I didn't know Aurora from Adam but I knew very well that she was the type that could kill a man if she wanted Olivia, even with her anger could not stand defending herself against Aurora and it was evident. I knew that Aurora would hurt her and I would feel the pain more than expected. I could not allow that to happen. I needed to do something and I needed to be fast before my sister would be injured. 'Stop it!' I used my last will power to scream out and like little children who heard their mother scream, they both stopped immediately. "Now I have been silent for a very long time but I will not have any of you hurt yourselves simply because you are upset. I maybe drunk but I am most definitely not blind and I know for a fact that both of you are wrong but I also know that both of you are very stubborn and you are not going to apologise to each other so the is no need in me wasting my time." "But Daniel.." Olivia tried to cut in "I don't care about any of that okay. I don
I went to bed that night, still not knowing which feeling I should be focused on but when I woke up, I decided that anger was more important.I wasted no time in finishing up with my chores because i was eager to get out of the house before he woke up but unfortunately, luck was not on my side at that moment. As soon as I stepped out, Daniel was sitting at the kitchen counter drinking a bottle of water."Oh so happy that you finally know your way out of your room now," I gave my snide comment but he just looked up at me and then went back to drinking his water.I was shocked. Was he really going to ignore me after the nonsense that he did? But maybe he did not know that he had done such stupid things. That would go a long to explaining why he felt it was right to actually shut up when he should be apologising.But then again, he wasn't the type to really apologise and I did not know why I was expecting anything different from him.But still, I was not going to take this lying down.
I couldn't talk. The words were stuck in my throat and they struggled to find their way out. As I stood there watching this man who was my brother claim to be in love with me, I was at a loss for words.I knew that it could be possible. I would not completely object to it but the more I thought about it, the more I wondered if I was not just lying to myself, the more I got a headache.But now, he stood there telling me that i was right to believe that my own blood brother could actually be in love with me and that scared me."You ain't gonna say nothing, right?" He asked but I still could not open my mouth to talk."Of course. I knew it was a waste of time talking to you." He walked away and an alarm went on in my brain. He was walking away and I was letting him. I had never sat down to think about what I would do if it turned out that Daniel actually cared about me.All I ever did was doubt that it could happen and keep hating on him so I would not fall badly in love with him. But t
I couldn't think of school. Nothing there was of any interest to me and so I went to the balcony and sat there, hoping that at any moment Daniel would come out and tell me that he understands why I would say such and he would kiss me.It was at that point that I knew that I was indecisive. I could not pick between Daniel and Alex. I wanted them both to keep dying over me and I love the attention and power it gave me.Slowly, I had become the one thing I always hated. It was not a pleasant thing to experience. The worst part was that even when the feeling was so conflicted, I still loved every bit of it. As I allowed the cold morning breeze to touch my skin, I heard my doorbell ringing and I wondered why Ivy would be ringing the door bell instead of just walking in like she usually did when we were in high school.Sighing, I stood up and walked towards the door and opened it for her. "Girl, why did you do that?' I asked. "I didn't know if he was walking around without his shirt on.
Ivy was quick to notice the change in my appearance and she snapped her finger thinking that maybe, just maybe I was looking out because I was scared of something. "Liv, I am right here. What are you looking out there for?" She asked me as she tried to look out as well but she could not see what could make me pause and the colour drain from my face. "What's going on now?" She asked me."It's them," she heard me respond quietly and I could see that she was wondering what I was talking about. She looked out the window again but still could not see what I was seeing. "Who?" "The girls that Daniel is using to taunt me. I don't know if I am seeing well but if these girls are both competiting for Daniel's affection, aren't they supposed to be enemies? Why does it look like they are very good friends who knows each other from way back?' I asked still watching them. They had taken a stance and were discussing in what I would like to say was hushed tones. I had to figure out what was actua
Ivy and I moved speedily and we were able to get out of the section we were in without them seeing us. But unfortunately, we could not get out of the mall because suddenly, they had a security guard mount there and one of the service girls came up to us. "Ma, please stop running round in the mall. You may destroy our merchandise and if you do, you will have to pay. And seeing as you want to run out, it means you can't afford anything here."She looked at us like we were disgusted pigs in her eyes and I could not even blame her. It was obvious to all that we did not have the kind of money needed to shop in a place like that but we were not there for shopping and I was just grateful that we got what we were looking for and I was not going to allow anyone to ruin that for me. "We understand ma, we will try to not run anymore," I said softly and smiled at her. the woman did not smile back but she moved away and I could not help but wonder what she would actually do to me if she realised
I did not know how he was able to find me, neither did I know why he was trying to defend me after everything that I have done to him. But Alex was known to be a gentleman and so he stood tall, ready to defend me even when it looked like I was the one with the biggest of problems. His heroic act was being ruined by Stacy's demanding laughter. All eyes turned to look at her again and she was not trying to hide the fact that she was totally disgusted by our presence in her uncle's shop. "Oh please young man. You cannot possibly think that I am going to allow you scare me in my own uncle mall, right? You have no right in here and I don't care who you are but you are going to have the learn the hard way." She did not look scared and I knew why. Alex was just a nobody trying to pretend to be a somebody. he had no name in society and he had no money. Maybe that was why he agreed us to eating with Daniel, so that Daniel could pay. it also explains why he kept taking me to shabby places f
"Stacy," the man's voice was too cherry for me and it rang through my ears, defining everything that I had heard so far that day. "Mr. Philips, I wish I could be say that I am so excited to see you today." Stacy face had fallen like sour bread and she had started acting like this spoilt brat that she is. "What's going on?" The man asked, worried as he rushed to her side to maybe take her in his hands and comfort her. "Can you imagine that these two people are going to ruin our merchandise and your staff here, Emily is just going to let them go Scott free? How can you be the manager in this establishment, how can my father have given you such a huge position and the only thing you could think of doing was allowing something like this to happen. I could have my uncle ensure that you don't work again throughout this state, is that what you want?" I could not tell why she was so hesitant on threatening these people. Should they not be already scared of her since she already had the pow
I rushed over to the location she sent to me as fast as I could. Only for me to get there and see her standing by the road, waiting for me. As soon as she saw me highlighting from my car, she moved towards a restaurant and I followed her. But she didn't sit, instead she moved to the backroom and I wondered why they would just allow her to go in there. Doesn't one need some sort of punishment to get in there? I decided that I was not in the place to ask. After all, I had come there for something much more important. Finally, I was going to put an end to the madness that was happening because of those pictures. "Good afternoon ma, how may I help you today?" Stacy was stopped at the entrance to the backroom by a petite looking girl wearing a uniform. "I am here with this handsome man," she said and brought out a card and showed it to the woman. The woman nodded her head immediately and opened the door for her. "Would you be needing anything as you stay ma?" She asked. "No, I won't
I rushed over to the location she sent to me as fast as I could. Only for me to get there and see her standing by the road, waiting for me. As soon as she saw me highlighting from my car, she moved towards a restaurant and I followed her. But she didn't sit, instead she moved to the backroom and I wondered why they would just allow her to go in there. Doesn't one need some sort of punishment to get in there? I decided that I was not in the place to ask. After all, I had come there for something much more important. Finally, I was going to put an end to the madness that was happening because of those pictures. "Good afternoon ma, how may I help you today?" Stacy was stopped at the entrance to the backroom by a petite looking girl wearing a uniform. "I am here with this handsome man," she said and brought out a card and showed it to the woman. The woman nodded her head immediately and opened the door for her. "Would you be needing anything as you stay ma?" She asked. "No, I won't
"Liv, trust me when I tell you this, we will not get anyway if you keep lying to me like this. Just tell me what you know and we can work together to get you out of whatever mess you are in," I said calmly. I needed her to see me in the light of a big brother and I was desperate to get her to trust me. It was very obvious to me that she won't though and no matter what I tried, it won't get her to change her mind. But I hoped that it will. "You obviously have no idea what you are talking about. Listen to me when I tell you this okay, I don't know or have any kind of information. I should even be the one asking you all these questions since you are the one who actually brought me out of my house to come here on such a short notice. Now can you please just tell me what you know so that I can go." "Liv." "Daniel, for fuck's sake, you said that I am in trouble! Now tell me what kind of trouble it is because I am really fighting hard now to believe that you did not just lie to me just t
"Daniel?" Tony called out but I was no longer interested in anything he had to say. I needed to get to Olivia. I had to tell her everything I knew. The sooner I did it, the better it would be for me"I will have to go now. I'll talk to you later, okay?" I said as I walked out Immediately I was outside, I placed a call across to her. Thankfully, she picked on the first ring"I don't care where you are right now but I need you to come meet me. I can't explain everything over the phone but I need to see you right now," I said and I could tell that I was scaring her"What's going on?" She asked but I was not about to answer her over the phone"Look, I really can't say much now and I can't talk over the phone but I need you to come meet me right now Liv.""You are seriously scaring me Daniel. What's going on?""I need to be sure that you are safe. Meet me at where we agreed. I will be there in like an hour time," I said. "You will be there right?" I heard hesitation in her voice before
Tony waited patiently till Reuben had left before he walked up to me and said, "You know you should have told him everything you know, right?" He said. "I did tell him everything I know man." I answered him as I walked to get a cup of water to drink. "Oh come on. You know you can lie to everyone else but you really can't lie to me, I know when you are not saying the truth. I have been your friend for an awfully long amount of time." "You sound like you are not so pleased about that. Could it be because I lied to your accomplice?" I asked as I poured the water into a glass and drank it whole. "What do you mean by that?" "I am not a fool Tony. I..." "Are you by any chance implying that I am working with Reuben to get rid of Olivia?" He was getting enraged and it was quiet visible but still, I wasn't going to allow his emotions to turn me away from the real questions I needed to ask him "How does this even make sense to you as you are saying it? Do you really think that I will s
"What do you mean by that? Of course I would want to know so that I can know what our next step will be." Reuben was quick to answer but he was skillful enough to not give a very conclusive answer. "Well how exactly do you mean? Who exactly is this we that you speak of?" He asked. "Look I don't know what you think you are trying to do now but you will need to stop it and actually start trusting me," he continued. "I never said that I don't trust you. I just said that I don't understand why you so badly needed the information. If I didn't trust you, I won't still be standing here and talking to you. You know this very well and so does your friend here." Tony didn't say a word after that. He could not understand what I was doing but he was not going to open his mouth and say something that would cause any kind of trouble with him and his friend. It made me wonder if he truly trusted the man like he said he does or if I should even trust the man the way I did. "Tony are you just go
"How am I supposed to know that?" I asked, being offended that they would actually say a thing like that to me. Was I supposed to know what was on her back? But then again I did have access to her back when we were always fooling around and I could remember perfectly well, the night that we actually did something together, she did have a mole on her back. I could remember it so vividly because I honestly thought that it was very weird that she would have a red mark that big and it didn't hurt her. I also could remember asking her about it but she didn't say anything to me, she didn't even try to hide the fact that she didn't know how it got there. "I honestly have no idea how that thing got there but I believe it's because of all these drama that is constantly going on around me. I may have been hurt there without knowing," she had said before. Before now, I have always thought that maybe, just maybe, she was kidding but the more I looked at it, the more I realized that she knew ex
"Wait, is this some type of joke? Please tell me that this is some type of joke? What exactly is going on here?" I asked him. Was he actually serious about everything he said or was everything he said just a means to get to me and get me to do something that I was definitely going to regret? Could he actually be serious? Because if he was serious then that simply meant that everyone that Olivia was surrounding herself with were bad news on a good day. All of them can easily hurt her and get away with it if they were really working with Billy.I immediately felt an urge to protect her some more, I could not allow anything to happen to her and now that I knew that no one around her was actually sincere or a good person, I could not sit back and allow her be with such people. "Is it the same Alexander as I one I showed you?" Tony asked him and Reuben nodded his head. I didn't like to be kept in the dark. "Which Alexander did you show him? Is it the same one that I know?" I asked Tony
"What?" The more Reuben spoke, the more I realized that I knew very little about the drama that was actually going on all these years. But now, it was beginning to make sense. The pieces of the puzzle were beginning to add up. "Yes. The woman was already pregnant and when Billy found out, he was very upset because he knew that even if he got Valerie, all of her attention would be on the child and not on him. His new plan was simple, get rid of the same kid and remove her from Valerie's life," Reuben said. "What?" Tony asked. "I mean, I know he can be very very evil but isn't this just supposed to be downright cruel. Why separate a mother from her child? Please tell me that he wasn't successful?" "Oh he was. However, he didn't do it alone. He found out how far gone Valerie was and during the time he found this out, she was about to give birth. That was when he paid Deborah to do the needful and take the baby away from the mother after birth." "And she did?" I asked, surprised that