The courage I thought I had crumbled under the weight of his authority, and that was my issue. I always became a mess the minutes he started showcasing his dominance, almost like that was what I craved from him. I found myself getting in the car with no further questions asked, talking about a “yes, daddy” moment. He slammed the door shut with anger, and by the time I turned, he was already in the driver’s seat. The drive home was awkwardly silent; he wasn’t ready to say a word to me, and I didn’t want to talk to him either. I didn’t owe him any explanations, the same way he didn’t feel he had to explain anything to me when it came to Victoria. I sat there tensed and upset, while Damian’s jaw clenched in his reflection in the window. His anger was like a thick and suffocating atmosphere. We arrived home, and he swerved angrily into the compound. I almost hit my head on his dashboard, and I closed my eyes in anticipation, but as I opened them, I felt a hand hold down my ch
DAMIAN’s POV “No! Don’t hurt my son, please.” “Take me… Don’t hurt my boy. Leave him alone, please." The desperate, anguish cries of a woman echoed. My hands and legs were tied tightly as I lay on the cold, unforgiving floor. The ropes were biting into my young skin; the room seemed immense and oppressing as shadows overwhelmed me. I shivered in fear. My breaths were shallow; each gasp was a struggle against the heavy weight of my restraints. A man’s silhouette emerged from the shadows, moving closer with deliberate, dangerous steps. His face was a blur; the wide wicked grin on his face couldn’t be missed. “Don’t touch him! Don’t touch my son, please.” My eyes darted to where my mother lay, crying in anguish as she was in ropes. She struggled to crawl and wiggle her way towards where I was, cowering in fear but she got no where. The man’s grin widened, a glint of metal catching the dim light. With not enough time to make sense of anything, the sharp object sliced
DAMIAN’S POV “Fucking 500 million dollars, that’s the amount I lost today!” I roared, as I slammed my fist aggressively on the dashboard. My eyes had been glued to Aiden’s tablet, as I monitored my company stats obsessively, and just today alone, look how much I lost My hand clenched into a tight fist, I was fighting so much anger, that my knuckles turned white from the force, my breaths came in heavy and ragged bursts. “Damian, I need you to please calm down…” Aiden begged, as he kept his eyes on the road. This would be the first time in a while that I had let anyone else drive me apart from myself, I didn’t trust anyone else to drive me. The thought of it terrified me, it was one of my major fears that no one knew the reason why… But I trusted Aiden, I didn’t have that level of trust for anyone except him…. I didn’t take Aiden as my half-brother, instead I saw and treated him like we came from the same womb, my mother’s. I turned to the window, as I tried to calm the
DAMIAN’S POV “Victoria, fucking Victoria!” I sent my liquor glass crashing on the wall, and it shattered into a million pieces. It had been two days since the shocking revelation. My so-called fiancée, Victoria, was the mastermind behind my near downfall. Unbelievable! I still couldn’t wrap my head around it—Victoria? The CEO of Meridian High Tech Industries? The woman who had been so close to me, who had stolen kisses from my lips, who had claimed to love me, who was starting to get irritated by her jealousy over Lexie? How could I have been so blind? She had been working to bring me down all along, and I had been a fool to fall for it. Why? Was it the stupid title of fiancée that she attached to me? or the fact that we knew each other when we were younger. Apparently all that didn’t matter to her; she was using it to mask her true intentions. I mean, if I were being brutally honest, the whole fiancée thing was her idea; she proposed to me. So why the hell did I keep
LEXIE’S POV I groaned at the multiple ads that kept playing over and over on this website I stumbled on… “Are you having bad breath? Do you need a quick solution…” the voice over said God know, and of course I don’t a need new freaking toothpaste. What was it with website and ads? First they tell you accept all cookies, which I did because I had no idea what they were talking about, but if they could literally shove their ads into your throat then they would. I had been up all night, as I scrolled mindlessly through the job listings on my phone. It wasn’t like I couldn’t get a laptop now that I had little money, but use it for what? The past few days had left me reeling, and I needed to find a way out-away from Damian, away from Victoria, away from all the drama and just back to the normal life I knew before. But if I was going to leave, I had to secure a job first. How else would I take care of my mother? Or get a roofs over our heads? Jenny wouldn’t mind housing my m
LEXIE’S POV “It fucking hurts, a whole lot. That’s the reason I don’t need anyone’s help, including yours. His words pierced through me; I could see the pain in his eyes and how he wrestled with his own emotions, ones he understood and ones he didn't. “Is that it? Is that what you want to hear?” He snapped, and then he let out a long exhale; The smoke from the cigarette escaped from his mouth. “Then talk to me; don’t just push me away. Everyone can’t be the same; just this one time, try me and see. I won’t betray you; I won’t hurt you.” My chest rose and fell at my desperate attempt to get him to see that he deserved better. “And why should I tell you anything? What do you know about pain?” He scoffed. I paused my persuasion for a bit as I allowed his words to sink in. What did I know about pain? He couldn’t imagine it if I told him. Was it the countless times that my mother and I slept without food? Or the numerous times we both worked at restaurants just becaus
CONTD: HI GUYS! QUICK NOTE: FROM THIS CHAPTER WOULD BE LEXIE’S LIFE WITHOUT DAMIAN. BUT I WOULD BE SURE TO ADD GLIMPSES FROM DAMIAN’S PERSPECTIVE TOO. ENJOY! I boarded the bus to Jenny’s place; I found a seat by the window. As the bus rumbled down the street, I leaned my head against the cold glass. My heart was heavy with the weight of the decision I made. I didn’t want to leave, but Damian didn’t care about me. He never showed me respect, but rather just saw me as a means to fulfil his needs. Why was I even complaining? It was clearly stated in the contract that I would satisfy him sexually, and it wasn’t like I signed it with a gun to my head anyways, and I enjoyed it too. Despite my intentions to be more than just a contract wife, he wanted nothing to do with me. I had made him so irritated that he tore up our contract; never in my life had I imagined that this would happen. Damian would let me go? I would have laughed in the face of anyone who told me that. I ex
*************** The next day, I hurried out of my room as I tried to pack my hair into a messy but not so messy bun, while I paced around in circles in the living room, looking for things. I was totally disorganised because I had forgotten that I had to show up somewhere today. Well, it wasn’t my fault, since my presence was almost never requested anywhere in my life; I had never even been invited to something so little as a birthday party. I also hadn’t even searched the location of where I was heading; life without a phone could be pretty hard; I didn’t think that through. I could have sold the phone he bought me and gotten something else. Dumb Lexie! “Jenny, can I use your phone, please?” I asked Jenny, who was looking all crusty and rough as she had just woken up. Her hair was dishevelled, the baggy shirt she wore wasn’t even sitting on her properly, and the minute she stretched, I could see that she had no underwear on. Typical Jenny “Erm. Sure,” she answ