Alexander's POVThey say that when it rains it pours, that is the situation with me, everything was going according to plan, Berner changed his statement with FBU and my father was brought in and in that moment I thought that I had it all in the bag. I thought that I could do it and actually get away with it, my father found out that I was behind the whole thing, not only that he found out that it was Berner. I promised Berner that I would protect him from my father so I made a plan and got him out of the country. I should have know better, even though my father is behind bars, he still has eyes and ears everywhere and so he knew that I was taking him out of the country and so he found a way to get to him. We haven't been able to contact him in days, our contacts told me that Berner didn't reach them and neither did his escort. I know it for a fact that they are being held up somewhere by my father. Now it seems like I am back at the beginning of where it all began. I went to see my
Ella's POVMy first day back at the office was hectic, I had so many consultations and even though I am nowhere even close to finishing up but I am happy about it. I will also say that Roman has been as quiet as a mouse. It was getting late and everyone was getting ready to go home, everyone but me that is. I know it for a fact that I am going to have a late night, despite the fact that I have a lot of work, I just don't want to bump into Alex, in fact it would be better if I found him already in bed asleep. A knock came on the door and Isabella made her way to my office. She was carrying a large box of pizza and two beers. We used to do this all the time when we worked late. " I thought you could do with some food, Roman said that he didn't want any." She said. " Well that's his loss as for me, I need that pizza. " I said with a smile. I have been busy, so busy that I couldn't even find the time to grab something to eat. "So... how's married life treating you?" She asked me. " T
Alexander's POVIt has three days since my wife was taken, I have done all that I can to keep it low key but I don't know if I can keep this contained for much longer. Isabella has been coming to the house every morning to find out if I have found her but I haven't. The worst part of all this is that they haven't even made their demands. I have had to pull every resource I have to try and find my wife but it hasn't been fruitful, I have been losing my mind because I don't know what to do. I can't eat, I can't sleep, I can't even work and it is driving me crazy. I am the most feared" You need to go and see him. " Jack said. " No, if I accept his helo then I will owe him one, I don't want to owe that man anything." I said. " They haven't even made their demands yet, there's no proof of life, we need help man." He said. " Yes I agree, we need help but not from my father. " I said. For all I know he could be behind all of this, the only way those guys could have had access to the hou
Ella's POVI don't know why they took me, I don't know why they are keeping me here but all that I know is that I have to get out of here. The men in this place are heartless. These girls here are being treated like animals. I can't tell you how many times I have heard many girls screaming and begging not to be raped. I have been keeping my head down and not doing anything about it, I have to get out of here because right this is not just about me. I just can't be here anymore. Gina Gregory went missing when she was still a child, now she is a young woman, a young woman who has been used and abused for years. This is not the life I want for myself. Everyone back home has forgotten about her, she was nothing but a cold case and I just don't want to see myself being like her. I can only imagine what is going through Alexander's mind right now, I am sure that by now he knows that I have been taken, I hope that he is doing all that he can to make sure that I get out of here. If I knew w
Alexander's POV" Any word about the auction?" Jack asked me. " No but my father asked to see me. " I said. It has been weeks since my wife was taken, people are starting to ask questions I can't answer. Her parents have been calling non stop looking for her, I had to lie to them to keep them calm, I told them that she was away at a wellness spa, that she was not coping with the workload and that she needed some time off. Isabella is also worried about her, she calls me everyday to see if there are any changes. " I know you won't like this but I think that you are gonna have to see your father, we are running out of options. " Jack said. " Why haven't these people made their demands yet?" I said in frustration. " X... I am saying that you have to go and see the old man. " Jack said. " I heard you the first time around. " I said." So what are you thinking?" He asked me. " To be honest, I am running out of options. " I said to himI had already began making plans to bring my wif
Ella's POVWith every day that I spend in this place, the more I feel like I might never leave. You have to understand that I am in a place where I never thought I would find myself in. Even still, I seem to be finding out things about my husband that I don't believe, I just can't believe it. A few days ago, a man who runs this place came over and we had a little chat and he shed a light on a lot of things, including why I was being held up in this place. I just want to go home. I was called to a room I have never been in before, it was like an office decorated with guns, lots of guns on the wall. The man was sitting on a golden throne. He was wearing traditional Arab clothes. For one he was very handsome with thick eyebrows with big brown eyes. " You may take a seat Mrs Black." He said. " Can I get you a drink?" He asked me. " No thank you..." I said and took a seat. Here's a thing, I am far away from home, too far, I knew the moment I realised where I was that I was gonna have to
Alexander's POV" It's time, have you made your decision yet?" Jack asked me. He was asking about the decision I had to make. Two day ago I went to see my father in prison. H has made me realise that there was still so much I had to learn about running a drug cartel. That there are things that I cannot control. That is why I had to find a way to solve my problems. All of them. This means that I had a difficult choice to make. I have tried to get Ella out but it has been an impossible task. Right now it doesn't look like I have a choice, I have to sign the deal with the devil, I have to get my father out and find the guns that I needed. Lucky for me, I know how mu father thinks. The only way he could have powerful people was one of two ways, the first would be that he bribed them, the second would be blackmail, either ways he keeps receipts. I know that he must somehow found a way to get to them so the last couple of days I have been very very busy. I know how most men think so I di
Ella's POVI have been in this place for weeks and I am sick of it. I am at a point where I don't even care anymore, all that I want is to get out of this place and go home. I just need to be in a place where I can be myself again. A place where I won't have to worry about anything but me and my kids. I have learned a lot of things about my husband, things that are just too real for me to ignore. I don't know if this prince will let me go. Gina told me that they would let me go and that I was not like the other girls, I know that I was treated differently, taken care of infact, I was treated well. Recently I asked for books, I told Gina that I was bored out of my mind and that I needed something to do. The books came with a note pad and pen. It was all I needed. I have been here for weeks waiting for Alexander to come and rescue, for anyone to come for me and all that I know is that I am not willing to wail longer than I have. If I want to get out of this place, I have to find my ow
Alexander's POV **** Fifteen Years Later**** " I am sorry Mr Black but we can't allow him to come back to this institute, your son is brilliant, he has a brilliant mind but he is the worst student this institution has had. " The Dean of students said to me. This is the fourth call she has made to me in the last two months about my son, he has been involved in fights and brawls ever since he went to university. I have three other children that I need to worry about and the person I should be least worried about is giving me stress. " I am sorry Dean, I will talk to him. " I said to the Dean. " Mr Black I don't think you hear me, we are beyond talking at this point, your son has proven time and again that he doesn't want to be here. " She said to me. " Dean I heard through the grapevine that you are about to host a gala dinner, something about raising funds for a new division at the university. " I said to her. " We haven't made a notice, how do you know about this?" She asked me.
Alexander's POVI knew something was up with Jack when he kept on dissappearing without any explanations. Not only that but he kept on asking me to give Michelle a job so that she would miss the wedding. I know that we have a lot of history together, that we are basically brothers but I don't know if I can let my wife down like that. Ella doesn't have that many friends, she only has two that she holds close to her heart, that would be Isabella and Michelle, both of which are part of the wedding celebration. The same wedding celebration I flew everyone here for, I booked out an entire resort for everyone. I didn't even understand why he would ask me that so I told him that I wanted a reason why he would even ask me to do something like that, especially after I told him that I want this wedding be perfect, I told him that Ella has to have the wedding of her dreams, if she had told me that she wanted to have dolphins at our wedding, believe me when I tell you that I would have made it h
Ella's POVThe last couple of days have been stressful, having a destination wedding is never easy. I wanted a beach wedding out of the country. I know that Tatiana is behind bars but after all that she has done to me, I can't let my guard down. I didn't tell Alexander but I have been having nightmares about the day of the shooting, I keep on releaving that moment in my mind, I wish I can say that being shot at was the worst part of it but it was not, it was the way Alexander looked at her that scares me to death. I can't help feeling like she will always find a way to ruin my marriage, to ruin the good thing I have going with my husband and family. I know that as long as she is truly out there, I will never be truly happy. She might be in jail but she won't be there forever. I have a fear that one day when I am truly happy, when my children and husband are happy, she will come and turn our lives upside down. She will snatch everything away from me. I have had to put Brad through ca
Alexander's POVI don't usually follow people's advice, especially when it comes to my personal life, I thought that I had all the answers, that I could really be a different man but I soon realised that I was wrong. I suppose talking to Minty helped me to make a few things clear for me, it made me realise what I wanted and why I wanted it. At first I was doing BDSM to deal with issues I couldn't control, I never thought that there was another reason for doing it but after I talked to Minty, I realised that I was using my troubles as an excuse. The truth is that I have always been that kind of a man. I have always had a taste for the extreme, from jumping out of the plane to diving with the Sharks, I have always been the one to live on the edge so my sexual tastes was also extreme. Even before I knew about the BDSM works I always had a thing for bondage and spanking but even then, not even when I was drunk out of my mind, I never did it to Ella, I didn't even think I could. I am abo
Ella's POVIt has been days since the Gala dinner and I honestly don't know what happened but I have been seeing a lot of changes in my husband and as much as I told him to stop buying me expensive gifts, it is like he is purposely trying to ignore me. On top of a very expensive necklace that he got me, he decided to get me an art piece, a very expensive art piece. Last night we went to an art gallery, one of his friends was having his work shown there and so he invited Alexander. It was the first time I set foot in a place like that, up until last night I didn't really think much about art. To me a painting was just a painting and a statue was just a statue but that changed last night. His friend had one of his destopian art pieces and I fell in love with it instantly. The statue was just full of life, the raw materials used were just out of this world and I could somehow imagine that in our home. I didn't tell Alexander that I wanted it, but I told him that I liked it and this morn
Alexander's POVI don't know how she managed to pull this off but I am happy with the work that she has put in to make this night a success. I will also say that I didn't think that I would see some of the faces I saw here tonight, especially faces that had no business being here. I am talking about the women in my past, the women I have had to let go and all for various reasons. I also realised that my parents were happy about the work my wife has put in to make this night a success. I still can't believe that this is where we are, that we are finally going to get everything we have always wanted. In a week I will see my wife walking down the isle once again and this time, I can't even wait for the day to come. I am at a place in my life where I feel like everything has finally fallen into place. I am about to become a father again and I will tell you now that there is no title in my life that I hold in high regard than the title of father. Two years ago I was not even thinking abo
Ella's POVIt has been three weeks since I got shot, three weeks since I have been back home with my family and I am only a week away from my wedding day, not only have I been planning my wedding, I have been planning the restaurant's official opening and also tonight's Gala dinner. It is the first time I have had to throw a party so big but with the help of my friends I was able to pull it off. It is an annual event that was had been organised by his mother since it was founded a decade ago. I will admit that I never thought that my life would turn out like this. That I would be a wife to a man like Alexander or even the fact that I would be responsible for events like the one I organised tonight. Alexander's mother said that she was tired of running the organisation and that it needed some fresh blood, I was not too keen on the idea of taking on something as big as this and in such a limited space of time. The gunshot wound was healing and now I felt like I was ready to take on the
Alexander's POV I did not want my wife to find out about my previous lifestyle and what used to happen between me and my ex's. I know that if it was up to me she wouldn't have found out at all but she wanted to know and I told her. I told her what was happening and I thought that she would ask me for details which would have been the worst because I don't think I could have been able to utter the words to her. The more I thought of it, the more I hated myself for it. All this time I thought that I was using Lacey as a coping mechanism but that is not true. The truth I that I was taking it all out on her because I was not dealing with things. I also realise that my wife was right when she said that I could not cut off that part of me like it didn't exist. I didn't want to hear that especially coming from her but that still doesn't change the fact that she was right but I also know that I can never do to her what I did to all those other women. I told her and left because I didn't wa
Ella's POVI will be the first to admit that Alexander caught me completely by surprise. I know that the insurance said that they would take some time to pay out and I was wondering if I was even able to start all over from the start again. I had put in a lot of work into making that restaurant what it was before that crazy woman burnt it all down. I kept on asking myself what I had done to have so much bad luck and now I know that it had nothing to do with bad luck at all. It had to do with the fact that another woman wanted my husband so bad that she was willing to ruin everything I had in order to get what she wanted and for a moment it seemed like she was going to do it, that she was going to get everything I had. My husband, my daughter and even my marriage. After weeks of worrying about my son, I couldn't just sit and do nothing. I don't know what I would have done if it was not for Michelle, she really came through for me and I don't even know how to thank her. I don't know w