***ESTHER***“You love that guy, don’t you?” Chris asks me as he takes the sip of his coffee.Love? Caden? Not even in my dreams. I am not mad to fall for the guy like him. I am not interested in guys in the first place and in the seconds place Caden isn’t the type of guy that I would like to have.“NO! That’s not it,” I open my both palms and shake it.“So, is he your crush?” he asks.“NO! Impossible. I won’t have crush on him. I ain’t a mad man,” I say.“Then why do you care about him? I mean you asked me to check on him. Is there some specific reasons?” he asks.“Specific reasons, you say? Should there be some specific reasons?” I turn my gazes down to the floor and then say afterwards.“Just think that I am indebted to him. I just have something to pay to him,” I say.“That means you are single, right?” he asks.I drink my orange juice and smile looking at him.“Chris! I’m pregnant,” I say and he chokes on his drink suddenly.“What?” he asks.“You’re a doctor and you will know abo
***CADEN*** I thought it would hurt me when I get hit by them but instead I feel quite good after getting hit from them but I feel unconscious after that. When I wake up in the hospital, it’s Natalie whom I see at first. “Nat!” I say. “You’re awake,” she wipes away the tears from her eyes. She seems oddly ugly when she cries. Like I think she looks more beautiful when she is lively. “Caden… What happened to you? I heard you fought with him? Why did you do that?” she sobs. “Nat!” I pronounce her name in very low voice. “Hmm…,” her sobbing is still continued. “Did anyone tell you that you look so much ugly when you cry like that?” I say and she gazes at me for a while and then smiles looking at me. “Oh! Caden! You told that because you wanted me not to cry right?” she says. But I didn’t tell her to make her pause from crying. She genuinely looks so much ugly right now. “No! I am not lying. You really look so much ugly right now,” I say blatantly. She blinks her eyes couple of t
***CADEN***“So, she is your mom?” I hear a male’s voice when I am busy watching her rush from behind. I rotate my head around as I hear that voice. It’s a male doctor.“Excuse me! I don’t get you,” I raise my brows. If I concentrate well on his words, I hear him say that she is my mom. Whom is he referring to?“No! It’s nothing. How’s your fever?” he asks as he places the digital thermometer inside my mouth.He’s weird.He takes my temperature and then goes through my pressure and until that time, she enters inside the ward with a bottle of water and fresh corndogs.She stops mid-way as she sees the doctor beside me and continues her walk after that.“Hey! Chris!” she calls him. She knows him. I hear her saying to him Chris not doctor. Seems like she is close to him.“Hello! Nice meeting you again,” he smiles at her. But the way, he smiles is way much more awkward than anything. Like he was smiling without his inner wish! “You brought food for him? Seems like you care about him a l
***ESTHER***“Friends, you say?” I raise my brows in stress. He wants me to be his friend. But what advantages are there for us to being friends? Friendship has never been a beneficial strategy in my all life but with Caden friendship is different. I cannot be a friend to a guy with whom I have already slept once. It… feels kind of strange to me.He nods his head.“No! We can’t be. We are better as a stranger,” I say as I leave his hand and make my way back to the ward.“Where are you going, Esther? I need help,” he shouts all of a sudden and I have to halt in the same spot. Yeah! I am here to help him. Natalie has asked me a favor for that.But honestly, I don’t know but I feel good being able to help him. Maybe, because he helped me last time to get treated properly, perhaps because he lied to his dad about my absence from home, or maybe because he got a slap for me, or maybe because of these all, I feel indebted to him.So, to say the truth, helping him is giving me such a huge el
***ESTHER***“Here you are!” the girl on the payment counter hands me a receipt.What the hell is this? Why is this so much costly?” I cannot help but enlarge my eyes on the bills. This is going to be crazy. I don’t think I have this much money in my account, I guess.I check my account for assurance before I pay for it. But when I logged in to the account, my eyes almost bulged out from my skull.“What the shit is this?” I cannot stop blinking my eyes. Why the hell the digits of my money increased suddenly in my account with such a huge range? I didn’t even know when this money came into my account. Did I miss any messages from the bank?I check my message box and yes, there it is. The message which says someone has deposited that much huge money in my account. And that someone is not just someone, it’s Cameron Payne.“Did he pay me in advance? What’s going on? He was supposed to pay me after the delivery of the baby but seems like he did half the payment before that.“Aren’t you pay
Chapter 32***ESTHER***“Why are the youngsters nowadays so reckless?” The bus driver scolds me while stopping at the next bus stop.Yeah! We are reckless. Maybe because we are always in a hurry. Hurried to do everything and was busy like hell. Maybe the previous generation could never understand what we are going through.“I’m really sorry,” I say as I get down from the bus and run back towards the spot I have seen her.What the hell is she doing over here? As per, I know her school isn’t located over here. It’s located in another direction.Where did she go? Where could she possibly go?I saw her walking towards that alley. Did she go to that alley? Why would she be over there? She isn’t over there right?But it’s not wrong to check out on her. So, I follow that alley path. I haven’t been here before but I am sure she might be here.The alley is crowded. I never knew there is such an alley where people are so crowded. I don’t see her around. Where is she in the middle of these peopl
***ESTHER***“Won’t you ask me anything?” I hear Caisey’s voice below my shoulder. Her voice is soft and filled with pain. This is the first time I heard her voice in this tone. I never knew this part also exists in her until now.“Do you want to talk about it?” I ask.“I had no one with whom I can share these things,” she sobs in a low voice. And in a few moments, she starts to sob loudly.With her both palms covering her face, she leans down her head on my lap and breaks out. Her long hair covers her face and her body shakes as she cries. I caress her back gently as she cries.I let her empty every bit of pain that she has within her. While seeing her cry like this, I remember the exact stage of myself last year when I see her in this phase.I remember how broke I was and how hard I cried last year each and every day and night.I thought I was the only person who had to go through so much in my life. Till last year, I had thought that my existence had no value at all. Without them,
***ESTHER***“Freckles Lodge?” Caisey stands in front of that bright two storied building with bright lights.“Isn’t it beautiful?” I say.“Yes, it is but isn’t the name so weird? Why would someone keep their lodge’s name after Freckles?” she asks.“I wonder why did he do that?” I talk to myself in a very low voice. Honestly, I had always been curious about it too. Dad never had freckles in his face and my mom never had the ones in her too. And he never talked about freckles all his life. I just don’t get why he name it.“Let’s get inside. I think the owner had his reasons,” I say. We climb up the brown-colored stairs before reaching a medium patio. There is a long wooden chair on the patio with a beautiful collection of plants. They were all dried up during winter but these little beautiful creatures are now, getting their life back accompanied by a huge monstera plant at the corner of the patio.“How did you know about this place? How do you even know this place?” she asks me.“I ju
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