POV: MiguelNo, I’m not being paranoid, I’m just being careful. The explosion at the airport was unexpected, nobody saw it coming. Besides, if I were a criminal mastermind trying to get away from the cops and everyone else, would I use the same bombs that would be traced back to me? No, I won’t!So it’s either those bombs were used on purpose to distract us and get us driving around the city to look for Allen. They could be doing this to buy more time and get away, or this could be a trap to get us out of the way for good. I’m sure those guys are not plain stupid. There is a plan behind every action they take, so I need to be very careful if I want to make it back home to my mother alive. “Something is wrong! Do you not hear that beeping sound coming from the walls, what could that be?” I asked Raphael, screaming so loud so he wouldn’t ignore me. I succeeded in getting his attention and the attention of the guys in the room. They all paused and paid more attention to details,
POV: Miguel“I don’t care what you say to Raphael, but I will find you, Eloise, and I will make sure you pay for everything you have done to my sister. You will never get away with this, that is a promise!” I told her furiously, ignoring Raphael’s gestures and signals. He is warning me to stay calm and I don’t know why. If he truly cares about her like he claims, then he should be furious with me. He is supposed to be telling and screaming at this woman and not trying to be smart and diplomatic with a fucking lunatic.“You see what I was telling you, Victoria. Can you see what he is doing to you?He doesn’t care if I hurt you or not, he is still talking even after I told him to keep his fucking mouth shut. He knows I will hurt you if he keeps talking, but that doesn’t stop him from talking because he wants me to hurt you; he wants to see you in pain. Is that the brother you want to leave me for?Is that the family you want to live with?” she asked my sister, pointing the camera
POV: Miguel“You should have said something if you knew he was here; why do you always love to see me at my weakest? Why do you love making me look stupid?” I asked him, glaring at him as we walked back to the car. He laughed at my anger, teasing and giggling like an idiot.“It’s fun to see that you are not as tough as you pretend to be. You may act all tough and dangerous, but that is just pretense.” He joked, laughing like an idiot. I refused to be called a fool; I refused to laugh along with him; I just walked faster and left him behind, leaving him to laugh as much as he desired. “Asshole!” I muttered under my breath as I walked away from him. I guess my tone and the way I banged the door is enough to tell him that I’m fucking pissed off at him. He walked faster to catch up with me, but I was already in the car before he got in. “What the hell is your problem, Miguel?One minute you are cool with me and the next minute you are acting like a complete douchebag!” he accused,
POV: RaphaelAt first, I wanted to be serious and hear what he had to say, but when I finally heard him talking about Victoria’s reaction when she saw us, I couldn’t help laughing at his childish thoughts. Like seriously?His sister, whom he claims to love so much, is currently in danger, and all he can think of is his childish cravings to keep his sister to himself. I can’t believe that he is jealous of her feelings for me. If only he knew that our relationship was just a contract. With the way he is being so jealous and possessive, I have to make sure he doesn’t find out that we are in a contract relationship. If he ever thinks that our relationship is not real, he could buy off her debt with ease and take her away from me. For the sake of our relationship and the feelings I have for her, nobody must find out the truth. They must not find out about our contract until I find the courage to tell her exactly how I feel about her. If she accepts my real proposal and agrees to be m
POV: Raphael“You wouldn’t dare, you won’t do that!” He told me, his voice shaking as he stared at me with his eyes glistening with unshed tears. I wondered if he was so scared of her because of the way he treated her or if there was something about her that we didn’t know about. “I will do everything you ask, I will give you anything you need to find her. Just keep her away from my family, Raphael. And whatever you do, you have to be very careful because she is always one step ahead of everyone. She has had twenty-four years to think about this and prepare for anything you might think of. Do not believe one word from her mouth, and never underestimate her. Do not ever turn your back on her!” he warned me sternly, giving me the scary look I’ve gotten from anyone, ever. He wrote everything I asked for, his hands shaking as he did. But I couldn’t shake off the feeling that there is more to this than he is letting on.“Why do you think she would hurt her sister, is it because you m
POV: Raphael“So what’s next, Mr. Hawkins? Do you have a lead from the information you just got from Austin Kendall?” The inspector asked me, sounding so concerned and worried about our progress in the case. His name is Alex, and he has been on this case from the beginning; I mean, he’s the same cop that handled the kidnapping case when the girls were first taken, and he has been unable to find them for twenty-four years, which is why I’m worried about him being overly concerned this time. If he truly cares about the girls and really wants to find them, then what the hell has he been doing all these years? Why didn’t he find them?Austin said that Eloise is ahead of everyone all the time. I’m beginning to feel that she has someone in the police department because it’s funny how none of her crimes has been exposed by the cops all these years. I refuse to believe that she is too smart and careful and that is why she has not been caught. If you ask me, I think it’s just her money
POV: RaphaelI guess Eloise and her guys forgot to rig a bomb close to the trash compartment. Or maybe they thought we would not be found going through their trash. It could be that they never thought we could make the connection or even make sense of the rubbish they left in their trash. Luckily, Carl went through the trash, and he found some rough paperwork, like a map and some receipts for things bought and shipped to a beach house on a private island with a weird location and address. The address of that island is suspicious because it doesn’t show in any record that we know of. It’s like an abandoned building that no one is supposed to know about or even go to. Besides, the money she has spent in that place is enough to buy three more companies like theirs. We found receipts of supplies that was taken to the beachouse, they are just too many. And Trust me, they aren’t office supplies, they are household supplies that could last for years.We had to do more digging about this
POV: Raphael“No… No… No… No!I can’t do this mom, I can’t deal with you today, not now, Mom, not today.” I told her with a frustrated sigh as I sat up in my seat and looked up at the two people I never planned to deal with today. The last thing I want is to have another fight with my mom.Yeah, I know it’s inevitable because Mom can be so overwhelming and annoying. But give me a break, at least not today. I’ve been through so much today already that I can’t deal with her. Especially now that she has that glow in her eyes that tells me that she is up to no good, she has some mischief up her sleeves. “Not today, Mom!Not today!What the hell are you doing here, what do you want from me?” I asked her in a tired tone, my hand going through my hair in frustration. “Oh, come off it son. You can’t deny me the chance to rub it in your face and float about your failed relationship after you two humiliated me and made me look like a fool in front of your grandfather. You thought I wou
POV: RaphaelIt took a few days for the girls to get back on their feet. Turns out the poison Eloise used on them is a deadly chemical that could turn them invalid for the rest of their lives if not handled properly. If they had stayed there longer for her to administer another dosage, it would have been detrimental to their health. Good thing we got to them on time, good thing we took her out before she could hurt them more than she already has, especially Victoria who is a few weeks pregnant with my child. She had no idea she was pregnant, I had no fucking idea. It was discovered during her body exam at the hospital, and I couldn’t be happier in my life. This changes everything…It doesn’t just validate our relationship; it’s going to keep every other man away from her; it will be the one reason why I will fight everyone, including my grandfather, just to keep her. I couldn’t take my eyes away from her, even when she fell asleep on the hospital bed. It’s amazing to know that a lit
POV: VictoriaSo it turns out that Eloise Kendall was still lying and playing games with us down to the last minute. After the building exploded, Raphael got up as fast as he could and ran up to me, making sure I was okay. Miguel was here the next second, and they smothered me with love and care, checking to see if I was not hurt. “Claire…My sister…Where is my sister, where is Claire?” I managed to ask in my confused state, turning around to find her. They heard me asking for her, and they turned around with me, searching for her. We spotted her in Dominic’s arms as he struggled to get her to wake up.“No! No! No! No!Claire!Wake up!Claire!” I called out to her, struggling to get up but failing miserably as usual. Raphael took one look at me, and he turned in my direction, and he knew I needed my sister. “Stay with her; keep her safe!” he told Miguel as he left my side and ran to Claire’s side, administering mouth-to-mouth while Dominic called out to her, yelling at the top of h
POV: Victoria“Move away from here; she has a bomb; she is going to kill us all!” I yelled in Carl’s direction as I saw him approaching us slowly, thinking that my Mom was not seeing him. Of course, she is seeing him through the device in her hand; she knew the moment they took off the power grid that they were here. She came up to us and smiled excitedly, clapping her hands as if it were the happiest day of her life.“The guys are here to save you. Your Prince Charming has arrived, and they came prepared to save you. Are you not excited?” She asked us, smiling so happily. I turned to Claire in fear, and she had the same look of fear on her face, too. “Let them go, Mom; they don’t have to die because of us,” I begged her.“Of course, they do. Why the hell would you ever think that they deserve to live, why would you think that?” she asked me angrily.“I have been waiting for them for so long, they are the reason why we are still here. Of course, they would get what they deserve; the
POV: Raphael“How is he?” I asked Miguel a few minutes later after he spoke to the guys he put in charge of his parents. We have been waiting for their report and for a minute there we thought that something bad has happened, we thought they were under another attack from Eloise. We were contemplating whether or not to cancel the mission tomorrow and go back to Havana to save the Myers and get them out of town before coming back to face Eloise. But the call came in just a few minutes before we made the decision to cancel the mission. Turns out that the guys are even more efficient than we thought. Immediately after Shaun came out from surgery, they moved him and the Myers out of the hospital and took them to a safe house outside the city. “You did good, guys; I’m proud of you. Where are they now? Where did you take them?” he asked the boys after confirming that they were safe. “I’m sorry boss, but we can’t disclose our location to anyone yet, not even you, Mr Myers.” They told him
POV: RaphaelWe were all awake all night, going over the plans over and over again, looking for any flaws. Dominic and I did not have any misunderstanding as we worked together, in fact, you will never know that we even had a fight before we started. Saving the girls is more important to us and that’s what we focused on.We could not walk up to the front gate together because that was where she was expecting us to follow. We flew a drone over the property, and we saw that half of her security guards were stationed at the entrance, waiting patiently for us. I’m sure that she must be expecting us to show up at her gate any moment from now. I mean, she wasn’t expecting us to back down, was she?“Get the helo ready, we leave two hours after the ground team,” I instructed Carl. We decided to split the teams into two so one team could create a diversion while the second team sneaks into the house and saves the girls. We agreed to use a helicopter to drop a few guys on the building while th
POV: Raphael“If you are here to give me attitude and make my job more difficult for me, I suggest you get the fuck out of here right now. I’m too busy to deal with your attitude, Raphael, I mean it!” He told me furiously, glaring daggers at me. It’s obvious to everyone looking that this guy is angry with me for a completely different reason. I mean, he cannot be this furious because I said I wasn’t helping, right?“I’ll do anything to save Victoria, even if it means putting up with your bullshit!” I told him, repeating my earlier response and ignoring his earlier comments about my attitude.“Are you testing my patience? Are you trying to piss me off?” he yelled at me, letting the others turn to us curiously as they wondered what was going on between us. I turned to face him and he came to stand in front of me, glaring at me as if he wanted to punch me.“If you have something to say, why don’t you say it to my fucking face, Dominic. You keep saying you have moved past my betrayal, but
POV: Raphael“Shaun, what is going on over there, Are you hurt?” Miguel asked him in a panicked tone as he got up immediately and viewed his body to see where he was shot. I’d already seen it when the nurse took his phone but I didn’t say anything because I don’t want to get him more worried and upset than he is presently. He was shot in the chest and stomach, and I could tell that he is in pain, but he is just faking it to put Miguel’s mind at ease. It would break Everyone if something bad happens to him. I know I only just met the guy today, but trust me, I would feel it too because he is such a great guy and he doesn’t deserve to die. I see him like Carl, he is loyal to a fault, just like Carl. I could see it in his eyes that he would do anything to protect the Myer’s, even putting his life at risk for them. He is still bleeding from the gunshots, the bullet has not been taken out and the bleeding has not stopped. He must have lost a lot of blood while waiting for Juliette Mye
POV: Raphael“If you had a way of getting them back all this while, why haven’t you done so yet, why are they still being held hostage, Mr perfect plans?” Dominic retorted angrily.“ It’s your perfect plans that got me into trouble with Carlos Gonzalez in the first place, remember?” He asked again, scoffing at my words. I wanted to refute his decision one more time, but he stopped me with a wave of his hand, dismissing what I had to say as if it didn’t matter. “Save it, Ralph, I don’t want to hear it!” He told me angrily, glaring at me. “Tomorrow, I’m saving the girls and bringing them home to their family and loved ones. You can keep planning and stalling for as long as you want, I don’t care. But I’ll advise you to stay the fuck out of my way before you get hurt!” he warned me, walking past me and heading back outside. He turned around when he got to the door and he turned to Miguel and said,“I'm going out there to make plans on how to save your sister and my woman. You can
POV: RaphaelI didn’t want to deal with Dominic now because I knew that he must be so furious with me for keeping him in the dark all this while. I have not been sending updates to him as he instructed. I’ve been too busy to even think about him. As expected, he was angry with me, and his tone was so rude when I called to inform him that Miguel and I were crashing at his house tonight. I thought he was just being unnecessarily angry. I mean, I know I didn’t call him to give him updates, but he should have called me to, right?When he didn’t hear from either me, Carl, or even Miguel, he should have known that something was wrong, and he should have called to find out what was happening. He knows the enemy we are facing is so cunning and evil. He should have called us to check up on us and see if we were okay. But he didn’t call either, and now he is pissed at me for nothing.I was getting ready to give him a piece of my mind, but when I set my eyes on him, I immediately felt guilt