Sorry for the late update. I have been very busy.
Kingston’s POVThe peace I felt started slipping away the moment I took in how silent the place was. No sign of life and no sound to make me feel at ease in any manner. It was dusty and definitely inhabitable. I followed the blue dot Seth had sent to me. My eyes narrowed as I saw something on the floor. I picked it up, dusted it, and frowned when I realized it was Luisa’s phone. Luisa was here.I picked up the phone and started searching the building. Jimmy and the stranger followed behind me. They could barely catch up with my speed and had to run after me. I moved fast but without noise. I didn’t want to alert anyone holding my family hostage. It would be better if I could catch them unaware. My heart filled with hope. The fact that Luisa’s phone was here meant one thing; she was here. The hope of seeing Luisa and Chris filled me with joy. I combed every room in the apartment and stopped in the last room. It was empty, meaning they already left there. I was too late
Luisa’s P.O.VThe air was strange; I could smell the sea and the sky looked like it would rain anytime soon. The weather was in line with my mood; sad. I pulled Chris closer to me. He was sleeping and had no idea what was going on with us. He looked so content where he was on my chest. Derek had worn a smile since we left the haunted building. I have no idea why he was so happy, but I had a feeling it had something to do with kidnapping us.“I feel like my life is just starting, Luisa.” He said looking at me. I force a grin and followed beside him. I didn’t utter a word, because I have no idea what will piss him off, and what will put him in a good mood. “I feel like I have everything I seek here. A woman I love, money to start a new life, and a son of my own. A family.”He has lost it so much, thinking we were his family. I nodded absently. He seemed so happy. “Where are we going to?” I dare to ask him. “Somewhere we will start our lives together. We will be very happy
Kingston’s POVI could hardly believe that no one had seen Luisa or Chris in the past twenty-four hours. I had connected with everyone in higher places, and they were still nowhere to be found. I stayed in Luisa’s room receiving every call, and transferring work that wasn’t urgent to my manager. I had never known what it meant to be lonely; there was always something to be done. There was always some work to keep me busy, and I had always been happy with that, but working was the last thing I wanted to do at the moment. I felt lonely without Luisa or Chris.The ringing of my phone called my attention, and I picked up immediately.“Sir, I have Madam Clarissa with me. Should we take her to the usual?”“Yes. I am on my way.” My ride to my office was fast. I could feel eyes on me with every step I took, but I was more focused on my destination. I clenched my fist in anger at the thought of Clarissa being okay, while Luisa was in some sort of danger.The dark room was illuminat
Kingston’s POVDerek's hand tightened on Chris while he let go of Luisa. He wore an arrogant smirk that I wish I could wipe off his face immediately. “Sanchez. Sanchez. What are you doing out here all alone without your guards and minions.”I smirked, my eyes on Luisa who had turned towards Derek. She tried fighting him for Chris, which made Derek hold her hand again. I frowned, anger floating through me. I should have killed him when I had him in my custody, but this wasn’t the time to think of what I should and shouldn’t have done. “I don’t need my guards to deal with a crazy bastard like you.”Derek chuckled, the sound making my heart beat faster. I hated the fact that he found the situation funny in any way. “You don’t say, Sanchez. Look at this.” He raised Luisa's hand’s up effortlessly. “How will you collect them both from me at once? There is nothing you can do about this. Let’s negotiate, Sanchez.”The bastard must be joking if he thought I was going to negotiate w
Luisa’s POVI was engulfed in a hug by Jenny and I could hardly pull her off me. She held me so tight that I had to force myself to breathe behind her. Her body pressed into mine, and her tear made my clothes wet. She didn’t say a word, but her hiccup spoke volumes. I missed her too. I missed her so much that I thought I wasn’t going to see her anymore. After running away from Derek, he pursued me while holding Chris, and I accomplished my mission of missing the ship he targeted. Derek caught me and pulled me back to the seashore. This time he decided to hold me tight while he arrange how to meet up with the next ship. The ship was for goods but he had begged to stay where the crew stayed. He wasn’t bothered about the location as long as we were leaving the country. He was fine. While waiting for the ship, it had thought about my family. The thought of never seeing my mother again had broken my heart. It made me weak while Derek filled my ears with words of how happy he wa
Kingston’s POV“Derek has escaped,” Jimmy said into the phone. Immediately I left home, I called and gave them Derek’s location. I wanted them to find him before the police did, but now he was calling to tell me they can’t find Derek. Derek was somewhere out there still being a danger to my family.I slammed my fist on my desk. How could he have escaped in such a short time? The fact that he was out there meant one thing; it was a danger to my family. “I don’t care how he escaped, and where to. Find him. I want him here. It’s either you bring him alive or return with his corpse. Use every resource in your capacity to find him.”I was done thinking of exposing his attitude to the public. The more he was left alone, the more he thought of evil things to do to my family. The solution was simple. I need him six feet underground for my family to be okay. I walked slowly to the room Clarissa was being kept captive. Derek hadn’t bothered about her, so she was totally useless
Luisa’s PovThe first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was Kingston’s hand on my stomach. His body shook a little as I stared down at him. He had kept the promise and stayed with us until I woke up. He looked so peaceful sleeping that I didn’t want to wake him. I removed his hand slowly from my stomach trying to get to Chris. Chris's eyes were still shut, but I needed to check his temperature to see if he was still running a fever. I peeled Kingston’s finger off my stomach little by little, but he stirred and opened his eyes as if he wasn’t just sleeping a moment ago.“How are you?” His eyes moved around my body.“I feel good. I need to check on Chris.” He let go off me, and in a second I was beside Chris checking his temperature. It was better than when I had left him in Kingston's hand. The hot water and towel were gone. I sighed in relief, “I think he is better now. I was scared.”Kingston held my hand, “You don’t need to be scared alone. You have me. Anything that’s
Derek’s POVThis place smells like shit and urine. I could barely breathe without feeling the urge to let out the content of my stomach. Not that there was anything to let out of my stomach, I could barely leave this hole I was hiding in not to about finding something to eat. The wounds on my face had healed all by itself. Fuck, Sanchez. The guy beside me stared at me with wide eyes before bringing out a donut. The smell of food made my stomach rumble, and I dragged myself beside him. The closer I moved towards him, the further he moved from me. I moved closer, he moved further until he hit a wall. He turned to glare at me. “What's your problem, man?”I tried to speak, but my throat felt dry, and I couldn’t bring myself to say, Please, I want some food. I don’t beg for things. If I wanted something, I take it and make it mine. I tilted my head towards the donut. “Ya want my food.”I nodded.He chuckled. Fuck him. I could feed the likes of him if it wasn’t for the situat
Kingston’s P.O.V.“Derek’s dead.”Luisa dropped on the bed. I guessed regardless of how she thought she hated him, his death was still shocking to her. I was pretty shocked myself. I wanted to be the one who ended his life slowly, but I never thought he could be so cowardly. He chose his death to be tortured, but then he had been so sure of himself, so I wondered why he suddenly changed his mind and died.She looked around, avoiding my gaze and biting her lower lips.“I told the guys to bury him silently. He doesn’t have any family.”She sighed, “Do you also think it’s our fault? If we had handed him over to the police, he might not have killed himself, right?”Holding her shoulder, I shook my head, “It’s not our fault, Luisa. All we did was protect our family. Anyone will do anything for family’s sake. And we didn’t kill him. He chose death.”She paused to assimilate that and nodded, “I went to him yesterday, alone.”My hold on her tightened, “What?”“After we left Derek, I went to s
Luisa’s POV I trailed back the path I just left with Kingston. I wasn’t supposed to be back here, but I had been doing daring things and was ready to take it up a notch. I wasn’t trying to be brave or pretending to be, but I wanted to make something clear to him, and I know I’m the only one who can pass the message loud and clear. I was expecting some kind of security to guard the building in case of an attempted escape – and I have my perfect excuse at the tip of my tongue.Alas! There was no one.The door was closed firmly, and the key was attached to it. It made no sense, but barely anything makes sense these days. When I came with Kingston, there was no one at the door, but I had expected that was because Kingston was there. I thought once he left, someone would be guiding him, like Jimmy, ensuring there was no way to escape.Well, I guessed attaching a key to the lock made it safe. I unlocked the door and stepped in slowly. My senses were on alert. Maybe someone was guiding hi
Luisa’s POVI wasn’t wicked. I wasn’t the type that sees others in pain and gets happy, but I was when I saw Derek there. I thought it would be a painful experience, but it was just the closure I needed – knowing he wasn’t anywhere that could be dangerous to my family. Knowing he couldn’t escape gave me some peace of mind.After walking a few distances from him, Kingston stopped us, “Are you okay?”I frowned. I know he was trying to protect me, but I wasn’t some kind of weak female. I wanted him to know that. “I’m fine.”He didn’t smile, “I just want to make sure you are really fine. It’s your first time seeing such a sight.”That’s true. I might have felt pity for someone else, but I didn’t feel pity towards him. We continued walking, and an idea boomed in my head, “How about we celebrate?”“Celebrate.”I nod, “Remember that we couldn’t go on our honeymoon because of the situation. How about we start our celebration now?”He raised a brow in astonishment. He had rubbed on me. No
Kingston’s POV.My hand hurt, and I wrapped a cloth around it bruises on it. I wasn’t ready to stop what I was doing. I grabbed Derek’s collar and moved him closer to me, but he was all limp. His lips were bruised and covered in blood. I was certain, I must have knocked off one or two of his teeth, but he forced a smile towards me, showing his bloody teeth.It was getting boring to me.I loved it when he struggled, and could still talk about how Luisa was his. How all I was doing wouldn’t make him leave her alone? How she was going to realize I wasn’t good enough for her?It was fun when he had the fight in him, but now, it was boring. He could barely talk, even if he wanted to.I threw him back, flexing my hand, and turned towards Jimmy who stood at the edge of the door. “No food for him today?”Jimmy nodded, and I headed to the bathroom washing off his filthy blood. I bathed thoroughly and changed my clothes before heading to my family. There was no way to hide my bruises so
Luisa POVI didn’t take my eyes off Derek from the rearview. I could hardly believe he was her in the car with handcuffs. My gaze momentarily went to Rena and I paled – it was my fault. The bruise on her lips was all because of me. It should be my lips, not hers.“I am sorry, Rena.”She turned towards me and winced a bit touching the bruise, “It's okay. It’s what I signed up for.”I chuckled, “You didn’t sign up for a bruise on your face, that’s all on me.”She shrugged, “Regardless, I am just glad to be of help. Honestly.”Fabian snorted. I glared at him, but that didn’t keep him shut.“I can’t believe you lied to me, Jenny. You were the one I was looking for and you sent me up.”If it wasn’t for the bruise on Rena’s lips, I might have felt guilty for lying to him, but I felt nothing. “That’s because you weren’t willing to know the truth. You only heard the story from one person's perspective and you jumped to a conclusion. I can’t put my trust in someone who blindly trusts
Kingston’s POVThis place was a hotel in disguise. It was hard to believe that there was a hotel without security, but the first point of contact was the receptionist. While we were trying to follow Rena’s dot, she stopped us with a smile.“Welcome to Numb Hotel. How can we be of service to you?”I frowned, and turned towards her, improvising, “We need a room.”She mentioned the price, and I could hardly believe how cheap this hotel was. It might have been the reason they lacked security and safety. She pressed a bell on the table, and we waited – each second painfully long until another woman came out from somewhere. She was fat and her stomach seemed to be obstructing her from moving normally.“Follow me.” She said.She started moving us in the opposite direction of the blue dot. I stopped and she copied me, “Any problem?”I pointed towards the direction, “I want a room on that side.”She sighed as if she had been afraid we were planning on canceling. I guess they do need mon
Luisa’s POVTracking someone wasn’t as easy as it was portrayed in movies. It was way more stressful, and it didn’t help that they were on foot while we were following them in a car. They kept boarding different public buses. After some time I took a nap. It took a while for me to wake up and see that we were following a new bus. Kingston turned and smiled at me, “You are awake. I think we are almost there. This is the mall where I met that idiot.”I looked out of the window. Of course, I knew the idiot he was talking about, but I didn’t say a word. The town Derek seemed to be hiding in wasn’t what I expected. It looked like a small town with fewer people. The mall Kingston had pointed out didn’t have a lot of people shopping there. It might have been the reason they were able to corner him without anyone to help him.“Where are they now?”“In the bus, ma,” Jimmy responded. I nodded thinking of what Rena would feel like at the moment. Her last words ring in my head, but I can
Kingston’s POV“I think we should be getting ready now.”The moment I heard Luisa say that I placed my hand on the steering, but I didn’t move. I could see the eagerness in Luisa, but nothing was happening. It was just Rena looking around as if she was searching for someone; probably she was looking for that Fabian guy. No one had seen him this morning. They know to report to me once he was sight, but I haven’t received any message from anyone, it only meant one thing, no one has seen him. Rena stopped and placed her phone in her ears.“I think she is calling Fabian,” Luisa said. I smirked at her, everyone could see that but she was so eager to point everything out. If it was up to me, she wouldn’t be following us in this operation, but she had planned and worked on everything. I wouldn’t want to be the one to deprive her of the joy of achieving something. Plus, it would be good for her to see that Derek wasn’t invisible. I wanted nothing more than for her to be at ease with
Luisa’s POVI didn’t sleep all through the night. Kingston didn’t sleep either. He kept trying to keep me calm, but I had a lot of things going through my head. I had handed Chris over to Jenny. Kingston had instructed the security in the house to increase immediately after we were out of the mansion. He didn’t believe Fabian would keep it a secret from Derek. According to him, Fabian was the loyal type, and it would be difficult for someone loyal to keep a secret from his boss. That didn’t help my anxiety, it only added to it.All I did was pace around trying to figure out what hadn’t happened. I had never felt so paranoid in my life.“Calm down, dear. Nothing bad is going to happen.” Kingston said. He was sitting on the bed, his gaze continued to follow me as I moved.“I know, but what if he hurts Rena before we get there.”He sighed, “We are going to get him before he gets close to Rena.”I nodded because I trusted Kingston. I believe if he says it was going to happen, then