Coraline's POVThe laughter vanished from Elijah's face and his expression turned stoic."Coraline, I've told you the truth, I don't know Liam from Adam. Please drop this topic, it's making me uncomfortable."I could see that he was getting annoyed so I decided not to press on the topic, Elijah drove us to Becca's daycare and we picked her up and then drove home. "Becca, would you like to spend the night with Grandpa Warren and Nana Janet?" I asked Becca as she took a bath." Yep." She bopped her head, enthusiastically. "Great, when you get out of the tub, we're going to pack your purple luggage and then after you have an early dinner, Elijah and I are going to take you there, deal?" I held out a fist and she bumped it with hers."Deal. I can't wait to see Grandpa Simon, he's going to teach me how to play poker." My head had never swerved so fast as it did in that moment, " What?!" Becca gave me a strange look, " Mommy, are you okay?" I swallowed and nodded, I was going to have a

Coraline's POVI was taken aback by her words, it felt like my ears were ringing. I could barely stand still, I wanted to jump her. I was pissed by her name-calling, I had slapped her before I realized my actionsBlossom clutched her cheek, "You slapped me? You actually slapped me? How dare you?" She raised her hand and tried to slap me but Elijah gripped her hand and flung it away."How dare me? How dare you? I'm not going to let you take my child, you bitch. I slapped you and I'll do it all again. How dare you arise from the dead and now you want to play mother? Where the fuck were you all these years when we needed help?!" My voice was booming and a crowd had gathered around us. Luckily there were no children around, the childminders knew how to do their job well and quickly cleared them out."There it is, there's the unstable mother that I'm talking about. How are you going to be able to raise my niece to be a refined and elegant lady of the Baxter standard when you are from the s

Elijah's POV"I got the information that you wanted," Tyler announced as he entered my office, he waved the file in his hand. He got to the desk and dropped in front of me."Thanks." I collected the file, opened it, and flipped through it."Why do you need it? What are you going to do with the information of the judge in charge of Coraline's case?" He sat down and crossed his legs.I lifted a shoulder and dropped it, "Nothing much, I want to run a background check on him and see if he's reliable. For what it's worth, Blossom could have bribed him to rule in their favor. "Tyler frowned, " I highly doubt that, Judge Reginald is an upright man from what I've heard. I don't believe he can be easily bribed."I snickered, oh how naive Tyler was. I picked up my phone and shot a text to Kia to investigate Judge Reginald, I needed a full background check on him and his family, I wanted eyes and ears on them every minute of the day. I also wanted to know if he had met with Blossom recently. Ki

Coraline's POVI hadn't heard anything from my stalker in about two months and I was starting to think he had forgotten about me and had moved on. Jeremy had been away for over a month now and we were holding a welcome back party for him. He had gone back home to stay with his mother who had been diagnosed with breast cancer. Luckily it was quickly detected, she had gotten surgery and was now better. So both of our pastry chefs were out, Mei had to call in a favor from one of her culinary friends and they came with a staff and helped out for the month.I was now eight months pregnant and Elijah had officially banned me from working behind the counter as the barista so my new role was being the manager. Elijah preferred if I didn't work at all but I refused, I couldn't just leave the cafe when Mei was absent and Jeremy as well, it would have been too hard on Louise to keep the cafe running. We had hired no hands to help out in the cafe and increased our coffee stations as the cafe was

Coraline's POVI cried myself to sleep that night. Mrs Smith came over, she said Elijah had asked her to come and stay with us as I would need help with Becca. According to her, Elijah had shown up at his grandfather's house with a suitcase in her, looking like a puppy that had been kicked repeatedly.Janet made sure to emphasize that Elijah was sad, regretful, and wallowing in shame. I acted like I was hard of hearing and couldn't hear a word she was saying. Janet completely took over the operations of the house, she let me get the alone time that I needed and took care of Becca. She brought me food and although I had no appetite, I knew I would be punishing my babies by not eating so I forced myself to eat. Elijah called but I had handed over my phone to Janet so only she and Becca spoke to him. For two days, I was a complete shadow of myself, I barely got out of bed except to eat and pee, I realized that I was gradually falling into a depressive state and I hated Elijah for doin