ConfusionKENYA POV“Honestly though…” A long annoying burp and an exaggerated belly rub. “-we need to come together as a nation, gather wood from all around the trees in the world, and burn men alive. Just who does he think he is?” Another burp and a frown. I chuckled to myself before falling backward and leaning against the couch. The stress of the launch was finally over, which meant watching money as it poured into my bank account and planning a new story. Well, that plus wasting time with my girlfriend. "Right? I would fucking buy gallons of petrol." I added up, causing her to raise her beer can in the air and take a small swig, then slam back against the coffee table before staring intently at me. "What are we going to do about him?" She slurred while swaying in her posture, causing a small peal of laughter to fall off my lips. She was completely smashed, yet she was still very much aware of everything that was happening and still able to keep the conversation going. Salut
Silver LiningROYAL POVThe back of my arm screamed as I fished my phone out of my pocket, only to curse in a thousand languages when a notification from a bloody food app appeared on the screen. I heaved a disturbed sigh before unlocking it, then went to my inbox for the umpteenth time, only to find a single tick on the message I sent sixteen hours ago. Another sigh ripped itself from out of my chest before I dropped the phone flat onto my table and then looked up from the control room into the live window then stiffened my face when the two vocalists glared at me questionably.“That’s not gonna do.” I dropped the pen and massaged my tense temple before glaring back at them. “You guys need to be serious if you are going to work with me.” I continued, leaning forward onto the desk,“But you weren’t even listening.” The other one, the blonde stupid pig who looked like he was found stashed in a rubbish bin called out accusingly.“Exactly, dude. And you are telling us we ain’t serious?
DINNERKENYA POV“If you sigh one more time, I swear by the gods I am going to drive us straight over this damn bridge and we will make it to the stats of those cars that didn’t make it off.” Anna roared from the driver’s seat ripping my attention from the side window and onto her.I glared at her for a minute too long before busting out laughing and shaking my head in disbelief.“What the hell did I do?” I asked, utterly clueless as to why I was suddenly being attacked. “You have been sighing for the past fifteen minutes and it's starting to get on my nerves. If you didn’t want to go on this date with your baby daddy, you could’ve turned him down from the get-go.” She accused me, and I slumped into my seat in defeat.I glanced ahead as the car jumped off the brightly lit bridge and onto the highway, then swerved expertly on the ramp and left the busy highway onto the bustling street of Hermitage Avenue. The night sky, with a mixture of night lights and architecture around us, came t
Chapter 13: DINNER IIROYAL POVI was about to swing the phone I clutched to my ear into the thin air when a hand landed on my shoulder and started moving in a subliminal way. I turned to the side and murmured a small ‘wait a sec’ into the device before glaring at the entity beside me. I am saying entity because it was my first laying eyes on the woman standing before me yet she was smiling at me like we had slept together for the past twenty-plus years. it was almost exasperating: pulling along the attention of the entire female population wherever I went, of course!Especially now when I was trying to right the wrongs of my past. I couldn't afford to mess this one up! The past four years were excruciatingly long and lonely, and I would rather die than go through all of that again.“Apologies to disturb you, Mr. Carter. Miss Brown has arrived.” The lady thinned her eyes at me, and no not in the all ‘I am going to bash your head in’ kind of. Hers were inviting sending all kinds of se
Too Hot To Think StraightKENYA POV“Let me get this straight, he buys you one hundred and one roses which, as the delivery claimed, symbolize love that does not fade, and continues to tell you he knew that Lucious was his son even before you confessed; which means he went behind your back to get the DNA test, and then tells you that you guys will be raising the Lucious together?” Anna glared through the top of her beer glass, disbelief resonating from her while her body like smoke.I nodded as I popped a fry into my mouth and then brushed my hands together.“That’s more like it.” I continued chewing on the crunchy potato, focusing on the greasy taste rather than the thought of what had transpired last night.I don’t know what happened, but I swear I was not in my right mind.Royal mentioned that he was going to be involved in Lucious’s life and like an idiot, I just nodded and smiled at him. “You gave in too easily, girl.” She called out, then shook her head in disbelief before pinn
Second Chances ROYAL POV The bustling sounds around me seemed to even hype me more. The white noise of people dragging their luggage around, the whirr of the planes as they ascended into thin air, and the normally annoying screeching sound of their wheels touching the ground… The occasional intercom announcing arrivals and departures of different, countless aircraft… On a very normal day, I would be super pissed to be here, especially when I was not in the business or first-class lounge. But something inside of me was alive, and I couldn’t care less. Not even the fans that brazenly stood in front of me to take pictures of me. Nothing could get me in a bad mood. I felt too good to even care about anything. My foot kept tapping lightly against the floor, a sign that I had been here for far too long and I was growing impatient. “Uncle Roy…” My attention was ripped from my phone by a cute little girl with her hair pulled in piggy tails, charging towards me. I got up from my seat
Falling into place. KENYA POVTwo bottles of red wine and three tequila shots; and I still couldn’t stop fidgeting in my seat.I checked Lucious for an umpteenth time to find him busy with the match-tile game on the iPad, utterly oblivious to my mini-breakdown happening right beside him. Anna was watching me intently, her gaze almost pushing me to the edge of insanity, and I tried with all my might to not think too much of it. This whole fiasco was supposed to go all easy: meet Royal out in public with little Luc and spend a few hours together before doing anything a little extra to make Luc all used to him. But now that I was here, sitting in this kid-friendly restaurant slash bar, I was convinced that maybe this wasn’t all such a good idea. “You know you can simply call him and reschedule the meet-up? Come up with some excuse that something came up and you gotta attend it. Instead of looking like you are going to evaporate in that seat.” She gestured my way with her chin, making
The Missing Piece ROYAL POV The universe possessed a sick sense of humor. That was the only thing I could think of at that particular moment as I stared back at one little human who looked like the younger reflection of me. There was this tightness that held my chest captive, the kind that made me feel like I couldn’t breathe when I listened to him talk about how great his mommy was to him. It was the good kind of sensation though, the feeling you got when you were on the cross between overwhelmingly excited and downright nervous you could break down at any moment. And I was damn glad because I knew that although I had fucked up the only good thing in my life, I somehow managed to create this beautiful soul with the woman I loved. It was in the way my heart raced as though I had completed a marathon the entire time I sat there watching him smile, and his deep black eyes that made guilt harden to dread inside of me with the idea that I wasn't there the times he and his mom needed