Chapter 11Melissa feverishly bit her lips.Right now she was in between the devil and the deep blue sea, there was no going back."Yeah." She managed to put up a nervous smile.If wishes were horses, she wished that the earth should open so she could hide in there because her secret that she had been hiding was about to be exposed sooner or later.Right now, she didn't know what to do with the awkward situation staring at her in the face.As she started walking toward them, her legs felt heavy against the floor but she managed, nervously swallowing the lump in her throat."You two know each other?" Kristen asked and Melissa held tight to the hem of her gown.She imagined him saying something like "She's my ex mate…girlfriend and she cheated on me."But he said, "I organized the Sea View cooking competition, remember. I know her 'cause she's the winner.""Oh." Kristen nodded in understanding as he turned to look at Melissa in admiration."Nice to meet you again, Ms Melissa." Alex sha

Chapter 13Melissa came home, her strength sapped from her. Somehow she hadn't mentally prepared herself to meet Victoria and it felt bad.This was the reason she had not many friends. To her they were nothing but those that snatched the good things from you.She palm faced herself and squatted down and in minutes she was in tears.Somehow she wished that she was the writer of her own story - she wished that the story that broke her didn't happen at all. For one she hated looking pathetic.Whenever she remembered that she was rejected unjustly and how hard she had cried for Alex to believe her, she usually broke down in tears.Seeing the perpetrator today didn't make her feel any better.Kristen was just at her door and about to knock when he heard Melissa whimpering.He felt the need to console her but he held back.Something he did so that she wouldn't feel uncomfortable.When he heard her whimper die down, he knocked on the door."Come in." Her voice was a bit shaky."Melissa, are

Chapter 15Melissa sighed in her mind. No matter how Alex tried to mask his emotion, she knew him too well.Kristen smiled confidently and even before Melissa could say a word, he said, "We are expecting a baby soon, so she has to avoid alcohol for sometime." Alex froze on his seat. He clenched his fist and grinded on his teeth.Kristen was a bloody bastard.Alex shot Melissa a surprise look. How could she be expecting a baby and a happy relationship when she ruined his life.Kristen's explanation got everyone on the table smiling, except Alex of course.Kristen glanced at Melissa and gave her hand a squeeze under the table, making her smile a bit.No one on that table suspected that anything was wrong.Melissa wasn't the least comfortable and that was because Alex was on the same table. His eyes kept monitoring hers and she discovered that each time she looked at him, his eyes stayed on hers.The air couldn't be more akward for Melissa even though Kristen couldn't understand.Abigai

Melissa would have called back the private number but that was simply impossible.Alex held little Mia by the hand and made sure to distance herself from him so it was only his hand that touched her tiny girly fingers."I am feeling hungry." She cried."I want to eat""Shut up you little piece of…." Alex managed to stop himself from completing his statement.The littles girl was being annoying, just like her mother."I'll tell my mummy for you." She said, exposing her small sprouting milk teeth.Alex tried to make a call, but the little creature screamed. "I am feeling hungry!" And she started crying actual tears."Somehow, her tears touched him, he couldn't bear to see her cry like that."God damnit, are you being serious right now?"He looked at Killian for help."Alpha, children love chocolate, there's this chocolate I have with me.""You have chocolate and you're watching this kid disturb me. Go get the chocolate."Squatting to the little girl's height, he said, "My baby, you have

For a few days now, Melissa had been mentally preparing herself on how to break the news about her past relationship with Alex to Kristen.With each nights that passed, she wondered on her bed, what his reaction would be. Was he going to feel hurt, sad, crazy, left out? The questions would just go in and on."Ma'am, I would like two doughnuts with chocolate toppings."A kid ordered, breaking her from her thoughts."Oh darling, wait for me to get it for you, that's the price over there." She pointed to the side where she wrote the prices of all the snacks she prepared.Melissa shouldn't have been the one selling snacks out, it should have been her workers but it was because of the fact that she wanted to get busy that she had to sell the snacks herself even after making them as the head chef.She was the head chef, she was the one who supervised the other to make the food and snackbut sometimes when her workers were not around or they just didn't do something right.Today was one of th