Richard's POV “You have to come back to me, please” Reina didn't want to let me go. I didn't know what to do but me assuring her repeatedly was supposed to have helped and now… I exhaled deeply before patting her back.“ I will come back to you, healthy and fine. So you don't have to worry about that, okay?” I assured her, but it didn't seem like she was convinced by it.She was still, but I could feel the tiny droplets of tears as they rained down on me. They broke my heart and I didn't like that she was tearing up. I was going to do every single thing possible to be alive, and she knew that. “I know that you have to go right about now but what if something happens, what if I don't see you anymore and gosh…” she kept pacing up and down. She was sure moving so fast and now as I threw a glance at Ryan, I muttered to him about the initial plan of leaving while she was fast asleep, but he had contradicted it and looked at where it had gotten us into. “ I am going to come back to you
Richard's POVI was done with one, but I had one more, one more that needed to go down. For that, I will have to go to the dark organization, it wouldn't be an easy target like Martins had been because it was vast, and it wasn't going to be easy to get in. I was going to desecrate that place, the very one that had killed my parents. The one that I was supposed to head over after my parents, and I didn't know if I wanted that. It didn't boil well with me and now, I was left contemplating on that. “ What is it going to be?” We were a few minutes away from Martin's house, but we could still see the thick smoke which was visible from here. “ The bodies? The fake one? Did you place them in?” “ Yes boss” “ Good” they would be various interviews to find out what exactly had happened to him and I didn't want anything pointing hands at me Luckily, I had ample time to get my men on this case as well. It was working out fine for me. What I had to do was get in contact with them later and m
Reina's POVSleep eluded me because I couldn't think about anything else aside from Richard at the moment. Was he fine? Was he okay? The one at Martin's house was successful? I had seen it in the news and everyone kept blaming him on how careless he had gotten. He had been blamed and numerous girls had come out to share how bad of a person he was and how he kept asking them for sex multiple times with gruesome demands, and I didn't know what else to say. Was I supposed to be scared of Richard? And what can he do? I didn't know but all I needed was for him to come back fine and strong. “ Take a chill pill, you are pacing up and down, and you might end up being dizzy, don't you want Richard to see you fit and fine?” Ryan chipped in. I tried to be calm, but I just couldn't. How could I when Richard wasn't here yet and what exactly was he up to? I gulped in, downing the glass of water Daisy had left a while ago. It was sure coming in handy now. “ Thank you, Daisy,” she nodded at me w
Reina’s POVI clung onto him like my life depended on it. Everything was breaking apart for me. First, Richard, it wasn't clear to me why but guilt clawed at me, it threatened to tear me apart as I blinked repeatedly. My hands ran through his face once more with tears streaming down my face. Footsteps echoed down the hallway, “Shit” Ryan cursed, his knees dropped to the ground beside Richard as he tilted his head at me. “ What happened? Why is he!? What has gone wrong?” I swallowed my words in because I didn't know what to say, was I to say I had messed things up? It seemed to be something that I frequently do, and it was getting out of hand already. “ Somebody should call an ambulance. I will go with him to the hospital with you and Darren and the other men will tidy up the hall, it wouldn't be nice if the police walks in here and see blood littered all over. They would want you to explain, which we can't afford“ he let out all at once. I bobbed my head when I thought about it
Reina’s POVRyan had insisted on me changing my outfit before going for my checkup. He was just beginning to panic too much, and whenever I tried to rebuff, he would bring up the word that Richard wouldn't want me doing that. Moreover, it was mandatory for me to do so. The press might be snooping around for something, and seeing me sauntering around in a gown covered with blood would surely raise brows. Daisy's hands gripped mine, she had a smile on her face. My silent sobs had stopped, and now I felt better. Gloomy yes, maybe it might be worse, but for now, just knowing that Richard was out of danger was better. Ryan had walked away shortly afterward with the excuse that he had to make sure that Darren had tidied up things the way he wanted. I made a mental note to tell Richard all that he had been doing, having a friend just like him was everything. He had done most of the work, while trying so hard to stay strong. I could bawl my eyes out, but he didn't. He had let everything w
Reina's POV My mother's hand clasped around my wrist as she pulled me alongside her. “ You are pregnant?” She asked as though she hadn't heard earlier. What exactly was the reason that she kept on asking all over again? Shrugging that off I bobbed my heart excitedly. My heart almost spilling over like it had a bottle corked over on it when she said, “ You can't keep it, you have to get rid of it” I blinked repeatedly trying to get it in because it sounded so funny to me all of a sudden. “ Sorry? I didn't get what you had said earlier, I might have heard it wrong”“ You can't keep the baby, Reina. You have to get rid of it” I took a step backward, my heart squeezing so fast that I was finding it so difficult to breathe all of a sudden. Flipping my head to the side, I mumbled. “ No” I rebuffed her. What exactly was she thinking? How could she even say something like that? “ You can't tell me to get rid of my baby. It's mine” I reminded her when she tried to take a step to match w
Reina's POV“ Then why is he taking so long to get up?” I questioned while staring at Richard. Did he hate me so much that it was taking forever? It was already weeks, three weeks precisely, and he was still in a comatose state. Not that it helped, tongues were wagging, people had called, and different media houses had come up with different views of what could be happening, but none had actually come close to what it was. Ryan had kept everything within arms length and had made sure no one provided information. There had been one who had been more concerned about what she would be getting in return and had gone about talking to anyone who cared to know about what exactly was going on, and he had taught her a pretty good lesson. She wasn't only sacked, but her license was revoked, and the news never made it out of the four walls of the media house she had reported to. I let out a sigh as what the doctor sipped in. “ We are sorry, but we have done everything that we can, and it is s
Richard's POV.“ Reina” was the first name that slipped out of my mouth when I gained back my consciousness. My heart spun ridiculously when I didn't see her close to me. My head clouded with thoughts of her and no one else. What if Thompson had gotten close to her? But that wasn't possible, was it? What I could recall last was me proclaiming how much I loved her before slumping. “ Reina” I mustered, my heart heaved so hard that I was finding it difficult to take in air. Everything felt drained around me, and I didn't want to think about anything else. Summoning up strength, I yelled out, “Reina!!!!!” but still, I was left with the space that told me she wasn't coming soon. I flung the dainty cloth over me to a corner and I scurried up while trying to get to the door, but it seemed futile because I was on the ground before I could even make a step further. I let out a hiss when a wave of pain shot through me, before a grunt followed. I had never felt this low in a while. Not si
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