How To Steal A Heart [ COMPLETE] ✔️

Chapter 9 (Things we do)

Elizabeth POV
We humans do a lot of shit. We do things that hurt others and we do it for our own good and needs. We never do it for other people, just for us. We're humans but we're also selfish.

Charles and I have been together for six years now. It's crazy to see that the person you once said will love you no matter what and will never give up on you, give up on you.

I'm not looking for pity or anything but me and Charles have been through a lot. He and I met when we were still in high school. Never did I know I was gonna marry the high school popular kid, I was popular too but Charles, he had everything, well almost everything.

For starters, he always wanted a brother but never got one, until he met Adam. They met when they were in college and were inseparable ever since.

In the beginning, when Charles came to our school, my stepsister Daisy instantly liked him. In the end, I guess I did too.

Time passed by and Charles and I ended up liking each other and going on dates, but we all had to take our different directions when it came to college.

My stepdad at the time, Victor JK Micheals, sent me to Yale where I studied law. I mean he really didn't 'send' me there, I wanted to go there ever since I was a little kid. Charles, he went to Stanford University. We really didn't see each other every day but we kept in touch with one another and when we were finished with college, we found our way back to each other and started dating again. Everything was perfect....Until he found me in bed with someone else. I know what you're thinking, why did I do it or what was I thinking?

Well, I was drunk and this guy and I met in a bar. The same bar where Charles met Natalie. Funny how things turn out at the same place. I don't even remember the freaking dude's name but the stupidest thing I did that night was sleep with him.

It was in the hotel room me and Charles were staying at. When he found us in the act I didn't know what to say or how he would react. That's why our relationship is basically dead now. I begged him not to leave me and he said he'd give me one more chance, that he wanted to make it work. I don't think he meant it though. He's been cold and distant ever since.

When Charles and I got married, we tried to get pregnant but it turns out that I'm infertile and I can't have kids, ever. So when I heard that Natalie was pregnant, the perfect plan came to mind. I thought maybe I'll go and talk to her and give her some money for herself so that when the baby is born she just can give it to us. But she didn't like my idea and it turns out she's gonna keep the baby. Maybe I'll take her to court but I need something big to happen for me to take her to court.

So I've been looking for something that could help me win the baby for me and Charles. Because I don't plan on sharing the baby with the women who slept with my husband.

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Oh, where are my manners?! Let me tell you a little bit about myself. My mother's been married 3 times. First to my father Girst. Together they had me. Then he died when I was like 6 and then my mother remarried to a man named Victor. They didn't have kids together but it was probably for the best because she ended up leaving him years later. The year I turned thirteen, my mom met my step-dad now, Leroy. He already had a daughter, Daisy, when they met. Daisy's mother died when she was giving birth to her so that girl never really knew what it was like to have a mom.

Even though I was 6 when my father died, I don't really remember much about him. But my mom, she always married rich and powerful men. She used to say that "if the money is fresh then so is the meat"

My mother ended up dying when I was seventeen and Daisy was seven. I didn't really show emotion when she died. We weren't really that close anyway. I guess her death just taught me to never give up on my dreams because life is short.

My mom died of a family disease called 'Lupus.' Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic, systemic autoimmune disease which can affect the joints, skin, kidney and other organs of the body. It may affect as many as 1 in 1,000 people, and typically affects women of child-bearing age, although men as well as children and older people may be affected.

Currently, no cures or remission-inducing therapies truly exist for lupus, and treatment often involves corticosteroids or other immunosuppressants. 

So now you know, I can't have kids and it's only a matter of time before I die of lupus. That's why I need the baby.