As he approached her bedroom door, he slowed his steps and relaxed his demeanor. The last thing he wanted was to appear threatening and domineering; so far, none of those stances had worked with her. Putting her on the defensive brought nothing but headaches and frustration. He found her at her desk, writing away. So engrossed was she in the activity that she did not notice he was there until he called out."What are you doing?" He asked. Her head snapped up, followed by a frown once she saw it was him. Clearly, the last few days of alienation and the last months of tiresome conflict had done nothing to settle the scores. Olivia could still not withstand his guts."What do you want, Titan?" Olivia asked perfunctorily, with her eyes and her mind squarely on her letter."That's how you greet a person who saved your life?" He asked. "Why exactly have you stayed here, holed up in the last few days?"Olivia was surprised he noticed and was almost touched. But acting like she did not care
Olivia had returned to the dungeon entrance, determined to see her brother at all costs. She had told the guards she was unable to find Titan, and they had shrugged carelessly and told her straight up that it wasn't their problem. She had retorted that she didn't care what was their problem or not, all she wanted was to see her brother. Then one of them said if her father had not been a killer or her brother a kidnapper, she would be able to see him without any problems because he wouldn't even be incarcerated in the first place. Olivia was enraged and outrightly released a string of profanity in her anger, telling them she didn't blame them. The only person she blamed was Titan for allowing her to go through all of these insults at the hands of his mere staff. People whose heads should be hanged merely for disrespecting her.A hot exchange of words was going on when Maya, who had been indoors with Leo, stepped outside."What is happening here?" Maya asked sharply. She turned to Oli
"So you mean he's been there to see Leo?" Olivia asked again in surprise.Maya nodded. "Yep,"Olivia was silent for a while, not sure what to say. Titan always gave the impression he didn't give a shit about Leo and yet he had been going to see him."Well, I guess it's not something Leo thought important enough to mention in the letters. Or maybe he thought I knew already," Olivia said.It was late afternoon and they were both sitting on the bed in Olivia's bedroom playing a game of chess, and Olivia had to admit Maya had stepped up her game. "Well, you're not a rookie anymore, but you're still far off from checkmating me and winning," Olivia commended as she won the game.Maya sighed. "Better luck next time I guess," She sat up and watched Olivia closely."You're still worried about Leo aren't you?""How can I not be?" Olivia said with a heavy sigh. "You were with him yesterday, tell me how's he holding up?""He's doing okay, considering the circumstances.""This is just crazy. It's
And then, there was his sister.The most exquisite part of his dreary existence. The only reason his heart still thrummed. The one who had inadvertently made him a protector. He loved her more than anything and he craved to see and touch her. The fact that Titan had constructed a bridgeless chasm between them had made him hate him the more. He could bet with every miserly thing he had that the psychopath was enjoying their painful separation to the fullest. Leo looked up at the single ray of light that shone from a hole in the ceiling, plunging the rest of the place into deep damp darkness. It was getting harder each day to keep hope alive. Whether it was to please his pack to please his people or to please himself, Titan Black relished this incarceration and had no intention of making him a free man once again. As the days passed, this belief hardened within him. The days were long and depressing and he would wake up to the sound of the first cockcrow when it was darkest before dawn
"Fine, but he gets out today,"Titan winked. "Not so fast,""So when exactly are you going to release him?""Relax…”"Relax? When you don't exactly have a history of keeping your word?""You don't have a choice but to trust me. If you don't trust me well enough to strike up a deal, then that's fine but you're jeopardising your brother's only chance at freedom,"Olivia sighed. "Alright,""Alright, what?""Alright, I trust you and I'll do whatever you say,""Now that's more like it," Titan said with a smile coming closer. "Kiss me," he commanded.Olivia looked up at him angered to her bone marrow. In that moment, seeing his eyes, she saw how much he relished and loved power. He had a sick obsessive need to be in control at all times and she hated it. She hated indulging him or being at his beck and call, but Leo was involved. If this was the only way to ensure his freedom and survival, then so be it. She leaned in and kissed him, and he pulled her closer, deepening the kiss. Olivia sigh
It was long past midnight when she woke up. The minute Olivia was up, she knew instantaneously she wasn't in her room. The environment felt too unfamiliar for it to be her bedroom. She wasn't even sure what day it was but talking to Titan felt like more than twenty-four hours ago. She sat up and rubbed her eyes. The lights from the external premises illuminated the room well enough for her to see that Titan was absent but she wouldn't put it past him to have brought her here. Well, it was time to leave, at least she wasn't in servitude during sleep hours. She swung her legs off the bed, found her slippers and moved towards the door, closing it behind her and strolling down the thickly carpeted hallway. She was looking out the hallway windows when she unexpectedly bumped into somebody. "Olivia?" A familiar effeminate voice called out."Maya? What are you doing out and awake by this hour?""I could ask you the same thing,""I must have fallen asleep in Titan's room, so I decided to go
"I honestly don't think it's a good idea to leave your brother just like that," Olivia said to Maya, once they were downstairs."Well, I'm not leaving him, he's the one pushing me away,""He's not pushing you away, and upstairs I'm pretty sure he felt hurt and betrayed by you. Titan isn't just your big brother. He's been your family, your mother, father, caretaker and even though he barely shows it, I know he loves you.""Olivia I love my brother too but he needs to start showing that he cares for my happiness too. He hasn't supported me and Leo for once and at this point it's tiring. He asked me to choose, so I chose that's it.""But you know Titan isn't going to just let you go with us right? He's going to haunt us to the ends of the Earth if possible. It's already enough that his parents died at the hands of our father. You think he'll lose his sister to us too? And what about you? Are you truly over what our father did? Are you truly prepared to leave your brother?""Olivia is righ
Titan couldn't help but think that if he didn't have servants moving around in dedicated responsibility, the house would feel like a glorified grave. It had been two days since Maya Black made a life-altering turnaround and decided to turn her back on her brother and follow her heart by brazenly moving out of her brother's posh mansion to be with the man she loved.The man she loved.How on Earth could she love that bastard? The good for nothing who had no penny to his name? Heir to a murdering piece of trash? How? It baffled him. It saddened him. Maybe his harsh judgement was hypocritical considering how he felt about Olivia who was the man's sister but he didn't care. At least when he brought Olivia here, he had not known anything about her lineage. And if he had, he wouldn't have touched her with a ten foot pole.He recalled how much Maya had always cried when she was a baby as though she had understood the upheaval their lives had just gone through. As a toddler, she had been a he