Young Annabelle rushed over to where Edward stood. She held his hand and smiled at him. It felt good, not being alone anymore. Since the day she had bandaged his knees, as she had promised, she didn’t stop keeping him company.“I kept some leftover lunch, are you interested?” She asked, beaming with excitement.Her initially puffy cheeks when she joined the orphanage had reduced. While she still looks well fed unlike Edward, she wasn’t as well polished as before.“You will put yourself in trouble if the nun finds out, Ana.”“Are you going to tell her? Relax Edward, she will never find out.”Young Edward smiled and they clapped together with their hands. He never imagined he could ever meet a nasty girl like Annabelle. Other girls in the orphanage detests him for always getting in trouble but somehow,She seems thrilled by his stubbornness.“Let’s get inside Edward, the rain is drizzling.” “You have the rain Ana?”“I do, I was in the car on the rainy day when my parents died.”“Oh! So
Leonard felt his insides cringe at the sight of Drake Harris. It wasn’t meant to be this way. He hadn’t faced hell for Amelia to end up sitting in a room with her husband.They had all sat in silence for longer than necessary, it was meant to be 5:30pm. But it was half past six yet nothing meaningful had happened, only a deep tension that hung in the air and Edward Crane’s absence.Leonard’s unease multiplied, not only because of the fact that he fooled himself helping Amelia who didn’t seek for it but because he didn’t arrange the meeting in the first place. Edward had reached out to him first but he wanted to make Amelia grateful to him so he lied.“I guess our-cohost isn’t going to show up.” Drake said as he made to get up on his feet.“Good things comes to those that wait.” Leonard muttered casually.Drake eyed him suspiciously but Amelia held his hand, she urged him to seat. The two men stared intently into each other’s eyes. Anger surged in both of them.Leonard’s phone rang, he
Pamela cleaned up the last bit of blood on Gabriella’s left knee. The younger woman sat there frozen from the shock of what she had just experienced. She felt her heartbeat rising and falling but she couldn’t put her brain to use.What the heck had she just witnessed!“Stop pacing around Cole, you are scaring her more.” Pamela said kindly.Her eyes met with Gabriella’s. She felt so sorry that the innocent girl almost got roasted in Edward Crane’s attempt to murder another Harris. She and the rest of the family weren’t certain who the main target was yet, they all clustered together in the living room brainstorming.“Ouch!” Gabriella cried out as the napkin passed through her right kneecap, she looked down and noticed blood oozing from the spot. It wasn’t the cat’s. It was her own, she must have wounded it when she fell down from the impact of the blast.“Sorry.” Cole hastily got on his knees to look at her wound.Deep concern was written all over his face. It was also laced with regre
“No one will ever want you brute!”A huge female hand slammed on the table as the thunderous voice rang out loudly. The older woman furrowed her brow as the young boy standing in front of her didn’t flinch at all.Young Edward dipped his hand into his pocket and pulled out a piece of paper, he dropped it on the table for the raging nun to read. The nun narrowed her gaze at him before it finally rests on the paper.Edward’s mother is a prostitute, he was raised by a wrong father, now that the rich man found out, he dumped him here. I heard the nuns talking about it in the female toilet.“Sister, I saw the note in his hand after passing it around to the other kids, now you know why I had to beat him to a pulp.” Edward said with determination in his young eyes.The nun felt ashamed, she knew it was true, they all gossip about it from time to time although she wasn’t aware that one of the kids had eavesdropped on it.The rich man that volunteers and gives funds to their orphanage showed u
“Can I hold you for a split second?”That was all Cole Harris asked but right now, they have been entwined in each other’s arms for minutes. Gabriella felt her cheeks flush from embarrassment. It was meant to be a mutual grieving moment turned out to be tending towards more.She disentangled herself from Cole who seemed lost in the moment already. He video game players on the screen didn’t appeal to him anymore. He felt himself getting drawn to Gabriella’s feminine energy which wasn’t why they agreed to their awkward friendship in the first place.“I am leaving .”She said suddenly rising up from the chair, she knew spending another minute in there with Cole could have consequences, the difficult ones to bear. She picked up her bag to stand up but Cole held her hand and pulled towards himself.“Don’t leave me alone, please.”Gabriella felt stupid, it all looks so wrong, whatever the fuck they had ongoing. She had slept carelessly with Ryan Harris few months ago and got attached to him
“Let us get a divorce.”Drake regretted immediately the word left his lips. He locked his lower lip as he felt the heat emerging from Amelia’s gaze, she was quiet for sometime considering his words.“Is that what you want?” Amelia questioned with a raised brow.Drake hesitated, he knew Amelia was a really really unpredictable person. What was her reaction going to be? He had turned the word over in his head and the only thing he keeps coming to was letting go of her,Even if it would kill him.“Yea.” He said at last.“Coward!” Amelia shouted angrily “ Do you think your futile attempt will make me leave, pushing me away would work?” She stood up from the bed and faced him, their faces only inches apart “you are a total coward Drake Harris.”Drake stood up on his feet and closed the distance between them, Amelia didn’t flinch, she stood her ground waiting for what he was going to do.He held her hand.“I don’t want to lose you Amelia, and this….leaving me would save you and ….our child…