“You abandoned me in the middle of the night! You left me alone for five years!” Maya hissed as he lifted his hand to touch where her slap had left its mark. “I left to protect you! I left because I love you!” Nathaniel protested in a futile attempt to defend himself. —————————————————— Five years ago, Nathaniel De La Rue found love and a new life in Arlington City, but his past soon caught up with him and forced him to leave behind everything he had built, including his beloved Maya Miller. Now, Nathaniel is done running. He must confront his past to protect those that matter the most to him. After fighting for his right to live and accepting his rightful place in the De La Rue family, he finally returns to Arlington City. However, upon his return, Nathaniel finds that his world is not the same as he left it. Maya, the woman he loves, is engaged to another man. His best friend now works for the man who stole Maya from him. Furthermore, the woman who had cared for Nathaniel like a mother is being abused by her husband. It’s as if he has to start from scratch. But things have changed. This time he has the De La Rue Family by his side.
Emilia tapped her fingers on her desk as she kept glancing at her watch.
After speaking with Maya she decided that there was nothing wrong with giving Jay a chance.
She might like Max more and they might be engaged on paper, but if he wasn't interested, Emilia wasn't willing to be part of a loveless marriage.
She wanted a relationship like Nathaniel's and Maya's, one where the person she was married to would burn the world for her.
In all honesty, Nathaniel and Maya had set her up for failure. She now had impossible standards for a relationship and it was all because she wanted what her brother had.
Glancing at her watch again, Maya pouted.
Jay always came by her office at 12 noon sharp to ask if she had lunch plans.
Normally Emilia would turn him down and tell him she had plans with her brother, which normally was the case. But today Ezra and Nathaniel had business lunches to attend to.