The billionaire's wife ✓ [Editing]

Chapter twenty two: The face behind the mask.

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A/N: Hope you enjoy the chapter, don't forget to vote and comment

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Elizabeth's POV

Charles and I haven't spoken ever since. Every morning he wakes up early to get to work and comes home late just to avoid me. It's his house, not mine, he shouldn't be feeling like a stranger in his own house. All this just because I asked him a simple question. If I'm honest I would say that I'm actually glad. Talking to him always adds more problems to my list of problems.

After that day I haven't heard from Michael either. Those two are the most strange people I've ever met. They have too much in common, I wonder why they hate each other so much. Sometimes I feel like they are trying to tell me something but I just don't know what.

I was taking a walk in the garden when I got a call from Charles's mom. We never talked as much, much less giving me a phone call.

"Hello."

"Ellie sweetheart can you e-mail me the number of a folder. It's yellow and it's in the cardboard next to Charles's bed, he said he left it there. I just need to put something in the system."

"Okay." Was all I said before she hanged up.

This was scary, first, off I have never been in his room alone, second, he hates it when people go into his room without his permission, but I had to do it since his mother asked, he probably knew.

He room was dark with no light, everything was in black. The bedsheets, the curtains and the cupboards.

I walked to his cupboard and opened it as she had said. I found the folder and e-mailed the number written on the side to her as she asked.

As I was about to put the folder back, it slipped right out of my hands and fell under the bed. As I was about to pick the folder up, I saw something that caught my attention.

It was a rusty old diary. What was it doing here? I didn't think Charles would own a diary.

As always curiosity got the best of me.

I opened it to find everything written in it was in Charles old handwriting. I remember it because whenever he came over to my house he used to Scrabble all over my books until he stopped coming.

The more I looked at the book, the more I wanted to read it. It seemed as if it was pulling me closer. So I opened it.

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Dear diary

Today I had to hide in the basement again. Sarah the nanny mom and dad left us with has started beating us again.

And I can't do anything but to stay here and hide while I hear Michael screening upstairs. I really wish I could help him but I can't.

He told me to stay here and hideaway.

I wish Nick was here, he would have been brave enough to stand up to her. But I'm not, the more I tell myself I'm strong the weaker I became.

Dad has been cheating on mom with Sarah for a while, that's why he does nothing when she beats us up. When Nick tried to confront him he sent him off to boarding school.

Mom doesn't know that any of this has been happening since she is always travelling with dad and we are too scared to tell her because dad would beat us.

I hate it, I hate being weak. I hate depending on others, but what else can I do?

After a while, Michael came back. I could tell he was in pain, he just didn't want to show it.

He kept on telling me that everything was going to be alright but we both knew that wasn't true.

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What was I doing, I was invading someone's private space. If he found out I was reading his diary I would be dead. But if I didn't read on he would never tell me so I flipped over to the next page.

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Michael has been acting strange. He has been hanging out with the older kids. And we all know they are no good. I've tried to talk him out of it but he won't listen.

Mom said Nick would be coming back next week. I'm so glad we can be together again and play Xbox until the morning.

Mom said Ellie would be coming over today to play. I really hate it when she comes over, she is always smiling and nice, even when I steal her candy. I hate it on how she always acts as if the world is a perfect place. People like her never makes it, before she knows it the world will eat her up.

Michael's behaviour kept on getting worse and it made me afraid that I might lose him.

The week before Nick came back, I kept on having bad dreams. I knew that something terrible was about to happen but what I didn't know was that it was much worse.

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I flipped over to the next page but all the pages after that had been torn except a few others.

As I about to turn over and read the next pages a paper fell out, it was a letter. What surprised me was that it was written in his mother's handwriting.

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I'm so sorry that you had to find out this way that Edward isn't your real father.

I was young and stupid, I didn't know what to do. Edward and I had met in high school and got married at the age of eighteen, we were so in love but all that changed when I met your dad. Edward and I had been having so problems so we decided to give each other space.

Your dad being the bad boy he was, I fell in love with him. Eventually, I got pregnant while still married to Edward. After your dad found out I was pregnant he threw me out, I didn't know what to do.

Then I met Edward, he took me in and he said he would take you in as if you were his own. All because he loved me.

We never told you this because we didn't want you to feel like you were not a part of us. You will always be a part of us

No matter what happens I want you to know that I'll always love you. Your brothers need you. So we hope you can come home soon.

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Charles never told me his dad wasn't his real father, no one did.

"What do you think you are doing?"

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A/N: I just wanted to know if you have any suggestions on who can play Michael.

And just so you know Nick was the oldest then Michael then Charles.