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Hermes ran his hand through his silver streaked hair, as he paced back and forth in his dimly lit office. The sound of his footsteps echoed all through the house, he had sent off the remainder of his guards, to him they were just a bunch of incompetent wannabes. He had sourced for reinforcement from the people that he had chosen with his own hand. It was very hard to find real help these days, if it wasn’t then they definitely would not have let Juan storm into his heavily defended house like it was nothing.The whole office was a mess, as papers lay everywhere and there were bottles of whisky laid out on the floor. Hermes had not bothered to clean it for days now, there were other pressing thoughts that filled his mind and the state of his office was definitely not one of them.A hint of frustration was beginning to show in both his stride and his voice, nothing seemed to be going according to plan anymore and he had no idea how to handle everything. Sending in Rachael to take out Ra
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ATHENAMy eyes turned to the clock which was hanging on the wall in a corner in the house. It was almost the night of the next day and Rafael had not reached out ever since he dropped me off. He had said whatever he was going to do was not going to take so much time, it surprised me when he didn’t come home yesterday and now, he still wasn’t back. He had not reached out to me at all but when I asked Ella about him she had said that he was fine and had called to ask her to get something for him.I felt really pathetic when I asked her if he had mentioned anything about me, but then she said he just called to give specific instructions. None of these instructions involved me apparently, he didn’t mention me once. It was obvious that he didn’t care about me as much as wanting to know how I felt after dropping me off.None of it made any sense to me. I was trying my hardest to comprehend the sudden switch from him, after all we shared multiple moments in the hospital. We even shared conve
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RAFAELMy eyes locked with Athena’s immediately the door opened up. There she stood at the bottom of the stairs. She looked like she had been waiting for me and she had her arms folded across each other. I could tell immediately from her demeanor that she was pissed. It dawned on me immediately that I had been avoiding her calls since what happened at the bar yesterday. I wondered what she must have been thinking was the reason behind me doing that, no doubt she would have come up with something in her mind.I was going to have to explain to her that a lot of things happened which was why I had not returned since yesterday when I dropped her off. The whole thing with Rachael had all happened so fast and my mind had been working overtime ever since then. I had considered dropping off Rachael at the safe house and coming back home to handle a couple of things first but then she insisted on coming along with me.According to her, it would be better for her to be as close to me as possibl
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Rachael was perched outside the door of the study waiting for the two lovebirds inside to go through whatever squabble it was that they were having. The look that Hernandez had on his face when he walked in had irritated her so much, she had considered pulling out her knife and slitting his throat right there and then but she had chosen restraint instead. In a way, he had every right to be skeptical about everything, after all she was also skeptical about everything.She had no idea if Rafael was telling the truth or not. When she had seen his face in the club something had shifted inside her, a feeling which she didn’t quite understand. His face seemed very familiar and for some reason she felt her body instantly warm to him. None of it made any sense to her but that was what she was here to do, make sense of everything. Her being this close to him would definitely reveal everything there was to know and he certainly was very open about his plans.Hermes was definitely not a saint to
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ATHENAA lot is eating at the back of my mind as I storm out of their presence and head downstairs. The house felt quite choking right now and all I wanted was to feel the fresh air from outside on my skin. Everything that they did was proving to be extremely irritating to me and I didn’t know how to feel about any of this. Tears were threatening to drop from my eyes but I was desperately fighting to keep it all in. There was no way I was going to cry, certainly not in front of them. I was not going to give them the satisfaction of seeing that.It had become very obvious to me that this girl was not here to just stay and leave. She was definitely trying to rile me up with everything that she said and I didn’t know how to feel about any of that. All what she had said had been to get on my nerves and I had allowed her. It had worked effectively and here I was in the garden now basically a slobbering mess.I hated the fact that I had become this unrecognizable person. I knew I was better
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RAFAELThe whole room seemed to go completely quiet as the words came out of my mouth. She had a visible look of shock on her face, like she didn’t know what to say. All she could do was stare at me as I stood there wondering if I should even be telling her any of this. I had not been able to bring myself to say anything about what had happened to me when I was younger. When I had returned, I had kept everything to myself because I was too scared to talk to anyone.My mother had tried her hardest to get it out of me but she had failed. I couldn’t bring myself to tell her the details of what I went through in that place. I had tried my hardest to forget about everything but it had been close to impossible for me to do that. Some nights, I woke up screaming and crying from nightmares that haunted me.There was a time she walked into the room and I was curled up in a corner bawling my eyes out because I could still hear the voices in my head. For months after I was back, I found it extre
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Hermes’s phone rang for what must have been the tenth time that day and he ignored it once again. There he was, sat in his dark office, a bottle of whiskey on his table and a glass in his hand. He hated drinking but recently with everything that was going on, he found himself drinking more and more. It was very obvious to anybody that paid enough attention that this whole business with Rafael was proving to be much more than he could handle. He was still trying to process everything that had been going on in the past few days.He sat there thinking about where he must have gone wrong with everything and what steps he could have taken to prevent the current predicament which he found himself in. The more he thought about it, the less thoughts that seemed to be coming into his head. Hermes was used to being the one holding all the power and influence but for the first time in a very long time, he seemed to be completely powerless against this foe of his.His organization was being torn
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ATHENAThe tears streamed down my face as I made my way to the room. None of what I had just heard seemed to make any sense to me. I didn’t know exactly what to make of any of the things which Rafael and his girl had just told me.Could it really be possible that my dad was all of these things that they were saying? How did I not notice this in the first place? Is it possible that they are lying to me?Question after question kept on popping into my head and I had no idea how to deal with any of it. Rafael’s face when he spoke to me in the study, his voice and his mannerism kept on playing in my head. He looked genuinely hurt by everything that he was saying and it was obvious that he wouldn’t go through such lengths just to make up a story to tell me. It definitely didn’t make sense.This was what his mother was talking about back then when she mentioned he had been kidnapped. I had not thought too dearly about it and his reservations to talk about it had struck me at first but after
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EPILOGUETHREE MONTHS LATER“He is so beautiful.” Athena said, as she lifted up their baby and spun him around in the air.The past months after the baby had come had been nothing short of magical. She couldn’t stop staring at the baby and she thought about how different her life was now from how it had been just a couple of months ago. They were at a point of peace and Rafael had magically transformed into the sweetest person on the earth. She now saw him smile a lot, especially when he played with Jaden. They had both chosen the baby’s name together after a lot of arguments. It had been a funny scene to witness but at the end of the day, they had settled for Jaden and it was a name that suited him so well.“He has my eyes so of course he is going to look beautiful.” Rafael said, as he emerged at the door of the room.He had been standing there for a while watching his mother and Athena without them knowing. They were startled at first, but at this point they had gotten used to the f
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RAFAEL“Watch your step.” I said, as I held her hands and led her into the house.She had absolutely refused my offers to carry her. In her words, she felt I had done enough. On the contrary, I felt I was yet to do enough. I was not sure if I could ever do enough to compensate for everything that I had put her through in the past few months. I felt it in my heart though, I was definitely ready to make amends for everything. That was the plan.The doctor had finally agreed to discharge her from the hospital and we got back to a welcome party from my mother. She had been extremely happy over the past few days. Ever since I told her the news at the hospital about how the baby might actually be mine, I realized that the glow which she had the first time she found out that Athena was pregnant had actually returned to her face. I couldn’t be hundred percent sure if I was the father, not until the baby was here and we were able to carry out a DNA test.I could feel it in my bones though. It
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ATHENAMy eyes fluttered open, as I came to. A faint beeping noise continued to ring in my head, as I steered wondering where it was coming from. My equilibrium was still off and I had no idea what was going on around me. My mind felt like it was covered by a thick fog and it was very hard to get it clear. My eyelids felt extremely heavy and it was like they were being weighed down by invisible anchors. Finally, I was able to pry them open. It took some time for my eyes to get accustomed to the lighting in the room. There was a light which shone soft and dull right above my head, casting a pale glow across the room I was in.I looked around as it took me a moment to adjust, to process the white walls of the room it was in. There was the hum of machinery all around me, that was where the constant beeping sound was coming from and that smell. It was a very distinct smell which I recognized immediately. I had spent enough time in hospitals during my mother’s hospital to be able to recogn
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“Athena!” Rafael yelled, as he rushed over to her side.He had watched her fall when he came out of the car and this had taken him completely by surprise. He knew that she could already tell exactly what had happened from the moment he stepped out of the car. The stench of failure was no doubt all around him and he had thought about it all through the drive to the house. He thought about how he was going to tell her that her father was dead and he had watched as Hernandez put a bullet through his head as he was unable to do anything about it. The mere thought of telling her such a thing troubled him so deeply and it showed on his face immediately he stepped out of the car.Without him saying a word, she could already tell that the worst had happened. The look in his eyes told more words than he could ever say. Athena had felt like she was going to cry, as if a great burden had just come upon her shoulder. A burden which was too heavy for her to bear. She felt like she was going to cru
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RAFAELWe finally pulled up to the house and my mother was right outside to greet us. She was so happy that we made it out, as I watched her hug Athena deeply. She checked her to ensure that she was fine while she led her into the house. I could see a deep sadness on Athena’s face even though she tried her best to hide it for my mother’s sake. I could tell that she was greatly troubled about what happened to her father. Her words in the car kept on ringing in my head. She had asked me to help him and there was only one way I knew how to.Walking past them, I headed to my room upstairs and went straight to my wardrobe to bring out my box. This was where I kept my suit and weapons which I used when I raided Hermes’s warehouses. Every time I wore it, it meant that I was about to do something which I was not essentially going to be proud of. I stared at the box for a couple of seconds as I contemplated whether or not to open it. Questions danced around in my head as I wondered if doing th
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The whole room seemed to be in a sort of chokehold, as everybody’s eyes bounced around. Hermes’s arrival had been quite unexpected to all of them and they had no idea what any of this meant or what he was doing here. From the way that he had burst in, his intentions could be told to some degree though. He was standing in between his two guards who had come into the room with him and he had a smile as he stared at the meeting which was going on at the table. Rafael most especially was very surprised by all that was going on. He wasn’t sure what to make of all of this as so many questions ran through his mind.He got up and walked over to Hermes as their eyes met.“What the fuck are you doing here?” Rafael asked,“And here I was thinking that you were an honorable man that I could trust, Mr Hall.” The investor said, as he sat up and adjusted his suit. “The last thing I was expecting was that you would bring the enemy right to my doorstep after you were the one that asked for this deal t
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RAFAELAll through the night leading up to this, I found myself completely unable to sleep. This was certainly not a new phenomenon for me. Sleep had managed to elude me a lot during the past few days and I desperately hoped that I would finally be able to find rest when all of this was in the past. When Athena and the baby were safe and sound, I would finally be able to rest and think about everything. I had desperately avoided thinking about what Rachael had told me the other day. This whole time, I had not even considered the possibility that the child that Athena was carrying could be my own in any way. Initially I had seen it as a means to carry out my revenge on Hermes.Raising the child the way which he had raised me, that was what I had planned to do. That plan had since left my head, but then, I still had never considered the possibility of the child being mine. All I had thought was that the child was Athena’s ex’s and this had pissed me off so much for a reason that I was s
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ATHENAEven as I sat bound to the chair with a bag over my head impeding my vision, the whole scene at the restaurant kept on playing in my head. I had seen the bullet go through Rachael as she slumped to the ground along with the gun which she had trained to my back. The whole thing had happened so fast and even though I had tried my best to get to Rafael, especially after hearing him screaming my name out loud, I wasn’t able to. I couldn’t get to him before the van pulled up beside me and the men tossed me in. As I sat in the room, I could still feel their presence all around me. I wondered who they were and nobody had bothered to tell me anything ever since we got to wherever this was. They had not spoken to me directly despite all the questions I threw their way. I was in a world where I knew no one and I struggled so hard to comprehend what was going on.I was sure of one thing though, these were completely different people from Rachael’s men. When we first got here, I had though
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RAFAELWe all rode in silence as we headed to my house. Rachael was bleeding in the back seat and I had instructed one of my men to tend to her wounds. She kept staring at me without saying a word, but I could tell from the frown on her face that she was not pleased by anything that was going on. When I had offered her my assistance when she lay on the floor bleeding, she had initially tried to fight me. It had not been so much of a fight as her hand was not of so much use. The bullet was still lodged in there and I had already called the family doctor to meet me up at the house to perform a quick removal of it. The wound didn’t look entirely nasty and I was sure she was going to live through it.Hermes was not too pleased about my decision to keep her alive and he made this expressly clear. Even when I tried to place her in the back of the car, he expressly denied and insisted that he was not going to ride with someone who had been responsible for putting his daughter in harm. I coul
