Tia and I had to return downstairs, besides, we were taking longer than usual, and if we didn’t, it would raise eye brows, and Tia’s job would be at stake.This is something she would not want at all now, especially with that look in her eyes before we left my room. Anyway, I did not dwell much on how Tia felt or sees me now.Whatever be the end of all this, she would be fine, but what about me? Also, we arrived downstairs in no time, and so I had to let her thoughts fly out of my head, because there are bigger things before me now.“What took you so long?” Ethan was the first to attack.I swallowed hard and looked to Logan for safety, but his back was turned away from me towards the wall, and he was talking in hushed tones over the phone to someone.Tia had immediately gone to the dining table to join the other domestic servants that had been present. Apparently, they had shifted their position to the dining table while I was away in my room.“I…I was contemplating a change of clothe
“You ladies need to bring it down,” Ethan eventually said. It is obvious who he is directing that stern warning to otherwise, why did he not just mention Leah’s name? Anyway, Logan said nothing about that.If he did not hear the words that just came out of Ethan’s mouth, or he just decided not to deal with it, I wouldn’t know.“The police will have the casino searched, and there was no way I could not grant them access to do that,” Ethan said to Logan and started to explain to him. Logan just nodded in absent understanding. No one has explained to me why I needed to be downstairs.I had thought Ethan asked me to come back down immediately because he wanted to drill me with questions until I confessed whatever it was that he wants to hear, or maybe it was said just so that I could look like a part of the family.If that is the case, it definitely must be Logan’s idea, because Leah’s loud rashness and Ethan’s reserved hostility clearly depicts otherwise.Regardless, I find that it is
The interviewer arrived even earlier than Ethan said he would; a young woman with vibrant eyes, lush skin and full lips.The first thing she said when Leah complimented her gorgeous look is that it cost her an arm and a leg to get the lip surgery done.Anyway, the interview started as soon as she arrived, and it baffled me how Ethan and Logan said the right words without flinching as though they were rehearsed.I know that it is Ethan’s job to protect his boss and all that, but the Logan who had seem so weak and vulnerable barely minutes ago is now in his full acting swing, playing the victim.She also documented everything down just as her crew members carried out their job. I got to realize that public lifestyle is one hell of a pretense! When it got to Leah’s turn, she went all the way back on how Logan climbed the ladder of success with so much hard work and determination, and that it was not fair that someone who was not there when he was toiling with his sweat and blood to jeop
Logan’s POVEverything just still feels surreal to me. How did I fucking get here? I know what is at stake, I have always known, which is why all my life I have been super careful not to mess anything up.I have been watchful enough to keep my double lifestyle separately enough so that nothing I do raises suspicions, so how did this fucking happen?!Ethan has said he would carry out his own investigations to make sure whoever did this will be fished out, and I do not doubt that he would. In fact, how this one had managed to slip past him still beats me.All these years, Ethan has been nothing short of observant. He has kept his eyes open, and that is why the bastard, Kozlova has not been able to penetrate all this while, even though he had tried severally to use the people who work for me.The first time it happened, I had been shocked at how Ethan got to find out. He had smiled and asked me to leave the job to him, only that I have never been comfortable with taking out the traitors.
Logan’s POVIt was also years later that I discovered that Lan did not want some tip that day at my trailer years ago; he wanted to get close to me, but how do I allow a man who makes his money off exposing people’s lifestyles and making their lives a living hell? After he tried severally, but I still maintained cold shoulders towards him, he eventually gave up. The surly bastard.However, he started to fish out ugly news about me that he could use to destroy me but he had not found anything reasonable.Even when Riley and I had a messy breakup, he knew he could not bank on that because he had always known that Riley was a crazy bitch.The question now is who the hell handed him this information?The words of the interviewer to Alice floated to my ears, and thankfully, it chased Lan’s thoughts away from my head.For the first time since she started interviewing Alice, I turned to actually know how she is faring.I know I should concentrate more on Alice being interviewed considering
I cannot believe how fluent and good the lies came without my conscience tearing me apart or my fears getting in the way.Now that they have left, I feel sick to my stomach that they have successful lured me into their bed of lies.Even though I knew I could not do otherwise because of their presence and Ethan’s warning and piercing gaze, I just could not bring myself to not acting according to what was expected of me.My breathing rate increased after the last person shut the door and all the domestic servants present disappeared from site.The room suddenly became too choked up for me, and just being around the D’Nores’s and Ethan was too much for me to handle, and sensing that this was the reason they asked me to come back downstairs is done, I turned towards the staircase to return to my room.All I wanted now was to go into my room, lock myself up and just lay down to catch my breath and rethink all that has happened in the last minute.Everything just feels like a fucking movie!
Riley sat by a beach house and sipped from a glass of margarita, smiling and blushing as she read through the blogs.What they have said about Logan D’Nores, her ex-lover cannot be true, after all she once dated him, and he was one of the cleanest men she ever knew.But then again, he was extremely secretive to her: not letting her visit his house and some of the sneaky calls that he took when they spent some time in a hotel, which Riley thought were calls to other women trying to gain his attention.She hadn’t bothered herself much about it, because he was famous and drop-dead handsome, so it was only normal that he had girls flocking around him.She had even been told once that he had been with someone else, and she just shrugged it off. When their relationship had ended, she had told the world that he was cheating way too much, and she just couldn’t stand it.Her fans had stood by her, but Logan D’Nores was too loved and popular to be judged by his sins.Emma had confirmed it too t
“Do you want to guess?” Emma chuckled and said, bringing Riley back from her reverie.Riley only smiled back, wishing now that she had kept her words stuck in her mouth, but she had been too awed by Emma’s new look to keep the words hostage.It now seems to Riley that everyone else is getting their lives together except her.And it makes her conscious of her own present look, but thankfully, she had worn sunscreen shades, so anyone would hardly be able to notice her patched eyes.Riley just smiled tightly and took a sip from her drink.“Well, I would like a glass of margarita too. I am a little thirsty,” Emma said instead when her eyes were drawn to Riley’s drink.“Oh, is that what you would have? They have all sorts of alcoholic drinks,” Riley suggested, amazed that Emma would opt for what she was having for the very first time.The bitch was as drawn to alcohol as bees to flowers, so what the hell happened to her in Hawaii?!Emma snorted, “Oh no, I am taking a long break from all of
Logan’s POV“Why isn’t Ethan picking his damn phone?!” I muttered in exasperation and I continued to dial his number and pace around the living room.Leah just sat on the couch and stared.Ethan has been gone for some days now without telling me where he was going, which is unlike him, and very upsetting.“You need to relax, I am sure Ethan will soon be here,” Leah said to me.Then something clicked in my head. “Hold on, did he tell you where he was going?” I asked Leah and she looked away, a sheepish grin playing on her lips.Damn these folks, they are indeed playing a fast one on me.I heard the door creak open, and I turned immediately to scold Ethan, knowing he would be the one entering the house, but everything in me went still at who I saw beside Ethan.Alice.Leah and Ethan immediately went upstairs, leaving us alone. Seeing Alice after the betrayal is shocking, but nothing prepared me for the sight that beheld me; her stomach bump.We stared at each other for a long period of
I sensed that Ethan shook his head.“Logan could have told you, but he was protecting you way too much. Little did he know that you are slimier and more devilish than he would ever have imagined,” Ethan said.I expected to feel venom in his words, or scorn and anger and vengeance in his voice, but all I felt was an unexpected calmness.Something tells me that he is not exactly calm instead. Why should he? He is practically standing in front of the woman that plotted and killed his best friend and boss.Well, maybe this is the calm before the storm, which I am fully ready for now, only that I would rather he did not do anything violent in the home or even around the home that took a total stranger like me in without questions and showed me nothing but love and hospitality.Ethan cleared his throat, but he still did not move an inch. “Well, I will tell you what Logan failed to,” he said and paused.I have no idea if he expected any response from me, and I have been through so much to ev
Indeed, the farmer’s wife was right about their daughter; she is a chatty and vibrant teenager who unbelievably knew so much about the world even though they lived far away into the bush. I have spent a couple of months there now, and each time, my heart ached for what could have been; the love and happiness the farmer and his family shared were rare.I have never met a family so contented and at peace with their environment, and to think that his wife gave up her job in the city just to move down to his ranch.It even came as a shock to me when their teenage daughter spoke so fondly about Logan D’Nores, and to prove her point, she has magazines of him in her bedside drawer, and her most desired dream would be to see him someday and tell him how much of a fan she was.“She buys magazines that carry his pictures any time we go to town,” the farmer had said so one evening over dinner when she would not stop talking about the famous Logan D’Nores.Apparently, she is not conversant with
Logan’s POVI woke up feeling like shit.“Took way longer than I expected,” Ethan said.I recognized his voice immediately, and I turned to him. “Ethan,” I muttered.“Do you feel any better?” Ethan asked.“No, but I would like to have a mirror. I know I look a mess already,” I said and ground my teeth.“There is no way I am letting you get close to a mirror right now until you are completely on your feet,” Ethan said.“Aside feeling like shit, I don’t feel much pains,” I said as I stretched my body on the bed. “The doctor has confirmed that you will be fine. There are no broken bones, and that is why you are not wrapped up in bandages,” Ethan said, chuckling.I groaned. “I detest bandages.” I said, and then looked at Ethan worriedly, “Where is Leah?” I asked.“Relax, man, she only went to her room to get a nap. She has been up by your side ever since the accident, and she hasn’t slept a wink.I had to literally force her to go and rest her head. You gave us all a scare, Logan,” Ethan
When I woke up, it was at around 4am. The pain had stopped, as well as the dull headache. There was a dim light glowing from the bedside lamp, but it was just enough to illuminate the room.I could still hear the chirping of the birds, which reminds me again of Logan and his multimillion naira mansion.Then I jerked up!My baby! I touched my stomach, and my heart started to race really fast.I am no longer in pains, and the bleeding has obviously stopped, and I really slept for hours; I am not sure I have slept this long since I was a child, and now, I have been sleeping uninterruptedly for hours since I met this stranger who is being extremely nice to me for no reason.What have they done to my baby?! I wanted to wail and scream, but it is still dark outside, and I am yet to fully understand my new environment.Silly me, I should have thought and made adequate plans on my own before running away just like that. Now what if I have landed myself in the hands of an evil man and his fami
I ran as fast as I could without stopping. My heart was pounding really fast. “I have killed Logan. I have killed Logan. I have killed Logan,” my heart continued to remind me. Fortunately for me, I did not have to run long enough before I heard the sound of a moving train.There was a stop just ahead, and I added extra speed just to meet up so that the train would not leave me. I got there just in time.The train had just finished taking in its passengers after others got out of the train, and I jumped in as well, looking like a lunatic.I could not get a seat, and worse, I did not even know the destination of the train, but I did not mind. I head onto the pole to steady my quivering feet and my breath.“Hey, are you okay?” I heard someone ask.I turned and saw that it was an average looking man. He looked like a merchant to me, or possibly a hunter with his cowboy hat and boots. Without meaning to, tears gathered in my eyes instantly. He immediately noticed this and got up.“Please
Kozlova texted me the moment I woke up that it is time, and I needed to act fast or else he would take a different action that I would not exactly like, then he went on to send me the details of it.We already had the plan on ground, all I needed to do was get Logan D’Nores to the location for execution.I waited for Logan with bated breath, and when he eventually entered the room carrying a tray of food by himself, guilt nabbed at my heart.He has practically been babysitting me since the accident, and paying him this way is not exactly right, but there is nothing I can do.The nausea and dizziness have reduced, but I sense Logan looking at me in a way that is sort of suspicious.I know the doctor did not divulge the secret of the pregnancy to him, so why would he be staring at me in a weird sort of way? Does he suspect anything? Is it so obvious that I am pregnant? According to the doctor, the pregnancy is just a month and a week old, which means it definitely cannot be so obvious.
“We need to talk, man,” Ethan said the moment he entered the room about an hour later. Alice is still sleeping peacefully, and Leah has since gone to change and freshen up. Before I left Alice’s side, I made sure she was breathing fine.“We will not spend more than five minutes,” I said as I stood up and followed Ethan to the study.He nodded in agreement. Somehow, he and Leah have decided to be very co-operative this period, which is very sensitive of them.“What have you found?” I asked him. “It is Kozlova general, is it not?”Just then, Leah entered.I wanted to question her as to why she is present. Usually, I do not approve of Leah being present or involved in my businesses.I prefer to keep her protected, and completely out of the way, as it has always been, except of course, it is unavoidably urgent. But right now, I decided to just let her be.If she wants to be here to know what happened, then she can, and it is also because of the genuine concern she showed to Alice earlier
Logan’s POVAlice got discharged from the hospital three days later. According to the doctor, she was really fortunate not to have sustained any severe injuries, and the few bruises would not cause a scar.She still looked sick to me, and her cheeks are swollen now, but I am just glad that the accident did not take her life.I have ordered Ethan to make sure he gets me the person responsible for it, and even if it is the last thing I spend my life doing, I will.I had wanted her transferred to my hospital where my competent doctor would look after her, but eventually discovered that the small hospital she was rushed to was equally competent. Another advantage to it is that it would not get out to the press.The last thing I need right now is for fucking news to be flying about, about Alice’s near assassination.Of course, I suspect Kozlova general, he is the only enemy I know, but according to Ethan, we mustn’t jump into conclusions until he has made his findings. When we arrived hom