Alle Kapitel von His Father’s Addction: Kapitel 91 – Kapitel 100

ELVISI was practically left speechless by her question.“Do you still see me as the Emily you used to love?”Of all the things I expected Emily to ask me, that wasn't one of them.Over the past two years, we had somehow found our way back to being friends.We attended most of my social functions together, and I returned the favour whenever she had an event she didn't want to attend alone. It happened so often that bloggers had already decided we were back together.At first, we laughed about it.Emily once sent me an article with a picture of us leaving a charity dinner together and the headline boldly announcing that Elvis and Emily Laurent had rekindled their romance.She added a message underneath.Apparently, we're in love again. Congratulations to us.I laughed and replied that it was nice of the internet to inform me.But now, sitting opposite her while she waited for an answer, it didn't feel funny anymore.“I don't know,” I finally said.Her expression fell slightly. It was t

HAZELI looked away first. Seeing Elvis again was one thing.Seeing Emily wrapped around his arm, calling him my love while fixing something on his neck was another.My chest hurts so badly, like some fragment is being ripped apart. I'd seen them online. It was almost impossible not to.Pictures of Elvis and Emily attending dinners together, charity events, and business functions. Some random photos of them leaving restaurants.The blogs had been having a field day with it for months.Elvis and Emily Laurent rekindling old flame?Former power couple back together?I'd seen the headlines, and even convinced myself that I didn't care.Apparently, seeing it on a screen and having it happen a few metres away from me were two completely different things.I tightened my fingers around my purse. Fucking hell! Why did this man still have this kind of effect on me? After two years?For Pete's sake, he had been more than eager to send me back to prison.He'd looked me in the face and made me

ELVISAir conditioners were stationed around the entire place, keeping the hall cold despite the hot weather outside.Yet here I was, sweating inside.Hazel was the last person I expected to see tonight.In fact, she was the last person I expected to see anywhere. Two bloody years without a word from her, and then I walked into Edward's birthday party and there she was, standing beside William.Even thinking about it made my blood boil with rage.Seeing them together had brought out something ugly in me. Something possessive that I had no right to feel.I'd wanted to walk over there, drag her away from him and claim her as mine.Sheer stupidity, she wasn't mine to begin with, judging by what I'd heard her tell Emily earlier, perhaps she'd never truly considered herself mine in the first place.I rubbed the back of my neck.I didn't know what to say or do around her anymore.I'd stood there shaking like some teenager seeing his crush for the first time.A grown man with two grown sons

HAZELSeeing Tessy smiling warmly at me was the last thing I expected this morning.Actually, running into Tessy at all was strange enough.But this version of her? Very strange.She wasn't wearing any makeup, which surprised me. Her hair was pulled away from her face, and without foundation or whatever expensive products she usually wore, I could see that her skin was naturally spotless, glowing too. Some people were just unfairly blessed.“I thought my eyes were playing a fast one on me when I saw you,” she said as she walked closer. “It's been a while.”“You can say that again.”Her eyes moved towards my car, then the open bonnet.“What happened?”“I wish I knew.”“You don't know?”“If I knew, I probably wouldn't be standing here staring at the engine like it personally offended me.”Tessy laughed. Not the fake, mocking laugh I remembered.“Cars always choose the worst possible time.”I stared at her intently, she caught me doing that. “What?”“Nothing.”“No, that's not a nothing

HAZELWhat Jarvis said was funny. I should probably be angry, but nah.I wasn't going to let him rage-bait me with that silly ego of his.‘Deep down, I know you still love me.’Where did he get that confidence from?I stared at the closed door for another second before shaking my head.“Idiot.”If he thought working in the same company meant we were suddenly going to rekindle anything, he was in for a very long disappointment.Jarvis belonged to my mum. That thought wiped the smile from my face.I hadn't seen or heard from Bianca since the last time she came to my apartment before I left Australia.I wondered what she was doing now whether she was still here.Not gonna lie, sometimes I miss her.There were days I wished I could put everything aside, pick up my phone and call her.She was still my mother.No matter how angry I was, I couldn't erase all the years before everything went wrong.Sometimes, I miss the smallest things, talking to her, hearing her voice, having someone I coul