“You have to go, Alice,” Logan said, his voice having dropped to a plea.“What’s in it for you?” I asked stubbornly.“Why would you think that I have anything to gain by asking you to go back to school?” Logan asked me.“Because I don’t trust a man who has forcefully taken away my choices and has shoved down his own will down my throat, and let’s not even talk about the other questionable attributes.”“Alice…” Logan started, but stopped. His forehead wrinkled in tiredness of dealing with me, and his face in that instant, became rougher than when he first showed up.I would have wished in this moment that he had shaved before showing his face in the house, but this has only made him ruggedly tempting.I shook my head to clear it.You need to stay focused, Alice.The room became eerily quiet, and instead of me to allow the quietness of the room to drag me into feeling guilty, I leaped on my feet and said, “Why would I want to return to that school? The students there are a bunch of rich
I stood before my long mirror on this Monday morning dressed for resumption, but now I am wishing I hadn’t allowed Logan talk me into going back to that stupid school. I am not a celebrity. I am not a social girl.I am not anything like all the girls in that school, so why do I have to compete with them for fuck’s sake? I cannot deny my nervousness, even though I am well dressed, and the school has promised to be cordial in their dealings with me, and Logan has assured me that he would swing into action should I report any behavior contrary to their promises.But I am not so sure of myself.I am not sure I am out of my scandalous element, and so I honestly do not know how I would react should anyone get on my nerves. I released the breath I am holding, and allow my racing heart to slow down before taking my bag and shoving my books and stationery and phone inside it.The driver, Don is patiently waiting for me downstairs in the parking lot, and so I really have to get out of my anxie
Logan’s POVI waited that morning, and even stared at my phone all day with anticipation, waiting for my phone to ring, hoping to get a call from Alice’s school that she has been involved in one scandal or another, and by the time it was late noon and I got a notification from Don that he had safely dropped Alice back home from school, I had felt really foolish.Give the girl a break, man, I scolded myself.It is even quite hilarious, because was the one who gave her all the pep-talks and encouragement she needed to resume, and here I am waiting for doom to happen. I know that recently Alice has given me every damn reason to believe that she is really improving on herself, but I cannot help myself from feeling that there is a scandal or crazy drama from Alice lurking around.I forced myself to rise from where I have sat and waited all day and went to look for Leah. We haven’t really talked in a while, and frankly, I miss Leah as a sister.“Hey you,” I ruffled her hair when I entered
The next couple of weeks were a whole lot of tight schedule for Logan and I, especially Logan. Since his latest job, he has been so busy that he hasn’t come home since then, and we have barely talked on the phone. Mostly, he only gets a few minutes for rest, and then he uses that free time to call the house to check up on how things are going.Unfortunately, I am always at school whenever that happens.Speaking of school, it has been less drama, but now, the spoilt brats avoid me like a plague, because I heard that it was the Secretary himself that sent the school a reprimanding letter and they just had to do right by me, so all of them have been issued stern warning, which is now making them stay away from me.I wanted so badly to tell Logan that he was wrong about making new friends because I don’t see any of that happening any time soon. Not like I get bored or anything, after all, days after I resumed school I bought myself a headphone, and I make sure to have it on when I am no
Logan’s POVI stood by the beach side watching the ocean lap with each wave. My shirt is unbuttoned, and my shorts are slightly above the knee. I have not been to the beach in a really long time, and if not for this movie we are shooting, I wouldn’t be here.I have missed how just resting by the beach makes me feel relaxed and refreshed. It has been a complete rush of event as we are all trying to give it our best shot. Ethan has had to go from shooting scenes to my casino and then our drug house just to keep things afloat everywhere.We cannot let anything loose at this point.I pleaded with him to help me check up on the goings-on in the house, and he said when he got there, Alice was not back from school yet, but everything seems to be going on just fine. Every day, no matter how tired I finish off, even at the dead of the night, I still speak with Don over the phone to get a detailed report on all that happens every single day. Alice does not know that I have been keeping exclus
“What do you want?” I asked my father.We cannot obviously go somewhere to talk because some more steps and we would be seen by Don, and I do not want to be in a secret place with him. Even though he sounds too pitiful and sad, I do not trust him.“What do you want?” I asked again.I noticed that his breathing increased, and he looks extremely starved. Without waiting for him to respond, I dipped my hand into my purse and handed him the money I had planned to use to buy some vanilla ice-cream on our way back home. He collected it eagerly.“Thank you, baby,” he said.I wanted immediately not to correct him on that. It is the second time he is referring to me as his “baby”, but I am not his baby. “What do you want?” I asked for the third time, already deciding that I would walk away from him if he does not say anything.“I want you to forgive me, princess,” He pleaded tearfully.“I am not your princess, neither am I your baby,” I couldn’t help it. All the anger and hurt and loneliness
Kozlova entered Morgan’s room and saw the motherfucker resting his head on the rail of his dilapidated bed. While he had dropped Morgan off at Alice’s school, he had gone elsewhere to mind an important business of his. He did not want to trust the bastard, but Morgan knows better than to try anything funny with him. He made sure that he instilled a lot of fearful threat in his system which Morgan knows too well that they are not empty at all.When he had returned to Morgan and asked him what his dead brains could come up with on how to go about running D’Nores down, he had said he would go through his daughter.“How?” Kozlova had asked.“I…em…um….I will…” Morgan had fallen into a state of stammering, pissing Kozlova off.“Speak, bastard!” Kozlova had yelled angrily, his voice echoing all over the place.“If I can get Alice to see D’Nores for the true devil that he is, she will have no choice but to join forces with us to bring him down,” Morgna had replied.Kozlova had laughed at Mor
Tia entered my room that evening to tell me about dinner being served.“I am not hungry, Tia,” I told her hoping that she would let me be and just walk out, but I had completely forgotten who Tia was. She stood still. “I am not hungry, Tia,” I stressed again.“You have been moody since you got back from school, and you have not eaten,” Tia said instead of moving out of my space which I expected her to do.It was not a question, so I kept mute.“Is anything the matter?” Tia asked, concern written all over her.“Get the fuck out of my room, Tia, and fucking act like I am your boss!” I yelled at her, and it amazed me that I am more astonished by my reaction than Tia.She bowed her head and left.I wanted so badly to feel remorseful about yelling at her like that. After all, she has been the only true friend I have ever had since this life of mine began. Tia has been more than the house cook to me, and she has cheered me up in ways no one has ever done. Surely, she does not deserve what
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