You're My Valentine

L.M. STEVENSON

You're My Valentine ©

Copyright January 2025

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, and places are either created or produced through my imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, or establishments of business, even locales, is entirely coincidental.

This is the work of my own mind and creative imagination that comes to me. I hope you enjoy it as much as I wrote it. Thank you.

Trigger Warning

Sexual assault (dubious content, non-content), bad language, abuse (domestic, physical, emotional, verbal), gun war, violence, BDSM, Kidnapping and abduction, Death or Lying (Grieve, Loss), Natural disasters, Violence (Guns, graphic depictions of war, excessive violence and blood)

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Character’s introductions

Name: Benjamin Sumner

Age: 52 years old

Born: Boston (May 9th 1971)

Parents: Claudia Sumner (Mother), Bernard Sumner (Father)

Siblings: None

Spouse: Camille Sumner (Divorced), Addison Sumner (Wife)

Children: Julieta Sumner (Oldest Daughter), Nicole Sumner (Youngest Daughter)

Backstory: I’m the CEO of my father’s company, which he handed down to me before he died of cancer. I had an affair with my personal assistant 6 years ago, and my wife caught me fucking with my personal assistant, Addison, in my office. I was having an affair with Addison because she was much younger and more beautiful than my wife, and I had another beautiful daughter called Nicole, who was named after my mother. But Addison didn’t give birth to her, but I paid for a surrogate because she didn’t want to ruin her perfect figure, and I didn’t want her too. When I got back home, I went to see where my wife and my 10-year-old daughter were, and they were nowhere to be found. I called the cops on her and told them that she had kidnapped my child and was on the run. When the cops called to tell me that they had found her, I went to where they had found her and my daughter. I told the cops to stay back for now and let my daughter and let her come to me, and she did, so I nodded my head to them and arrested her mother. I took her to court and got full custody of her, and I had a restraining order against her, and I finally dropped the charges against her. But I did let her say goodbye to her for one last time, as I knew she wouldn’t be able to see her anymore.

Name: Addison Sumner

Age: 33 years old

Born: Boston (June 9th 1990)

Parents: (Both Parents Died)

Siblings: Drake Mickelson (Brother)

Spouse: Benjamin Sumner (Husband)

Children: Nicole Sumner (Daughter)

Backstory: I have been working as a personal assistant since the age of 19, and my boss, Benjamin Sumner, and I have been having an affair with my boss for 6 years. His wife courted us fucking in his office, and she took his daughter with her. I was glad she did, but he wasn’t, of course. He divorced her and got custody of her daughter, but I wish he had just let them both go. Camile got her stuff when her ex-husband was at work and her daughter was at school. She left the house and told me to tell her daughter Julieta she was moving back to London and she would call her from time to time. I had, but I won’t tell her daughter that, of course, and her mother had sent her letters, birthday cards and presents, but I threw them away, before he saw. My soon-to-be husband knew I had a 5-year-old and that she was his daughter, so he asked me to move in with him and for our two girls to be friends and sisters together. He met Nicole and loved her so much that we finally got married. I didn’t like his daughter, Juliet. I had her life in a living hell as I mentally abused her when her father was around, of course. I even told my daughter Nicole made her life hell at school and at home, but Julieta hurt my baby girls. I told my daughter to steal her boyfriend, and we could tell my husband that she was the one who stole him. Away from my daughter Nicole because they were engaged, and it worked too. Because she lost everything and her father didn’t believe her, I got her father to kick her out of the street with no one to turn to at all.

Name: Nicole Sumner

Age: 20 years old

Born: Boston (March 23rd 2003)

Parents: Addison Sumner (Mother), Benjamin Sumner (Father)

Siblings: Julieta Sumner (Step-Sister)

Spouse: Engaged to Ethan Gray

Backstory: I have a step-sister called Julieta whom I hate so badly, and my mother hates her too because she mentally abuses her when our father isn’t around, of course. She was loved by her father for a while until I stole his attention away from her, so she is alone. She has no one, will have that chubby girl Wendy from high school, but that’s all. She had a boyfriend she met in college, and who has been working at our father’s company as an executive CEO. My mother told me to seduce her boyfriend, Ethan, so that is what I have been doing, and I’m younger and more beautiful than Julieta. He told me I was beautiful, sexy, and dirtier than his girlfriend. Today was the first anniversary, and that was the day I stole him away from her. So like her mother, she courted me, getting fucked by her boyfriend and in her room because I made sure she could hear as I called out, Yes fuck Ethan harder. She ran out of her room and told her father no doubt, but I got there in the nick of time, I told her father about her stealing my fiancée and was fucking him. Ethan backed me up and said she tried to seduce him and got to fuck her; our father was furious with her. Julieta told our father it was the other way around, but he didn’t believe his oldest daughter over me, and he took everything from her and kicked her out onto the street. She was left with nothing but the clothes she was wearing and the stuff we didn’t want in the house.

Name: Camille Pierce

Age: 45 years old

Born: Boston (May 4th 1978)

Parents:

Siblings: Drake Pierce (Brother)

Spouse: Divorced

Children: Julieta Sumner

Backstory: I had a beautiful life with my loving family, until one day. I caught my husband cheating on me with PA. I went to pick up my little girl from school as I thought of us living with husband and living with this lie, he has been keeping from us. But that night it got even worse for me. I moved back home to London in England, because my ex-husband got me arrested for kidnapping our daughter after I found out he was cheating on me with that red-haired Addison, his PA (personal assistant). He got full custody of our daughter, and he took my only daughter away from me, and I couldn’t see her. I sent letters, birthday cards and gifts to her, but no doubt her father threw them away. I bet her father made her think that I had abandoned her, no doubt, but I didn’t. I just hope someday she will come find me and tell her that I was always here for her. But luckily, my new life in London and I am a successful surgeon and chief of the famous hospital in London in the city centre. I just hope one day my daughter Julieta finds out the truth and understands I never stopped thinking about her.

Name: Julieta Sumner

Age: 25 years old

Born: Boston (May 19th 1998)

Parents: Mother Camllie Sumner (Divorced and mother changed back to her family’s maiden name Pierce), Father Michael Sumner (Divorced - Camllie Sumner)(Married Addison)

Siblings: Step-sister Nicola

Spouse: Single

Backstory: Wendy and I, my best friend, moved to London, England, over a week ago in search of my birth mother and have a new job and car. Because three months ago, my boyfriend Ethan cheated on me with my step-sister Nicole, who hates my guts, and so did her mother, Addison. My father believed his wife and daughter over me, his firstborn children. So I left their home for good and never looked back once. I called Wendy up, crying on the phone as she told me everything that had happened. She said I didn’t deserve that from my own father. So she came to pick me up outside our property, and she got out of the car and hugged me tightly in her arms. So I stayed with Wendy and my brother Carl until I found my birth mother, which helped because Wendy’s brother was a private investigator. I told Carl I had an old photo of her if that helped out in any way, and he said yes, it does, so he told me that he has a friend at the police station. Who could help out and see what she looked like now with the old photo I had of her? Wendy told me he was really good at finding people and other things too, she told me, so when he finally found my mother and what she looks like now. We decided to move to London to open up a business there, like we had back in Boston. Carl came with us to London and stayed for a while, and to helped me reach out to my mother because he needed to know how scary it could be. And I was grateful he did because I didn’t know if she ever wanted to see me again.

Name: Wendy Armstrong

Age: 25 years old

Born: New Jersey (1st June 1998)

Parents: Willow Armstrong (Mother), Ben Armstrong (Father)

Siblings: Carl Armstrong (Brother)

Spouse: Single

Backstory: I was bullied at high school by Nicole and her friends, but if it wasn’t for a girl called Julieta, who got everyone involved. Because they thought she was a criminal, just like her mother was, but I don’t believe that. I think she is the sweetest and kindest person you can meet. Because she saved me from the girls, and I found out she broke her step-sister Nicole’s nose and gave the other girls black eyes. Everyone saw it the next day, but the girls told them that they had fallen and hit the doorknob. Julieta and I became best friends, and we would study together at the library or at my house. When we graduated, we both went to the same college and somewhere far away from her evil stepsister and her friends. I want to become a wedding dress designer, and she wants to become a wedding planner. So this helps us create our own business together, one side of the shop would be the wedding dress shop, and the other side would be the wedding planning. We decided to go ahead and do it. It was her first anniversary, and her boyfriend cheated on her with her step-sister, Nicole. And on that same day, she lost everything and was kicked out onto the street by her own father. I thought that wasn’t fair, and she loved her father, but she called me up crying as she told me everything. She didn’t deserve that from her own father. So I came to pick her up outside our property and told her she could arm me if she gets back on her own two feet. She stayed with me and my brother Carl until we found her mother, which helped because my brother was a private investigator. My brother is good at finding people and other things too, so when he finally found her mother and what she looked like. We decided to move to London to open up a business there, like we had back in Boston, and my brother came with us a while ago.

Name: Carl Armstrong

Age: 33 years old

Born: New Jersey (6th December 1990)

Parents: Willow Armstrong (Mother), Ben Armstrong (Father)

Siblings: Wendy Armstrong (Sister)

Spouse: Single

Backstory: I have a wonderful sister, but unfortunately, our parents don’t like our career choices, and we are now living in London with Julieta. It’s not that they don’t like it because they did, but they had heard bad rumours of her being a criminal, just like her mother. These rumours were created because of your half-sister, or as she calls her, the evil step-witch and the same as her step-mother. But I know that is not true, and I just wish these rumours would fuck off, because she is sweet, loving, and the most caring person I have ever met. She helped and came to my sister’s aid because her step-sister and her friends were bullying her a lot. Julieta broke Nicola’s nose and gave her friends black eyes. Julieta hated her half-sister and her friends for doing that to my sister. My sister told me she is a loving girl and that I should meet her, and I did; my sister wasn’t wrong about her. I was so grateful she was there for my sister, and they became best friends, and I loved that she had my sister back. They both graduated and now own a business together. Julieta is the wedding planner, and my sister is the wedding dress designer. And I couldn’t beI just wish I had met her earlier and was the one to be her boyfriend, but she already had a boyfriend, and he was called Ethan Gray. It has been a year since she and she had a lovely plan for their first anniversary, and she was going to cook him a lovely meal too. I just wish it were me. But I found out that something terrible happened to her, she courted him fucking her evil step-witch and that all that, but her own father didn’t believe her over those stupid bitches. Her father kicked her out of her home and disowned her with a snap of his finger.

Name: Valentine Gray

Age: 30 years old

Born: London (Aug 20th 1993)

Parents: Mother Davina Gray, father Marcel Gray

Siblings: Brother Died and Unknown

Spouse: Single

Backstory: I live in London and I’m now a big shot here because I’m the CEO of a famous business in the entertainment industry. I have built this company from the ground up and with my own money and not my family’s money. I faked my death at the age of 18, and my family doesn’t know that I’m still alive and doing well for myself because they were into criminal shit, and I didn’t want to be a part of that life any more. I’m not a great person, as I was ruthless and cold. But my past that would make any blood run cold, with terrible things it did and aren’t proud of, but it goes with the job. I was known as the Black Reaper because I got shit done the way they needed to be done. But that is all in the past now, and my parents don’t know where I am because I took my dead cousin’s name. I hated it when women would touch me and I would just fuck them in any way I liked, pay them, then send them on their way. I never wanted a woman in my life, until she came along.

Name: Gloria Gray

Age: 49 years old

Born: Boston (April 13th 1974)

Parents: Mother Diane Armstrong (died), Father Nickel Armstrong

Siblings: None

Spouse: Karl Gray (Husband)

Children: Valentine Gray (Oldest Son Died), Ethan Gray

Backstory: I had two sons, but my oldest son, Valentine, died in a really bad car accident at the age of 18, and his body was burned pretty badly. They told us that he had a cardiac arrest, and it happened while he was driving home from university. My youngest son, Ethan, is going to become the CEO of Julieta’s father’s company soon, but he did a terrible thing to Julieta. He cheated on her with her half-sister, Nicole, on their first anniversary. Julieta was kicked out of her family by her own father and lost everything that day. I’m so angry at our son for doing that to a very sweet girl, like her and she didn’t deserve any of it. I found out that Alessandro was still alive and in hiding because his best friend, Keith, told me everything. He also told me that Alessandro did terrible things to people back then, and he didn’t want to be a part of that life any more. And I totally understand where he was going from. Because my husband didn’t want to be a part of that life either. That’s why his younger brother Marcal took over their father’s business, as the top Don of the mafia. So only three people knew he was alive: Keith, my husband and myself.

Name: Karl Gray

Age: 54 years old

Born: Boston (October 13th 1969)

Parents: Mother Danielle Gray (died), Father Draco Gray

Siblings: Marcel Gray (Brother)

Spouse: Gloria Gray (Husband)

Children: Valentine Gray (Oldest Son Died), Ethan Gray (Youngest Son)

Backstory: I had two sons, but my oldest son, Valentine, died in a really bad car accident at the age of 18, and his body was burned pretty badly. My son Ethan is going to become the CEO of Julieta’s father’s company soon, but he did a terrible thing to Julieta. My son cheated on her with her half-sister, Nicol, on their first anniversary of being together. And the same day, she was kicked out of her family home by her own father and lost everything that day. Gloria was very angry at our son for what he did to a very sweet girl. Julieta didn’t deserve any of it, from our son or her own father. My younger brother, Marcal, told me he wanted me to work together with his son to do a job, but that night we got jumped. I got shot and nearly died trying to save my nephew and my brother’s son, who got kidnapped. Alessandro ended up in a bad car accident and died at the age of 18, the same age as my son. My brother’s wife was in tears for months when they found out they were having another baby and that it was a baby girl. They had named Helena after Michelle’s mother. I found out that Alessandro was still alive and in hiding because his best friend, Keith, told Gloria. He also told me that Alessandro did terrible things to people back then, and he didn’t want to be a part of that life any more. And I totally understand where he is going from because I didn’t want to be a part of that life either. That’s why my younger brother Marcal took over his father’s business life as the top Don of the mafia. So only three people knew he was alive was Keith, my wife and I.

Name: Ethan Gray

Age: 29 years old

Born: Boston (Aug 11th 1994)

Parents: Mother Gloria Gray, Father Karl Gray

Siblings: Valentine Gray (Brother died)

Spouse: Engaged to Nicole Sumner (broke up with my Ex-girlfriend Julieta)

Backstory: Three months ago, I cheated on my girlfriend on our 1st anniversary with her half-sister Nicole, whom I’m now engaged to marry soon three months. Nicole lied to their father about Julieta stealing her boyfriend from her, and said she slept with me because she was jealous of what she had. Julieta lost everything that day, her father, her home and her trust fund too. She was kicked out into the street with just the clothes she had and some other stuff that they didn’t want in the house. I didn’t care what happened to her because I was going to be made CEO of her father’s company soon and be the most famous person in the business world.

Name: Michelle Gray

Age: 38 years old

Born: Washington (March 9th 1985)

Parents: Helena Franklin (Mother), Bernard Franklin (Father)

Siblings: None

Spouse: Marcel Gray (Husband)

Children: Alessandro Gray (Son Died), Isabella Gray (Daughter)

Backstory: My husband Marcel switched our son because he had Congenital Heart Disease (CHD), and he switched with his brother’s healthy baby boy and raised him as our own. I knew what he did, and I swore I would take it to my grave, and I loved him like my own. My husband took over his father’s business, but his older brother wanted out of that life. My husband would call his older brother from time to time to help with a few jobs, because like our brother who gets the job done. There was a job where both had to work together on, but they got and our brother got kidnapped and ended up in a bad car accident and died at the age of 18. My husband Marcel went to see his body and told me he was truly dead. I cried for months, but I found out we were having another baby, and it was a baby girl, and she was beautiful and healthy too.

Name: Marcel Gray

Age: 46 years old

Born: Boston (April 23rd 1977)

Parents: Mother Danielle Gray (died), Father Draco Gray

Siblings: Karl Gray (Brother)

Spouse: Michelle Gray (Michelle Gray)

Children: Alessandro Gray (Son Died), Isabella Gray (Daughter)

Backstory: I switched our son because he had Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) with his brother’s healthy baby boy, and we raised him as our own. My wife Michelle knew what I did and swore she would take it to her grave, and I loved him like my own. I took over his father’s business because my older brother wanted out of that life. I would call my older brother from time to time to help with a few jobs, because like our brother, he is good at getting the job done. There was a job that I needed them both to work together on, but they got jumped, and our brother got kidnapped and ended up in a bad car accident and died at the age of 18. I went to see his body and told my wife he was truly dead. She cried for months, but she found out that we were having another baby, and it was a baby girl, and she was beautiful and healthy too.

Name: Isabella Gray

Age: 18 years old

Born: Boston (July 4th 2005)

Parents: Michelle Gray (Mother), (Father)

Siblings: Alessandro Gray (Brother Died)

Spouse: Single

Backstory: When I was younger, my parents would tell me stories about my brother and how he was the bravest, strongest and fearless handsome man, but he wasn’t with us anymore. I saw photos of him around the house, and I saw how handsome he truly was, but I wish I could have met him. My father told me that I get my good looks from my mother, and I was his little princess. I was homeschooled and wasn’t allowed to go out to play with the other kids; they told me I was too precious to them. I read a lot of books and I was getting good at knowing a lot of things, like history, science and languages. So I never argue with them about it, but now that I am coming of age, at the age of 18. I want to go to college or university like other people my age are doing. But the only way I was going to do that was to ask my mother because I am a free spirit just like she is. Just fingers crossed that she can make my father see that a not a little girl anymore.

Name: Drake Mickelson

Age: 39 years old

Born: Boston (November 11th 1984)

Parents: (Both Parents Died)

Siblings: Addison Sumner (Sister)

Spouse: Sabrina Wilson (Wife Died)

Children: None

Backstory: I own half of Boston, and I’m a businessman, and I hate disloyalty in my family. I will kill everyone who is disloyal and disrespects me as the mafia boss. My top enemy is the Gray’s family, and I killed Karl Gray’s son so he could run their business. I didn’t need to kill Valentine Gray, because he was killed by my friend, who killed him by cutting his brake line, and his car went over the cliff. How do I know this? He was the one who told him, and it was on the evening news. So now I’m going to be the next top mafia family in Boston, and I will offer the Gray’s family something they can’t refuse. Because in fact, Karl’s other son is coming to marry my niece Nicole and will soon be the CEO of her father’s business. My sister is a killer herself because she goes for what she wants and gets it too, and if she hates someone, she gets rid of them, like Julieta Benjamin’s first child. Now that she is gone and my niece has stolen her boyfriend, she is now in line to get married to Ethan Gray. I couldn’t ask for a better way to finally become the top mafia family of Boston, and no one is going to stop me now.

Name: Lucy Holiday

Age: 21 years old

Born: Chipping Norton (14th February 2002)

Parents: Mary Holiday (Mum), Jack Holiday (Dad)

Siblings: Wesley Holiday (Brother)

Spouse: Single

Backstory: I’m working at Bridal Gardens as a PA, and I love my job because I have been here for a month now, and I have two of the best bosses in the world. My brother Wesley has a thing for Wendy, but he is afraid of her brother Carl because he is well built in places and is a private investigator as well. Carl really likes my Juliet, and I think he would like to go out on a date with her, but I think she only sees him as kind of a big brother figure. I don’t know if she knew about Carl having feelings for her, but I hope she sees it soon because he was a great guy, and he cared about her. Carl would sometimes come and have lunch with us at the office because we would go out in the garden. We had a beautiful garden to sit in when it was nice out, of course, because England was a wet country. A man whom I had never seen came into the bridal office asking for Julieta, and he was hot as hell. And he didn’t look at me once because he was staring at her office the whole time I was on the phone with her. But when Wendy told me to take his name, he wrote something on the back of a business card and told me to give it to Julieta and her only. Which I found strange with the way he ordered me, and it seemed to me as if he told me not to read what was on the back of the card. It said Mr Valentine Gray was a big shot in London and an eligible bachelor looking for a wife at tonight’s charity event. So I just handed it over to her like he told me to, and she was looking at something on her phone, no doubt looking him up and seeing who he was. But there isn’t a picture of him in the newspaper, and no picture on social media, nothing at all, it was like he was a ghost or something? Julieta and Wendy told me what happened back home in Boston with her so-called family and what her ex-boyfriend, Ethan Gray, did to her on her first anniversary of being together. It was so sad to hear, and now I know why the name Gray spooked her, but it wasn’t him.

Name: Keith Black

Age: 30 years old

Born: Boston (19th May 1993)

Parents: Louise Busfield (Step-Mother), Trevor Black (Father)

Siblings: Max Busfield (Step-Brother died)

Spouse: Single

Backstory: Alessandro Gray is my best friend and his second in command, and I was there when he faked his death, and the guy who was hired was my step-brother. He was just there to get Alessandro out, put him in the car and drive his car over the cliff. But luckily, I was there to save him from the car before it blew up. He told me that I needed to inject him with the serum that would stop his heart for 5 minutes. But he shot at his uncle and found out that he almost died trying to save his nephew, and was in the hospital where they help our men out when we get shot. We later found out that my step-brother was one of Drake’s men and his best friend too. So I went looking for him because Alessandro was in hiding for safety reasons, and when I finally found him. I brought him to a warehouse not too far from the hideout, and Alessandro and I tortured him to death. I then sent his body in a body bag back to Drake’s mansion with a message from the Gray’s family, “You kill one of us, we kill one of yours, Drake.” But I kept going back to the hospital, and Gloria was there, and it was too late to turn around and leave the hospital. Because she stopped me and she had asked me question after question about why I didn’t save her nephew, Alessandro. So I messaged him to tell him that his aunt is asking me questions, and she wants to know why I didn’t save you. He told me to bring her and his uncle to the hideout, so that is what. He told them both he needed to leave for London under the name of Valentine Gray, his cousin’s name, if that was ok with them, of course. They said they would be honoured if he carried on his name, and they would help him leave the country and the documents I needed to get for him, so I did. Now, 11 years later, he is a well-known businessman, but no one knows what he looks like because we took his photo out of the papers and social media.

Name: Jane Young

Age: 29 years old

Born: Boston (10th March 1992)

Parents: Joyce Young (Mother) (Father died/unknown)

Siblings: None

Spouse: Danny Fred (in a relationship)

Backstory: I’m Mr Valentine Gray, PA, and I’m afraid of him because he calls me useless and that I can’t do a thing right, but I’m doing an internship from Oxfordshire University. I really do try, but he doesn’t make it easy to work with him, and I heard that he has fired 5 interns or some of them quit, because of the pressure. But I will not give him the satisfaction of beating me. I’m going to stay at this job until he fires me or I work myself to death; those are my options. I might not be all that good yet, but I will be damned if I don’t learn everything that I need to get better. I’m a quick learner, and I’m always early or on time when I get to work. My mother thinks that I can do better. But my brother thinks I’m in a job where I’m not respected enough, and I let people walk all over me.