Chapter One Hundred and Thirty Seven Camilla’s POVI woke up earlier than usual. I took a walk around the neighborhood to clear my head. I made sure to return home before Rory would wake up. I got her up and got her ready for the day. I also got ready and we had breakfast together.I took her to school that day. I ran into Jason and Tori at school. We made small talk for a while and then I left. I stopped at a coffee shop to have some coffee. The plan was to spend the day out until it was time to pick Rory up from school. I didn’t want to spend the whole day indoors.After I got coffee, I headed to a bookstore. I picked up a few books. I used to be a very big reader but work had taken over that part of my life. I wanted to balance my routine now.After I was done getting books, I had an idea to go to an art gallery. On the drive there, I got a call from Rory’s school. Why would they be calling by this time of the day?“Hello?” I answered.“Am I speaking with Camilla Brown?” The perso
Chapter One Hundred and Thirty SixRaphael’s POVAfter I left Isaiah’s house, I went back to my office. I was furious. I knew that he was the mastermind behind everything and now an innocent Caleb was behind bars. I had to figure out a way to lock him up.I sat on my office chair trying to calm myself down. I didn’t want to act out of anger. If I wanted to do things right, I needed to be clear headed. After about 30 minutes of thinking, I called my legal team. I asked them to find any records of my dad that had to do with Isaiah. Maybe there was a hidden will somewhere. I wanted to make sure there was no way he had any access to the company. I also asked them to go through the shareholders.I contacted my cybersecurity team to find records of contact between my father and Isaiah. I also ordered them to do more digging on Isaiah. I needed to know everything I could about him. I'm pretty sure he had been watching me for a while and knew stuff about me.I didn’t have anything to do in t
Chapter One Hundred and Thirty FiveCamilla’s POVAfter Raphael left, I changed into more comfortable clothes and fell asleep. I was tired, physically, mentally, emotionally and in every other way a person could he tired. This week before the relaunch event was just what I needed to get back in the right head space. By the time I woke up, more than three hours had passed. Skye was also in the house. She was with Rory in the living room. I had told her what had happened over the phone and she was even more devastated than me.She tried her best to cheer me up and suggested we go out for the day. I agreed because it was much better than staying indoors all day.We got ready and got dressed, Skye, Rory and I. We planned to just go out and shop and then have ice cream later before returning to the house.We got in the car and then headed to the mall. I hadn’t taken Rory to a mall as big as the one we went to. She was fascinated with everything. We saw a face painter and she begged to get
Chapter One Hundred and Thirty Four Raphael’s POVCamilla left for her doctor's appointment. I really wanted to go with her but I understood her concerns. Now wasn’t the time for rumors to go around. A part of me hoped she would want to keep the baby but I wouldn’t voice that to her. I wanted her to make her decision by herself.I decided to work from home because I wanted to be with Rory and I also wanted to be around when Camilla returned. However, I still had my meeting with Isaiah. I kept thinking of all the possible things I could say to him. I wondered if I should be straightforward with him about what I wanted to know. I just really hoped that he didn’t want to cause any trouble.I had texted Camilla to ask for an update since she hadn’t returned from the hospital and it had been over 3 hours. I didn’t expect the appointment to be that long. She didn’t reply so I assumed she was occupied.After waiting for about an hour more, I heard the front door open. I went to see who it w
Chapter One Hundred and Thirty Three Camilla’s POVFor some reason, I was dreading having to tell Raphael I was pregnant. I didn’t know how I was feeling myself so I didn’t know how he would take the news. I wasn’t even sure I would be keeping the baby.He took the news better than I expected and promised to support me in whatever decision I decided to make. That made me even more emotional. After talking for about an hour with him about everything, we went back downstairs. Since there was nobody at his house, Jason was with Tori, so he decided to spend the night. After all, we hadn’t gotten to see each other for the past few weeks.He tried his best to cheer me up and take my mind off everything. We were watching a movie when he got a phone call, he went outside to take it.“Who was it?” I asked when he came back inside.“It was Brooks, my tech guy. He just called to tell me he got in contact with Isaiah. I'm going to see him tomorrow.” He answered.“Yeah, he isn’t serving any time
Chapter One Hundred and Thirty TwoRaphael’s POVI couldn’t sleep well, not after seeing what I saw on my computer. I couldn’t go into work that late either. I had to wait till morning to deal with everything. I did some more digging and thinking. How could I have missed that.Morning couldn’t come fast enough. As early as 5am I put on my running clothes and left the house. I ran for over an hour. I kept thinking about what I saw.I got back to the house and got ready for work. I didn’t have breakfast, I didn’t think I could stomach the food. I said bye to the kids and left for work.When I got to my office, Brooks, head of tech, was already waiting for me. He was the one in charge of doing more digging on Isaiah and he had found something last night.I looked through the information that he had found. “Can you get in contact with him? I want to see him?” I asked.“I knew you would say that.” He replied. “Since he got released, he’s gone back into being undercover. He hasn’t left the