Leilani
I was fully awake before I even tried to open my eyes. My entire body felt like it was tied down to the soft bed beneath me. The incessant splitting of my head had dulled into just a faint throb, but I still felt awful. Lord, I felt so awful. And that was because I clearly remembered why I had passed out. I remembered the pain. The intense pain that made my heart physically ache. I already felt so ill, and having my worn heart torn apart again so viciously was too much to handle.
And I fainted.
Her lips had pressed against his. She kissed him. And he did not pull away. He did not pull away like he did when I kissed him in the elevator. He let her kiss him… and he had stared at her as she fucking walked away. Oh God, it hurt. It burned. But my poor mind was refusing to believe it. He was already with another woman? But he said he cared about me… and he had the maddening urge to keep me safe. He f
LeilaniLily and I both stared at each other. My eyes were filled with anger and confliction, as well as hurt. I was so hurt by everything she said. Was I selfish for following my heart? Was I selfish for not wanting to hurt Neil by letting him know what I had done? Was it my fault that Adonis never, ever told me anything about himself? The only thing he willingly told me was his time as an underground racer and why he quit it.I knew nothing else about him.Neil had mentioned that he had trauma and a few things that happened back when they were kids, but nobody told me of Adonis’ biological father being in jail. No one told me his father hated him to the point of threatening him with a gun. I only know Adonis gets very riled up when anyone uses the word 'bastard' on him, as Freya was fond of doing. But listening to Lily now, I just realized I knew nothing.Despair. Sorrow. Heartbreak over heartbreak. Th
LeilaniChase had curled his massive body around the foot of my couch, and as I tried to find a free spot on the glass floor to place my feet down on, Sara popped up from behind me. “I’m about to leave soon, Mrs. Giles, but before I go, I was wondering if you would like me to make you a quick treat before dinner.”Without even looking back at her, I muttered. “Thanks, Sara. But no, I’m good. And I hope you made just enough dinner for Neil? I have no appetite, just like the last few days, and I know Neil will force me to eat a little when he’s back. So, you just go home, relax and enjoy the rest of your time off.”“B-but you’re starting to lose weight. Your drugs won’t work if you aren’t eating, please.” Sara sounded genuinely worried, but I was tired of people always acting like I could not take care if my own self. I was about t
AdonisI had been hyper active ever since that fucking monster popped up in our lives again. It felt like I was fucking high on some drug, and my blood was charged to pump through my veins at the highest pressure. I was fucking damn restless. My mind kept tricking me into thinking he was lurking in every corner and every shadow was his, plotting and planning. But he would never fucking catch me off guard ever again.Dominick was serious about filing a restraining order, to make sure he could not come anywhere near Cora without getting himself thrown back in jail. And in the process of doing that, we had fucking found out that the fucker was not supposed to be out of jail… yet. Some external influence had gotten his release date shifted forward so he could be released earlier. If after getting released before the legal date, the first thing he did was to come stalk me and threaten Cora, then it was obvious that the mo
LeilaniNeil never came back home. It had been three days since the video spread like a wildfire through the internet, and that first day, I had only picked Brooke’s calls, and she sounded so distraught, bringing it to my notice that most of my employees were resigning. They had begun to have doubts about me after the audio clip incidents at the event. But all they had to see was this sex tape of me shamelessly cheating with my husband’s stepbrother… and the whole world was convinced that I was the worst person in the world.Customers were cutting off contact with my brand, and only loyal supporters stayed. But it was a crippling loss… on just that first day. I had called Sara to come pick Chase up and place him at a pet care, because I was in no position to take care of him and she did, never saying anything else to me even though I was sure she had heard the news…or even watched t
LeilaniIt all looked like slow motion. Rita, turning white in the face. Neil’s eyebrows furrowing as he looked down at the little boy that was grinning up at us. Me, slowly blinking as I registered the striking familiarity of those baby blue eyes…and that cute, flashy smile. My eyes slid back to look at Neil, unable to wrap my head around the thought that suddenly crossed my mind.I looked back at Rita. “You have a son?” My tone was full of disbelief. It was unbelievable. Rita was basically the same age as me, and she was single. She had been single… for a long time…it seems. Although, nobody knew what she had been up to during her time in the Philippines… how could a little boy suddenly come into the picture.She looked absolutely horrified, her hands shaking. “It’s none of your business.” Her voice was shaky as she turned around and grabbed him by the arm but he skittered f
LeilaniMy breath quickened, heart thudding against my ribs when she began to walk closer. From the malicious glint in her ice cold blue eyes, I knew she had the intention of wrestling me to the fucking ground if I refused to cooperate. How dare she?However, the door suddenly slid open, causing her to pause in her tracks. Neil stepped in, his face covered with glowering shadows. He was tall and broad as usual, but strangely, his aura was impossibly tumultuous, dark and intimidating. His blue eyes had darkened into a glare, and his jaw was clenched into a hard line.“Why the fuck can’t they tell me where he is?” He was looking straight at Freya, and from the way things were, I could see that they came together. He went back to her, just like the message said. “Why won’t your fucking boys tell me where the fuck he is?” He slammed his fist against the side of the do
AdonisWhen Leilani gathered her wits back, she threw our asses out of the house. Neil had stormed off earlier, and Freya followed soon after. Then, when she got over her suicidal episodes, she made us leave the fucking house and locked it down. I did not fucking say a word to Cora. I was pissed from how the entire shit turned out, the bandages around my fists were a mess of fresh blood since my old cuts had reopened from the fight with Neil. At least, I had succeeded in spitting out all of the fucking blood in my mouth.Cora had said nothing to me either. She was too shocked or angry. Or both. So, she simply got into the Jeep that had brought her here and let the security drive her back home.So here I fucking was, sitting in my Jeep, trying to fucking change my bandages and clean up from that messy fight, while my eyes kept straying to the gigantic house, which hid Leilani away. And she had locked it down to the la
Leilani“I am so glad you let me in. I have been so worried about you… all these days and we could not even reach you.” Brooke sighed softly, getting up from the couch. “I am not sure if you would like to hear the state of DELEILAH right now…”“No.” I muttered, lowering myself back down to a laying position against the soft pillows on the couch. “I don’t want any reports for now. I am just glad you’re here. I never really realized I needed a friend around so badly until you stopped by. My entire world is shit, and you’re the only person who did not judge me… I’m just pretty tired.”Brooke had come over to see me. After I had nearly slit my own throat with a knife, I had been so drained, so very exhausted that even breathing seemed like a lot of work. I realized that I had crumbled under the weight of all these problems, and i