Note: This is the first fanfiction I post online and English is my second language, please forgive me for any mistakes.

Disclaimer: I do not own Miss Match.

11 years, 11 months and 17 days.
Adam Logan thought while looking at the envelope in his hands. His eyes read carefully every sentence at least twice. That woman ruined his life and now she was trying to contact him again after all this time.
He always wondered if it was really her fault. She should've been more cautious in her job, she was dealing with people's lives. Or maybe he should blame himself, he used to trust people too easily and he thought his money could buy everything.
His hands started to shake as he pressed harder that small paper. He closed his eyes and moments later he felt a pair of arms involving his chest from behind.
"Morning, handsome."
He turned around and gently kissed his wife.
"That was a long shower, you know?" He joked.
Without her noticing, he slipped the card to inside his pocket. Lauren wouldn't be pleased to find out she had sent him that invitation and besides, they were just making up from last night's argument, there was no reason to start another fight.
She sat next to him on bed.
"Are you still mad at me?" Lauren asked.
"Of course not!" Adam said. "You were right anyways, we nearly lost that deal because of my big mouth."
She kissed him in the lips again.
"I love you, even if you're stubborn and never listen to my advices."
"I love you too, gorgeous." He smiled.
"I don't know..." Lauren said. "You have that look on your face."
"I swear," Adam lied, "I'm only tired of... you know... last night?"
"Don't try to fool me, Adam Logan," She grabbed the cup of coffee he left for her at the bedside table. "I'll find out. I always do." She winked.
Adam looked at her while she took a sip of her coffee and he couldn't help thinking about how things had changed. She became his best friend, his partner, his soulmate. She still drove him crazy, all the time, but he loved her. He learned to accept her flaws and she learned to accept his.
"Where are the kids?" Lauren asked.
"Uh... David and Serenity are playing outside and Luke is in his bedroom reading."
"He has been spending too much time in that bedroom."
"It's normal of his age, Lauren."
Lucas was their eldest son. He was 11 years old and resembled his father. The first time Adam saw him he was 2 years old and a little bit over 2ft tall, now he had reached his mother's shoulder. Time had passed really quickly.
"You should talk to him, maybe he'll open up to you," Lauren said.
"I'll try to talk to him later, ok?" He kissed his wife's forehead. "But you don't need to worry, he's fine."
Adam left the bedroom and went downstairs to see whatever his other kids were up to.

Lauren knew something was wrong. For days she had been watching Adam, every morning for the last 2 weeks he'd stare that envelope. At first she thought it was another article but she couldn't find anything on Google or recent newspapers. She kept trying to find where he was keeping it, but he was hiding the damn piece of paper like a treasure. What he didn't know is that she finally stole it from his pocket as they kissed.
She was ready to open that mysterious envelope but there was something else she needed to solve first. She knocked her eldest son's bedroom door.
"Luke? It's a beautiful day, sweetie. Let's go outside."
The boy took his eyes off the comic book he was reading.
"Ok, but I'm gonna finish this first."
"You can finish later, your siblings are waiting for you. David is testing his new creation."
"Later, mom. I'm not in the mood."
He hadn't been "in the mood" for anything lately, that was worrying her deeply.
"Mom?" He asked. "Can I use your laptop?"
"What happened to your computer?"
"Err... David is doing a clean up for me and it'll take a few hours," he said. "I need to make a research for school."
"Tonight. Now you're gonna get out of this bedroom and go outside, ok?"
The boy agreed.
Lauren went back to her bedroom and locked the door. She sat down and opened the envelope. Her eyes couldn't believe what she was reading, Kate Fox's was having a new book released and she was throwing a cocktail. For some reason, she thought that inviting Adam, alone, was a good idea.
She checked the date, the event was happening that evening, she had until noon to confirm her presence. A woman answered her phone call and she explained her husband was out of town so she'd be going in his place.
"I hope it's not a problem?" She asked.
"No way, Mrs. Logan. Miss Fox will be waiting for you."
I'm pretty sure she won't. Lauren thought.

"Slowly, Serenity, you're gonna break it," David shouted.
"If I break it you can build another one, smartass."
"Dad!"
Adam watched while his other two kids played outside. David had attached a camera in a remote control airplane. That kid was a genius, he was a tech geek at only 9 years old. He was also very good at science and math.
"What's up, captain? Problems with your pilot?" Adam asked as the boy approached him.
"More like my ship was taken by a troll." He sat next to his father, disappointed.
Adam smiled. David looked a lot like his mother and so did Serenity. Anyone that looked them would say they looked like twins but they had a 14 months age gap, Serenity was 8.
The girl's name was the reason for their second "almost divorce". Lauren had complications during childbirth and spent a few days in the hospital, when she got home she found out her little "Olivia Marie" had been named "Serenity Zoe". She only forgave Adam weeks later because that fussy, loud and energetic baby would only stop crying when daddy called her "Serenity".
"Stop being a cry-baby, David. I know what I'm doing!" Serenity said while the plane was only a few inches away from falling in the swimming pool.
"That's enough, give it back to me," David whined.
Lauren approached Adam holding her cell phone.
"Baby, change of plans for tonight. The girls invited me for a drink and I couldn't say no, remember one of them is moving to Florida? So, she's going next week."
"Uhh... What time can I expect my girl to come home?" Adam asked, placing his arm around her waist.
"I won't take too long, I promise."
She pressed her lips against his.
"Are you going out tonight, mommy?" Serenity asked. Her green eyes were glowing in hope.
"Yes, sweetie," Lauren said. "Will you miss me?"
The girl nodded yes and winked to her father. Lauren knew what that meant, whenever she went out Adam would let the kids order pizza, eat lots of ice cream and play video games until late. The kids thought it was a secret they shared with Adam and she didn't want to ruin it, so she pretended she didn't know. She also winked to her husband as the little girl joined her brothers.
"Hey, it's my turn again," she said.

Lauren had a devilish grin on her face while driving to the cocktail, it was the first time she'd face Kate Fox after 12 years. Everytime she saw her on talk shows, interviews and Q&A sessions she always wanted to tell the public their "little story", but then Kate would be the victim, she was always the victim.
She parked her car and started walking. She remembered the anger management counselling sessions she had to please Adam right after they got back together, as she passed through the door she thought:
Don't fight, don't yell, don't go crazy. Keep it classy, Lauren, you can do it.
Lauren wanted to get it done and go home as soon as possible but Kate was nowhere to be found. She looked around a little bit more and decided to ask for information, she asked three different people and none of them had seen her yet so she went to the bartender:
"Hey, bartender."
"Hello, how can I help you tonight?"
"Well, first I really need a drink," Lauren said.
"Describe yourself. 3 words and I'll make you a drink that fits."
"Wife. Mother. CEO."
"Oh, sounds like you need a very good one."
"Definitely." Lauren laughed as she read the tag on that woman's shirt: "Victoria - Bartender".
"So, Victoria, have you seen Ms. Fox?" She asked. "I really wanted to greet her."
"She was here a few minutes ago, she's probably getting ready for her speech," Victoria said. "Here's your drink."
Lauren took a sip of the orangish drink Victoria prepared.
"Awesome!" She exclaimed. "I'm gonna hire you for my next party."
"Oh good, but know what I could use right now? A steady job."
"Really? I'm looking for an assistant. Simple thing, only to help me at my office, are you interested?"
"Sure. Where is it?"
"Mother Earth Footwear."
Victoria froze.
"Uhh Errr... Give me your number and I call you to schedule an interview," she said nervously. "What's your name again?"
"Lauren. Logan."
"Excuse me Lauren, I need to serve that client over there. I call you, ok?"
"Ok."
Lauren knew the look Victoria gave her after she said "Mother Earth Footwear", it made her feel bad. It happened all the time since Adam was declared guilty. When things got a little better, a newspaper released an article "Mother Earth: 10 years after the scandal" and people started to remember the whole thing again. She waved good-bye to Victoria and decided to look for Kate Fox again.

Victoria walked away from Lauren and discretly typed on her phone:
Kate, meet me the bar. ASAP. Be careful.

"You wanna talk to me?"
"Yes, can we do it privately?"
Kate told her to wait in a small room. Lauren sat on the couch and started to think. Seeing Kate reminded her of Michael. They hadn't heard from him in months, he was somewhere in Asia after his second wife dumped him. He'd send postcards sometimes but neither she or Adam would bother reading it.
She grabbed a copy of the book on the table in front of her. Those relationship advices were too stupid, she wondered if people were really that desperate. Such a waste of paper! She thought. Kate also mentioned her husband, kids and the countries they had lived in the last 10 years. Lauren had no idea she had gotten married. Before she could read anything else the door opened and Kate came in.
"Done," she said. "We can talk now."
"Kate, I'm going straight to the point," Lauren started. "What do you want with my husband?"
Kate took a deep breath. It wasn't easy for her as well.
"I wanted to talk to him, ask him how he's doing."
"He's doing great. Thanks for your concern."
"I'm sorry for what happened... I..."
"I'm only going to say it once, ok?" Lauren interrupted her. "I don't want you trying to contact him, not now, almost 12 years later. You weren't there when he needed, you weren't there when we was declared guilty for insider trading, all because of that woman you set him up with."
"I didn't want to get involved," Kate said. "If I knew that she had planned to drug him in order to obtain confidential information I'd never have set them up."
"It's all about you, always," Lauren laughed. "You destroyed his life, his career. He's still broken inside, I know that. Every year he still mourns that date."
"Lauren, I..."
"Stop, Kate. No excuses, ok?" Lauren grabbed her purse and walked to the door. "Oh, and thank you for your matchmaking services. At least the trouble that you caused brought us together again."
She entered her car and she stayed there for a few minutes. She felt her face burning and her hands shaking. There was a lot more she'd like to tell Kate Fox, like how scared she was when Adam attempted to take his own life or about the look on his face everytime somebody brings up the scandal again. She calmed down and came to the conclusion she should just go home now and hug him as tight as she could.

"I'm home!" Lauren announced as she got inside.
"But it's still 9 P.M.!" She heard Serenity complaining.
She went to the living room where the kids were playing video games with Adam. She gave him a kiss.
"There's pizza in the kitchen," Adam said.
"I'm not hungry." She sat next to him and rested her head on his shoulder.
Lauren noticed he was too quiet and had a serious look on his face.
"You're so quiet," she said. "Did you lose to them?"
There was no age difference when Adam played video games with the kids, they all behaved the same way. Lauren wasn't very good playing but she liked to watch.
"We need to talk, can we go upstairs?" Adam asked.
Lauren followed him to their bedroom and he closed the door.
"You lied to me," he said. "You went to that damn cocktail, didn't you?"
"Adam, I needed to ask her what the hell she wanted."
"It doesn't matter what she wanted. I wasn't going and I didn't want you to go!" Adam shouted.
"I'm sorry, I thought I was doing the right thing for us." Lauren tried to apologize.
"For us? If you were really thinking about us you should have asked me."
He sat on the bed and she tried to hug him.
"No, Lauren. Not now, ok? Leave me alone, please."

36 hours.
Adam was 36 hours without saying a word to her. She tried to apologize in every way she could but nothing.
He refused to go with her to the office and she understood. He barely could have any active functions at the company even after all this time, the other employees would make mean comments about him and their kept losing deals when he was the one trying to negotiate.
There was a mess going on in front of the building, apparently somebody else was moving in. In the middle of all that confusion and noise, Lauren was waiting for the elevator, one of her co-workers and Adam's best friends joined her.
"Morning, boss," the blonde-haired man said.
"Morning, Ethan."
"Where's Adam?"
"He didn't feel like coming today. You know, same old problems."
"Oh, it's that time of the year."
Ethan was very supportive when everything happened. When Adam was out of the federal prison, he stayed at Ethan's place in San Francisco for 3 months.
"Exactly," Lauren said. "So, do you know who's moving to the building?"
They entered the elevator.
"Oh, it's just a law firm," he said. "Fox & Associates, I guess."