LOGINJayden's POV.I stared at the file on my laptop for a long time. Amelia and I just returned from Derrick's house and I am back to business.One click and that was all it would take for Lawson's entire world to come crashing down.For years, I had waited for this moment. I had carried the weight of my mother's death inside my chest like a wound that never healed. I looked at the photograph sitting beside my laptop.My mom was smiling in it. She was always smiling even when life was hard and she got tired of things. Even when she was always hurting inside of her, she would still smile.I picked up the frame and ran my thumb across the glass."I finally got him, Mom. I finally got the truth." I muttered to myself, then the office door opened quietly. Cole walked inside.He took one look at me and immediately understood."It's time?" he asked. I nodded my head at him."Yes it's time." I replied as he sat across from me."Are you sure about this?" he asked."After everything he did, you ar
Amelia's POV."Jayden. We have been here for so long but you have been on your phone.” I said.Jayden looked up at me. I didn't lie when I told him that he has been on his phone for a long time. He was doing the usual by answering emails he had ignored for days while staying BI looked up from where I sat on the couch.He was working on his laptop.For once, it wasn't business.It looked like he was answering emails he had ignored for days while staying beside me."I want to go somewhere." I said, his fingers stopped moving."Okay." he replied, without questioning me with interrogations or even hesitating."You don't even want to know where?" I questioned as he turned off his phone, directing his focus to me."If you're asking, then it's important.""I want to see Derrick, my new found dad.” I said."Let's go, then.”---The entire drive was quiet. Jayden didn't force conversations with me, nor did he ask if I was nervous at all.He didn't even try to caution me on what to say when I
Amelia's POV."Get dressed." I heard Jayden say to me and I looked up at him from the bed.I wiped my eyes because I had just finished waking up from sleep. He had been in the room all along, holding a mug in his hand as he sipped his coffee gently."What?" I exclaimed, completely unaware of what he was talking about and probably I was still in my dream world and I wasn't back to reality yet."You heard me perfectly well, Amelia. Or have you forgotten that we are supposed to go on a date together?”“Oh I just recalled that I told you to take me out on a date last night. But also I just woke up this morning and I still feel sleepy so I don't feel like going anywhere anymore.”“That is actually a good response to get from you,” he replied. I raised my eyebrows at him.“Why are you even saying that? I just declined our date after pressuring you yesterday and you seem as though you're happy about it when you're supposed to be sad.” I said, throwing a tantrum at him. No one could blame me.
Amelia's POV.I couldn't sleep.No matter how many times I closed my eyes, the same faces kept appearing in my visions.Every single person who had turned my life upside down did not seem to leave me alone..I sat alone in the living room long after midnight, thinking about Derrick's words. He wanted to hand over his property and everything to me but I refused. The only way he could live was when he begged me to think about it and I said yes to his request.I was also holding my real mother's photograph. My hands trembled as I traced her face with my fingers.I kept on asking questions in my heart. Questions like why didn't my mother stay alive? Anytime I thought about it I would end up crying again, but I was genuinely tired of crying. My heart was beyond hurt and I was just so fed up with having to wake up everyday only to discover another lie after another lie.I pressed the photograph against my chest."Mom, what am I supposed to do now? From the way things are going I was informe
Derrick's POV.Today was the day I had made up my mind to do what I have always wanted to do ever since I found out the truth.Nobody knew something big was about to happen. But probably they knew because of the urgency I used in the whole scenario.Lawyers sat on one side of the table, while board members sat on the other. Reporters waited outside and my assistant closed the door behind me."Mr Derrick," one of the directors said and I looked at him. "Are you absolutely sure about this?"I looked at the stack of documents sitting in front of me. For years I had signed hundreds of papers, business deals, investments, acquisitions. Nothing had ever felt this important to me."Yes," I said. The lawyer adjusted his glasses."Once this is announced publicly, there is no going back.""I am aware of the consequences so you don't need to remind me.”Everywhere became quiet again. My hand tightened around the pen and for weeks I had been living with a pain I couldn't describe.Every day I rem
Amelia's POV.I didn't want the conversations to still be outside so I had to tell everyone to come inside. I was now seated on the couch inside of the penthouse.Emily sat beside me, twisting her fingers together. Jayden stood near the window. Derrick remained near the entrance as he waited for Rachel to step in.Apparently, she had been so hesitant to come inside. Even when I invited everybody she was still the only one left outside.She finally walked in but she looked very small to me. Before I saw her to be very powerful and confident. I saw her to be a woman that was always in control but now she wasn't that woman anymore, her eyes landed on me immediately.I looked away. I was literally acting like a shy lover and anyone who did not know about the situation at hand would actually think so not knowing that I just couldn't bear to look into her eyes.Especially when she was the woman who had destroyed everything in my life. I even went as far as calling her mom she showed me so m
Amelia's POV.I slammed the door of my office harder than I meant to and the sound echoed very loudly in my ears. My back hit my chair first as I sat down, then my head followed, resting against it as I tried to breathe. Then the thought flashed through my head again. The loud moan, the way he s
Chapter 10.Fear had a taste. If anyone would have ever told me that then I wouldn't have believed until I experienced it on my own.That was the first thing I noticed as the elevator doors slid open onto the executive floor.I paused for a second, gripping the strap of my bag tighter. That was ins
Jayden's POV.Work had always been the only place I could breathe. The contracts made sense to me, the deadlines, pressures and negotiations.All of it was clean compared to people, compared to emotions and compared to the chaos waiting at home. So I buried myself in it.My desk was covered in file
Amelia's POV.Lawson laughed hard. It wasn't even because I had cracked a joke that was funny but because he just wanted to laugh at me. “You have finally lost your mind. You think you can make demands in my house?” he said, staring hard at me like I was nothing but a joke.“I’m not asking you. I







