"Crystal! You won't believe what is being broadcast worldwide now!" Cullen, Crystal's younger sister shouted from the living room. Crystal, whose eyes were swollen due to a restless night, stopped scattering her clothes all over the room as she dragged her exhausted body down the ground from her bed and found her way to the living room. She had been searching for a dinner dress to wear in the evening for her boyfriend's wedding. Yes, she has a boyfriend. But since her boyfriend's parents do not consider her as a marriage candidate to their son, today, Mervin Brooklyn, the only heir to the LV Corporation, was getting married to Miranda Griffin. A model and heiress to the Griffin group. The third successful group in Las Vegas after LV Corporation and BG Group. Upon reaching the living room, her legs trembled under the weight of her body as her chest tightened. Her blood boils the more her eyes fixed on the TV. It was a wedding highlight. The highlight reel of Mervin Br
Mr. Brooklyn was dumbfounded. He blinked for a moment before parting his lips."Fine"Those words come out thick as if they were being forced. Then he continued "Do not think that I have given my concept yet. Get ready in two months. This lady here will be called to our hospital for a pregnancy test" He raised his head and looked at Crystal. His stares were shooting razors into her fresh skin and she tried as much not to stare back at him."But, if it is found out that it was just a scheme to get my permission, this girl will rot in jail. And as for you Mervin, I won't mind that you are my only son. I will disown you" His every word made Mervin shiver as he kept swallowing hard. Mr Brooklyn gave the two a last glance, before evacuating the hall. As if Mr. Brooklyn's stares were never enough, Mrs. Brooklyn's own was worse. She looked at Crystal as if she might swallow her alive. Mervin could hear Crystal's breath seize." Am watching you" she spat before following her husband outs
"If that was meant to be a joke, then it's not funny at all"She felt the sincerity in his voice. He meant it. But how can she just get pregnant overnight? She was not ready for it. They agreed to practice purity before marriage, now he is indirectly asking her to make love with him.No!That was a capital 'NO' for her."It was never meant to be a joke, I mean every word I just said"He does not want it either, but to save their love, that was the only solution. There was an awkward moment for a few minutes. "Since you just made me jobless, what will I be doing at home all day?" Crystal clacked the ice between them. It was obvious she was no longer interested in their previous conversation and Mervin decided to let her breath. Of Course, he already knew that it would take him millions of years to convince Crystal. But as of now, he better follow her lead.He followed Crystal to the kitchen and hugged her from behind while laying his head on her shoulder. A smile beams on her
Crystal felt relieved when the doctor who was in charge of examining Cullen after she regained consciousness, announced that Cullen was fit to be discharged. Cullen was hit with a dry stick in the head whilst she was captive. That led to her being found unconscious when the rescue team arrived.Riding in the car, Mervin was reclining on his seat. He seemed to have been lost in thought.His mind went back to what had just happened earlier. He knows the Griffins for being ruthless, yet, he never imagined they could go to this extent. Surely, Crystal and her sisters were open to another attack anytime soon.Picturing Crystal's house Which was a few yards away from a neighborhood road, it was easy for the Griffin cousins to launch another attack. Thus, Mervin concludes after pondering for a moment."Marko, take us to the safe house please" he instructed his driver. He tilted his head and faced the outside of the moving vehicle.As per orders from Mervin, the driver changed Lanes. He to
Her eyes were fixed to the wall clock. It was already past midnight, yet Mervin had not returned home since he left. She felt uneasy.She panicked. Even sleep could not obey her. Her eyes were wide open as someone afraid that would miss a train to heaven once she fell asleep.Seeing that it was taking longer than expected, fear gripped her. 'Have they locked him in their house?'She laughed like a maniac to her thoughts.Mervin had passed the age to be grounded by his parents. He is not a baby that can be locked in his parents' house at will.She got tired of tossing and turning on the bed, so she stepped out of it and found her way to the living room.She walked straight to the window and pulled the curtains to one side.Peeping outside from the window, she sighed sadly when she saw no sign of Mervin's car in the compound.She let go of the curtains and walked to the couch. Throwing herself on it carelessly.The couch seemed not to have given her the comfort she was looking for, thi
MIGHT CONTAIN +18 CONTENTS It was already morning. Mervin rested his head on the headboard of his bed. Despite the clock on the wall ticking 7 a.m., he showed no desire to get up to prepare for work. He was lost in thought. His short conversation with his parents the previous day was still hunting him. He just could not digest what his parents were up to as his mind rewinded what happened when he reached home. … Walking into the huge Brooklyn Mansion-like palace, maids and guards kept greeting him till he reached the living. Mr. and Mrs. Brooklyn's eyes were fixed on the TV watching an ongoing program. "Am here" Mervin announced. The couple shifted their gaze from the TV to Mervin who remained s
NOTE: THIS CHAPTER CONTAIN 18+ CONTENTS. "Are you sure about this?" Mervin asks, blinking in disbelief. His eyebrows were raised as he tried to put meaning to what Crystal just said. It's not that he does not understand what she was trying to say. But it felt odd. Crystal, a girl who never allowed him to even scratch her bare back, was permitting him to get intimate with her? Of Course who will not find her odd? As if Crystal read his mind that seemed to have been hesitant to get back into action and happened to be questioning her reasoning in the current situation, she closed the space between them. Her eyes shoot affection, she moves her lips towards Mervin's own. Looking at her soft cherry lips, Mervin swallowed hard. She closed her eyes like a temptress making Mervin get action by her action. Surely, there was no remedy to breaking the spell Crystal was casting on him. Mervin raised his right hand, capped Crystal's left cheek, and smashed his lips on hers. Entering his
Amanda picked up a jewel box on the dressing table and slowly opened it. In the jewel box, were beautiful golden earrings and a matching necklace that brightened up the room."Wow!"She exclaimed as the jewel box dropped from her hand back to the dressing table.Facing the huge dressing mirror, she whispered, " You love her? Dgold Jewels is the perfect place to buy her a gift that will put a smile on her lips" She winked."Cut!"A man who had his arms folded to his chest as his eyes were glued to the PC in front of him. Shouted.Hands-clapping noise filled the whole room. No one could agree less that indeed, Miranda is the goddess of modeling in the country.Miranda stood from where she sat and tucked her hair behind her ear as
Crystal yanked her hand from Mervin. She pressed one hand in her waist and put the other hand on her head, running her fingers in her hair."Seriously? Mervin, why are you doing this to me?" She spat."I can't even get pregnant anymore. My uterus was removed" Her voice was cracked.Mervin's chest rises and falls. He was frustrated. 'You have to choose between the mother and the baby' The words the doctor said to him a few years ago became fresh.He looked at Crystal then he swallowed hard. His eyes were bitters but he blinked rapidly, forcing himself not to cry. It was a miracle that Crystal was alive.Yes, she had played a dirty game on him by hiding the fact that their daughter survived, but one or both could have lost their lives back then."Then what?" He muttered.He learned against the wall,"Why can't we just keep living as we have been? Did I love you so you could be a baby factory?" His words cut through the silence.Crystal shaggers her shoulder. She shook her head in disb
It was a Monday morning, the airport bustled with people moving to and fro. Some dragging their luggage carriers while some with small traveling bags in their hands. Outside the entrance, all types of designed cars pulled out then zoomed off. The airport was filled with deafening noise.Few moments later, a Rolls Royce and a black jeep come to a halt.Four men in black suits alighted from the jeep, two spread out and one walked to the Rolls Royce and opened the passenger's seat while the other man stood guard as Tranny and his parents alighted from the car.A faint sigh escaped Tranny partly parted lips and his eyes roamed around the surroundings. His eyes had lost the spark and he looked a bit thinner.From their house to Harry Reid International airport was a 30 minutes drive but Tranny looked exhausted as if he had been in the car for 30 days.Only two days had passed since he accepted to go to Germany and his parents had done everything possible to secure him a plane to his des
The sun had just risen, casting a soft glow across the street. Outside the small restaurant, cars passed by and a few were parked outside. Birds chirped in the distance filling the silence.Inside the restaurant, the Private dining room specifically, Bryan sat with his hands resting on the table. He looked at the huge clock on the wall and a slight sigh escaped his lips.It's been an hour since he arrived. He had agreed to meet Miranda at 7am, but she was not yet here.'I hope she isn't planning to make a fool out of me' He wondered.Of course there is a high chance she might not come. Bryan shook his head.'No, of course she will come, because of those papers' he thought to himself.Just yesterday, he had sent court papers to Miranda concerning the custody of Mirade. He wished to be in his daughter's life, but since Miranda was being stubborn, he decided to get his rights through the court.The door to the room opened exposing a slim figure, Miranda. She wore a simple baggy trouser
Crystal looked around the house, and a faint sigh escaped from her. The echoes of laughter that once filled the house were replaces by deadly silence.It had been more than a month since Chloe and her sisters vanished, yet the pain in her heart felt as fresh as the day she lost them.She opened the door to Chloe's room. Despite the cleanness in it, the emptyness of her heart was never filled. The empty bed stark a reminder of what was missing.Chloe's smiles , Camilla's infectious laughter and Cullen's jists. Everything was gone.Her heart was a desolated wasteland. Crystal Squeezed her eyes shut, fighting away the tears that threatened to escape their cage."What are you doing here Crystal" Mervin's voice jolted Crystal back to reality.From the window , she turned and faced Mervin with red eyes.Mervin's lips were slightly parted. He took gentle steps towards her before standing before Crystal."For how long will you keep this up Crystal? Its high time we move on" Crystal stayed si
The VIP room smelled different. Its walls were white and clean. Not even a single stain could be seen on the walls. The room provided a comforting and reassuring atmosphere to the patient and guardian.A carpet covered the whole room, and in the center of the room was a bed with an IV stand beside it. A drip was connected to the stand with a small pipe, correcting the content from the drip to the hand of the unconscious Crystal laying on the bed lifeless.Mervin sat alone beside the bed, holding Crystal's hand tightly. At every passing second, he let out a shallow breath.Everything seems like a dream to him, he was finding it hard to process the fact that he had failed Crystal.Guilty crept all over his body like his second skin.A faint sob jolted him back from his dreamland. Mervin raised his head to the bed, meeting Crystal's eyes wide open."Crystal," he whispered.Just as if she had been death stated,tears gashed out of Crystal's eyes like and all season spring.Seeing Crystal l
The morning breeze was refreshing; birds were chirping in the trees as maids and guards were moving back and forth, doing their assigned work. Inside the mansion, a breath-taking aroma was perceived, and anyone whose nose got struck by such an aroma will surely crave to have a test. In the kitchen, Mervin was standing before the cooker with a turning stick in his hand. He had an apron tied in his waist, and some strands of his hair were stuck to his face. He was feeling hot and was sweating. He stilled into the pot gently before walking to one of the cabins. He opened the cabin and took out two bowls. Reaching the cooker, he picked up a serving spoon and dishes out a little portion of the food into one of the bowls. Mervin dropped the serving spoon before picking up a soup spoon and dug into the bowl. "Mmmh," he moaned. A smile of satisfaction appeared on his face. He dropped the bowl into the sink, then turned off the gas. He dished the food into the clean bowl and pr
Miranda was seated on the couch in her house when she heard a knock from the door. She did not bother to stand up to attend to the knocker since she knew her maid would do so. And if it's someone whom the guards have permitted to enter the compound, then she needn't worry.Few seconds later, footsteps approached where Miranda sat.A scoff from the visitor made Miranda raise her head. She abruptly sprung up from her seat."You!" She half yelled.Her eyes were wide and round as if she had just seen a serpent. Her chest rose and fell rapidly.."What are you doing here?" She added.The man before her, Bryan shook his head and sighed."I am here to take my daughter," He said softly.Miranda felt as if she had just been shocked by a defibrillator. Her heart stopped beating for a moment.Then, he chuckled , still maintaining her eyes on Bryan.Just what on earth was he blabbering about. It had been nine years since that incident. Since that day Miranda left the hotel room after throwing
With the aid of Mervin, Crystal dragged her jelly legs into the airport. What should have been a walk of a minute to the reception, took Crystal five.In a blink, the receptionist recognised Crystal. Despite her face being of public attention. She saw her earlier bidding farewell to her sisters who boarded the plane to India.Yes,that plane had just crashed about an hour ago.Angella, as the name on her tag, sighed then bowed at Crystal. Of course she knew why Crystal was there."Welcome Ma'am," The receptionist said softly."About the plane crash, did anyone survive?" Crystal's voice was forced. It was as if something was hindering her speech."Am sorry, ma'am, the airport manager is yet to make a statement on that" The edge of Crystal's lip was raised. She scoffed and made a sarcastic laugh. She looked at the receptionist then narrowed her eyes.She was going crazy.She was not here to listen to nonsense. It was her sisters who were involved.The only surviving blood relatives sh
More than two hours passed. Crystal was shivering yet she refused to leave the riverbank.Police and rescue team arrived a long time ago, but close to two hours passed without even finding Chloe's hair strand.Crystal was becoming impatient. Her eyes were swollen and her whole body was weak. If it were not for Mervin who held her arm in support, her jelly legs could have made her whole body succumb to the ground.The rain had long stopped, but the water level was still high. The wind was still blowing violently. It was even hard for those that had dived in the water to see clearly.."Crystal, we have to go to the police station and give a statement," Mervin said softly.Crystal shook her head negatively. "I am not going anywhere without Chloe," she said firmly.Mervin looked at Crystal's pale face. It was obvious that he will break down with a cold in the coming few days.He let go of crystals hand and walked away leaving her standing by a tree along the river. Few minutes later, he