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Tiana's POVI ate the last slice of my pizza and drank the content of the overpriced small bottle of water I bought at the hotel minibar earlier. I had been in my suite all day, searching for a new apartment non-stop. I wanted to move out of this hotel before the weekend was over but the ones I was seeing were too expensive for me at the moment. I had enough money saved up from working at Berkley but I wasn't going to waste it all on a new apartment. I just needed something simple.I closed my laptop and dumped the empty pizza box on the coffee table, I sat on the couch and scrolled through my phone. My mind drifted back to Seth like it had been doing since I left his office yesterday, he was right, I didn't believe he loved me, not after the way he treated me. I wasn't going to be the girl who stayed with him until his confusion cleared up and he realised what he truly wanted. I wasn't going to be an experiment for him. He needed to try harder for me to actually believe him. I shu

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Tiana's POV After we both left the rooftop that night, I retired back to my suite and even though I was scared of what was to come, I couldn't stop smiling. Seth came to visit me again the next day and we had dinner together. When I reached my desk on Monday morning, I saw a thick, cream coloured envelope resting on my table. Wondering what it was, I opened it and took out the papers in it. My heart skipped a beat as I read them. It was a lease agreement for a luxury apartment close to work, one of the buildings I had looked at yesterday and dismissed because the rent was three times my monthly salary. It was already signed by the landlord with my name listed as the sole tenant. The deposit and the first twelve months were marked as Paid in Full. I gasped as I stared at the name of the owner and landlord of the apartment, it was Seth Berkley. My eyes widened in realization. Seth bought that house, because the last time I checked, it belonged to some Jeffrey guy. As if that

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Tiana's POVAs Seth and I got to his office, I shut the door behind us and faced him, my heart hammering against my ribs so hard it was painful."What were you thinking?" I whispered, my voice cracking. Seth didn't even look bothered. He walked toward me slowly. "I'm not just going to stand there and watch that creep put his hands on you.""But... But everyone saw that." I palmed my forehead and started to pace his office. "That doesn't matter." "It matters." I cut in, my eyes widened when I realised something else. "My gosh, Theo is going to tell her, he is going to tell Maddie." Seth frowned, stopping in his tracks. "Why would Theo care about what Madison thinks?" I stopped pacing and looked at him, realising that he didn't know yet. "Theo and Maddie are hooking up. I caught them last week, that was what Madison and I fought about." "What the hell? Were you ever going to tell me?" He asked, his eyes darkening. "Honestly, no. Not because I was scared of what Maddie would do bu

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Tiana's POVMy stuff wasn't much, but Seth still sent his driver to help me with them. I was surprised when I got to my new apartment and saw that it was thoroughly furnished. There was nothing else I needed to buy. I couldn't be more grateful to Seth. I called him on the phone as I walked around the house, inspecting and grinning like a little kid. I slept with a huge smile on my face, totally forgetting about the scenario that happened today. The next morning, just like I expected, everyone kept staring at me. It was even more intense compared to the first time Theo caused a scene. There were whispers as I walked past them but I ignored them all. Just as I was about to enter the elevator, I saw Wren approaching, but she stopped as she saw me. I frowned as I watched her lips pull into a smirk, then she walked to the other elevator. What was that about? I didn't think much about it as I rode the elevator to the tenth floor. I prepared Seth's coffee and waited for his arrival whi

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Tiana's POVI groaned as my eyes slowly peeled open. The first thing I smelled was antiseptic and disinfectant. The second thing I noticed was the white walls of the hospital room where I was. "You are awake." A voice said beside me, I turned my head slowly and saw a woman in a white lab coat so I figured she was a doctor. She checked my vitals, stating that I was now stable. "Tiana. Thank God you are awake." I heard another voice say. I saw Madison at the other side of my bed, looking at me with pity. Her mascara smeared beneath her eyes from crying. "What happened to me?" I asked her. The last thing I remembered was falling to the ground and feeling that sharp pain in my stomach.The doctor sighed before putting down her note. "You were five weeks pregnant, Ms. Palmer. Were you aware of this?" My breath hitched in my throat. My hand flew to my stomach, the sharp pain was gone but it still felt like something was going on there."Pre- pregnant? No, I didn't know." My lips tremble

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Seth’s POVThe city lights blurred as I drove through the streets leading to Tiana's apartment. My knuckles were white against the leather of the steering wheel, and my heart was doing something it hadn't done in years, it was racing out of worry and fear. I had spent the last ten hours trapped in meetings upon meetings, I was glad to finally break free from that creep but I hadn't realised time had gone so fast. I hadn't checked in on Tiana since she left the office this morning. There was a probability that she was mad at me, I had been calling her but she had been refusing to pick up. I just hoped that nothing bad happened to her. I reached for my phone for the twentieth time, hitting the speed dial, it rang but there was no answer. I was regretting my actions. I shouldn't have let her go home alone. I should have cancelled the meeting. I should have carried her out of that office myself. What if Madison had gotten to her?"Pick up, Tia. Please, just pick up." I muttered under

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Tiana's POVI stared out of the small window of the private plane I was in, watching the lights of New York City fade into tiny specs before disappearing entirely beneath a blanket of clouds.I shut my eyes and leaned my head against the cool window and let the tears fall freely from my eyes. I didn't try to wipe them away. There was no one here to see my weakness. Madison had turned herself into a monster I didn't recognise and taken everything I loved. First, my baby, the man I loved, and then my twin sister, all because she wanted power.My baby.I clutched my stomach, my ribs constricting in my chest. Another wave of tears flowed from my eyes. I lost the only part of Seth I had left. I wondered how he would feel. He would definitely hate me, hate me for being a coward who ran when things became difficult, hate me for not even trying to fight for our love. Maybe I was a coward, I couldn't let him lose what he had spent half of his life building for a woman who had brought nothin

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*Two Years and Some Months Later*Tiana's POVThe bell on the counter of the flower shop chimed, signaling the end of my shift. The scent of lilies and damp earth clung to my skin as I placed the last flower pot in my hands beside the rest. "That’s the last of the lilies, Ana." Caleb, the owner of the flower shop I worked at said to me, wiping his hands on his apron as he stepped toward me.I took off my apron and placed it in the storage room, fixing my bun before leaving the room to see Caleb waiting for me. He scratched his chin as he smiled at me shyly, "So, I was thinking... there’s a new Italian place on the streets after ours. Maybe you and I could grab a bite before you head home? My treat."I offered him a small apologetic smile as I grabbed my cardigan from the hook. "I’d love to, Caleb, really. But I have to get to Leo, you know how he gets when he wakes from his nap."There was a flicker of disappointment on Caleb’s face before his expression softened. "Of course. Leo co

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Tiana's POVThe next morning, I was trying to balance Leo on my hip after feeding him while I took some vegetables and fruits out of the fridge, my hair still damp from a rushed shower. I had woken up late all because I stayed up thinking about the things Elina and I discussed. "Mommy, I want my blue car!" Leo insisted, squirming in my arm as he pointed toward the toy box in the living room."In a minute, baby. We still have to get you dressed for daycare." I told him, but he continued to tap me and point towards his toys. The life of a single mother was exhausting, not that I was complaining. Elina asked me to get a nanny for Leo but I didn't want to. I wanted to take care of my baby by myself and enjoy every minute I had with him.Just as I popped a strawberry into my mouth and also gave Leo one, I heard the doorbell ring. I wasn't expecting anyone and Elina didn't usually come in the morning. I adjusted Leo and walked to the door, pulling it open, my eyes widened when I saw Cale

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Seth’s POVI didn't look at my assistant, Nikki, as she spoke about the time I was to deliver my speech at the opening event of my new hotel. She went on and on but it didn't interest me, not that anything ever interested me anymore since Tiana left.I missed her more than I could ever express in words. I almost went crazy when the private investigator I hired got no lead on her after months of searching. It was as if she disappeared into thin air and was erased from the surface of the earth. I hadn't given up on her, I knew one day I would find her. "The event is at its capacity." Nikki continued, unfazed by my silence, she was used to it by now. "Everyone is waiting for the announcement of expansion of our empire into other countries. This will be the best time to say it, I'm sure our investors will be elated by the news.” Nikki was fifteen years older than I was and really good at her job, better than Carol and Tiana. She used to be one of my father's employees before she came to

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