LOGINShare
Chapter 16
Last Updated:
2024-10-29 19:42:56Related chapters
The Billionaire's Addiction Chapter 17
CIARA'S POVWhen Tristian took my hand as the waiter disappeared round the corner, I felt guilty instantly. This was a man that seemed to love me with all his heart. A man that had thanked me severally for standing with him through his trying moments.What was I going to repay him back with?I was going to join his enemies in crippling him, in letting his efforts to lift us up run in vain. My head was reeling, and I knew that if I didn't get my shit together as soon as possible, he was going to know something was wrong and was going to start asking questions.He kissed my hand, looking at my eyes. His sapphire coloured eyes had always been my undoing, and I felt my insides turn inside out as he stared at him. He seemed to stare at my soul, and I wondered if he saw how messed up I was.“I love you, CeeCee. And I want you to know that. After all this is over, we'll arrange our marriage, just you and I. Away from the public, just like how you've always wanted it.”I looked at him, and I
Last Updated : 2024-10-29The Billionaire's Addiction Chapter 18
KAYLA'S POVOpening the door to the house I shared with Marcus, I breathed in, my head hurting. My world seemed to be crumbling, it was one of those rare times when things happened but wasn't explainable. How was what had happened to me in the past few days explainable?From my boyfriend cheating on me with my best friend to my own close friend telling me that she had known about it all this while. I was hurt, and I wondered if there was any going forward from this.Was there any hope for our relationship? Trying to take my mind off my present situation, I undressed, deciding to prepare dinner for Marcus. It was the easiest way to confront him. Make him feel at ease, then strike. There was no other way.Entering into the kitchen, I found out that there were no groceries. How was I going to prepare the beef stew I had planned? Going outside, I hailed a taxi, acknowledging that I really needed to learn how to drive. It was going to help me in the long run because I had heard stories o
Last Updated : 2024-10-29The Billionaire's Addiction Chapter 19
ADRIAN'S POV“Come on Nancy, you're gonna be late, hurry up. Get your backpack and meet me outside.”I was stuffing the eggs my wife, Natalie had fried, drinking to coffee to wrap up my breakfast. She was staring at me, her eyes asking questions. She had always been a smart one, Natalie, and she had the instincts of a predator. She knew when something wasn't right, and I could tell from the look in her eyes that she felt something wasn't right somewhere.“Are you going to say it or what?”I munched on my bread, avoiding her eyes. She seemed to see through me, seemed to see through my lie of getting a raise at work.“Where's the money coming from, Adrian?”Using the napkin to clean the oil from my lips, I swallowed hard, then gave her a smile that concealed the truth. I sipped my coffee, suspending the truth for the time being.“I thought we talked about this, Natalie.”She laughed, stirring her coffee. She was holding a flask in her other hand, and I knew that she used the coffee to d
Last Updated : 2024-10-29The Billionaire's Addiction Chapter 20
KAYLA'S POVI was confused. It was one thing to know your boyfriend was cheating on you and not knowing the next step to take, and it was a totally complete scenario when you caught him red-handed without knowing prior. I had gone through these two phases, and I was confused on the step to take.Was I going to risk leaving Marcus Turner and lose my relationship and everything I had built? Plus the fact that he had assured me not to work and I was jobless, I was literally a housewife. Leaving Marcus meant starting afresh totally, from getting a job to finding an apartment.That brought Trisha into the picture. Was I willing to ditch my anger for her hospitality all over again? Was I willing to forgive her?I sighed, getting up from the bed I had shared with Marcus. I had no choice. I was cornered, I had to choose between the devil and the deep blue sea.Marcus came out of the bathroom, giving me a smile when he saw that I was awake. He had just a towel around his waist, and I had to ad
Last Updated : 2024-10-29The Billionaire's Addiction Chapter 21
TRISTIAN'S POVI hugged Ciara from behind, allowing the aroma of the bacon and the scrambled eggs she was preparing for breakfast envelope my nostrils. She accepted the hug, clutching my hands. When she looked up, all I saw was genuine love and care. She was the one I wanted to spend the rest of my life with, she was the one I loved.“Good morning CeeCee. It really smells nice in here.”“Of course it does. Who else prepares better bacon than I? Definitely not you, my love. You'll burn them.”I smiled, slapping her behind as hard as I could in retaliation. Buttoning the sleeves of my shirt, I adjusted, smiling and ignoring the callous stare she gave me.“I wanted to see my father today.”“Oh.”The “oh” had various meanings to it. I wondered which one she meant, was she surprised that I was going to see him after I had said I wouldn't? Or was she surprised that I had even mentioned his name after such a long time.“It's nothing serious though, I just wanted to tell him I'd gotten the lo
Last Updated : 2024-10-29The Billionaire's Addiction Chapter 22
KAYLA'S POV“What are you going to do?”It was the question that had been on my mind, the question that I had had no success in discovering the answer to. I stared at Trisha, suddenly feeling tired all of a sudden, the urge to lie down very great.“I have no idea, Trish. I desperately want to confront him, but then I remember I have no job, and I was foolish enough to believe he was going to marry and I was going to be a full-time housewife. I can't believe how dumb I was to fall for that.”I wiped away a tear, sipping the Martini slowly. “Well, you don't have to blame yourself, Kayla. Some men are animals, and he's one of them. I can't believe Bella, though. She hasn't told me about this new development. We still text occasionally, but she has never mentioned he comes to her place even after you caught him cheating.”I shrugged, not knowing what else to do or how to reply. I had been shocked that Bella had shown absolutely no remorse after everything. It was saddening, and I wondere
Last Updated : 2024-10-29The Billionaire's Addiction Chapter 23
CIARA'S POV When I entered my apartment and found Tristian on the couch, a beer in his hand, my heart went out to him immediately. It was then I understood the gravity of what I had done and the toll it was going to take on him. He looked up, his eyes leaving the television he had been watching for a few seconds. “CeeCee.” I couldn't help it but walk to him, enveloping him into a hug. At that moment I wanted to tell him the truth, to tell him that everything was going to be fine, but at the same time I wanted to hold on to the money in my account, I wanted to continue reassuring myself that I had my future under control, and I didn't belong to any man. “What happened? I didn't understand your text.” He sighed, a sigh of weary and tiredness. He took another swig from his bottle and I collected it, noting the two empty bottles underneath the table. At this rate, he was going to be drunk if he didn't stop. “I went to the bank, Ciara, and they said the loan wasn't transferred to my b
Last Updated : 2024-10-29The Billionaire's Addiction Chapter 24
KAYLA'S POVI stared at Jeremiah and Trisha, and at that moment I knew that whatever Marcus and I had shared was a facade, we had been pretending and lying to ourselves right from the start. They were working on a writing project, smiling, hand in hand, and Trisha occasionally slapping his behind. He would chase her and they would flop onto the sofa, look at their laptops, create a few ideas and the cycle would start all over again. This was the real meaning of love. They had something in common, they shared a lot together. They were not far apart, even their silences seemed to be filled with words. I enjoyed looking at them, and it made me realize that I and Marcus Turner were never meant to be. It was probably a good thing that we had broken it off.Looking at Trisha and Jeremiah made me feel lonely, and that was why I was headed to the kitchen, determined to get rid of my loneliness. I had begun searching for jobs online, and although I knew that Trisha was going to be there for
Last Updated : 2024-10-29
Latest chapter
The Billionaire's Addiction EPILOGUE
KAYLA'S POV The courtroom was filled to the brim. The tension was crackling, and one could hear a pin drop.Both lawyers had presented their arguments, and it was up to the jury to make their decision before it would be passed down to the judge.I stare at Tristian Ravenford, who stared at me in return. He was in a beautiful suit, and he looked handsome. His wound was healing fast, and his life was returning back to normal. All of our lives were returning back to normal.Liam was in school once again, and his story was being turned into a documentary. A writer was also writing it to turn it into a book, it was a beautiful story, a story of survival and determination to survive, to live. I was back at work, but I had a different plan for myself and my son after this case. During the past year while the case had been dragging on, I had used the proceeds of Nova interiors to set up another branch in California. That was my plan. I was going to move away with Liam, and I was going to st
The Billionaire's Addiction Chapter 72
KAYLA'S POVI fell in shock as I watched the life seep out of the man I had come to love. He was bleeding profusely, and from the distant look in his eyes, I could see that he was gradually fading.The gun had fallen from Ciara's hand and she was also bent in worry, her hair soaking up Tristian's blood as she bent to check if he was breathing. I was dumbfounded. I was lost. I was crippled with fear. I didn't know what to do at that moment, I could only pray that Tristian Ravenford didn't die. I couldn't imagine living without him, I couldn't imagine losing him. I was crying now, but I wasn't myself. It seemed I was looking at everything happening from a distance. That was what fear seemed to do to me. Fear was one of my enemies, and anytime it hit me at its fullest, I would suddenly go numb. I was paralyzed by fear. By the fear of death. But at that moment, the paralysis disappeared because a dozen sirens began to sound, and even the huge siren of the ambulance made me wipe my tea
The Billionaire's Addiction Chapter 71
KAYLA'S POVI left the station after Tristian. I wanted to know where he was going. When he kissed me on the forehead, there was something in his eyes, a determined look that told me all I needed to know. He was going somewhere, somewhere dangerous, and he didn't want me to know. For all I knew, the kiss on my forehead was one of farewell. And if I was going to lose my son, I didn't want to lose him too no matter how much I hated the chaos he had brought into my life. That was why I left the station in a taxi, telling the taxi to follow his car. I was afraid for him. I was afraid that he wasn't going to come back to me, afraid of the steely determined expression I had found on his face, of the look in his eyes. I didn't want to lose Tristian Ravenford because I still loved him. And I would do anything to keep that love alive and burning. His car stopped next to a house that had overgrown grass and peeling paint. I stopped the taxi, paying the bald headed driver off and tipping hi
The Billionaire's Addiction Chapter 70
TRISTIAN'S POVI drove out of the police station, my feet on the accelerator. I knew exactly where Ciara's old house was located, and even though I wasn't particularly sure, I felt that she was inside there. My instincts told me so. There was no other place Ciara Hemsworth went to hide when things were tough, and I believed that she was still in that house, probably waiting for the chaos she had created to die down. But why?Why did it have to be Liam? What had I done to Ciara to deserve the hate and the dislike? What had I done, that had deserved Kayla's son being kidnapped, that had almost brought a rift in our relationship and destroyed it?As far as I knew, I had never left Ciara just because I wanted to leave her. I had left her because my life was endangered, because I knew and felt that if she was capable of ganging up with my old friends and stealing my money, then there was nothing she couldn't do to satisfy her greed for money. But why?Why had she gone ahead to try and d
The Billionaire's Addiction Chapter 69
CIARA'S POV I stood next to my car, crouching. I was quite a distance from the apartment I shared with Adrian, but I could see everything that was happening. I had initially wanted to go out, but I had just discovered that I had forgotten the stash of cash I wanted to use in purchasing gas for my car.About four or more police squad cars had filled the yard, and I could see a few policemen come out. A megaphone rented the air, announcing that anyone in the house should come forth. When I saw Adrian come out of the house his hands raised in surrender, my heart skipped a beat. The policemen were all over him in seconds, his body against the squad car. A few officers went inside the house, and I imagined them combing the house, looking for Liam. I nodded grimly. Jokes on them. That was my reason for taking him to the orphanage. It was just as if I had known. It was happening before my eyes. The officers came forth from the house empty-handed. A few questions were thrown to Adrian wh
The Billionaire's Addiction Chapter 68
ADRIAN'S POV I stared at Camila, surprised, hurt and angry. How dare she choose Tristian Ravenford over me? I had been in the meeting for days, the spoils were mine to take.How come she had made the whole shareholders still vote for Tristian over me? I was annoyed. Standing, I addressed them, my hands trembling in anger.Without mincing words, I left the agency, anger coursing through my veins. How was it possible? How had he made it happen?I knew that Camila was once his lover, but how she had successfully maneuvered the decision of the shareholders to favor Tristian Ravenford was beyond me. I saw everything I had planned by trying to get power come crashing down. I wasn't going to get a good lawyer, and I wasn't going to get custody of my daughter.Dejected, I entered the house I now shared with Ciara, surprised to see her eating and not finding Liam anywhere.“Ciara? Where's Liam?”She stared at me, grinning widely.“Didn't you get my text? Him being around wasn't safe. I've ta
The Billionaire's Addiction Chapter 67
KAYLA'S POVComing back home, I noticed Tristan's Porsche in my garage once again. For the record, I knew what he was going through at the moment. I had heard that he hadn't even been going to work anymore.He was going through the same feelings I was going through because of Liam. It was clear as day. Maybe I was treating him quite wrongly, maybe I was treating him unfairly. He had already gone to three private investigators, and most of them had been paid without any results. It was all the same thing.He was sitting on the stairs and stood up when he saw me, his eyes glinting in happiness. His hair was a mess, his shirt was stained and even his beards were unshaven. At that moment, all I wanted to do was hold him. We had been through a lot together, and I knew it was best if I let him come into my house at least for the time being. He sat on the sofa, watching television while I took a shower. When I entered the sitting room, I could see his eyes light up as soon as he saw me in
The Billionaire's Addiction Chapter 66
ADRIAN'S POVI stared at my wife, Natalie. She was stating her terms clearly, and although she had said it before, I couldn't believe it. I was finding it difficult to believe that she meant what she was saying, that she was indeed doing what I thought she was doing.For the past two weeks, I had been so occupied with my role in the Liam abduction that I had absolutely no time for anything else. That meant missing a few of Natalie's calls and texts, and getting back to the house I used to call mine after that period, I was shocked to see everything packed up. Natalie was staring at me, awaiting my reply.She had stated her terms fairly. She wanted a divorce. And she wanted to take custody of our daughter.“Come on, Natalie, come off it.”“There's no coming off anything, Adrian Ravenford. You left the house for two weeks, never returned my calls or texts. Never checked up on your daughter. Never even bothered to ask us how we were faring. And now you hope to see your house in the orde
The Billionaire's Addiction Chapter 65
CIARA'S POVI didn't like the way things were going. It was now a week and Tristian Ravenford wasn't still mine. It drove me crazy, the fact that I might be doing all this in vain, that at the end of the day, he might not even belong to me. He was probably still with Kayla right now, and even thinking about it made me hurt with anger. Adrian on the other hand had started to infiltrate Tristian's agency. Due to the fact that he wasn't coming to work, it was stated in the company rules that within two working weeks, if the head of the shareholders didn't show up, then it was natural for a member of his family to take up the post after a vote. Adrian was going to his agency everyday without Tristian's knowledge, and I knew that it was only a matter of time before he got his heart's desire, before he achieved what he was seeking. And what about me? When was I going to achieve mine?It hurt me and as I stared at Liam, I suddenly realized that the hatred I felt towards him and his mother
