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
Chapter 92Zendaya’s POV“I’m sorry for not telling you sooner about it,” I said to the man while cleaning the tears from my eyes. “I didn’t know it would resort to this.”He took me in his arms and kissed my head.“It’s going to be fine,” he reassured me once again. “We’ll find them. Don’t worry.”This was all my fault. I should have known how crazy Travis would be and how far he was willing to go for this thing. Travis had gone out of the plans we had set for ourselves. Yes I know I was in the wrong here for falling for Asher, but I didn’t plan for this. The initial plan had been to make him see how wrong he was and punish him for it, but now I could see there was no need to do it because he was such a sweet young man. He cared about his children and I could not destroy his life anymore. It turned out he was different from his past self and after confessing his love for me I could no longer do it. I no longer wanted revenge, I instead wanted him to see his children and help them
Chapter 93But I was so mad at how everything had turned out. I was going to make her regret ever leaving me for him. She had no idea who she was dealing with.“I loved her,” I sniffed the phone, punching the vending machine with everything I had in me. “I loved her and this is how she treats me. I gave her everything. I gave her my life, my soul, my time, my money, my future and my past. “I was there when she needed someone to be for her. She was alone, Rowan, I was there by her side. I watched her children grow and I helped her business grow. I did everything I could for her. “I bought a company for her when she wanted her family out of there. I ran her family out of business. I ran her friends out of business. I did all of this for her and when it came to destroying the life of her ex husband she folded and suddenly I’m the villain. “What kind of stupid world do we live in where I am the villain and she is the hero or the victim. I am the victim! She did this to me. She made me
Landon’s POVWe had been waiting for hours for the man to get back but he had not done that. We were starving.My strength was failing me as all I could do was try to keep my eyes open. The left side of my face had swollen after that slap he had given me and it hurt so much that swallowing was even a chore,I struggled to my feet when our stomachs growled more times than normal.I had just woken up after falling asleep hungry to see that he was not yet back. We had little energy to do anything. We could not even talk anymore. We started to hear sounds outside as it scared us half to death. We looked at the door since the room didn’t have any windows. I went to the door to open it and surprisingly it opened. I walked out of it to see that there was a gate blocking me off from the main rooms. “The door is open,” I mumbled to the two of them who gestured for me to come back inside, which I did.“He might be waiting there to hit you again,” Layla said. “You have to be careful.”“My han