before applying a little bit of makeup. Nothing too much. Just enough to highlight my features.When I finally slipped into the dress, it fit perfectly, almost like it had been made specifically for me.I gasped when I looked at myself in the mirror after putting on the dress.I looked so beautifu
ANIKA’S POVI was nervous, and not the good kind of nervous.And what made this feel so much worse was the fact that I had never had to feel this kind of nervousness around Liam before, even when we were not together yet, and the fact that this much of a strain in our relationship was caused because of my actions, it was a hard pill to swallow.He nodded once “yeah, we can talk”I kept on picking at my nails, over and over again, until Liam grabbed my hands and caressed it so tenderly.“Stop doing that Princess, you are going to hurt yourself” he said it so softly.My mouth opened and no words came out of my mouth.He called me Princess again.Was it weird how much that I missed hearing that?I nibbled on my lips and he put his thumb in my mind, stopping my movements “don’t do that either” he said, his gaze totally focused on me.I cleared my throat “w-where should we go talk?” I asked.“Should we go home Princess?” he asked.I nodded “yeah, home is good” I said immediately.He smiled
LIAM’S POV“Get up!”Sure enough I had been awake for over the past hour just staring at the celling and replaying yesterday’s events over and over again like some kind of horror movie that just would not leave my brain, but that did not mean that I was in the mood for this shit.Not this early in the morning, and definitely not when I was in the kind of headspace that I was in at the moment.All I wanted was to just be left alone.I looked up with an annoyed look on my face only to see Jonathan staring down at me with the exact same facial expression as me.“What do you want?” I drawled my voice sounding incredibly salty.“How long are you going to keep this up for Liam?” he asked.I scoffed “what, you can’t wait to kick me out?”He rolled his eyes at me “yesterday you were all in your feels Liam, and I get it, trust me I do. But hiding out of here forever is going to do nothing except make you a coward.”I sat upright “so, what do you expect me to do now?” I asked.He folded his arm
BREE’S POVSimon was usually so easy.I mean he was prone to drink all the time since I had been here, a very nasty attitude by the way, but now it was a bit beneficial to me today… i did not even have to do anything and he damn near drank himself to stupor.I walked into Anika’s room and opened up
LIAM’S POV“You didn’t!”My heart warmed the second I saw the absolute surprise on her face.Such a nice feeling to know that my efforts did mean something.It had taken a lot out of me to pull this off, to keep this secret, more than I would ever admit out loud, but standing there in front of her
ANIKA’S POVNow trust me I know that Liam wasn’t one to keep malicious secrets.He was not Simon.I mean the first indication was that Liam couldn’t even keep secrets from shit. I mean for about a week now, whenever I saw him, it was like h was about to explode and finally tell me what the secret w
ANIKA’S POV“You really did your big one, huh?”I asked Liam the moment he came out from his room. He was wearing just a pair of grey sweatpants that hung dangerously low on his waist exposing his delicious looking V-line and that trail of hair that led down to his-God help meI had to force my ey







