Nina's POV I woke up for the first time in a long while, with a smile plastered across my lips. My legs plastered on the bed, before I sat upright. Fine Nina, take in air and go about your daily activities. It was just sex. I wanted to tell myself that it was merely sex, but I knew that it was more than that. We had made love, filled each other's souls, discussed the times when everything was perfect, and it didn't hurt as it usually does. My hand patted my chest, the usual thought that I had been the reason for the happenings lately around us fading away. I had kept it tucked in so well that I knew Ryan hadn't suspected, there were nights where I turned my back to him, where I wet the side of my bed with tears. I didn't know if he noticed, but I knew that he did, most nights he would hug me to himself so tight that I knew he was scared of losing me. But what about me? Who I thought was losing herself in the process of all of this? I knew that was the truth, he had demons, and
Ryan's POV A tease, a fucking one, and I needed to know why this exactly was a punishment? It didn't look like one to be. I was being forced to stare at Nina as she slipped her finger into her precious, pink cunt that wanted my attention, and to continue eating. I didn't know what else to do, as I had pleaded countless times for her to let me do something, but she just wasn't. “ Nina, please. I didn't know she would be here, if I had known that I wouldn't have stepped a foot into this office” I wasn't even lying, nor battling with words. If I had known that she would be here, I would have turned on my heels and stomped off without staring back. This wasn't what I wanted, what I wanted was to be let out of this torture that was happening, I just couldn't help it anymore. My dick strained against my trousers, so fucking hard that I didn't know what made sense or what doesn't anymore, aside from her being here. My throat swallowed while she arched her head backward, her boobs ste
Her legs stepped on the pedal while she drove as fast as she could. She was fucking going to kill Brian if she gets the chance. He had gone to the extreme and now he had to pay. She drove into the garage, padding across the foyer before she got to his office. Brian, who wasn't expecting her to be here, threw a glance at her. “ Yes, what are you here for? Dezreel’s chest heaved in anger. “ What exactly do you think you are doing? Why would you find someone else to go to Brian when I am here? Furthermore, you paid someone to hurt him, that definitely wasn't part of the bargain” Brian continued doing what he was doing, his eyes fixated on it when it was pulled away, with so much force that his eyes darkened. “ What do you think you are doing? Do you know what that contract you just took away meant?”“ You will give me an answer when I ask for one. You own it to me, you owe me a lot of things, and I am not going to sit by and watch you act as though you don't”Brian erupted in cackl
Ryan's POV I tapped on my face, after watching Nina walk away, a smile lighting up the edges of her lips. She had plastered kisses over my face before stomping away, leaving me with grins and smiles. I couldn't wait to see her later, whenever I wasn't with her, it felt like something wasn't right, everything felt bleak, if this was love, I was all in for it. My hands held the window railing when I saw her zoom off, my eyes squinted at how squeaky it had seemed, but I didn't pay attention to that. Nothing seemed improper. I had spun on my heels, walking toward the table when my phone buzzed, its sounds punctured through the quiet I had immersed myself in. My eyes went to the desk which I slipped my phone on when a panicked voice came through, one that I was so sure was Nina. My hands gripped the phone even firmer. “What is wrong?” I probed. “The brakes…the brakes, they wouldn't just stop” Fuck, I slammed everything off my table, before storming off the office. “Where exactly
Nina’s POV My head banged, no sleged, when I forced my eyes open, staring straight out at the ceiling. I couldn't bring myself to let out a wince, not when a hand held mine so tight. I tried to push past the memories of what had happened, that it might have been Brian, it had to be just him. No one else would possess such nerves. My eyes went to Ryan, whose hands were around mine, as I pondered on how long he had been this way. Has it been days? Weeks even? He didn't care about anyone, whoever it was didn't deserve his attention, but I guess that I was different.My hands went to his jet black hair, weaving through it when a thought dawned on me. I didn't want this to continue, I needed some time off, time to make sure that Brian or whoever it was wouldn't do such again. I needed to fight for myself, get whoever it had been, and make them pay. I was done with letting others clean up after me. Squeezing my eyes shut, I thought about it before deciding to go along with it. “ Ni
Ryan's POV I watched her expression while trying to fathom if indeed she was lying, she was going to move in with her fiancé? Was she even serious right now? Brian was no longer her fiancé. I searched into her eyes, trying to depict what exactly she was playing, but I couldn't grasp anything. I raced to her mother, holding her as she stumbled back, and surprisingly, she didn't evade my touch. Her eyes didn't leave Nina who clearly was keeping to her words, she wasn't talking to anyone except Brian, of course. I shook my head, trying to get something that would make sense, but I couldn't. “ Nina, this is your mother,” I explained. If she was going to act as if she doesn't recall anything, then I was going to remind her about it all. “ I think you should stay in, you shouldn't leave yet. You need to be here, to recuperate better” It wasn't clear to me whatever games she was playing, but going home with Brian was out of it. We wouldn't be able to tell if he did anything to hurt
Brian tried to understand what exactly it was that Nina was playing at, but he just couldn't. He would have believed her little antics that she had indeed lost her memories, if she hadn't avoided all of his attempts to touch her. It seemed like she had something in mind, maybe she was thinking of how to pay him back, and she was in for a long run because he was certainly not going to allow that. He was determined to play along, and perhaps then when he had gotten her to lower her guards, he would have his way with her, for now, he had to make her pay for going against his words. His eyes searched around the familiar white bungalow severally for its owner, and when it was dawned on him that he wouldn't be successful tonight, he tried to leave when he heard her heels on the pavement. He slipped the little camera he always had in his pocket, he was one who loved to record memories of when his opponent was at their lowest, when he tainted his hands with blood because he got the thril
Ryan's POV I had a hand against my head, as I gazed at the screen before me. I had a deadline and I knew that I had to get this done, but I couldn't bring myself to work. My eyes turned blurry as I peered into the computer, the screen splitting into lines of black and white the longer I gazed at it. Brian and Nina were two people who just didn't fit, I had tried to place my hands on it, but I just couldn't get why exactly she preferred his presence all of a sudden. Was it because of the crash? Why exactly would she forget us all and prefer his company? All of a sudden, at that?A gush of air left my throat as I tried to get the answer, but it wasn't forthcoming, my hands ran across the keyboard before I tapped on the landline, ushering my secretary in. “ How many pro bono cases have we taken up this week?” I had to keep to my arrangements, and had to be careful when it was needed also. “ Five” “ How many more?” There had to be more, and I needed to know if I would go myself, j
Nina's POV My hands squeezed around Reina as as we waited for the judge's verdict, my heart slammed so hard as she made a point on how he had committed murder, and had burnt an orphanage killing kids as well. Everyone had watched the video and it had been brutal. So brutal that I had shut my eyes through it all. “ Brian is sentenced to death by shooting for mass murder, and it should be carried out immediately” she snapped the pen she held into two. He stood up, eyes bloodshot as he glared at the judge. My heart spiked as I recalled what he had done the last time, thinking of how he might make a repeat of the same thing, it was going to be heart-wrenching. “ You won't be able to kill me. You won't be able to, what makes you any different from me? You do the same thing as I do, and you are still alive, you can't!” My eyes brimmed with tears in them, as Ryan punched a hand up in the air, his eyes were on me as he mouthed out. “ We did it” I knew he was also trying to tell me abou
Ryan's POV My eyes slithered into red when I saw him pinning her against the wall. “ Fuck” I cursed, pushing against the chair in my way before shoving the door open. It came open in a crank and shoving him away from her, I threw a punch into his face. He collided against the wall, before aiming one at me. He threw one on my face, which I returned before we were pulled away. “ I will make sure you live the rest of your life behind bars” I yelled at him, venomously. Even if it was going to take my last breath, I was going to make that happen. Nina stood at the far edge, a hand around her neck as she took in gasps of air, pulling off the jacket I had on, I threw it over her before guiding her out. I made sure we were safe in the car before zooming off. I didn't know what I was going to know if he had hurt her more than this, maybe send his body rolling, I would have made him regret every single thing about his life. I might have ended up punching him to death, the rage in me st
Nina's POVMy heart sledged against my rib cage while I watched Ryan navigate his way as he drove down. I thought of how Brian was in cuffs, how all of those girls were going to be served justice soon, even my secretary and I couldn't have been happier. The thought of her stabbing him even when he had shot her still sent shivers down my spine. I didn't understand why she had done that, I wouldn't have known until she had told me that I was the first person who had treated her in such a way. My hands moved on my gown, tapping on it repeatedly when a hand clasped around it, trying to get me to stare at him. “ I am fine, just focus and drive” “ You are agitated, are you fine?” “ I am” I answered, my voice betraying my words. He swerved off course, slamming the brakes before peering at me. “ I am not a fool, fluffy bear, what is in your mind?” He questioned again. I chewed on my lips, gazing at him before the words came out. “ I just think he should have been found earlier, I m
Nina's POV “I am fine” I tried to shrug his hands off. He was being a worrywart. “You don't have to come with me’’ I tried to get him off my back. I mean we were in the penthouse together, and although the kids weren't here, I knew they were okay. I was fine as well, but Ryan wasn't so sure of that, seeing how he was constantly on my heels. “Really? It is the same spot, it isn't that far from the stairs” I glanced up, directing his gaze to the spiral step. He shook his head, nor listening to me. “You can't understand how I felt when I saw you being bonded into the car, I had never felt so helpless, I mean, in the courtroom everyone knew me as the best, but there, I couldn't do anything” he confessed. My heart stilled while I watched him. “I know that I shouldn't think about that, but I was already doing so. I thought about what would happen if he used you as one of his trophies. I was already thinking of how to make him pay, but inwardly, I hope that you would be fine, for me,
Nina's POV When I had felt the needle prick my skin, I couldn't move an inch, no matter how hard I tried to, it was impossible for me to. I had pleaded, bawled my eyes even before I lost consciousness. When I was awake, I found out I was lying on the ground, not tied up, but I was lying down on skulls, and sharp bones which jabbed into me. I had tried to stand up, but a closer gaze at where I was had me wobbling, a scream had left my throat at what I was seeing while I had stumbled backwards. I hadn't known this, knew that he had this. He had always lived a spotless life, at least that's what my mother and I had known, we hadn't known about this, hadn't thought that he was capable of decapitating humans, of storing humans, of killing them, making trophies out of them. We hadn't known how much of a psychopath he was, that he had a habit of collecting trophies, human ones. Chills had run down my spine, countless times that I had forgotten to breathe. When I had finally pushed o
Ryan's POVI kept muttering out words which were incoherent even to myself while Nina was in my arms. I tried to get up, tried to think, I knew that she needed to be out of here, that we both had to be out of here, but my knees were stamped to the ground. A hand grasped my shoulders, jolting me up. “You have to leave, get her to the hospital” I flickered my gaze around, a string of curses leaving my lips as I did so. I searched around, for his gait, to see him with cuffs clicked on his wrist, but he was nowhere to be found, I threw the thought that told me he had fled away, that couldn't have happened. “Brian, where is he?” I questioned Richard, whose face gave an answer I didn't want to believe. A cackle left my lips, reverberating across the room. “You can't let him go, the kids, our kids, Reina, they are there, he might hurt them” He shook his head at me, peering once more in my arms. “Get out of here, let me handle the rest”I forced myself up, nodding at him before I tra
Ryan's POV A dip, that was what I had felt when I had pushed the door open, and she wasn't in there. I had tried to convince myself that she would be in the room, she would be in the bathroom, she might have taken a walk, but I knew that wasn't it. My third senses didn't just agree with what I thought it was, so I had pleaded with Richard to get access to the CCTV, and he had. “ She is heading towards the back door, I am going to give an order for all doors to be locked right away, get her back man”His words would have sounded right if I hadn't chased down like a mad man, and watched as she was yanked into a car, a midnight black sports car. I had raced down, sprinted down the stairs with both hands on my hips as I took in gaps of air. I chewed on my lips, until I could feel the crimson taste, the coppery taste sluicing through my senses. I heaved, before punching into the wall as I slipped into my car, chasing after them. I was going to be a fool to let him take her away from
Nina's POVI felt like a mess, the only thing that no one else wanted to associate with, I didn't want to think about what exactly Brian would be thinking, I didn't want to know why I hadn't even thought about the fact that he had such tendencies, was I ever in love with him? No, so why was I unable to see it? I hated it, with each fiber in me when people were in such an uncomfortable place because of me. I could sense it, the hesitation, the hurt that filled Reina's eyes. I was the cause of all that. I always made things happen, and when they did, they always hurt everyone around me. I chewed on my lips before breaking off my thoughts. “ You aren't the cause of anything” Ryan cupped my face as he whispered at me. I tried to believe that I wasn't, it was going to mean a lot, but I couldn't do so. I always did this, I had done this to mum, and it hadn't been funny. “It is fine, I want to go home” she insisted. Home wasn't going to be the little white bungalow that Ryan had built
Ryan's POVThere was no way I would have known what exactly she was thinking, now that I was thinking about it, she had always kept her emotions cladded. So tight that I couldn't see through. Why would she ever think that? Why was she going to think that she would ever wreck my life? Even if she did, she would do so in a good way. She was the only thing that sparkled in my life, so what exactly had she been thinking? Was she really going to act as if she didn't know? That she didn't have a clue of how much she meant to me? What she actually meant to me? How I will raze everywhere down if it meant me being with her again? “ My fluffy bear” I flicked the tears off her cheek. “ Why would you ever think that? Why would you ever think that you wreck anything?”The tears ran down her cheek, while I patted her back, letting her lean on my shoulders. “ You will never be a wreck to me, you mean the whole world to me, don't you know how whole you make me feel? You made me love, you made m