PERSYThere was no day that passed that I did not wish that our story was a bit different... That my own story, most especially, was different. Why did bad things always have to happen to me? It was like I was not meant for happiness, like I was not meant to smile in the end for any reason.At first, I did not believe her—My aunt, who had told me that the man I was so irrevocably in love with was the same person that killed my parents. It could not be possible, right? For this reason, I cussed at her repeatedly, asking if she knew who she was talking about like that. The Aiden Bates which I knew would never kill anyone so cruelly, I told her, deciding to push the moment where he almost starved me to death to the back of my mind.She sighed, then told me that she would be sending a video to me. She asked me to watch the video and then call her back to tell her what I thought of it.At first, when she sent the video, I was hellbent on not watching it, I kept telling myself that the ma
PERSYAt first, I cussed at my aunt… I did. I even asked her to leave my house, shocked by the words that left her mouth. How could she say that?Kill Aiden? Did that make me any better than him if I did? Would it bring my parents back?I just knew that if I tried to do that to him, I would live the rest of my life in regret, a total shadow of myself. I allowed her to stay a little longer, and then we talked some more. I finally agreed to teach him a lesson, but not with death. I was going to poison him, according to my aunt, but I would not poison him with something that would cause his death, I decided. I would instead, poison him with something that could leave him in a harmless coma for as long as I wanted.My aunt gave me a few suggestions but since I did not fully trust anything that left the woman's mouth, I decided to look it up, still.I found out that it was harmless, reason why I ordered it from the smallest and most trusted shop which I could. I could not understand why t
AIDENI was dealing with a temptress. As a matter of fact, I was dealing with the biggest temptress of all.She had me completely naked now, but was still wearing her panties as she got on top of me. I cussed under my breath, struggling to keep my hands by my sides.She was smiling knowingly at me. The fucking temptress, she knew I was struggling…Then, she lowered herself so her nipples which had turned to extremely hard pebbles, rubbed against my chest."Persephone... Do something." I lowered my pride and resorted to begging, because I knew that this woman was on a mission to kill me.She giggled, then tilted her head when I tried to give her a kiss. Before I could open my mouth to complain about it, she was sucking and licking my collarbone in the most erotic manner.My cock was so fucking painful by now. The monster poked her cunt like an enraged demon, and she kept fucking adjusting. That was so much worse than just sitting there."I did not come here to be teased, woman, I—"She
AIDENBut I had not said that out loud.I had muttered it under my breath, too stunned to actually reveal myself already. I moved from the middle of the doorway where I had stood after sometime, heading to the the living room.Lowering myself onto my favorite couch, I peered outside the glass windows, trying to stop my body from shaking so violently.I was gathering myself together to be able to scream her name, tell her that I was here now."I'm here now, doll!" I yelled, and immediately, I heard a glass fall to the ground, shattering in pieces.I sprang up at once, starting to make my way to the kitchen, "Fuck, are you okay?""Yes! Yes! I'm fine, please do not come here!" She screamed, making me stop midway, my brow almost shooting up to my hairline."What? Why?""Just… please." I heard her plead, and my fingers dug into my palms as I stayed rooted in the spot. I fucking hated the fact that I could not do anything right now, but I had to beg myself to still go back and take a seat,
PERSY I did not expect him to find out like this. Granted, I had my fears. I had figured that this man would be too smart for me to just take out like that, but I was hoping that luck would be on my side. Thankfully, it was not. How would I have managed to live with the fact that I had sent him into a coma that would either put him to sleep for years or put him to sleep… forever. I could not help but thank God each passing minute, grateful for the fact that Aiden had been watchful. Right now, I was trying to get him to not be so upset with me, but he would not even spare me a glance. How could he? Not only could I not recognize his face and his voice from a video, I had also tried to kill him. Did I even love him? I asked myself, only to be smacked in the face with the answer almost immediately. I did. I loved Aiden so much, it was why I kept praying for a miracle before he drank it. I could have talked to him about it. We would have settled the fact that he was not the one in
AIDENMy brother was alive.It was still a probability, but I wanted to believe it. I watched that video over and over, filled with hope. I was utterly dismayed by the fact that he was actually the one that killed Persephone's parents, but as they say, 'blood is thicker than water'.I dialed Persy's aunt's number the next day, standing at my porch as I arranged my tie and waited for her to answer."Hello, who is it?" Her shrill voice resounded from the other end."Good day, miss. My name is Aiden Bates." I introduced, and with a loud gasp, the call disconnected.Next up, a text message popped up on my screen before I could go ahead to call the annoying woman again. It was Persephone.Her text read; 'Oh my fucking God, Trevor just came back rich! Check, all the blogs are posting about him. I probably should not be talking to you about my ex, but I miss you so I’ll just keep rambling in your texts until you give me some attention.'I tried to act unaffected as I exited the messages app,
PERSYI slowly peeled my eyes open and used the back of my palm to shield the rays of morning sunlight that was piercing into my eyes. I could not feel my legs as I tried to sit up and the area between my legs throbbed so badly. My face reddened as I recalled why it was so, and I turned to look at Aiden as he lay by my side, deep in sleep. He came back.I observed his sleeping face as if it was the first time I was seeing it. He was so handsome, not the ruggedly kind of handsome, but also not the sweet kind as well. He was a bit of both, he was the kind of handsome that could make a woman say yes to him over and over.When he had barged into my room in that evening, mad with rage, I had completely lost command of my hands and feet. He told me he was going to ruin me. He said it to my face, yet I stood there and let him do it. I stood there and let him shred my clothes and fuck me against the wall like he had not had sex in years. He used me like a slut and I let him, I could not even
AIDENI stood before my brother's grave, rereading the name which had been inscribed on the hard rock over and over.It was still hard to believe that my brother was not really gone, and that he was not even kidnapped or taken against his will. He had willingly left us... willingly left me. Did I deserve this? The simple answer was no. I did not deserve to be ripped of love so early in life. Nobody deserved that.Sighing, I lowered myself to a squat, so I was face to face with the slab that had his name on it, and I spoke, "I cannot believe that you would do this to me, Ivan. I mean, I know we talked about how messed up dad was and how he would always selfishly talk about his business before even thinking about us... But if the plan was to escape, why would you leave me behind? Why was I not invited to the party?"I paused for a few seconds, seeing as my voice had begun to break. I had shed a few tears once about this, I was not about to do that all over again. I struggled to get a gr
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SEVEN MONTHS LATERPERSYI had just finished laying my child to sleep and right now, I was already tired of waiting for my husband, Aiden. I covered the duvet over my body, realizing that this was about to be yet another lonely night. It was almost eight weeks since I gave birth to my daughter, Carolyn, and we had stayed off sex just like the doctor advised. It was two months already since I had sex and I could not take it any longer now.I would tell him about it tomorrow… I promised myself, starting to doze off until the door slammed open and I heard,"Guess who just got an admission to study mechanical engineering in Roberta College for fall? Oh…"I sprung up from the bed though, before he could conclude that I was asleep. I was riddled with joy as I left the bed and ran to him, only stopping in front of him to ask,"Please tell me that this is not one of your expensive jokes…" I snatched the file he had in his hand away and started to check it out. He was grinning as he said, "Y
AIDENHer hormones were acting up. Since that day her ex boyfriend—whom I still wanted to gut his throat, by the way—brought her back to me, she was hornier than ever.She claimed it was the pregnancy hormones and would not stop touching me in public because of it. Whenever I refused to touch her before going to work, she would use a vibrator and went the video to me all of sudden, while I was WORKING.Not that I was complaining, I loved this side of her as much as I loved other sides of her. Persy has always been stubborn, it was nothing surprising at this point.The thing was that, I had met our doctor a day after she came back to check her vitals and he confirmed that she and the baby were doing well, but he warned us still, to lay low for sometime to avoid any casualties. He was seeing sone little issues, but if we could just hold on with sex for sometime, it would not be so difficult to handle.It was punishment, but anything for her safety. Persy had heard the doctor as well, bu
PERSYWe slept on the couch, but I woke up on my bed. I had a full smile on my face as my eyes met with the morning sun. I was never a morning person, but I could understand why I was smiling so hard today. Finally. Finally, I was going to meet Aiden again, it almost felt surreal, it felt like years since I last saw him… all I wanted was to sneak into his arms and stay there for as long as I could, away from everything…I sat up on the bed with much effort and stretched, yawned… all of that.Without asking or bothering to check, I knew that it was Trevor who had laid me on my bed. He would always do that when I fell asleep on a place I was not supposed to and so without question, I knew that this was him, too.Knowing that Trevor had a busy schedule most of the time, I hurried off the bed and ran towards the shower to get myself ready for the visit to Aiden.It was the quickest shower I had ever taken, and the quickest that I had sourced for clothes as well.I wore the first choice,
PERSYWe talked at length. I had never seen Mr Bates so emotional. He seemed so sorry for all he had gone to his children, for how he was attempting to ruin their lives.I did nothing other than stare at him as he relayed his apologies to me, convincing me over and over to come back with him. I looked outside the window, mesmerized by the fire now. It was almost evening, and the sky was so beautiful. Everything about this place was so serene, I had dreamt of giving birth to my child here so many times, I did not think I was ready to give up that dream yet."I am sorry, Mr Bates, I have to give birth to my child here first. Aiden is doing very well for himself, I see it in so many pictures and videos of him. He can continue to do well without me on his side, I mean, I never went to college! What could I possibly add to the growth of your company?" I questioned the man but he shook his head with a tight smile on his face."You do not seem to understand me, do you? I have said that I do
AIDENI had just finished reading a letter from my supposed dead brother and just like that, my mood was ruined. I glared at the letter so hard, it should have disappeared into thin air already. He had given me a serious warning in there, telling me to stop looking for me or he would look for Persy and make me regret it. To show me he was not making empty threats, the man attached a picture to his message.It was a picture of Persephone staring outside a window, smiling hard at the view outside. Fuck, I missed her so much… always so damn happy about the littlest things, it made me want to give her the world.Only the upper part of her showed in the picture and at the back of the paper was written; Oops, already found her. You should get off my back, boy, unless you do not really care about her like that?…I slammed the paper back on my desk, my face masked with a blinding rage. My eyes were no doubt, filled with anger at the moment, I knew that whomever crossed me in the next hour wa
PERSY I stared at my baby bump in the mirror, as little droplets of water dripped down my body. Yeah, that was not water but dirty, yucky sweat from trying to exercise all morning. Later on, I would resume marketing my products which were jewelries and makeup products that I advertised online.The accessories did not need my face or body, which was why I chose this line of business and so far, it was doing pretty well. I made enough sales to get myself what I needed and not having to touch the money I had set aside for college.I would be lying low in the meantime, until I was sure that the backlash I would be getting from social media would not be enough to pull my brand down.Sometimes, social media could just be so vicious. It was a great tool for business advertisement but once the people on Social media crossed you off, it would be pretty hard to get on their good side again.For now, they were torn between liking me or hating me. Most people said I was a cheapskate and gold di
AIDEN"Sir! Sir!" I turned at once, wondering if it was indeed me that the entire board directors waited for to speak. When they all kept staring at me in silence, I got the message and cleared my throat as I began,"Uh… what are we speaking on again? Can someone remind us, please?"They stared wordlessly at me for a couple of minutes until Greg cleared his throat and offered, "You said you had a proposition for us and would speak on it as soon as we were done giving our opinions on the new partners."Oh, that.I offered them a weak smile and sat up, beginning to engage them on what they wanted.When the very awkward meeting was over, I went back to my office at once, planning to just take my car keys and other essentials so I could leave this place.It had been more than two months now since Persy left me, and I had been a shadow of myself since then. It did not help that on the day she left, there were pictures flying all over the internet of her caught hugging Trevor so tightly.I
PERSY"He hardly even hesitated or anything! It was like he had been expecting this news for a long time! You need to see how he passed the papers to me so I would sign, I almost cried right there but I just had to hold myself until I came back. It just seemed like I was signing divorce papers… but isn't this also similar? This just means that I will not have anything to do with Aiden anymore, until God knows when." I relayed to Trevor who sat on the edge of my bed while I sat, lying against the headboard.He was listening attentively; a skill which I never guessed that he had in him. I continued, "You know, I thought I knew true love before… um, when I met you. But it just turns out that we had been playing with each other. We had both been using each other for what we had to offer, and nothing more. With Aiden, it is so much different. I can feel his love from a distance, I try to hate him and stay away from him but I am only killing myself the more I do. I do not know if my love f