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
Ryan's POV It wasn't difficult to know who exactly the man who had stepped in was. Those Hazel eyes which were the same as Nina’s and the face had given it away, but I had no words for a man who didn't care, who had left his responsibility. So why was he back?“ Eduardo” her mom mumbled out as she swirled her gaze around, her eyes stopping in track when it met mine. I gave her a wink before snapping my attention back at the man who had just stepped in. “ What are you doing here?” He didn't say a word as his eyes traveled behind her to Nina who sat on the couch. “ Is that her?” Nina stiffened on the couch, her body sinking. “ Is that our daughter?” Samantha shielded Nina from him. “ She wasn't yours to begin with” He swerved, his hands in the air, not saying a word before his eyes went to me. Richard had stood upright, strolling across the room to where I stood, waiting for what was going to happen. “ What are you doing here?” She questioned between gritted teeth. Her eyes flic
Nina's POV “ I am never going to let them take the company away, what exactly are you even saying!” my voice soared. “ There is no way that is going to happen, she has done everything possible, I can't let her lose them because of me. I can't let her lose what she cherishes” My head went to the bed as I watched her chest heave slowly. Reina's hands patted my back as she cajoled me to let down the tears that were in my eyes, but I just couldn't. They seemed to have been stuck permanently. Sneaking into her chest, I held her to myself, squeezing her so hard. “ I can't… I can't let this happen. It would break her” “ You know your mother wouldn't want anything happening to you, she would do everything possible just to make sure that nothing happens to you, even if it means giving up the company” I listened to her words. My eyes brimmed with tears in them that refused to slip down my cheek, I was so pissed off and at the same time, tired. Unable to raise a hand, or say a word anymor
Ryan's POV I could sense it, the hesitation immediately I had driven in, and I didn't know what else to do. The air tingled with our breath mingling in it for a while. “We can go back if you don't want to step in,” I offered, to which she shook her head. Beaming at me with a smile on her face. “ I am here already, what is the need of going back when I am? She pulled the door open, stepping out before I could offer to help. I watched her step as they clambered in, before she was yanked into an arm. I stood watching both women. She was weeping and Gladys was doing the same.I leaned against the car, my eyes squinted as I watched them chatter on about all that had happened and when Nina brought out her phone, showing Gladys a picture, probably one of the twins, she squirmed before glaring at me. I shook my head to the side, wondering if she was cursing at me as well for being so careless when I shouldn't have. I pushed myself off my car, sauntering toward them, holding Nina by her
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