The Billionaire's Five

Chapter 15

"No matter what happens, my child will always come first."

"What the hell were you thinking?" Valerie asked, voice booming in anger throughout the room while Tobias remained seated. 

He knew she was going to react this way.

Still, he didn't know how to handle it. He knew Valerie. She didn't like losing. Didn't like things not going her way.

It was one of the reasons of their divorce.

"We had an agreement, Tobias! You know that they are to never be out on public, much less somewhere where they might catch the attention and link them to me!" 

If someone was to hear her words, they'd think that she was protecting her children from something evil. From something that might pose danger to them.

But no. Not really.

It was all her. Her reputation, her image. All her.

She didn't want them safe. She wanted them out of the public eye in order to keep the media outlets quiet, so she won't have to face any issues and scandals on her career as a model and actress.

She was that selfish.

Tobias breathed deeply, using his fingers to massage the side of his head. The headache that he knew was bound to come was here.

"We agreed on homeschooling until college, Tobias. College! That was our deal! You know how much trouble this will get if it comes out." she yelled, pointing at him with her painted nails as she continued to talk. "They won't only come for me, they'd come for you and the kids!"

Tobias quietly nodded, knowing that she was right. He was already prepared for the things that might happen once the media gets a hold of this information about them.

It would be chaos.

But he didn't care. 

Above all and anything else, his children comes first.

Their happiness, their well-being... their lives.

He couldn't let their mother's choice affect their lives, much less control it from the side lines.

"You don't think I know that?" he asked, looking over at her with piercing eyes. He was just holding back.

Never did he like fighting, or yelling. He preferred things calm and quiet, and when a fight does spark, they can talk about it like civil human beings.

It was the only way they could truly understand each other.

But with Valerie, that wasn't the case.

It has always been like this.

"They're going to be feasted on like preys by predators, hanging in the air for other people to clamor for them if ever this gets out. Yo don't think I know that? You don't think that scares me?" he said, keeping his voice calm although his heart told him to scream.

He wanted to scream so badly.

"It scares the shit out of me, what those people can do to the kids. What do you think will happen to their lives while they're chased by strangers, approached by men and women they've never seen in their life? That dirty work will shine on them like spotlights."

He knew what he was saying is true. The industry wasn't always rainbows and butterfly.

It was war. Against one person and other, people against people. Privacy against publicity.