Ch. Eight months pregnant 5 Eight months pregnant 5

Chapter 5 

Everyone in the room went white as sheets when they heard that voice 

They tried to turn around, but they already had guns pressed to their heads 

Auren’s face just collapsed. He stared at me in the freezer and yelled [] 

little tricks?!“[] 

“Nerissa! What the fuck is this?! Are you done with your li 

Through the glass. I watched the figure walling slowly into the room behind him. 

When I saw who it was, I started sobbing. 

Auren followed my gaze and slowly turned around. 

The second their eyes mot, Auren’s legs gave out and he hit the floor. 

He pointed at the man walking toward him with a trembling finger.] 

“Mr. Vale… you… you died six months ago right?!“|| 

When everyone heard Auren say my dad’s name, half of them just crumpled like wet paper.] 

My father was a big shot in our circle.]] 

At thirteen, he took over what was left of the Vale empire from my grandfather:[] 

Business is war, and after grandpa died, every other family had been picking our bones clean] 

The day thirteen–year–old Dad took control, very family in Boston partied for a solid week 

one else.[] 

The Vale family tree was falling, which meant jackpot time for everyone i 

And yeah, it went exactly like they thought. 

Less than a week after Dad took over, we went bankrupt.] 

Everyone figured the Vales were history] 

But two years later, at this huge land auction, some dark–skinned lid bought every single piece of property–over three hundred billion dollars worth 

Lveryone thought he was insane, figured he’d get arrested when he couldn’t pay up). 

Three days later, he paid in full 

That’s when someone recognized him. 

that kid looks just like Henry Vale 

Yep, that fifteen year–old was my dad [] 

Arqlurteen, he’d taken on all the family debt and disappeared to some war zone 

Nobsady knew what kind of hell the kid went through over there.|| 

All they saw was him walking back two years later with hundreds of billions, ready to rebuild everything 

People tried to dig into what Dad had been up, but word is, none of those investigators ever made it back] 

In those early years, plenty of people tried to take him down while he was rebuilding. 

But every time someone made a move, their own shit would get destroyed a thousand times worse. 

In just three years, Dad had everyone in the city remembering exactly who the Vales were 

And nobody’s been stupid enough to challenge us since.[] 

So all of Auren’s little bootlickers were scared shitless of my father:[] 

Especially Auren 

He came from nothing–everything he had was because Dad pulled him up 

All these years, he’d been getting “educated” by Dad on the regular. 

So he was absolutely terrified of him.] 

Dad was telling his guys to break down the freezer door while staring at Auren on the floor 

Bet you’re real disappointed I’m not dead, huh?” 

Dad’s voice wasn’t even that loud, but it had this power that just cut right through you 

Auren went even whiter. He was shaking and trying to crawl backward!]] 

“No way. Mr. Vale! When I heard what happened, I cried all night. You made me who Fam–1 pray for your health every single day…” 

Even thinking you w were gone, I kept everything you taught me right here in my heart“] 

Dad glanced at the freezer door his guys had just busted open 

His face wont stone cold 

He grabbed Auren by the shirt and screamed 

Then why the hell did you do this to Nerissa?! Explain that shit to mer 

“Why couldn’t my daughter turn on the AC for thirty goddamn minutes?! Why did you throw my pregnant daughter in a freezer and torture her like this?! Why?! 

I hadn’t seen bad this pissed in forever.]] 

he was this angry was when Mom died–he’d cried from pure rage at himself for not protecting 

Auren had never seen Dad like this 

He was shaking even harder inusx:[] 

When bad didn’t calm down, he dropped to his knees and started slamming his head on the floor 

lver 

“Mr. Vale, it’s not what it looks like! Nerissa was just getting out of line. I thought this would teach her some respect–I wasn’t trying to hurt her! Even if you hadn’t shown up, I was gonna let Iver out…” 

“You think you get to teach my daughter anything? Who the fuck do you think you are?!“[] 

Dad cut ham off mid sentence |] 

He punched Auren square in the face, his eyes going rod as he fought back tears] 

“You fucking guy! 

Then Bad looked over at Auren’s crew huddled in the corner|| 

“Same goes for all you pieces of shit. If my daughter so much as whimpers, you’re all going to the hell with bert 

They all looked like someone had superglued their mouths shut. 

Nobody even dared to breathe.] 

“Mr. Vale, we got her out 

I tried to reach for Dad’s hand, but the moment my frozen fingers touched his warm palm, I couldn’t hold on anymore. 

Everything went dark