Forever After All

by Catharina Maura

Lucian, my childhood friend

Hunny you all know we’re thinking about our handsome one eyed man from ACOTAR 🤣

I’ll still be a reminder of the guy that stole his fiancée and severely damaged his company at the same time.

Diana is one of the lucky ones, the ones that think money solves everything when more often than not, they have the sort of happiness I can only dream of.

happy family, a fulfilling life, dreams of their own, a path of their own choosing.

That question… it sounds familiar, yet I can’t place it. It feels nostalgic somehow,

Dude you might need to take a break from your job if you can’t even remember your childhood crush/brothers best friend..

Money can buy almost anything, but it can’t buy good health.

“Yeah, I definitely wouldn’t forget you, Diana.”

Eight years. My mother has been in a coma for eight years now, and I’m the only one who still believes she’ll wake up one day.

The day he married my stepmother was the day our insurance company informed me they’d stop paying for my mother’s treatments.

I even would’ve played nice if my stepmother hadn’t asked Dad to stop paying for Mom’s medical bills.

I barely recognize Matthew anymore. I left home as soon as I turned eighteen, but he stayed.

I’ve run through more than eight million dollars in hospital bills over the last six years, often paying roughly two-thousand dollars per day on days that she doesn’t have complications.

June looks devastated, and it’s obvious that she doesn’t want to be telling me this.

June we love you.

“I hope you won’t need to use this card. But if you do, know that there’s no shame in doing what it takes to keep someone alive.”

We love you June x2

Vaughn,

Can we have SOME mystery god GRIEF not even half a page let alone a paragraph in 🤣😭

Vaughn and I have been friends since we were children.

Great, so he knows her as well!

“Jennifer got engaged,” he says, sounding pained. “To Matthew Rousseau.

SLIMY FUCKS I’m gonna be very satisfied with this book… I LIVE for the drama hehehe

Despite everything she’s done, I don’t want to see her behind bars.

Pussy

She just had to cheat on me with Matthew Rousseau.

“Just make sure my mother never sees this. No one can ever see this.”

Scum

every bit of money I could have and should have saved.

She shoots me an apologetic look, but I don’t miss the amusement in her eyes.

Jade tenses at the mention of my mother. It’s subtle, but I see it. I see the hatred in her eyes, the defensive stance.

Competing with a “dead” woman, well as good as dead if we’re looking how the husband views it.

could’ve sworn I saw a glimpse of worry for her in his eyes, but it’s gone before I can even blink.

Dad’s eyes widen, and this time, I’m certain it’s concern I see in his gaze — but then Jade tightens her grip on him, and his expression hardens.

“that isn’t a matter related to our family.”

“Jade is right. Elena, it’s time to let your mother go. What you’re doing to her, it’s unnatural, and I want no part of it. Besides, Jade was right to say you left this family yourself. You’re no longer part of this family, and you cannot come back begging for money. I thought I raised you better than that.”

“Dad already has the perfect daughter,” Elise says, “and it isn’t you.”

Every option but one.

Could you have just went there in the first place to save yourself the sob story and embarrassment?

There’s no condemnation in their eyes, so I wonder if anyone with a card can walk in, and not just those intending to whore themselves out.

I can’t be the first woman who has found herself in this situation.

“Elena, is it? That’s right. Elena Diana Rousseau. I guess you didn’t lie, but you weren’t honest either.”

Why does walking away from Lucian and him hurt just as much as it did six years ago?

Ummm here a thought dumb bitch, maybe it’s because you haven’t seen nor explained WHY you walked out in the first place and now you’re at a gentleman’s club going to sell yourself because your broke and for family issues trying to save yourself dying mommy??

Her family is too rich for her to need a job, and even if she wanted one, there’s no reason for her to find one here.

Well her only family is in a coma on a hispotal bed atm soooo don’t think she’s that rich anymore buddy.

I can’t shake the feeling that something bad is about to happen.

“Mom would kill us if we don’t make sure that she’s okay,” he says. I agree with him, perhaps a bit too quickly.

“Alexander, someone called me to say Matthew’s sister was going to show up. I thought I was doing you a favor, man. Fuck. I sent her to John. Conference room eight. You’re not going to like this.”

DUDE

I sip the tea

GAWD DAYUM NOT THE CARDI B R KELLY ROOFIE

“Get him out of here before I knock him out. Make sure you escort him to Vaughn’s office.”

“Alec,” I whisper, shame coloring my cheeks crimson. “Alexander,” he corrects me. “We’re not that close.”

Bitch ass cunt

I’ve always been one of the few apart from his family that could call him Alec, and it kills me that I’m a stranger to him now. “You’re right, Alexander. We’re not that close. There’s no reason for me to explain to you what I’m doing here. Nor should you care.”

Right now, the outfit makes me feel like a cheap whore. Quite appropriate, I guess.

“I understand you’re here to apply for a position. Vaughn, being the good friend he is, allowed me to conduct your interview on his behalf.”

“I don’t know what you’re doing here, or what has caused you to be in these circumstances. What I do know is that you’re coming home with me.”

I expected her to fight me when I told her she’s coming home with me, but surprisingly, she followed me obediently.

Ummm dude she really doesn’t have any other choice. I wouldn’t want to sell my body either even if it was for someone I loved I wouldn’t still feel ashamed and lose a part of innocence I’d like to hold onto for life.

Alaric

Dude I thought the names sounded too familiar. Elena and Alaric who’s next? Damon and Stephan and Bonnie? 🤣🤣

even when the tension between him and his now ex-wife was running high.

Doctors are keeping her in a coma dude. I’m calling it. Switch drs and she’ll be fine.

“If I ask you to get on your knees right now and suck my dick for 10k, would you do it?”

This is NOT the way I thought this was going wtf

“How about 20k? You know, I’ve been fantasizing about those lips of yours since that night at Inferno,” he says.

When I came up here with her, this wasn’t what I intended to do at all.