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ILLICIT AFFAIRS Eighty-Six
LISADespite knowing who he was and why he'd come for me, as soon as his feet thudded while he landed in my room from the window, I staggered and almost fell backward because I'd lost my balance briefly. I'd been impatiently expecting him for the past few days, but his presence startled me still and my feet betrayed me by turning into jelly underneath me as I took in his physique.He took a more defensive stance on seeing me lose my balance so suddenly and I assumed that he'd mistaken my staggering for an attempt to try and call for help. On instinct, he moved dangerously closer to me and my heart got stuck in my throat as he approached me angrily."Don't you dare try to call for help" He said in an unusually dark and authoritative tone that made chills run through my spine especially since I knew that his displeasure was directed at me, even though I deserved it- it still stung like crazy having experienced it now."I wasn't trying to call for help, I swear" I barely choked out the w
Last Updated : 2023-03-08ILLICIT AFFAIRS Eighty-Seven
Axel’s POVEver since I began the mission to take back everything I’d lost in full force, Prince had been calling often for updates and to show his support. Despite my hyper-independence, at a time like this, I genuinely appreciated his concern and I also felt empowered knowing that someone believed in me to turn things around despite everything that had happened recently with the last shipment.Even now, he’d called to check in and get updates on how things had turned out so far and as usual, I was willing to share every single detail with him, even though my hold on trusting people had dwindled greatly after being betrayed by Lisa.“How’s everything going? I hope everything’s in place now.” Prince asked and I could sense that he’d been a little tense because he knew how delicate this mission was to us, we needed a big win so badly.“We’ve successfully landed on the remote island where one of our safe houses is located, as per your insistence we've also set up security to the max and
Last Updated : 2023-03-09ILLICIT AFFAIRS Eighty-Eight
AXELI stood in a spot as I was mere inches away from Lisa, I knew that I wasn't sane enough to be dealing with the stubbornness she’d been putting up concerning eating her meals. Why wouldn't she eat when it seemed like she’d been starved for days even when I kidnapped her? She had absolutely no right to make me worry about her now when she was meant to be nothing but a common prisoner to me.I didn't know if she wasn't eating as a sign of protest but I didn't want to show her any emotion rather than the anger that had boiled through my veins nonstop for the last few days, so I tried my best to act as though her appearance and her refusal to eat didn't bother me in the slightest way. Also, if my anger would coerce her to eat so that I’d stop giving a fuck about her well-being, then I was willing to pull a few strings and make her eat already.“If you know what's good for you, you'll eat every single meal that’s brought to you because trying to do a little protest by going on a hunger
Last Updated : 2023-03-10ILLICIT AFFAIRS Eighty-Nine
I didn't deserve a morsel of food.I didn't deserve anything good, I knew that and that's why I didn't want to eat anything that had been brought to my room in the last two days. It’d been ringing in my head non-stop that I didn't deserve the comfort I was being offered here as a prisoner, I wasn't here to be fed or given a comfortable bed to rest my head on, I was here to be taken revenge on and I truly wished he’d get on with it already before the guilt I felt ate me up inside out.When would he finally torture me as he’d kept threatening to? I impatiently wondered. Instead, he’d just been here ordering me to eat as though I was going on a hunger strike to protest being kidnapped, little did he know that I was simply punishing myself for being a bitch to him. But I knew that I couldn’t tell him that, I wasn't seeking pity or sympathy from him, I just needed him to level the playing ground by exacting his revenge on me for my betrayal so that we’d finally be even in a way.He looked
Last Updated : 2023-03-11ILLICIT AFFAIRS Ninety
AXELMy head always ended up being a mess after any little interaction with Lisa these days, I could control my emotions and expressions with anyone else but not around her. Even when I managed to successfully control my emotions by masking them, it's a fucking struggle and I almost always lose the struggle.I don’t know why I’d asked her about the memories we shared when I knew deep down that her answers would most likely hurt me. It had slipped out of my lips before I could drop myself and it rendered all the commandeering I’d been doing earlier as null and void somehow. It's all because I let myself get lost in my head while it replayed all the memories of where I would've given the world just to keep watching her smile. I should've never let myself get wrapped up in our memories after what she’d done and how she’d crushed my heart.After the question had slipped out, I needed to do damage control so I masked my feelings again just to get an answer out of her. Things had gone south
Last Updated : 2023-03-12ILLICIT AFFAIRS Ninety-One
Axel's POVAfter the previous day’s call with Lisa’s father, I was prepared for a more dramatic day than it was because I was ready to pull all the strings I possibly could to track down my lost shipment, or better still, get him to hand it over by surrendering.It was bright and early in the morning, and I was in the study of the safe house where I’d been doing some important paperwork. It hadn't been up to thirty minutes since I’d gotten started on the paperwork before I was irritatingly interrupted by my phone’s incessant buzzing while it rang out loud.As I looked down at my phone on the desk, I noticed that the number wasn't saved on my phone so I guessed it might be a new client or one of our anonymous dealers that reached out with different numbers, so I immediately accepted the call and held the phone up to my ear.“You Bastard!” Was the first thing I heard screamed right into the receiver and I pulled the phone away from my ear briefly because of the unexpected tone that reso
Last Updated : 2023-03-13ILLICIT AFFAIRS Ninety-Two
AXELLisa’s father had thought that I was merely blabbing when I told him what state his daughter was in because I’d hesitated when he requested a video call, well, I was about to show him that he didn't have any playing cards against me this time around.I stood against a wall in the basement of the safe house and watched as one of the guards brought a bloodied Lisa in. There was an empty chair that stood in the middle of the huge basement that was mostly empty and they walked toward it as soon as they entered the room.I watched her very closely as she sat in the chair without so much of a fuss, some ropes drooped slowly around the chair to serve as a restriction for whoever was placed in it. I noticed how her eyes randomly juggled between the guard who’d started trying her up and myself.She looked weak and downtrodden as she let the guard pull her hands behind her and tie them up, her eyes were bloodshot and empty like her spirits had been crushed. After a while, the guard moved t
Last Updated : 2023-03-14ILLICIT AFFAIRS Ninety-Three
Axel’s POVFLASHBACK***After I’d blurted out the question about whether all the memories we’d spent, her replies seemed to have been off- it was as though she didn’t believe what she’d said to me. The entire conversation fucked with my mind In ways I didn’t expect and that did a number on me.As soon as I walked out of the room where she’d been in, I headed straight for the training room because I felt the weight of conflicting emotions in my heart. It made me angry that she still had an effect on me despite her betrayal and I just needed to let out some steam before I took out my anger on someone else.I walked in long and impatient strides and reached the training room in no time, as soon as I walked in I went straight for the punching bags where I usually found solace in times like these. I put on some gloves hurriedly because I needed to let out my frustration badly before it consumed me.The moment I started hitting the punching bags, my emotions were in a whirlwind and I punche
Last Updated : 2023-03-15
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ILLICIT AFFAIRS EPILOGUE
LISA A YEAR LATER Have I just spent the absolute best year of my life? Yes. Best was such an understatement to describe the year I just had. Axel made sure to keep on his promise of being the best thing that has ever happened to me and each day was better than the last. And he also made sure to keep up with the promise of putting babies inside me during our honeymoon because here I was, heavily pregnant and the scan has confirmed that we were expecting twins. Axel has never allowed me to hear the end of it. He was always bragging about his skills and all those yadayada nonsense and that was how he was able to impregnate me during our three months honeymoon. Yeah, we did use three months for our honeymoon and I was sure we were the only couple that had done that. I wanted us to go back after a month but Axel had insisted that we spent three months and in the end, it was all because of me. He wanted me to learn all the things I've mentioned that I wanted to learn while making sure
ILLICIT AFFAIRS FINAL CHAPTER
AXELI still couldn't believe my eyes, just like I couldn't believe everything that had happened for the past 2 hours but one thing was real. Lisa was here by my side, wearing my ring as we walked out of the airport hand in hand and into the car that was already waiting for us.“But how did you do this?” I finally asked, speaking for the first time since I confirmed that she was the one sitting beside me on the plane, “how were you able to make that happen?” I asked as the car drove us to the hotel we booked for our honeymoon. “My brother-in-law helped me,” she sassed, leaning closer to me like she has been doing since we entered the car. It was like she couldn't believe that I was here and she needed to feel my body to confirm that. Not that I was complaining though. I'd gladly allow her to enter my body if that's why she needed it. “Your brother-in-law? Prince?” I asked incredulously suddenly slammed with the idea that Prince somehow knew of where she was all these while but I k
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Lisa's POVMy disappearing act was the most unplanned and spontaneous decision I'd ever made in my life and now I'd realized that it was a poorly thought-out decision, one that only caused the people I loved more pain than the relief I'd expected it to bring them.As much as it literally blew my mind that I'd finally gotten married to the man I wouldn't have dared to dream of while I was growing up, I couldn't stop myself from feeling like a burden and a magnet of unfortunate events for him.It was bothersome that I could easily trace every misfortune that had befallen him back to myself, it was as though I was a catalyst for his misery over and over. It felt as though trouble trailed dangerously close behind me and affected everyone in my life, most especially Axel.I'd broken his heart and betrayed him, stolen a shipment that he'd worked tirelessly to procure, and made being a hostage a mentally challenging chore for him, and now I'd been oblivious to the fact that I was being used a
ILLICIT AFFAIRS 109
AXELSIX MONTHS LATERMy entire life had been turned upside down ever since Lisa disappeared from the hospital, it hurt like hell that the moment I’d gotten her back, I’d lost her without single trace. I’d been wild the day she disappeared, I was fucking angry at everyone and I raided the hospital angrily.I spat threats out and shook the very foundations of the entire hospital because I needed at least a single clue as to how Lisa had disappeared. But no single person had any reasonable information to offer me and my heart had sunk with fear, what if I’d lost her forever?I regretted having gone for the meeting that day and leaving her unattended, the two days when I didn't step out of the hospital she’d been perfectly safe and then the second I left, she was suddenly lost to the fucking wind? I blamed myself and feared what would become of me if I never found her.Every day for the last six months had been a recurring nightmare, I was living in a world where Lisa wasn't by my side an
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Axel's POVEverything felt like a blur in the past two days, time seemed to be at a standstill and nothing made sense to me asides from updates on Lisa's fragile and critical health. I'd been seated for hours in the private waiting lodge of the secluded recovery room I paid for to ensure she was being catered to in the best conditions.It felt like no time had passed yet time had dragged aimlessly for the last forty-eight hours, I was always on edge whenever the doctor approached me with news, I didn't know how I'd react if I lost her— I'd lose my damn mind, that's for sure.In over 10 hours, the last news I'd gotten about Lisa was that she was still unconscious and her vitals were unstable. Since then, I'd shuffled between pacing up and down, running my hands through my hair in frustration, feeling like my heart would burst from the scare, and refusing to speak to anyone that dared to tell me I deserved rest— rest? I'll rest when Lisa is awake and stable.Involuntarily my mind drifte
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Lisa’s POVMy heart ripped into a million pieces while I watched what had become of the day that I’d love to keep replaying in memory on a loop, my father has turned my wedding day which had just made me shed tears of unimaginable joy into a freaking shit hole.As he called to me with an arm stretched out, I felt a wave of disgust and hatred for him that was impossible to conceal. I was certain that my facial expressions gave away just how much I detested his guts as he stood before me.My heart kept beating uncontrollably and I could barely form the millions of questions that flew threw my mind, I needed to breathe but I didn't care to catch my breath as much as I terribly needed answers to those questions from my father.I couldn't believe the smug and unapologetic look he has on his face, it was as though he didn't care about hurting me as long as she had his way. I finally mustered the courage to speak but I was certain my voice would sound cracked and snotty because of how much I
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Axel’s POVA serenading symphony of wedding songs that Lisa and I had chosen was being played on the organ and my heart squeezed in its position in my chest because I knew what the start of the music signaled. It had meant that in no time, Lisa would be walked down the aisle by her father toward me.As I looked down the empty aisle I noticed that Volkov’s men has moved from the positions outside the church and had joined my men indoors.They all seemed to be in sync for some reason, but I couldn't possibly guess with the excitement in my veins, still, I looked over at Prince and nodded toward them so that he’d observe them and u could focus on Lisa, and he’d understood what my gesture meant and nodded back at me sharply.I quickly shifted my mind from worrying about what might be irrelevant and focused on my wedding day again.I became tense yet excited at the prospect of looking at her beautiful face for the last time before she became my wife before this congestion. I stood before t
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Axel's POV I was certain that I hadn't stopped smiling while I got dressed for the event of the day, I was thrilled beyond human comprehension. I'd retied my bowtie a couple of times because my mind kept wandering to Lisa like the hopelessly smitten man I was, I could barely focus on myself. I'd decided to wear a dark blue double-breasted suit instead of sticking with the conventional rite of black suits for the groom. I buttoned my jacket and dusted it proudly while I checked myself out in the mirror, Lisa was lucky to be getting married to an absolute snack, I laughed as the silly thought crossed my mind. It hit me again that very moment, I was truly getting married to the woman that made love feel so good I was certain we'd cheated the laws of the universe. I'd never thought I would be so certain that someone was made for me, my soulmate, and my entire world. Just then, a hand landed on my back and rubbed it aggressively and shook me out of the thoughts I'd immersed my mind in.
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LISAIf anyone had told me that my love would become an ethereal dream after being a complete nightmare a month ago, I'd have spat bitterly in their face. But yet, here I was, living the life I wouldn't have dared to dream of after all the unfortunate events I'd been through.My nerves could barely contain my excitement and my heart was an endless leap for joy because I was about to get through the day I'd fantasized about a million times over the past month. I was beyond elated and I couldn't hide it, I didn't want to anyways, it could easily pass as the best day of my life.I was getting married to the man of my dreams, the man that surpassed my dreams and made life a living fantasy. It was I and Axel's wedding day, finally! I'd already said I do in my head several times but the thought of saying it as a vow before a church intrigued me greatly."Girllll! I can't fucking believe your luck with love, teach me a thing or two please?" Tana's excited voice broke through my thoughts and
