Liam's POV I watch the clock as the long hand finally meets twelve while the short one rests still on eight. I bought drumsticks and coke for dinner.That's my go-to meal whenever I'm indecisive about what to eat.I settle on my dining table and close my eyes.“Thank you for the food,” I mutter in prayer to the moon goddess.Finally taking a break from the hunt for Naya's blood is a big relief. I want the bigger one, though.I take a crunchy bite off one of the drumsticks. Yummy as ever. I might get another bucket when driving past that junk shop tomorrow. There's a soft knock on the door and my mouth stops moving. I swallow a half-chewed load of chicken. “Who is it by this time of the night?” I grumble, dragging my feet lazily to the door.I'm not in the mood to receive guests. I'm the guest of myself tonight, so everyone else should fuck off.I pull the door open and my eyes settle on Sophie's figure. She’s standing under the florescent light of my front door, her two hands holdin
Naya's POVI don't know what led me into telling Rowan about the anonymous group, but I guess it wasn't a mistake. I'm smiling at the text message he sent me.“I knew he'd approve of it,” Elsie says to me. “What a special human he is.”“I know, right. I heard things like this do happen during these competitions,” I say. “If the group is looking to invest in me, then they've found the right place.”I flag a taxi down and settle into the soft cushion of the back seat as he drives me to the office. I'm early today, much more than other days.There's only a few people in the general compartment as I walk through, and none of them is yet to start working on their designs.I unlock the door. Sophie isn't here yet.Well, it will give me more room to focus on doing what is important to me.I have to respond to the anonymous group.It takes roughly quarter an hour crafting a good response. And by the time I'm done, I send it to Reilly to read and make any suggestions. She's a really smart girl
Liam's POV“Would you like anything?” Naya asks as I settle down on her sofa.I let out a sigh. “Not really.”“I'll get you a glass of water,” she suggests. “You look exhausted.”I sigh yet again and glance at her. “You're quite right about that. I'd appreciate the glass of water, please.”“Alright, darling,” she says with a smile and heads off to the the kitchen.I adjust myself on the sofa. I hope she won't be display much drama when I finally let her know why I'm here.That dream of hers is going to be torn apart. I know it will hurt, but she's my puppet and is going to do whatever pleases me.She returns with a glass of water and drops it on the table before me, then she sits on the sofa that faces mine.I shoot a gaze at her and tap on the space beside me, inviting her to sit there.“Oh sorry.” She stands up quickly and skids over to my side.Sinking into the sofa, she exhales softly and looks at me, but looks away immediately.I'm taken aback by that single act. It hasn't always
Naya's POV Round my eyes hurt so bad as I turn one more time on the pillow to glance at the clock. All through last night, I cried in my bed like a baby with no one to console it.A frustrated sigh leaves my mouth when I realize that it's past eleven on the clock. There's ten missed calls from my Reilly and three from my boss.I grumble as I get up from the bed and slide into my slippers. The first thing I do is take a few tablets of Aspirin before I rush into the bathroom to have my bath.Last night is still heavy on my mind. I never saw it coming that yesterday would end horribly for me.It feels like time has just slowed down as cold water sprays all over my body under the shower.Why am I even bathing? I wonder. I'm already late for work and it's not like there's some special reasons why I must be present there today.I sit on the toilet and bury my head into my thighs. I'm exhausted. I feel so down. Maybe I should just step down from the competition and rest my bones. Maybe I ju
Naya's POVThe brown office table vibrates with a call on my phone.When I look at the phone and see that it is Rowan, a smile crosses my lips. My shipments have arrived.“Um… Mrs Yorke,” he utters in a polished baritone, “I don't want to believe it, but a delivery truck is standing right before my abode looking for a certain Mrs Naya Sinclair.”“It's mine,” I respond, my lips drawing into a smile. “Sorry I didn't inform you beforehand.”“No, no, no… It's fine,” he says. “I just wanted to be sure that it's my wife's and not someone else’s.”“Really? That's so sweet of you, Rowan,” I coo.“Sure.”“Uhm… Try to come over as soon as possible” he adds.“I will,” I promise. “I'll be there in an hour.”“Alright. See you then.”I round up the leave permit and email it to the boss. She didn't come to the office today, but I'm sure she'll get the email any time soon.I board a taxi to Rowan's place, but first, we stopped at my apartment and I packed a few corporate dresses. Om the way to Rowan'
Liam's POV My ringtone now feels like a nightmare whenever I hear it. I barely slept for two hours last night. And now, it's ringing again, piercing through my brain and driving me to the edge of insanity.Reilly Sinclair!I know it's her and no one else. It has already gotten beyond frustrating, but I'm holding myself back from unleashing my rage on her.I have no bloody idea where her sister has been for the past two days. I've searched, I've asked her friends… No single one has a bloody idea where she is.I'm not going to kill myself in the name of finding her. I can only hope that nothing bad happens to her cause I'm not done with her. We are not done with her.Tomorrow, the second phase of the Krishna Fashion Design Contest begins. The instructions are going to be emailed to the contestants tonight. Sophie told me that.I hop down from my bed and go straight to the floor. Twenty pushups and twenty sit-ups is my usual morning workout routine. But today, I'm pushing it up to thir
Naya's POV The event hall is huge, occupied with over two hundred participants and six judges standing on the stage.The giant door opens and I see Sophie walking in with her racks carried by one of the event attendants.She looks so nervous, but I don't give a damn what she looks like.She's seated two spaces away from me and I pray other contestants would come and fill up those spaces so I don't get to see even her shadow.Thirty minutes go buy before the door closes. “It's 10:30am on the dot,” one of the judges announces as the door closes. “Any contestant who hasn't entered the hall by now has been ruled out from the contest officially.”A cold chill runs down my spine at those words. They only add to my fear of how strict the judgement standards would be.When I got the email of instructions for the second phase of the contest, I didn't waste a second before going on my fabric hunt.I stayed up, sewing and undoing what I've sewn, styling and restyling my designs. Rowan even got
Naya's POVElsie can't stop jubilating and my eyes just can't stop shedding tears. I can't believe I did it. I got to the final stage of the competition. I'll pray under the moonlight tonight and thank the moon goddess for shining her light on me. I want to jump around everywhere and jubilate, but I know better than to celebrate two early. The competition is more than challenging, it's scary.I came to realise today that there were some people who scored ninety percent in the first phase. The two Osward sisters! Marie and Sharon. They've been fashion designers since birth. All through the second phase today, I never saw anxiety on their faces. It felt like they owned the whole contest.I wonder if I'd be able to lace their shoes in this contest.“Hey.” Someone taps me from behind and I turn to meet Marie.“Hey, you,” I let out nervously, managing a smile.She hugs me tight. “You're truly amazing.” She whispers. “You deserve your win.”“Thanks, Maddie,” I coo, stroking the back of
LIAMSophie was still making a din outside, trying to get me to see her but I pretended as if I could not hear her. Once she got tired then she was going to understand that I was truly done with her and that I wanted nothing to do with her She would leave me alone then. I was waiting for her to get tired of knocking when my phone rang. I frowned when I saw it. It was from a phone number that I did not know. I picked it up, anyway. "Hello? Who is this?" I said as soon as I picked up the call. "You are Liam right? The King had asked me to contact you. He told me that you would be needing my help?" She asked me. I stood up immediately when she told me this. I had almost forgotten that the King had told me that someone was going to contact me and that they were going to yell me save the person that he wanted me to save."I think we should meet up, I will tell you where we are supposed to meet up," she said and ended the call. O frowned. She didn't even let me know her name or
LIAMMy heart was beating fast against my chest when I left the hospital. I had been really confident that I would have been able to get Naya's blood. She was really weak and all I had to do was just take it. But who knew that even though she was sick she still had a lot of strength in her. That damn woman! Did she have to be so stubborn about everything?! If I couldn't find the antidote, then the princess and I could be dead soon. How could she just stand back and watch as two innocent people died for nothing?! Did I really have to kidnap her and force her to give me her blood? I really didn't want to go too far with her because I still had hopes of getting back with her before but I didn't think they was going to be possible anymore. It seemed that there was no other way for me to get out of this. I would have to burn all of the bridges. I was not surprised when I saw Sophie standing in front of my house when I arrived. She had been trying to reach me but I have refused to pic
NAYAI let out a sigh of relief that I did not Gen knkr that j was holding when I saw Rowan. The tears that I had been holding back started falling and he pulled me into his arms immediately. He started to comfort me. "There is no need for tob to cry anymore. I am already here. I will take care of this. You are okay now," he tried his best to comfort me. I shook my head and sobbed loudly in his arms. I did not know how long I cried for but by the time I looked up again, Rowan and I were the only ones left in the hospital room. At some point, the nurse and doctor had walked away. I sniffed as I looked up at him. "Do you feel better now?" Rowan asked me. I was still very frightened about what had happened but I was better and a lot calmer now that Rowan was here. "Yes. I do feel better...." I said as I nodded my head. "Do you want to talk about what happened....the nurse had told me that there was a man inside here? Who was it? What did he do to you?" He asked me."It was Liam
NAYAI shuddered when I saw the cold look that was on Liam's face. My whole body was in pain and I knew that I would not be able to stop him if he really wanted to do something to me. I was really scared now. I had no idea what he was going to do to me...."What are you going to do to me, Liam? Rowan is going to be back soon. If you don't want to die, you had better get out of here. He is not going to let you off if you dare to do anything to hurt me," i warned Liam. Liam just smiled evilly. "Well he is not here right now. I am sure that I would have finished and even left before he comes back. You don't have to try to threaten me with him. I am not scared of him at all, you see. I don't care about him. Now stay put and just let me draw some blood from you" he said to me. "Don't come close to me! Don't think I am joking!" I yelled. He didn't listen to me. He was still approaching me. "Just stay put Naya, it's not going to hurt at all. I just need a bit of your blood to make the
LIAMI was not expecting Naya to wake up at all. Her face was really pale so whatever has happened to her must have been pretty serious. I was blown away when her eyes fluttered open. My heart was beating fast against my chest. I was still holding on to her arm and she was blinking at me as if she was trying to figure out what was going on. "What are you doing here?" Naya asked me. Her voice was really weak. She tried to sit up on the bed but she fell back down on the bed. He face went vent paler. It was obvious that she was in a lot of pain. She placed her hand on her stomach. "What happened to me?" She mumbled to herself. I scoffed at her. "You really have no one else to blame but yourself for this. You are the one who brought this upon yourself. If you had just listened to me and did as I asked, then we won't have gotten here. You have no one else to blame but yourself," I repeated this over and over again. "Liam....what are you doing here?" She asked me. If was as if Naya h
LIAM"What do you need me to do for you?" I asked him urgently. I was more than willing to do anything now. As long as it meant that I was going to keep my life. I didn't want to die. "I need you to rescue someone for me. He was taken by someone... I need to to get him out there," The King said with a frown on his face. I blinked my eyes. I could tell that he war trying to hold back as much informational as possible. I could not understand why he was doing this. If he wanted me to do something, then he should tell me what it entailed upfront so that I would be able to do a good job. "You need to tell me all that I should know about this person so that I can rescue them," I said to the King. He waved his hand at me. "you don't need to know anything more. You just need to know that he's currently behind held at the home of a man called Rowan. You just need to find out where Rowan keeps him and get him out for me," he said to me. I bit my lips and chuckled to myself when I heard Row
ROWANI looked towards the window and I saw that it was nighttime. I sighed, really worried about Naya. Was she going to come out of the place alive?.The thought of hrr dying was the scariest thing to me and I didn't really think that I would be able to take it if anything did happen to her. Henry came back with the drinks that he said he was going to get and he handed one to me. I took it from him and took a sip. I had to admit that it was really good just what I needed. Just then, the doctor walked out of the hospital room and I ran to him immediately. "Doctor....how is my wife doing ...she is not going to die, right? She is going to be okay right?" I asked him all in one breath. The doctor looked at me and shook his head and my heart started to beat fast against my chest. I didn't know what to do or say at that moment. The only thing I could think of was that she was dead. She had died. What was I supposed to do without her? How was I even going to continue my life without
LIAMI walked out of the princess room with a heavy heart. Although I would have liked to stay and talk with her some more, I didn't want to do that. I knew her father was going to be back any time soon and I didn't want to make him even more angry with me. I was walking back to the doctors office when I saw someone I never thought I'd see in the VIP ward of the hospital. It was Rowan and he was pacing outside a hospital room with a worried look on his face. There was another man with him who also had a worried look on his face. I hid myself in a corner so he won't see me and I continued to watch him. What was he doing here? Was Naya in the hospital? I got a report from the Elders in her pack that had left the pack since her father got better. What happened to her for her to be in the hospital though? I had a lot of questions. Besides,I wasn't even sure that she was the one in there. The other guy placed a hand on Rowan's shoulder. "I am going to go downstairs and get somethi
LIAM"And what do you want to see her for? Do you even think that her father is going to let you see her? You were supposed to have come back for the antidote for her soon but you didn't do that. Because of you, her life is in danger now and you think that for some kind of reason you can come here and demand that out want to see her?! "The doctor yelled at me. I bowed my head as he scolded me as if I was a child. I did not dare to raise my head or say a single word back to him. I knew that all it was going to take was for me to make a simple mistake and then they were going to deal with me. I didn't want to risk it at all. "No, you don't understand it. I just want to know how she's doing. I am not planning anything. How could I dare to plan anything when you're still her with me? I am really very sorry for what she is going through and I really just want to make sure that she is fine, okay. Besides, the King isn't here right now. I will be back before he comes back," I assured the