OLIVIA“Beautiful flowers, who are they from?” asked Marcus coming in and standing next to me. “I think they are from Nick.” He didn’t say a word and just moved away from me. “They mean nothing, flowers are not going to erase everything Nick did to me, and they will not change our plans. Nick Jones is still going to pay for what he did to me, and I am going to make sure of it.”I didn’t know who I was trying to convince by saying that, the truth was that the flowers affected me and left me with many questions. Like what made him send me flowers suddenly, what was going through his mind, and did he think they were going to fix anything?“Phase two is underway. It will be any day now; we just have to wait.” Okay changing the subject was a clear indication that he didn’t want to talk about Nick. “The flowers don’t change anything Marcus, really.” I didn’t know why I felt the need to convince him of this. I just did.“I understand, don’t worry about me.” I nodded and went back to the loun
UNKOWN POVSomewhere downtown of New Village City, the shadiest place in the city, two individuals were meeting. The other was a young master of one of the prestigious families in New Village. The young master’s luxurious car was sticking out like a sore thumb in that place. One could tell it didn’t belong there.But to him, the car was unmarked and mysterious, not like the other cars he owned that were marked and could be easily recognised. The other was in disguise, no one could tell who the person was. Or what gender.The voice was modified and had a mask cover the whole face. Even the young master didn’t know who the individual was, but he was happy with the information the stranger was providing for him. “Are you prepared to enter the next stage? You saw that Walker was not affected in the slightest by what we did today. I want us to do more.”The young master said, he thought that burning that warehouse down was going to stop Olivia and Marcus, but the stubborn man appeared on t
NICKI was woken up by my phone ringing nonstop. I tried to ignore it, but the person was persistent. He would call and cut then start again. Without opening my eyes, I picked up the call. “What!” I was so annoyed; did they see the time? Well, I didn’t know what time it was as well, but it was not the time to be calling people.“Sir, I am sorry to wake you, but you have to see the news, it’s bad boss, really bad.” I was awake in a second. I got out of bed wearing only my shorts and went to switch on the tv. “We don’t know who leaked it, but Jones enterprises stock is plummeting over the news.” I caught that bulleting at the end.I didn’t know what it was about and what was it about our stock plummeting. Just what the hell was going on? I cut the call and checked on my phone. Written in bold the article was there. “Jones enterprise stock is plummeting following the news of their former CEO James Jone’s dirty laundry being aired for everyone to see.Mr Jones senior is accused of steppin
NICKI threw the phone on the wall, and it shuttered into pieces. Father looked at me with a raised eyebrow not moved at all by my outburst. Just when I thought I was wrong about my wife, she goes and does something like this. If she wanted to be with Walker, then why couldn’t she just be with him without doing such things.I now don’t regret sending her to jail, it was clear that she deserved it, it was only a pity that my son had to be caught in the middle of his mother’s schemes resulting in him being born in prison. I wanted to make it up to her for sending her there. To bring her back home but I was just fooling myself.Olivia was worse than I thought, it was clear that I didn’t know the woman I married at all. “Stop pacing of you will dig a hole in my study and I don’t want that.” he was pissing me off as well. How could he be so cool when our world was falling apart.“Reporters are camped outside waiting for you. Our investors and board of directors want answers, hell. I want a
OLIVIAI hoped Nick would come home early today. He hadn’t been around much since he started working with my best friend, Sandra. Things had been hectic at the office, but I still hoped today would be different, seeing how it was our fourth-year anniversary. I also had big news; I was finally pregnant, and we were about to have the family we’d always dreamed of.I couldn’t wait to see his reaction when I told him, and I didn’t even want to think about my mother-in-law—she’d be thrilled. I’d call and tell her after telling Nick. I was sure they’d cut their trip short once they heard the news of my pregnancy.I hummed as I moved around the kitchen, cooking. I was happy, despite knowing things hadn’t been the same between Nick and me lately. I hoped that after hearing the news of my pregnancy, he would become the man I fell in love with again.Just as I placed the last dish on the dining table, the front door opened. My heart leaped with excitement, and I rushed to greet him. Nick was ta
OLIVIATwo Days Later“Lock her up, and don’t let her see the sun ever again. She doesn’t deserve it!” Nick barked at the New Village Town police. His eyes were cold as ice, filled with hatred. The officer roughly shoved me into the filthy, smelly cell before slamming the bars shut. I turned to look at Nick and Sandra. They stood together, looking like old friends... or lovers. She was why he had turned against me, though I didn’t understand what had motivated her. We’d grown up together, did everything together. We’d watched each other’s backs. And now she stood beside my husband as he threw me into jail for something I didn’t do. A few hours ago, I was cooking dinner for my husband, waiting for him to come home from work. Even after the incident with Sandra in the kitchen, and even though things had changed between us since Sandra came back, I still had hope that we could fix things. Then this happened.The way Nick had looked at me when he arrived with the police broke my heart,
OLIVIAAs I stood in the cell, my thoughts went to my grandma. What would happen to her now that I was locked up? My chest tightened as I thought of her and her fragile health. Hearing about my arrest might kill her.Nick turned to the officer. “She’s to have no visitors and isn’t allowed outside. Let her rot in this cell. She can die here for all I care!”My heart shattered into a million pieces. I felt hot and struggled to breathe. How was my grandmother going to know that I was all right if I couldn’t have visitors? This would kill her! My throat felt like it was closing, threatening to cut off my air supply. I wanted to give up so badly. But then I looked at the satisfied gleam in Sandra’s eyes. Determination flooded back into me. I wasn’t going to let that witch win. By then, I was drenched in sweat, my eyes wide as saucers. I was sure I looked pale as a white sheet. The nice policeman looked terrified. “Sir, she can’t breathe. Should I call the doctor?” Maybe I should tell Ni
OLIVIAI sat in the dark jail cell, thinking about my baby and how he was going to survive in a place like this. I didn’t care about myself—they could keep me there for as long as they wanted—but my baby didn’t deserve this. He didn’t deserve to be born in a jail or suffer for my sins.It was only the second day of my incarceration, and the police were keeping their word to Nick about not letting me out. But I thought they were taking it too far; they hadn’t given me food since I arrived.It was good that nothing stayed in my stomach anymore. I’d been starting to have morning sickness. But I still felt hungry, even though I knew whatever I ate would come back up again.“Oh, my baby,” I said, caressing my stomach, “I’m so sorry you’re going through this, that you’re going to start your life into this world like this. But I swear to you, I will protect you. Your father will never know you exist, and he’ll never hurt you or me ever again. He’s done enough.”The cell door opened. I stood