POV: MiguelAs if on cue, she sobbed even harder this time and I couldn’t help it anymore. I forgot everything I wanted to say, and I started consoling her, begging her to stop crying. I stopped hearing her voice, and I thought she had finally stopped. But the next voice I heard was not hers and I was startled by his firm and stern tone,“Where is our daughter, and what problem are you talking about?” Dad asks in a very angry tone, making me feel guilty for calling Mom and not him. I could hear Mom’s voice in the background, and I knew that she must be struggling with Dad to get back her phone.“Let me speak with my son; I want to meet my daughter; I want to know where she is.” She yelled at him. “Speak, son, we can both hear you now,” Dad told her as he put the phone on speaker so they could both hear what I had to say. “Mom, you need to calm down; she is missing again; she was taken away by the same woman who stole her from the hospital. But we are going to find her. Tomorrow
POV: Miguel“How could I be joking with such a sensitive matter when my sister’s life is in danger, Mom?This is Eloise Kendall; she is not Austin’s wife anymore; she is his ex-wife. Austin Kendall is currently married to her sister, Vera Kendall. She is the owner of Kendall’s group of companies, and she is a kidnapper, murderer, and a freaking lunatic. How could you know someone like her, Mom? How did you get to meet someone so crazy?“Did you know that she was diagnosed with Endometriosis, did you know that she can never have a child of her own?If you know her too well, Mom, why didn’t you call the cops on her when you found out she had kids? Were you covering up for her, too? Are you part of the people hiding her secret and covering up for her?Oh no!Hold on a minute, Mom!Did you do this on purpose? Did you give my sister to that mad woman because you didn’t want her to get married to the Hawkins? Were you really hiding her from the Hawkins?” I asked in anger and confusio
POV: Miguel“Speak, Mom, what did you do?” I asked again, yelling at her as she wouldn’t stop crying. She turned back to me with her eyes reddened from crying so much. If this were any other thing, I would have hung up and handled the rest myself. But this involves my sister’s life and Claire’s as well.If we don’t get this right, we could lose her again, and this time, it’ll be forever, no coming back. How can I live with myself if I ever let that happen? How can I forgive myself if I let Marisol die at the hands of that mad woman, Eloise?“Mom, please tell me everything, it will help us save Marisol. Think of what might happen if Eloise finds out that you have discovered the truth. She will automatically think that you have told me everything and she will use it against us. She will come after us with everything she has, and we won’t be able to defend ourselves because we don’t know everything about her yet. She knows everything about us, Mom; she has been keeping an eye on us
POV: Miguel“No! No! No! No!That’s can’t be right, mom. Think back to when you spoke to Eloise. Did she tell you that she is bringing the documents to the house by herself?” I asked in shock.“Yes, she did. We were supposed to hang out for a week when she comes, she promised to visit my family this time and I was hoping she would be her for your birthday. I was so happy to finally meet her in person. I actually thought she wanted to be here by my side to console me on your birthday as a part therapy so I won’t think of your sister all day.” Mom affirmed sadly.She still doesn’t get my point. Eloise told her she would be coming over with all the necessary documents. She promised to come to our house tomorrow just to deliver some lame documents for mom to sign. How dumb is she?I don’t know if I should say mom is dumb for believing her or that Eloise is dumber for wanting to leave her sanctuary just to come and kill my parents that have no idea what she has been doing to them all
POV: Raphael“Boss, we found them at the hotel. What do you suggest we do? How do we fish out the mole from the guards? Should we take drastic measures?” Shaun asked me when they arrived at the hotel, my hotel. It’s a good thing that the penthouse apartments in all our establishments are reserved for VIP guests. I use them to host my guests sometimes, and today, Dad and Mom are using the one in the hotel that is a few miles away from home. I asked Shaun to take a break from his vacation and come back home to handle Mom and Dad’s affairs. He is the only one I trust to be with my parents right now. He has been my friend all our lives, his dad was my father’s chief of security. And after the death of his dad, he took over as my chief of security.He is on a well-deserved vacation in Hawaii; I had to get him on a private plane and bring him back home to protect my parents. I don’t trust my manager, Harry, right now; I don’t think I’ll ever trust him again, not after he lied to my face
POV: RaphaelShe’s smart…She knows that It takes ten minutes to disrupt a trace after the alarm goes off. I guess she knew she was being traced all along. Or maybe she found out after the alarm went off, I really can’t say. It was gathered that she did an upgrade to her security system, I am beginning to think that it’s more than just an update it’s like a hack detector and the likes of it that iswould keep her gadgets safe from hackers.It still amazes me how she acted so normal, pretending to care deeply about Eloise. She knew her device was being traced, and yet she still called her back like she promised and continued to pretend to care about her. “I'm sorry to hear about that, Eloise. How can I help, is there something I could get for your on my way to Havana?” she asked her, chuckling like an over excited schoolgirl that is preparing for prom with her besties. I felt like something was off when she inquired about Raphael’s mom's mental health and how his dad was taking c
POV: Raphael“Jeez, thank you!” Eloise let out a deep breath and sighed in exhaustion, pretending to wipe off her imaginary sweat. “I was wondering how long I could keep up this pretense, and how long it would take you to realize that compared to me, you are nothing. You are just a big fool who thinks that money is everything. You think you have it all, you think you know it all. But you have nothing and you don’t know a thing about me, not one thing. To think that I was going to let you live with your annoying son and his father. Then you went ahead to provoke me, trying to outsmart me and get my location. Like how do you even think you could find me in a few hours when you couldn’t find your child for the last twenty-four years?How do you even think, do you have cheese for brains?” she laughed at her, laughing so hard that it made me want to yank her out of the phone and strangle her to death. “Why Lois, why did you choose to bring such pain and heartache to my family, why
POV: RaphaelShe is trying so hard to break the Myers and instill hatred in their hearts. She is smart, and if they are not careful, they will fall for her tricks. She knows so much, all thanks to her friendship with Juliette Myers. But I’m pretty sure most of these things she is saying are lies and she is only saying them to break the Myers and make them as miserable as she was. “I am not in love with my ex-lover, Eloise, and you know it. Stop trying to come between my husband and me because our bond is stronger than your lies.” Juliette Myers told her.“Oh, come on!Tell him already!Tell him how you missed being with your family and, by extension, your ex-lover. I know you love him, Juliette; I could tell from the way you talked about him always. You wish you were married to him and not your husband. Admit it!” she coerced her, yelling at her as if she could force her to admit to a crime she never committed.“I care about Jarvis because he is my friend and we grew up togethe