***ESTHER***I try hard not to open my eyes. I hear them. I hear people chattering around me. Or maybe it’s just more than chattering. Someone is scolding someone. I can recognize the both voices. One of them is of Mr. Payne while the other voice is of …Caden.What is he doing over here? I remember myself getting unconscious right before him. I think this is hospital. IT has such a sickening smell of sanitizers. Did he bring me over here? Why? He said that he hated me a lot. Then why did he bring me over here?And I don’t understand why is he being scolded by Mr. Payne right now?How much I wish to continue to be unconscious at this moment. I genuinely don’t want to listen their chaos right now. I try to pretend as if I haven’t gained any of my consciousness until I hear a slapping sound.I cannot help but to open my eyes with that sound. When my eyes open up curiously, I see Caden’s face facing towards the floor and his hand on his cheek.He hit him. Mr. Payne hit him right in front
***CADEN***It’s her! It’s her one more time. I clearly told her, I don’t want to see her but she keeps on popping everywhere and at anytime.“Why are you here?” I ask rudely.“Do you think it’s my wish to be here? I have to be here because of my circumstances,” she says.Yeah! The circumstance of marriage. How can I forget that?“You’re not allowed to be here? I can’t allow you to stay over here,” I shout at her and try to shut the door but she grabs the edge of the door before that and stops me from closing it.“I am not going to apologize if you hurt you hand,” I say and pull the door but I cannot pull with as much force as I can knowing the fact that someone’s hand is actually in between the door.But she pulls it forcibly and the door flings open.“What the hell?” I shout, then I realize she isn't the one who pulled the door but it’s Julie.“The master had ordered us to reside her without any problems. Please, young master. Let her get inside,” she says.I suddenly feel like Jul
***CADEN***“Esther! You say,” I ask her one more time. She nods her head. My head couldn’t help but turn to the side where she is staying.“So, you adored her a lot?”“Not particularly of that reason but yeah, it somehow won’t let me hate her all my life. How can I hate someone with the same name as her?” she says and walks away from there.How can I hate the name?The name that belonged to my mother!ESTHER!!!I rush quickly to the guest room and stand in front of her door. I want to knock on the door but then, my palms stop in the air. Should I knock on the door?But then, I decided I should knock on the door. And I hit the door couple of times. But she doesn’t open the door. What the hell is she doing inside?Is it possible that she is sleeping right inside the room? Fuck! I wait for a few more minutes but still, she doesn’t open the door.I run backyard from where I can enter through her window. The window of course has the grills but yeah, I know how to undo them. I learned to u
***CADEN***“Caden…Baby…,” she treads her high heels towards me. God damn! Why the hell is she here?And baby? Since when have I become her baby? She is such a ridiculous person. Doesn’t she get that I am avoiding her at all costs?“Natalie!!!” I whisper her name. The way I take her name every time gets so much stressed. This girl never leaves me without a mess.She is wearing a glittery maroon-colored short dress hugging her body perfectly tight. I can see how plump her boobs are and how good her ass looks at it. She has such an amazing physique that she can be an international model. Round big brown eyes, V-shaped beautiful chin, long sharp bridged nose, plump lips, and her brown artificial curls hanging a few inches below her shoulders makes her look absolutely stunning. She can love anyone and anyone could just love her but it’s just not me.
***CADEN***“Caden! You’re here again,” I hear an officer’s voice as soon as I enter the police station. I see his mocking smile as I walk into the office. He must be feeling frustrated after seeing me for the first time in this year. I visited the station almost five times last year and that was probably for speed driving.“Did you Overspeed one more time?” he says looking down at the paper he is concentrating on right now without even looking at me.“No! I didn’t,” I run my fingers on my hair as I say that.“Then what is it?” he turns his head towards the officer standing right next to me.“We caught him fighting outside the pub. The victim is badly injured and there’s a girl hiding from him,” he says.A girl hiding from me? God! He is dragging this matter in a
***CADEN***“She’s his head maid. Julie. Aren’t you Julie?” the same tattooed guy smiles looking back at her.“Head maid? She doesn’t look like the one,” the officer answers.“Yeah! I am his head maid and I was the one who picked up the phone. Can I take him and go now?” she asks.“Twenty-four years old and a head maid in the house. It’s suspicious,” he says.“Nothing is suspicious. You can inquire with Mr. Payne. He would reply you the same that Julie is her head maid,” she adds. He rubs his finger on his chin for a few seconds and then, looks at me. I turn my head around like I am not much interested in the talk and walk away from there.I wait for her some meters away from the station. She exits the station a few minutes later. But she isn’t coming alone that irritati
***ESTHER***I want to tell him lots of things. I know he doesn’t have anything to do with me and I have absolutely nothing to do with him but even after that I can’t help but want to explain a lot of things to him. It’s my misfortune that he turned out to be the son of Mr. Payne. In whatever way, I want to avoid him I can’t avoid him at all. More than being just a surrogate for a conglomerate family, it hurts me more to see his face everyday in the same house. Why the hell should that happen? I know it was just a flick of moment. It was just my mistake. I got carried away after seeing someone who tend to be caring after a long time of my loneliness. It really had been long that no one had taken care of me. The way he behaved just melted me that night and it was nothing more than that. Yes! It was nothing more than that, at least I guess that. But his presence in the house is so much disturbing to me. The hatred I see in his eyes in every second when he stands in front of me make
***CADEN**“You must be joking right now? Do you even know what the hell are you talking about? Are you just out of your mind?” she scowls all of a sudden in the restaurant.At first, I believed she was quite uncomfortable talking in the restaurant but right now, it seems as if she isn’t scared of anything. Where did she get this much enthusiasm from?I lift my head towards her face which seems to be infuriated. There are so many questions she wants to ask me but she isn’t asking me at all.Ask me! Just ask me any questions that you want to ask. I am willing to answer it all but I also need the answers to my questions.Her red face makes my heart get distracted and she takes advantage of my distraction. She gets out of her seat and towards the exit door. She places the cash on the payment counter and walks out of there without even getting her change.“Her change?” the boy at the counter calls her but she walks so quickly.“Give me that,” I say as I grab her money and follow behind he
Final chapter***CADEN***One has to pay for the sins that they committed all their life. But, I don't know what sin I had committed and I don't know what sins my mom and Esther had committed that we had to suffer a lot.I don't think I had done a great sin ever in our life. So, the truth is we all suffered from the sun that someone else has committed. We all suffered because of the sin, Cameron Payne has committed.I rush out of the office as soon as I hear that.He deserved that. After killing life of so many people he deserves to die like that."Where is he rushed to?" I ask as I run to the car."To the City Centre Hospital," he says. He drives the car for the destination.It's been a year that I have been planning for this day but seeing that without even lifting my pinky finger something happened to him makes me kind of mad.How? Why?There is not even a little bit of remorse on my face on his accident but somewhere in my heart I become restless as my heart beats quick and fast
Chapter 114 ***CADEN***A year later"Boss! We have a meeting scheduled with Cameron Payne," my assistant knocks on my door.I look at him and nod my head."I'll be there," I say as I stand up from my seat.I have waited for this day for so long. It's been a year. A complete one year, two days and fourteen hours that she has been away from me.I don't know where she is. What is she doing and what happened to her?I remember that night when me and Carlos reached on the research center. At that time, we realized that there is no entrance to that center until and unless Cameron Payne lets us to enter inside.And there was no way that he would let us enter inside that door. We waited for almost three days without food, without water just like a zombie but there was no trace that they were going to open that door for us.On the third day, I became unconscious and that was what brought me to the hospital.I was rushed to the hospital and was hospitalised for two days. I don't know when did
Chapter 113 ***ESTHER***"My baby was prematurely delivered and without even my consent. I was just a surrogate mother," I say and Cavendish looks at me with a shocking eyes."What? In how many months and why?" he asks me as he gulps the fire roasted meat into his mouth. Not a big piece but a small piece."Six and half months maybe. I'm afraid if the child is even alive," I look at the fire with my pensive eyes. I pray that the baby is alright and he make it to the world but even after I pray a lot I cannot think that the baby have so much chance of not making it to this world. The thought of it makes me scared but I cannot stop thinking about it.I know it's a negative thought but even after I try so hard not to think about it, it's what my mind is filled with it."Then, I'm sure the child didn't make it," he adds in it and though I know that might have happened being assured by him torments my heart to the hell.I don't say any word but just she'd tears."I promised myself that I w
Chapter 112 ***ESTHER***It's cold. It's freaking cold. My whole body feels like I am somewhere in the middle of the sea. What's this sound?Is it the sound of moving waves? That can't be. Or is it? Is it really what I am thinking of cause it feels absolutely something like that?I gently open my eyes. As soon as I open my eyes, the bright beam of sunlight almost blinds my eye.What's going on? My hands feel numb but I manage to use them. I raise them up closer to me. It's wet.I am right.I am in the water. I quickly get up from where I am lying. I look at my lower portion of the body. It's alright but I am still too weak to walk.They had performed surgeries on me. I still have my wounds in my body?I get up and sit upright in the sandy shore. I am here. I don't know where am I? He threw me over here. That damn bastard threw me over here.I look around the place. There is nothing that I can see like a civilization or human kind. This is ... Some lonely island that I have never hear
Chapter 111 ***ESTHER***I slowly open my eyes and see the world of machines, doctors and medicines all around me. There are six of them in the room. Where am I? In surgery room?I want to move my hands to see my stomach. I want to check if the baby is alright. But my hands are tied. There is no way I can reach my stomach this way.I don't feel anything over there. I guess they have ...they have already ...I cannot control myself. I don't have any energy to do that and I cannot move my lower parts of body. What did they do?I cry loud but my voice creaks. My voice doesn't come as it should have come. My tears keep on flowing from the corner of my eyes rapidly. I can feel my tears wetting my hair.But the fact that I am alive makes me happy. It gives me the courage to embrace myself one more time. And this is not decreasing my hope. Not even a little bit.I am bound to do that. I am bound to take revenge and and I will do that in any way. I am not giving up whatever they break of me.
Chapter 110 ***CADEN***I rush angrily to my dad's home. How dare he? How dare he do that to Esther? I had warned him. I had warned him numerous times but even after all of those warnings, he keeps on doing the things that always gets on my nerve.I travelled six hours long taxi ride just to see the man whom I hate so much. God damn! This man!"Cameron Payne!" I shout with a loud voice. I don't know if he is in the house. But I'm sure I'm going to kill him if I find him here.I look at his room but he isn't there. The head servant in his house comes out and informs that he isn't in the house. He set off for somewhere yesterday and hasn't returned back since then."Where? Where did he go?" I shout at him."We don't know young master," he says.I shuffle my hair in frustration and walk downstairs. I look around his house but I don't find anyone in there. Where does he keep his wife? Where does she live?I stop my feet as I turn back and ask the head servant," Where is his wife?" I ask.
Chapter 109***ESTHER***This smell! This smell is so much bad. It's the smell of tyre burning. I hate this smell. And this clouds of smoke, I can't see anything in front of me. Where am I? Where in the hell am I?I try to open my eyes but I don't get to. It's stinging like hell. What happened? What in the hell happened?I am tied on the chair. My hands are tied behind and my legs are tied too. I can feel my wedding dress hugging my body but I am not able to see anything.There isn't a single sound around here and luckily my mouth isn't taped or closed with some clothes.But God damn! I'm kidnapped. I'm kidnapped for god's sake.I try to open up the rope that has tied me from behind. I still cannot open my eyes."Caden! Caden!" I shout his name. Slowly, I remember what happened before.I was hit by someone in my head, someone from behind. I saw him. I saw that fucking bastard Cameron over there.How did he get over there? We even switched off our phones not to let him know where we we
Chapter 108***CADEN***Her smile is what I love to see the most in the whole world. We both don't know what is laid in front of our future but we really don't want to give up in any part of this journey. I know there would only hurdles in front of us but I don't want to give up on her. I want to be part of her, in her sorrows and in her happy times together.What could make me more elated than being her husband? I am more than just excited to be her husband.She wants to file a case against Cameron Payne and I have a full support in that. I hate to tell him my dad. I have always hated to but now I really don't want to get reminded that he is my dad. He is dead for me.He has made so many people suffer and cry that it's shameful to introduce him as my father. I have lost my mother because of his selfish motive and she lost her three members of her family. It's hard. It's not only the number of members but it's a emotion, the soul that he has killed.I can't tell how much I hate him.
Chapter 107***ESTHER***"For what?" she asks. I see her eyes looking at me with curiosity and innocence. But it's a first time that she has looked at me like that. She hasn't done that since I have come over here. She has been ignoring me since I came over here like I never existed in her world."For taking you wrong. For not being able to sit with you and communicate with you properly," I say."You don't have to do that. You don't need to communicate with me. I don't feel like talking with you after all," she says.That's hurts a little but I knew that from the very start."I know but can we talk? Who knows we might have something that's common," I say.She looks at me with those weird eyes and then turns back."We don't have anything in common except Caden, I guess," she says."Oh! Yeah! We both do have him as common," I follow her trying to catch with her footsteps."Why do you like him so much?" I ask. She looks at me and then returns back to walking."I don't know. Maybe because