Daniel POVIt was taking forever for that man to leave Olivia alone and I could not do much. I was very much aware that if I should approach them, she will be fuming with so much anger. She already hated me and it was slowly ruining my plans. I could not have her hating me more than she already did. But as I stared at Olivia, something seemed different. She was smiling more with this strange man. She was more happy and I could not longer hide the feeling of pain and disgusts that the guy made me feel. I could not understand myself but I knew I could not lie to myself either. I desperately wanted to be the only one making her laugh and watching another man do something that I had struggled with for a while just made me angry. I could not understand the new rush of emotions. After all, I had gotten perfect at playing the role of a the mysterious brother who wanted her sister but I was not in love with her. I did not even fancy the woman. So how then was it possible that this was mak
Somehow, I felt like I had bitten more than I could actually chew but this man was right in front of me, lying down nearly breathing and the cold feeling of cuffs were still around my hand and this time, I could hear the words very well. "You have the right to remain silent because everything you say can be used against you in the court of law. You have the right to an attorney, if you can't afford one, the state will provide one for you." I did not fully understand what was going on but I did not have enough time to figure it out because suddenly, I was being thrown into the back seat of a police car and driven away. I looked behind me to see people helping the guy I had beaten to stand up and even in my state of confusion, I was happy that I had impacted scars on his face that he would forever use to remember that he should stay far away from Olivia. I sat still after that as I was driven to the police station and all the way down there, I kept asking myself. 'Why wasn't this g
If only I had known how wrong I was, I would have discussed some more with Tony or maybe even gone to a bar just to prevent my eyes from beholding the terrible sight that waited for me at home. As I walked into my penthouse, on my sofa was the guy that I had beaten till he was numb on my sofa, looking like he was just breeze by a punch. His head was on Olivia's lap and she was massaging his wounds with a towel damped with warm water. I heard the sirens in my head come alive. I was so angry and confused that I folded my fist, ready to pounce on this man again. But Tony must have seen my appearance because he held my hand in a strong grip, preventing me from doing whatever was going on in my head. "Let go of me!" I seethed but the young man wasn't listening and my eyes were still forced to look at the sight of a woman that I wasn't done with holding another man that I went to jail because of. "Olivia!" I screamed her name and jolted her back from whatever world she had travel
I stood there for what felt like minutes, watching some idiot hold my woman so close to his body and my I could barely feel my hands but I could taste the anger on my tongue. I didn't say anything. After all, all I need was for that boy to be far away from Olivia as possible and if he wasn't going to do it by himself, so I had to give him a good head start. I moved swiftly towards him and yanked him right off her body. "Dude what the.." I heard him excalim but he could not finish talking because I immediately landed a punch on his face. "Since the last one didn't make much impact, I am hoping that this one will put you down for life." "Daniel, what the hell is wrong with you?" Over the ringing in my ear, I manage to hear Olivia screaming and she rushed to meet Alex on the floor. "Alex are you okay?" She asked with so much concern, annoying me the more and I just peeled her off the man and dragged her back to my side. "Daniel, let me go!" She screamed and scratched but I was det
Alex still did not say a word and I knew that if I really wanted this man to not walk away from our friendship, I had to do something. I didn't know what it was but I knew that I just had to do something. Anything. And so with slow steps, I walked up to him and slowly placed my hands on his face. "Please," I pleaded again and I watched as his eyes closed and he leaned his face into my hand. At that point, I felt something that I had not felt in a while. CalmnessIt was new. It was different. It was exciting. Whenever Daniel would touch me, I will get this sudden rush of strong emotions. I would nothing more than to jump on him and allow him do whatever he wanted to do with me. It was different with Alex. With Alex, it felt like we were making love but with Daniel, it always felt like fucking. "Olivia," with his closed eyes I watched this handsome man call my name with so much gentleness and it was soothing to my soul. "Alex, I won't let my brother hurt you again, I promise,"
Before I knew what had happened, I grabbed her by her hair and dragged her to the same door that she bolted. I didn't know where I had gotten the strength from but I suddenly pinned her to the door and spoke calmly into her ears. "Let me make this perfectly clear to you. The next time you so much as look in the direction of either me or my man, I will hurt you in so many different ways that even all the pain killers in this hospital won't be able to make you feel better. Now have I made myself perfectly clear?" I didn't yell, didn't stress myself. I just spoke calmly but with a tight grip on her hair to be very sure that she got the point I was trying to make and at the end of the day, it was obvious that she did because she started nodding her head and I patted her. "That's a very good girl," I said as I released her hair slowly"Now open the door. I need to go meet my man," I told her and I saw the look of fear in her eyes. I would have never thought that I could make a woman to
I woke up feeling sore and the ray of sunshine from my partly closed window radiated into my room giving it a warm glow and a soothing feeling to its occupants. I smiled as I stretched and finally got out from bed. Picking my phone beside me, I opened it to a text message from Alex. "Good morning beautiful. I hope you slept well. The sun was so warm and beautiful this morning and it reminded me of you so I thought to remind you that you are the most beautiful girl I have set my eyes on. If you would allow me, I would love to take you out for breakfast today. How does pancake and a glass of milk sound?" As I read the message, I could not help the smile that crawled up to my face and decided to stay there. Nothing could be more sweeter than waking up to a good morning text and an offer for a delicious breakfast. Immediately, I replied to his message. "Breakfast sounds great. I'll wait for you outside my apartment by 8." I dropped a little blushing emoji, sent the message and smiled
So I have a theory and I may sound desperate but I am going to stick by it. Alex was not able to see anything different about my dressing because he had not known me for so long. He had only seen me once and that wasn't enough time for him to decipher that I sucked at picking out proper clothes. I smiled as I came up with that theory. Maybe it made me sound like a low grade woman but if I was going to make it through the breakfast without telling him to his is face and looking like a woman desperate for attention, then I had to make up some stories so that I would not end up sounding like what I am not. Alex took me to a nice, cozy restaurant just a little out of town. As soon as I stepped in, I could smell the soothing scent of freshly made coffee and I smiled because the feeling brought warmth to my heart. He must have noticed my smile because he immediately drew me closer to himself. "Do you like the place?" He asked as we walked inside and the aesthetic of the building blew m
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