CHAPTER 134BRIANNA’S POVI was taking a nap when I suddenly heard a loud bang like a gunshot from downstairs. My eyes flew open and I quickly rose from the bed, my heart thumping madly in my chest. What the hell was that? I was still trying to make meaning of the sound when I heard another one and another followed by shrills from the maids.Panic like never before welled up in my throat. I rushed out of my bed, quickly covered up and went out of my room to check it out.I just hoped it wasn’t I thought it was. Maybe the guards got into a fight or something. But that hasn’t happened before. And even if they did get into a fight, they never carried guns. Maybe they caught a burglar or thief. As much as I wished it wasn’t a gunshot, the loud, sharp sound echoing through the entire castle suggested otherwise.My mind kept running wild with different thoughts as I reached the stairs. Peering down to catch a glimpse of what could be happening, what I saw left me frightened, electrified
CHAPTER 135BRIANNA’S POVI wrapped my arms protectively around my bump. There was no way I was letting him get to my babies. My twins. I’ll protect them with life and I’ll kill him if he tries to do anything to harm them.He started advancing towards me in menacing steps. My chest felt like it was about to burst. I could barely contain my breath as I raced around the room, hauling anything I could lay my hands on at him—books, vases, and even a lamp. But he dodged them all with ease.“Stay away from me you bastard!” I snarled at him. “There is no way I’m letting you take me back to that hellhole…never!” “You belong to me, Brianna,” he said with a sinister smirk playing around the corners of his lips. “The sooner you realize that the better for you. The better for us. Once I get you back, I’m not going to let anyone take or buy you again. I’ll fuck you till you beg me to fuck you over and over again,” his smirk widened to an eccentric laugh.“Over my dead body,” I grabbed a poker fr
CHAPTER 136SEBASTIAN’S POVI left the castle early in the morning for the association’s headquarters. I had filed a complaint concerning the letter Hermes sent to me the same day it arrived to the executive committee, and they decided to convene in my favour today to pass judgment.Hermes is such a fool to think I’ll let him have Brianna back after everything he put her through. “I’m just here to make one thing clear to you. She was the prettiest and hottest of my slaves. And she still is. Finding a replacement for her has been fucking hard! So you better watch your back. Because I might want to take her back as my sex slave.” “After all, you’re married, and you’re probably treating her as nothing more than a maid. But I want her back in my bed,”I closed my eyes and breathed out heavily as his words that day we fought at Nolan’s funeral cut through my mind. His intentions for wanting Brianna back weren’t good. His intentions towards anything weren’t good at all. Over my dead bod
CHAPTER 137SEBASTIAN’S POVI couldn’t believe I was heading back to the castle without making any progress. When I told Brianna of this plan, she doubted the effectiveness of it. But I assured her it would work. I assured her taking the matter to the association was the only way to get Hermes off her life for good, that is if I didn’t kill him myself. But now I have nothing. I was so pissed. What do I tell her?The only way I could get that letter back is if Hermes wrote another one which wasn’t possible. I didn’t even tell the executive committee members I tore it. They’ll find that puzzling.The only way to go about this now is to request they summon Hermes and make him admit to sending that letter and writing all that nonsense. Though that seemed like a good idea. The only option left. But Hermes will probably lie. That’ll make me look stupid in front of the executive committee members and give them every reason to believe I was plotting against him. So that won’t work.Goodness
CHAPTER 138 SEBASTIAN’S POV Her breathing was laboured, escaping in short, quick, shallow gasps as if she were reserving oxygen. Her hand clutched her side where a bullet had torn through her, blood seeping through her fingers and staining her dress a deep crimson. “Nana Maria,” that was the first time in a long while I had called her that. That was the fond name I used to call her when I was little. Seeing the woman who had trained and cared for me like I was her own in such a state was like a knife stab to my heart. She looked in my direction and smiled with her eyes, her lips trembling as she tried to speak. “Sebastian…you’re here…” I rushed and knelt beside her, fear and helplessness choking me almost to the point of a heart attack. I neatened her splattered steely grey hair away from her face, tears streaming down my face onto hers as I watched her fight for her life. “What took you so long? I have been waiting for you….” She managed to say, her voice barely a whi
CHARTER 139 BRIANNA’S POV My heavy eyelids fluttered open to see Hermes’s face close to mine. He was so close I could feel his breath on my face, the tip of our noses almost touching. “You’re finally up sleeping beauty,” he said, his lips spreading to a psychotically cartoonish smile. Instinctively, my breath caught and I tried to pull away, but the thick ropes binding my wrists and ankles to the bedpost held me still. My head spun, and my body ached with heaviness from being unconscious for so long. Even the slightest movement added to my discomfort, causing me to wince in pain. “Easy there, tigress,” he taunted and tried to kiss me on the forehead. But I squeezed my eyes shut and turned my face away in disgust. I felt a warm gust of air on the side of my neck as he sighed in disappointment. “Quit acting like a scary cat,” he said as he got up from the bedside stool he was sitting on. “I’m not going to hurt you. Unless you make me.” My body stiffed from his word
CHAPTER 140 BRIANNA’S POV “What…?” I stuttered in shock, disoriented as my eyes bulged from its sockets. “Yes, princess,” he flashed me a benign smile, appearing harmless and innocent as opposed to his true self. “We’ll have to get rid of it. I can’t have you carrying another man’s child when you know fully well you belong to me and me alone. That’s infidelity. And you know how much I hate kids,” he added, his face twisting in disgust and revulsion as though he had a personal vendetta against children. “No… never…!!” I cried out in despair, agitated. I was like a caged animal, thrashing against the ropes. Though the effort was futile and only earned me pain that’ll probably leave marks and bruises around my wrists and ankles, I didn’t mind. I kept thrashing. “You are coming nowhere close to my unborn children…” “Did you just say ‘your unborn children’?” He cut me off, leaning forward. He had a baffled expression tinged with anger and jealousy on his face and at once, I wi
CHAPTER 141HERMES’S POV“Yes, that one!” my eyes gleamed as I pointed at a red sexy dress the maid took out from the pile of other dresses.I wanted to make this welcome party memorable for both Brianna and me so I decided to pick out a dress for her. I needed something that would suit my taste. A dress that’ll make her look as sexy as hell so I picked that red dress. It’ll surely do the magic.“This one?” The maid asked to confirm.“You bitch!” My expression hardened as I gave her a hostile glare. “Do I need to repeat myself?” “I’m…I’m sorry…Alpha Hermes,” she stuttered a nervous apology.“You’d better be,” I said, rolling my eyes. “Make sure she wears only that dress—nothing else. And start making all the necessary preparations for the welcome party. I need everything to be perfect,” I finished and sent her away with a dismissive wave of my hand.“Yes Alpha Hermes,” she bowed in reverence.Everything was going well. I had gotten Brianna back and left Sebastian in a condition tha
CHAPTER 19“W…what do you mean she didn’t make it?...” My voice quivered as I tried to keep it steady. My breath was heavy, coming in short quick gasps that hurt my chest. “S…she’s dead, Lily,” the doctor hesitated before breaking the news with a heavy sigh. “She couldn’t be operated on due to lack of completion of the payment. Her body has been transferred to the morgue. I’m sorry. I did my best. I really did. You need to come now to identify her body and make necessary arrangements…” The weight of his revelation bore down heavily on me like a ton of rocks, crushing me to a pulp. I didn’t know for how long I stayed mute, feeling an acute sense of loss wash over me. My mother. My sweet mother…the only family I had left was gone. I won’t get to see her again. This was all my fault. If only I had gathered the payment and made it to the hospital in time, I could have saved her. She’ll still be breathing by now. Terrible regrets assailed me as hot painful tears burned their way down m
BRIANNA’S POV The pungent smell of drugs and antiseptics came streaming into my nose. Irritated, I grimaced, shaking my head to ward off the smell. My eyes forcefully slid open to find myself in an unfamiliar environment flooded with bright almost blinding lights with the walls painted white too. It didn’t take long for me to realize I was in a hospital, the beeping of the heart monitor and other medical machines I was hooked to the only sounds heard in the room. I groaned in discomfort, breathing out heavily as I tried to gently sit up on the bed. I felt so disoriented like I just woke up from a terrible coma. I tried to recall the events that led to me being here when the door suddenly pushed open and Sebastian stormed in. “Doctor! She’s awake,” he shouted, appearing relieved and overwhelmed with joy. He crouched in front of me, looking at me and touching me like I was made of glass. He was extremely concerned. “Are you okay?” He asked not waiting for me to answer before a
CHAPTER 152 SEBASTIAN’S POV Hermes started moving stealthily towards the car, forcing Brianna along with him, his eyes fixed on us without wavering. Brianna looked at us with a helpless gaze, silently pleading for us to help her. I felt really bad. My body burned with restlessness and the urge to do something. Anything. I can’t just stay back and watch Hermes take her away. I can’t afford to lose her again. I can’t bear living a minute of my life again without seeing her. I didn’t know if there was someone inside the SUV to drive them. I couldn’t see clearly. But Hermes was moving into the passenger’s seat with her. That meant someone was there or maybe he’ll climb into the driver’s seat after he got in. But whatever the case was, I didn’t want him to take her away again. I looked at Dylan in a silent, urgent plea. “We have to do something. We can’t just stay back and let him take her away again…” “I’m sorry Sebastian,” Dylan sighed in pessimism. “But there is nothing
CHAPTER 151 SEBASTIAN’S POV Dylan managed to gather all the association’s security troops in time. With an armoured truck, we burst in through the gates of his castle, taking the occupants mostly his guards by surprise. They didn’t expect us, especially by this time, at dusk. Dressed in bulletproof vests, we jumped down the trucks and shot several times in the air to frighten Hermes’s guards and force their surrender. The order from Dylan was to arrest, not to shoot. But I wanted to kill them all, most especially Hermes. Dylan knew I’d find it hard to adhere to his commands so he refused to give me a gun. Having arrived with five armoured trucks – three for the association’s troops and the other two for Hermes and his guards that will be arrested, we were almost thrice the number of Hermes’s guards. And the fact we came unexpectedly, they weren’t prepared at all. Looking around the place, I couldn’t see Hermes or Brianna. Where the hell was that bastard and where has he t
CHAPTER 150 BRIANNA’S POV I grimaced bitterly, looking away in irritation. “Let me go! I’m going nowhere with you…” But it fell on deaf ears as he started dragging me along with him to the castle’s exit as though I was some children’s toy. His grip was so tight I feared I might fracture my wrist if I tried to break free. “You killed her…” I swallowed with difficulty, tears falling out my eyes as the brutal scenario of how he killed his sister came rushing to my mind. “She was worried about you…she was only trying to help yet you murdered her in cold blood. You’re selfish! You have no heart! You’re a monster ….!! How can you murder your sister like that?!! You’ll never win me over… As long as I live, I’ll continue to hate you…” Exhaling loudly in frustration, he stopped and turned to me, the anger and rage in his eyes hot enough to burn me to ashes. I stopped talking and froze in fear, my breath fluttering in my chest. “Maybe it’s time I gagged that little hole of yours
CHAPTER 149 SEBASTIAN’S POV “What?....what is it?” I asked in desperate curiosity, eager to know the contents of the letter that left him in such a devastated state. “It’s from Hermes’s sister, Hera,” he uttered, rebuffed as he momentarily looked at the me and letter. “What did she say?” My curiosity peaked as I took a step closer to him. He looked into the letter. “She says that Hermes kidnapped a pregnant slave named Brianna Campbell and…” “That’s her!” I pointed out almost hysterically, interrupting him. “She is the one. Do you believe me now? Or are you going to doubt this one too?” I cocked a furious brow, a clear indication I was angry with his nonchalant attitude towards this matter. Even though this letter would help prove to Dylan and the rest of the committee that I wasn’t lying, I couldn’t fathom how it came to be. Why would Hera write and send it, implicating her brother? Hera and I weren’t very much acquitted. But merely seeing her was enough to tell an
CHAPTER 148BRIANNA’S POVPanic began to trickle in. “What…what’s the problem?” I asked her, my voice fragile and shaking “It’s always left unlocked since no one knows about it…I don’t know who could have locked it!” She exclaimed in frustration.My heart started thumping against my chest, the little hope I had crushing to pieces. Hermes was only a few distance behind us. If we don’t find a way to make it out any moment from now, he’ll definitely catch up with us. And I was already tired, hungry, and thirsty. I have held it for long. I didn’t know how much longer I could endure.“Come on,” she said as she took my wrist. “We can still make out before Hermes…”However, her words knotted in her throat the moment Hermes walked into the room.His eyes were dark and devilish, and his features hardened to a lethal frown as he glared at us. Tightly curled around his fingers was a pocket knife. He looked like he was ready to draw blood.I swallowed a lump that hurt my throat and thudded down
CHAPTER 147BRIANNA’S POV“What…?” The shock of what I heard threw me off balance to the extent that reality seemed to shatter. Did she just mention I was sold off to Hermes by a woman? Not just any woman but the one close to me? Close enough to be a relative?“What woman are you talking of?” Desperation and suspense clutched me as I walked to her and grabbed her by the shoulders.From the way she kept glancing around, struggling to recall, it was clear her memory was hazy. “Uhmm…. It’s been a long time so…I can’t really remember. The little I could see was she had curly shoulder-length hair and wore a floral dress…She looked like those types of women who’ll go the extra mile to look beautiful…I’m sorry but that’s all I can remember. I wish I could do better…”She didn’t finish talking when I left her shoulders and suddenly walked away from her. Shock siphoned blood from my body. I was too way to dazed even think or blink. Those descriptions matched Aunt Gigi’s perfectly. She had cur
CHAPTER 146SEBASTIAN’S POVMy face scrunched out of shape in rage as I scowled at him. I felt like throwing him a punch that would knock him back to his senses. Just how the flying fuck did he think I was lying over something this serious? The lives of my twin babies and the love of my life were on the line here, yet he’s telling me to seek therapy?!With all rage tearing me apart on the inside, I wanted to say something to him. Something that’ll cut through his scepticism and make him understand the gravity of the situation. Something harsh that’ll make him understand just how angry I am. But Khan, who was also in the office with us, stepped in to intervene, sensing the escalating tension.“My boss is telling the truth,” he said, keeping a calm demeanour as he explained. “The castle was attacked, and all my colleagues and the maids were killed. Not to mention my boss’s slave was taken hostage. They were all gunshot wounds, and with the way the operation was carried out, we’re convi