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I finished straightening and doing my makeup, reaching over and slipping on my outfit. . I strapped my heels before getting up from the bed and walking into the closet where Toni was buttoning his dress shirt.

He looked down at me smiling. "Good morning." I smiled grabbing his watch.

"Morning." I handed him his watch before stepping on my tippy toes and kissing his lips. "Are you going to have time for breakfast?" I asked and he looked over at me shaking his head.

"No, I'm running late." He grabbed his blazer slipping it on, I reached over fixing his collar. "I'll come back at four but then I have to go back to the office at eight, so I won't be back till late." I nodded my head. "If you want visit me." He cupped my cheeks before kissing me. "I love you, bye." He said before rushing off and leaving the room.

I sighed grabbing his pajamas he left on the floor and throwing it in the dirty laundry basket. I walked towards the door going downstairs to see Travis walking up the stairs with tears in his eyes, he stopped when he saw me.

"Travis?" I slowly walked down the steps next to him. "Are you okay?" I asked worriedly.

He sighed. "I will be." He said before walking past me and rushing up the stairs, Holly came running out of the dining room and stopped when she saw me before hesitantly running past me up the stairs.

I felt bad for Travis, knowing the girl he loved was still in love with his brother, I grabbed onto the railing as I slowly made my way down the rest of the stairs. Walking over the dining room to see everyone eating in silence.

"Morning." I flashed them a smile and they all looked at me.

"Good morning." They replied, except Sara and Serena who were sitting on the table sending me daggers.

I swallowed hard before taking a seat between Katherine and Kevin, it was weird sitting on the table without Toni. Marine put a plate of food in front of me, I sent her a sweet smile before thanking her.

I picked up my fork and ate little by little, feeling eyes on me. Looking up to see Sara looking down at me with a glare making me tense. I grabbed the cup of my water and drank some ignoring her looks.

Jordan cleared his throat making me look up at him. "Did Toni go to work?" He asked, and I nodded in response. "Good." He muttered before eating his food.

"Excuse me." I told them standing up not craving any food anymore, I turned around walking off to the kitchen to see the maids working.

"Mrs. Mahfud can I help you with anything?" Marine asked coming up to me I smiled at her and nodded my head.

"Can you please help me make lunch for Toni later?" She smiled and nodded.

"Of course."

"Thank you, i'll come back later." I stepped out of the kitchen to see Ian and his mother entering the house, Destiny walked into the dining room sending me a look before Ian stopped walking and stood in front of me with a smirk.

I backed away noticing he was closer than he should have been. "Toni is a luck guy." I uncomfortably moved back a little, Ian noticed and walked a little closer with his lustful eyes. "Maybe I should pull a Travis and take you away from him." He winked trying to grab my waist but I moved away in time.

"I would like it if you don't touch me, Mr.Dunbar." He laughed and shook his head at me. "I have a husband that I love and I wouldn't betray him, now if you'll excuse me." I walked past him leaving him there with the smirk still plastered on his face.

I ran up the stairs into my room shutting the door behind me and locking it, I let out a breath. Jumping when I heard my phone ring walking over to see a call from my mom. "Hello?" I answered.

"Layla, are you busy right now?" She asked.

"No, I'm not." I answered furrowing my eyebrows. "Why?"

"I sent a driver to come pick you up, I want to show you something."

"Okay, i'll be there." I said with a smile on my face.

"Okay, see you bye." She hung up the phone and I went to the closet taking my black purse out sticking my important things in there with my phone someone knocked on my bedroom door, I walked towards the door unlocking it.

Revealing the body guard. "Mrs.Mahfud, your driver is here." He said and I nodded walking out shutting my door behind me, he followed behind me as we made our way downstairs and out of the house.

My eyes caught a black range rover, the driver stepped out when he saw me. "Layla Mahfud?" I nodded and he flashed me a smile opening the backdoor for me.

I hopped in letting him shut it after me before getting into the drivers seat and driving off. "Where are we going?" I asked watching the trees and building pass by.

"To your mother's house." I kept myself quiet looking out the window nervously playing with my rings on my ring finger. I watched a beautiful house coming into a view, he slowly drove into the driveway before stopping. "Mrs.Mahfud we have arrived." I smiled at him.

"Thank you." I told him, as he got out of the car and opened the door for me helping me out.

The door opened revealing my mom with a happy face. "Layla." She said running up to me and wrapping her arms around me kissing my head before pulling away. "I'm so glad you came." She kissed my forehead.

"I will always come, mom." Her smile became brighter.

"Come let's go inside." She grabbed my hand taking me inside with her as I looked around the beautiful cozy warm house, a smile appeared on my face looking at the pictures hanging on the wall, It was a picture of my mom and dad looking all loved up with other people I haven't met.

My smile soon faded away when I saw picture of my mom holding a baby in her arms as my dad looked down at the baby smiling, my heart ached looking at the picture, they were so happy. I snapped out of my thoughts when my mom touched my shoulder. "That was the second day we brought you home." I looked down playing with my hands.

"This house looks beautiful." I told her wanting to change the subject.

She sent me a Hollywood smile. "Thank you, now come I want to show you something." She grabbed my hand taking me up the stairs, she walked towards a room with a bear sticker on the door. "Ready?" I slowly nodded my head.

She opened the door revealing a baby room, I furrowed my eyebrows looking around the place. It was pink walls, a white crib, and pink blankets with a white rocking chair, and a changing room. "Wh-what is this?" I stuttered looking over at her.

She stroked my knuckles with her thumbs. "This was your old room." My heart stopped looking around the room. "We couldn't move this stuff out because this was the last memory we had of you." She told me making my eyes water.

"Mom..." I trailed as my voice cracked. "I'm sorry." I said before throwing myself into her arms.

"It's not your fault." She rubbed my back up and down. "It's not." She repeated.

I got home after me and my mom had a long talk she introduced me to my aunt Jessie, she was the sweetest person I've met, I entered the house with a smile and walked towards the kitchen, Marine turned around.

"Shall we get started?" She nodded her head.

I decided to make him lasagna, Marine boiled the macaroni as I made the sauce, I added all the ingredients. After the macaroni and sauce was made I put them in a glass pan and added shredded cheese on top of each layer.

"Let's plop this in the oven." She said taking the glass pan from me and sticking it in the oven, I sat on the stool looking through my phone, as a few minutes passed by, me and Marine talked. Asking her how long she's been here she said two years, I asked her age and she said thirty-two.

"And it's ready." I said with a smile on my face.

"I'll put it in the bag." Marine said grabbing containers and sticking them in, I went to the fridge and took out a water bottle before putting it in the bag, she put the containers in there also before zipping the bag. "Here you go, Mrs.Mahfud." She handed me the small lunchbox.

"Thank you, Marine." I said putting the lunchbox next to my purse. "It was sweet of you." I threw my phone in my bag.

"It was nothing Mrs.Mahfud." I flashed her a smile before grabbing my purse and the lunchbox.

"I'll be going now, bye." I told her, she waved as I walked out of the kitchen and towards the exit, I looked at the driver waiting in the car for me, the bodyguard opened the door thanking him as he shut the door when I got in.

"You ready, Mrs.Mahfud?" The driver asked and I nodded my head, he backed out of the driveway before driving off.

I had already texted Toni telling him I was going to come over and see him, he happily agreed. The reason why I stopped working at the company was because I was too scared to boss people around and it wasn't for me.

I decided to stay back and draw my designs, I snapped out of my thoughts when the car came to a stop, I thanked the driver before hopping out and went towards the company entrance. The doorman politely smiled and opened the door for me.

I nodded my head at him sending him a small kind smile before walking in, I went towards the front desk. "Hello, I'm here to see Toni." She looked up from the computer sending me a look.

She scanned me up and down. "And who are you exactly?" She asked with an attitude.

"I'm Toni's wife." Her jaw dropped and she looked at me apologetically.

"I'm so sorry, I had no clue." She said in a rush.

I smiled at her. "It's okay." She looked down at me sending me thank god look.

"Uh, he's in his office that's on the last floor." I nodded.

"Thank you." I told her before turning around and walking towards the elevator that was opened, stepping in and clicking the last number on the elevator, letting it take me up. For some reason I felt claustrophobic and scared.

I breathed out closing my eyes praying to god this elevator would open early, when the elevator came to a stop and a beep sound came, I opened my eyes to see the elevator door open, I quickly stepped out remembering when Toni told me his office was the one on the right with double black doors.

I walked to the right to see a double black door, I sighed in relief walking towards the door and before I could knock on it a blonde girl grabbed my hand. "Who are you?" She asked.

"I'm Toni's wife." She slowly nodded opening the door and stepping in.

"Mr.Mahfud, your wife is here to see you." I heard her say.

"Send her in." Toni's voice was heard.

I stepped in and his eyes traveled from his computer and to me, his eyes lightened as he stood up walking towards me. "You could leave now." He told his secretary, she left and shut the door behind her.

He slowly walked towards me wrapping his arms around me and kissing my lips. "I love seeing you." He whispered against my lips as he continued kissing me, I giggled and pulled away from him.

"I brought lunch." I told him showing him the lunchbox. "I made you lasagna." He looked at the lunchbox in my hand before looking down at me.

With his blue eyes that turned dark, showing me the lust, hunger, and love that were written in them. "I think I want you instead." He said before I could say anything he slammed his lips onto mine, I wrapped my arms around his neck pulling him closer to me.

"T-Toni." I struggled to get out of the kiss.

I forcefully pulled away from him blushing madly. "Toni." I breathed hard. "You have to eat." I told him getting out of his arm and walking towards the desk putting the lunchbox on it. "Come sit." I felt his body heat close behind me making goosebumps arrive as his breath hit my neck.

His lips slowly touched my cheek before going over and sitting down in front of me, I unzipped the lunchbox taking the containers out. "Garlic bread and lasagna." I told him putting it in front of him with the water bottle before taking a seat on the leather chair in front of his desk.

Toni looked at the food and smiled. "Thank you." He told me before opening the container and grabbed the plastic fork eating the lasagna. "It taste good." He looked up at me before continuing to eat. "Did you eat?" He asked, I nodded.

"I did with my mom, she asked me to come over and I did." He nodded his head before continuing to eat.

"How are you feeling?"

"I'm good." Touching my still flat stomach. He smiled at me, I didn't even realize he was done eating. "Ian and his mom came over." He tensed when I said Ian.

"And?" He raised an eyebrow.

I swallowed hard not knowing if I should tell him. "He um-" I cut myself off playing with my hands worried about his reaction.

Toni stood up and walked in front of me. "He what? Did he touch you?" He asked anger laced in his voice, I quickly shook my head.

"He just told me some things that made me uncomfortable but it's fine now." I told him before walking over to his desk and collecting the containers and sticking it in the lunchbox, he wrapped his arms around my waist putting his cheek on mine.

"What did he say?" He asked surprisingly calm.

I slowly touched his hands that were interlocked with my waist. "He-he told me he should take me away from you." I said playing with his watch, he squeezed me a little closer to him.

"That son of a bitch." Toni said, the calmness of his voice disappeared as the anger was in its place.

I squeezed in his hands hoping he would calm down. "Toni, please calm down." I said turning around to face him, he looked down at me angrily. "I hate seeing you get angry, it kind of scares me." I muttered playing with the buttons of his dress shirt.

I felt his lips on my forehead, looking up to see him looking down at me with a guilty face. "I'm sorry." He whispered pulling me into his arms, as I laid my head on his chest.

"It's okay." I whispered back in his chest.

He slowly let go of me making me look up at him, his head quickly dipped down to my neck and inhaled my scent before plotting wet kisses on my neck, I bit my lip holding my moan. "Toni, this is inappropriate." I whispered in his ear.

He groaned in my neck making shivers go down my spine. "I don't care." Whispering in my neck, my eyes fluttered closed as I bit my lip harder feeling bite down on my sweet spot.

"I need to get home." I told him once he pulled away, he sent me a sad look. "You'll come back at four, we'll see each other then." I told him before kissing his lips. "It's just three more hours, now get back to work. Mr.Mahfud." He groaned at the last part.

"Don't say that unless you want me to take you on the table." He pointed at his desk, making me look at him with wide eyes, he has never talked like that to me.

I quickly grabbed the lunchbox before pecking his lips and walking towards the door. "Bye." I told him.

"Bye." He smiled watching me open the door and walk out leaving him in the office alone with his work, I let out a shaky breath before I went towards the elevator and clicked first floor. I bit my lips smiling down at my shoes as I blushed at the thought of his words.

I was laying in bed with my eyes closed holding my stomach, I just woke up from a nap, I reached for my phone looking down at the time to see it was four-thirty, Toni was supposed to be back, I turned over laying on my back to see a sleeping Toni beside me.

I smiled at him before leaning in and kissing his cheek causing his eyes to flutter open. "Layla? What time is it?" He asked tiredly.

I sat up, putting my back to the headboard. "It's four-thirty." I told him and he quickly sat up.

"There is only a few left for me to go back to the office-" He was cut off by someone opening the door revealing Serena who walked in swaying her hips. "Serena?" He looked at her confusingly. "What are you doing here?" She interlocked her hands.

Sending me a disgusted look before looking over at Toni. "You father wants you both down." Toni groaned next to me, I got slid down the bed throwing on my heels and strapping them and stood up, Toni slipped his shoes on before standing up and grabbing my hand interlocking it.

"Let's go see what he wants." He sighed as we walked past Serena and out of the room, we walked towards the stairs slowly going down making our way to the living room to see everyone seated and talking about the company.

Jordan stopped talking when he saw us. "Layla, Toni. Please have a seat." He pointed at the seat across from Ian and his mother.

Toni sent Ian a glare as we walked over to the seat, looking over at Toni who held his glare on Ian not daring to remove it. "Toni, we made a promise to Destiny about Ian taking share of the company." Jordan said, making Toni slowly turn his head to his father sending him a glare.

I can feel that this was not going to end well, my eyes slowly caught Ian who was looking at me smirking, I held onto Toni's arm tighter feeling quiet scared of the man sitting across from me. I swallowed hard looking down at mine and my husband's hands interlocked.

"You know the only reason he is taking share of this company is because he wants revenge, he's trying to make me break." Toni's eyes flickered to Ian with a smirk on his face. "But let me tell you Ian Dunbar, This cold hearted son of a bitch will never ever fucking break!" Toni shouted slamming his hand on the table in front of Ian.

The two men in front of me sent a challenging look to one another. "Toni." Jordan warned pointing his finger at Toni.

He slowly trailed his eyes to his father's finger and chuckled. "Your going to regret this, Jordan." Toni spit, glancing at Ian before looking back at Jordan. "I saved your company's ass, and I hope you know when he takes the share, I'll only be supporting my company and leave that shitty company of yours." Toni threatened, standing straight fixing his dress shirt. "Now if you'll excuse me i'm going to my own company instead of yours." Toni turned around but stopped.

Looking over at Ian. "If you ever touch my wife or even talk to my wife, I'll ruin you Ian Dunbar, you haven't seen the real side of me fucking yet, stay away from my wife Ian!" Toni said grabbing my hand and took me out of the living room with him.

He pulled out his phone angrily. "Lore, take every file that i'm working with to my company and call the people i'll be meeting, tell them I've changed the location and meet me at my own company." He kept his eyes on me. "Good." He hung up on her.

He looked down at me tiredly. "Toni-" He cut me off.

"I need to go, I have a lot of work to do, i'll see you later." He was about to leave but stopped and turned around. "Don't forget to drink your milk." He said making me cringe at the thought of milk, he chuckled and kissed my lips.

"Bye." I said, when we pulled away.

"Bye."

He walked out of the house leaving me alone, I put my lips in a line before turning around and walking up the stairs into my room not feeling comfortable to go back into the living room, I shut and locked the door behind me before going towards the bed.