Ivy was hesitating and Lucas could feel it, he just didn't know what could be so bothersome for her to say. He had already promised not to get mad but he could feel the tinge of anger forming at the back of his mind.Just before she could say what was on her mind, a tall, slender guy walked in. He scanned the room like he was searching for something before his eyes finally landed on Ivy. He smiled at her but she frowned.From the way he looked, Lucas guessed that he might be Ivy's or Peter's age mate but he left his beard unshaved probably to look older. Even though he wasn't formally dressed, Lucas could tell he was the son of some rich man.He wore a Louis Vuitton shirt with a denim shirt and a pair of Air Jordan sneakers. Everything he wore from top to bottom screamed wealth, even the bottle of wine he held was expensive."Ivy, my love." His comment only made Ivy frown harder. "Here, I brought you this." He held out a bottle of wine but she didn't accept it. "Look Ivy, I know I did

Lucas narrated the whole story to Ivy and she couldn't believe how blind she had been to the truth. "I feel so stupid. I can't believe I fell for her lies." She said after he was done."Hey, you don't have to beat yourself up about it. It's not your fault.""I should have been more suspicious. From the very first day when she said she was your friend, I should have known you would never hide such a thing from me. I can't believe I thought I had found my sister from another mother.""I'm really sorry Ivy.""Why are you sorry, it's not your fault.""It's not yours either. It could have happened to anyone." He knew his words didn't help much but he still tried to cheer her up. "The important thing is that her secret has been exposed and she can't lie to you anymore.""Yeah, it just sucks that she turned out to be fake.""I know love."★★★"Ivy please listen to me.""Why, so you can lie to me again? Just stay the hell away from me and my family Kelly.""Look, I know you must hate ne righ

Finally tings were starting to look up for Ivy, Lucas was healthy enough to walk around again and the doctor said he would be discharged by the end of the week. Finally she would be able to spend the night in the arms of her husband, and in the comfort of their home.She strolled down the white halls of the hospitals, smiling to herself as she hummed the tune of her favorite song.Sure there was still some loose ends that needed to be sorted out but if there was one thing she had learnt, it's that one should celebrate the little victories and keep fighting and hoping for the best."Ivy,do you have a minute?"She wasn't sure she was ready to hear whatever it was her mother had to say. "What do you want now mother?""Can't a mother just decide to check up on her child?""Of course you can, but we both know that's not why you're here. So why don't you just come out and tell me why you're really here?""When are you going to start trusting me again?""I don't know, maybe when you earn bac

It is said that when the brain develops cold indifference and logic as its primary decision making duo, bad choices are made. We evolved to use empathy and logic together, which boosts creative perspective taking, which boosts the discovery of peaceful solutions.But where do our decisions come from?Decisions should come from your sense of empathy and creative perspective taking, combined with logic and grounded in reality. For when we make choices this way, they are better choices.Now, a lot of people believe that a person can only have two choices. Yes or no. Up or down. Good or bad. But that is wrong.Choices are hardly ever a fork of two pathways, we just have to open our eyes a little wider, and many other pathways appear. The right path for one person can be different from another and only the inner compass of love and passion can illuminate it for that soul to walk upon.Mike stared intently at the ceiling, as if the answers he was looking for were, somehow, written there. B

"Hey, did you get those files I asked for?""Yes sir, I dropped them on your table earlier.""Okay thanks." Jones has been trying to dig up something on Blanche but it was more difficult than he had expected it to be. If he was just a rookie cop, he would believe she was innocent because her records were clean…too clean.He had tried investigating her movements for the past few weeks but he got nothing. Hopefully, he would strike gold this time.He got a call earlier that day that Lucas was finally awake but they kept it a secret from everyone. He would have to stop by and have a word with him, probably when his wife wasn't around.He was also thinking of paying Grover a visit because if he was being honest, the man had helped in the investigation as well.The issue of the death of the Williams was still tangled up because aside from the fact that Blanche went with them on vacation, he couldn't find anything else that pointed their deaths to her. Grover seemed to believe she was resp