Chapter 84The man stood there smiling and this irritated me. What did he want? “Can I speak in private with you, Mr president?” He asked as I frowned even harder. I watched the man cast a disdainful look at everyone in the room, from my lawyers to my PR team down to my manager. I hated the guts of this man. Sometimes I wondered why I even had to marry from his family but it was all in the past now. I had to focus on the future and the future needed help.He seemed like someone who knew something and I wanted to know what that was. I would listen to what he had to say and maybe work with him. I hoped it would produce good results because nothing was working.“Everyone out,” I ordered as everyone left until it was just the two of us left alone.“How are you doing?” he asked, pissing me off even more.“Is that a trick question? How am I doing? Are you blind?” I could not hold back my anger. How dare he ask me such stupid question. “How do you think I’m doing? Oh I’m doing great. I’m s
Chapter 85Asher’s POV“Hey,” I heard her say to me as I smiled in space. “I saw the news. Are you okay?”I wanted to cry to her and tell her that I was not okay. I wanted to be weak and vulnerable and show her that I was but a god but a man in flesh and bones but I could not do that. I was not supposed to appear weak before her no matter what. I was supposed to act like the president and be able to handle hard times like these on my own. I had to show that I was capable of doing this.I felt relief from her voice for the first time since the scandal had broken out. It was like I didn’t care if anyone was against me, I was happy that I had her and I could do anything so long as she was by my side. The world could burn for all I cared.“How are you holding up?” She asked with a soft whisper.“You shouldn’t worry about me,” I laughed. “I’m doing great. I’ve had worse than this.”I was lying and I had a haunch she knew that I was.“So listen,” I said with a shaky voice. “I’ve got someth
Chapter 86Zendaya’s POVI was roughly shaken up by someone as I yawned to sit up. What was going on? I had been having a wonderful dream before this rough interruption.I had been dreaming of Asher and the children. We were all living happily and having a good morning but that had been a dream when I was pushed awake.I looked at the maid who had shaken me up in anger. I looked around to see I had fallen asleep on the couch while waiting for Travis and the children.I looked at the window to see it was morning already. “What is…” I yawned again. “Where are the kids? Are they back yet?”“I don’t know ma’am,” she replied.“What do you mean you don’t know?”“I just got into the house now ma’am. I found you here and I decided to call you so you would go to your room to sleep well while I set everything straight.”I immediately got to my feet knowing I should run to the rooms and check for their safety.I ran to the children’s room to find it empty.“Oh no,” I sighed running to Travis’s
Chapter 87Asher’s POVI paced around the apartment waiting for Zendaya. After she had called me I had run out of the house and entered my car driving myself out of the house.I had tried to lose the paparazzi by dressing and disguising myself like an ordinary citizen.No matter what I still needed to be careful or I would have a lot of people tailing me.I lost some people on the highway before rounding the block twice and using a gated community to get to my own spot.I had the gateman lock the gate as I drove into the apartment to wait for her.She had said it was important and I wondered what was so important for her to call me out of my own problems. I was worried about a lot of things, especially my reputation. She would have to understand this if I decided to turn her down.The door opened up as she entered with tears in her eyes. She bawled out crying in an ugly way which told me that something serious was going on.“Hey, what is wrong?” I asked her as she sniffed hard. She
Chapter 88Asher’s POVWhile I served her the food I had prepared for her my phone rang as I picked it up to see it was from the Chief security officer.I earnestly picked it up ready for the news he had for me.“What do you have for me?” I asked while walking to the balcony to answer the call in secret.“We haven’t been able to track Travis down,” he said as I sighed. “But we were able to find out that Travis made calls to a long time friend called Rowan. This Rowan left the country the same time that Travis went with the children.”“Are you telling me they are not in the country right now?! How do we get them back?!”“Sir, we are spread too thin right now. Apart from coming out in public to stop the rumors from spreading and getting law enforcement to help in searching for the children there isn’t much we can do from this end.”At least he had worked really fast in searching for the Travis of a guy and giving me the information needed.“Alright,” I sighed. “Thank you so much for thi
Chapter 89Landon’s POVWe were all crying and huddled together like chicken in a corner of the store room.It had a foul smell and I could tell that it was from us because we had peed on ourselves in fear. Fear that something was about to happen to us and no one would come to our rescue.I didn’t know why Travis was doing this to us. We had not done anything to him. He was the only friend we had and I had even considered him to be a father to us.For him to toss us inside this place and keep us locked away from the outside world meant there was something he was planning to do to us.We were still children. Our bones had not yet matured. What could we do against a big strong giant like him? He would beat us to death if we dared oppose him.He had not come to check on us after he had shouted at us and stormed off in anger. It was already a nightmare as we missed our mother and we wanted to go home.We had no phone to call her and she didn’t know where we were. I wanted to go home.I lo
Chapter 90Delia’s POVWhen I heard about the news, I did not know how to act or what to say. This was a shock to me and it was a big one. This had been something I had not known was possible.How could he do this to me? He should have discussed this with me instead of going live to tell the entire country about his mysterious children which he had kept hidden from me.My phone rang as I picked it up to see it was Iris.“Yeah,” I said dryly, my eyes stuck on the news while it was being revealed.“Your husband had three other children? What is this? Did you know about this? How could you not tell me? I was your best friend.”But she would not understand that I was hearing about it too.It turned out they had been abducted by some rich dude and the entire police department and even the army were searching for them. It was a matter of national interest.I cut the call without replying to her as I went ahead to call Asher who didn’t pick up my calls. “Oh he has a lot of explaining to do,
Chapter 91Asher’s POVOn top of the controversy from the scandals which had already been released, I had made an official statement claiming the ownership of my children. I had also said that I was rekindling my relationship with the mother of my children and the news of what I had said splashed on the front page of every major newspaper in the country.With the news of my children still on the front pages, by morning my men were receiving calls from left, right and center talking about their knowledge on the whereabouts of the missing children.However I was frustrated by this because these were all scams. They were all scam calls and none of the people knew where the children were.I went around talking to the security and the spies I had around the country but they were still showing up empty handed.These were supposed to be the best of the best and they were not able to find one man and three children. Then it meant that this Travis guy was good and he had planned this for a lo