Evelyn's pov “I can't remember the last time we all gathered like this to eat like a family…” my father exclaimed with excitement as he settled at his chair at the dining table.There was a deep satisfaction written all over his face to see all of us settling down. When I stared at the other, I wasn't pleased about it. “Neither can I…” I admitted not only to him but also to myself. Ignoring my stepfamily was one of my main priorities in life, it saved me a lot of problems and uncomfortable encounters…something that I was always sure of whenever I met with them alone because they would immediately fit down the facade of being the perfect step family in front of my father and then show who they really were exposing their true colors behind him. The breakfast was inarable with my father there but these people were desperate to try and talk to me but I stylishly brought back every conversation over to my father. Eventually, it was over, and I stood up to my feet immediately greeting e
Evelyn's pov I had not expected to run into him at all but I should have known that since he didn't have breakfast with us this was inevitable. No, it wasn't but if even Kelvin could get the courage to speak with me I wouldn't be surprised that this man also had the same thing as well. But I didn't have time to waste and I wanted to dismiss him immediately so that I could get to what I needed to do. I slowly rise from my table when he quickly comes to join me. “Where are you rushing off to?” He said in a very playful tone that completely urged my skin to crawl with bumps of disgust, after our last encounter I thought that he would give me a very good gap and he wouldn't try to speak to me at all but obviously, he was not ashamed at al as that he was more than comfortable speaking to me now despite everything that he had done. I was so angry with him. I had never really fully addressed this anger so I decided that maybe I would implant it in his mind before I finally left. A coup
Kian's pov“What do you mean you're not going to eat your food?! Are you planning to starve yourself to death so that you won't have to give us any information…if you push us any further we are going to force-feed you…”I looked up at my two foolish burly captors, both of them were so ridiculously and needlessly large that it irritated me every time I made sight of them. I had been trying my best to keep myself calm in this situation because I felt that would be the best decision to make initially. Whatever they tied me up with, it was slowly weakening me. When there had been nobody in the cabin, I had tried breaking out of it and failed so I decided that an outburst was not really going to help me escape. I was hoping that I would be able to get through to my wife but she had built a solid brick wall between me and herself. I couldn't blame her for it, she didn't get the full picture of the situation, just the one that made me look like a manipulative monster…the villain in the sit
Evelyn's pov I knocked on the cabin door again and yet there was still no response. Instead, I was met with Dead silence. It made me worried and I wanted to break down the door immediately, but if truly someone else had already found this place then breaking down the door and bringing attention to myself might not be the best idea. This thought became rather irrelevant when I realized that I had already been knocking repeatedly, so the attention that I was not trying to attract might actually get to me anyway. I was worried, my heart was pounding a little bit but just then one of my men that I had appointed to watch Kian came to the door and he apologized for taking so long. “I'm sorry princess, I should have come to the door earlier, we were just a little shocked and you usually come earlier than this so we thought that it might be somebody else,”I wasn't angry at him, I was more of relieved that this place had not been discovered yet but I realized that if truly I had been some
Kian's pov Of all the people that I thought that I would be sharing this story with I never imagined that it would be the daughter of the man that cost it all then putting that in the background, there were a lot of things I never expected would happen when I came to this place back then I had been moved by only revenge and nothing else. But now I couldn't deny what I had gotten even if it was just a little bit…distraction. As much as I tried to deny those accusations when Hailey threw them at me like projectiles there was only so much that someone could deny. Her eyes were looking at me now no longer with the same sparkle and adoration but with distrust and demand. I sighed deeply after everything I had put her through. I guess the least that she deserved was an explanation to it all.“You know I didn't just meet your father when he woke out of coma or when you brought me to see him when he was still in that condition…no I've known your father ever since I was a kid, a young one
Kian's pov “I'm telling you if you're not willing to take a risk then you're not going to be able to make it in business you understood all of this before. Is it that being married has made you forget?” I remember my mother being on the phone with Evelyn's father after realizing that her family that had sold her was not going to be able to help her. She decided to look for other means. She thought that if she had her own money and she planned out a really good strategy everything would work out. So she contacted her closest friend who was also a business associate in the past, hoping that he would be able to dig her out of this situation that she has found herself in. “... It's not like I forgot that everything is a risk but you need to know that mine is not just a simple risk. If I was going to a bank and getting all this money then I wouldn't be all that worried. The worst that the bank could do is take my assets…”My mother and father shared separate rooms. I had realized that
Kian's pov “From all I've heard so far, my father has been nothing but a decent person. If there is anybody that you should hold any real aggression to then it should be your own father…”She said and my eyes became red. “Nothing in the world can compare my hatred for that man, and trust me, I despise him more than your father but don't underestimate the hatred I still have for your father. I'm not still done with my story yet…I'm still leading up to the point…”She looked at me doubtfully, tapping her fingers on the arms of the chair, it was like she was trying to run away before she heard the inevitable, before she heard anything that would truly taint the image that she had in her mind, she wanted to shift away because her eyes did not look like she thought I was lying. “Do you really not wonder why your father wanted our marriage to end?” I suddenly asked her and she seemed surprised, she even shifted her back but just a couple of inches. She looked uncomfortable because of t
Kian's pov My resolution to keep everything to myself and not speak to her anymore did not last more than a couple of seconds before it immediately melted away and I felt ashamed of myself and how much I had fallen in such a short time. All those times in the past I used to think that if I ever came across one of this man's children I would not be able to hold myself back from hitting them. But what did I feel towards Evelyn? I have tried not to think about it too much because I knew that it was a dangerous thing to think because it would make things just far too complicated. Even with the way I was feeling right now, if I could just make it stop, if it was only for the period when I needed to do what had to be done then I would have been so grateful but unfortunately, I could have not turned it off. The scary part about all of that was that part of me did not even want to turn it off at all.“Look, you came to finally hear me out, to finally hear why I despise your father so m