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{ SEVEN }

Author: Lara P
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-05-22 18:27:41

ALICE

Rejecting my grandfather’s request to take over from Wilberforce would mean explaining why. And I couldn’t do that.

Because the truth was sitting quietly inside me, growing day by day. And the moment anyone found out, the next question would come immediately. Who’s the father? I wasn’t ready for that question. So I accepted the position.

A small movement pressed softly against my lower stomach, almost gentle enough to imagine away. Eleven weeks now. My fingers tightened slightly against t
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Keisha
How long is she going to hide the baby? ... I’m waiting for the explosion…
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  • TOO LATE TO WANT ME BACK    { FIFTEEN }

    VAYLEN The iron gates of La Santé Prison opened slowly behind me with a deep metallic sound that echoed against the wet concrete.Cold Paris air hit my face immediately. For a moment, I just stood there.Two years ago, I walked through those gates wearing a tailored suit worth more than most people’s salaries.Now, I walked out carrying my entire life inside a transparent plastic bag.One of the officers handed it to me without a word before the gates closed behind me again.I lowered my eyes toward the bag in my hands. A wristwatch that no longer worked. A wallet filled with frozen cards. The same clothes I wore the day I was arrested.Two years. And somehow, everything I once owned now looked meaningless.The French judge called my sentence a compromise. A shared legal responsibility.To me, it felt like innocent people were buried together with criminals while the government called it justice.

  • TOO LATE TO WANT ME BACK    { FOURTEEN }

    ALICEJulius studied me quietly for a moment before finally speaking.“I saw the news.” His voice stayed calm. “I wanted to know how you were doing.”I didn’t answer immediately. My eyes stayed fixed somewhere near the floor while silence settled between us again.The room suddenly felt smaller than before.“I can see this has been hard on you,” he said softly after a while.I looked up slightly then.His gaze rested fully on me now. “You look exhausted, Alice.”Something about hearing it spoken aloud made the exhaustion inside me feel heavier instantly.For days, everyone else had only cared about the scandal. The suspension. The pregnancy. Nobody asked how I was actually surviving any of it.Julius leaned back slowly against the couch.“I know what it feels like,” he said quietly, almost more to himself than to me. “When people start looking at you like your existence alone has becom

  • TOO LATE TO WANT ME BACK    { THIRTEEN }

    VAYLEN From the outside, my marriage to Melissa looked perfect.Beautiful wife. Luxury parties. Public appearances. Headlines calling us a love story that survived time.People saw the photographs and envied me.But only I knew what these past two months had really felt like.I met Melissa when I was seventeen.She was fifteen then. Loud. Reckless. Beautiful enough to make the entire world disappear whenever she smiled at me.I loved her so much that sometimes it felt embarrassing to admit even to myself.We grew up making promises that sounded immortal at that age. Marriage. A future together. A life that somehow felt guaranteed simply because we wanted it badly enough.Then two days before our wedding, she disappeared. No explanation. No goodbye. Nothing.That period nearly destroyed me.And somehow, in the middle of all that ruin, Catherine entered my life.Quiet. Patient. Kin

  • TOO LATE TO WANT ME BACK    { TWELVE }

    ALICE “This scandal is already affecting shareholder confidence,” the board chairman said evenly. “If we fail to respond now, the market will assume the Laurent Empire protects instability at the executive level.” His voice cut cleanly through the room.I sat motionless while file documents and tablets remained spread across the polished table before everyone. He adjusted the file in front of him before finally looking toward me.“To that effect, Alice Laurent.”I looked up.Every face at the table was already turned toward me.“You are hereby suspended from all leadership duties and executive authority within the Laurent Empire.” He paused. Heads turned to him, " Effective immediately.” he added.For a second, I just… stared at him.My fingers slowly tightened around the edge of the table until the polished wood pressed into my skin.“Please,” He continued, his voice softer now, “you may exc

  • TOO LATE TO WANT ME BACK    { ELEVEN }

    ALICE “The fall caused significant bleeding.” The doctor’s voice remained calm as he lowered the file onto the desk between us.“Right now, the pregnancy is unstable.”I didn’t move. The white hospital lights reflected faintly against his glasses as he adjusted them slightly before continuing.“We’ve managed to stabilize her condition temporarily, but the next seventy-two hours are critical.”The words settled heavily into the silence around me. Critical.“She’ll need constant monitoring for the next few days,” he said. I kept staring at him without speaking. Somehow, the room suddenly felt colder than before.“Stress and exhaustion had already weakened her condition,” he continued carefully. “Tonight only made things worse.”My fingers tightened slowly against the blanket covering my lap.For the first time since all of this began, real fear started settling inside my chest.Fear of losi

  • TOO LATE TO WANT ME BACK    { TEN }

    ALICE I had spent the last twenty minutes trying to convince my body to cooperate.The sound of the orchestra drifted faintly through the walls of my room. Laughter followed it. Glasses clinking. Conversations rising and falling beneath the music downstairs.Grandpa’s birthday celebration had already started. And I was still standing here fighting the urge to sit back down.My body hadn’t felt normal since the night at the Arenthis rooftop pool three weeks ago.The dizziness came and went without warning now. The headaches lasted longer. Sometimes the pain low in my stomach faded for hours before returning sharp enough to stop my breathing halfway through a sentence.My private doctor had already warned me severally. Rest. Less stress. No public exhaustion. As if my life would suddenly allow any of those things.I should have stepped back from Laurent Empire temporarily. Any reasonable person would have. But it had only been two months since I became acting president.Two months. Too

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