Holding fire in your armsTyler grinned even as Jared rolled his eyes at him, "And now that's how to sow a seed of discord and make someone do your own will without even doing any work at all."   "By being a pathetic human?" Jared scoffed, "By taking advantage of the very trust she had in you? What was that little act you just pull right now like you were the victim while stating that you'd let her off the hook if she said the word like you were some Martyr?"   "That was me playing the same game that Xavier used on my sister. The emotional blackmailing cards, Jared. You are too slow on catching up with these things and it is upsetting," Tyler's eyes shone with sadistic pleasure and Jared physically recoiled as he took a step away from him.   "I don't even know you anymore."   "You should. You were there. You knew how crushed I'd been when I realized that Anne Gracie was not my birth mom and she had adopte

Maya sprawled her petite body on the comforter, her bag falling next to her as she was assured that she was a magnet for drama.  But at least she was glad this drama had nothing to do with her new bane of existence and though many people recognized her as Xavier's fiancée they were more interested in what she was working on with Jared.   She didn't know much about marketing and adverts but what she did know was that they have gotten people to stop now and listen, definitely they would be watching.   As expected, on a bad note few blogs took advantage of the news to get traffic on their sites by throwing cheap jabs on her because of how close she was to Jared but apart from that ugly incident, all in all, it was a win for Playit and a great relief to the staff. Now she needed to ace whatever acting skill she thought she had in the past which was none. But there was a first time for everything yeah?   She heard

Maya glanced at the wall clock opposite her which was among the few items she had managed to put up and that was because it wasn't in a box. She had bought it on her way home from work.   Home, she stared at the very empty space with cream walls. There were no furnitures in the sitting room except three cane chairs she had gotten from a nearby shop while wondering where her guests would seat. She was hoping to hire Ashley to design the house and maybe that might give the space, a little homely feeling. She sighed, knowing that this was the most bizarre decision she have ever taken and that was something because she had taken a lot of crazy decisions and done even more bizarre things recently but the thought of if she had what it takes to live alone scared the hell out of her.   She stared at the clock again, it was 6:59, Melissa, Jessica, and Jasmine were supposed to be here 59 minutes ago and though the girl's tardiness was not a surprise, she wa

She was right the very first day she had met Xavier. No, there was absolutely nothing wrong with her discernment, but instead of the warning bells to make her turn the other corner and run back to her perfectly boring life where she had friends who would fight the world for her.    She like every other stupid girl had been enthralled by darkness, like a moth to engulfing fire, she had plunged deeper and deeper into the roller coaster that was Xavier until he had drained her completely and burnt her marking her with his darkness and stripping her of things she didn't even know she had.    She has never felt as alone as she had felt during these few days even when she was the new kid in twelve schools for years shuffling around one foster home to another, not having enough time to make friends, to have a bond with anyone or have anyone to confide in.    Things were much more complex now, difficult. She was not the new Kid but an ad

"So when am I setting up the interior designing for Maya's place?" Ashley nipped at her straw absentmindedly while sending an attached file of a design idea to a client oblivious to the quiet look exchanged between both friends as they wondered what to reply.    It has been exactly one week since they had found out about Maya's lie and had instantly flipped. Now, they thought of it they couldn't help but feel that maybe they had acted a bit rashly by ignoring all her texts and calls especially since she wasn't doing that anymore, but they had been too hurt to know what was right anymore.    She was a part of their bond, a connection. This was someone they spilled everything that happened to them, the second they met her, and yet it hurts to know, she had kept such a huge lie from them both.    "Maya has been too busy recently but we would surely relay your message," Jasmine lied even as Jessica raised a brow at her and she shrugg