Chapter fifty six(Landon saved America)🚩THIS CHAPTER IS LIKE A FLASHBACK AS IT RETURNS TO TWO MONTHS AGO. IT'S JUST TO QUENCH YOUR CURIOSITY IN CASE YOU'RE WONDERING HOW THE ATTORNEY GENERAL RESOLVED THE SITUATION AND REDEEMED LANDON'S REPUTATION BECAUSE I DON'T LIKE LEAVING A CONFLICT UNRESOLVED.🚩Attorney General's Point Of View:I couldn't believe my eyes as I read through the file in his phone.That man was a bloody criminal?“I know just what to do!" I assured Landon.I scrambled for my phone on the couch, scrolling through it.I stopped scrolling to click the social media icon, opening the app.I rose up, stepping forward to position my phone on the shelf to go live.Landon stood and left the background, going to stand behind the phone to watch me.“Give me the phone!" I commanded, not daring to even look at his hard face.He tossed me the phone which I immediately grabbed. I leaned forward to click the GO LIVE button.I waited patiently, watching the audience build up.Once
Chapter fifty seven(Dread and Terror. Cold and Hot) Sapphire's Point Of View: My lips trembled and I didn't realize tears were flowing down my cheeks until a hot drop landed on my lap. That was when I noticed I wasn't wearing the golden dress anymore, I was already stripped half baked in just my shorts and bra. I gazed up at him, fighting the urge to lose my mind. I whispered his name, “L-landon,". He didn't respond, he only leaned forward. I thought his eyes were always piercing and dark before this but I just realized now that that was all pretense. His real eyes were these icy cold devilish ones. Not so piercing. Not so dark but cold. And hot. Cold and hot at the same time. My heart burned and my soul froze from just looking into his eyes or was it vice versa instead? I couldn't tell. What was this feeling? Dread? Terror? What exactly was this feeling! I wasn't sure there was a word in the dictionary that explained this forbidden feeling. “Landon?" I whispe
Chapter fifty eight(I went into premature labor)Sapphire's Point Of View:The sound was familiar and I knew what it meant. He pulled the trigger, not feeling an ounce of pity for me.He preferred killing me and not getting the asset. My existence didn't matter to him one bit. The realization hit hard, punching a hole in my chest.But the sound the trigger made when it was pulled signified that there were no bullets in the gun.He withdrew the gun from my temple, mumbling a curse.The lady left the room and soon came back with some bullets. He loaded the gun without sparing me a glance, pressing it against my temple.He wasn't joking! He would blow out my brains.“I'll do it!" I shouted, squeezing my eyes shut in fear.I felt the gun lower from my head and I opened my eyes again."I'm glad you know what's good for you," he responded."But can I play with her?” She asked, teasing him.“She's not a puppet, you can't play with her." He spat at her harshly and she flinched at his thundero
Chapter fifty nine(she escaped)Landon's Point Of View:I sat on the veranda on a creaky rocking chair, rocking it back and forth as I stared at the moon above. This is it. This is the part where I finally get hold of what I wanted all along.It took forever for her to become twenty-four but the patience was worth it!When I get those arts from the asset and sell them out, my net worth would incredibly multiply.I looked down at my wrist to look into the wristwatch, the flickering yellowish bulb illuminating the time for me.It was 11:59pm and it was time to return home but Classira hadn't stopped tending to her just yet. It wasn't supposed to take that long.Plus, I wasn't hearing yells anymore.Just then, I heard a yell but not the one I expected. It was Classira's yell. She was yelling my name.“Landon!!" She shouted.I knew something was wrong immediately. I got up and turned, dashing into the building with the wooden floors creaking beneath my feet.I went straight down through
Chapter sixty(Meeting Mrs. Grey)Sapphire's Point Of View:It's been two weeks since I escaped from the hospital and my mind has not been settled. I always imagined what would go down if Landon came in through the door one day with his little bitch.That day would probably be the end of me.I've been hiding at a random house near a bushy path. Of course, I didn't just see the house and go in and live alone.There was an old lady in her 60s living there alone. She didn't have any family or friends and it breaks my heart.She was really nice and pretty, yet vulnerable and insecure. I hoped she would just get a chance someday to look into the mirror and see how pretty she was but now, she couldn't as she was partially blind.Not partially but mostly, like ninety percent blind.She doesn't see things so clearly.She didn't deserve to live like this. She was just so nice and treated me just like a mother would treat her own daughter, never treating me badly because she was helping me and I
Chapter sixty one(who is Sapphire?!)Sapphire's Point Of View:"Aren't you even going to invite me in?" He scoffed.I moved out of the way, opening the door for him to get in. “Come on in! Pardon my ill manners!” I said, gesturing for him to get in.As soon as he got in, I jammed the door before turning to him, crossing my arms.He looked at me with a straight face before turning to look around the house.“So this is where you're hiding yourself from Landon huh? How risky and insecure!” He scoffed, turning back to me.“What are you doing here?" I questioned, arms still crossed.He didn't respond as if I didn't even ask a question.“I said what are you doing here?! How did you find me?!" I shouted."Ha... bitch! Not so loud, okay? You're at risk here, not me! You don't need to know how I found you. You can never hide from darkness even if you're in a well lit room, even your shadow is darkness itself so I study every of your movements!”.I scoffed. "What do you want? You're not just he
Chapter sixty two(feel free to quit)Landon's Point Of View:“Our name has been dropping from the top list at the speed of light! What do you guys suggest we can do?” One of the workers informed us as we all sat around the table in the boardroom.A lady rose to speak. “Mr. Rykhard, I just really hope you don't get annoyed at me for the words I'm about to say but right here on the dashboard, it says you've been missing meetings a whole lot lately which makes us lose contractors and business partners that have trust in our diligence. This also slows down the production of our company as we have been making losses and not gains lately since the last two weeks so I highly recommend your previous commitment and diligence so we can keep topping charts just like we used to!”.“I'm highly in support of her words. But in addition to that, I think instead of being diligent alone, why don't you bring back Miss Rykhard. I noticed our company began to thrive on another level since the day she join
Chapter sixty three(my father isn't dead)Sapphire's Point Of View:I heard his footsteps followed by a door slamming open and close and some rustling noises. I peeked, noticing he had entered a room to search. I tiptoed to where Mrs. Grey laid, placing her head on my leg as I sat on the floor.She groaned in pain, holding her waist.“Mrs. Grey…" I cried, my tears falling on her face.She raised her hand to reach my face. “Don't cry. Leave before he sees you here." She whimpered.“No, your life is at stake. Let's get you out of here before he comes out. Please,” I pleaded."This is the only way I can protect you. Your life is at stake more. Run and don't look back. I'll slow you down if I come with you. Please, leave,” her voice broke.I sat there, unable to move. The rustles from the room stopped and the floor creaky sounds filled the air as footsteps approached.“Leave," she whispered, taking her head forcefully off my legs."But-”,"Please, just leave before it's too late,".I co
††032††Jasmine's Point Of View:Damon ran out of the booth.“Emergency!!" He shouted. “Someone is in there, he's not breathing!" He shouted again.Everyone gasped. "Did he kill him?” The murmurs increased.Ah, yes, just what I wanted to hear. Music to my ears.As the murmurs increased and everyone began to have their own belief and choose sides, the emergency of the college came with a stretcher, but the murmurs didn't stop.What we heard next was sirens, they were loud and clear.Damon's face looked confused as he spotted the cops who walked in next. A snitch must have called the cops.The cops walked towards Damon and looked at Dylan's dead body for a while before speaking with Damon, saying they would have to lock him up for the meantime.He tried arguing and refusing but that only made him look guilty.They took him away even though he was ranting and refusing. In the very end, everyone still kept murmuring and I had no choice but to leave.In the next few days, Damon was release
††031††Jasmine's Point Of View:I climbed back into the car, looking directly at the chauffeur through the rear view, our eyes meeting.I crossed my arms, not knowing how I should feel about being busted. I felt like it was a useless plan anyway, it wasn't necessary to make him jealous in this particular way.But at the same time, I was mad that my plan didn't work out just the way I planned it. It was embarrassing for me to have to beg her and get her forgiveness for trying to claim what isn't mine in the first place.“Return us to the hotel." I commanded the chauffeur.He nodded immediately, driving off slowly until we arrived at the hotel. I got out of the car, entering the hotel and making my way into my suite.I let out a sigh, my back hitting the bed. I remained in the position, not knowing when I fell into a deep slumber.It was the buzz of my phone on the bed that woke me up. I squinted my eyes, reaching for the phone and looking at the screen closely to look at the time.It
††030††“Hey, you're back." The man said as he flashed me a smile. "I thought you left the child and we've been planning to put them up for adoption actually.”I nodded, forcing a smile as I didn't even know what to say.“If I may ask, what made you leave that day? I mean you just had a surgery and you left straight up which was bad for your health at that moment in time.”I let out a sigh, shaking my head. "I'm really sorry. Can I just get to the next step now? I just want to do this fast and get out of here as soon as possible. I'm sorry if that actually sounded rude but I had no better way to put it. I just don't have all the time in the world.”He nodded. "I understand. Let me go get the papers for you to sign and claim your kids back since we were initially planning to out them up for adoption after proper maturity,”I nodded, watching him get out of his seat and walk out of the office.I sat there, staring at nothing exactly.In no time, he returned, but without any files in his
††029††Jasmine's Point Of View:"You want your child, huh?" I smirked. “So that's all you care about? That's not going to be a problem, the problem is I'm not giving you the child” I scoffed.He looked at me, pleading with his eyes but I couldn't care less.I jerked my hand away from him, turning to leave immediately with my personal bodyguards.We got outside the place and the shielded me from the approaching fans. Just as I was about to get in the car, I spotted Damon approaching on his wheelchair. I halted, looking directly at him even though this was not the best time for this.I swallowed, narrowing my eyes at him.He got to where my car was but my bodyguards didn't let him get close to me.He looked at me, trying to get past the bodyguard who didn't move an inch.“Let's have a conversation," he said, almost as if he was pleading.I shook my head. "No.” I simply responded.He looked me in the eye. “Why have you been ignoring my calls and everything? You've been ignoring me recen
††028††Jasmine's Point Of View:I began to stay at Dad's place as I couldn't return to Damon's home again. I couldn't stay with someone like him again under the same roof. It was like sleeping in the same room with a serpent, but luckily for me, I discovered the serpent even before he could consider biting me.I need not to tell him right in the face that it was over and I discovered all his schemes for him to know that I was no longer stupid.It took me nothing. Absolutely nothing. And he understithat his plans have been ruined. He tried explaining countless times, obviously to feed me lies and ensure his plan still works one way or the other, but I wasn't going to fall for the same trick twice so I didn't even give him the opportunity to get to me.I appreciated his help so far in helping me build a name in the modelling industry, but at the same time, he could have made it clear if he only wanted to do me a favor. And he could have also made it clear if he was using me. If he ment
††027††Dmitri's Point Of View:I just couldn't believe she could have done this to me. I understood that she hated me, but despite the hatred, I didn't see the need to do this to me.She knew well that my health was on its last legs and I was in pain. No one would be heartless enough to do this to their own father because he put them up for adoption.I thought I heard her mention that it was only an assignment, but that didn't matter.A lot of things have been happening recently and I thought life was only against my wife and I. I never knew it was all orchestrated by my own daughter who I already apologized to. I even went as far as arranging a letter for her, thinking she would understand and forgive me, only for her to send people to burn down my house, the place I've been stuck for months now even though I had more mansions.My health just didn't permit me to be moved here and there anymore. I only remained in one place, traveling from one place to another was stressful for me.B
††026††Jasmine's Point Of View:As I cracked the door open, I heard a high-pitched moan flowing out from inside the room. The moan continued, becoming louder and louder and what followed was the sound of meat slapping against each other.I swallowed, peeking into the mansion to get a glimpse of whatever was going on in the house. Just then, I was met with the shock of my life.There was Damon, thrusting into a woman with pull force and pulling out immediately, grinding in and out of her.That was none of my business, but what shocked me the most was that he was fucking standing which means he…. he was never actually crippled.Damon was able all these while? But he was only hiding it?A gasp fought to escape my throat, but I cupped my mouth immediately, silencing the gasp. I didn't realize tears were welling up in my eyes until it began to prick my iris so badly that I had to blink multiple times to hold back the tears.I felt my heart squeeze in my chest. I didn't know what hurt the
††025††Jasmine's Point Of View:“Where the hell do you think you're going?” The security men asked.I scoffed. “What do you mean?"“You haven't paid for the cleaning if all these. You need to pay the money we would give to our cleaners to clean this mess.”"Do I look like the reason this place was set on fire? I'm sure he was paying several thousands for this place in a year, so why can't you guys take care of little maintenance like this?” I asked, frowning."This isn't a little maintenance. This is a whole lot,”“The money he paid for this year hasn't been exhausted or has it? The year isn't over yet so use the rest. Thank you.” I responded, shoving them out of the way before walking out.I went out of the building and went straight out if the estate the into the car.“Where are we going to, miss?" Rufus asked, tilting his head to look at me.I fastened my seatbelt. “The headquarters. I have something to do there.”"Alright then.” He responded, starting the car and driving away.In
††024††Jasmine's Point Of View:After the man called the firefighters, they arrived in no time with their truck and equipment.As they trooped into the estate, I went in with them too, climbing on their truck with them and allowing them to carry me and the security men back to the burning house.They stepped out of the truck, gesturing for us to get down and move back, away from the fire and allow them to do their job.I swallowed, reluctantly going back as I watched them extinguish the first starting from the gate to cool it down.They then got closer to the gates, breaking it open. They then went in, extinguishing the fire of the whole mansion slowly and steadily until the whole house was safe.The two security men held me back as I tried to run inside, yelling and shouting to go search the mansion myself and see if my father was in the building.I fought hard to escape their grip. But all my attempts were futile as they held me even tighter.“Let me go!” I screamed, but they didn'