Chapter One Hundred and Seventeen Anabelle pov Lost in a whirlwind of uncertainties, I sat on my bed and read through the terms and conditions of the document I had just signed off. That was going to be a grave loss on my end. I put down my phone, “Why would Travis ever do this? Why?” I was so close to tears and frustrated. “Can you help me do anything about this?” I asked Henry. “Nothing can be done about this so we can't do anything anymore. I saw you signed it off to Travis. I told you he was up to no good earlier. I was warning you about him but you refused.” I was so angry at Travis. “How could he betray me this way? After all I did for him?” I was bent on ensuring he paid. “What are you going to tell your father now?” Henry asked me. “Does he have to know?” I felt since it was just Henry, the accountant and I that had access to the information of that account, we could keep whatever happened a secret till we were able to work something out. “Ughh” “You know the wall
Chapter One Hundred and Eighteen Annabelle pov “Henry! Henry!” I yelled even though Henry was out of the door already. “What is wrong with this guy? Why does he have to complicate things all the time?” I stood up and went after Henry. “Do not do anything that will complicate this issue for me. Please.” I followed him to his office and warned him. “Look. I'm not doing this because it will complicate this issue for you. I'm doing this because it's the right thing to do. He needs to pay. What he has done is a crime.” Henry flared back at me. “You can't make him pay for that. He didn't commit a crime by doing that. I was the one who decided in haste and without being thorough. You can't arrest him for committing a crime that way.” I insisted but knew Henry wasn't going to listen to me. I knew he was reacting based on how displeased he was at Travis. “I'm going to do what I will do and that's final.” I knew whatever Henry planned to do to Travis was going to be extreme. “Why di
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