LOGINMARKAfter hearing all that Noelle had to tell me, I had to sit down for a bit because I was weak to my toes.“Can I count on you, Mark?” Noelle asked more deeply.“I don’t know what you think of me, Noelle, but I am never going to let anything happen to my child, and Alexa, of course,” I managed to respond.Jeez, I was going to be a father!“I am going to count on you for that, Mark,” Noelle told me. “I would require one favor from you, though,” she added.“What is it?” I asked her.“Don’t tell Alexa I told you,” Noelle said. “She was really adamant about keeping it a secret from everyone, and she would never forgive me if she knew that I went behind her to say this to you,” Noelle added.I became angry all over again.That Alexa really had the intentions to never tell me that she was pregnant for me made me really upset. How could she do this to me?I could have been there for her for almost three months now, but she shut me out completely, and if things weren’t difficult for her, I
MARK“Did you even hear what I just said?” Noelle asked when she didn’t get a reaction from me.I was stupefied beyond words.Very little things made me speechless as a Ronaldo, but this was something I wasn’t expecting at all. “What did you just say?” I asked Noelle in return.She scoffed impatiently.“Alexa is pregnant,” Noelle repeated.It was obvious that she was really pissed off, and I worried that she might turn right around and walk out of my office, but I still couldn’t get over the shock of what she just said.I was more than thirty years old and never for once had I heard something like this in my entire life. I wasn’t even expecting this.“And the baby is mine?” I asked Noelle as my heart began to palpitate.“Yes, it is,” Noelle responded.And I went back to being dazed all over again.Alexa was pregnant with my child. Alexa was pregnant for me. I got Alexa pregnant.My head just kept replaying the news in different ways and every single one of them made me shocked to my
MARKBrent showed up at my office to drop off the last of my company’s documents that he had been using to work for me. Now that everything was over, he didn’t need to keep them.“It’s been a really long time since I last saw you,” I told Brent lightly, and it was true.“I have been very busy,” he responded.I didn’t doubt Brent because he was a very skilled lawyer, and as a result, everyone wanted to use him to sort out their differences.“This is the only time I could sneak out of my time to come and deliver these to you,” he said, referring to the documents.“Thank you, Brent,” I said.Without Brent, I would probably have lost my company to Mr. Devon. Now, because of the same Brent, Devon and his cohorts were now in jail, serving time for their crimes.“But this doesn’t mean that you have stopped being my company’s lawyer,” I reminded him.“Of course not, Mark, but for now, you really don’t have anything to be worried about,” he said.I nodded in agreement.Even the accountant tha
ALEXAI was already up and freshened up when I heard a knock on the door. I jumped slightly in fright as my first thought was that it was Ivy.“Who is it?” I asked.I told myself right after that I didn’t need to be afraid, but then again, the thought of just having Ivy here didn’t make me feel good at all.What if she ended up revealing this big secret I was keeping?“It’s Noelle,” Noelle responded.I released the breath I didn’t even realize that I was holding.“Come in,” I said.The door opened and Noelle walked in.“You didn’t have to knock,” I told her.Knocking had made me jumped, but I didn’t say that to Noelle.“I wanted to be sure that you were awake,” Noelle said as she came close to me. “How are you doing?” Noelle asked deeply.“Fine,” I simply responded.“I am guessing you didn’t have a good night’s rest,” Noelle said, daring me to deny it. “I know you, Alexa, so maybe you should think deeply before you think of lying to me,” she added, sounding a bit lighter.I sighed.“H
IVYLena and I spent the next few days after the news of my supposed death had gone viral, going through every news in Paris, and eventually, we got to find out that the fair was the next day.“This is going to be a grand occasion,” I told Lena.“And you think it would be the right time to make the move?” She asked me and I nodded.“According to the list provided by reporters, my stepsister, Alexa’s business, will be on display, so she is definitely going to be there. Also, everyone in the city is going to be present there,” I responded.Talking about Alexa and the fact that the business she had started in my very eyes had blossomed so much that it was now featuring in the Paris fair. I felt a pang of jealousy deep in my bones, but of course, I couldn’t say that to Lena.Now wasn’t the time to dwell on that.Jealous of Alexa or not for living a perfect life while I needed to play dead for probably the rest of my life, this was my reality now and I needed to focus on how to find my way
IVYI got into my room and fell on the bed.“Finally!” I said out loud.I never thought that a day would come where I would be back to where I had always known as my home. “This is such a great feeling,” I told myself cheerfully.Even Alexa wouldn’t have been able to stop me from staying here, and it was a good thing I had something to hold against her, otherwise, she would have teamed up with her best friend and they would have sent me away.“I am back home,” I said to myself out loud again.I rolled from one end of my big, lush bed to the other end, allowing myself to feel alive and better again. In the last one year, my life had been a nightmare. When Lionel took me away from the mental home, I had thought that that was my breakthrough, but I soon realized that it was simply transitioning from one hell to another.But here, it would never be like that.There was no Mr. Silver to turn me away; he was the only one that could have successfully kicked me out. As for Alexa, I could alw
MARKDonald and I waited for Alexa to make her decision and my heart thundered hard against my chest.A big part of me told me that she would insist that he stayed right here; she came with him after all, didn’t he? And that would also make Donald more pompous than he was already feeling.Then I co
MARKAt first, I thought that Mr. Devon was just kidding, even though I knew that he wasn’t a man that told jokes often, but when I looked at his expression, he seemed very serious about what he just said.“Why should I stay away, Mr. Devon?” I asked him.This was certainly not what I was expecting
MARK“But you know that I am innocent, Mr. Devon,” I insisted.My heart was pounding now. If the one man that was supposed to defend me already thought that I actually did what I was being accused of, that meant that I was in deeper trouble.I could afford any lawyer in the whole world if I needed
MARKReturning to my apartment made me feel like a bloody loser. I had already made Mr. Devon know what to do and there was no deliberating on the issue; I would give up everything to fight for Vector, but after we parted ways and my driver began the drive to my residence, I felt the weight of ever







