Artemis POV As we walked to the cabin, I couldn't help but feel guilty for all I'd done to Demon. He has been through a lot just because you want to save me. Just today, I have gotten him into another problem. I wish I could talk to him. I wish I could apologize, but I was so sure he did not want to speak to me or have anything to do with me at that moment. We got to the cabin, and Demon went straight to get some water to drink because he was looking dry and weak. Finally, I summoned the courage to say something to him. “ I'm so sorry for everything I've cost you. I'm so sorry for the pain, for the stress, for everything. I know it's my fault, and I wish I hadn't put you through all this right from the beginning”. Demon looked at me angrily like he was going to deal with me with whatever he had. “What's always your problem, young lady? You always think you can help yourself when you know you are in no position to help yourself!” He said out loud” I hate myself for making him
Artemis POV Daymon pushed me to the wall, kissing me like his life depended on it. He is so perfect at what he does. He kissed me so well that I can boldly say no one had ever kissed me so well as he was doing. He raised me to the wall allowing me to wrap my legs around him. “How did we get there?!” I love where this was heading anyway. Daymon Carried me and placed me on the bed, still kissing me and caressing my body with his soft palm. He began to unbutton the shirt I was putting on which caused him to see my full amazing breasts. I found myself taking off the singlet he was putting on as we kissed each other aggressively as our last life depended on it. He took off the shirt I was putting on finally and I was naked before him. “You look so hot! Artemis, I can't wait to have enough of you!” Daymon said, running his hands through my naked body, kissing every angle of my neck. I looked into his deep blue eyes, which were burning with affection; his rough gold hair made him look
Artemis POV. “If something is bothering me, I will share it with you since you are the only one I have here with me,” Daymon said to me; I was not paying attention to whatever he had to say again. My mind was already occupied with other weird things. “It's alright” I replied. “So, tell me about your past relationships,” I asked; I just wanted to talk to him. Daymon felt reluctant to say a way like he didn't want to talk about his past. “You don't have to tell me if you're not comfortable with it,” I said to him. “ I will tell you about her; I just don't know where to start,” he muttered. His expression changed the moment I asked him about his past relationship; it must have been a bad experience. “Her name is Elena” he started. “She is a beautiful, smart, intelligent woman who finds her way around all things”. “That must have made you like her because I notice you like people who have a high intelligence quotient,” I asked, wanting to know more details. “You can also put it t
Artemis POV I pitied Daymon deep down. I have always wondered why he was not in any relationship, thinking he was gay, not knowing he has gone through a lot in our hands. “You don't have to look at me with those eyes,” Daymon said, smiling. “It's all in the past now”.“I know, but then, you're still looking like you haven't gotten over her now.” I smiled back at him.“You can say that, but I'm no longer Into her like I was then”, Daymon replied.“So why haven't you gotten yourself Into another relationship up to date if you are no longer Into her?”“That's because I'm not ready for any relationship, and again, I have not gotten the woman of my dreams yet,” Daymon answered.“It is good to be patient and watchful so as not to choose wrongly” I replied.We discussed so many things which led to so many questions and answers. Some discussion led to discussion which led to Daymon asking me about my parents and family entirely.I felt reluctant to tell him about my family, but I had to te
Artemis POV After getting myself together I continued my story. “We talked to each other on video calls including voice calls too. My siblings sent me pictures of everything they do over there and I sent my pictures to them too”“I spent my Christmas well because that was the first time I was spending it with my friends outside my family house, and I was sure they enjoyed their last Christmas too,” I said, referring to my parents and siblings.“As soon as the festive holiday was over, my parents were in a hurry to go back to work, but my siblings wanted to stay a little longer; maybe if they had stayed for a few more days, they would still be alive till this moment,” I assumed.“They were bent on coming back home,” I said. “On their way back home from Paris, they got involved in a plane crash and nobody survived not even one of them” “Oh my goodness!” Daymon exclaimed. “I'm so sorry about that”.“You don't have to be sorry, that's just their fate” I replied to him.“When I heard the
Artemis POV After a few months, the money I was living on was finished and there was nobody to help me. The rent of the studio I was staying in expired and the owner began to give me issues. In the long run, he sent me packing out of the studio.Life became so complicated and a living hell for me. I barely eat a burger per day.I slept on the street with nobody to save me. “I remembered the fateful day when my Landlord sent me out; it was the most pathetic day of my life.”“I walked through the dusty, quiet street, my feet aching from the endless walking, my face swollen as a result of the tests. It looked like I was the one left in the whole world struggling on my own to survive”.I kept cc x. around the street, checking to see if I would find any store to get water from. I eventually found one; I went into the store and saw the storekeeper, who happened to be a middle-aged man.I entered the store and greeted him like I should. “Good evening, sir,” I greeted him.“How may I help
Aiden's POV Everything has just been happening as a dream these days. All of a sudden, Daymon disappeared without me knowing his whereabouts, and Artemis, my girlfriend, too. I don't know if she is still with Kane or not. I just don't know what to do.I kept pacing up and down my room thinking of different possible things that might have happened to the both of them. I have sent out some of my men to go and check what the problem is but they couldn't come back with a positive answer. I sent some of them out again today, hoping to get a positive answer this time around.It was as if the men were taking too long to arrive; I heard a car pull up at the front of the house, thinking it was my men, so I quickly rushed downstream,m, but they were not the ones.“This is driving me crazy!” I wiped away all the used for decoration that was on the table because I was so vexed”I went back to my room. I have been having sleepiness nights for days now because I was so worried that I barely eat wh
Aiden's POV “ You know what I'm trying to say, Kane, so don't pretend like I'm speaking Spanish here,” I urge him angrily.Kane chuckled. “Oh, you mean Daymon and Artemis? They are... somewhere. Let's just say they're enjoying themselves and my hospitality.”My anger boiled over, and I took a step forward, staying very close to him; our nose was almost touching. “You're going to regret this, and I will make sure you pay for this, Kane!”Kane sneered. “I doubt it, Aiden,” he replied to me, smiling wickedly. “You see, I have something you want. And I'm not going to give it up easily, not until I see the end of you.”I gritted my teeth. “What do you want, Kane?”Kane continues smiling wickedly. "Oh, now you want to offer me what I want after all these years? But I think she is just your arranged mistress, why are you now sacrificing everything to get her back?” Daymon asked me a series of questions.“It is none of your business, Daymon just state what you want from me and let the innoce
Artemis’ PovFirst, Aiden didn’t see me when he stepped into the bathroom thinking he had the privacy he probably wanted from the prying eyes of his friend in the open chamber, and probably mine, but he didn’t know he walked in on me.I was done cleaning the restroom when he entered, and I didn’t bother to disturb him, not until I heard him chant the name Hera twice in the phone with tensed voice, and now, his friend asked if I’m Hera.Who the heck is this Hera of a person that got almighty Aiden so pissed he couldn’t even check well before snarling at the name.“Hera?” I raised my brows, “I am—”“Artemis,” Aiden didn’t let me finish, “my wife to be.”The fella blinked twice. He seemed to realize he’d said the wrong thing at the wrong time, and he should have knocked before badging into someone else’s toilet.“And why are you donning such apparel?” the fella pointed out.Aiden called him Rusev earlier, so, I thought I should call him the same and ask him to let me be. I can’t stand ge
Aiden’s PovI nearly pushed my finger’s to Rusev’s lips, but I didn’t because Artemis could be watching from the room. He’s not to be blamed anyways. No responsible man can skip such question, and if anyone should, it can never be Rusev.“She’s no more,” I masked the shock that braced my face with a sudden smile.Rusev raised his brows. I thought of blinking my eyes in quick signs but he seemed not ready to yield. Maybe because he must have ready of me in the dark web where I was portrayed as ruthless.Being ruthless might mean I might be so rash I could talk of my past even in the presence of my wife to be—that is if he understood Artemis’ place.“What happened to her?” he asked curiously, “is she dead?”I waited thoughtfully before I answered him. “Maybe, just not sure.”He nodded and turned once more to my mother’s picture. I knew why he’s so obsessed with my mom. She hid him and his siblings away during the dark days of the scandal that tossed his father’s life in the hands of the
Author’s Pov“You don’t mean it,” the man said with a toothy smile. Kane raised his brows and gestured at the limo down the aisle. Some of his girls were there already, waiting for him. This time, Aiden picked interest in looking though he hadn’t wished to do such earlier. The scene was nothing far from what he had seen and done in the past. It was nothing tempting, so, he felt the fella might as well turn down the offer. “Nice girls you got there, but I’m not up for some pussy,” the man said with a shrug, “I’m out here hunting for something deeper and bigger than a ride with girls and a big guy.” Aiden chuckled. The men who check in often in the Creeks crib will never fall for such fantasies. It’s that common among them. Kane smiled. He seemed to understand just why the fella had to turn down his offer—Aiden was there and no one would like to hurt Aiden to favor Kane. “What if I introduce you to my new business plan and make you part of—”The man slung his ball bag across his
Author’s PovAiden returned to the hall and met the noise and the fella nestled at his seat with his face riddled with disgust. His eyes met that of Kane who seemed eager to see either him or his masked lady returned.He made to his seat and tugged at Benny’s suit. Benny turned with his eyes red with tears that refused to spill through his eyelids.“You asked me to recite my poems to her,” Benny’s voice met Aiden’s ears in the midst of the laughter. Don Carlos was now seated, but his friends now resorted to one thing; mock and mimic the fella they thought mad and nothing else.“Sorry—” Aiden urged him to leave the seat with his eyes. Benny left the seat and Aiden sat. “You can go grab another seat over there.” Benny followed Aiden’s gesture. It was the tail of the table. Someone had just rose from there, and the person would surely return. That would be a second batch of trouble for Benny.“Okay,” Benny said and walked off from the hall.Artemis on the other hand was done with her m
Artemis’ PovI could have asked Aiden where he was off to, but I chose to play nice and let him have his way. Besides, wherever he ought to have gone wouldn’t take much time, but I was wary of someone, the woman in mask.It’s been a game since we arrived at the table. It’s been a game from yesterday during the dance. Kane had his eyes on me like I had something of his he wished to reclaim, and the lady had her eyes on Aiden like he owed her, so, I couldn’t help my curiosity as it piqued.I looked up from my plate and saw Kane. First, he was a little too crafty. He’s shoved a word at Aiden at will, though he knew Aiden would say nothing to him. And when their father showed up, he accused Aiden of saying shit about the old man.Thanks for the Don’s personality. Well, that’s by the way. The problem now is Kane still has his eyes on my skin. It felt it sting like a scorpion’s sting. I needed Aiden so bad at this moment, but he wasn’t anywhere to be found.It was then that a broad hand gl
Aiden’s PovI could tell she wanted to have a word with me, maybe to threaten me of what stunt she would pull up next, but to me, it was a close chance to pin her to the wall and snare into her face.I felt Kane’s eyes follow me as I left, but I was crafty enough to choose the south door, so no one would suspect I had gone to meet with Kane’s masked lady when I had mine.The south door was the one that led to the restroom, but he had a link to the north, a quick link at that. I charged through the link.Maybe finally, I’ll get my hands on that sickly whore. I was sure she was the one that dared dance with me last night in the mad party.Yes, she wasn’t the one I saw when we arrived at the mansion and saw Kane by his car. She might have switched with the second lady, or she was probably hidden in the car by the devil that brought her as one of his demons.Her footsteps echoed through the hall way, not just hers, though. That of the servants who used the same walkway did the same, but i
Author’s PovThe day broke gracefully with the two lovers cuddled over each other in the massive bed of the chamber. Aiden’s eyes slowly popped open. He took a long breath and yawned with his left hand placed over his lips. Artemis on the other hand clung tightly to his chest, but Aiden slowly freed himself of her arms and rolled out of bed. the curtains in the room were big and thick enough to keep the son out for good and the grandfather clock in the room was at a distant corner.Aiden made to the window and pulled at the curtain but it was heavier than the regular ones he’s had to pull in other places he’d visited so far.He returned to the bedside and picked the remote on the bed drawer.“Good morning, darling.” Artemis greeted sleepily, her voice almost stuck withing her throat. She wriggled over and smiled a week smile at Aiden who answered her greetings with a grin and a nod. “Come back to bed—”Aiden chuckled and pressed the remote. The curtains shrugged to the other end of t
Aiden’s PovI looked Artemis in the eyes. she was anxious—anxious to leave the hall and have her peace in a secluded room that is void of the sea of eyes settled on us. I could tell she’s most irritated by Kane’s presence, but the big bad thing is we can’t decline my father’s order.I took my hand off her waist, and with a reassuring smile, I took her hand and led her into the center of the hall. The hall formed a circle around us and watched us as we danced. I did my best to guide Artemis’ steps in the dance.She’s not fond of such classic dance as we ought to do, to entertain father and his old friends who wished to have us entertain the hall the way they did in their own days.I didn’t loot for the smile on their faces while we danced, I was focused on Artemis’ face. She seemed not to believe she’s the one in the center of the hall, our bodies stretched out in a dance that looked easy but required energy.“Come on, call in the ladies!” father ordered and the internal exit door popp
Artemis’ PovEverything seized to exist for a moment. Silence stole the noise that had swallowed the room earlier and the hall seemed to melt into oblivion. It seemed it had not been recorded anything time in history that the massive door of the Creeks’ Hall was busted open amidst meeting.At this point, I could see the men with their cups raised were merely startled and expectant of whom it was that had dared to interrupt their meeting with such rascal attitude. But there was nothing to see as the door remained open and without trace of anyone.“Maybe, it’s the wind,” Aiden’s father brought the hall back to life with a mischievous smile on his face. But someone snapped from the distance and cleared his throat.“It’s definitely not the wind, sire,” Benny announced on his feet. We all turned to him, and like he liked the attention he’d dragged to himself, he tugged at his suit and pointed towards the door with a proud smile on his face. “It’s another son of the Creeks.”Everyone turne