POV: VictoriaI smiled in Raphael’s direction, ignoring the childish act of his mom and ex-girlfriend. I sat next to his grandfather and I enjoyed his company so much. He is such a great man, he told me stories of how he started from nothing and achieved many great things today. He laughed very often, enjoying the company of his family and other guests.“I can see why you love him so much. Now I know why you are willing to do anything to please him and keep him happy. He’s such a great man,” I muttered softly as we both sat in the bar. When I started chatting and laughing excitedly with his grandfather, Raphael stood up from their midst and came to sit with me and his grandfather, putting his hand around my shoulder and smiling brightly when I looked up at him. “You should smile often, your smile is so beautiful, it suits you.” I remarked shyly. “You don’t smile like a fool when you are in the midst of your enemies.” He remarked dryly, his countenance changing immediately. I frowned
POV: Victoria “What are you doing here?” I asked her angrily, my eyes glaring at her. “Oh, you didn’t know?” She asked, feigning a surprised look. I groaned in anger as she walked towards Nathan and wrapped her hands around his neck, bucking her hips to meet his sexually. She stood on the tip of her toes and kissed him passionately, marking her boundaries and wordlessly warning the other girls in the room to back off.“You see, dear sister…Nathan and I are in a serious relationship. He plans to introduce me to his family and that is why I’m here.” she stated proudly when they stopped sucking each other's tongue and lips. How can I call this girl my sister, how did I end up with a family that is so selfish and wicked?“You jealous bitch!You knew I would be here today, didn’t you?All your life you have always been the favorite, you have always stolen the spotlight and taken everything that belongs to Claire and I. I have never envied you or tried to cheat you off what is yours, Ci
POV: Raphael “Think about it? Think about it you said? Whoever told you there was something to think about getting engaged yo you must be a lunatic. That is not part of the deal, why did you tell him we needed to think about it? You could have just said we are not ready yet and Gramps will understand. Now you have given him hope, making him feel we are ready to be engaged. Did I ever tell you I want to be engaged to you? If we are not careful and smart, Gramps will trick us into getting engaged and eventually getting married, is that what you want? Did I mention that I was going to ruin my reputation further by marrying a nameless whore? Dating you openly is already affecting my company and destroying the reputation I’ve built for myself. Why on earth would I want to marry you?” I yelled at the top of my voice. She scoffed and shook her head, turning to walk out on me. “Walk out of this room and the deal is over!” I threatened furiously. My words must have hit a nerve because
POV: FelixI stood behind the tall bushes in the garden, my heart racing as I watched Mom and Victoria chatting like two besties that are just seeing each other after a long time. I am well aware of Mom’s objection about my relationship with Victoria, it has been evident from the start. She had made numerous attempts to undermine our relationship, going as far as trying to pay Victoria off to leave me and telling Gramps terrible things about Victoria and her family. I am well aware of all this and yeah, I pretend to be ignorant of this because she is my mom after all and I can easily put up with her complaints and nasty comments about our relationship.But this...this is something else entirely…I had my suspicions the moment saw them and that’s why I stayed behind to observe. Victoria May be smart and stubborn, but she has no idea what she is getting into. She is in the midst of predators that would do anything to get what they want.I peeked through the leaves, trying to read thei
POV: Felix“Who are you and what do you want with my wife?” I asked him the moment I got into the room. When Victoria refused to listen to me, I knew I had to find a way to save her without being too pushy or rude to Mom.The first thing I did was to go up to the building control room and mess with the security cameras. Destroying the security cameras may seem like a bad idea, but it is something I must do because no one must find out what I’m about to do here today. They must never find out that I’m smarter than they think.After deleting the camera footage from earlier, I took out the memory card so nothing would be recorded for the next few hours. I had to find out what Mom was up to and I knew only one person I could force to tell me the truth, the silly maid. So I blocked her in the kitchen and ordered her to tell me everything she knew about Mom’s plans. She knows better than to tell an untruth me when I’m this pissed, “Tell me everything, else I’m calling the immigration offic
POV: Felix“How do you keep finding yourself in this situation?” I asked her the moment stepped out of the bathroom and found her sprawled on the bed, drunk. I climbed the bed and took her into my arms, kissing her softly. She looks so weak and horny. I could see the sweat sliding down her cheeks and disappearing under her dress.“And why do I keep meeting you in this situation, why are you always there at my most vulnerable times?” She murmured, dragging her words and laughing at the end like a lunatic. I couldn’t stop staring at the droplets of tears going under her dress, I swallowed dryly, caressing her face. “My God!What have they done to you?” I let out in surprise when she suddenly pulled me closer, bringing her lips to mine and kissing me fiercely. It seems like Dejavu, I seem to remember the first day I met her. She was drugged and drunk as well, just that I was also drugged that night. I had the same drug in my system and that is why I could not resist her that night. But
POV: Victoria I woke up the next morning feeling sore between my legs. The pain all over my body is evidence of a night of pleasure with Raphael. He was so perfect, he touched me in places I’ve never been touched before, he pleasured me in ways I never thought I could be pleasured. Yes, I know I manipulated the situation to get us to this point, but it was worth it, wasn’t it?Oh wait,You actually thought I was stupid enough to let his mom trick me and drug me?Oh, come on!Give me some credit. The woman hated my guts and even tried to pay me off. She called me a leech and promised to get me out of her son's life. Do you think I would believe her when she told me she suddenly had a change of heart and wanted to hang out with me?Hell no!The moment she approached me with a forced smile that didn’t quite reach her eyes, I knew something was up. Then I looked up and spotted Charlotte and Cindy staring our way, peeking through the side of the curtains. I’ve been used by this family on
POV: Victoria I wasn’t expecting this, it’s definitely not a part of my plan. How did this happen, who called the press to a private property?“Get out of this place, this is an invasion of privacy!You have no right to be here, you are trespassing!” I screamed at them, pulling the duvet to cover my nude body and holding it firmly to my chest. Nobody told me about this part of the plan, I wasn’t expecting the press to barge into this house and even have access to the bedroom. It’s definitely against their regulations and I will not take this. “Are you referring to me as a gigolo?” Raphael asked suddenly. We all turned to the sound of his voice, and there he was, standing by the bathroom door. He just had a bath, I could tell from the droplets of water on his body and the towel wrapped around his waist. I swallowed dryly as I caught sight of his hard bulge that made the towel curve upwards. “Mr Hawkins!Me Hawkins?Are you the gigolo?It’s not you, it can’t be you, that’s not why we
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