Chapter 4 THE STRIKE BACK

Jared walked in his lips, bowed in a frown. He looked at eric, who was focused on his laptop his glasses hanging at the tip of his nose. "alpha, you might want to see this"

He said as he stretched his hand, showing eric his phone. Eric shifted his attention towards jared as he put down his glasses. He eyed him as he collected the phone, his expression shifting to anger as he balled his fists, his knuckles turning pale.

"take everything down" he said his voice hoarse as he stared at his phone. The picture was clear enough to show who she was, with his face nothing mre than a blur. "who did this? Jeremy?"

"sarah"

"they haven't chosen their enemy wisely. If this gets out this could affect our world"

"the elders have already seen it, and they aren't haopy with it. Kyle is spreading the news that your presence exposes our existence"

"I don't need this right now, we needed a face in the human world and now some insignificant human's game is threatening my position and our exposure"

"what do I do?"

"his company is already going downhill, he would try to get a meeting with me, I want you to grant him that" he looked back at yhe window as if thinking of is next move. "sue sarah and find out where selena is from she and jeremy"

"yes alpha" jaden said as he bowed and left the room

"what do you mean pregnant?" I asked as my eyes widened, I looked across the room and saw my parents faces laced wih shock as they stared at the doctor waiting for his answer.

"well apart from stress, you passed out because youre pregnant" he said as he stared at the charts in his hand. "although its mostly stress related"

My heart began to race as I thought about that night in the hotel, I couldn't do this, I wasn't ready to be a mother.

"dear, whats going on? what does the doctor mean?" my mother asked as she looked at me wide eyed.

"m-mom" I said my eyes p,eading. I turned to the doctor. "could you schedule an abortion?" the doctor nodded as he walked out noticing the tension in the room.

"are you sure about this?" my father asked, his face filled with concern. There was no judgement in their eyes, just concerned and I could feel the tears fill my eyes.

"im sorry" I whispered and they all gathered around me, we couldn't afford another person, but I also couldn't afford the abortuion fees. I didn't want to burden my parents with the consequences of my mistake. Against my better judgment I decided to find the man from that night.

As if on cue, the news showed him, my one night stand. There he was, or his picture anyway, displayed over the hospital's television. Eric grey, CEO of grey corporations. His name seemed so familiar. I watched as they woman spoke about him, a billionaire, seemingly a playboy with an almost mysterious life. He sounded shady and I could feel a couple of chills run down my spine.

Noticing my expression, my father placed his hand on my shoulders protectively.

"are you alright?"

I nodded not wanting to say anything to him. I didn't even know what to tell him. That I just found out that the man I slept with and the father of my child turned out to be a billionaire? Or that I could never walk up to him.

"do you know him?" my mother asked.

I shook my head as I held her hands reassuringly, and that's when I remembered where I had heard his name. eric grey, grey corporations, Jeremy had just secured an investment with them. He would probably drag my name in the mud in front of eric grey or it didn't even matter. There was no possible way I could ever meet him.

I turned back to my parents apologetically. "I have some money socked up and I really want to have this abortion"

"we understand, and if there's anything you need we are right here"

Sweat began to appear on his forehead as panic filled his eyes, he stared at the caller ID before falling into his chair. He had just begun to strive and didn't understand why the top investors where all suddenly pulling out of his company.

"Victor" he called out to his assistant.

A man rushed into the office. "Yes sir" he said as he bowed his head.

"What's going on with the investments?"

"Sir, we just found out that Grey corporations blacklisted the Frasier group" he said his head still down.

"I just got that contract with the Grey's, how could the group be blacklisted?" he asked as he slammed his fists on the table.

"They didn't give us a reason"

"What do...?"

"Darling" Sarah called as she walked in, cutting Jeremy off. "I saw a new dress that I want, its one of a kind" she said as she strutted towards Jeremy. Victor just bowed and walked out, leaving Jeremy staring at Sarah in anger.

"a dress?" he asked as he slowly walked closer to Sarah, his eyes burning in rage. "You want to buy a new dress?"

"yes" she noddd, oblivious of his rage. "it's a haute couture" she added smiling sweetly. Her smile immediately fainted as Jeremy slapped her, sending her to the ground. She looked up at him in shock as she cleaned the blood trickling down from the tear on her lips, her cheeks were immediately red and swollen and tears began to well up in her eyes.

"get out" he commanded. She froze, he had never spoken to her this way, let alone hit her.

"you hit me?"

A knock on the door pulled their attention away from each other and a woman in a suit walked in and looked towards sarah, an intimidating smile playing on her lips. Briefcase in one hand and documents in the other

"sarah Carmen?"

"yes, that's me"

"you've been served" she tilted her head and smiled again, this time a mocking smile as she handed the documents to sarah.

"what?" sarah asked as she took the documents her eyes widening. The woman didn't give her a second befor she walked out.

"whats that?" Jeremy asked as he snatched the papers from her hands. His anger was slowly replaced by horror as he flipped through the documents, his eyes shifting from sarah to the documents and then back at her.

"what?" she sasked as she stared at him in confusion and fear. She snatched the papers back from him and read through the pages, her fear becoming more evident as she held the papers tighter and her hands began to shake.

"theyre suing you. How could you be so stupid? You could've trapped selena with anyone but you just had to choose eric grey?"

"I didn't know"

"that's not an excuse, why did you even post the ictures? It makes sense now, tis is why he blacklisted us"

"what?" she moved closer to him and grabbed his hands her vouce breaking. "i-I really didn't know"

"get out" he said his voice low as he pulled his arm from her grip.

She tried to hold onto him again but he moved away as he stared at her like she was the most disgusting thing in the room. Tears began to fall from her cheeks as she looked at him.

"I'm really sorry"

"victor"

"yes sir" victor answered as he came running.

"escort her out"

"yes sir" he said as he bowed. He looked at sarah apologetically as he took her hand, pulling her out of the office. Jeremy raked his hand through his hair as he dialed.

"hello" a voice from the other line said.