Cara's POV
Sally showed me to my room, she said that it was McKenzie's room before she left for Babcock city. I freshened up and dressed in my favorite dress, a maroon off shoulder dress, I could smell the chicken curry she was cooking, I could tell it was definitely going to be good. I was about to go help set the table when I suddenly remembered that I had to call McKenzie.I picked up my phone and dialled her number, it rang twice before she picked."Hey coconut head, I told you to call but you didn't, so I thought your plane crashed or something. I was already about to call Mom," McKenzie sounded disappointed and I smiled, at least someone still cared about me."I forgot...""How can you forget? it is like the most simplest thing to do," Kenzie said frustrated."Okay, I am sorry for not calling you," I apologized, I could feel her temper calming. "You making me feel bad for screaming at a pregnant woman," she sighed and burst out laughing."How's him?""Him?""Damien, you know," I whispered softly and Kenzie sighed. You will never forget him, won't you," Kenzie's voice lowered and I shrugged. Maybe, some day," I said, the pain in my heart growing and it felt as if a lump was stuck in my throat. I struggled to push down the threatening tears."I love him Kenzie....""And he is not worth it, the day he chose to believe outsiders over you was the day he lost your love, I know it's hard but forget him and move on, don't forget you have your baby and me to keep you company," Kenzie said and tears rushed out of my eyes."Are you crying?""Yeah, pregnancy hormones," I said. She consoled me and we said our goodbyes.Sally called me and went down to answer her. “You were talking with McKenzie, weren't you?" Sally asked me, she always seem to know everything. “Yes," I replied. “Mk doesn't call us anymore, she just..." Sally sighed sadly. “Maybe she just needs time," I comforted her. “Or is she ashamed of us?" Sally suddenly asked catching me off guard. “No don't say that," I said quickly. She sighed again and smiled softly.Vivian POVFinally the threat is gone, I smiled and came online, the internet was blasting with the hot news.“Damien should be home alone or at work, I should go console him”. I thought to myself.I smirked and went to freshen up, putting on a short V-lined white Louise Vuitton lotus dress which was backless and sleek black Gucci heels, I put on my expensive seduction perfume and did my make up to look sexy. “He won't be able to resist me," I chuckled and walked out of my room."Are you going out Vivian?," Mother asked as I bumped into her. I rolled my eyes inwardly at the obvious answer. “Yes, obviously," I sassily rolled eyed her and a frown etched on her face. “If you go out now the paparazzi will attack you," mother scolded but I brushed her off. “Oh please, I am not Cara, I am not the one who sent her to another man's bed, so I won't let her scandal keep me locked up."“How dare you talk to your sister like that!" Mother shouted at me. “Oh don't teach me about respect, she is not worth it," I hissed and walked away. On the way, I met dad in the garden and immediately diverted to another way.No one is gonna get in the way of my plan.I succeeded in by-passing him, I got into my white Ferrari and drove off. Few minutes later, I got to his company. “Where is your boss?" I questioned sassily at his secretary. “Do you have an appointment?" The lady asked and I scoffed.“Do I have to get an appointment before seeing my man? I bet cara didn't have to get any appointments before she could meet him”.This infuriated me."I asked a question, bitch?" I stared at her intimidatingly and she rubbed her palms together. “He is not around today, I am afraid you'd have to come tomorrow," she answered refusing to look me in the eyes. I smirked on how I loved having this kind of effect on people.I picked up my Coco Chanel bag and sashayed away to my car. I got in and drove straight to his mansion. “Who are you?" The automated female voice system asked. “I am Vivian, Cara's sister," I said and waited awhile before the gate buzzed and opened. I drove in and parked my car in the garage.I went up to the door and wanted to knock but it opened by itself."Welcome Miss Vivian," the voice said.Soon this would be all mine when I become the new Mrs Zoric. My lips widened into a Cheshire grin as I surveyed the entire house. Jealousy steeped into me as I imagined the luxury Cara enjoyed as his wife and mistress of the house. Bitterness grew in her heart as I imagined everyone calling her Mrs Zoric or madam or boss lady, titles I craved for."Why are you here?" The deep sleek baritone voice that did things to my body spoke, I turned to where the sound came from and I saw him standing at the top of the glass staircase, he slowly came down. I shamelessly ogled his perfectly fit body."Uh?" I said absentmindedly still staring at his six foot four height, he was dressed in a black dress shirt and black dress pants looking all hot and devilishly sexy with his golden blonde hair and forest green eyes."Why are you here?" The impatient tone in his voice brought me out my reverie. “I heard what happened and I came to apologise on behalf of my sister," I hid the bitterness in my tone as I mentioned Cara. He remained expressionless after mentioned Cara.This is not what I was expecting."No need for that, I am fine," he said slowly and walked to the kitchen. "What can I get you?"“You," I drooly whispered softly and turned abruptly."What?""I..I mean...um..juice, orange juice," I stuttered trying to seem unsuspicious, he muttered something and went into the kitchen while I sat down on the sofa, my phone rang."Hello?""How are you doing Vivian? Enjoying your life?" He asked and I stiffened immediately.After the set up, I told him never to contact me again, what does he want now?"Why are you contacting me? I thought we are through with the deal," I whispered quietly so that Damien wouldn't hear. “Since Cara is not with me, the deal is on," he declared which infuriated me instantly."What makes you think I know where she is?""I don't know, you tell me, after all you are still in Babcock city and I'm not," he sneered and I flared up. “I don't know okay, we got our own part of the deal," I whispered harshly. “If I find out that you went behind my back, I'm gonna drag you down to hell with me," he laughed and hung up."What deal?" I heard a deep voice behind me.Damien POV"What deal?" I asked when her heard her talking on the phone about some deal. she stiffened immediately and her face turned pale which left me confused."I..it's just a business deal, you know....work and stuff," she smiled and I could tell it was forced."I didn't know you've opened a business? tell me about it," I sat down on the sofa and handed her the juice she requested. "You really want to know? well....well...I am a makeup influencer," she said more like blurted out and I smiled. Something doesn't seem right at all."So you're into a deal? Tell me about it maybe I can help you," I told her and her eyes widened."No! No, the deal is extremely confidential," Vivian anxiously said and I shrugged nonchalantly."Okay," I mumbled and we sat in silence."Do you know where Cara is?" Vivian asked, I could sense a little bit of anxiety in her tone."I was just about to ask you," I faced her and she looked away."Oh," she shifted closer to me and suddenly hugged me, pressing h
A month later....Cara walked into the kitchen where Sally was doing the cooking."I can't continue to stay here for free, I want to find a job," she said to Sally making her turn almost instantly."But we can provide for you till you give birth, you don't have to work," Sally said but Cara shook her head, she didn't want to be a liability to them, at least courtesy demands so."No, I want to work and contribute to the upkeep of the house, I don't want to be a liability," she insisted and Sally gave into her demands."Okay, if that is what you want then so be it...there is a restaurant with a vacancy, you can apply for a post there," Sally suggested agreeing with her because she knew there was nothing she could do."Thank you Sally, I am very grateful for your support.""No need to thank me, it's what every good person would do besides you are like a daughter to me," Sally said caressing her cheek before going back to cooking.The next day, Cara went to the restaurant looking for a job
"I got the job!" Cara yelled and hugged a surprised Sally. "You got a job? When?" Harry asked obviously unaware of the situation. Sally and Cara looked at each other, Sally nudged her head towards him and Cara understood. "Umm, the thing is....I got a job as a cook at a restaurant," Cara replied staring at the floor at the same time watching him through her lashes. "Why didn't you inform me?" Hurt evident in his tone, Cara instantly felt guilty. "You'd do everything possible to change my mind and I don't want that," she concluded. Harry knew better than to scold her afterall this is what every responsible lady would do instead of sitting around doing nothing. "I won't scold you, but if this job is what you want then good luck," he gave up on the issue, "but to think that Sally was with you on this? She didn't inform me," Amusement flashed in his brown. "How could I tell you? You'd only refuse besides I don't see why she can't work, maybe she might meet her true love there or some
Damien called Ron on his way out. "Did you find her?" Ron asked on the other side of the phone. "The only Cara who lives in this building is dead, it's not my Cara," Damian sighed heavily, his voice cracked as he tried to hide his emotions. "Search the country a second time, don't miss out any details," he said. "Right on it," Ron said and hung up. A pang of guilt ripped right through his chest, Damian held his chest and sat down on a nearby bench in the park. "If only I had trusted you, if only I had not let my anger cloud my judgement. How can I ever make it up to you?" He let out a silent wail as his heart cried. He remembered Rafael's warning and yet he fucking trusted a picture over his wife. The annoying sound coming from his phone drew his attention to it, someone was calling. "Yes?" "Oh my God Damien I was very worried about you, where are you? I have been to your house but the maid told me you weren't around," Vivian wailed shrilly. Damien frowned at her questions.
Damien flew back to Babcock city the next day depressed, the only clue to finding her was gone even Ron had to check the names of people who boarded flight out of the country only few Caras boarded flight and none were her. "Welcome back Damien," Vivian squealed as he stepped into the mansion. Damien had just arrived from the airport and he was dead tired, he didn't have the strength to face her. Recently, she has been clinging to him like a leech. "What are you doing here Vivian?" He asked tiredly and slumped in the couch. Vivian grinned and sauntered towards him. "I have been staying here ever since you left," she sat beside him massaging his chest. Damian glanced at her hand tiredly maybe it was the alcohol he had on the plane coupled with tiredness that was making him unable to move his body. "Go away Vivian," he drawled and his eyes shut. Vivian looked surprised for a while before she smirked. "Help me carry him to his room," she commanded the maid and she helped her. When th
Doctor Ivan prescribed some vitamins for her to take. "Make sure to take them regularly, keep away from stress and stay healthy," he advised and she nodded. "Thank you doc," Cara beamed and left the hospital. On her way back to work, she went to a confectionery and bought some cakes and sweets for her colleagues. * Vivian aggressively threw her limited edition Hermes bag on the chaise lounge as she walked in. "Get me a glass of water!" She screamed at the maid who just walked in, the maid scurried away mumbling a curse. Vivian paced to and fro in the living room swearing and cursing. "Here ma'am," the maid said in a squeaky voice. Vivian, vexed at the maid slowness, took the glass of water and dumped it on her. The maid squealed when she suddenly felt the chilled water on her body. "Were you deliberately taking your time fetching me a glass of water?" She snapped at the maid who stood shivering. "You asked me to bring a glass of water for you and I did just that," the maid hurl
Three years later..... Cara stepped down from the private jet with her three kids trailing behind her. She never thought she would come back to this country, the country that brought her pain, humiliation and dispair. "Moooomm, Gabe is pulling at my hair," Paris shrieked and tugged at her mother's hand. "It's a lie, I didn't do anything," Gabe scrunched his nose frowning at her. Cara crouched down to their level and carried Paris in her arms, Paris squealed clapping her hands over her head in joy. "Momma up up," Gabe raised his hands to, demanding to be carried, she bent down and picked him up too. "What about you Dion?" She said smiling at her eldest son. Dion glanced at his siblings bouncing joyously her arms and shook his head. Dion was the eldest of the triplets by five minutes, followed by Paris who was older to Gabriel by three minutes. Dion and Paris took his blonde hair and green eyes while Gabriel took her dark brown hair and his green eyes. Dion and Gabriel both has
It's been three years of her disappearance, three years of his therapy and three years of Vivian's annoying presence in his life. Damien stood on the balcony of his and Cara's matrimonial room, he had a glass of vodka on his left hand and his right hand jammed in the pocket of his dress pants. A cool sound pierced through the room and he fished for his phone, when he found it, a frown appeared on his handsome face when he saw the caller's name. "What do you want," the coldness in his voice was so prominent that the caller felt it. "Is that how you greet a brother uh?" Rafael scoffed ignoring the coldness in his tone and possibly, his face. "If you have nothing to do, go hang out with your girlfriend and leave me alone," Damien said blandly. Rafael had been trying to get McKenzie, Cara's friend to be his girlfriend but the fiery woman won't pay not even the slightest attention to him, she even threatened to get him crippled if he comes near her again. "She refused to be my g
The cruise ship was filled people from tycoons, magnate, old money to famous designers, artists, actors and actresses, models, everybody who was somebody in the upper class society. People made deals, signed partnerships, build connections while watching out for their reputation, afterall the business world was a cutthroat, one could go down more easily than they could climb up. Many women wanted to climb the social ladder and they would do whatever it took to bring down each other if it would mean them going a step higher. Eric sat at the bar twirling his wine and looking around with a smirk while his secretary Roxanne, dressed in a tight and revealing red satin dress, flirted with the bartender. Vivian dressed in a blood red body hugging dress with a devilish slit running from her right thigh downwards, her silk black hair falling to her back limply like seaweeds. She chatted with her friend Yulia while looking around in expectation, desperately searching for Damien, she complet
Eric rolled out of bed, he raked his fingers through his hair. Vivian reached out and hugged his waist groaning."Don't leave yet," she whined. Eric pushed her away and stood up."I still haven't gotten any information from you, you know how much I hate being delayed," he coldly glared at her making the room temperature suddenly drop.Vivian gulped and sat up, drawing the bedsheet to cover her body, "I think I have an information for you, when I visited Damien in his office, a woman also came though I didn't see her face, she sounded like Cara."Eric glanced at her disapprovingly, "Considering what that bastard did to her, he would be the last person she would want to see," he growled. He had already gotten info about the woman in Damien's company but he still has gotten her identity yet."You are right, that's if she wasn't pregnant, unfortunately she was," Vivian threw back. Eric went into a deep thought, he stood up and walked out of the room."Eric! Eric!" She screamed behind him
Next day.....Damien woke up early, cleaned the whole house and cooked. Yesterday he had sent the househelp away, He was so anxious he couldn't sleep well at night. After cooking different dishes, he assembled them on the dining table.*Ding ding*His doorbell rang, he rushed to open the door only to find a pizza delivery guy. Damien almost went crazy with expectation."Did I order for a pizza?" He asked more to himself than to the guy. "You are Mr Damien right?"He nodded."You ordered from Takeout pizzaria few minutes ago," the pizza guy said checking his clipboard. Damien suddenly faceplamed himself scaring the pizza guy in the process."Sorry my bad," he signed on the clipboard and took the pizza from the guy."Um.... excuse me, are you single?" The pizza dude suddenly asked catching him off guard. Wtf?Damien quirked his brow at the guy, he wanted to ask him what he had meant with question when he saw the blush on the guy's face. Dude was gay.Damien awkwardly answered, "No, I
The news was completely taken down, it was later said that the Zoric conglomerate had a hand in taking down the news. Many speculated that it was because Vivian was still in a relationship with the president of Zoric. Vivian cheered inwardly, now that Damien had taken the news down, she would still be seen as his girlfriend. She opened her Instablog page and posted. *I trust my man on issues like this, he never disappoints. Thank you love* Then she posted a picture of herself and Damien, a picture she took a long time ago. As soon as she posted it, it went viral and people started commenting, showering praises and admirations on her. Vivian was smiling brightly, reading comments after comments when a call came in. "Yes Kira, what's it," she boredly picked at her fingers. Her manager calling her signified that the company wanted her back. "The superiors wants you back, your suspension have been annulled." Vivian smirked, when she had refused to say anything about the issue,
Damien's POV The door opened slightly, revealing a little blond girl with a pair of mischievous green eyes. "Hi Mister," she grinned. I stood stunned, staring at the little grinning creature in front of me not saying a word. Her green eyes were like mine but she looked alot like Cara, it took no soothsayer to tell me she was my kid. The little girl tilted her head, her eyes still sparkling, "Hey Mister, are you here for my mommy?" I was about to answer when another voice came out from behind the door, a boy with dark brown hair and blue eyes poked his head out. His eyes were just like Cara's, he even had her hair color but he looked alot like me. So this was what I would look like if I had brown hair and blue eyes. He gave me a questioning look and widened the entrance. "Paris, didn't Mom say we were expecting someone?" The little boy flicked the girl's forehead and ran in yelling. Paris, that was the name of my daughter. I crouched to her level, "are you alright?" She was hol
Vivian drove to Damien's company to find him, the news still haven't been put down, though it lessened with Henry's intervention. Her phone had been going on and off with numerous calls from the higher-ups in the company, another call came through, it was her manager."Vivian! Why haven't you been answering her calls? The directors wants to see you, and why haven't you said anything about those accusations? Are they true?" Kira was literally panicking, she wiped the sweat on her brows. Since Vivian's refusal to say anything about the issue, she has been the one receiving the bitter end of the stick."Tell him I am busy, I am currently on my way to rectify the issue, don't anything about it!" She shouted. Kira was starting to piss her off, why couldn't the god-damned lady do what she's told to do."The superiors are breathing down my neck, they demand an explanation, did you really have an affair with director Henry?" Kira raked her hand through her hair as she felt an headache coming
Cara stomped into the elevator ignoring the calls coming from behind her, Carson was chasing after her which she knew was followed by the one person she didn't want to meet."Miss Perry! Please wait!" Carson called but she pressed the button, the elevator doors shut and descended. "Where is she?" Damien impatiently looked around and sighted the glowing numbers above the elevator, he wasted no time and took the stairs leaving his assistant dumbfounded."Take care of that thing in my office," he shouted. Carson nodded and went back to the office. Vivian was sitting on the floor in a daze, she was still trying to understand if what she saw was actually true or not."Miss Carters, the president has requested for you to leave," he politely said and stared at the woman. His boss was becoming incomprehensible."Who was that? That woman?" She stood up and adjusted her dress. Carson assessed the woman in front of him, he didn't trust her."One of the president's business partners," he opened
The next day, the tabloids were filled with her images. Vivian gritted her teeth staring murderously at the magazine, she couldn't believe that this was the help Eric wanted to give her.Famous daughter and model, Vivian Carters accused of being director Henry's mistress.Did Vivian Carters seduce her way to the top? Her relationship with the modeling director remains unclear.Vivian threw the magazine away in panic gritting her teeth, there were even pictures of them at different locations. Vivian was sure that her Instablog account would have been filled with hateful comments by now.She picked her phone and dialled Eric's number."Like what you see?" Eric smirked sinisterly, did she really think that no one would know?"What do you think you're doing Eric? I thought you said you would help me," Vivian bit her tongue to prevent a curse from spilling out, right now she was at his mercy."And I did, it's up to you to use it well," and he hung up. So what if she had slept with the dire
"And what are you going to do huh? Now you know, what are you going to do?"Damien was silent for a while," Cara–""Don't even ask, I suggest we just continue our lives like we never met each other," her cold words pierced his heart. Damien lowered his lashes in guilt."I am sorry, I can't even ask you to forgive me cause I know you won't," he breathed. "What about our child?" That was all he could ask."What do you mean by our child? It's my child, my children not yours," She narrowed her eyes at him, clenching her fists."Children?""Yes children, I gave birth to triplets and they are mine, don't even think of filling for custody," Cara wanted to leave but he grabbed her wrist stopping her, Cara snatched her wrist almost immediately as if his touch burned. Damien saw the hateful look in her eyes, his heart churned."Don't you want them to know their father?" This was his last trump card, he hoped this would work. Cara flustered, it was not that she didn't want the kids to know their