***CADEN***I thought… I thought her child and her husband are alive but the moment she told me that they are both along with her dad, I cannot believe it. How can she stay strong after losing so many crucial people around her? She told it was all because of her but I don’t think so. I don’t think she could do something hurtful to her closest people. That certainly wasn’t the issue from my perspective. And when she is saying each statement about her son, I can’t help being amused. She explains the way, my mother used to explain us to people. I guess that’s how all mothers are. From her statement, I can easily feel her love for her child. She remembers every detail of her baby. She is slowly tearing out and I want to wipe those tears away from her eyes but before I could attempt that she starts to burst out into tears and heavily. She cries out for help. I park the car nearby as soon as possible and call her. “Esther! Look here! Look at me Esther,” I grab her shoulders and turn he
***CADEN***“What is it?” she stare sat my face for a while.“You have to be my partner for that. The lodge is already yours. So, help me with it,” I say.“I would happily do that. Who said I am going to give you my dad’s memoir alone? I am not giving it to the amateur businessman. You should first be trained well and also you need to study really hard for that. I can’t trust most valuable thing of my life in those untrained hands,” she says as she holds my hands.She is indeed right. I need to be trained for that. I need to learn and get few experience before I jump into the fire of business.“I got it mam,” I smile as I look at her swollen face with swollen eyes.“It’s chilly here. Don’t you feel cold?” I ask.“No! It’s fun to be here,” she says.“How do you actually feel?” I ask her one more time.“About what?” she questions me back.“About getting pregnant. You see it’s not even your child. How do you feel?” I ask.“Oh! I am restricted to feel anything,” she says. I don’t get her.
***ESTHER*** “Tell me now, what happened to you Caisey?” I ask her as I make her sit on the bed. She keeps on tearing out but doesn’t speak. I think it’s not great time to ask her any questions now. So, I just pull her in a hug and keep on caressing her back for a while. She sobs even more when I hug her and embrace me as her head rests on my chest for a while. “Feeling much better?” I ask. She shakes her head. I detach her body from mine and look at her face. Her face is wet with tears. I part her hair well from her face and caress her hair. “Now, tell me what happened to you? Did someone tell you anything?” I ask. “Yeah! Something really hurtful,” she says. “Like what?” I ask. “Like, someone is really glad that I don’t have a mother and I deserve it,” she says. Well! That’s really harsh and too much to tell a teenage girl. No! Too much to tell to every living human being around the world. “Who said that?” I question her one more time. “The same girls with whom you fought
***CADEN***I take the box from her hands and open it. Inside it is a white paper folded in a perfect square. Even with the shape it is folded in I can easily guess it is from Caisey. She always does that you know.Truthfully speaking, I am so much curious to know what is inside it. But I’m sure there is something important inside it. Did she write some secrets of her life inside it? Is she uncomfortable telling me so, she is trying to convey her message through the letter.My fingers rush to open that letter as soon as possible but when I read that letter. But when I open that letter, I cannot help myself but smile a lot.I want to laugh out loudly but I don’t want to show her that it’s something not so serious in there.“So, miss Esther! You’re in trap now,” I say as I read the text in that letter.‘I have sent Esther to your room. Today! Dare to tell her what’s in your heart or else someone like Caden is going to take her away from you. Did you get that?’ -CaiseyFrom her handwrit
***ESTHER***"Esther!" I hear a voice calling me from behind the office all of a sudden. I turn around to see the person.It's my classmate when I was in my first year of college. Someone who always thought me as his competitor and a fierce one."What are you doing over here?" he asks as he walks to me. I see a ID card of this company hanging on his neck. Undoubtedly, he works over here. I think it's stupid of me to ask him that silly question."I think I should be the one to ask you that question. What are you doing over here Esther?" he asks. His eyes spy from my feet to my head.He must be checking how much I have improved all these years."Well! You left college. Where did you move to?" he asks."Umm... I... I just thought of dropping out at that time.Chapter 56 “Dropping out? You dropped out at that time? I never knew that. I thought you were transferred to somewhere else where you deserved to be,” he says. Well! I am glad he thought that I was at least a deserving student. “
***ESTHER*** “Caden! This is your seventh coffee in these last four hours. Will you please stop drinking coffee?” I suggest. His finger curls around the handle of the cup as he keeps on looking on it. “Do you really think my brother doesn’t want to see me?” he asks. “We cannot jump into conclusions unless we meet him in person. We can’t trust middle-man and leave our mission in the middle,” I place my hand over his. He smiles as he feels my support and puts his hand over mine. “You’re right but I don’t know what should I do? Until when should I wait for him?” He is still playing with the same cup. “You have waited all these years. Just few more hours. He is your brother. I hope it’s nothing serious like we have imagined,” I say and he smiles. “Should I order another cup of coffee?” he asks. “No! Not! Absolutely not,” I restrict him from doing that. I pull away the cup from his hands and order something healthy and which would satisfy our stomach. I watch him while he is hav
***CADEN*** “We’re here,” I stop the car in the middle of the road. I am worried after seeing her condition. She keeps on saying to drive but that’s not what I intend to do actually.How can I drive when she is in such a bad condition? She is clutching her head with both of her hands avoiding the sight in front of her. What happened? Why is she behaving like that? I keep on holding her shoulder with one of my hand while my another keeps on rounding the steering. She is terrified. Is there something traumatic related to the cars? I guess that might not be the case as she has been travelling in the car for a long time and I have not realized even once that she had trouble with it. Then, what is wrong with her? What made her turn into someone like this? So, I have no other options than lying to her. So, I lie to her. We haven’t caught Cohen but I don’t want to continue by hurting her. She stays still for some minutes and slowly looks up in my direction. “You okay?” I ask one more
*** ESTHER***“It all happened because of me. Caden, you might have been able to meet your brother if it wasn’t for me,” I grumble in a low voice.“Esther! Look at me! See here,” he palms my face and makes me turn to his side.“Nothing! Nothing that happened today happened because of you. Do you get that? Nothing means nothing. So, stop blaming to yourself. Trust me, am going to feel really sad if you keep on doing that, alright?” he says.I think for a while. I know he doesn’t want to hurt me. So, he telling all of those things just to make me feel good but deep within I know that it all happened because of me.But, since he is trying so much not to hurt me, I think it’s better for me to pretend like nothing has happened. So, I nod my head and smile at him.“Alright,” I say. He gives me such an innocent and loyal smile.“We need to get inside now. Caisey is going to have lots of questions for us. Can you please handle her?” he asks me. I nod my head telling okay.We both get out of t
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