Nina’s POVI knew that I should have trusted my guts, that when I kept having that twisted one that something was going to happen, I should have taken extra precautions instead of letting things go the way they had. I couldn't describe how I had felt when I had first seen Ryan, I think I had been shocked, but it had escalated to rage which had intensely run fully into anger and all I wanted to do was make sure that he paid for all that he had done. The kids, the kids were one of the reasons I felt so unsettled, his eyes kept going toward them. I knew that Reina had told me he had found out that I was pregnant from the crumbled notes I had left close to the bin, but this was taking it too far. “ What do you think you are doing here? Spilling out trash from the nonsense you call a mouth!” I demanded an answer. If he was offended by my hand that had smashed his face, he didn't say it. All that he did was stand like he had been spellbound, his eyes roaming around until they were on me
Ryan's POV My hands swept through the table, every single thing on it hitting the damn floor while I tried to think.It wasn't clear to me why but seeing her leaning against Brian's hands had sparked off something within me that I knew I couldn't contain. I could feel the rage spilling through while I tried to come up with something to get her back. The bell rang, and my secretary walked in, a poker look on his face. “Yes?” I asked. I had changed every single stuff on my floor a few months back after finally getting a way out of the bargain. Every single woman has repulsed me and although it has taken Dezreel a lot before she had agreed to let me go, including the death of her father, she had succumbed to it later on, but not without letting me know that she was going to rain hell on me. Hell on me? I had scoffed. No one else can except I gave the person the right to. Oddly, I had everything now, power, money, and even fame and I still felt hollow, still felt withdrawn like I had
Nina's POV My attention was drawn to the ruckus as I advanced closer to its source. I knew that work had to go on, even though I had a failed marriage, but this certainly wasn't what I had expected, it was even going to make it worse than I had expected.Summoning the strength in me, I strutted down to the room it was emanating from, my heart slamming so hard that I thought it was false. “ What are you doing here!” I asked, aggrieved already. Couldn't he at least act properly? Like the matured person he had always been? Ryan stood, dressed in a peach suit, mockery leaving my lips, who exactly wears a peach suit, but I couldn't help but admire him in it. He looked…he looked … I tried to find the right word for it, but it just couldn't come together, but he felt right. His presence made it even better than anyone else that I had seen. “ Oh, you are finally here. I was asking to see you, and they told me I couldn't, so I had to. I apologize for the noise, I couldn't help it” “ Get
Nina's POV Something ignited in my head while I tried to think about what he had said, a merger wasn't right. A merger would give both equal power, but on the inside, it might not be what I was thinking. Flipping my head to the side, I stared hard and long at him, he could see that I was having doubts, he was quaking underneath the table, so I knew, but still, I couldn't bring myself to ask what exactly brought up that thought in him. “ No,” I answered. His brows kissed, like he hadn't been expecting my answer. “ No?” “ A merger isn't something I want to do to my company, it has not been in my mind, and it is never going to be” I answered defiantly. A chuckle rocked off his throat, smoothening his shoulder, which had been tight-knit.“ Even when the company’s stocks keep depleting? Come on, you know that is the only feasible thing, and you should think about it”If thinking about it was what he wanted, I was certainly not going to do so. It sounded like he had a motive, which wa
Ryan's POV I left the office with a smile tugged at the edge of my lips. She had even tried to stare at me. I had seen it, she was having conflicted feelings, like she wanted me to say that I was there for her and, also, that I wasn't. How could she think in such a way? I swirled around in the chair, my eyes sparking as I tried to come up with something, why couldn't she just say something? Say what exactly she wanted? The amount and all? I would be ready to make sure they get that money for her. A win-win for her in these.A gentle tap on the door, yanked me from my daydreaming so forcefully that I left a grunt at it. “ Yes, come in” My secretary had a pile of files in his arms, and I was about to order him to take them away when he said. “ These came for you, a man brought them in and instructed that I hand it over to you” I pocketed the little child in me that screamed to make sure it was what I had ordered that was here. The dirty life of Brian spread all apart for me to dis
Nina's POV “He is a match” the doctor's words drizzled in me, while I plopped on the seat, Reina's hands on my shoulder, squeezing on it. “ She will be fine. She will be fine” she kept repeating as I leaned against her arms, shedding tears in them until I could breathe properly again. My eyes went to Ryan who had stomped into the laboratory with the doctor, probably changing into an outfit that would be easier. “ Thank you” I threw a gaze at her. Gratitude laced my voice. “ Thank you for everything, for staying through it all. She didn't say anything else even when I knew that she had dozens of words to say, words that would trickle out of her lips, but she nodded anyway. I was grateful for her gift, being here was one. She could have chosen to be in her office, working right now, but she had stayed by my side. She sat beside me, my hands clasped with hers. “It is what I should do. Help you whenever I can”I bobbed at her words, waiting for what the doctor was going to say as s
Nina's POV Ryan's feet were stuck like he didn't want to go like he wanted to stay. “ What if there is a complication? That would need my help? You can't just tell me to go when the surgery hasn't been carried out yet, you are supposed to mention to me that I should stay, and I don't really know why you think I want anything to do with you” I knew that was a lie, that what he was saying was a lie. He was saying it to hurt me, or to make a point that he could say whatever he meant to and although, I would be hurt by it, it didn't mean a dime. I couldn't attest for why my heart had pricked, like it had been stiffened in, his words punching it until I was unable to breathe properly, and I found myself in a word that was so different from the one I was in, but Brian's hands clenching my shoulder, drove me back in, pushing me in. “Is there a problem? With your blood? You don't have to worry, you whoring about wouldn't affect the bone marrow, so you aren't needed here anymore”. “ Nina
Ryan's POV The plan wasn't to stick around, damn it, it had been to get into the car and get away as fast as I could, but I just couldn't find the feet to do so, or rather the courage to walk away. When I thought about his hands around her, I wanted to get them off, I was blinded with rage to get them off, and tell them about his plans, but I just couldn't find the word to, or I knew that they wouldn't believe an iota about it. I stood by the window, with hands on my pocket, while I watched out as I contemplated going back to the ward when I saw her, Nina walking swiftly into the laboratory A spike went up in my heart that something had gone wrong, but I kept it locked in, there wouldn't be anything wrong, I had given my blood, and it was enough, but I guess that I couldn't just stay back. My feet meandered across, as I placed a hand on the knob, wanting to pull it open when I heard the nurse say. “ You have been poisoned for quite some time now, and if we do, your daughter risks