One nude picture and one accidental night with her boss were all it took for Emma's life to turn around completely. Emma Smith, secretary to Jace Sanders, one of the country's most influential business tycoons, thought she had her life going well. Knowing her boss's intolerance, Emma had mastered the art of navigating his demanding and coldhearted nature. Unlike his past secretaries, Emma successfully lasted nine years with him. But everything changed in one night- the night she accidentally sent her nude photos to Jace, her boss. As if that was not horrifying enough, Emma coincidentally had sex with him on the same night! Mortified, Emma decided to flee, but fate had another twist in store for her when she discovered she was pregnant with not one, or two but FOUR BABIES! How can she avoid her boss? Can she hide her babies from a ruthless man like Jace Sanders?
Lihat lebih banyak/The Past/
✧༝┉˚❋Lucian Montague❋˚┉༝✧
Divorces are not to be taken lightly. A child from a broken home can really be messed up depending on how the divorce goes-- those are the words from my therapist. When my parents split up I was only six years old. Dealing with the fight between my father and my mother. Which led to my father’s arrest, and his having to serve a sixteen-year sentence.
I’m ten now. He’s still in jail- been there for four years now, and sure you can argue that I should hate him for strapping my unconscious mother to a chair in the house and setting it on fire. Only to call the police on himself when he realized I was upstairs sleeping. You can say all of those things, and I do hate him but he wasn’t a bad father. Just a crappy husband. In fact, he was a good husband until something changed.
The divorce was hard on me, and mostly my mother. She had to recover and I had to testify against my father. Who swears when he gets out he’ll murder my mother so really.... my life is not entirely bad. I just need to make sure my mother is out of this pack in eleven years.
I huff and get off my bicycle. Letting it fall into the driveway. I hop up the stairs onto the front porch to find the door open. That’s weird. Mom is never that careless. She knows Dad has people around. He was the pack alpha’s beta in command. That was a job that brought respect.
People still think the fire was started by her even though there’s mounting evidence against my father, and that he pleaded guilty. They think she framed him, and almost got me killed in the process.
I locked the door once I was in. My heart skipped. There are broken items everywhere. What the hell?
Did someone ransack the place? I dropped my bag and went into the kitchen to grab a knife. Then I listened and took a sniff. There are two scents. There’s an alpha scent here, which isn’t good. My mother has a docile lavender-like omega scent. Docile because she’s not young anymore. But the alpha scent is strong, which means the alpha is older. Perhaps my father’s age. And it’s familiar.
I swear I’ve been around this scent. I followed it upstairs, where I could hear some thumping noises. I flexed my wrist, the closer I got to where the scent was coming from the more suspicious I got. It’s coming from my mother’s bedroom. My feet swing, and make contact with the door handle.
There’s a yelp as the handle breaks off and the door swings to its side.
“Mom, are you-” I froze, my eyes going wild as the alpha leader of our pack, my father’s former best friend and boss stood naked by the edge of the bed while my mother tried to cover up her body with a bed sheet.
I’m confused. I’m not a dumbass. I’ve been taught sex education. Alpha males go into rut at thirteen, latest sixteen so schools are obligated to teach us about sex from ages nine to twelve.
So I know what naked people do. I just don’t know why the very married, still ring on his finger alpha leader is with my mother.
I turned the knife his way as I stepped further into the room. “Are you taking advantage of my mother? Do you think because you knew my father you have a right to violate her? I will stab you, and end up in prison with my father!”
“Lucian WAIT!” My mother yells, and I turn to her. Her black hair is all over the place and she looks embarrassed.
“Lucian please let us explain. We’re in love, and when two people love each other they do things together.”
I glanced at her even more confused, then at him. Then back at her. “He is married, he has a son. Are you not ashamed? People have been speaking badly about you for years, and now you want to add homewrecker to one of those things?”
“Don’t talk to your mother that way.” The alpha’s attempt to scare me made me laugh.
“Don’t talk to me at all. You have a child my age and a wife. I don’t care if you’re in love with my mother, if you’re not gone in fifteen seconds I’m going to let the entire neighborhood find out just how disgusting their loving alpha can be.”
The man’s expression turns to one of fear because he knows reputation is everything, and he quickly carries his clothes and tugs them on. He turns to me... “Don’t get too cocky, Lucian. And don’t think about telling anyone about this. I am still pack leader, and I can have you and your mother removed and no one would bat an eye.”
Spoken like a man in love with my mother.
I dropped the knife and left my mother alone in the room. I rushed downstairs to lock the door after the cheating alpha and to grab my bag. Then I headed to my bedroom. After a shower, and a change of clothes, and I got ready to do my assignments when a knock came in.
“Hey honey, can I... can I talk to you?”
“No. You cannot.”
She sighs. “Lucian-”
“No Mom. God, do you never think before doing anything?”
“I am in love. It’s been four years since your horrible father tried to kill us both. Alpha Tamaki has been a shoulder for me to cry and lean on. And without a job, sweetie, he could change our lives.”
I scoffed. “You don’t get it, do you? You’re thinking about yourself in this case and how you deserve love. You aren’t thinking about his son whose heart you’re breaking by enabling his father to have an affair or his wife. His sick wife has been fighting a losing battle with a disease. You didn’t have the decency to fall for her husband years after she had passed. Why? Because you deserve to fall in love? That’s your excuse? You earned a big fat check from the divorce. I have a trust fund I can access once I’m eighteen. A trust fund with a fat load of money. We don’t need this.”
“Lucian, I know how this must look. You’re right. You’re right. I am not thinking about his family. Just my own. And if my own little boy thinks I’m doing a bad thing, then I’ll break it off.”
I leaned back. “How long?”
“Lucian-”
I nod, that means long enough. Which means I shouldn’t think about it anymore. My mom doesn’t see it. She doesn’t notice that if this blows up in her face. Alpha Tamaki will get off with a slap on the wrist. And she’ll go down a nut case. I just hope she does the right thing.
Noel groaned as he dumped Jace on the bed. After fixing his shirt, he turned to Emma, "You sure you don't want me to take him to my place instead until his ride arrives?" He asked for the third time.Declining his suggestion, Emma shook her head again, "No. He might not like it when he wakes up and sees someone he doesn't know." "You said he's not sleeping over," Noel frowned."He could wake up in the middle of the night or something. He'll freak out for sure!" "Like he has a choice," Noel huffed. "Should I just stay here and wait with you for whoever is picking him up?" "Noel, no. I can handle it. Thank you for your help." Emma began pushing him gently towards the door. She opened it, and he walked out but turned to face her, still looking worried."You promised he's not staying the night, right?"Emma rolled her eyes. Why does he even care? He can have other women at his place, but she's not allowed to have men?Who does he think he is, monitoring her life like that after rejecti
..."He was a virgin?" Lena exclaimed, slapping a palm against her lips to muffle her scream. Emma nodded, her eyes blank as she wiped the makeup off her face. "And now I feel so guilty for speaking to him like that. I just wanted to get rid of him, but I ended up hurting his feelings instead. I mean, how was I supposed to know a man like him was a virgin?" Emma sighed in exasperation, unable to get the memory off her mind. "He truly doesn't look like one," Lena agreed. "Too bad it's not written on the forehead," Emma heaved a sigh, discarding the pile of used wipes into the waste bin. "What are you going to do now?" "Now, he hates Ethel, which is a good thing for me but... I still feel bad, Lena. I was so mean to him." Emma palmed her face, "do you think I should give him a call to find out if he's okay?" "No, don't do that. Think about it: Ethel breaks his heart, and then Emma gives him a call an hour later to ask if he's okay. Sounds very sus to me.""But I feel so guilty. I
Jace cussed heavily under his breath, staring at the mess on his clothes while struggling to fully open his eyes that had water in them. He felt her slender hands tightly gripping his shirt- bringing his minutes of steady preparation to nothingness. As much as Jace wanted to yell at her, he found himself surprisingly asking, "Are you okay, miss?" The words clicked in Emma's head and she immediately looked up. Slowly, she nodded, staring into his eyes. It was the first time she was staring so closely into his sea-blue eyes and she felt something weird move in her body. "Can you get off me now?""Oh," Emma realized herself in a snap and flung off Jace's body, catching her balance almost immediately. "I-I'm sorry," she gulped, fixing her wig in place and preparing herself for her judgment. Jace got on his feet, staring blankly at the mess that had become of his outfit. "I'm sorry," Emma repeated, biting her lower lip nervously until she had a chunk of the excess lipstick she smeare
....Emma had just applied the last touch of foundation on her face and blended it in when her room door slid open, and Lena entered. For a moment, she paused at the door, looking weirdly at Emma. "Emma?" She arched a confused brow, as Emma turned to her."Yes. Where are my kids?" Lena absentmindedly pointed at the door, "What the heck did you do to your face?" "Make-up." Emma smiled, "you didn't recognize me just now, did you?" "Yeah but...why?"Emma's smile spread, "you really did not recognize me?""I mean I knew it was you cos who else would have access to your room? And also, your outfit.""No, my face. It looks different like I'm an entirely different person, doesn't it?" Emma needed complete assurance. "I... I guess," Lena stuttered, unsure. That was enough to make Emma giddy. "I'll meet Jace like this. He might think I'm a different person too," Emma giggled, as though she had cracked a tough code. "Um," Lena sounded doubtful, "this is too much makeup, Emma, what if
Emma stared at the menu, lowering the paper from her face to glance at Jace whose expression was nothing like the usual. "Have you decided?" He caught her stare and she almost jerked. She glanced back at the menu, dropped it, and nodded. A waiter arrived at their table, took their orders, and left. "Mr. Sanders, are you alright?" She could no longer bottle up the question and act like this side of Jace was normal. He looked excited and was smiling a lot, it was something Emma rarely experienced, and she feared that he might be sick. Whenever he gets too excited, he ends up falling sick. "I found her," he beamed "You found who?" "E. The locket's owner." Emma's breath hitched, "Is that what this is about?" Jace nodded readily, "We're meeting this week, but somehow, I've been restless. I'm not supposed to be telling you this but you're the only one who knows about us." Well, Jace normally sought advice from her as his secretary but she no longer works for him, so this was surpr
"Ouch." Branson pulled away from Emma as she wiped the surface of his scratch. "Sorry," she apologized, "just a little more, okay?" Reluctantly, he came close and she quickly cleaned the rest of the blood off. She kept the blood-stained swab aside and gently applied ointment on the clean surface. He stayed still as she placed a bandage to cover the cut and then arranged his hair to hide it. "All done," she smiled at him. "It'll be gone in no time." He nodded and pouted his lips, "I'm sorry for making you angry, Mommy. I did not mean to do that," he said almost inaudibly, but Emma heard him just fine. Despite his apology, Emma noticed the hurt in his ego, and it reminded her of Jace. Branson was not sorry for what he did, he just wanted her to feel he was. "And I'm sorry for raising my voice at you," her smile reduced a bit, "you know I'm not trying to be mean, right? I'm truly proud of you for standing up for yourself and I just don't want you to get hurt. It breaks my heart t
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