POV: Raphael “Do you love him?” I asked her, looking at her closely, watching her every reaction. “What?” She asked, looking at me strangely. “Answer me, Victoria!Are you in love with Miguel?!” I yelled in anger, staring fixedly at her. “What are you talking about, what do you want me to say?” she asked back, feigning anger.“I want to know why you talk about him with so much passion and why you act as if he were your lover. Is he your boyfriend, are you having a secret relationship with a guy you just met today?!” I asked her, yelling angrily at her. Of course, I know that it’s not possible for her to be having a secret relationship with him, but I just want to know if she is truly in love with him. “He is my friend, Ralph, nothing more. He is just a guy I met today, I like having him around me because he… he… he…” I guess she wanted to say that he cares about her but she realizes that it would not be nice to idolize another man in front of me. I tipped my head to the side, st
POV: Raphael I grinned at her, my heart swelling with affection as she pulled me towards the kitchen. I’ve always wanted to spend time with her like this, but I’ve always thought that it would make me look weak and stupid. Who would have thought that my jealousy would make me rethink my grumpy attitude? “What do you want to make?” I asked her.“How about your famous pasta?” she replied, her enthusiasm infectious. I had no idea that she knew my favorite food. How is it that she took her time to learn everything about me while I know nothing about her, except the little information on my file.“Perfect choice,” I said with a smile, moving back to the stove. “How about you sit your pretty ass there while I cook for you, today. I’ll show you my secret ingredient.” I winked, earning her laughter. She wouldn’t let me do the cooking alone, she stood right by my side and helped me get the ingredients ready for our pasta. As we worked side by side, I couldn’t help but steal glances at her.
POV: Raphael After our dinner, I spent quality time cuddling with her and having a good time. She couldn’t stop talking about Miguel, she was so excited about her new friend that I felt the need to let her retain her smiles and excitement by urging her to keep hanging out with him if that would make her smile more often. She looks so beautiful when she smiles, hanging out with him seems to bring out the best in her, and that’s okay. As a matter of fact, I’m ashamed to admit that he makes her more happy in one day than I’ve done since we met. I kept asking her questions about him, coaxing her to tell me more about him. I listened to her just to find out everything he said to her. I felt relieved when she didn’t mention anything about their relationship as siblings. It’s either he doesn’t know yet that she is his long lost sister, or there is something else holding him back from telling her the truth about her real family.I need to find out the hospital they had admitted Victoria int
POV: Raphael “Are you really sure about the result you sent to my phone, how did you get his DNA, did you break into his apartment?” I asked him on the phone. I had to wait until Victoria fell asleep before I could leave her side and go outside to call Carl. “I’m sure boss, I picked up his cutlery from the restaurant he visited with Victoria. Actually, I picked up both DNA at the restaurant and it turned out to be a match. What should I do boss, what does this mean for us, is he going to be trouble, should I take him out?” he asked me. “No, Carl. There will be no need for that, I will handle Miguel myself.” I told him sternly. “Tonight, I just need you to invade the Kendalls group, I want to know everything that is going on in that company.” I told him sternly. I asked him to investigate the Kendall’s company and tell me if Austin Kendall has collected more loans since the last time he used the company to take loans from the bank. For all I know he could be trying to sell off the
POV: Raphael “I do not know what you are talking about, Raphael Hawkins. But I suggest you leave here now before I make you regret it!” she yelled in my face, pointing her burner phone in my face as if it were a gun. Damn, she’s crazy as fuck. “Are you insane, Eloise?When was the last time you had your head checked!” I asked in surprise, looking at her as if she had suddenly grown two horns. “What are you even doing with a burner phone?I thought I asked you to drop every fucking phone with mp PA when I moved you to this place, did you hide this phone from him, and who the hell are you calling so late in the night?” I asked her curiously, watching her reaction. Her face turned red in anger, I could tell that she wanted to hurt me but she was holding back. But why is she forcing herself to remain calm despite everything that is happening around her, what the hell is she up to?“I’m warning you, Raphael, stay the hell away from me and my daughters. You don’t want to piss me off, you
POV: Raphael “It's deeper than you can ever imagine, Hawkins boy!I’ve made a promise to a lot of people, lives will be lost if the truth comes to light. Families will be destroyed and a lot of people will have their lives destroyed by the damn truth. Everything I’ve worked for will be destroyed!I won’t do it, I can’t let that happen!” she said, her voice trembling with anger and sadness.“A promise, huh?A promise that is costing you the relationship you have with your and your entire family. You need to act fast because that promise is costing you your daughters’ love and trust,” I replied to her, my tone firm yet emotional. “You need to be the one to tell them. They deserve to know who they are and it’s only fair that they hear it from you and not the press, or Miguel. This is your mess, and you need to clean it up before it gets worse.” I told her. Silence hung between us, it was so thick and heavy that we both felt it in our hearts. Eloise’s gaze dropped to the floor, her stre
POV: RaphaelOutside, the moon dipped lower in the sky, casting a calm glow over the house. I took a moment to breathe, feeling the weight of the world shift slightly. The truth was a powerful force, and I hoped it would lead us all to a brighter future. Yeah, I hoped in my heart that everything would go according to plan so we could all heal and get past these lies. That is the only way we can move on with our lives and I hoped in my heart that it happened that way.But something is off, I can feel it in my bones. I kept feeling weird even after I left her room and took a walk around the house to be sure our security locks were secured. I was pacing my room for no just reason and it’s making me edgy and furious. This only happens when I’ve made a mistake or a bad business deal. Usually, when I feel this way, I know exactly what to do. It’s either I find my way to correctly mistake before it is too late, or if it’s a business deal that is making me feel this way, I’ll simply back dow
POV: Raphael Yeah, I left her and went back to my room, but just before she shut the door, she said me a question that made me realize that despite all the drama she was putting on, she was still thoughtful and over-calculative. She said, “One more thing before you leave my room, Raphael Hawkins. How did you find out I called someone when you left, and how did you hear the exact words I said to the person. Are you monitoring my affairs, is my room bugged?” She asked me, while her eyes looked around the room, searching for a camera or anything that would explain how I found out. “Goodnight, Eloise. Let’s see how tomorrow works out for you and the girls.” I told her with a smile. She smirked in response, tusking playfully.“I’ll find out, Ralph. Whatever you think you are hiding from me, I will find out and I will hit you back where it hurts the most. Do not think I would let this go easily.” She told me with a smile, looking right at me.“You took the words right out of my mouth, El
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