LOGINMARKI paced about at the airport, my blood boiling with rage. I had already screamed all the airport staff members away from me.Only one of them, who was supposed to be one of the pilots, returned.“Mr. Mark,” he called carefully.I stopped and turned, glaring at him with rage.“How long is the blizzard going to be for?” I asked him impatiently.It had been more than two hours since they last gave me the most earth-shattering news.“We are not sure yet,” he responded.“What?!” I said in utter shock and annoyance. “What do you mean by that?” I asked him angrily.“Usually, it can be for some couple of hours, or maybe for a day, but there is no way a plane can go up there in this weather condition,” he tried to explain to me.And it didn’t make me feel any better.It was already getting late and I should have been in Paris by now, not stuck in the airport. If that company hadn’t delayed me longer than they were supposed to, I wouldn’t have been caught up in this because even on my way
ALEXAI woke up from what was supposed to be a nap and looked around me, but I wasn’t in anywhere strange.I was in my dad’s bedroom which I had automatically turned to his.After the slight argument that Noelle and I had, I had come upstairs and just decided to sleep it all away, and checking the time now, I realized that I had been sleeping for more than two hours.“Oh, heck,” I said, rising from the bed.My neck was craned because of the position I stayed, but as soon as I turned it left and right, I felt better.Then I got up to go and check up on Noelle.She was in the guest bedroom that she had slept in when she stayed with me for a while.“Noelle,” I called.Noelle turned and looked at me, and I could feel the deep sadness in her eyes.That was when I realized that indeed, and once again, I had been insensitive and selfish; only thinking about myself. I hadn’t asked Noelle to tell me everything that happened, and to also ask about Nelson.“Hi,” Noelle simply said.I walked into
IVY“Gloria, you need to help me, please,” I pleaded with her for the umpteenth time.“No, Ivy, I cannot help you,” she repeated the same answer she had been giving me from the moment I first told her.“It’s not that you cannot help me. It’s that you do not want to help me,” I insisted.Gloria was clearly irritated already, but I didn’t want to give up.Usually, I would have just left her alone because I already knew that I Gloria didn’t want any form of disturbance and she liked to be on her own, which was exactly why since I got here, I tried not to get in her way.But not this time around.“Ivy, I am not going to be a party to it, and if you want to indulge in something like this, I am afraid, but you might have to leave my house,” Gloria said sternly.I would have shivered with fear because I didn’t have anywhere else to go, but I didn’t. Instead, I faced Gloria with courage and determination. I had already thought this through and I knew that having Lina Barry out was the only wa
MARK“You heard me right, Noelle,” I said with firmness. “I am in love with Alexa. I fell in love way before we made that trip to Toronto, but I only realized it when we were there,” I added.“Wasn’t that where you both had sex the first time?” Noelle asked me sarcastically.I didn’t like the tone she used in asking the question.“What has that got to do with anything?” I asked Noelle in return.“All these years, you neglected Alexa and treated her poorly, but the moment you got the chance to get in between her legs, you suddenly think you are in love with her?” Mona asked me.Good gracious!“Are you also in love with Mona too?” Noelle questioned me further.“Noelle, please, stop,” I begged her tiredly.I couldn’t risk Noelle going to Alexa like this. I would be completely fucked.“I am not going to stop, you fucking piece of shit!” Noelle barked at me.With the way she was raising her voice, I was worried that Alexa might hear her because I did believe when she said that Alexa wasn’t
MARKNoelle was Alexa’s best friend and the one person I knew had always had Alexa’s back. For years, she fought against Alexa being with me.If it wasn’t that Alexa needed my protection and Noelle wouldn’t be available to give it, she would never have come to me.So, opening up to Noelle about Mona being pregnant for me was really tricky.What if Alexa was standing right there and listening to her? What is they were both waiting for a reason for Alexa not to want to be with me forever? What if Alexa was looking for something to use against me to keep the baby away from me?I didn’t know much about the legal proceedings and Brent was currently unavailable, but I strongly believed that if Alexa presented this to the court, they would grant her whatever she desired. A man getting two women pregnant while not being married to either of them wasn’t something that the court would take lightly.Alexa would win even without fighting.But then again, how long would I be able to keep this a se
MARK“We look forward to kickstarting the contract with you, Mark Ronaldo,” the head of the company told me as we exchanged handshakes.I nodded.“I do too,” I responded.After signing the contract, we had had to sit down for another two hours to discuss on the next step to take, which was contrary to what I had expected.At first, it had seemed like we were just going to talk about it for five minutes, and then it stretched to thirty minutes, and then to one hour. I kept checking my watch, and when I saw that it was already two hours, I knew that I couldn’t keep staying here.I needed to leave.The flight back was only two hours and some minutes, and if I made it back right now, I would get to Paris before nightfall.Hopefully, I would be able to see Alexa. By then, she might have felt less upset with me.“Expect us Monday morning in your office, okay?” He said. “And after that, you already know that since you won’t be coming here, and we will have to be flying down to Paris every no
ALEXAWe drove in the car that Mark had come in, and I neither asked any questions nor protested.There was a man at the back of the car, but I didn’t pay him any mind or even look at him for too long. Right now, I just wanted to be in my apartment to process what had been about to happen to me.Wi
MARKAlexa sobbed, and I allowed her to. She was so fragile and vulnerable at this very moment, and I allowed her to stay in my arms.“Did you catch the plate number?” I asked her carefully.“That was the last thing on my mind,” she responded through tears.“Alright, that’s okay,” I said, patting
ALEXA“You think this is a joke, right?” Donald asked me, his anger rising.“I don’t know what you are talking about,” I said, my worry also increasing.Donald was now more upset and desperate, and that could get him to act erratically. I had no idea what he was told when he received the phone call
ALEXAShivers ran down my spine at the realization that someone had been watching me. I began to tremble with fear.I knew that it had to be my apartment because as soon as I came out, the person zoomed off.I might have been able to see who it was if it hadn’t been a tinted car, and it wasn’t a fa







