Christopher POV
I am sitting in my home office as I replay the events of the day. This goes down in history as the worst day of my life so far. The day started off normal with me waking up beside my beautiful wife. We had breakfast together then we headed out to work. My company has grown over the past seven years since I met Natalia. The day I met her is forever ingrained in my mind. We met at one of my friends wedding when they introduced us to each other. It was love at first sight. Natalia brought some amazing ideas when it came to my company and it has thrived ever since.
When I got to my office today, my assistant was dressed in her normal fashion which is borderline unprofessional. I know that she has a crush on me but I ignore it since not only am I married but I don't like the idea of dating employees. It causes problems for the ones who divulge in that area and has made many business men and women leave a company due to the tension. Chelsea is one of those women who want the money and power from a man instead of love and loyalty like how Natalia is. Natalia told me right from the start that she wants true love where loyalty is the main factor.
The meetings with some authors today went by at a snail pace that would make most want to bang their head against a wall. Thankfully, I have the patience for this industry or I wouldn't have chose publishing as my career. By the end of the last meeting, Chelsea informs me that a gentleman is waiting for me in my office. She informed me that he had something to tell me about Natalia and I started to panic. As I rush to my office, all I can think about is if she is okay.
Entering my office, the man stands up and hands me an envelope and tells me that he wanted me to know what my wife was doing. Opening the envelope, my heart drops when I see my wife with another man. How could she do this to me? The last picture brings my world crashing down as I see a picture of them in a club making out in the corner. Anger starts to fill my body as I come up with a plan. Taking my phone out, I call my lawyer and have him bring divorce papers to my office as soon as possible.
The hours pass and my cell phone starts to ring the tone I set for Natalia. I ignore it and then my office phone that starts to ring as well. Max finally brings in the papers with Chelsea coming in behind him. I already told her my plan which she hurriedly agreed to. Max goes through the papers to make sure they are correct before we set off to my home.
As soon as I entered the house, I am immediately embraced by Natalia as she checks me for injuries like she cares. How can she act like this after cheating on me? My anger at the memory of the photos drives my determination to go through with the plan. Looking into the dinning room, I see that she prepared my favorite dishes and set the room up in a romantic setting. Handing her the photos, I see confusion on her face as she looks at them. She tries to explain something but I don't give her the chance. I give her the divorce papers right before Chelsea makes her entrance into the mansion. She sashays over to me and pushes her body against mine. I try to keep the act up but it's hard since I am not interested in her like that. Glancing at Natalia, she has a blank face that is void of any emotion.
Natalia signs the papers and goes to pack her things after handing them to Max. What surprised me was the fact that she declined her assets that I was giving her. A few minutes later, she comes down the stairs as I decide to pull Chelsea in for a embrace to further the act. Natalia tells me in, in what seems to be a curse, that I was the unfaithful one and will get what is coming to me. That I threw away my family for trash. What did she mean by that?
Chelsea follows her out and the next thing I heard was a loud slap. I rush out to see Chelsea holding her face as Natalia says something to her. I tell Natalia to leave Chelsea alone even though she is mad. Natalia just looked at me with no emotion and got into the Rolls Royce after threatening Chelsea. I guess she had her lover pick her up.
Now I am sitting in the office, trying to get the courage to go to the room I shared with her. I already sent Chelsea home, much to her objection, before I put all of the food away. After everything, I lost my appetite. Tomorrow I will tell the staff that they can help themselves to it.
Finally making my mind up, I make my way to my room. I hesitate to open the door but do anyway. Natalia's perfume hits my nose and makes my heart ache. I miss her already but I can't just look past her infidelity. Walking over to the closet, I see that the only things on her side are the things I bought her. She was always refusing to let me buy her clothes and jewelry unless I begged her. My parents always taught me to take care of my spouse and to treat them like they are the only thing that matters in the world.
I grab my night clothes from the drawer and head to take a shower when I see something sitting on my desk in the corner of the room. Walking over, I see her wedding rings and a note that reads 'Thanks for nothing' laying under them. My mind starts to think back on all of the good times we shared. All of that down the drain because someone with more money came along and showed her interest. I should have known it was to good to be true. No woman that beautiful is that down to earth in this world. I always thought she was the most genuine person I had ever met.
I guess looks can be deceiving. A wolf in sheep's clothing.
Natalia POV
The next morning I am woken up by whispering in my room. From what I can hear, there is two people to my left and two people to my right. Instantly, I recognize the voices. The whispers belong to my brothers and sister-in-law.
"You wake her up, dude. I did it the last time and got punched in the crotch. Things down there still haven't healed," Jaxon whispers. The memory makes me want to laugh but I contain it.
"No thanks, I choose life. I don't know if she still sleeps with a knife," Grayson whispers defensively. These boys look mean but are teddy bears in reality.
"Megan, how about you do it? She wouldn't do anything to you," Huxley asks to I assume Megan.
"Should I run and jump on her or ice water?" Megan whispers in excitement. Oh no. Huxley, please say no.
"Neither. Is that water gun still in your room?" Huxley whispers.
"No, it's in my bag. I figured with all of you Anderson siblings together I would need it," Megan whispers back as her voice goes to the foot of the bed.
Next thing I know, I am my face gets drenched with water that is thankfully room temperature. I immediately sit up and look around the room in shock. They all start to laugh as I sit there with wet hair.
"YOU ARE ALL DEAD!" I yell out. They all run for the door and try to all go out at once. Megan was the smart one and went to my balcony to drop down.
Calmly, I get up from my bed since I know where all of their hiding spots are at on the property. After I get dressed, I grab my bag of goodies I keep hidden and make my way to the first victim. Huxley's room is close to mine so he gets to be first. He is the only one who has light enough hair to do my first prank. Going to his bathroom, I open up his conditioner bottle and mix in the pink hair dye. Normal people look at the bottle as they put the conditioner in their hair, but not Hux. He either has his eyes closed from the aggressive rinse of the shampoo or he is having his own little concert and doesn't pay attention. The only way I know about this is from Jaxon and Grayson making fun of him for it. The only thing I could think was his poor scalp.
After I made sure that it was mixed in well for Hux's morning shower, I go to the room that Jaxon and Megan have here for when they are here. I change the labels on Megan's tinted lip gloss with a dark stain. Megan can't stand stains so I have been holding this for a while now. Moving on to Jaxon, I replace his hair gel with lubricant that was strawberry scented. For the longest time, he has hated the fruit but gives me choices in pranks. Sneaking out of the room, I move on to Grayson. Now Grayson doesn't have any belongings in his room so I will have to go bigger. I look outside to see he drove his BMW today and an idea struck. I look in my bag and find my car chalk from a prank I did the last time I saw my brothers. Sneaking outside, I make quick work of my task. Pulling out the black and purple chalk, I quickly color his windows before taking out an adult toy to stick to his windshield. This is more like a two for one since I will get dad flustered as well. I sneak back inside and go to their hiding spots.
The first person is Huxley, who is hiding in the coat closet. I open the door and jump back in time to miss the hands trying to grab me. Laughing, I whack his head before he puts up his hands in surrender.
"Want to help me with the others?" I ask him with a mischievous smirk.
"I would love the honor," Hux says with a smirk of his own.
We sneak up to the second floor to the game room. Jaxon has always hid in here under the pool table. Unlike most pool tables, ours has curtains on the bottom to enclose the bottom. Hux and I get near the end where he normally keeps his feet. When I go to pull him out, Hux stops me. I look at him to tell him off when I see him glance at my stomach. It dawns on me that he wants me to step back so the baby is safe. As soon as I step back, Hux pulls Jaxon out as he flails around.
"Since when did you turn to her side?" Jaxon half yells at Huxley.
"When she found me first. Now lets get the last two," Hux says as he helps Jaxon stand up.
Megan was easy to find. Hux had Jaxon act like we hadn't found him yet to draw her out of the filter room in the pool area. She was surprised to say the least. The only one left was Grayson who would be in the office hiding behind our dad. Sure enough, when we get there, dad is sitting at his desk as Grayson's head peeks out from behind him. Huxley and Jaxon pull him out from behind dad as our father laughs at his kids.
"Enough you all. Go get ready for breakfast. Your mother wants us all to go to an appointment with her today," dad states as he looks at me. This woman will be the death of me.
We all leave the office and I await for my pranks to make their appearance.