Chapter 48Zendaya’s POVThe thought of having to say that I would be romantically involved with ashes had me retching as I did not want that to be possible.He irritated me and even when he had caught me off guard with his confession earlier today I was still irritated by everything. I wanted to be done with this and be on my way to the other part of my plan. That was what I wanted. Having to deal with that man and listen to him beg for me to stay with him irritated me.I looked at Travis who laughed and slapped his thigh as he watched me wallow in disgust at my plan. If only there was a way he could help me, I would really appreciate it. The problem was that he could not do anything to Asher.I was the one who would have to destroy him since I knew some of his weaknesses from the past.It did not even need to matter if the weakness then was still around now, I was still going to use them against him.“I’m so sorry about that,” Travis said to me. “I wish I could help you but this is
Chapter 49“I’d like to see you again,” he said as I rolled my eyes at this. I was only hanging out with him to have my revenge, after that I would leave him broken and worse than when I had gotten into his life.“Sure,” I smiled before taking my hand away, hurrying to the door. “Text me.”I entered my car and drove away heading home.I made sure to look in my rear view mirror to make sure I wasn’t being tailed by anyone. He was the president and this made things harder for me. If he wanted he could easily have spies find my location but I did not want that to happen.I got to the house, entering my apartment to see the children already back from school playing with their toys.“Hey mum,” Landon said to me. “Welcome. Where have you been?”“Sorry baby,” I said, kissing the three of them. “I was out with a friend.”I couldn’t tell them that I was with their father. That would raise so many questions that I was not ready to answer yet. The excuse I gave was a better one.When I had showe
Chapter 50Zendaya’s POVTwo nights later I was standing in the back of a restaurant where I had agreed to meet up with Asher. I looked at my watch in anger as he had promised he would not be later but instead I was about to be stood up by this man.I had arrived a few minutes early which was a terrible mistake especially when dealing with an enemy. He was an enemy to me and I was supposed to stick to the script.Why I was behaving like a teenage girl was beyond me.A black car drove across the street, stopping behind a dumpster as a man in a black leather jacket got out of the car and ran through the busy streets.He was in discreet clothings but they were stylish ones.He ran like he did not want anyone to know it was him, with his hands covering his face.He ran to me with a smile as he removed the black glasses he had on before opening the door of the place for me to get into.I entered to find out it was not a restaurant but a food hotel.He led the way, taking me to a room as w
Chapter 51“Stop the car Asher!” I yelled in anger. “Stop this damn car or I will throw myself out anyway.”Asher was visibly alarmed when I had said this as he attempted to calm me down, placing a hand on my lap.“You don’t have to say things like that zen, it’s scary,” he chuckled nervously. “You should calm down and let us go to where I want us to go. Trust me when I say you’ll love it.”“What part of stop the car are you not getting? Do I look like a joke to you? Stop the car, Asher, or I am jumping out!”In a frightened manner, he held me back from moving as he was scared I would actually do it. I struggled against his grip, fighting and kicking against him while he held back, caging me down against the seat to stop me from moving around.“I shouldn’t have trusted that you have changed!” I yelled in anger, struggling against his grip with all my strength but he held me down. “I should have seen you for what you truly are. An animal. You are nothing but a monster. “I pray you get
Chapter 52Asher’s POVI noticed that she did not believe anything I was saying to her and I could not blame her. I had even apologized yet she saw it as a joke.She has been shocked at first seeing as I had not apologized to her before but now she was too mad to even look at me. She had her eyes stuck to the space between us.I only wished she would know that my intentions were pure. I was different now. I had no idea how terrible I used to be but right now I could tell that I was trying to be a different person for her.I was only just realizing how much I missed her and coming to the fact that the very woman I had divorced and even mistreated was the person I most wanted to have today.Everything I had done to her in the past had me ashamed of myself. “Please, let me get you home. At least let me make up for messing up today,” I said, hoping she would listen to me and go with my request.“No,” she shook her head, still adamant to be left alone. “No you will not play me again like
Chapter 53After getting the triplets to bed, I started for my room.I got in to see my phone buzzing. Picking it up, I found dozens of texts from Asher. I responded in kind to him. I would do anything to keep him in the loop since I wanted him close for the plan to work.If I kept pushing him away I could end up losing him which I did not want to do. I had to make sure he understood that I still cared for him even when I did not, that way he would be in my grasp. I had to make my leash on him shorter and shorter to not let him go away.‘Please go out with me again. Let’s have dinner tomorrow night.’On a normal day I would have rejected it and blocked his number but I had other plans. Instead I accepted.‘Sure.’I was going to out my all into seducing him and making him fall deeper in love with me. He had no idea who he was dealing with.I would take him to the top of the mountain of love and push him off. He was going to fall to the bottom in the most terrible way.Dropping my phon
Chapter 54Zendaya’s POVI entered a salon to have my hair done as I had a date with Asher. I had to look my best if I was going to make him regret his decision for leaving me.When I entered, I stopped in shock as a familiar face stared back at me.It was Aurora, my younger sister. From the looks of things, she had also come here to have her hair done.I could not leave as I had already seen her and this was an awkward situation. I decided that since I was already in here I would continue with what I wanted to do.I sat down for my appointment beside her, scrolling through my phone as I was not in the mood to talk to her.“You look good,” she said but I ignored her. She was not worth wasting my breath on. “Oh come on. You aren’t going to ignore me forever. Sooner or later you’ll need to talk to me.”Someone came to me to ask for directions as I smiled and pointed to the assistant by the door.When she was gone I kicked back in my seat to relax as I ignored Auroras pathetic attempts t
Chapter 55Asher’s POVWhen I had left them in the living room, I entered the bedroom to change and get ready for my dinner date with Zendaya.I was excited about this and I could not wait to leave the house.I wore my casual clothes with my most expensive perfume which I only used during my dates before I noticed I had made a mistake.Since I only wore the perfumes for dates, she would know something was up and might even tail me. I had to avoid that by all means. I took up another perfume to counter it by spraying it around me more than the earlier one I had sprayed, causing the scents to clash and produce a new scent. I stood in front of the mirror taking different positions to see myself in different angles.I wanted to know how I was in different poses just in case I had to face the paparazzi.When I was done, I started out of the room and headed for the living room.While going down the stares I was being ogled by Delia and her friend, Iris. “Where are you going?” Delia asked
Asher’s POVAfter listening to what they had said. I smacked my forehead as I laughed out loud at what they were hiding. I couldn’t believe they had put me and their mother through this. I had almost lost my mind.I immediately went back home, to change into my suit.While dressing up, I laughed again at what the children had told me at the hospital. They were very smart and cunning. Zendaya was going to have a kick out of this. I couldn’t wait to let her in on what had made her suspicious.When I was done. I headed for her wardrobe to go through the clothes that were packed there.I took out an evening gown which she had not worn for anything yet. This would be better for the outing.A knock on the door and I opened it to see the butler smiling at me with a tray in his hand.“I got it sir,” he said, bringing the tray to my eye level so I could see a diamond bracelet on it.“Thank you so much,” I said to the man. He had been my butler from day one and I carried him everywhere and on e
Asher’s POVIt has been more than a year since I last won the election and my children had celebrated their seventh birthday. It was a great time for everyone and I wanted to have a different experience with them.Our days at home had been the same thing. From home to school for the children and for me and Zendaya, it was mostly from home to work and back again.We needed some time to relax and enjoy ourselves. That was when I planned a vacation for all of us. We would go to a beach resort and spend a few days there.Zendaya approved of the news but complained to me that the children were behaving suspiciously. I didn’t see any problem with this but after continuous complaints I decided to go into their room to see what was going on.I entered their rooms to see them acting innocently and wondered if she was okay for accusing the children falsely.“Are you calling me a liar?!” she yelled that night but I shook my head.“No, I wouldn’t dream of it, but I do think you should review you
Asher’s POVSix months later I was called to a parent teacher conference as we listened to all the teachers had to say about the children. I was happy to have dropped the children in this place. Their teaching standards were high and they taught the children things they were to know in real world scenarios.We had gone with the children and after the meeting, we got out to see the triplets bragging to other children about how they were the children of the president.I frowned at this and was ready to teach them a lesson in the car, however, Zendaya had other plans.She grabbed the children to a corner and tossed them to the wall in anger.I followed her quietly with my hands in my pockets. I didn’t want to drag any attention to ourselves.“What is wrong with you three?” she growled as they kept their eyes on the ground knowing they had fucked up. “Are you all out of your mind? Bragging to children about your parents achievements is not your achievement.“You were lucky to be born in
Zendaya’s POVWho knew that in three months a lot of things could happen? I had been living a life of regrets for a long time. When I finally let go of those regrets I was happier and I found that my life was better than the past.I was richer and smarter. I was respected and had more people asking for my help. I was seen as the one who would change the future and I did my best to change that future. I refused to hold back in the way of giving out meetings and holding councils on how to help the country grow into something greater. My relationship with my husband grew stronger than before and I could not believe that at some point in my life I was considering murdering him. He was sweet to me. Even as a president, he gave me so much and respect that I knew what love really was.He didn’t give excuses for why he was not with me or the children. He did his possible best to be with us and for months we knew what having a father and a husband was like.During the three months, Blair ha
Camila montclairs POVI had sold the company to a new CEO. A faceless person that I had no idea was. I had not even known if the person would be kind or wicked but from what I heard, he could be ruthless at times.I had sold the company but my shares remained. Due to this I was still a worker in the company. Even though I was a high ranking worker in the company I still feared what the person would do to me.I did not want to put out a front that I was scared so when Aurora had sent the message that the CEO wanted to see us, I had gulped but remained calm in my own way.Being in the company boardroom I was shaking nervously as I didn’t know what to expect. I started to hope that the new CEO would be kind to me and my family who were still working in the company.“Who is the owner?” I asked Aurora who shrugged. Even she did not know.I took in deep breaths to calm my raging heart. The door opened with the new CEO getting in as we all turned to see Zendaya walking in with her assistant
Asher’s POVI looked at what I had written for the press but then dropped the piece of paper aside. There was no need to use it. With a sigh I leaned in for the microphone.“I’d like to thank my wife for being my backbone in all of this,” I said while looking at the woman who beamed proudly at me. “She alone handled most of our strategy. And I’d like to thank my team who made all of this come true. “Because without them, I would have fumbled. My wife might have been one of the brains but she did not carry out the operations, my team did. “I’d also like to thank the politicians and the rally organizers and the media for propagating my story and for the citizens who helped me get up to this point, I promise to never let you down.”The media cheered just as a man ran up the stage to whisper into my ears that the inauguration was starting up immediately in the government halls.I nodded before running into the room to change into a more comfortable outfit with Zendaya.“I thought you w
Zendaya’s POVWe went on a peaceful walk and talk the next morning and talked about how the next election was going to be. I could feel this election and I knew the competition was going to be stiff this year.The air of winning was just as stale as that of losing.Everyone voted for Asher the last time because he had so many supporters and he was a young blood in politics, but this time, there were so many young bloods following in his example as they wanted to beat him at his own game.It was hilarious but I found it motivational that he was becoming the one pacing way for so many people to shrug shoulders with him.The problem I had been having in his team was his campaign manager who thought he knew better than me. I didn’t want to school him but he was not willing to listen to anyone.He had made Asher win the last election because Asher didn’t have any competition. Now Asher has competition, all his plans had done was reduce Asher’s chances at beating the opponents. I stepped
Asher’s POVAfter a few weeks of having one of the best honeymoon of our lives, we returned and reunited with the triplets who were already waiting at home for us and they were happy to see us.They had so much fun in their grandparents house that I could not do anything but smile at how happy they were.I excused myself from time to time to deal with my campaign team who were calling to notify me on the plans we would put in place for the election.Ever since Zendaya brought up those plans to help me win the election, I had seen her as an important part of my life. She wanted me to win and she didn’t want anything to happen to my plans. I was extremely excited for how everything would turn out to be. I had given the plans to my team and they had been wowed by the plans. They had seen it working already and when we ran a simulation we found out that it was higher than other opponents trials by far.“So we’re going with it,” I had said to them during the video call as they accepted.N
Zendaya’s POV“No, no,” he said to me. “This isn’t a cry for help. I can do this. I’m just not ready for anything pushing me further than I can carry.”“This is still all my fault. If I had not done what I did, you would have been free. But instead, I got to you with all that evidence and now they are using it against you.”“They would have found it sooner or later anyway, don’t bother yourself about it.”But I knew that was him trying to make me feel better. Instead I was feeling worse.I was determined to make it up to him. I would come to him with my evidence against his opponents and they would have no choice but to back down. I knew how to do it.They had nothing on me and my connections. I was ready to destroy them if it ever came to it.This was my fault. His popularity was reducing due to the evidence I had brought up against him. He could lie all he wanted but I knew what I had sought out and compiled against him.At the time I had wanted to get rid of him. I had told my conn