I have never wanted a day to go by so fast in my life. After a long ass week, it was finally the day of the wedding, I have never waited and prayed for a day to come the way I prayed for this one to come. I even wanted them to move the day forward but Mom refused to listen to me. It was finally the day, the day I got married to the stranger in the wheelchair but I didn't care much about that. What I cared about was the money for Nyla’s surgery. I was to get it after the wedding was over and I couldn't wait. It was like a slap to my face when I cried and begged for the money and I didn't get it was like a piece of my heart was torn out and ripped to shreds in my face. How could people I called my parent do that to me?Was I entitled to think they would give it to me? They could afford it. I knew that they also knew that I knew but they didn't care or try to hide it, they were okay with Nyla living in pain rather than trusting me for once in their lives.“Can you not have that expres
LEONAfter the phone call she had her already pale skin became even whiter, before I could bring myself to ask what was wrong she spoke“Stop the car,” she said in her little calm voice“I said stop the car, stop the fucking car!!” she shouted scaring me a bitMy driver sent me a look through the inner mirror so I gave him a little nod to let her get down. Immediately the car stopped she flew out like she was being chased in a horror film, she kicked her shoes off her feet and they flew in different directions. It happened too quickly that I couldn't even react, she ran barefooted in her wedding gown like a crazy person“What the hell is going on?” I asked and my driver had the same look on his face he was just as confused as I was“What do we do sir?” he asked“Follow her,” I said and he did just that I guess it wouldn't be ideal to leave my newly wedded bride to run through the streetsWe slowed down when we caught up with her, for someone on foot she was going surprisingly too fa
NAYAWith shaky hands, I slowly lifted the clothes that were covering her body. And there she was, lying still with her eyes shut. Her body was already cold, and her skin had turned almost as white as snow. My heart broke, and I felt a deep emptiness inside. I failed her. After all the pain she went through, I couldn’t give her that one thing she always dreamed of.She used to talk so much about how she wanted to go to the beach after everything was over. She said it was something she would do when she was finally free from all the pain, and I promised her that we would go together. It was supposed to be after her last surgery the one that was going to make everything better. I thought it would be the beginning of a new life for her, but instead, it turned out to be the end. I couldn’t keep my promise.I couldn’t do that one thing for her, the one thing she asked for. I felt like I had let her down, and the weight of it crushed me. I wanted it all to end. The thought of moving on wit
The cemetery was quiet, except for the soft rustling of leaves in the wind, I could see Leon from the corner of my eyes. He was the one that ordered Nyla’s body to be removed from the room that was the only time I stepped out, I just laid there with her crying over and over again but now I felt nothing no emotions no pain just numbness.My knees dug into the damp earth, my hands clutching the edge of Nyla’s coffin. She was right there, yet she wasn’t. The only family I had, the one person who loved me without conditions, was gone.Tears streamed down my face as I whispered a broken apology. “I’m so sorry, Nyla. I’m so sorry I couldn’t save you.” My voice cracked, the weight of guilt choking me. The people behind me faded into the background. I didn’t care about their presence. None of them mattered the only person who did was about to be six feet under the ground.The priest’s words felt hollow, just noise in the emptiness around me. Nothing they said could bring her back. Nothing c
LEONI felt unsettled after leaving her in the hospital but the tone in her voice when she told me to leave, I just couldn't keep laying around with her. I couldn't help but wonder how she was doing, it was almost three days and I hadn't heard from her. But I pushed her to the back of my mind and went on with my day just because she was my wife doesn't mean she was my problem to deal with.“Sir, do you think she is still at the hospital?” Nick my driver askedHe just had to spoil my mood that early morning“Who is that?” I asked pretending not to know who he was talking about “Your wife sir,” he said earning him a glare from me“I’m just saying, the way she was that day I don't think it would be good for her to be left alone” he added“She has parents doesn't say?” I asked“But I feel you should check on her it is the right thing to do,” he said“Argh Nick why are you up my ass this morning it is too early for this I don't need your lectures” I groanedNick was the only person that c
NAYAAfter the interaction with my parents at Nyla’s funeral Leon took me to his place and made the housekeeper show me an empty room where I would be staying. All I did was slip out of the wedding dress that had been stuck to my body and laid on the floor in my underwear. I couldn't tell how long I stayed in that same spot but days went by and nights went by and I didn't move a muscle, every time the housekeeper brought food probably to check if I was still alive. The food was left untouched every day but she would come and change the old plate to a new plate whenever she liked without saying a word to me and I appreciated that.One particular day she came in and stared long at me before she proceeded to open up the curtains making me wince as the bright sun reflection almost blinded me, that was the first sound I had made in a while my throat was dry and it hurt bad“Staving yourself wouldn't change anything, instead fight back and you need to be alive to do that,” the older woman s
It was like living in a prison, they always brought my breakfast, lunch, and dinner at a particular time. It was never a minute later. I was allowed to go outside but only to a particular spot which was a mini garden the rest were off-limits to me. I could go into the kitchen because Leon doesn't go there and the living room also but the rest of the house I wasn't allowed to go there even the big library I would love to explore and get lost in the books there was out of bounds.I usually spent the whole day thinking of ways I could bring the Genreys to the ground, I didn't know how it could work out. They laughed in my face when I told them that they would get what was coming to them, when I told them I would be the cause of their ruin I was nothing just as I said there was no way I would be able to bring them down on my own, I would just become a subject to their mockery it would be like throwing stones in a pond to kill a fish all it those is cause a splash.Then a thought dropped i
LEONI wanted to laugh right in her face when she said she could help me walk again. Was she serious? Did she think I was that gullible? The only way she could make that happen would be if she had some kind of magic powers or maybe if she was a witch. The whole thing felt ridiculous, almost like a joke. Maybe she thought I was so desperate to walk again that I’d cling to any shred of hope, no matter how far-fetched it sounded. But I wasn’t that person anymore. Part of me wondered if she was trying to mess with me, to play some cruel game or maybe she was trying to play around with me because she thought I was desperate to walk again.When the accident happened, and the doctor looked me in the eyes and told me I would never be able to walk again, I didn’t take him seriously. I brushed off his words like they were nothing, convinced he didn’t know what he was talking about. In my mind, I believed there had to be a solution. I had the money, after all, money could fix anything, couldn
LEONThe anger in her voice was very loud and clear, I had never seen her like that it was like watching a different person but in a good way. Although it happened at a rough time she had the last laugh and it was so satisfying to watch. Their faces as they watch every word come out of her mouth, they must have forgotten she wasn’t the same girl they taunted and trampled on. They thought her words were just her bluffing because they thought she was weak and there was nothing she could do to them.And she showed them, they didn’t know how much she gave her all into making sure she brings them to their downfall, how persistent she was during that period was what drew me to her. I was so proud of her because she fought that battle against them and she won after they laughed in her face repeatedly, now it was left to them to waste away wishing they could go back in time and not get on her wrong side.She laid in bed and just stared at the ceiling without uttering a word and I sat beside h
I sat on the hospital bed staring into the distance while Leon sat beside me, he looked down and troubled, that it made me feel horrible. He also lost the same way I did but he was only trying to make me feel better while he battled with his own grief internally. I couldn’t even hold him and tell him everything would be fine, my mind wasn’t in the right place, we both needed each other and I couldn’t be there for him.“Have you had anything to eat?” I asked and he turned to me quickly surprised to hear me speak“Don’t worry about me I am fine” he said giving me a little smileHe still had his head wrapped with bandages and he hadn’t had any rest yet, his eyes looked red and heavy.“How could I not? Just look at you we went through the same thing and you are still trying to look after me when you are also hurting” I cried“Naya” he called cupping my face in his hands“Look at me, I am fine as long as you are fine,” he said the tone in his voice breaking my heart even further “But I’m
KAYLAIt was like a dream, one minute I was planning a holiday to escape everything that had been going on around me, and the very next minute everything was taken away from us. It was frustrating when our accounts got frozen but in my head I expected it to get fixed. Dad would take care of it was what I said. But it was like someone was actively working extremely hard to bring us down, I would never forget how Dad got arrested. I was still in bed when I heard a loud bang from downstairs, I was so confused and scared but I ran down the stairs to see what it was about just to see a sea of policemen storm into the house and whisk Dad away before we could react. Mom had to go around taking loans to afford a lawyer, it was embarrassing and unbelievable. I couldn’t wrap my head around how we could fall so fast, it didn’t happen with warning or little but everything happened at once and too fast for me to process. I cried myself to sleep every night because mom kept saying stuff like I ha
NAYA Being in that ward tied to the damn drip and the continuous beeping that filled my ears made me feel like I was being held captive. I wanted to leave the damn environment but they didn't want to let me leave. “I can’t stay here it is suffocating, I need to leave,” I said to Nick “Just a little more while and you will go home” Nick answered his voice laced with pity “I can’t, it feels like I am being held captive. I hate it here” I sobbed “How about we get some air outside” he suggested “Alright” I mumbled He took a wheelchair and tried to get me to sit on it when I stopped him “I can walk” I kicked the chair away as I got on my feet “Careful” he rushed to my side to assist me but the look I sent his way made him know better than to hold me I lost my baby and that was hard enough, staying in bed made me feel more helpless and way worse than I already was “Leon is now the CEO,” Nick said beside me “That’s good” was all I said It was good news but right
I headed back to the hospital so I could be with Naya while Nick could carry on sorting everything out, the evidence was clear and inevitable. The only way Jennifer could avoid getting arrested was if the evidence was destroyed and that would never happen not on my watch. I got down from my car and before I could step in an older-looking man with specks of grey hair scattered over his hair stopped me with his both hands stretched out by his side “Where is my daughter?” he asked a whiff of his alcohol-filled breath hit meI tried to walk around him and leave but he rushed and stood in front of me again asking the same question “Where is my daughter?!” he asked shouting this time“Go find your daughter or whatever else where to leave me and get out of my sight before I punch you in the guts” I threatened through my gritted teeth, I was in no mood to deal with a drunk“If you don't take me to her now I will come back with the press,” he said pausing me in my tracksWhat was the fucked
LEONIt was hard watching Naya devastated and broken and once again it was me who put her in that position. Just after celebrating that we were going to be parents it was taken away from us. It hurt so much but I couldn't show that in front of her, I had to be strong for her but I was moments away from slipping. I wanted to scream and crush them both to crumbs even after being named CEO. That wasn't enough, I need to finish them off for good.She clung to me tightly but didn't say a word after she cried her eyes out and I held onto her not letting her go. I couldn't tell her the good news since the moment had been stolen away and it didn't even sound like good news anymore with what we had going on. Our bundle of joy that we rejoiced over was gone, and I couldn't begin to imagine the pain that Naya was going through.“Congratulations boss you did it” Nick whispered once Naya fell asleep “Doesn't feel like a victory” I breathed out, he was talking about me becoming the new CEO of Valo
NAYAI slowly opened my eyes, my vision blurry at first. Everything around me felt hazy like I was trapped in a dream I couldn’t wake up from. I tried to make sense of where I was, but the steady beeping sound filling my ears told me all I needed to know. I was in a hospital.I felt something strapped to my face and instinctively reached up, pulling down the oxygen mask. My body ached, but I ignored the pain and tried to sit up. The moment I moved, a sharp sting shot through me, making me wince.Before I could push myself any further, I heard hurried footsteps. Nick rushed to my side, his face filled with worry.“You are up,” he said happily “Stay still I will go get the doctor” he whispered“Where is Leon?” I asked but he rushed out to get the doctor I winced at every movement I made every part of me hurt and there was a throbbing in my head that didn't want to go away. Every time I close my eyes I see flashbacks of the car ramming into us, I thought that was it, I genuinely thoug
RYANIt felt like I was in a trance state not only did I watch Leon walk in and destabilize everything I also watched him get elected as CEO out of fifty board members forty-nine of them all voted for him while I got one, just one fucking vote and that person was my mother. All my plotting and trying to protect my position and he just came out of nowhere and took it away from me like it was nothing.I had questions How long has he been planning for?He had a whole secret company and now an investment company? He was out to get us for good and he won. he fucking won.More than anything I felt like a failure, the smirk he had on his face kept replaying in my head. I wanted nothing more than to bury my nose in cocaine and do whatever came to mind. I wanted to strangle him with my bare hands and watch his life slip out of him.“Can you fucking answer me?!” I heard my mom shout. We were in the basement parking lot of the company waiting for the reporters to clear out before we left, the
LEON“Let me fucking go” I hissed at the doctor trying to clean up my wounds“But sir you are bleeding,” he said“I don’t fucking care!” I roared “I want every doctor in this hospital to attend to her, she must wake up or I would burn this place to the fucking ground!!” I shouted, there was a banging in my head as I spoke but I ignored it. I had to make sure Naya was fine“We have been able to stabilize her, we can only hope that she wakes up,” he said slowly like he was scared of the words as they came out of his mouth“Don’t tell me that! I would pay any damn amount just make sure she is fine and she wakes up please” my voice cracked as tears filled my eyes, it was unbearable to keep watching her lay still like that“What is going on? What happened?” Nick rushed in looking between me and Naya“We will try our best you have my word,” the doctor said I crashed on the couch holding my head tightly trying to stop the banging that refused to stop“Why hasn’t this been covered up?” Nick