BLAIR’S POV Early the next morning, I got out of bed and freshened up, hurrying downstairs. This was unlike me, who was never eager about leaving my room. I had spoken time and again about leaving the house, but Stacy insisted that I stayed for the wedding, and now, I was glad that I stayed. I was so positive that this was the reason why fate had designed for me to stay. I could finally uncover all her lying and deceit. Brian deserved a lot better. Breakfast table was already set, although no one was out to eat yet. I wasn’t sure what was wrong with Stacy and Collins, but I peeped outside to see Brian’s car just driving in. It was evident he hadn’t returned home, last night. Brian walked in and he looked quite tired. His shirt was wrongly buttoned and he looked quite shabby. It was the first time I was going to see Brian in such tattered manner. He staggered into the house and I hurried to get him. “Drunkenness?” I said, under my breath. “It’s all her fault,”
BLAIR’S POVStacy pulled my hair and Collins trying to pull her away from me only made it worse. “That’s enough!” Brian got out of bed and yelled.It surprised me to find Stacy completely smitten by Brian’s order. She had tears flowing down her cheeks and I was irritated by the hypocrisy. “How could you do this, Brian?” she cried bitterly, “Our wedding is in less than a week,”“Less than a week, Brian,” she yelled. Collins held her by the arms, while she threw her tantrums. Brian was quiet and feeling very bad and the entire drama was filling me with anger and disgust. “Why would you choose to betray me like this, Brian?” Stacy continued in tears, “To betray the love, I have for you? After all the sacrifices,”“Am I not enough, Brian?” She queried. “Isn’t Brian more than enough for you too, Stacy?” I had had enough and responded to her fake tears. Brian was surprised to see me responding to her since I had always been a shy girl and mostly was afraid of Stacy.Stacy and Coll
BLAIR’S POV I followed Brian to his room and he sat on the bed, thinking about every single word that had been said. Clearly, this was a hard pill for him to swallow, but at least now he knew the truth. I sat on the bed beside him and joined him to stare into blank space. We sat in silence for a while and I started to feel really terrible. I had no idea that Brian had genuinely come to love Stacy and that the information was going to crumble him this much. Yes, I was trying to save him from making a big mistake, but I couldn’t lie to myself enough to deny that my first push was jealousy. After minutes of silence, I decided to push myself to speak up. “I am so sorry, Brian,” I said, “Why?” he immediately responded. “I should be sorry,” he said, “I wasn’t the one who got humiliated and displayed naked. You were.”To that point, I had to bow my head. All I had on was a robe, which I managed to pick, after Brian yelled at Stacy to let me go. “Steven was right,” Brian said, mov
BRIAN’S POV All of my pleading for her to stay fell on deaf ears, including my request for her to marry me. I wasn’t sure what my offense was, but whatever it was, wasn’t something that Blair could let go of, especially considering how much of a hurry she was in to leave. I held her hand and had tears in my eyes, but when we both saw how strong-willed she was about leaving, I let her go. Not for a single day did I stop loving her, in all the while of her absence. Her absence only made my heart desire her more, even though I initially wanted to be angry at her for humiliating me and running away. Steven remained in the mansion with me and ran the companies mostly from home. He had moved out because of Stacy and now our lives were gradually taking back its shape. As for Stacy and Collins, they seemed to have disappeared into thin air, because they were nowhere to be found, within the city and there was also no record of them leaving the city. I genuinely didn’t care so much abo
BRIAN’S POV I placed a few calls and flew over to Maldives in a private plan and arrived at the perfect hour. Sebastine ran the hotel’s, full time now, so I wore a disguise and snuck him out, making a U-turn with Sebastine to Vegas. Sebastine filled me up on everything he knew, while on the trip, and I took the entire trip, boiling in anger. I hoped that for Jane’s sake, she had not laid a single finger on Blair. I was going to have the her stripped of everything, including her life, if I arrived Vegas and found that as much as a strand of hair was missing, off her body. All through the trip, I was impatient and this felt like the slowest I arrived Vegas, from anywhere in the world. As soon as we arrived, we went straight to Mr. Williams’ residence. We arrived a few hours to midnight, and at the gate, we met Ashley, about to walk in. “Ashley!” I called out to her in a loud voice. She hurriedly turned around looking scared, but heaved a sigh of relief when she realized it was
BLAIR’S POV I was too ashamed to admit not having any money and when I walked out of the building, I began a two-hour walk from Winchester to Vegas. What was supposed to be a two-hour drive, ended up an entire day’s walk. When I finally arrived at Vegas, my legs were swollen and I was shivering. I was sick when I arrived, after missing my rescheduled flight. I arrived and laid on the sofa, without as much as food to eat. My temperature was hitting the top and my swollen feet grew heavier by the minute. All through the night, I struggled with fever and threw up all night. Early the next morning, I was still struggling, when I heard aggressive knocking on the door. I peeped through the window and because I did not recognize the men, who were both armed and masked, I went to hide in the kitchen.The men finally broke their way in and began to scatter everything, and I had no idea what they were looking for. I was very terrified and decided to hide myself in the cupboard in the
BLAIR’S POV I slowly opened my eyes and found that I was in a moving vehicle. There was no form of light whatsoever, so I assumed it was a moving truck. The speed and smoothness of the road scared me and I wasn’t sure where we might be headed. I rushed over to the door of the truck and started struggling to burst out. I tried as much as possible to be as quiet I could, because I didn’t want to get caught. The journey was quite a long one and it took me about twenty minutes to burst my way out. I was terrified, but had to take the bold step of jumping out of the moving vehicle. I landed on my knees and got injured on both my arms and legs. I laid still, so that the men could not see me through the side mirrors. When they were a good distance away from me, I crawled till I could finally pick myself up and started walking backwards. I had no idea where I was, or where the path led to. It was only a path in the middle of forest trees and there didn’t seem to be any residence a
BLAIR’S POV Brian insisted that I had to be away from Jane, so she would be unable to find me, if ever she wanted to go dirty with her plans. We were lodged in a luxurious hotel and the men were soon surrounding my bed. Steven had driven into town to provide a functional vehicle, since Brian showed up without one.Brian ordered me a large breakfast and while I ate, they discussed the elaborate plan to bring Jane to reveal more evidence of the things she had going on. “Guys, I do not care what she has going on, she killed somebody,” I emphasized,“She should be charged for that, right?” I queried. “I am a witness,” I added, “Yea, right,” Brian replied with an eye roll. “Because the police would just trap Jane down for a witness testimony on murder?” he asked,“Besides, didn’t that count as credit to her record?” Sebastine asked. “Yea,” Steven said, “Kieran was a terrible criminal and according to the record, Jane already recorded the murder and she did get credit for that,”“
BLAIR’S POV My family was happy. I just became the owner of one of the high-ranking companies in Vegas. My boy just turned one, how could I not be ready. Now I could categorically say that my life had never been happier. All I had been fighting for, for as long as I could remember and now had, and the very last thing on my list, was getting married to the one man that had been able to love me, through thick, thin, storm, hails, the rain of fire, brimstone and Sulphur. Through fairly good times and the bad times, through moments where I struggled to love myself. I couldn’t be more delighted. Contrary to Brian’s request, we were having a quiet wedding with the people that mattered the most to us. The very ones who watched our love story began in the craziest of ways, the ones who loved us through the toughest times and encouraged us to love each other through what felt like the possible. Tears flowed down my cheeks, with no apologies whatsoever to my makeup, as II walked down the
BLAIR’S POV I stood in front of the court, with a racing heart. For the last three months, we had been going back and forth with the company’s case in court and this was the day for the court’s final verdict. With Jennifer’s help, we were able to pull down some of the board members, who were then in the picture and they had given their testimonies to the best of their knowledge at the time.Some of them had also patched their relationship with my father, understanding that at the time, he was being manipulated and couldn’t have been able to help himself. The others thought it was wise to maintain their distance, saying that they were only offering the help they could for mine and Jennifer’s sake and didn’t think it was necessary to have a continuing relationship with my father. In it and through it all, we were grateful that they even showed up, some of which were outside the country already, but all returned for a justifiable cause.“Common, let’s go. I know we have this.” Brian
BLAIR’S POV “Blair!” she ran to me with a hug,This was not one of Jennice’s tricks at all. It really was Jennifer. I was filled with awe. “What?” Jennice asked. “You really didn’t think I was going to let that evil sister of mine kill my only child, did you?” Jennice asked.“What?” I was still stunned. All of me was vibrating. “Oh, sit down.” Jennice said. “I had Jennifer when I was quite young and since my stupid lover would not take me and the child and I was still trying to find my foot in the world I was left to live in, I couldn’t keep her.” Jennice began to explain. “I figured it would be better for her to be in an orphanage, than out here with me and so I took her there.” “It ached my heart that I began to travel a lot and lost track of keeping an eye on her, so she began to go through so much stress.”“When I returned to fix it, I realized my twin sister was after her life.”“Jennifer really was involved in that accident that day, but I stole her from the vehicle and
BLAIR’S POV “I could not believe my ears. “Please, show up alone first.’ She pleaded. Before could be asked twice, I fled out of the house, swiping the keys to the car from the table.It wasn’t long after I left the house that I got a text with a location. I diligently followed, not thinking about whether or not I was going to get myself in trouble, or probably kidnapped. I still had my suspicions on who had called and all I could call it was suspicion, since I wasn’t sure yet and it would have been the most unbelievable thing. I followed the location and arrived almost in the middle of nowhere. There was nothing but trees all round I was beginning to think this was some prank call or an attempt at being kidnapped. If it was, I couldn’t even be mad and all I could now do was pray to be successfully out of here. ‘Maybe I had reacted a little too quickly.’‘What was I even thinking?’ I was lamenting and asking questions.I kept trying to reach the number over and over again, bu
BLAIR’S POV Sebastine did not wait to see his father before we left.Luckily, I could leave, although, with a bandaged arm. The bullet had been taken out and the wound was going to slowly heal and I was definitely going to keep seeing Dr. Bruce to make sure that I was fine. Sebastine signed every single thing in his name back to his father and he was leaving the Maldives to literally start a new life in Vegas. He chose us. My only excitement was that we arrived just in time to save him, because I wasn’t sure how I was going to react to losing another member of my family, especially to suicide. When we arrived Vegas, we dropped over at Brian’s house first. Sebastine was going to be living with Brian, before he is able to do anything else.He was done with college and could easily get a job, even though Brian had already promised to include him in the company. Sebastine, had declined both Brian’s, as well as my offer, to work in the company, saying he was tired of family ‘hand-m
BLAIR’S POV We walked into Sebastine with a gun in his hand, just about to fire a bullet into his head. Brian flew for him and I could only stand there in tears, since I had Regal in my hands and couldn't quite get involved in any rigorous fights. Sebastine was hell bent on ending his life, as he began a struggle with Brian for the weapon. “Let it go, Brian!” He yelled, “you both, get out of here!” “Let me be!” He and Brian continued the war for the weapon. “Sebastine, no, please, I beg you.” Ever single word I uttered was choking in tears. “It doesn't have to end this way, please,” I continued. “What other ways does it need to end, Blair?” He probed, “huh?” Luckily, Brian was stronger than Sebastine, sho had spent quite a number of days, without food, but this did not in any way deter the struggle. I took a few steps closer, towards them, trying to beg Sebastine to let go already. “Argh!” I groaned in pain, as a bullet flew out of the gun and right for m the region between
BLAIR’S POV At this point, I was giving up on everything. I was losing hope and thought about letting the company go, but my father was still out here fighting and if he was not giving up, I couldn’t throw all his hard work by doing same. I was quite weary of it all, but had to continue. If there was a slightest chance to get the company back, I had to encourage myself to hold on to it, until we made it big enough to win us back the company. I woke up on this fateful morning with the most disturbing thought. I was restless all night and failed to have any good or proper rest. “Are you okay?” were Brian’s first words that said hi to me, as soon as I opened my eyes. It was pretty obvious that I wasn’t and I had swollen eye bags from not getting any sleep at all. “You need to reach out to Sebastine,” I said, shocking Brian hard with my request. “I am really worried about him, Brian,” I continued. “He is all alone and as if it was not enough that he has criminal parents, he hurt
BLAIR’S POVI always knew that Brian was struggling to deal with the challenges that came with being my life, but what I didn’t know was that it had gotten as bad as stuffing himself with alcohol, to the very point that he was sick. On the first occasion that Brian retuned in this manner, we had just gotten married and since I didn’t know if he was alcoholic or not, so I didn’t quite care. The second occasion was the week he was to get married to Stacy and he was unhappy, from the innermost part of his soul. Now, he was here and lamenting over being with me and just how difficult it was. It melted my heart that even in that drunken state, he could still think about me and mention that he was willing to love me, despite everything. However, I couldn’t stop thinking,‘If he was in this much distress, was it worth it?’ I helped Brian clean up his body and got him to rest, while I walked downstairs to make meaning out of my day. “It’s a good thing they found their way home.” Collins
BLAIR’S POV I now had more thoughts on my mind than running a company, after the period of our grieving. Collins had filled me with questions that all I really did was just lay down and thought through his words, over and over again. ‘Was there a right time to stop loving? If there was, when was the right time?’‘What if we are just making the people we love unhappy, by being with them, because their hearts would rather be elsewhere?’Collins already confessed to never seeing Stacy smile this bright, or laugh as hard as she did, when she was with him, and even I was already sick of how all Brian and I ever did was solve one chaos, after another. I was already so convinced that all my presence ever did was fill his life with problem after problem, and it was quite evident now that he was struggling to love me, and who could blame him?Brian and Stacy obviously got carried away in their chats and the extended period they had to work together, neither of them remembered to return on