This time around, Dovonan and his men were the first people to arrive at the warehouse, unlike the very first time they all met at the police station in the town. Vanessa smiled as she watched the cctv and saw Dovonan dispatch his men to their various position, yet there was no sight of either Valerie and Chad. A frown settled upon her face at the thought of Donovan thinking that this was a joke. She wouldn’t want to hurt Daisy, but she will if she have too. But she might have been too fast, because she watched another car pull up near the cctv, and saw Donovan walk over to open the door before pulling Valerie out, who was looking scared. Vanessa touched the screen at the sight of her twin sister, if it was possible that Valerie could sense her touching her through the screen infront if her she will be happy. It’s been how many months? A month and two weeks since she has last seen her and Chad. She had no idea how they had lived, but she’s glad that she hanged on all these while, b
Fear.It was a strong word for what Valerie was feeling at the moment while she watched the fight that was going on, if anyone had told her that there will ever come a day where she will battle for her life, or experience what she was seeing right now, she would have called that person a big liar and a fake seer.But the young lady refused to believe how chaotic her life had become, watching her sister and Dovonan join hands together, to fight off the new enemy that she had no idea how he’s connected to her or Vanessa, had her frustrated.The young lady has never felt so useless in life, where others are out there fighting to stay alive. She was hiding and crying like she was a baby, but no one seemed to understand the deep fear that Valerie had for violence.Donovan didn't understand, and neither did Vanessa understand that too. All they cared about was their selfish interest, without thinking about what any of their actions could cause their loved ones.She could still remember the
“Can i atleast see Grandpa before i leave?” Daisy asked her brother, while using her hand to wipe the tears that fell from her eyes, at the news that her grandfather was in the hospital as a result of hearing that she got kidnapped. “Stop being a kid, Daisy. You have already spent enough time with him. The least he wants is to wake up to still find you here in New York. So, you are leaving and that’s final.” Donovan chided at Daisy’s stubbornness. He had already done his part as a brother, and saved her from being killed in the crossfire between him and Vanessa. The least he needs right now is to still give Vanessa a opportunity to get him into this kind of situation again. Which won’t be possible as long as he lives, rather, it’s the other way around. This time, Vanessa would come pleading for her sister's life but she won’t get that so easily from him. You can’t enter the lion's den and expect to come out without any injuries. Vanessa doesn’t know who she was messing with. As if k
“He’s losing a lot of blood. Get the ER room ready!” The nurse said, wheeling in an injured Detective Scott on a stretcher along with the other horse who held up the iv that was connected to his hand, the other nurses trying to keep a crying Jolene and her mother away from following them into the operating room.“Dad.” Jolene cried, rushing alongside the doctor, while holding onto the stretcher and her fathers hand, that was stained with blood. It was still warm, so she knew that nothing bad was happening aside from the part that he needs urgent surgery, after being shot in a raid that happened tonight.“Ma, we have to part ways right now.” A nurse stopped Jolene from entering inside the operating room. She felt bad looking at the poor young girl, but all she could do was to pray for her father. The injury looked brutal and he had lost a lot of blood.Turning to leave, Jolene held the nurse’s hand. “Please, save my daddy. I will do anything you want, but i can’t lose him. So, save my
“Yes Don, the doctor said that he's likely to be discharged tomorrow.” Marco said over the phone to report the Godfather's medical health to his grandson, Donovan. After taking care of Daisy, the both of them had parted ways with each other, while Donovan went back to his villa, he had ordered him to keep guard on his grandfather at the hospital. Firstly, was the part where Donovan didn't want the news of his grandfather being at the hospital getting released to the press, so he was here to make sure that things were running smoothly. With his hands in his pocket, Marco came out of the elevator to enter the hallway. He had decided to step out to get a drink outside. If he was to stay up for the whole night, he has to keep himself busy. “Fine, I will talk to you later.” Marco said ending the call, just as he was about to take a step he heard a commotion going on in the hallway before he looked up to see her. Jolene Harris. The woman he vowed never to see again. It's been how man
“I want to see Aunt Val!” Chad's loud cries filled the room, and it has been that way since last night. The young child has refused to calm down, even after meeting his aunt, Vanessa. He still wasn’t happy and content that he was far away from Donovan’s reach. Valerie babied him too much. Vanessa sucked her teeth when his cries increased to another tempo, after one of her men went forward to get him to stop crying by offering him some toys to play with. All he did was to throw it away, and continued demanding for Valerie as if he’s the only one that wanted to see her. She fucked up! Vanessa knew that her only mistake was trusting Donovan, that he won’t play a fast one on her after giving him back his sister. Rather, all he did to pay her back was to take Valerie away, again! Not only did she made him know that Brandon was the one who called the shots on Ares’ death, she had only did that because she wanted the spotlight to be away from her. Atleast, for the next nine months, it
Two Weeks later *** “I can’t believe that you are finally getting married to him. Girl, you are basically living the life of all girls. Anastasia smiled at her best friend's remark, as she stared at herself in the mirror. She was looking ethereal and she knew that Donovan would have the same opinion if he was to see her now. Her long life wish was coming to pass, she’s finally getting married to the love of her life. “Who else, if not him?” Anastasia taunted, gleaming over her look at the mirror, as her hair stylist fixed her hair, while her make up artist was packing up her box since she was done with fixing her face. Anastasia Donovan Castillio. It does have a nice ring to it. Long forgotten were the times where she would have to beg Donovan for attention, right now, it doesn't matter if he gives her any, after today, the both of them are tied down together for the rest of their lives, and there’s nothing else that she could ever ask for. It was all thanks to his Grandfather,
Mother?Confusion crept onto Donovan’s face, but before he could open his mouth to ask what’s going on. His father had walked forward to the woman attempting to drag her out of the hall.“What do you think you are doing?” Angelo asked Maria, who has a mischievous smile on her face. This was the perfect time to make herself known to the family, especially his wife, who had all long been glaring at her since the moment Angelo stepped forward to her.“Angelo, what the hell is going on? Why is she here?” Salvatore Castillo asked his son, he was looking right at the mother of his grandson who his son, Angelo, had convinced him years ago was dead. Newsflash!She wasn’t dead all long but has been waiting for the right opportunity to make herself known.“What the yell do you think it is I’m doing?” Maria turned to face both Angelo and Salvatore, time has changed. She was no longer the naive, powerless girl that she was, who they can easily manipulate this time around. “I’m here to see my son
Mature Content!Domestic violence!The breakfast started off fine, with Grandfather acting like he wasn’t the same person that had given him an ultimatum to choose between his mom and the love of his life. Angelo has given Donovan a signal from the very first time he has arrived with Anastasia, not to try to piss off the old man, since he was just looking for a reason to either kill his mom and Valerie .So, he tried his best to act as normal as possible, with his grandfather acting like the good father in law he was, by pushing the best past of the meal to Anastasia’s way.Donovan knows what he’s trying to do, but the old man has no idea that he had full control over his wife. He would be so disappointed to hear what Anastasia has to say, if he goes ahead to talk about Valerie.“So, have you made your decision yet?” Salvatore asked, looking at Donovan who looked at his father for an answer, but he himself didn't know what to say, since he wasn’t expecting his father to talk about th
Anastasia tried zipping up her gown, but she couldn’t reach towards the zipper. She has received word from one the guard that her presence was needed at her husband’s family house, for breakfast. With the talk of everyone being present there, she had made up her mind to as well use the opportunity to talk to her father in law, about how Donovan has been treating her all these while.A month and three days!That’s how long she has stayed here, locked up inside her room all day without any sight of her husband. After he had abandoned her on their wedding night for the girl he claims he’s in love with. He did much worse by taking away her phone, or any devices around the house she found use to reach out to anyone outside.To shut her up for good, but this opportunity was staring right at her face. She had her mind made up to expose Donovan’s ill treatment towards her.What sort of husband abandons his wife for months, on their wedding night, without checking up on her or their son, he h
Matured Content!!“You can leave now, it’s late.” Donovan said to Rio after coming down from the car. After he has successfully transferred to his new place days ago, he hasn’t been in constant contact with Marco, for which the reason was only made known to him.Irrespective of what Marco has done, he didn't want to give off the fact that they were having issues, afterall, Rio and Marco weren’t close like he’s with the three. Rio has always wanted Marco’s position and if Marco doesn’t sit up, and do his job, the position of his second in command could be Rios.“Before that sir..” Rio said, rubbing his hand nervously since he didn't know how he’s going to take the news he’s about to tell him.“What is it?” Donovan turned to face him. He has far more important things to do like cooking dinner for him and babygirl, but he’s been busy lately. So Rio and a new maid that he has assigned, were the ones that handle things over here when he’s away.He knew that he was wrong, so, he would have
Reporter Kim came down from his car, which he packed right outside the fake house that he was currently staying at. The reason for that being the fact that Vanessa, has suggested that after the tantrum he played by releasing that video to the police. It won’t take Donovan’s men much before they track him down. Although, there’s a chance that it would take days, but the chance of it happening had the both of them separate ways. Moreover, Vanessa has this plan, it was a risky one but he couldn’t help but do it for the greater benefit. Vanessa wants him to be kidnapped by Donovan, that way she would be to finally see Donovan and track him down. His locations has been unstable these days, she couldn’t exactly pin his exact location, and she knew the reason for that. After Donovan has betrayed and shot her at her thigh, it was as if something snapped inside her. She hasn’t been able to do anything without it having to do with finding Donovan. Moreover, she was scared. That he figured,
Five days later. Jolene woke up from the bed and ran to puke her guts out in the bathroom, she was not feeling fine ever since yesterday. She’s been having headaches, back pain and tiredness that she couldn’t explain the reason why she was suddenly sick. At first, she has blamed it on her sleepless nights where she has to cry herself to sleep, because she’s been dumped by Marco. After using her and taking her virtue, he down flatly treated her like they didn’t have anything serious going on between them. She couldn’t blame him entirely. Afterall, she never really got back the news that he’s okay after he was dragged away by his boss’ men. She was worried about him for the past few days until her calls couldn’t go through anymore, he had her message left unread without any reply so yes! He’s avoiding her. The young lady could still remember his reaction to her telling him the good news about her father being alive. It was at this point that it felt like the hex that had covere
Marco opened the door and once he saw his father standing outside, a big frown covered his face when he actually saw that it was his father that was knocking all along. Well, it obviously can’t be Jolene, because he had checked out of the hotel that she knew he was staying y at.So, there's no way she can actually get to him, if he’s not the one that makes it possible for her to see him. He was still not over his heartbreak, yet, he also had been lost in thought over the offer Donovan’s mother was offering.She wants Valerie, and with what has gone down in the past few hours that the police arrested Donovan for kidnapping Valerie, there’s no way he will be too stupid to not put more security around her this time around.Donovan might have successfully bribe the police over that video, but he wasn’t stupid enough to let his guard down around her. So, it was going to be much more difficult to get Valerie out this time around.“Don’t tell me that you are still angry, son? Come on, we hav
The next morning, Donovan woke up only to discover that Valerie wasn’t in bed with him. This was the first time that he has slept so late. He has always been a morning person, that sometimes he would wake up by four in the morning and watch her sleep.He sprang up from the bed with force, when he saw that she had ripped the iv that she has been taking since last night. This time, he was scared of what she might have done with him sleeping like a log of wood without actually knowing where she was.He was comforted with the fact that she didn't have the door pass or did she?He went to the nearest door looking for the card, he relaxed when he found it. That confirmed his suspicion about her leaving but he was still concerned about what she was doing right now.Ever since he made the mistake of killing that stylist in her face, yes! It was a mistake that he regrets because actually it wasn’t his intention to make her get scared of him. She’s supposed to love and feel comfortable around h
The moment Donovan entered inside the hotel room that Marco made him know was where his babygirl, Valerie was staying. He heard voices from inside coupled with the scent of antiseptics which made him rush in, fastly only to see Valerie lying on the bed, with a male doctor at her side, cleaning up the wound at her wrist.The moment Rio saw his boss, he tried to talk first and apologize for taking his eyes off Valerie for a minute, which made her opt to hurt herself after waking up to find herself in a different place, without him in sight.She has been panicking for the last twenty minutes and he has been calling him, but he wasn’t picking up.“Get your hands off her!” Donovan seethed in anger, which made the doctor pause his movement without complaining.“I’m sorry, boss.” Rio apologized.“What happened to her?” He asked him, moving along to sit at the edge of the bed to look at Valerie more closely.“I looked away for a second and then she was awake and started to panic when she didn
Once the call ended, Marco felt his heart breaking into pieces, and it wasn’t about the fact that Donovan’s words are still ringing in his head about who Jolene was going to choose once her father is awake. The reality was already playing right in front of his face that he couldn’t bear it himself to pretend to her anymore.He didn't want to pretend that he’s happy hearing that her father, the same man who wants him that was on the verge of death, had luckily escaped death to come haunt his life again.Just hearing her overexcited voice about her father being awake, confirmed everything for him, because just like at the end of the day he would choose his family, his father over anything and anyone else, Jolene would still choose her own family.He would choose his father over her, and that’s not selfishness. That’s the right thing to do, and he couldn't blame her if she does the same because he too is guilty of the same crime. It was at this point that Marco’s eyes were opened to his