TINA'S POV Right before me. As if I wasn't there. My throat tightened as if a big hard lump had clogged around it. I forced a swallow and quietly stepped out of the curtain. Stepping out I saw Jessica watching from adjacent the ward. She must have seen what happened too. I ignored her and started towards the reception. Impulsively my thumb pressed against my index finger. Karen seemed to be doubting me. I had to figure out what she was thinking. Knowing Karen, it was only a matter of time before she confided in me. But this time I wasn't sure how much longer I would have to wait. Good thing I now had one less thing to worry about. With her pregnancy deceit out in the open, Jessica was no threat to me anymore. In all of this, it was Jay that upset me more. How could he treat me like that after knowing what I could do to his company with just one click? All this while I thought he would come to his senses and choose the right path but he seemed he had chosen to prov
TINA'S POV “There's nothing to tell her. There's nothing between me and you. No matter what happens, I will never love you.”Actually, I was curious. What happens to a nonpregnant woman that takes Misoprostol mixed with an antidepressant? With Jessica about to be cancelled out of the race, I only had Karen to deal with now. That was what I thought. Until this moment. Jay's words broke me.I felt my entire body go numb and then something twisted around my chest. My hands felt like jelly, my eyes peppered. Like I had been stung by a bee. All these while I knew he didn't love me. I knew. All I wanted was to slowly make him warm up to me, for him to give me just one chance. Maybe I deserved some harsh words. Yet when those words went through my ears, it stung harder than anything. I turned away, ashamed and flustered.He knew what would happen if I released the recording. Even if he was right or wrong, he knew what would happen. Heck he knew people would slam him and his company wou
WRITER'S POV Jessica twirled her fingers slowly and gracefully around the long round wine glass. On her left hand was a picture she held lightly.She was seated on a wooden knitted chair bathing in the filtering sun rays. After a while she stood up, lifted the glass into her hand and walked to the window where she stood. Everything seemed so small as she stared down. It was a four storey building. Her building which her father had gotten her on her last birthday. She had the perfect life any woman would want. She was the perfect woman any man would want to be with. Why were things not working in her favour? She stared at the picture in her hand again. This time longer than since she had held it. It was a picture of her and Jay. When life was good. When Jay would give the world to be with her. When he could literally drop everything he was doing to run to her whenever she called and wanted. Perfect times. Why couldn’t things return to how it used to be? In the past, he had only
WRITER'S POV MORGAN AND CO COSMETICS COMPANY Collins strided down the hallway towards his father's office, seething. Gripping the door handle, he forcefully pushed the door open. “Father, I never said I needed a wife,” he started as he marched into the room. Chairman Morgan finished scribbling his signature on the document before him and pushed the paper aside calmly. He removed his eye glasses and looked up at him. “You finally decided to visit your father.”“If this whole thing is because I haven't visited. It is because I have been busy with work. You know that.”“Busy frolicking around and going after another man's woman?”“Father! Did you have people follow me again?”Chairman Morgan let out a low grunt as he pushed his chair back and got up. “You have caused so much trouble and I won't let you bring any more problems for this company. Get married and settle down. She is from a good family and you know that is what matters in the business world.”“Father!”“It was about time.
KAREN'S POV I hadn't expected it but Jay rushing into the hospital, hugging me like that and whispering comforting words to me completely melted me. He even came along with food which he fed me. How did he know to bring me food? But he suddenly left the hospital saying he wanted to get something at his office. I looked around, suddenly remembering Tina had left to get food before Jay bursted in. I tried to call her but recalled Collins was yet to return my phone. I had her phone number off hand and could have used the spare phone with me but the whole thing that happened was still mind boggling. I lay back on the bed and shut my eyes. I couldn't sleep. I stood up and left the ward. I didn't want Tina coming back to meet me when I was still feeling that way. There were so many things I wanted to figure out. I needed to gather my thoughts. Why my drink was poisoned along with Jessica's? Why she didn't get my text… if she got my text and ignored it or…I couldn't help my long heav
KAREN'S POV “Karen? Karen?”I jerked and turned. “What are you thinking? We are here,” Jay announced. I looked out of the window and truly we had arrived. I sighed and rubbed my eyes which must be looking as tired as my entire body felt. All through the ride I had been thinking about the bomb sex we had in his office. I stifled back a groan. Why wouldn't I stop thinking about that? But then I realised why it was too hard to not wander off in the remembrance of that moment. Anyone in my shoes wouldn't be able to not try to feel the moment again. It was just too bliss and perfect to not think about it. I had never seen Jay that ferocious. Jay was like a bull. He made love to me as if he was trying to prove something. Like he was telling me something, speaking to me through it. He was hard yet gentle. The way his eyes intense and warm all at once was on me all through, the sweet words he whispered in my ears and how he fondled and worshipped every part of me reached into my deepe
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT DENVA CAPITAL KINGSTONJay sat across the booth covered with plexiglass. It felt strange. Beside the booth he sat was a sullen man staring sadly through the thick plexiglass where his son, unable to look back at him shedded tears. Being in the prison house reminded him of the vow he made to himself before Adams group came to be. To never do anything that would send him to jail. It had been really hard to keep to it. The business world is tough and dirty but he has tried very hard to make sure nothing brings him into this place. Him glancing at his watch and the door across the glass opening happened at the same time. Carlos Fowler walked into the room. His face widened into a smirk at the sight of Jay as he slowly sat down. “When these nutjobs said I had a visitor, guess what I thought?” he started. “Why are you here?” Jay asked, ignoring his remark “What else? Of course to serve time for my crimes. Isn't that what you and your little girlfr
LAVAE RESTAURANT “Excuse me, I can't sit here. Change the seat and the table,” Margaret Barnes said to the waiter with a disgusted look on her face. Her bag hung halfway above her wrist. The way her fingers perched firm yet light against gravity as if signalling to be watched, and her ornaments embodied nothing but luxury. Eyes were on her and she knew it but she didn't care anyways. She was the queen of highlights and this place survived on her father's huge sponsorship. “I’m sorry ma'am, but these are the same kinds of seats and tables around here. If you'd like I can take you to the VIP room–”She spun and shot him a look. “Would you rather lose your job?”The man swallowed whatever next he was whipping up to say, zipped his mouth very carefully and left to do as instructed. .It wasn't a new thing and it was no doubt Margaret wasn't just saying mere words. The workers knew. Minutes later, the waiter returned with a new set of seats and table. Margaret looked at him and then
KAREN'S POV Arriving at Denva after one month of being away felt like I had been away for so long. Like I was stepping in a new place. Maybe it was just that part of me that was feeling a bit refreshed. I got out of the long bus dragging my echolac along. One of the things I wanted to do the moment I returned to Denva was visit Jessica. Glad she was being punished for her crimes. I also heard about Collins Morgan. Maybe at one point, I thought he was cute but not until I learned the other side of him. After I read the things he did to women, I could never see him in a pure light again. He was in jail too. He got what he deserved. As I sat in the visitor seat waiting for them to bring Jessica out, I imagined me being the one on the other side. I mean, it was almost me if not for Tina “I didn't expect to see you here. What is it?” Jessica slurred as she settled down. “Me neither.”“So? Are you here to gloat?”“Why did you do it?”“Why I did it? Because I hate it when bitches like
A MONTH LATERJay pulled up in the empty space of Anderson ‘s front yard which had turned to become his personal parking space in the last month. He had just opened the car door to step down when the frontage of the house opened and both Lily and Mr Anderson poked their heads out. He didn't need them to speak to see the magnitude of disappointment in their eyes. Of course he knew they would rather have Karen be the one appearing in front of the house and not him. And he also knew they always ran out to check each time a car pulled up in front of the house in the hope that it was Karen. They might likely not know because he never showed it but he missed her more than he could describe. He sighed and his teeth grinded in his mouth as he finally stepped down. “Hello, Mr Anderson,” he greeted wearing the smile he had learned to wear in the last month. Mr Anderson, like he always had done, took his hand into a firm shake and welcomed him inside. Mr Anderson offered him his usual kol
WRITER'S POV“You…how…what are you doing here?” Margaret waved a hand as she walked in majestically. “Hello fiancé.” Collins gaped in shock. slowly everything began to make sense. “What did you do to me?” He snarled. “Oh, come on, shouldn’t you say Hi to your fiance first?”“What did you fuvking do to me!”Detective Defoe ordered that Zach and Hunter be taken away from the room leaving only Collins and Margaret. Collins was still clenching and fuming. “You have been spiking my drinks…you are the cause of all this…”“Like how you and your friends have been doing to those innocent girls? Oh, common' you don't think I can stoop to that level now do you.”No matter how much Collins reasoned it, there was no other explanation as to how drugs were detected in his blood. Either detective Defoe tampered with the original results or it was the devil before him. “What exactly did I do to you? Why are you out to get me? Why! Why! No matter how I think about it, I have not offended you in any
WRITER'S POV Jay spoke to the lawyer in charge of Karen's case. What the lawyer told him worried him. Karen risked being detained in the holding cell after twenty four hours. He had already hired a private investigator to investigate the case. His eyes appeared weary. He had not had a moment of rest ever since Karen was taken in. Adams group needed him but Karen needed him too. Against Hugo's wishes, he had opted to stay back in the police station while he let him hold the forte back at the company. Even though Karen sent him away, he had refused to leave. He knew she was upset at him and he completely understood. All he wanted more than anything was to get her out of here. Later he spoke to the officer to let him speak to Karen again. To his relief, Karen permitted. “I spoke to your lawyer,” he said when they were given privacy. “What did he say?”“It's more difficult than we thought. The hitman maintains you sent him. We need solid evidence to disprove his claim and I asked t
WRITER'S POV “Your hands at the back of your head!”Zach's gleeful laughter was booming in the room when the door burst open and a team of policemen barged in. Instantly it seized. Pistols aimed at their faces.Alarmed, Collins sat up. Hunter and Zach frightfully pushed away the girl who looked half dead from the drugs she had been made to shove down. “Who called the cops?” Collins gritted, shooting glares at Zach and Hunter. “We should be asking you that!” Zach slammed back.“Your hands at the back of your head!” The officer repeated his warning. Collins could feel his shirt soak with sudden perspiration as he looked around in utmost disbelief and fear inside. He had been arrested for a lot of things but had never been caught right in the act and why in this place of all places. “Shit!”Detective Defoe stepped forward, a victorious smirk lingering in his lip. “Is there a need for us to read your Miranda rights…this wouldn't be your first rodeo,” he said and pressed the cuff firml
WRITER'S POV A FEW HOURS AGO BEFORE KAREN'S ARREST “What!” Jessica's yelp and her palm finding Craig's face happened in quick succession. “Say it again. What did you just say?”Craig’s jaw grinded. It pained him how he had been foolish to want to accept the challenge of tolerating a spoiled brat. Now he was too deep into the shit to take a step back. “It was Miss Tina that was shot. The hit man mistook her for miss Karen as she saw her coming out of Miss Karen's house.”“Simple job! Just a simple thing to do. Useless people! Can't get anything done right.” Then she spun at Craig, “You brought that idiot to me. You told me he was skilled. What happened? He couldn't take care of one person, just one person! He has been caught and he shot the wrong person. Who did you fuvking bring to me!”She stalked to the wine rack to grab a drink, each step she took fueled by barely contained fury. She had to do something before the man said a word to the police. She had to do something. She had
KAREN'S POV From learning that my friend got shot to hearing the worst news of my life. My friend of many years had wanted me dead because she wanted my man. I couldn't move in my seat. I couldn't, even if I wanted to. I shut my eyes hoping to wake up and find out that everything was all a nightmare until I felt my hand being grabbed and the cold metals clasping my wrist. Maybe it was because I was already numb of any feelings at all that I didn’t feel a pain as the thing locked my arms together. As I was being cuffed, I heard Jay try to speak to one of the officers. Didn't make out his exact words nor the officer’s response but soon they started to take me away. Down the hallway, the pitiful and judgemental gazes of people washed me head to toes. I followed humbly as they led me outside. “I'm coming to the station with her,” I heard Jay say to the officers as they pushed me into the hilux. “No. You don't need to. Officers let's go,” I refused. The last thing I wanted was to wa
WRITER'S POV“What’s wrong?”Jay asked frozen Karen. Karen didn't move. Her hand dropped lifelessly beside her. Every bit of colour was drained from her face as she struggled to process what she had just heard.“I’m sorry, but I have to leave now,” she mumbled absentmindedly and her legs broke into a run. “Wait, Karen!” Jay rushed and grabbed her arm.“You are going the wrong way,” he said. Karen looked and saw she was heading towards the back of the building. She let out a shuddering breath. “I have to go…”“Please, tell me. What's wrong?” Jay demanded softly. “Tina was shot in front of my house,” Karen murmured. “Shot? How…”“I need to leave now. I need to go to her…Tina needs me…” Maybe this was the answer she needed. Tina was more than a best friend. She was her family and she would not have to be made to either choose her or not in order to be with a man. If there was one person who had always been by her side and she would never want to lose, it was Tina. “Jay, about what y
KAREN'S POV It was one of the fewest times I ever wished twenty four hours didn't have to end so quickly. After the exhilarating night, it would have been exhausting if I had to wake up early the next day for work or anything at all. It was already mid day by the time my eyes saw daylight. It was the warm light rays that woke me up. The window, although still closed, allowed a generous trail of sun rays trickling inside. Jay was nowhere to be found. Thinking he would be somewhere in the suite, I called out to him but no response.Something in me kicked. I had seen a similar scenario. Like those times when a man brought his lover for a vacation only for the woman to learn it was actually supposed to be their last time together. Stepping outside the suite and I was welcomed by the workers going about their duties with the nice smell of food and fresheners. I walked up to one of them. “Hello. Excuse me…have you seen a man…”“Yes. He is somewhere around. How about you sit in the wa