POV: Victoria I exchanged a glance with Claire when we both sensed the danger lurking beneath our mother’s act. She kept refilling our glasses with more drinks, urging us to take more. I could see her getting our glasses and refilling them, but when she finally brought it to us, we would just grab it from her and gulp it down as if we had been hypnotized.“No,” I said firmly when she brought yet another glass of strawberry cocktail for me. I shook my head vehemently, refusing the drink. “We’re not drinking anything from you anymore, mom. We don’t want more, stop it, Mom, stop it.” I told her furiously, pushing away the glass that she brought closer to my lips. But she wouldn’t stop. She grabbed my hair and held my head down as she forced it down my throat, forcing me to gulp it down. She pushed me roughly after she forced it down my throat and I fell hard on the floor, hurting my waist. I struggled to look up at her face and her eyes flared with frustration and something darker tha
POV: Victoria “Get in here and move them to the van before the guys get here!” she told someone on the phone, smiling proudly as she did. She got up and walked away from my side, walking towards Claire. She stopped in front of Claire and put her hand on her chin, raising her face so she could look into her eyes.“Why don’t we take our little reunion to the road. You don’t want your boyfriend to come back home and meet you like this do you?” she asked us, smiling at us as if everything was okay. “I called you, mom!We both called you mom!I did everything to make you happy and comfortable. I worked my ass off to give everything you ever asked for, and this is how you pay me back?By drugging and trying me up like a fucking criminal?I guess this is why your husband left you for your sister. He saw the signs that you were going crazy. And now I have confirmed that you are indeed crazy!You need help, Eloise, you need help!” I told her angrily, earning a slap on my already stiff neck.
POV: Victoria “Who are you people, what do you want from us?What do you want from us?!” I yelled in frustration as one of the guys lifted Claire from the floor and carried her on his shoulder. Before I could say Jack, another one of the boys lifted me from the floor and threw me on his shoulder too. “So you plan to use your family’s wealth to deal with me huh?” Mom asked me in a mocking tone as she headed back to her luggage and hid her gun in it before walking out with her purse in her hand. I was hanging on the shoulder of a stranger, but I could see her walking out while someone dragged her luggage and followed her out. The funny thing is that she isn’t limping like someone who is sick. She has always been sick, always having us around to take care of her needs and keep her company. Now as I watched her walking behind us and giving orders to the boys, I couldn’t help wondering if she was even sick like she claimed. Was that also a lie, has she been pretending to be sick just
POV: Raphael “Boss, we found him. He’s in his house as we speak, I was informed that he just got home right now. I have no idea what he is up to, but I think we should get there now before he slips from our surveillance team.” Carl told me firmly. I dashed out of Nathan’s house the moment I received that message. I’ve been waiting for his call in regards to the Kendall’s wealth. He has been calling all his sources, reaching out to all his contacts, and trying to trace that money. But he has been unable to get any leads, it seems the whole money disappeared into thin air. Our only option was to find Austin Kendall and find out what he was planning and what did with the money. Eloise has no idea about it, I mean, she has been at home all night. There is no way she would go out of this house to liquidate their assets without my knowledge. I have the order to find Austin Kendall. But it seems like he disappeared with the money, I’ve been waiting for his location for hours, but nobody c
POV: Raphael “I know what I said, and he’s leaving right now!” Nathan responded to her, turning to glare at me. “I’m glad you know I would be searching for you, Cindy. I won’t why you look so scared,” I let out calmly, smiling down at her. “Do not piss me off, Raphael!Get the fuck out of my house, right now, I don’t want to hurt you and I will not be held responsible for my actions if you do not leave now. This is my house and I want you to leave, right now!Leave now before I break your legs and hands and send you back to Gramps in a body bag!” He warned, his gaze fixed on mine. I scoffed at his threat and simply ignored him. I guess it’s high time he finds out that I am too tough for him to deal with. “You don’t scare me, Nate, I am not afraid of you. I came over to speak with Cindy and I won’t leave until I do.” I responded firmly, looking straight up and ignoring his stern gaze."Where are they, Cindy?" I asked her sternly, smirking evilly at her.“Tell me where I can find th
POV: Raphael Cindy shivered in fear as she watched me knock him unconscious. She got up in fear and just gazed at him in shock with her hands covering her mouth.“Is he dead?Did you kill him?!” She asked me, her eyes shining brightly as if she couldn’t see better without looking that way. I scoffed and ignored her while making sure my brother was firmly secured so he wouldn’t wake up suddenly and attack me again.“What did you do, what have you done!You killed him, you fucking killed him!You bastard!You fucking murderer!” she yelled in anger and frustration as she gathers her things and prepares to leave. I did not even see her gathering her things as she yelled and called me a murderer. It was when she dropped some things while trying to run to the door that I saw that she was trying to escape.I ran after her and lifted her to my shoulder, taking her back to the couch.“Put me down, Raphael Hawkins!I will not be dragged into your family drama, I have enough problems with my fa
POV: Raphael Nathan lay unconscious on the floor, and a few feet away, his girlfriend lay limply on the floor as well. I gazed at them as their chest heaved with their breath. They were both sleeping peacefully, unconscious from my attack. I smiled in satisfaction as I no longer needed to take Claire hostage to draw her parents out. “Are you really sure that this is not a trick to get me out of this house, are you sure it’s not a decoy?” I asked Carl as I called him to confirm that the information he had was not bogus. I have been thinking about it since I received that message from Carl, informing him that he had found her parents. Yeah, I know Carl is always accurate and he does his job perfectly. But I can’t shake off the feeling that Austin and his wife may be trying to get me to leave her so that they could come and get their daughter and disappear from this city. She is the only leverage that I have right now, I can’t let her out of my sight until I confirm that his informati
POV: Raphael So I met Austin Kendall, sitting on the floor and rummaging through some papers like a lunatic. He looked up with a mix of confusion and fury, I could tell that something’s terribly wrong and that is why I did not respond to him "What have you done, Raphael Hawkins? You ruined my family, why the hell did you steal the documents and sell the properties meant for Claire, Victoria and I?You thought I would not give them their share of the goods, what have you done?I told you it was mine!I told you to stay the hell away from my family, but you chose to meddle in things that you do not understand." He lets out furiously, throwing me off balance and confusing me."I didn't take anything, goddammit! What the hell are you talking about, what is wrong with you, have you gone mad?” I asked him angrily dragging him from the floor and throwing him up against the wall, holding him by the neck and forcing him to stay still and look right back at me. He tried to struggle
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