CHAPTER 44Christian was lost at words, "You have to think this through," Damien added. "What about the kids?" Christian asked rhetorically. He couldn't bring himself to leave the kids, nor could he leave Antonia. Damien seemed to have heard his thoughts and replied, "They will be fine without you, you don't have to worry about them. After all they're not the first kids to grow with a single parent," Christian was enraged when he heard this, he cast an angry look at Damien. "Stay out of this, I don't need your opinion anymore," he growled. Damien was surprised at the sudden change of Christian. Wasn't he the one who had asked him for an advise? Why had he suddenly change?"But you were the one who asked for my-""And I regret asking for your harsh and cruel opinion!" Christian hissed. "Ill do whatever suits me the best, you can now leave," he added."I'm sorry if I had-" again Damien was cut short."I asked you to get out, didn't I?" Christian asked and gave Damien a cold look, lo
CHAPTER 45The wind was gentle against her skin, the curtains beat wildly against the window as the cold air rushed into the room. “Stop that!” Laura giggled and playfully swatted his hands away from her cheeks.“Make me.” Riam teased, threw her arms above her head and dipped lower till he back was on the bed. “I’d really love to see you try.” He smirked.Laura tried and failed woefully. Rian laughed and planted a kiss on her cheek. “You look so cute when you’re mad, you know that?” He cooed and placed another kiss on her cheek.He tucked back a strand of her hair and her eyes fluttered closed as she leaned into his touch.“You’re so beautiful, Laura.” He whispered against her skin.She chuckled, “you’ve said that atleast ten times just this morning.” She teased, her brows scrunched up as an unpleasant thought crossed her mind, “sure you’re okay?” She asked suddenly worried.“Yeah, why wouldn’t I be?” He grinned. “Wait, is it because I stated the obvious?” He wondered out loud.Laura
CHAPTER 46Placing his hand under her head, Christian pulled her to himself, taking her lips into his slowly. Already looking forward to sharing a kiss with him, Laura gave in fully. With her hand resting on his chest, she returned his kiss with equal fervor and soon they were both fighting for dominance with their tongues in each other's mouth. This left them exhausted when they finally pulled away. “Let's go in.” Laura offered, pushing her hair away from her face as Christian shook his head in the negative. Raising her brow at him, she asked, “Why is that? Is anything wrong?” “Not at all.” He replied, swirling his key in his hand. “I will be off now.” He said and with that, he got into his car and then drove off before he could stop him. Laura didn't let her gaze off the car until she couldn't see it anymore. With her fingers now combing through her hair, she turned around and then made her way into the house. Now in her room,she was sitting at the head of her bed with her leg
CHAPTER 47“It's just past midnight.” Christian muttered, rubbing the back of his neck. Pulling himself up, he rested his head against the wall with his eyes fixed on the ceiling. Even though he had just woken up from a dreamless sleep which had left him drained, he wanted to return but each time he closed his eyes, they would be wide open the next minute. Frustrated, he fixed his gaze on the clock only to start calculating the hours left before dawn. “12…1…2…3… ugh! More than four hours left until dawn. What am I going to do now? Going back to bed is impossible.” He groaned as he let out a low sigh of frustration. Swinging his feet off the bed, he made his way towards the bathroom and after washing his face, he returned to the window and then parted the curtains. Now leaning against the wall, he began to stare at the sleeping city. Minutes after minutes went by, still yet, he didn't have the urge to return to bed despite all his attempts to tire himself out. In contrast to the
CHAPTER 48She didn't know which was more embarrassing, eavesdropping or having Christian stare down at her where she laid so useless or the fact that he had a quite absurd look on his face.She looked up to him and could hear her heart ricocheting, she turned her gaze as he walked away.She could tell that he was annoyed and she would have to pacify him again.She walked in and caught him in a foul mood,for the first time since when she could remember he looked at her with disdain, as if the very idea of what she had done was starting to irritate him.Tonia's voice was calm when it came to him, she could… As usual it was easy to tell that she was sorry about what she had done, but he couldn't get it off his chest as it thuds heavily.“Why." He muttered. “You are acting differently, especially after the entire situation that had happened." She couldn't bring herself to say anything as she knew that she had wronged him.Regardless, Antonia presses on. “I am sorry, I was just curious.”
CHAPTER 49Staring at her reflection in the mirror, Laura stood right there in the middle of the room trying to get her most recent altercation with Rian out of her mind. She looked back to where he laid on the bed still asleep and wondered to herself if that was what he cared about after all— Sex!They had started the night most definitely arguing and then it had ended with her having to appease him with sex as well.She undid the simple braid Riley had helped her with the previous week and let the strands fall off to her back, her eyes seemed a deeper shade than it should have been as she drew in a deep breath.She brushed back the faint lines of tension showing on either side of her brows and she sighed deeply again.The truth was that she was tense, as a matter of fact her whole person was— She turned and looked back at him one more time.She thought it was best she had a shower to help her calm her nerves, as soon as she was in, she turned on the taps, stripped and stepped into
CHAPTER 50 “Alright, but can't you tell me why you want to see me so bad?,"Her voice is two tones higher than it should be, giving away her trepidation, she couldn't tell why but it's sounded so important from what he had said and she had to see her parents.Still she is not convinced, she had that feeling that all of this had to do with something as the call couldn't be coincidence.“I’m sorry. I should have been clearer,” he insists. “But trust me you'll hear more about it when you return.” When she turned to face Rian the look he had showed he wasn't that pleased. “Should I come with you?" he questioned.For what felt like a minute, she held his gaze. " I don't think that would be necessary.”“And the summit?" He asked.She groaned. It had slipped my mind, and only now did it occur to me that it would be coming up later that evening.“I will have to call Riley to represent me.I will not turn around my mind because of this.”Rian knew it was a lost cause trying to convince her,
CHAPTER 51He watched in silence as Antonia walked back out of the room, his mind whirring. He could feel his conscience being consumed till it died away in his chest into a state of nothingness.For what felt like a while it quieted in his chest for the first time since all the Madness and jealousy, one would have expected that he would sigh relieved at the bit of silence, but he didn't… and it made him uncomfortable.He was becoming too invested in trying to learn the truth about the entire situation, he wanted to know why Laura was tricking him with the boy's, at least that was the way he saw it.He wouldn't deny that he didn't feel attached to them but at the same time, the entire drama was starting to cost him his life, his wife —He looked again at the door as he could hear her sobbing.He frowned, a hand automatically coming up to rub his chest again as though to keep his heart in check before he does anything stupidly outrageous.He didn’t like that in a way his soul was getti
ÇHAPTER FINALEEveryone was shocked to find out that Alexa was missing. Laura sat on the ground holding the toy that Alexa was using to play before he disappeared. Her mind was blank and she didn't know what to do. Antonia and Christian were also present, both of them just as bothered as Laura was. "Where could he be?" Antonia asked Christian "Maybe we should check the CCTV footage" Christian brought up and immediately Laura got up from the floor. Why didn't she think of checking the CCTV footage since?"Thank God you had it installed," Antonia said as she rushed into the study with Christian and Laura to check the CCTV footage. It took a while before the footage played and Laura kept biting her fingers while counting the time, she was so scared but Antonia's hand kept patting her back as she asked her to calm down. They finally found the clip and watched it so as not to miss any detail. "Rian?" Laura questioned immediately the camera caught him "What did Rian come here for?" Ant
CHAPTER 150At that moment he is certain about just one thing at the back of his mind and that was the fact that all of this was happening just as he had thought it would, immediately he had landed in a jet his Chauffeur was there waiting..It was the longest trip he had gone home, all haunted thoughts had been about the life he was going to have with the woman that was seated closer to where he was at that moment, he had seen the look in her eyes and enjoyed that bit of thrill that it left him with.He turned his ring and funny as it seemed, the wedding he had was more shocking to himself than to his parents when he had sent the pictures.Antonia drove behind in a different car, she was getting 30% of his assets including the home at Columbia in which she chose to settle, all charges being dropped against her and it made her more relaxed knowing that all of the heavy weight was about to come to an end. When they arrived home, it was a heartfelt moment, she was quick to hug Riley who
CHAPTER 149“Oh thank goodness!" Riley grimaced The night he was found just few people got to know about and Riley happened to be just one, the man that had brought him was never disclosed even after Christian had opened his eyes those few minutes before fluttering close muttering to him thank you.For Riley there was just one thing at hand and that was getting ready for the welcome party as usual just few people were aware of the party that would have de cremes of the society.For her she was disturbed about something different at that moment, she was disturbed by the matter of the heart at this period. She was balancing the last bit of hope that her relationship with him was holding on to.Inhaling deeply, she let the fresh, crisp air invade her she had left at that moment and she was certain that she'd do all she can to live through it -Being the last bit of feeling she had left for her soon to be ex Rhys, she had thought about what he'd say after she must have given him the news
CHAPTER 148He blinked his eyes and opened, he was alive which at that minute was a very good thing, he could remember everything now as it appeared that all that was needed was for him to get a blow to the head.There was only one person in his mind at that moment and it was the one who had just hit Rian.At Moment he tried to move and found out he was restrained, he tried to think about how it had happened again, he had barely made his way in when he came across the fucking man, just when he thought all was said and done he got that devastating blow to head and the rest now was history, he was trying his best to think through the situation but still it was all confusing to him“Help!" He called out but his voice stretched to the distances giving nothing.“No one would hear you." His voice was familiar and so when he least expected it , he had looked up to find Rian.“Why … Why did you do this.” Christian cried out.Rian laughter filled the room, “Remember when I said the last time w
CHAPTER 147“Laura."She called out her name again just so she'd be certain this was not a dream sort of at that moment she would take anything, she would rather just disappear into the ground but instead she was right here, she was right here doing nothing than looking straight into the eye of the Woman she had betrayed her trust.“I am sorry —"“We need to talk." Laura muttered*****Laura had spent the longest time thinking of the right words to say to her about the entire situation but as it seemed it was turning out to be the hardest thing she would have to do at that moment.Most definitely she was still right there , with Antonia after all the madness between them and she couldn't be more happier.Now they walked across the lawn and ensured they were Actually were alone, prior to this moment she had thoughts about now she's handle this aspect of seeing Antonia she hadn't expected that she'd still be this be calm but it was exactly what she had done, she was calm taking in every
CHAPTER 146He feels like his mind would be torn apart that moment if he continued running, yet he didn't stop not because he didn't want to but there was a deeper force pushing him to just keep on going..He feels his heart threatening to fall apart but forces one more time to run through the flanks.It had only been two days since she accepted to give him a phone and it was funny it had contacts , was his life that miserable, so imagine the shock of her life when His phone beeps. He stops and picks up his phone to see he got a text. An unusual text. He reads it once and then again. The more he reads it, the more it sounds like a trap. It probably is, but then again, he thought he'd try it out.After the sex she still hasn’t apologized or tried to talk to him,He picks up the pace and goes for another lap before he’s done for the day. He wipes his face clean of sweat and heads for home.******He had been surprised to see that she was looking at him, but he' was feeling unsettled s
CHAPTER 145Antonia decided to take a walk and it was a every long one way from everything it had been the third time getting that call that was asking if she was saved, she had done all she could to keep the situation to herself now it is looking like she can't.Surrounded by the quiet stillness of the Vicinity, she sat at the bottom of the bench looking at everything listening to the sound of her own heavy heart beats as she was not sure if to go home or not. Every square inch of her body hurt. She’d completed what seemed to be a run to that place and at the moment she could do anything just to let her take in the eminent moment.It felt like a herculean task by working herself into a standing position, her heart still sank as she rested at the base of a small tree. Now, as she leaned against the trunk, she fought against the waves of thought in her soul looking to consume her , slowly she oddly could feel that blackness that threatened to overtake her. The move had been excruc
CHAPTER 144.IT was all starting to look rather ridiculous at that moment, and that was all Laura was trying to do at that time was to fix this— it had only been days since she had been here and still there was nothing for her to deal with it, she still didn't know how best it was for to deal with the entire situation, at the back of her mind there was still that bit of fact that she had to do something about all of this and that was go one after the other to each of this places to find what's she wanted, it made it harder that she had to fix this. Anger and anxiety felt heavy in hwr chest when whe recalled what she had insinuated about the entire situation, in her mind she felt that she was still to be blamed, whiel Laura hated her , she made it seem as though there was more she had to do.In her mind she felt that all of this was far from the Truth,even at that she still felt hurt by her words the last time they had been there enough that she could feel it weighing him down
CHAPTER 143Soon as the call went through she sighs in relief, it had been over Twenty hours since she had been trying to reach her boss so she could ask about the trip -Reports in the news stated a heavy storm at the gulf and all through that day she had been restless, it was a good thing that had fixed whatever drift she had with Rhys all she thought about was how dinner was going to be.“It is a good thing you are doing well." She spoke immediately she had picked up the phone.Laura mesmerized by everthing had a lot to say and so the call she had thought would last a little while spanned to Minutes.“Have you found anything yet?" Riley questioned.Once again it was the Woman being her kind useful self, though she was so self absorbed with everything happening she was glad that he was reaching out and that in a way, she was trying to figure things out for herself at that moment.All the situation were made difficult by the fact she knew all the details In her hands were scrap.Laur