TWO DAYS later and I am in a five-star hotel, and this is in no way my own money is being spent and I am grateful because this place is very expensive. I could afford it but my days of staying in fancy overpriced hotels are over.The room I am in right now has been booked by Russell. There are two guards stationed right outside the room and I am not allowed to leave until I am told so. I am currently staying out the window, enjoying the beautiful view that I have of the ocean.I can still remember Susan’s voice and her advice to me. She told me that killing Russell is the only way I could get out of all this mess and go back to my life, plus she told me that it would help her granddaughter to finally be free from the strings of Russell.So I took her advice, when Natalie came back into the house with Cara, I told them that I was ready to do the job and that nothing would change my mind. Cara was suspicious but Natalie did not care much. She just wants me to do the job and be out of he
My ears are ringing and I have to stop moving for a few seconds because I feel dizzy. I close my eyes also and it helps, for the ringing and dizziness fade away as quickly and abruptly as they came. I stand upright and I open my eyes, I don’t know why my body reacted that way, I have heard gunshots close to me over and over, and have even fired different kinds myself.“Jen, what are doing? Get over here!” I hear Cara say and I lock eyes with her, I don’t see Natalie and I suspect that she has already entered the room where Rob’s father is in. Cara is standing in the doorway and she is waving me over.I move my legs and I close the distance between us, the bodies of the four guards that were stationed at the door lay limp on the floor. “What happened? You froze up,” Cara tells me and I shrug, not knowing exactly what to tell her.“Let’s go, sir. This is for your own safety,” I hear Natalie say and when I look in the direction of her voice, I see her walking with a middle-aged man by h
Natalie, Cara, Ethan, and I are escorted inside the gigantic compound. It does not take us very long to meet Russell, especially after Natalie told his guard to tell him that we have a gift for him. We are all now in one of the three living rooms that this house has.“It’s great to have us all here, Jen, but I thought we agreed that I wanted the gift a certain way,” Russell says to me, trying to tell me that he thought Ethan would be dead right now and not in his living room sitting across from him.“You are unbelievable, Russell. You want to seal the deal so bad that you went as far as hiring trained killers to kill me,” Ethan says and we all watch him as he speaks. Russell laughs in response as if all that Ethan is saying are made up.“Come on now, you are not that much of a threat to me, why would I want you dead?” He replies as he stands to his feet, adjusting his jacket that matches his suit.“Natalie, and Jen, I would like a word with you two. And for the rest of you, I want you
As this Russian man advanced toward me with rage in his eyes, I thought I would have felt fear, but all I feel is anger. Anger fuels every part of my body and soul, giving me a strength that I can not explain or fathom.I dodge his punch and his fist hits the wall with a heavy force, giving me the opportunity to cause damage to him in the few seconds of advantage I have been given.I kick him hard in his abdomen and he doubles over in pain as a string of cusses escapes his mouth. Natalie is on her feet already and she has withdrawn her gun.“So this has been your plan, huh?” He asks as he tries to catch his breath, a look of disappointment plastering his face.“Do you think this is the life I want?” She avoids his question and asks her own. The gun is aimed at Russell and although he has gained his composure, he dares not to make any sudden moves, for he knows that he could get shot.“You ungrateful brat, you act as if I took away your entire life by locking you in a cage,” He replies
I open the door of the house and I walk in as Cara follows behind me slowly and tentatively. We are out of Russia and in Cyprus, though only Cara came along. Natalie took a later flight because she wanted to come with Susan, her grandmother.It took us a couple of hours to fly from Russia to Cyprus, especially because I did not have my passport on me. Cara had to pull some strings and call in some favors at airport security, and to my pleasant surprise, it all worked out smoothly.“Are you sure that they would want to see me?” I hear Cara’s voice as we walk further into the house. Everything looks pretty much the same, but I don’t see anyone here. “Where is everyone?” I say to myself in a low tone as I continue to explore the house.Suddenly I hear heavy footsteps and I look toward the source, someone is walking down the stairs. As soon as the person's eyes meet mine, they stop in their tracks.“Whoa, am I tripping, or am I seeing Jen Davis?” Chad asks me and he continues his descent
It is usually sunny here, but today is different, and besides, it is a Saturday. I think the weather chose the best time to be like this, I don’t have to drive Jake to school and I get to spend the entire day with him.Yesterday was so eventful, I had to explain all that happened to me in Russia to Robert, James, Carlos, and Chad about three times before they finally could grasp it all. I also had the responsibility of explaining why I have suddenly decided to trust and forgive someone that caused me so much trauma, Cara was quiet when I took my time to make them all understand that I have finally decided to bury the hatchet concerning what she did.I am not going to pretend like I don’t feel a stab of emotional pain when I look at her, but I am going to try my best to move on. I am currently sitting on the porch alone while listening to the beating of the rain on the ground and roof, it is very soothing and I have never felt so relaxed in my life. Everybody else is in the house and
I can not believe that this just happened, Robert proposed to me! This is amazing and I feel so good, but I also feel like this is too good and I don’t deserve it. But I am just going to sum that up as insecurity trying to present itself in the form of me not being worth it enough to get proposed to.After I said yes, I think Jake was more excited than everyone else. Chad and the others came out soon after and I have a strong feeling that they somehow knew that Robert was going to propose. Robert placed a very expensive ring on my finger and he rose from his kneeling, I placed Jake in the chair where I was sitting and Robert and I embraced. We then shared a kiss and everyone joined Jake as he clapped. As soon as the applause died, the rain ceased gradually and the sun began to shine through the dark clouds. It seemed too perfect that I literally had to pinch myself two times to make sure that I was not dreaming. Good thing I was not, because I would have been so mad at myself.We e
Some might say that we are moving a bit too fast, but I have known Robert for close to a year now. Still, it seems like such a limited amount of time to decide to spend your entire life with someone, but why wait any longer?Robert and I have had our fair share of storms and problems, but we have weathered everyone one of them, plus we have a great support system. Chad, James, Carlos, and Jake are sure to be there for us if we happen to begin to feel the storms of life raging again, and of course, we will.The amount of crazy that I have been through individually is insane, my entire life has been far from normal and I am starting to stop wanting normal. Besides, normal is a bit overrated. Marrying someone you have known for only almost a year is not very expected, or should I say, normal? But that is the thing, I am not normal and do not even want to be anymore.“Well?” Robert asks me as I drag my body off the unmade bed. He suggested that we should get married next week after I ment