cer'

s. I picked up the glass and started to swirl it, I was watching the waves

s? I had it all and then just like that there was nothing.’ In one gulp the whis

she said nothing, surely she said something." "I'm telling you she didn’t say anything, can you blame her?" I could feel Connie getting agitated with me, she

rs, my eyes constantly needing adjusting. Finally, I made it to LuLu's room. I didn't knock, I just burst right in calling her name. I used

"She's gone, Eloise is fucking gone. How could she fucking do this to me, she knows how im

his angry before, she is furious. Her eyes are glazed over with like some sort of

or you! It was your choice to gamble all our money, it was your choice to put your family last, it was your choice to keep loaning money off Mr Oakes, it was all your choice. It is you that has gotten us into a

She wished she left me. I sobered up quite quickly after my wife's little outburst. I tried to apologise but Connie was not having it. I really t

ie's

hen drinking alcohol. I hate it when he drinks, he becomes so aggressive and irrational.

Eloise? Is she ready to hear me out or was it going to be him, my husband! I hope not, I h

ape along the floor in the kitchen and the feeling of a dread came over me. From the corner of my eye, I see Spencer

would ever meet but once the devil gets inside him then that man is gone. I can still see spencer f

ve me when I say she would not talk to me. He believes I am hiding something from him and wants to

it up there simply fine, I then heard her bedroom door crash into her bedroom wall, I leapt up to go and c

r being drunk Spencer started cursing, he was acting like everything was Eloise's fault and she had do

ody good. All my thoughts over the years that I kept inside I let out. You could see in Spencer's fac

here would I go if I wanted to run away from home' my first thought was Ashley and Lauren's house, the girls are close and inseparable. Any problems the girls

go to each other for advice I think this time would be too obvious an

s the rose garden that has a fountain known as the boy and the dolphin fountain. She finds this place so calming and relaxi

like Eloise from behind, I call out her name and the girl turned around, my heart sunk, she is not Eloise. I apologised for my mistake and then asked if

swer my phone call the first time I tried. Everyone I managed to get a hold of all said they had not seen or spoken to her; I was stuck for ideas on where to se

se's

gh. "You should answer that Lu, your mum and dad must be worried. They are most proba

"As far as I'm aware they could be ringing me only

Oakes" "Oh yes you do EL, well not technically but you know of him. Mr Oakes, you know, the wealthiest man in Europe, The Mr Oakes who owns Oakes Enterprise, The Mr

about? No, it can't be, he wouldn't make an agreement like that with my father, would he? But then thinking about it, it could be him! What other Mr Oakes is there that will happily lend seven hundred and eighty-five thousand pounds to someone and not be b

le time is THE Mr Oakes, it all makes sense now, I can’t believe it." I was shocked, I could not believe it was him who my dad made a deal with. "

en's

ou're asking. I don't even know the name of Mr Oakes son, let alone know him as a person. Why should I have to marry someone to pay off someone else's

're loaded, you can have everything you ever wanted. D

me and will be there for me through thick and thin, who will pick me up when I am down and celebrate me when things are good. Not someone who

what do I do?" "Don't answer it, ignore it, cut it off" she said. Questing myself I repli

ook off earlier terribly upset and I can't find her anywhere, she's not answering

I relay a message to her for you?" "Oh, thank goodness, no its okay thank you, I am on my way to you now anyway, I will be

really need to speak to her now, cant it just wait?" "I think it's good that she is coming here to be honest, this needs to be sorted sooner rather than l

you have said to us to your parents." I said reassuring her. "Okay I will speak to her but only the groun