"Ethan!" Saira cried."Now your turn." Daniel stood over her with the gun pointed at her head. "My love for you has turned to poison, Saira. I'm sorry, but I have to do this." Then he pulled the trigger, but the bullet wasn't discharged and she watched in shock as Daniel fell to his knees with a bullet lodged in his head and he slumped to the floor beside Ethan."Not on my watch." A female voice remarked from the doorway.Saira looked up with wide eyes at Ethan's mother who was still pointing the gun at Daniel as she walked into the room as if she wanted to shoot him again."Mom?" Saira croaked out. "How did you...What are you doing here?""I called her when the police were taking too long. She got here faster than they did." Harry walked into the room. "I'm beginning to think you were a car racer in your previous life, Mrs Delnoi."Eileen chuckled. "Ethan's father taught me." She knelt beside Ethan. "Oh, my poor baby.""We should take him to the hospital." Saira's voice was hoarse fr
The kingdoms of Ubanda and Zazu had been enemies for as long as Princess Azuka could remember but the reason for this enmity was long forgotten. Zazu and Ubanda were both powerful kingdoms and were unfortunately next door neighbors as well, which was why they always fought one war or the other trying to defeat each other but to no avail. It all came to a head when a hunter strayed far from Zazu and accidentally killed an animal on Ubanda land and he was killed for it. The king of Zazu heard of this and ordered for the attack on Ubanda land with his only daughter Princess Azuka who was the most feared warrior in the land to lead them but before they were set to leave, the priestess of Zazu arrived at the palace with a news that almost made the king change his mind about sending them off to war. "Your highness, if you go to fight this war... I'm afraid that you'll lose." The priestess informed her. "Lose? I never lose a fight!" Azuka hissed through clenched teeth. "I've been trai
Ethan Delnoi jerked awake as the remnants of his dream faded from his mind and he shook his head to clear it then turned to look at the half naked girl sleeping beside him on the bed and grunted. He should have booted her out of his room before he fell asleep but he'd been so tired after their intense sexual activity that he'd not been able to keep his eyes open."Hey!" He shook the girl awake. "Wake up."The girl stirred but didn't wake up which annoyed Ethan and he tapped her harder making her cry out from her sleep and she finally opened her eyes."A small tap would have been fine." She snapped, glaring at him."You know the rules Amanda. You get out before I wake up." He got out of bed, buck naked and sauntered to his bathroom.Amanda smiled sultrily and slipped out of bed and went to meet him in his bathroom. She found him at the sink washing his face and walked over to him."It's just five am Ethan." She told him. "We can go five rounds before the sun comes up." She wrapped her
"Didn't you insist on him seeing me?" Darina whined."Of course I did." Her mother said. "You know how Ethan is."Darina huffed and turned her head. She knew exactly how Ethan Delnoi was. He didn't care about anyone but himself and if not that she'd heard his heart beating in his chest a couple of times, she could have said he didn't have a heart.Ethan Delnoi was an untamable animal, gorgeous and dangerous when provoked and he was exactly her type of man which was why she couldn't seem to let go of him."When can I go home already?" She asked, irritably "Tomorrow." Flora replied."I can't wait for that long." Darina said. "Ethan is ready to forget about me but I won't give him that pleasure. Please have a nurse come and remove this IV." "Darling...""Now mother." Darina snapped."Fine." Her mother grumbled and went to do as she ordered.Thirty minutes later, Darina got into the car with her mother and ordered the driver to take her to school."Are you sure about this?" Her mother a
Ethan slowly turned to look at Darina's approaching figure and winced when he saw her how angry she was. She was all red in the face and her fists were clenched. One of her posses scurrying behind her carried her tote bag for her and another had a cup of something in her hand. They all looked ridiculous. "Heey Dar." He greeted, emphasizing on the 'hey'. "Long time no see." "One week! One week Ethan and you're already hopping from one slut's bed to another!" She poked his chest with her finger as she spoke. "Are you so addicted that you can't keep it in your pants for the time being?!" "Breathe Dar, you're embarrassing yourself." He told her. "If you pass out, I won't carry you anywhere." Darina took a deep breath and let it out. "I'm willing to take you back even after all your misdeeds Ethan." She informed him calmly. "I love you, so I'll forgive you." "What are you talking about?" Ethan arched a brow. Darina looked confused. "Wasn't all that shenanigans because you wanted my
Ethan threw his car keys at his mother's driver immediately he stepped out of his car and slammed the door. "I want you to take it to a car wash, have them clean the whole interior and make it look like I've never driven it." He said to Alex. "Yes sir." "Let them take their time but not my money. I have at least ten thousand in the glove compartment. I would very much not like to send someone to jail." Ethan rumbled. "Er... Why don't you remove it sir?" Ethan eyed him balefully causing the man to take a step back and mutter an apology before he did as Alex suggested and threw the money at him. "What should I do with it sir?" Alex's eyes widened. "I don't know! It's yours if you want it." Ethan walked to the front door. "I want it back before tomorrow." "Yes sir." Alex got into the car, started it and wondered why it smelled like sex then shook his head and drove off. Ethan opened the door, walked in and shut it behind him then ran up the stairs to his room to take a shower an
Eileen watched her son sadly before she walked out onto the balcony to join him but she didn't speak."I'm sorry." He apologized. "I... I didn't mean to yell. I'm just..." He sighed. "I know." Eileen placed her hand on his shoulder. "Do you want to go on a vacation for a few weeks? The jet is just there, sitting in the private hangar."It was tempting to just go away for a few weeks and let the sea wash away his troubles but he couldn't and didn't know why."I have a test tomorrow." Ethan said. "Maybe a couple others during this week.""Okay." She said. "So, I watched a very interesting video clip today." She smiled. "You don't look mad." He raised a brow.Eileen sighed then chuckled. "Darina's a handful so I don't expect you or anyone to put up with her for a long period of time. It's been what... 16 years?""Yeah." He winced. For him, it was like a millennium and he was glad to be finally rid of her. He felt like she'd been suffocating him and now he could breathe fresh air again.
Forty minutes later they all passed their test papers from back to front and the class representative gathered the papers together and handed them to the professor. "We'll meet again tomorrow." Professor Peters said and walked out of the lecture room with his test papers and immediately he left, the students started chattering asking each other how they did on their tests. "How did yours go?" Ethan asked Saira. "I think I'll get a B." "If I get less than an A, I'll be forced to read harder than I'm doing now." Saira said. "Why? School is not that hard." "Well, not for people who come from rich families unlike some of us who are here on scholarship." She rolled her eyes and sighed then used her fist to massage her neck, turned left, right and sighed again. "Tired?" He asked. "Very. I burnt the midnight oil reading textbooks when I could have easily browsed through my notes." She huffed out a breath. "Are you mad at Harry for losing your notes?" "Who wouldn't be? but... it's ok
"Ethan!" Saira cried."Now your turn." Daniel stood over her with the gun pointed at her head. "My love for you has turned to poison, Saira. I'm sorry, but I have to do this." Then he pulled the trigger, but the bullet wasn't discharged and she watched in shock as Daniel fell to his knees with a bullet lodged in his head and he slumped to the floor beside Ethan."Not on my watch." A female voice remarked from the doorway.Saira looked up with wide eyes at Ethan's mother who was still pointing the gun at Daniel as she walked into the room as if she wanted to shoot him again."Mom?" Saira croaked out. "How did you...What are you doing here?""I called her when the police were taking too long. She got here faster than they did." Harry walked into the room. "I'm beginning to think you were a car racer in your previous life, Mrs Delnoi."Eileen chuckled. "Ethan's father taught me." She knelt beside Ethan. "Oh, my poor baby.""We should take him to the hospital." Saira's voice was hoarse fr
A week laterEthan"Are you sure you want to do this without involving the police?" Harry asked me as we sat in the car a few distance from the house where Daniel kept Saira. "I mean...""I want to do this myself, Harry." I cut him off. "He won't get away with this."I'd contacted Uriel Yamaguchi alright, and he'd promised to help me out. He knew everything one could possibly know about hacking computers and was also a professional hyper realistic mask creator. He'd been able to hack into Daniel's phone and computer and even his car and had gotten me all the information I needed to find Saira. I'd wanted to come and save her the same day, but I'd decided to wait and make a plan so everything would go smoothly.I reached out to carry the box on the back seat and dropped it on the console between our seats then looked at Harry."I'm going in." I told him."I'll come with." He said. "You can't tell me not to come with you. He'd probably have more than enough men guarding her, now that h
Three days later "What did you do?!" Saira cried immediately Daniel came into her room. "What did you do?!""You killed him." Daniel shrugged."Excuse me?" She was dumbfounded."You said you'd rather die than be with me. You said you wanted to be with him and not me, so I thought I'd just make it easier for the judge by judging him myself." He replied flippantly. "You kill using a gun... so, one must die by the same weapon.""Where did you put him? No one can find him." She said through gritted teeth.After the shooting, the men had gone to look for Ethan to finish him off finally, but they couldn't find him. He'd just... disappeared. They'd set the house on fire thinking that if he'd survived the rain of bullets, then he wouldn't survive the fire. "He was probably hit so he went to hide somewhere to die alone." Daniel said. "Now you can be with me forever.""Over my dead body. You have killed my son and husband. I have nothing else to live for." Saira sobbed."I would never harm an
"Actually no." She said flatly.His smile dimmed and she smirked smugly back at him, happy she'd stolen his thunder."I already knew." She shrugged. "Darina loves Ethan too much, so it's out of the question that she'll want him to plead guilty in court. Lucian doesn't have anything to gain by kidnapping me, so I figured that you would be behind it." She waved her hands in the air. "It wasn't rocket science.""Very well." He breathed. "Then you must know the condition I set for him.""Ethan would never do that." She scoffed. "It seems you don't know him.""I know he loves you very much and he'd do anything for you." Daniel smirked."You're asking him to throw his life away!" She yelled."Pssh. I'm sure he'll get a lesser sentence." He shook his head. "His dear mother wouldn't let him go down like that.""And this is how you want to repay the woman who opened her arms to welcome you? The woman who treated you like her son when your own biological mother abandoned you?" Saira questioned.
"No!" Saira cried. "Pay him no mind Ethan!""Do that or you'll never see your wife again." The leader said and disconnected the call, shut the laptop and tucked it under his arm. "Better pray he loves you enough to do that." He turned and walked out.Saira was pissed off at the turn of events, but there was nothing she could do. She was tired of going through the same motions over and over again and wanted to end it all, but the thought of never seeing Ethan or her son again prevented her from doing that. What was more annoying was the fact that she didn't even know the person behind her kidnap even though everything within her was screaming Darina's name, but then... She was much too in love with Ethan to want him to go to jail for life.Lucian Chamberlain? He had nothing to gain from doing this, so he was also ruled out and the third option was Daniel."Bastard." Saira hissed. "I'm going to kill him when I see him. I swear it." She clenched her fists in anger.There was no doubt no
"Sir, Mrs Anderson is here to see you." Adelaide informed Ethan.Ethan looked up from his laptop in surprise. "Saira's mom?""Yes sir." Addy nods."She's here with my wife?" He rose to his feet."She's here alone sir, and she looks very mad." Addy winced."Right." He sighed. "Is DJ asleep?""Out for the count." She smiled."Good." He said and left.He got downstairs and met Jesselyn sitting on a single wingback chair in the hallway. She hadn't even bothered to go to the sitting room to wait. He took a deep breath as she stood up when she saw him and from the furious look in her eyes, he knew something was up with Saira."Good morning, ma'am." He greeted."There's nothing good about this morning if your face is the first thing I have to see." Lyn said. "Where's my daughter?"Ethan's brows furrowed in confusion. "Your daughter? I don't know where she is." He replied. "Did she run away from home?""No you bastard!" She yelled. "Where the hell is my daughter?!""I don't know. I've not see
A few days later"What are you doing here?" Saira glowered at Daniel immediately he stepped into the sitting room. "Who let you in?""Your Mom. How are you doing sweetheart?" He walked around the sofa and bent his head to kiss her, but got a slap in the face for his effort. "Why did you do that?" He rubbed his cheek."You tried to kiss me. Should I have let you?" Her voice dripped with sarcasm.Daniel glowered at her and took a seat on the table in front of her. "How are you doing?""I'm fine. Thanks for asking, but it's none of your business." She snapped."Anything that concerns you is my business." He reached out to hold her hand, but she withdrew her hand and folded them across her chest. "You don't look fine to me, Saira.""Please leave me alone, Daniel.""Is this because of Ethan? Your mom told me you've refused to eat." Daniel said. "If you kill yourself because of love, Ethan Delnoi will continue to live on and find love again.""Don't talk rubbish." She spat. "You don't know
"I can't believe that girl had the guts to kidnap Saira." Kaisha remarked as she watched the news on TV. It'd been a week since the incident but news stations still reported the news like it happened yesterday, and why? Ethan Delnoi had been arrested by the police for murder.The Lawsons were very adamant in having him arrested, but they had no power like the Delnois. Not even close and sure enough, Ethan was bailed out that same day by his mother's lawyers."She got killed for it, so it was her loss." Darina said. "She didn't even get to finish what she started." She clicked her tongue in distaste. "Stupid girl.""So are you still going ahead with the plan?" Kaisha inquired. "For the video tape?""I was going to, but after the stunt this foolish girl pulled with Ethan... I'm dropping it." Darina said. "I'd rather not see my head hanging on his wall as a prize, thank you very much.""I pity Ethan though." Kaisha mused. "The guy's not had a break since he started dating that Saira and
Ethan paced to and fro in the waiting room with his hands clasped together in prayer. Saira had lost a lot of blood from her injuries and though he'd donated some of his for her but, it still wasn't enough.Harry had been checked for injuries but he didn't sustain any except a deep cut on his cheek which had been cleaned and taken care of."She'll be fine dude. She's strong." Harry croaked out."You should really go home and rest, Harry." Ethan told him."And leave you here? No way." Harry shook his head. "That bitch would've killed us if you hadn't come in when you did. I owe you my life, bro."The door to the waiting room opened and Eileen rushed in with Eugene, and surprisingly, Harry's mom."Mom?" Harry was shocked to see her. "How did you...""It doesn't matter." His mother, Dorathy shook her head, pulling him close. "All that matters is that you're fine." She pulled back and looked at Ethan. "I want the name or names of the people who did this.""Name. Anne Lawson." Harry said.