Ryan's POV My hands circled the decanter as I poured a decent amount into the crystal glass, my eyes burnt with rage while I did so. I didn't know how exactly she would do that, tell me that if I wanted her to settle I had to tender the papers. My head plopped downwards before I threw a gaze around, my heart soared as I nodded along to the beat of the song. My hands slammed the table in front of me, the glass swirling for a bit before I wrapped a hand around it. I wouldn't have let her go if she hadn't made it look like I was holding her hostage. I would have been adamant about every single thing, still hesitant until it hit me that I had to do it, that in order for her to know how serious I was, I had to do it. “Get your hands off me” I pushed off the hands that circled itself around my shoulders before flicking my head to take a look at who it was when I saw it was Richard. Disappointment shrouded his face, before he let out a sigh. “Darren said you would be here, but I never
Ryan's POV “ You can't be serious,” Reina uttered, stunning me. What exactly did she mean by that? I was and I am always serious. “ I am” I shrugged at her. She looked dumbfounded, like she wasn't expecting that. “ I will be sincere. Hell no, I don't like you one bit, but at this rate, you are even better than Brian would ever be. Now that she is single and divorced, he will keep pushing for them to get married again” “ That isn't the issue here. Reina, Nina would believe whatever you tell her. You both can talk to her mother about your suspicion, but I guess she wouldn't believe. She loves Brian”“ Yes, that is expected. She chose him for her, so she would certainly love the idea of him being her daughter's husband” That was it. Her mother hated me and it wasn't clear to me why, but I just couldn't think about what exactly I might have done wrong for that to happen. “ Her mother knows, I guess it is only a matter of times before she would have told Reina also, she wouldn't have
Nina’s POV A gentle tap at the door jerked my attention back to it, I watched as my secretary stuttered in, her eyes dimming in on me. “ Yes?” I asked when she was a step away from me. She gave me a smile, one that tugged at her lips for a while. “ You have someone at the door. He is requesting to see you”“ Tell whoever it is that I don't want to meet him or her”“ He is from Ryan's law firm, he said I should inform you that he is going to wait out there now matter how long it is going to take” My nails clawed my palm. It was Ryan all right, he was here for what I had promised him, in exchange for the divorce papers. With a grunt, I nodded at her, dismissing her. I waited for his scent to drift into my nostrils. That woodsy scent that I was used to. When the door pulled open, my eyes met with his dark orbs, not flinching. He held a bulk of papers which he dropped on the papers, sliding one to me. “ I am here to finalize the contract. Here, that is where you are supposed to sig
Ryan's POV I was done with it, but I knew that it wasn't what I wanted. I didn't want it to be over. I have never wanted it to. Standing there, trying so hard not to say a thing wasn't easy, I had to try so hard. So fucking difficult to make sure that she didn't notice anything. I had done it, tendered the papers, and I was hoping that it was going to make her happy, but why did she look so sad? Like she didn't want it to happen? Like I was breaking her whole world down?“ Sir…” my secretary tried to get my attention several times until I threw my head at him. “ Speak” “ They are here. In the meeting room, they are waiting for you” I waved him off with a flick of my wrist, watching as he stormed off. Inhaling deeply, I stood up, pushing the chair to the side while I walked toward the meeting room where they both stood, waiting for me. “ Here” I extended the contract to them, watching their faces as they stared at it for a while before letting out a grunt. “ Is something wrong
Nina’s POVThe room seemed to swallow me in while I laid on the bed, eyes on that hole that seemed to pull me in. My eyes swarmed with tears in them, but I couldn't bring myself to be sad because I knew that I couldn't afford that right now. From me finding out that I was poisoned to Reina telling me that Brian was a suspect was something that I couldn't place my hands on. There had been nothing that had given it away, I mean, he had always been there. He hadn't shown any sign of wanting the company until recently when he kept mentioning the merger and I knew my mother was making up excuses for him. The door cranked open, revealing my mother who was fuming in anger, brows drawn. I pushed myself up, sitting upright as I studied her face. She looked enraged or rather she was enraged, but I didn't know what exactly it was. “ Have you found the culprit? Who has been poisoning me?” She didn't answer, her eyes dimmed in on me. So sharp that I didn't know what to make of it. “ Why did
Ryan's POV Nina has said she wanted to see Reina and I had insisted on coming, at least with what I had found out, it should come a long way. I needed to place my hands on where exactly I had seen the mistress. I was so sure, so certain that I had seen her somewhere, perhaps my memory was beginning to dwindle because I had a very retentive one until late when Nina came crashing back in, or rather I crashed into her life. “You are here” Richard gave a swerve of his hands at me, his attention going back to Reina instantly who kept chattering about something to him. He would stop to add to what she was about to say, then touch her hands or any part he dimmed fit before he blossomed into a smile. I shifted in the seat I was on, my stomach churning at their constant display of love. I thought there was something else that could be done. Why must they do this here also? My mind was a raging storm while I waited for Nina, I couldn't help but watch their PDA. They looked so soaked in ea
Nina’s POV A snap was the only thing that stopped me from shedding a tear, and I noticed that it was from Ryan. His eyes were fixed on me. They darkened even more as they peered at me, so intense and yet so wild that I didn't know what to do or say. I swallowed when he didn't say anything. “ I am sorry” he finally broke eye contact, apologizing. “ What for?” I asked, wanting him to be specific with what he was apologizing for. He has done nothing wrong to me now. If it was then, then he did a lot to me but now, I wanted to ask Brian how long it had been going on, if they laughed at me while tossing in bed together. “ You know, it makes sense,” I said. I was only being blind. If I had been careful enough, I would have noticed that something was up, noticed that she was the one who was providing him information, but my head was clouded, and I wondered if it was because of the drugs in my system. “ That? Are you fine?” Reina asked. Her eyes gentle, her hands squeezed mine in a r
Nina's POV I didn't know when I burst out in cackles, the fit running at long length. I didn't even know he was in, were they perhaps trying to get some juice in before I got back? I knew that I had decided to come in pretty early, but that was because we had changed the time and I had decided to return early, I didn't know I was going to meet this. “ What exactly do you think you were about to do?” Brian's eyes flared with anger at me. My hand slipped into the bag, making sure the tape was intact as it recorded everything. We didn't know what the turn of the event was going to be like, so we knew that we had to get every bit of recording down. “Are you blind? What were you doing? Screwing my secretary in my office? Sorry, I forgot she is your mistress now”He sneered. “Your office? Do you still think that it will be yours? You will agree to my demands soon, if you don't, your mother will, mummy dearest wouldn't want her only child ending up dead, you know”. He said it with so