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