*****Nikita POV*****We approach the journalists with Leo still holding my hand, Hunter, Owen and Lucas right behind us. “You two look perfect together,” Lucas says before the chaos, which I let Leo to manage. The mics and cameras are on our faces, I don’t even look to see which one is talking. I just want to get out of here and see my son. “Welcome home Mr and Mrs Booi…””Congratulations on tying the knot..”“Thank you,” Leo responds with a straight face and leads me to the side, towards our cars. “Any reason you two decided on getting married in Kali?” one shouted behind us and Leo shouted back. “Would you have allowed us to have a private ceremony if we married here?”It’s a valid question. They have a way of showing up everywhere. “Mrs Davi, have you decided on what will happen to your son? Have you found the father yet?”The question stops me on my tracks. Very few people know about my hijacked womb. The whole thing makes me look like an idiot but would definitely be embarrass
*****Nikita POV***** It’s almost dark by the time I arrive at the Booi estate. Everyone, guards and servants are outside standing in a formation line on both sides of the driveway all the way to the veranda of the house. Leo stands tall in front of the door with Owen and Hunter on his either sides. There’s a grey-haired old lady a few feet from them. I bet that is the famous Mariah, the Booi’s most trusted maid who raised Leo and Owen. I have never met her but I know stories of how protective of the two and how fond they are of her. Next to her stands Wendy, her daughter, whom I once thought was Leo’s woman. I took longer in my estate than I originally thought and I can’t help but feel guilty when I think about how long they might have waited for me to arrive. They all bow down when I greet and walk past.“Finally! Do you have any idea how much it hurts to stand on heels for two hours?” Wendy exclaims. I look down at her heels and back up at her. She is still exactly like I rememb
*****Leo POV*****I lay on my bed with my drop-dead gorgeous wife in my arms. It’s been two weeks into this and I want more and more of her everyday. It’s amusing how she is so in denial about this. My whole family has really taken into her. I have to literally steal her away from them every time I want us to be alone. She turns, facing away from me and her sexy butt wakes the greedy bastard who can’t get enough. I pull her back and whisper I to her ear. That should get both of us hot really quick. “Morning wife.”“Mmmh.”I nimble on her ear and she moans. My wife is into me as I am into her. An hour later, she is locking me out of the bathroom to stop the inevitable. “Babe, please,” I plead and make a mental note to get rid of that key. “No. You will shower alone,” she responds and I chuckle. “I promise I will only look. I won’t even touch you.”That’s a lie even when I say it. The truth is I can’t help myself. “Wait your turn, Leo.”I guess I deserve that for the days I broke
*****Nikita POV*****It’s already two weeks since our fake wedding but Leo and I have not really sat and spoken about what will happen when the month ends. I hope the time away from everyone will give us the opportunity to do that. I will be lying if I say I am not enjoying being in Leo’s arms again but I also miss being in my estate and spending a full day and night with my son.I spend the whole day showing the boys how to design their own drones and they absolutely love it. Leo, who initially pretended to not be into it is soon competing and bragging about his supper fast drone. “When do we learn how to make the fireworks?”Owen asks eagerly, his question gets Lucas so intrigued, he stops flying his drone. “You make fireworks too.”“Yes, but I am not teaching any of you that.”“Oh! Please, Niki. I want to make my own for the new years,”Lucas pleads.“You are too innocent.” I say. He is really still a kid, something we all forget because he likes behaving older than his age. “No, I
*****Nikita POV*****Two weeks later, I wake up to find Leo staring at me. “Creepy, Mr Booi.”Leo looks at me with a serious face I have not seen recently. “I don’t want a divorce, Niki.”I sigh and sit up. My nakedness no longer making me self conscious, not after the passion that consumed both of us since we arrived in Palmland. He adjusts his position to face me. I intentionally block his sexy masculine chest that’s right in front of me. This talk is what we came here for but we have been so lost in each other that we have not spoken about it. “Leo, we are the definition of fire and ice. We fight like no other. What type of marriage will that be?”I have no point of reference when it comes to marriage and neither does he, but I know that ours is not ideal. He looks at me with so much tenderness that I have to catch my breath. His hand runs over my head with his fingers twisting around my hair log. This is not even sexual but it gets my heart pounding. “Both our mothers died b
*****Nikita POV*****It’s exactly a month after our marriage when we land in Lilly town and find Owen and Lucas already waiting for us. “Niki! Welcome back,” Owen embraces me excitedly and Lucas follows after him. “I am here too, you weasels!” Leo complains and they laugh at him. “We know, we missed Niki more,” Owen says, earning himself a cold stare from his cousin, followed by a brotherly hug. Now I miss my own brother. “She’s my wife. Keep this up and I will keep her in my bed and you two will never see her,” Leo threatens and I roll my eyes at him. Leo insists on opening the car door for me. I don’t like how he is claiming every part of my heart with his seemingly small acts. Owen gets on the drivers seat with Lucas next to him.“You two are not divorcing, right?” Owen asks the moment we get into the car. “You are just perfect together,” Lucas adds. Him and Owen definitely discussed this. “And no one can survive either one of you.”Leo and I exchange looks. That is probabl
*****Nikita POV*****Two months later, there’s nothing on Able. It’s like the man is a ghost. Hunter and half of my men have been all over the world looking for him. Besides the two houses in Kali and Bali island that are under his name, there is nothing. Even the housekeepers who maintain those houses have never seen him. I walk out of the Booi mansion and find Owen flying the drone as usual. Now that he can make one from scratch, he does his own modifications to make it faster. “Morning Niki. Your sleepyhead still sleeping?”I smile at him. He always calls Leo names to get to his nerves but loves him like no other. “He says Able is Nick’s father.”I nod my head. “What can you tell me about him?”Leo has not been much help. He claims to not know much but he also thinks I should just let the whole thing go. Owen shakes his head. “I really don’t know much except what Leo has told me. I was staying with my parents somewhere else back then,” Owen says. I know that he only moved into
*****Nikita POV*****What the fuck!I blink and look at the dna results again. A 25% is all I needed, not this! This means Leo lied to me. The bastard hijacked my womb! No wonder he’s been pushing me to let him see Nick. My heart is already pounding by the time I pull out my suitcase and throw all my clothes in it. “Sweetie?” Riah asks when I get downstairs. I shake my head and leave her standing there. She is like the mother I longed for but I am too mad to say anything right now. I can tell that something is up when I get to my estate. The guards won’t even look at me in the eyes. I run inside and meet Becca in the lounge. “Niki,” her nervous voice makes things worse. Something is definitely up. I peep behind her. Nick should have ran out ahead of her by now. “Where is my son?”“Leo to…took him,” Becca stammers and my head starts spinning. I shake my head a few times wondering if I heard her accurately. I must be going crazy. “What did you say?”“Leo took him a few minutes ag
*****Leo POV*****When more hours pass without a trace of Niki, I completely lose my sanity. “Hang in there. Niki is the strongest woman I know,” Owen says but I can’t believe anything until I see her. “She is my everything.”“I know and most importantly, Franco and Dion know it too.”“They are monsters, Owen, and Niki is pregnant.”“She will be fine. You have to believe it,” Owen insists and I nod my head. It’s only when Hunter gets intel about the murder of a man he and Nick once hired to build a secret grave Crego and the signals going off from the Crego grave that hope returns to me. We are an hour off but Niki is definitely still alive. Getting that assurance gets me pumped up again. My heart leaps when I see her. The love of my life. She weeps on my arms while I thank heavens for her safety. We all get a reminder of how crazy and mean Nick Davi was when Niki opens the vault. I know that he is dead, but I want to punch him really badly for speaking to my wife like that. We a
*****Nikita POV*****I wake up in an unfamiliar place. The hazy image of Franco standing above me gets clearer and I sit up. “Morning sleepyhead,” Franco beams. There is really something wrong with this man. “Where am I?”“We are in the great Crego and the weather is wonderful!” he responds with so much excitement, you would swear we were related or friends. “You drugged me,” I accuse. The last thing I remember was arriving at the cemetery and someone putting a sack over my head. Crego is in another country away. He shrugs his shoulders. “You are not the cooperative type, my friend.”“What do you want, Franco?”He opens his hands. “Money, Niki, money and you have loads of it.”“I thought we were friends,” I accuse. “Of course we are.”“You kidnapped my son!” I exclaim, Anderson rising within me. “Come on now, Niki. The little guy was not harmed.”I shake my head and bite my tongue. Nick might not be physically harmed but being snatched by strange man will still scar him. “Why C
*****Leo POV*****A week later, the country is still in chaos. People are fed up with the ruling party and begging ex president Marlone to lead them again. The politicians are throwing each other under the buss and literally begging us for forgiveness. I look at Niki. “Babe.”“You can’t be serious!” she exclaims in disbelief. “The country is burning, My Love. We can’t let it continue.”“They tried to kill us!”“I know. I think we made our point. Everyone now knows the truth. I don’t think they will ever mess with us again,”I explain. “I agree with Leo. It’s enough now,” Daniel says. “I know that you are angry, I would be too if someone attacked my family like that. Dad says people are angry and getting desperate. He can’t lead again, that took a lot from him the last time. Please, Niki. I want to get out of here and plan my wedding,” Lorraine pleads. She definitely inherited her father’s diplomatic ways. We all look at Niki, who thinks we are all too soft and weak. She is probable
******Nikita POV*****It does not take long for Hunter to return with Lorraine. As expected, he has taken extreme measures to ensure that they are not followed and Lorraine has nothing that can be used to track her here. It’s easy to see how devastated Lorraine is by Daniel’s death. I’m really curious to know her reasons for turning him down because it’s not lack of love.“Hi, Lorraine.” I keep my cold straight face. She runs to my arms and starts weeping. “I.. I.. loved him. I really did,” she chokes on her tears and I now feel bad for the lie I told. “My parents spent their lives and went through hell to unite this country,” she mumbles, a story we all know too well. “My siblings and I have always been under scrutiny. We learned very early on that anything we did could be used by the opposition against our parents,” she continues. I know that too. The whole country got to know when President Marlone’s children were mean to anyone at school. It’s been like that even when they we
*****Leo POV*****A day later….“Hey everyone, Daniel’s father-in-law is on television,” Lucas shouts and we all congregate in front of the screen. Former president Marlone’s views matter a lot to us for different reasons. He still has a lot of followers and influence here but we now we have our eyes on his daughter for Daniel. “Former President Marlone, many consider eliminating the mafia the one thing you failed to accomplish during your presidency. What are your views on what’s going on now?”the journalist asks. Former President Marlone smiles and shakes his head. “My mandate was to eliminate the criminal organisation called the mafia. So, I, and my government appointed the best detectives in this country to only focus on that. We had the best undercover agents, who infiltrated the Davis, the Booi’s and Siko’s. The so called DBS or big players in the mafia world.”We all exchange looks, wondering which one of our previous men were undercover agents. “And?” the journalist asks ea
*****Leo POV*****I get into the bathroom and find my wife puking over the toilet. This should be disgusting, right? Then why do I feel like kissing every part of her body?I crouch down next to her, gentle tag her hair back and pat her back. “You don’t have to stay,” she says before gagging and puking again. “There’s no place I would rather be, My Love.”She frowns at me. “Eew.”I can’t help but laugh at her reaction. “We are in this together, Babe,” I say with a lump on my throat. So much has happened between us, but we are still here and this baby is the stamp of our love. She gets up, flushes the toilet and rinses her mouth before responding to me. “You are very weird, Mr Booi.”I chuckle before whisking off her feet. “We are pregnant. Babe, we are really pregnant!”She wraps her arms around my neck and looks down at me in disbelief. “I told you this a few hours ago and you did not seem interested.”“I thought you were too smitten and speaking in tongues.”She rolls her eyes
*****Leo POV*****We can see the bullets but thanks to the impenetrable walls, none get through. This wall in my books, still the most impressive invention of all times. “They are not in uniform and did not identify themselves as police,” Hunter says and my lethal wife is absolutely thrilled. “We have already won the case. We just have to live through this. On them boys,” Niki says and we gladly comply. The bastards clearly did not expect us to retaliate like this. I don’t really blame them. Guns, yes, but I wouldn’t expect any mafia to have bombs and drones. We are definitely winning this without even facing the fire. Owen and Lucas are even competing on who has taken down the most of our attackers and Daniel is actually not bad despite his complaints. We are still celebrating our victory when a missile comes out of nowhere. “Abort! Everyone to the basement!” Niki shouts and we all dash to the basement. The walls and the roof shake at the point of impact, before tumbling down. T
*****Leo POV*****Niki opens and closes her mouth, speechless. Did she really think I would ever let her go?“You have a lot to make up for, Missy,”I tease and she looks at me in disbelief. Sizzling hot! “Shooting you was an accident, why am I making up for it?”“Not telling me that it was an accident and trying to tear us apart, thats what you are making up for,” I say while wrapping my arms around her tiny waist. I plan on shamelessly riding this wave forever. She smiles and curves her sensual lips. I know that means she is about to fight me and I decide to change my strategy. “I will tell Nick that you shot me.”“That will definitely get Mrs defiance in line,” Owen responds. He’s himself again now that he knows Niki did not really pull the trigger. “You wouldn’t!” Niki cries and searches my eyes. I stand my ground, knowing that I have won. “Nick! Come to Papa, my boy!” I shout very loud and Nick shows up and runs towards us. That’s my boy!“Fine, I will make it up for you,” Ni
*****Leo POV*****Niki shot me right through my heart. I took my last breath. I should be dead, except I can hear them talking. Is this how someone dies?My fingers are crossed when Owen approaches. I pray and hope that his first instinct is not to avenge me. I hope he knows that I would never forgive him if he killed my wife to avenge me. I sigh with relief when he sinks down and sobs instead. I know that he will be fine eventually, it’s Lucas I’m worried about. He is just staring into space. The boy has seen too much trauma in his lifetime. I should have insisted on keeping him away from the mafia despite his determination to stay. I hope Luca will forgive my failure in protecting his boy. Hey! If I am dead, this is not so bad. My volatile wife is still fuming, but she can’t stop herself from grieving for me. Madness is wishing you could reach out and embrace a woman who killed your, but I can’t move. I guess I am really dead. It’s a pity I will never get to kiss, touch, make sweet