LOGIN“Anyway,” Lilly drawls, stretching, “where were you headed just now?”“Breakfast.”“Oh good,” she claps her hands. “I’m starving, but we’re not going downstairs. We’ll just have our meal here.”I don’t argue. Just seeing Noah earlier feels like it drained every ounce of energy from my soul.After br
Sierra.“Uhm… hello?” I say, leaning back against the wall.The scene unfolding in front of me is eerily similar to yesterday except this time, Lilly is here. She’d told me before she left that she was heading to the meeting and would be back before I woke up so we could plan something to do.Appare
The words are right there on my tongue. Every reason why I would never, not in this lifetime, give her a chance... But then everything inside me freezes.I try to fight the thoughts. Try to bury them, to forget them, but they keep resurfacing like an unwanted fucking rash.My hand clenches. My heart
I clench my teeth, my hands fisting at my sides. My stare bores into her, but it does nothing to wipe the fucking smile off Juliett’s face. If anything, it only seems to encourage her because it widens.“If it isn’t the Ashthorne heiress,” Lilly drawls, folding her arms across her chest.Juliett’s s
The corridor outside my suite is quiet. It's designed to soothe but it does nothing to quiet the noise in my head.I head toward the elevator, my thoughts drifting where they shouldn’t. To Sierra.I don’t know why the twins asking about her unsettled me so much. Maybe because they’ve grown used to h
Noah.“Daddy,” Nova calls, “is Sierra with you?”I have a few minutes before the meeting, so I decide to call the twins since I couldn’t last night.Thanks to the time difference, it’s evening back home, which is perfect timing. The last thing I want is to mess with their sleep schedule.“Why do you
Rowan. “Are you going to brood forever?” Gabe asks in annoyance. I don’t pay him any attention. Just continue staring at the amber liquid in my glass, contemplating how things went downhill with Ava so fast. I’m not naïve enough to think that she was acting irrationally. She was acting like a nor
Ava. “How are you doing?” mom asks through the phone. “And how are the baby and Noah?” Once again they were out of the country for a business meeting. It didn’t come as a surprise to me that they had their own private jet since Rowan did too. He had his own and there was also a family one. I have
I decide to do my make up today. I go for the nude look. After that I do my hair, preferring to curl it instead of wearing it straight. Satisfied with how I looked, I take my ballet shoes and put them on. I was just about to leave when my phone rings. I don’t recognize the number, but I pick it up
“I can’t believe you just said that about daddy!” “Lucky for me because I don’t really give a fuck what you think” I snap. Can’t she just keep quiet and let me concentrate? With each moment that passes that I am not free, my anxiety rises even more. She glares at me, but keeps quiet. I heave a br







