Richard's POVSomething spiked up in my blood and all that I wanted to do was to place my hands around his neck, groping him until he couldn't take in air anymore. He had stepped over that thin line that he shouldn't have. My stomach hardened as it knotted in succession until I took in gasps of sharp breaths. “ You shouldn't have said that, Jackson, you just made things worse than they should have been” I answered. “ Let me do the talking” I mumbled at her to which she nodded at me to go on. He let out a sneer.“ Oh, it's the bulldog who is always around her. I saw you today, acting all sorry when you went up to the tombstone, don't you know how suspicious you looked when you did that?” “ You were there?” “Of course, I was there. I couldn't miss the only chance I had gotten of seeing Reina. Let's cut to the chase right away. Reina, I want to see you, I will send you an address and I want you to be there”. I chuckled, letting out a dry one from my throat. What exactly was he? Who
Reina's POVAll of Richard's behavior was suspicious, the sudden change when he had asked me to go to bed was what exactly had prompted me not to. I wanted to know where exactly it was that he intended to go, and color me when I saw him ditch the stick to the side before walking out so well. I had almost let out a chuckle and had intended to give him a piece of my mind when he stomped off and something ticked off within me that he was going somewhere. I had followed him carefully, and it led me here, where it seemed they were about to open a can of worms with dirty secrets which I didn't know inside of it. My heart leaped when I flashed back to the fact that Jackson had visited Richard while he was still in the hospital, and now…My eyes penetrated him and all I wanted right now was for him to drop dead. “ You intended to kill him, didn't you?” Richard's face held a shocked expression as he was trying to come to terms with what exactly it was that I meant. “ What are you talking abo
Reina's POV I spun around on my heels, walking away because I didn't know what exactly it was that I was supposed to do, I didn't know what exactly it was going to come to, but I just didn't want to imagine that Richard was going to kill him just like that. You know. A voice whispered to me, one that I shook my head trying to dispel it away from my numerous thoughts. Lying gently on the bed. I made a note right there to check on my baby with the doctor when I had the chance to do so. Just to make sure that she was fine and there was no harm that might come to her nor me, now thinking of how exactly to go there without Richard suspecting a thing was at the top of my priorities. I was sure it was going to be a girl, I wanted one, and I knew Richard wouldn't be opposed to that as well. I couldn't bring myself to tell him now, I wanted the situation to be fine. Straying my hand over my stomach which was beginning to bulge a bit, my heart soared unexpectedly when I heard the gentle
Richard's POV I hadn't proposed the first time because it was an arranged marriage but boy, no one had told me how my heart was going to slam so hard that I might not breathe. What if Reina told me a no? What if she wasn't interested in me? What if all this wasn't what she wanted, and she wanted something else? Maybe, the flowers and fine dining with decorations. Shit, I had messed this up, and I don't know how to make it even better at this point. She looked obviously smitten by it, but she wasn't making a move. I had seen this ring shortly before I went to Jackson's and I knew immediately that it was meant for her. Reina didn't love massive stones. She loved tiny pretty ones and that was the one I had gotten for her. I had ditched numerous suggestions to the wall when I had picked it up. I could still recall one who had told me that ladies love huge stones, but I haven't gotten it. I was so sure that Reina would love it and in excitement had even shown Jackson who had cursed at m
Reina's POV ‘But I wouldn't want you to do so if you are going to risk your life for it’ those words had imprinted themselves in my mind before I could even think of contradicting it. Now, I was left with what exactly it was going to turn into if I let him know of what was going on. That I am pregnant.“ Oh, that is so beautiful” I listened to my mother as she kept telling me I should lift my finger high enough for her to see. I did as she wanted, not a word leaving my mind of what had been said. “ Thank you mother, Richard said he will be coming right after the press conference, he will be coming formally to talk to you” My father snickered. “ He is finally coming to do the right thing, after what seemed to be years”I knew my father had given his consent years ago, but that had been a while, and they hadn't known all that I had gone through until I had finally opened up to them. They had stood by my side through it all. “ Have you talked about it with him?” A concerned look gr
Richard's POVRyan's hands squeezed hard on my shoulders. “ Don't tell me that you are beginning to get cold feet already?” I snickered, pushing his hands off. How exactly was that possible? How would I be having cold feet when I was getting married to the most beautiful woman I had ever known today? The one that I had always wanted to have in my life. “ Is that even possible? It is Reina we are talking about here, and she has been in my life for ages, I have always wanted to have her back in my life, so why would I?” I tried to get a smile on my face to get his mind off how sweaty my palms were. Was that even possible? I didn't want to even think about that because no matter how much I did, it just doesn't seem right at all. Reina was everything I have always wanted, so it wasn't even possible that I was having cold feet right about now, and I knew that I had to be something else. Yes, that had to be it. Gosh, you can do it. I kept on cheering myself. Yes, I can do it. I can do t
Reina’s POVI was still, stunned and at the same time broken because this wasn't what I was expecting him to say, fine, I knew that I should have thought about this probability, but there was none and now this. “ You didn't mean that, did you? I am pregnant! With your child. Not it. Our child isn't an it. It is human and you know that” “ Reina…” he tried to touch me, but I wasn't having any of that, I didn't want him to touch me. It doesn't boil down with me. Whatever it was that he was trying to do just didn't boil down with me. All the high expectations that I had all crumbled to the ground before my very eyes, I guess that I had thought too highly of how it was going to be and now, I was going to have regrets. A bump got stuck in my throat and I couldn't push it down, no matter how hard it was that I tried to. It just wouldn't bulge, why does it have to stay stuck so well? What happened to it going down and now...“ Please don't “ I put out a hand at him, stopping him while sti
Richard's POVEverything had turned blurry when I stomped out and Reina was gone, fuck it. I didn't know where exactly to start from or where exactly she might be because damn it I just couldn't breathe. Those minutes when I was in there thinking so hard, I had come to various conclusions, most of which ended up in the fact that it was none of her fault. I was the freaking one who was at fault. I had knocked her up and demanded that she get rid of it, what exactly does that make me?I was as messed up as any other guy out there who would do that to their partner. What happened to using protection? Why had I messed up and still went raw, even when I knew that I didn't want her to end up pregnant? Huh? Wasn't I at fault? Realization had dawned on me, and it had come down like everything I had never wanted to try out. I didn't know why, but when I stepped out of the room, all that I had intended to do was make sure that she knew we were together. Through every phase of her pregnancy.
Nina's POV I beamed at the hand that had wrapped itself around me, before kissing me noisily. Pushing him off gently, I let out a plea. “ Let me sleep a bit, hmm” I pleaded while trying to shut my eyes a bit when the scent of freshly baked potatoes and cabbage lamb roast stew had me opening them in a sec. “ You surely do know how to get me” I gave him a slight jab at the arm before staring around, my mouth watered at the sight before me. “A little bit burnt, but I guess it's the intentions that matters” Ryan said while being nervous. I could tell because he was unusually jittery, which wasn't a fine attribute of his person, unless he had done something wrong, or he intended to do something that has him this way, I hope it was the latter because I could do without any huge thing at the moment. “ Spill” I urged, taking a scoop of the delicious goodness in front of me. A moan escaped my lips sending a little tingle in-between my legs when he stared at me like I was the most delic
Nina's POV “ Mother” I ran across the pavement after slamming the door shut, accepting the hand she had given me. “ Nina” she enclosed me into her arms, savoring the moment. “ Are you okay? I heard about the verdict?” I bobbed at her, giving her an answer. “ It was nothing, I feel better now, and I am glad that I had to watch” She searched my eyes probing before she pulled away, grasping my hands in hers as she sauntered off with me in suite. “ Is something wrong?” She shook her head. We were at our house, the one where everything had gone down, where I had been poisoned, where I had come to seek refuge after Ryan, and where my father had decided to get. We had memories from this house, a lot of it and I would have kept them all if the very last wasn't as painful as it had been. She smiled briefly before shaking her head. “ Would you want anything else? I am bringing down the house”“ Mother” I exhaled. That must have caused a lot of decisions and I didn't really know if
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