CARA’S P.O.V
“Mmmmm, this feels so good” I moaned in pleasure. “Yes, it’s exactly what we needed,” Joyce said from my right. “Ah” I heard another set of knots crack on my left, where Emma laid. “This was long overdue as you can see or ‘hear’” Emma joked. “And it’s only the beginning, we will need to get our hair done, nails, facials, etc,” I said excitedly. “Oh yes, and Xander suggested that we should go shopping afterward as well. I think that it is a brilliant idea” Emma mentioned. “Oh, how thoughtful of him,” I said, enjoying my massage too much to overthink or bother about anything. “Yes, he even gave me money so that I can go shopping. Do you know that he actually waited at the entrance of the very big, very beautiful mansion that you guys live in, just to give me money as soon as I arrived” said Joyce, grabbing my attention. “That’s my sweet brother” Emma complimented. “And did you take it?” I asked. “Take what?” she annoyed me with the dumbness. “The money Joyce
EVA’S P.O.V I felt the heated gaze of every man that came into the bar. I felt their eye travel up my long legs and bare thighs but I didn’t mind. I enjoyed it, not the fact that I was dressed in a very revealing outfit which hugged my body and showed off my curves, I enjoy the fact that so many men in this private exclusive bar wanted me, but none of them could have me, because tonight I was here with a purpose, which is to meet one specific man. The orchestra played and a few watched while the rest of us partly listened. The chandeliers, lit up the room brightly, yet it was still comfortable. The scent of heavy perfume and expensive cigars filled the air. Men in suits flirted with woman in pearls and fur coats, champagne, whiskey, wine or scotch…it didn’t really matter but everyone had a glass in their hand. I sat on a bar stool, my velvet black long-sleeved dress was just enough to cover the parts that should not be shown in public. My blonde curls fell carelessly over my
XANDER’S P.O.V “Hey babe, I just finished work and I’m going to dinner with one of my business associates. How far are you from the cabin?” I asked, calling Cara to check up on her. “Hi my love, I’m half way there. Don’t go home from dinner too late, it’s getting cold at night now and I don’t want you getting sick” Cara said. “Half way there? Babe, you left early this morning and the cabin is only 5 hours away. Let’s not forget that you are driving a sports car” I was so confused, luckily my sister is with her so I don’t have a reason to question her loyalty but, honestly, I have no idea how she did not reach the cabin as yet. “Oh, there was a nail on the road and it punctured into the tyre so we had to get that changed. Also, we stopped for food and the chef took super long with our orders but I’m not complaining because the food was delicious, it was soooo delicious that we ordered dessert as well and then we got so satiety that we decided to wait for half an hour or so be
XANDER’S P.O.V “Emma, I did something terrible” I confessed to my sister over lunch, making sure that Cara was not around. “What are you talking about Xander? Are you talking about getting drunk last night?” she asked. She was filled with fear and dread as I unfolded and laid in front of her the truth about last night. “She really did that? Can she really go that far?” she wondered. “She did Emma and I’m sure that if she went that far there is nothing stopping her from going even further,” I said. “That’s true. We have to be on high alert from now. Something tells me that her intentions were much greater than just seducing you” Emma was deep in thought. “And Xander, don’t say that you did something terrible. You did nothing wrong. In fact, you pushed Eva off you as soon as you realized that it was not Cara. That alone proves your loyalty to Cara” she said, offering me comfort. “I guess so, but I feel like I should have done more, I should have got her arrested. What she was
XANDER’S P.O.V “That smells really good babe” I shouted from the dining room. “Thanks, love…it’s almost done,” she said. “What’s on your mind?” I asked Emma with concern, seeing that she is lost in her thoughts, as we sat opposite one another in the dining room and wait for our dinner which Cara was busy preparing in the kitchen. “Pardon?” it wasn’t that she didn’t hear me, it was that she wasn’t paying any attention to her surroundings and was startled by my voice being directed to her. “What’s bothering you?” I asked again. “Xander…I need to tell you something” she leaned forward and whispered loudly. However, due to the width of our wide and long dining room table, I could barely hear her. So, I got up from my seat and went over to her. “Sit Xander,” she said, her eyebrows creased preparing me for the unpleasant news which she is about to tell me. “What do you need to tell me?” I asked. “Xander, there was a letter that came here,” she said. “Okaaay, a lot of letters come
EVA’S P.O.V “Thanks for meeting me. Where did you tell them that you were going?” I asked Lily, as I opened my apartment door for her. “It’s lovely to see you to sister, thank you for the hug and warm greeting,” she said sarcastically, taking a seat on my couch. “We don’t have much time for all of that right now sister but you should know that I have a lot of love for you in my heart. Right, tell me now…how did it go? Did our plan work?” I asked her, not wasting any time I just wanted to get to the point of her being here. “A lot of love for me in your heart hey, really sister? Because it seems like you are just using me to do your dirty work and be your spy” she said, seeming to be in a bad mood. “What???!!! Lily, I don’t know where all of this is coming from. Don’t you know that I am doing all of this for you! For us! For our future! How can you even think that I am using you! I am not okay! Now can we please just cut the drama and focus on our plan” I said, getting a bit
EVA’S P.O.V “Hi, It’s Eva. I hope that you can remember me?” I said as soon as the person that I called picked up. “Eva…Of course, I can, you are the lady that hired me to kill her husband, Mr. La’Vardo,” said Roger, who was the assassin that I hired previously. “Yes, that is correct. Roger, I have another job for you. Actually, I have two jobs for you” I said. “Hmmm, what are they?” he asked, sounding interested. “The first one is to get rid of a body for me, leave no traces behind! The second one is a bit more complicated” I smiled devilishly as I thought about my plan… XANDER’S P.O.V “Is Emma not coming down for dinner?” I asked, seeing her absent from the dinner table. “I don’t know, I haven’t seen her around today,” Cara said. “Kaish, can you please find out if Emma is coming down for dinner?” I sent Emma’s personal helper to bring her down for dinner or take dinner up to her…Whatever it was that Emma preferred. “Sir, Madam Emma is not in her room!” Kais
XANDER’S P.O.V “FIND MY SISTER!!! FIND HER NOW!!! RIGHT NOW!!! DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHO I AM? I AM ALEXANDER LA’VARDO, ONE OF THE RICHEST MEN IN EUROPE. IF MY SISTER IS NOT FOUND IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS THEN THE ENTIRE CITY WILL BE SHUT DOWN!!! I’LL MAKE SURE OF IT!!! DO YOU UNDERSTAND?” I yelled at the top of my lungs at the men in charge of the teams which was set out to find my sister. My head dropped in the palm of my hands, it’s been three days since she was taken and I was frustrated, tired and angry but I was not giving up hope. “Calm down Xander” Cara tried to caress me. “Cara…look at these men. They don’t care. Not even a single bit of worry or concern in their eyes, Emma can be getting tortured right now and these FOOLS are not even close to finding her as yet. They don’t even have a lead Cara! It’s taking forever Cara and I’m so tired…I just want this nightmare to be over ” I said, my heartbroken, my stress levels at their highest. I wanted to cry, but I didn’t because s
XANDER’S P.O.V “Yes, inspector. I hope you have some good news. Did you find my sister?” I answered the phone with hope, receiving a call from one of the inspectors in charge of my sister’s case at 6 pm on a Sunday afternoon. “Sir, it’s better that we talk in person. Would you kindly meet the rescue team and me by the lake outside your mansion?” he asked and I could tell by the sound of his voice that something was definitely wrong. “Yes, I’ll be there soon” a dreadful feeling brewed inside of me as I ended the call. Taking Cara with me, we jumped into the car and reached the lake in less than 5 minutes. My tummy turned, my heart banged against my chest and sweat escaped my pores as I parked the car among the several other emergency vehicles which was that the scene. “Cara, I can’t do this. I have a really bad feeling about this. Where is Emma? I don’t see her Cara” I panicked. “Xander, we have to go and see what they have found. We might come back to the car with a
XANDER’S P.O.V“Sir, the entire city is on lockdown as you requested. She can’t escape now” Antonio reported. “Don’t be so sure Antonio…This is Eva that we are talking about. If she wants to escape she would find a way” I warned him. “You are right sir, but we have 200 police officers in the city looking for her. She would definitely be found and your baby would be safe” he said. “I really hope so Antonio. We don’t have much time, my baby is in a lot of danger. She was delivered at only 6 months and had to be in an incubator! She wasn’t even supposed to even be in contact with anyone or anything because her immune system is still so weak! But now she is out there, in the big world which is filled with sicknesses, viruses, and germs…my little princess is in so much danger! She is so helpless! And so vulnerable!” I buried my head in my hands, exhaustion, and stress taking over me. I didn
XANDER’S P.O.V“I’ll make a donation of 1 million dollars which must be split equally amongst the doctors and nurses who were in surgery yesterday,” I said to the head of the hospital. “Mr. La’Vardo, that is very generous of you, but the doctors and nurses were merely only doing their job.” He said with gratitude. “They have both my wife and baby…my wife flat-lined and they brought her back for me, my child was turning blue yet they made sure that she would not take her last breathe…1 million dollars is not even sufficient for what they have done for me! They did not only save my wife and child yesterday but by saving them they saved me as well! In fact, I think I am going to change that donation into 3 million dollars, 1 million for each life that they saved” I said. “You are very kind Mr.La’Vardo but as I mentioned earlier, a donation is not necessary” the old head of the hospital said. &l
XANDER’S P.O.VThe past five months have been wonderful, it felt as if we have not returned from honeymoon. Each day that passed we fell more and more in love and as the love between us grew, so did Cara’s belly with our baby safe inside of it…Oh, and she glowed, becoming the most beautiful pregnant woman that I have ever seen.Our lives have been peaceful ever since Eva and Susanna fled to Asia and we were living in harmony. Every morning we had breakfast together and every afternoon we would either have dinner in our garden or the balcony. Our lives were filled with romance and undying love. I know of many love stories like the one which my parents shared or Emma’s incomplete and tragic love story but the one shared between Cara and I, is my favorite.I laid in bed, the sound of rain, played a lullaby. I turned over to my beautiful Cara who was sound asleep next to me. The moonlight reflected on her face. Suddenly there was a roar of t
CARA’S P.O.V“It has been a week since you put us on lockdown Xander! You have more than a 100 men then guarding the two of us in this house, not to mention you following me anywhere that I go, even if it’s the bathroom with your 2 loaded guns in your pockets. The police force has searched the entire city, Eva and her mother were nowhere to be sported. I’m sure that they are smart enough not to come here. Don’t you think that we can ease up a little? ” I tried to talk Xander in giving me some space to breathe because honestly, all this security is beginning to make me feel like I’m about to suffocate.“No Cara…take that thought out of your head because as soon as we let our guard down is when she will attack. I know her well enough to know the way she works and she plays these games with you. She would make you think that everything is okay and then when you least expect it, she makes the strike, knocking you down!
EVA’S P.O.V“You have a visitor,” the nurse said and took me out of my glass cell, she escorted me to the meeting room without removing the extremely uncomfortable straight jacket that I was in. Did I really belong here? If I spent any more time in here then I would definitely lose my mind. “YOU?” the blood drained from my face when I saw who the person was. “You messed up Eva!” she said, the deadly calmness in the voice, bought back the fear which I usually had in her presence. “But what are you doing here? You shouldn’t be in public. What if someone recognizes you!” I said, still shocked to see her. “I had to come out of hiding, who else would save you from this mess that you have created? You managed to get your sister behind bars, serving life imprisonment and yourself stuck in a mental asylum!!! You are so useless Eva, you had one simple task to do!!! Just 1 task but you managed to fail 10 times! Onl
CARA’S P.O.V“Xander, you are the one who said that we should not keep secrets from one another. So can you please stop contradicting yourself and tell me what is going on? I can see the tension that you are feeling. It’s not only clear in your eyes but also in your body language” I begged him for an answer like I have been doing for the past half an hour. Everything was happening so fast, all I know is that we were at the beach sipping on juices and Martini’s, well I had a juice because the little one growing inside of me would not like a Martini very much, but Xander had a Martini…however now we are on our private jet, heading back home, our honeymoon cut short and I needed to know why!!! “Don’t worry about it Cara, it’s nothing really.” He tried to assure me but I was not ready to give up as yet. “Xander our honeymoon was cut short! You rushed me to pack my belongings in the middle of the night! You drove a
XANDER’S P.O.VFrom star gazing to watching the sunrise, white sands and blue water, little islands and lagoons…spending these past 3 days on honeymoon at Phuket with Cara has been nothing less than amazing and we have 4 more days together in this heavenly paradise, just the two of us, away from everything and everyone.“Beautiful isn’t it?” Cara broke the silence between us as we relaxed on the beach, soaking up the sun. “Oh yes, you are!” I said, making her laugh. “Not me silly. I’m talking about the view in front of us” she said. “Not as beautiful as you” I flirted. “Hmm, Mr. Charming are you trying to flatter me?” she played along. “and what on Earth would make you think that? I speak nothing but the truth. In my eyes, no other beauty can compare to yours. The 7 wonders of the world are still trying to compete with you” I said, flirting and complimenting her. “Spe
(THREE WEEKS LATER) CARA’S P.O.V It felt as if there is a tornado in my tummy as I listened to the silence, suddenly a sweet melody filled my ears and I knew that it was my queue to go. The doors in front of me opened widely, I let out a heavy sigh of nervousness, and then I began to walk through the indoor garden. The pure, innocent, fresh, and soft white roses that decorated the aisles on either side of me, matched the pureness, innocence, and softness of my dress. From white to gold, it hugged onto my body on top, showing off my petite figure as it flowed freely from my hips going down, spreading like the foam from the ocean onto the floor as each dazzling layer danced around me with every step that I took. The music, the dim lights, the lanterns, the roses…all of it made my heart beat a little faster with excitement, happiness, and love. There were a thousand eyes on me, watching my every movement but all my nervousness which I felt not so long ago vanish
CARA’S P.O.V *Beep (pause) *beep (pause)*beep, I heard my lifeline as I was pulled back into consciousness. Blinking my eyes until I could see clearly, I saw Xander, with the biggest and broadest smile on his face, my right hand, held gentle but warmly in between both of his. “Hi,” he muttered the smile still on his face. “Hi,” I muttered back to him and groaned in discomfort due to being in the same position for so long. “You took quite a fall there; I counted my lucky stars that you fell straight into the water and we were there just in time to save you. However, you were hit on the head, so if you feel light-headed or experience a different insight, etc then please let me know” he explained. “Yes, Doc.” I teased him. “Speaking about a Doctor, I should probably call him,” he said, moving out of the seat which he was on, next to my bed. “No! Wait! I’m okay, you can get the doctor just now. Let’s talk…I missed you” I said, stopping him. “I missed you more…I thought tha