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 POVMy heart skipping contradicted what I had just said, but I couldn't help it. I fiddled with my hands wondering if there was a way he was going to know, especially with how his eyes kept peering into mine. I swallowed, not thinking of anything else aside from the fact that I was here to eat, but I wondered if it was going to be just that with the massive drape of lust that lingered over us threatening to puncture at any moment soon. “ I am sorry I made you lose all the love you had for me” I nodded. Not saying anything else than I should have to him. “ It is fine” I waved him off, a sneer escaping my lips. “ Are you going to stand there or cook?” My stomach growled, directing his gaze back to the table where he had placed all the items he was supposed to use. He nodded at me before directing his hands back into the sink, trying to rinse them when I dipped the broccoli in, and our eyes met. I stumbled back, almost dropping my ass on the floor when he held my wrist pulli
Ryan's POV “ Have a good night's sleep. I will be back tomorrow morning” I planted kisses on her forehead, watching as she glided back into the house. The smile on her face widened with each step she took and only when she was in the house was I able to take in a breath, while thinking of what to do. Nina hadn't said anything about the poisoning or what she was going to do, instead had just indulged at the moment like there was nothing going on. As though her life weren't on the verge of breaking down. Stepping on the pedal, I raced down the road, swerving off course to vault. I had given them a task, and that was to get whatever they could on the poison. It was almost impossible to find where Brian had kept the antidote, that bastard had kept it pretty well, and I couldn't help but compliment his skills also. “ Yes…” I pushed the door open, my gaze softened at how fast they were all working. I was thinking of giving them holidays soon, maybe after all the dusk had settled and e
Ryan's POVI pushed past the door, panting while I tried to find Nina. “She had slumped, and the doctor said her condition is critical” Those were the words Richard had spoken to me, and I couldn't think as I drove right here like my life depended on it. I didn't want to think about the fact that we were together not too long ago. That we were so good together and everything seemed to be going on well until this. I pushed the door open, meeting a solemn atmosphere. Everyone's eyes fixated on me, including her mother who had gotten better and was grasping Nina's hands. “ I can't let anything happen to her. I can't” she repeated countless times while my eyes went to her. I had barely talked to her, barely knew her again, barely had a chance to get to know what she wanted once more and I didn't want to let her go. We had kids to teach, they were still fragile and small, and they didn't even tell me. “ What did he say?” I questioned Richard, who stood, his hands gripped Reina's sh
Nina’s POV I tried to force myself up, shutting away the excruciating pain that coursed through my very bones. Grunting gently, I flipped my eyes open, a grunt slipping out when I noticed a hand gripping mine. My hands weaved through the hair, one that felt silky in my palm and I knew who it was, but why exactly was he here? I could recall that I had been with him, and then I had slumped. “ Fuck!” I exhaled out, sitting upright. Reina was lying on one of the beds in my room with Richard beside her. My mother sat on the couch barely able to sleep and Ryan, he was seated on the floor, his hands gripping mine firmly like he was trying to beg me not to leave. His eyes flew open while I tried to make a move, barely recognizable. “ Nina…?” He called out gently. My eyes stared at his for a while as I gave him gentle glimpses. “You look like you have seen a ghost, is something wrong?” I asked when I saw the people in the room. I couldn't help but wonder why, I knew that I had slumpe
Nina’s POV “ His nerves” I blurted out because there was nothing else that I could place my hands on right now. This was making me so pissed. All I wanted to do was wrap my hands around his neck and cut his life short. “ There is no way he expects me to do something like that. Hell no! I am not!” I snapped, waiting for what they were to say when Ryan stepped in. “ You will” that was the only thing he said in the tiniest voice he conjured.“ I don't get it, what are you even saying? I am not going over to the press to do whatever he thinks is right” “ You will,” he insisted, pissing me off even harder than before. What exactly was he saying? Didn't he say that he wanted me to be in his life? So what exactly was he doing right now? Pushing me away? Was he trying to crush whatever feelings I had conjured up for him? Right now? Because it seemed to be the only thing he was doing. “ There is something you don't know, that is I acted as the solicitor between your mother and Brian, w
Nina’s POVWarmth slithered through my veins, while my eyes went to Ryan, whose face was blank, but his eyes were flawlessly shining. He seemed to be waiting for me to come to a decision, and maybe he was going to tag along with it when I did. I stifled. My hands clenched into a fist while I stared so hard at him that I couldn't say anything. “ Mother” her hands clasped mine, closing around it. It was subtle to believe that this was happening, barely a week after I was so sure that if she had a chance, she was going to slit his throat for hurting me and now this. I couldn't help but wonder how fast the tide had changed, and she was going alongside it. Squeezing my eyes, I drew in a sharp intake of breath, trying to settle my thoughts in when my eyes met with Reina, who was still, not moving an inch. Her words drifted into me. The one where she had told me that she wasn't going to interfere with us. Me and Ryan. “ I will go with him” I saw him from the corner of my eyes, throwin
Ryan's POV If I hadn't fallen in love enough with her, I did at that very moment, when I held the phone, leaning it straight while I tried to take a picture with them all inside. Nina’s face held a smile that stretched to the edge of her lips, her eyes sparkled as she stared at me. I found myself inching never to watch that smile fade. “ We should all take one together” her mother uttered, stunning me. I obliged, holding the phone just enough to take a selfie and when I captured that moment, I sealed it in my heart, promising never to have anything dent the life that I had now, or I was going to. “We can drop you off at the hangar if you don't mind” I summoned up the mildest tone I could find to talk to her mother I had always been tough and rough, but she was willing to accept me, so I thought that I would do the same. “ Don't.” She dissuaded me. “ Your house is different from where I am headed, and…” her eyes slanted at me. “ You don't get the right to hurt my daughter agai
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