Chapter One Hundred and Nineteen Annabelle pov I walked into the room without saying a word to Travis. “Annabelle, I'm so glad you came actually. I don't know what happened. I was about to drive out of my compound and then I was surrounded. Norah saw them as they handcuffed me and walked me into the van without explaining to me what I had done. They took my gadgets from me and gave me no chance to get a lawyer.” Travis complained bitterly and he looked helpless. I had to force myself to not take pity on him. “I'm not here for any of your talks. I just felt it was wrong locking you in here without help which is why I came.” I said sternly without looking Travis in the eye. “Annabelle, what is wrong? Have I done something? Why are you acting so cold to me too? Speak. I hope someone will tell me what is going on.” I was angry at how he tried to play innocent. “Oh please! Spare me all of the drama. After all the trust I put into you? All you were after was just my money. Nothing m
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty Travis pov I couldn't understand why Annabelle reacted the way she did to me and I felt hurt by that. “What exactly have I done wrong?” I asked myself after the ward officer locked me back into the room I was kept in.She said something about me betraying her. “How?” Or was it that the plans I had then were revealed to her? But I love her. I do. But, that shouldn't be a reason for her to put me in this place. I'm not sure she had hands in whatever is going on presently. I hope she's able to help me reach out to Alex. I hope so.”I lay in the very uncomfortable bed that I was allocated to. It felt like a nightmare to me. Before the crash of my company, no one would ever have been able to lock me, A Smith in a station. I felt at my lowest and like a lowlife because of the location I was kept in and the conditions that were attached to it. I knew whoever thought to take me to the prison I was in was an intentional act because if I was kept in a central s
Travis pov I sat in my study and Alex placed the meal we had bought on the table. “Would you like to eat rice?” I asked Norah.She nodded her head and I gave her my portion of rice. I sat her on the sofa in my study so Alex and I could have some space to talk as we ate.Alex was focused on his phone while I was attending to Norah.“I just got the news that Henry was the one who arranged for you to be taken to the station,” Alex said to me as I approached my chair to sit.I sat down and said, “What? I haven't had any reason to have a business with him.” I scoffed. “Because Annabelle's father has made him prominent, he thinks he can do anything to people at any time. I told you that I never liked him. There's certainly something odd about him. What did they say he said was his reason?”Alex kept reading from his phone, “He made mention of a fake business deal you made with Annabelle that caused her to sign off one of their Spencer's organizations to you.”I was shocked to hear the al
One Hundred and Twenty Two Travis pov I wasn't interested in having to deal with Samantha at that moment. I did not see the need to share the good news I had received with her either. “So why were you taken away?” “Samantha, I was taken by the police in your presence and you didn't think to follow after them, look out for where I was taken to or even come to bail me out. What happened to the old you? Am I the reason why you became like this? Or how did you become…” “Don't try to make me feel guilty because it won't work here.” She did not allow me to finish all I had to say before she cut me in abruptly. “You were the one that knew what you did that made them come for you. Why should I be bothered by that?” “Since it's not something you should be bothered about then I see no reason why you should know anything that has to do with me.” I walked out of her and went straight into my room. I was not sure what Samantha had even been up to, I just knew that whatever it was we had to
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty ThreeTravis pov All I knew was that I blacked out after someone yelled at me, “Keep quiet!” I woke up and met myself in an unknown room. I could barely see and I could not remember how I got to where I was. “Where am I?” I said out loud before looking around the room to see if anyone was in with me. I was in an empty room that had just a small window that was high up. I couldn't get to it unless I stood on the bed I met myself in. I wasn't chained to anything but I could tell I was taken into a station. The door has a see-through space on it and the down part of the door has a space where a plate can be passed through. I also could see that there was another door similar to mine when I looked through the see-through space in my door.“What is going on here? Where am I?” I stayed by the door and kept asking but no one answered.I went back to sit on the bed so I could process what had happened before the blackout. “I was in the house. The light was t
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty FourTravis pov I had never met anyone as strange as this man was. He kept laughing. It was hard for me to understand why he laughed that much at anything I said that went against what he had asked me to comply with. “You want to take your leave? I don't think you will want to do that. You will be in grave danger.” He walked back to me and smiled. “Let me tell you a great secret, this is the safest place for you on earth.”“Why?” I asked him.He looked at the door and said, “Because, out there, hungry soldiers are looking for a fresh civilian to kill.” He tapped my shoulder and laughed while he walked out of the door. Someone else was by the door and that was the person that locked the door as he stepped out because I could still hear him laughing as he walked away.“He must be a mentally disturbed person too,” I said to myself. “What am I going to do? This place is full of soldiers who are disturbed. They have nothing to lose if they waste me. Even if
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty FiveTravis pov I knew I had to leave as soon as I got the chance to because I couldn't imagine what I was about to witness them so to me if I decided that I would not bend to their will. “I might be speaking as a dead person since they will torture me before putting me in front of the camera to confess.” I thought, inwardly. There was no reason why I shouldn't try to leave.“I have never told a soldier to fight anyone on my behalf before. I am as broken as you all have been.” I said, thinking it could calm him down.“Shut up! You foolish civilian! Whether it is you or your country, we fight for all of you and you all have to pay back for it. Yes! You live peaceful lives because we decided to sacrifice our lives for you ungrateful humans.” At that point, I didn't want to go further with the conversation as I realized he had anger issues and I was watching the iron, it kept shaking the more he yelled.I knew if it fell while he was talking, I was as good
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty SixAnnabelle pov I woke up the next morning and thought it was best I did a proper morning routine that I had missed for some weeks. I had stopped exercising or doing yoga. I gained weight and I hadn't been able to declutter my mind from all the negative things that had been happening to me.“Where did I put my running shoes?” I stood and looked at my wardrobe but I couldn't find my running shoes. Then I bent down under my bed because out of laziness sometimes I always removed them and kicked them under my bed. But I knew that if it was there, the cleaner would have taken it out to clean it and returned it to the proper place where it was supposed to be kept.I didn't want to ask Nana because I could hear her talking to some of the staff downstairs about how they were going to clean Johnson's room.“I should check the lower wardrobe. They probably changed where it's normally kept.” I said to myself and bent down to open the drawer. Lo and behold, my r