[ Evangeline ]I felt my head throbbing like I hit a rock. I tried to open my eyes but couldn't do so. I could hear incoherent voices but they were indecipherable for my foggy mind. All I remember Camilla's crying face and-My eyes jolted open despite the sharp pain that shot through my skull. I still felt dizzy but I didn't care if death was waiting for me. I wanted to see my son."Cha..Chase." I coughed as I tried to speak. My throat was dry."Hey, Eve, calm down." Dominic's soft voice reached into my ear and I turned to my right side where I saw him sitting, the worry lines on his face answered my questions.He helped me to drink some water."How are you feeling now?" He asked me while rubbing my back gently. I felt an iv connected to my vein."Where is Chase?" I asked him ignoring his first question."Don't stress yourself, Eve. Please calm down." He avoided answering me, instead told me to to rest."Where is my son, Dominic?" I asked him again in a firm voice and detatched the i
[ Evangeline ]My mind couldn't rest at peace. I kept pacing too and fro in the living room for almost three hours but there's no news on Chase nor I received any call from Dominic which grew my anxiety on a threatening point. My tears had no barriers as they roll down from my eyes uncontrollably.Suddenly my phone rang. I quickly picked it up thinking it's Dominic but it turned out to be Colton."Where's my son?" I demand him."Calm down, Eve and listen to me first." He says in a gentle tone but I could sense the worry behind his calm composure."The hell I am going to listen to your bullshit, Colton Black. My son has gone missing and it's you and your family behind this but mark my words, if a single hair on his body is hurt, I am going to burn your world down." I growled at him like a wounded lioness."I can never harm my own child, Evangeline and you know it but I may know where my father has kept him." He said and it took me all my sanity to not smash his head."Where is he? I am
[ Evangeline ]"Are you sure we should go alone?" I asked Colton who seemed alert even by a passing man. He didn't bring any security at such place where we might be attacked and no one would notice."It won't take more than five minutes, Eve." He replied and squeezed my hand to assure me. Surprisingly, it comforted me in a strange way.We took the elevator to the 10th floor of the old building. The paint has peeled off a long time ago, there's only noise coming from everywhere."I know it's hard for you to bear this. It may have refreshed some memories for which I am responsible." I heard him saying."You have no idea, Colton. The place where I stayed for two years, it was much more worse than this place. I had to spend many nights with no electricity and warm water in chilly winter nights. Marrying you cost me my life." I replied remembering those nightmarish days."I know and I regret it in every single moment of my life." He said in a low and ashamed voice."Don't be guilty becaus
[ Evangeline ]By the time we reached at the mansion, it was around eleven in the night. I noticed more security wrapped around the mansion and it took me no time to guess that Dominic found out about I being missing from the house.I switched off my phone in the fit of my anger and it was obvious that Dominic might gone ballistic in my unannounced disappearance."It seems your husband is ready to kill the person who walks inside first and I do not intend to be the martyr." Colton said humorlessly."It's my fault actually. So, let me be the martyr here." I said. The car stopped right in front of the gates as Dominic's guards surrounded the car as if we were the President of the country.I stepped down first and the visible relief on their faces told me that Dominic had gone hard on them but they widened as their eyes landed on Chase."Ma'am, where have you been? We have looked everywhere for you and Sir-" One of them approached me but paused in the middle as his eyes landed on Colton
[ Evangeline ]It might be around three in the morning but sleep was far away from my eyes though my body was screaming for rest but many disturbing questions kept running inside my head and the more I pressured my mind for the answers, the more they became complex leaving me to find myself in a myriad of uncertainties and lies around me specially when Colton accused Dominic of being a liar.What did he lie about?"You have no idea how I felt when I thought I lost you forever and won't see you again in my life," I leaned down and caressed my son's hairs softly, my eyes again welled up but they were the happy tears.He smiled in his sleep as if he recognized my touch and snuggled into my chest. I slipped in his tiny bed which was a bit uncomfortable for me but I didn't mind as long as I had my baby close to me. Pulling him into my embrace I pecked his hairs for the last time before closing my eyes to catch some sleep but at the same time the door creaked open. I didn't need to look at
[ Colton ]It had been five days since the incident happened. I couldn't feel at peace as the paranoia of seeing my son in any danger again. Surprisingly, my father had been quiet and laid low profile. We didn't communicate nor he tried to meddle in my life for straight forty eight hours, the longest in my lifetime when Francis Black didn't show up with one of his shitty commands.I appointed my own security team around the school and the route from Dominic's house to the school even though an army of guards always surrounded my son. I give the shot to Dominic who really loves my son but again, I can't see another man taking my place and Dominic had been taking every possible shots to replace me.I won't let that happen at any cost. I am missing my son terribly. I haven't met or seen him in these five days which grows my desperation. I need to see him and I'm going to the park as it's his playtime. My men informed me that he's accompanied by my mother and Evangeline's mother whom I ha
[ Colton ]The unpleasant encounter with Evanca left me in a sour mood. I had to get out of my office to get mind some fresh air and a distraction from my current problems. I knew what I should do. Without informing anyone at my office, even my bodyguards, I took my ferrari and drove towards the school. It was almost the time of dispersal and now I had no fear of getting caught neither I was afraid of Evangeline or Dominic.The thirty minutes drive from my office to the school was excruciating. I had to see my children to forget my fucked up life for some time and today, I decided to cross the barrier that I built against my will.I can't act according to other's wills. It's only giving me pain, a pain deeply infused in my soul.I had to hint Chase about his biological father. My son is a smart kid who would eventually find out the truth. I want to be selfish for one last time.Parking the car in the backside parking lot of the school where only school staff and very influential paren
[ Evangeline ]The ticking of the wall clock was the only sound in the gravely silent waiting room of the clinic. I cleared all my schedule for the day to visit the doctor and confirm my pregnancy, it was true yet my mind couldn't wrap around it. Besides, the morning sickness was worse than my first pregnancy. I couldn't even take water.I heard the twisting of the door knob."Mrs. Rodriguez, it's your turn. Doctor Lily will see you in five minutes." A nurse informed me."Sure, I'll be there in a minute. I have to make a call to my husband." I politely told her and dialled Dominic's number who had been out to take an important call. We couldn't talk in that morning as he had to rush to the office for an emergency. We had an issue with the software system of our company which took us almost a week to solve so everything falls back normal. We had to reschedule our doctor's appointment but today is the day. Dominic picked my phone on the third ring."The Doctor will see us in a few minu