POV: MiguelI was pacing the room after they left. I still can’t believe that I just witnessed Raphael’s mom and his girlfriend acting like real ass bitches and calling my sister mean names. I’m not angry at their words, I’m just wondering why he is still with my sister when it’s obvious that he cannot protect her. If they are saying these horrible things about her in my face, then what have they been doing to her all this while that she has no one to speak up for her?She must have been through hell and back. No wonder she was sobbing so hard when I revealed to her that we are siblings. If only If been able to find her sooner, if only I’d been here to fight off these bitches and teach everyone that hurt her a lesson. To think that he is still fighting to be with a girl even after his mom has made it clear to him that he would never be with her. Is he trying to make her life more miserable?“Relax Miguel, you can sit down now, they will not be coming back here anytime soon they
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: 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