Kendrix I had a lot going on with me but on top of everything was the guilt that I felt; I was already feeling guilt for what I did with Veronica in Dilgem, even though it was just a kiss, it was something that shouldn’t have happened and all through the plane ride back to O-when, I kept wishing that it didn’t happen, arriving in O-when made it all worse because Ariel had been so happy to see me, she welcomed me with open hands and even told me that she wasn’t mad that I didn’t keep up with her while I was away, I really do not deserve her but she was with me and it was clear by the way she was so happy to see me that she had feelings for me. I noticed before but now, it was so obvious and another thing was my wolf hasn’t shut up since we got back. “Mate,”He muttered the one word that he had been using since we got to Arielyn even though I had told him multiple times that she wasn’t our mate, I cared about her but I would know, right? If I got a new mate, I would feel the connectio
Kendrix I woke up to my phone ringing, I picked it up and reduced the volume so as not to wake Arielyn up, she was sleeping so peacefully. I glared at my screen wondering why the fucker was calling me so early in the morning when it is not like we have any business. Reluctantly, I took my phone and got out of my room as I didn’t want to disturb Arielyn with a phone call so early in the morning. “What do you want, Jordan?”I asked when I was sure she couldn’t hear me. I sat on the sofa in my gym room, still sleepy. “You finally returned to O-when, I see,”Jordan said. I don’t know how he knew I was out of O-when and I didn’t care either, I just wanted to know why he was calling me so early in the morning. “Can we skip the fake greeting part or whatever this is and go to the reason why you called me so early on Sunday morning? Surely, you didn’t call to check up on me,”I let out. maybe he was calling to try and talk me out of getting the throne again, like I was ever going to chang
Kendrix. “You are playing with me, right? No way Veronica helped you set me up,”I let out, still trying to hold on to the good Veronica that I know. “You think so? Then how do you think I got the photo then? There is nothing much more poisonous than the anger of a jealous woman and you know I am good at capitalizing on shit like that, right?”Jordan asked. I felt sick to my stomach thinking of what must have gone down and might have happened if I had taken that kiss further, I couldn’t believe Veronica betrayed me and was acting like she was caught off guard when it was her plan all along, I just don’t get why she was jealous and who the fuck she was jealous of. “Why and who is she jealous of and what has that got to do with me? I haven’t seen her for eight whole years and until I met her again in Dilgem, I thought she was dead, fucking dead, what did I do to warrant her poisonous jealousy being targeted at me?”I asked. Jordan was having a field day mocking me, I hated him so muc
Arielyn. Kendrix was back with me, Rose was happily married and currently out of O-when for her honeymoon and everything was kind of fine but I couldn’t help the feeling that settled on me that everything wasn’t okay, for one, Ken was a lot calmer and barely said anything. We spent the whole of Sunday together doing couple things but I felt like he was not totally himself, it was as if something happened in Dilgem that he couldn’t bring himself to tell me, I didn’t want to be nosy so I just let him have his quiet time and hoped that he would get over what is wrong soon or at least talk to me about it. I did ask him if what he went to do was successful and he said it was, he even told me he got the Orient, which means he was almost done, all he had to do was hand it over to his father so I just couldn’t figure out why he was moody, withdrawn and sometimes lost in his thoughts. Three days after Rose’s wedding, I decided that I couldn’t take it anymore, I knew he was hiding something f
“We are not mates, I know that’s what our contract said but it is just the contract, Arielyn,”Ken responded. I stared at him in shock. Of all the things I expected him to say after what I told him, what he ended up saying wasn’t even part of it. I didn’t even think about our contract, I haven’t even thought about that in a long time. “I am not talking about our contract, I am talking about us being each other’s second chance mate, you felt it too, right? You know what I am saying right?”I asked. Hoping that he would give the answer that I wanted to hear but by the look on his face, it was clear I wasn’t going to like his answer. “I don’t know what you are talking about Arielyn, why are you being like this? We signed a contract, that’s the only reason we got together, I have never seen you as my mate, I didn’t feel anything, how would you be my mate and I don’t feel anything? You don’t have to do this, we can be together without you trying something like this, it is not very tellin
Kendrix I had a rough night after what happened between me and Arielyn, I handled everything wrongly, I messed up and had wanted to go tell her I was sorry and that we could talk it out but then Raul refused to let me pass, even though I explained to him that it was grown up stuff and he shouldn’t interfere, he told me to my face that he would fight me before he would let me into his room because whatever grown-up stuff we talked about made her sad to the point of crying, he sounded so mature and protective of Arielyn that I had walked back to my room in shame. I couldn’t believe a teenager was more mature than me. While alone in bed, I went over our conversation from where she asked me what was going on with me. I knew she must have noticed how I was acting recently, when she asked, I wanted to come clean to her but the thought of her leaving me had made me not say a word. I should have just told her. then when I went upstairs, thinking of fixing things, I didn’t find her in our ro
Kendrix “So now, you are making up stories just so that he will look good? Father, you will regret doing this, you will regret choosing this bastard over me, I will make you pay,”Jordan roared in anger and stormed out of the place, leaving me and my father. I didn’t have anything else to say to the old man so I stood up to leave. “Your mother will be proud,”This was the first time my father had ever spoken of my mom to me, one thing is, my mom has always been proud of me, so it was no news, she has been my biggest cheerleader all my life and she will remain like that. “She has always been proud of me, I have things to do at the office so I have to leave now, we will talk some other time, right Father?”I asked him and he nodded. I excused myself and walked out of his presence. I was almost in the parking space when Jordan suddenly walked out of nowhere and stood in front of me, blocking my way. “Get out of my way, Jordan, I don’t have time for you right now,” I warned him but h
Arielyn Whatever I thought heartbreak and rejection felt like eight years ago didn’t quite compare to what I was feeling right now, nothing prepared me for how sick I felt inside, I woke up early and left Raul’s room because I didn’t want to hijack his room the whole day, I made sure to lock my door because I didn’t want Kendrix to come in and make everything even worse. He already made his stance clear and now it was up to me to get over myself. I had to force myself to smile and look as happy as I could fake when Win-rose called because I didn’t want her to be worried about me when she was supposed to be having fun with her new husband, she did ask about Ken and I just told her he was busy. After the call, I went back to my misery and that’s how I spent my whole morning and afternoon. Raul came to check up on me and I told him I was okay and I just needed some time to myself and he left without questions. My phone started ringing and I stared at it, hating that someone who was not
Arielyn “Oh my, Kenny,”I let out when he went on his knees in front of me, I hadn’t been expecting him to do that, we have been together for almost a year now and our love grew stronger every day so it was kind of expected but I thought he would do it towards the time he has to take over from his dad. The way he planned it all on his own, even did the decorations on his own, so spontaneous and so my Kenny. I couldn’t help the tears that escaped from my eyes just looking at him. Every new day, I fell in love with him a little more. Every day with him has been a blissful experience. “You had this all planned out and I didn’t even know?”I asked but it wasn’t even a question. More tears fell from my eyes as I walked slowly to him. “Yes, baby, I think I took a little too long to do this, the other night at your family’s cookout, I didn’t like that my sweetie was the only one without a wedding band, I had to correct that fast before someone thinks you are not taken and steal you away f
KendrixHer siblings and her father have done a good job so far trying to gain her trust and favor. We both stood there watching the women have fun, his other brothers and Jayden Win-rose’s husband joined us, because of Arielyn, I not only got the throne that I always wanted, but I also got friends and a family. I had better relationships with people now and even my mom confirmed that I was a better man now. I had my baby to thank, she came into my life and gave me everything I wanted and everything I never thought I needed and I wanted it to be forever. I wanted to make her my wife soon and the queen of my heart. Even though I wanted to ask her as soon as possible, I wanted something special for her so I went for a custom-made ring which had both of our initials engraved in it. I didn’t get the ones for the wedding as I wanted her to have a say in what we would get. It took about a week for the ring to be ready and delivered and while I waited for it to arrive, I made preparations f
Kendrix I watched Arielyn talk and laugh with some women who were at the cookout, some of whom were her brothers’ wives and their friends. We were at a cookout that her older brother was hosting at her family’s resort. I looked at their fingers and realized she was the only one not wearing a ring, I knew it was time to fix that. The past seven months have been nothing but blissful for me. Arielyn was and is the best thing that ever happened to me, I couldn’t stay away from her for long, I took her everywhere with me and she willingly followed me even though she sometimes had to work, I made sure our schedules never crashed to the extent of me going away without her, the only time I traveled without her had been hell so I ended up sending my jet to go get her. she talked about me being too obsessed with her and I accepted it whole-heartedly and told her I was making up for all the times we couldn’t be together because I had been blinded, if Veronica had not done what she did to me, I
Arielyn“You are lost in thoughts again, what are you thinking about?”Win asked, bringing me out of my thoughts, I smiled. “I am just thinking about how everything changed for me since I came back to O-when, I never thought my life would be like this when I parked my bags and got on the plane, all I wanted was to come for your wedding and also spend time with you,”I told her. “I know, right, I also didn’t think everything would turn out like this even though I was hoping you would find happiness, all I wanted was for you to get laid but you got more than that,”“You are the main reason all of this happened, this is why you are the love of my life, you bring good fortune to me,”I cheered. “If I am the love of your life, where does that leave your man? I am sure he won’t agree,”“He knows his place, and he is happy with it, he knows I love him and he also knows that I love you,”I answered and we both laughed, we had fun far into the night before we went to sleep. I woke up the ne
Arielyn Kendrix didn’t go back to his house that day, he called his mom who was indeed his darling, and told him he wouldn’t be home, he even got me to speak to her, and she told me that she had been waiting to meet me and Raul too since Kendrix told her about us and I told her we will move back to the house soon. Yes, I know I moved out recently and should probably stick to my home house until Kendrix and I get married but I didn’t know when that would be and I was already used to living with him. For my house not to go to waste, I found a family that was in need of accommodation and gave them the house for free. It was my little way of saying thank you to the universe for giving me a chance to be truly happy. The next couple of weeks went pretty fast for me, time tends to pass a lot faster when one is happy and yes. I was happy, the happiest I have ever been since I could tell what happiness was. For the first time in my life, I had my family by my side and I had the man I love wh
Arielyn Hearing Kendrix say the words love made me feel hot and anxious, I know he talked about working things out and wanting me to trust him again, I just didn’t think he would say the L words, didn’t even think he had that kind of feelings for me, I just thought he cared about me enough to not want someone else, that I was useful to him and his goal, but hearing him say the words I so much wanted to hear from him changed everything but then again, I couldn’t just blindly believe that he suddenly has feelings for me. as much as I love to hear him say he loves me; I didn’t want him to lie about it. “You don’t have to lie, Ken, I already agreed, we can work things out and build our relationship again, you don’t need to tell me you love me when you know that’s not true,”I told him, I didn’t want to be given any false hope. “Ari, I messed up, I understand that you can’t trust me right now but know, one thing, I am not lying to you, Ari, I love you, I really do, I don’t want to talk
Kendrix “No, you are special to me, Arielyn, and I am not lying, I only found out the day you left because I went to confront my brother and found them both together in an intimate position after she lied to me that he was trying to kill her. they set me up and I stupidly fell for it, Jordan called you that night to come and see because it was all part of their plans, Jordan wanted to get back at me for not giving up the throne for him and Veronica hated to see me happy,”I explained. “I don’t understand, what?”She asked. “Yeah, it is a long story,”“Let’s go over there, I am tired of standing,”She said, pointing to the terrace, I nodded and followed her, she took a seat and gestured for me to do the same which I did, I sat there just looking at her, missing her so much, wanting to hug her and be close to her instead of just sitting far from her. she wasn’t even looking at me. “Are you going to stare at me all day or you are going to explain the bizarre story you share?”She ask
Kendrix Arielyn wasn’t looking convinced by my explanation and I was slowly losing hope that she would ever look past what had happened and come back to me, everything I was saying sounded different to her, plan B? That has never crossed my mind. I couldn’t give up, I desperately wanted her to come back to me, the past week hadn’t been nice at all, I couldn’t focus on anything, nothing else mattered, not even when my father made the official announcement, I was just there standing beside him being announced as the heir but I wasn’t there, all I could think about was how to get Arielyn back, I couldn’t even remember what I had said on that day because I hadn’t been focus while speaking, I left the palace immediately I was no longer needed. I couldn’t escape for long because my father called me back, I had to meet a lot of important people and be introduced to them. The whole reason I finally found out where she lives was because I went to see her dad, he didn’t let me in at first but
Arielyn “Arielyn, please come back home,”I couldn’t believe his audacity, how could he show up at my house uninvited and expect me to follow him? “Get out of my house, I don’t want to see you near me, I am not going back with you anywhere, I already told you that day, that I am done with whatever contract we had, there is nothing in it for me so why should I still keep living with you?”I fired at him, I wanted to add; “Especially when you have another woman in your house,” But I didn’t say it. “I am not here because of the contract, it doesn’t matter anyway,”“That’s good then, move your car away from my gate, I need to get into my house,”I warned him as I backed away and opened my car door to get it, he was faster than me because he stopped me from getting into my car, our bodies touched and I had to fight the stupid feeling that built up inside me at the contact. “Why are you harassing me? Do you want me to call the cops on you?”I let out. “I am sorry but I can’t let you le