Jade's POV.I woke up in the morning and was full of all smiles, I checked my side and Kayden was no more in bed, he must have late this morning and gone back home to prepare for school because I remembered cuddling him to sleep. I sat up on the bed and palmed my face as every one of the night activities replayed in my head. We did it last night and it was simply the best. I was still in that position when my phone beeped, signifying that I just received a new notification. I got out of bed and saw that I was still naked and I quickly wrapped the covers around me as I quickly went to lock the door in case either of my parents wanted to check on me in the room, I'm sure they would easily detect what happened in here in the night, because every still stink of it and I love the smell.I picked up my phone and smiled when I saw that it was a message from Kayden, I moved to my bed with my back and gently fell on it when I was sure that I was close enough and I read the message, "Good morn
Jade's POV.I laughed at Kayden's face, it was sour like he was caught doing something bad. I laughed more, "You shouldn't have hidden it, you knew that I've always wanted to go to a karaoke!""That is why it is called a surprise. I don't know myself to have a loose mouth, but you, you like using your face against me!" He glared playfully at me and I laughed."I'm happy I used it, now I can't wait to be at that party!" I spoke in a singsong and squealed, "Yay!""Can you keep it low? We are not even there yet and as I told you, it won't start now, we still have close to an hour left before it starts," he told me."Let's get there first, I want to be sure that you are not messing with me.""Of course not. I mean, why will I mess with the almighty Jade?" He had his side eyes on me as he spoke dramatically."Hahaha, very funny," I laughed out a sarcastic laugh and I rolled my eyes. He laughed and focused back on driving.We got to the location and he was right, the place was still very sc
Jade's POV.It's blood! It's blood! I backed off to the door in fright. His shirt was slowly getting soaked. "Kayden, Your arm!" I called him with my body shivering.He groaned and managed to pack the car by the side of the road in the middle of nowhere. "Kayden!" I called in shock.Oh my God! What is happening? Who should I call? Oh my God! Kayden! I knew that if I didn't do something it would be worse and worse still, he was losing some blood. Oh my!I rushed to his side and took the seat belt away from his body. "Kayden!" I called again. I was afraid of touching how. I don't even know what was happening.I took hold of my hair and roughen it like a madman, I didn't know what to do. I just kept crying."Damn! It's a fucking bullet!" Kayden groaned.A bullet? No, no, no. I began to panic and wiggled in my seat. I was almost stricken with cardiac arrest, but if I give way for that, who will save Kayden then?I should be brave! I thought but I wasn't. "Kayden!" I cried more. "Please K
Jade's POV.I saw his eyes, they were blazing with anger and I saw Kayden on the bed fighting for his life, "You!" He thundered, "You want to kill my son!"I couldn't move, I don't know what was happening but I knew I was traumatized. I stared at Kayden, he was not moving anymore, I wanted to tell the man in front of me to check on him but I couldn't, I was stable like I was under a spell, his spell and he was not ready to let me go.Somehow, he got to find out that Kayden was not moving again, I watched fearfully as he stomped towards him and checked his pulse. Turning his eyes to me, it was blazing with fire, "You are happy right?! You kill him! You kill my son! My heir! You killed him!" He began to stomp back to me with a devilish smile on his face, "I will show you how much dying hurts!" He jerked me up to my feet and I screamed at the highest pitch of my voice with my eyes closed and hands blocking my ears."Ah!""Jade!" A distant voice called but it was faint, my scream was supe
Jade's POV.I was dumbfounded and didn't know what to do. I know I had said that I would just watch but seeing him now, I knew there were a lot of things I wanted to say to him and a lot of things I wanted to do. I miss him so much.I remained on that spot, watching him coming closer to me, his head was fixed on the floor and he had guards beside him. I knew that if he raised his head, he would see me, so I waited. Just when my prayer was getting answered and he was raising his head to look at me, I was forcefully dragged away from his presence to a dark spot that I didn't know existed in the hospital, not like I knew anywhere in the hospital, but I just thought that somewhere that dark was not supposed to be in the hospital.I looked up at who dared to drag me and saw his father, I should have known, he was still right behind me and he must have found out who I was even with my hours of doing the disguise. "Why am I not surprised to see you? I know you even with all these dark shades
Kayden's POV.I was lying down on my bed with my eyes fixed on the colored bob in my room. I had to go to school, I know, but I couldn't find the strength to get out of bed to start dressing up, not when I knew that I would not be able to talk with Jade, my Jade. That alone was killing me. Dad was still unable to get the person that shot at us and that is a million and one reason why I have to avoid her. Being with me was trouble, sometimes, one just has to get hurt to keep the person he loves safe. I'm protecting her with everything in me.I rolled over my bed to face the side of my room and I remember the time we were returning from the karaoke, she had said that there was something in the woods, what if the shooter had decided to shoot her because she noticed him? Maybe the bullet must have gone through her blood and, and...... No, God forbid! I quickly rebuke the thought, she cannot die on me, never! That was why I had to protect her with everything in me.I had intentionally told
Jade's POV.I rushed out of my room and at the same time strapped my bag on my shoulders. I met my parents in the kitchen, "I have to go now, bye Mom, and you too Dad." I pecked their cheeks."Better get to talk to that boy before you think of returning here in the afternoon," Mom told me, anger was slightly showing in her voice and I gasped."Mom!""Don't mind your mother, she is still very angry that you left the serving for her to attend to Kayden's friends yesterday, you should have known her by now. Now, run along, so that you won't be late." Dad said to me."Thanks, Dad." I pecked Mom's cheek again and watched her trying to hide her smile. I chuckled and ran out of the house. I flapped down a cab and entered, after calling the name of my school to the cab driver, he drove off.I got to school and the first place I ran to was the parking lot, I went to check if Kayden's car was there but none of the cars in the parking lot looked like his. Maybe he is not in school yet, or bette
Jade's POV.It was a few days after Kayden's words of avoiding me and I just realized that he was dead serious. He meant it. For the past few days in school, he had been avoiding me badly and he even missed classes before he didn't want to see me. His reason must be really serious. I texted him every minute and he refused to reply to my messages, though he read them, I'm sure he did, he just didn't reply to them, also, my calls, he didn't pick up any of it and it was frustrating.Then, there is Athena, who challenged me would get Kayden back, she never meant a second in school to laugh at my face, especially the times that I would be chasing Kayden behind and he would turn a corner and just disappear, or mix with the crowd. I was almost going insane and can't he see that I was becoming distracted?I remember when I was been questioned in class, for the first time in my life, I couldn't answer a question, I knew the answer, but at that moment, my head was blank, I almost spilled it ou
Jade's POV.I smiled as I remembered what happened in those past weeks. Kayden woke up and his Dad fainted because he was overjoyed, and he was admitted too in the hospital. The doctors were surprised when Kayden woke up, they confessed that they thought that he wouldn't wake up til maybe a year or two since he was so cold and lifeless, he was already like a dead man and they thought he would never make it. He was shot in the chest, the shoulder, and the back, which pierced through to his stomach. He was so dead, he lost almost all the blood in his body and it was a miracle that he was alive and I can't stop being thankful.When he woke up, he refused to let me leave his presence and I was not ready to leave too, I wanted him closer to me as much as he did me. I wanted to be in his arms and never let go. When the doctors saw that we both were not letting each other go, they had no choice but to admit us into the same ward and they would treat us on the same bed, inject us with our me
Jade's POV.I found myself in a dark open space, but I was not afraid, I was walking hand in hand with Kayden. Though the place was filled with darkness, I could feel the wetness of the ground, which felt like flowers around. It must be a flower garden, but I couldn't see it. How did I know that it was Kayden I was walking with? Because I was feeling the same way I always feel anytime I was with Kayden and his hand fit rightly in mine.I glanced at his dark and he chuckled like he always does. I stared away and walked more. Suddenly a bright light showed around and I gasped. The light began to pull me closer and I was willingly following it, it was calling out to me, but I noticed that Kayden was not following me anymore and his hand was slipping away from mine. I wanted to shout his name but I couldn't, it was like my lips were sealed. I took hold of his hand with my both hands, not ready to let him go, but his hand eventually slipped off from mine and the light took me away, and th
Author's POV.Kayden was surprised to see his uncle standing right behind Jade, what was he doing there? And in a place like this. He thought."Uncle Theodore?" He had to ask again to confirm that he was not seeing in twos."Kayden, Kayden, Kayden, my favorite nephew." Theodore spoke in a singsong and with each word, he was pulling himself closer to Kayden while Kayden's eyes rose in confusion. "Did you miss me?"Kayden couldn't reply to him, he had his mind clouded with the same question. What is Uncle Theodore doing here? Though the answer to his question was glaring at him he didn't want to believe it. Theodore was his uncle for Christ's sake, the only child of his grandparents after his father!"Why aren't you talking? Still, I'm shocked. Oh no! That is not nice!" Theodore's voice was laced with mockery."Why? I mean, what are you doing here? I... I wasn't planning on seeing you here!" Kayden's eyes went to Jade and saw two hefty men holding her tightly. He returned his eyes to Th
Jade's POV.I felt myself awake but my eyes were closed, I was hearing some disturbing voices in my head, and I almost thought that it was Mom and Dad who were planning a prank on me. I tried to lift my hand to wipe the dizziness off so that I could be able to open my eyes but I couldn't raise my hands, none of them was raising and I feared, what's happening to me? Why are my hands stuck? I didn't have answers to my questions so I decided to pick the words the people around me were saying.".....she is still asleep, why the hell is that?!" One of them thundered and I almost shivered, the voice was so loud and daring. Dad's voice cannot sound like that and I began to put meaning to things around me.The event in the restroom rewind in my head and I got it, I was sedated and kidnapped. Damn! That person that flirted something on my face, how couldn't I notice it? One person cannot come to the school to take me, I should have thought of it very well before walking out, I could have peepe
Uncle Henry's POV.I should have known that something like that was bound to happen. I should have known that he would not give up, he would find something to pull Kayden out of the mansion and I should have known that the target would be Jade, my poor niece.I know that since it happened that way, we couldn't have been able to prevent it. If Jade was tightly secure like Kayden was, I was sure that he would use another method like maybe kidnap any of Jade's parents to lure her out, just the same way he was using Jade to lure Kayden. I stood before my sister's house and I sighed. I didn't know how they got to know about the kidnapping, but here I was trying to stand before them as a shoulder, I had to come here first before going back to the mansion to see that kid, Kayden. He is going insane and his father has to lock him into the room so that he won't leave to go to the location of the kidnappers without a proper plan. He would just get himself killed.I entered the house and just a
Kayden's POV.I was tired of staying indoors as it has been days already, but what can we do? Even Uncle Henry, who never finds it difficult to find a culprit, according to Jade, was finding this difficult. Nothing was leading us to him and all the people Dad was remembering were so out of the line, that they had nothing to do with the attacks after George, Dad's private investigator, and Uncle Henry investigated them. They were as clean as anything and I had a feeling that we would not be seeing the culprit soon.After the call Jade. I called Brandon, "Hey man.""My guy, what's up?" His voice was facetious, he was not expecting my call at least not that in the morning, but I was dying of boredom, I needed someone to keep me company before Jade arrived, and then I would chase all of them away to be with only Jade."I'm bored," I told him, "Are you up for some games?""Sure, will be up in a minute or two. You're calling me from my dream." He joked."Lazy ass. Don't keep me waiting, you
Jade's POV.It was another day of school and I was in my room, dressing up for school as I was on a video call with Kayden. He was in his room, under curfew. He was to hide himself from his attackers til he or she would be found.I had taken my bath and brushed my teeth in the bathroom. I had also dried my body and a long towel was tightly fixed around my chest."........are you telling me that you will be in there without coming out til the coast is clear and you're free to leave for anywhere you are?" I questioned him, already knowing his answer."Yes." He replied. "Dad is trying, I'm beginning to pity him," Kayden said to me."I thought you hated him. Remember you said that he is paying for his sin and for being the very worst father ever." I knew he had said that without thinking and now, he was regretting it, I just want him to laugh and be happy. I mean, he is not even attacked yet, so he deserves to be happy.He growled childishly, "I was a fool when I said that, though I will
Jade's POV.We were at the airport, waiting for our new helper to show up. Uncle Henry. I had told them that I knew someone who could help us to find the culprit and had called Uncle Henry, who was my uncle and also a military man. He was the same person who trained me on self-defense and that was how I was able to survive among those spoilt brat in school.Uncle Henry had spoken with Mr. Walters and they had bonded well on the phone we were at the airport to pick him up, Mr Walters was with us too with more than twenty guards.Mr Walters had appointed ten hefty men to follow Kayden and me about in school, There was no breathing space, and even inside the classroom, they were there and the teachers had no choice. Before we eat a food, the seller would taste it, before we drink a drink, the guards would sniff it to know if it was poisoned. There was no more fun and Brandon with the other guys did not cease to tease us with it."Uncle Henry!" I opened the car's door and ran to him as I
Jade's POV.I laughed when Kayden told his Dad to leave, but that did not even hurt the man, he entered anyway even without Kayden's concept. "Son, we need to talk."I stopped what I was doing, ready to get up and give them some privacy, but I was stopped by Kayden. "Continue what you're doing Jade, it's more important." He didn't even mind his Dad's presence, he spoke sultrily."You're embarrassing the lady, come on." Mr Walters said and my embarrassment rose to its highest level.Kayden turned his head to look at me and he must have noticed that his Dad was right. He motioned for me to get up from him, which I did. I watched as he stood up and flexed his muscles and wiggled his waist."Thanks, babe, I feel so good." I nodded, I couldn't talk the way I wanted to, his Dad was present and I didn't want to offend him. Kayden frowned and turned to his Dad, "Leave Dad, you're making her uncomfortable."My eyes widened when I heard that. He shouldn't have said it, because my nervousness r