I swallowed hard and breathed out before I removed Kairo's hand around my waist. He steals glimpses from me with curiosity filling that forest-green eyes of him. Fuck! Fuck me! If only I had known that he was here, I wouldn't have dressed like this."This new hair of yours. I don't particularly like it," he commented. I gently reached for the strand of my hair which, although was still long, was now way shorter than before. I moistened my lips and ignored that remark from him which I found offensive. How dare he say something about my hair? And he is the freaking first person to tell me that I don't look good with my hair. Everyone but him is down on their knees for me. I wasn't expecting to hear tons of compliments from him but I wasn't expecting that he'd say something like this too.I opened my eyes and found Gresya. Within the blink of an eye. I found a way to escape from Kairos and am now on my way to her. "You know that Kairos is coming to this party of yours? You could have a
Kairos wrapped his coat around my waist. I was about to say my protest about him giving me his coat when I wasn't even asking for it but the way he stared at me made me shut my mouth as soon as I could.My hand froze and I just held it and then adjusted it over my shoulder. Kairos sat quietly on the empty stool opposite mine.The silence that enveloped the two of us was colder than the wind blowing here on the rooftop. I always knew how to start a conversation. It was my forte as an entertainer but now I am not even sure how to utter the word hello to open the possibility of having a decent conversation between us."I thought you already changed your style? You are wearing things like this again?" Kairo's eyes and curiosity are waving all over his eyes.My eyes stayed on the female bartender who was busy mixing drinks for different people. And even though I chose not to pay attention to him, I know and I can feel that he is scrutinizing me right at this moment. I stopped playing with
Isla's Point of View Why the hell did I forget about it? I should have stuck with the very same formula that I used to tame Kairos' steel-hard heart when I first met him. If I only didn't forget about it then things would be a lot easier for me. "You need to fucking pull yourself together, Kai. I think I need to slightly shake this picture-perfect marriage of us." I whispered to myself as I made my way to the counter. The bartender who quickly spotted me standing in front of him rubbed the back of his head. He is torn between acting as if I am a ghost he can't see or if he'll try to accommodate me just so I won't make a scene today. "I will have one ice on the rock please," I said smiling at him. He bit his lower lip and then he chuckled nervously. The bartender was looking around in search of someone who would help him here and when he couldn't find that particular person. He was left with no choice but to have his eyes back on me. "I am sorry, Mrs. Lancaster. You heard your husba
Isla's Point of View. I couldn't remember where the hell did I find the courage to say those things to Kairos. All that I knew was my legs were shaking so badly after I got out of the powder room, I even left my clutch bag inside, but there was no way I'd turn around to go get it. "Hey, there you are. I was looking all over the place for you. Where have you been? And where is Cormac?" Kio pulled me away from the dim hallway that leads to the women's and men's powder room. I looked back at the still-closed door of the powder room, anticipating Kairos to come out any second from now. When he didn't. I turned my eyes back at Kio and it was now me dragging him to where everyone was partying. "Cormac is injured. I am sure that he has a big cut on the corner of his lips," I said to Kio while my eyes were still fully alert in case his twin brother suddenly popped behind us or just in case I caught Cormac. I feel like I owe him an apology. I let go of Kio's arm and he took a step back whil
Isla's Point of ViewStaring straight into Nicho's eyes. The silence between the two of us thickened even more. I waited for him to apologize for saying those things about Kairos, but it looked to me that he hadn't realized the reason why I was taking all the time in the world gawking at him without even blinking my eyes. "I know that Kairos is ruthless, but he is not that evil. People always say that he can easily kill someone, but I am sure that it's just a metaphor they use to describe how dangerous he is... so that no one would dare to mess up with him." The corner of Nicho's lips lifts and I hate those curves. It feels like it's mocking me as well as the way he move his head once to nod at me. Nicholas raised his hand in mid-air and then he comfortably leaned on his seat, making me do the same thing. A fleeting moment after that, I found myself turning my body towards him as I got curious about something. "Why are you here? Are you perhaps stalking me? Waiting for a chance to a
Isla's Point of View. Kairos fingers were tightly wrapped around my arms and each time I attempted to loosen it or free myself from his harsh grasp, it tightened even more as if his fingers were digging deep into my flesh and he wouldn't stop until he reached my bones.The moment we are inside of his mansion. He quickly pushed me towards the sofa as he let go of my arm and even to do that, he was harsh and rough with me. I couldn't help it but immediately stared at my arm and there I found his finger marked. One thing is for sure, it will soon leave a bruise there. Kairos's frustrated pace before my eyes. The seething anger in his eyes was the sole reason why I couldn't move and why my heart was barely beating right at this moment. It feels like one wrong move and he can do something unimaginable. When he finally stilled. The rage in his eyes didn't falter and instead, I got a proper view of his jaw clenching. Something is cording in his neck and it looks like it would explode. "Y
Isla's Point of View I am not supposed to wash my hair for at least three days but when Kairos asked me to take a bath with him. I couldn't find myself saying no, afraid that I might upset him which I don't want to because we just made up. "Isla?" He softly asked from the bath tub which made me look in the said direction before I darted my eyes back to the mirror on the wall to finish putting my hair on a clamp. "I am coming," I told him as my feet made those tiny little steps towards where he was waiting for me. Scented candles were lit up and placed all over the bathroom. Kairos is submerged and covered with the bubble bath that he made himself while he is comfortably leaning his back against the black tub. He was enjoying a bottle of wineglass, and then there was a glass waiting for me too. "What took you so long?" He asked, almost pouting his lips. I untie my bathrobe and strip it off me. His eyes ferociously scan me from my neck down to my feet and they went back to my firm an
Isla's point of view.The corner of my lips rose for a smile and soon found myself smirking at Kairos after I felt him looking closer to me. He was doing the best that he could to kiss me back, but couldn't do it so because the handcuff that I attached to him and the pillar was limiting his movements. I pulled away from him seconds just after he caught my lower lip. Kairos opened his eyes. His eyes were harsh as he narrowed it down on me and on top of it was his overwhelming frustration. I wanted to laugh at his reaction, but I couldn't. If I want to do it right then I must stay in character, but I have to admit that he is cute as he looks so broken-hearted after I pulled my lips from his. It was as if I had taken away his favorite little treat. "Why are you kissing me back?" I asked, "Did I ask you to kick me back?" I asked him again. I think I saw when exactly he let go of the domineering Kairos to submit to him and oh boy, it brought me to heaven and turned me on. Kairos obedient
"Nicholas grab the bait." Said by an nbi agent from the radio that Kairos and Kio immediately heard. They turned to the window where they could see the car parked at the back of the hide out that Heidi had put a tracker with."Fuck!" Kairos cursed out loud after he saw Nicholas driving away from his hide out."Where's Heidi? Her phone? That's where we can see the location of the car that Nichola's driving.""Heidi's dead but I got her phone." Special Agent Montefiore mumbled to them. He immediately searched for Nicholas's location through Heidi's phone amf they are taking a familiar road that leads to a cliff."I know that place. We should head there now." He told the agent and Barrette nodded.Kairos walked out of the room first to instruct his men on their next plan and then he turned to Kio."Please take care of my daughters. I will leave them under your care. I need to save, Isla. I'd die if something bad happens to Isla.""Our men will take care of them, Kairos. I already in
"The infamous Isla Lancaster It's so nice to finally meet you." Odette is wearing a devilish smile as she walks towards me. She sat on the edge of the bed and looked at me quietly, which eventually ended with her laughing at me.She stood up and shook her head. Seeing me tied in bed like this tells me one thing. She is glad to see me suffering.She darted her eyes back at me with the same smile. Odette came closer again then she dug her sharp nails and traced my cheek with it and she end up caging my jaw on her fingers. I gritted my teeth and keep those groans of pain inside of my lips for I don't want to give her the satisfaction of seeing me hurting because of her.I tried to move my face away from her hand as my way to fight back but she didn't let go of me and instead she tightened her grip on my jaw and she started to laugh in a mocking manner."What the hell is so special about you huh? You're just a lowly stripper like me and yet you managed to win his heart when I couldn't
"I thought your investigator and the NBI agent is working on it? Why do you still not know where Nicholas took my Isla and daughters?" Kairos shouted at the men in front of him.Kairos closed his eyes when he felt pain in his wound from the gunshot that Nicholas.Kio took over. He confronted the agents that Laurant was talking to earlier. "We hope to hear another lead from you but for now it's better for all of you to leave us alone." Kio said. The agents nodded to him in agreement. Just in time with the agents leaving his hospital room. A doctor and Kairo's nurse walked in to check on his fresh wounds."We need to be left alone with the patient, Sir." The female nurse said to Kio. He glanced at his cousin one more time before he left the room as he was told.The female nurse quickly injected Kairoz with an enough dosage of anesthesia after she removed the bandage from his wound while the doctor started to clean it after she stepped away from Kairos.It also took them more tha
"Nicholas, stop it!" Heidi's voice was full of anger. She followed me while I carry the unconscious Isla to a bedroom. I didn't say a word to her and continued walking until I reached the room itself."This is not love. This is obsession. I'm not in favor of what you're doing anymore." I carefully laid Iris on the bed and turned to face Heidi. Her eyes scream too much disagreement with everything that she witnesses. I took a step closer to her and that made her step back. The trembling of her hand did not escape the corner of my eye while it was holding the hem of the bomber jacket that she was wearing."I don't care about you or anyone else. I only need her. I only want her.""Are you really going to ruin your life for a woman who doesn't love you?" She shouted to cut off what I was saying. I couldn't stop myself any longer and my palm hitted her face which made her quiet for a few seconds.It took her moments to redeem herself and when she did. Seething anger on her pools
I knocked twice on the door of Kairos's office on the first floor of the mansion. I caught him standing with his back facing the door. One of his hands was on his waist and the other was holding his phone. He gave me his weak smile and gestured for me to come near him. I held my breath and tried to smile before I walked closer to him."You didn't sleep last night." I said to him. He wrapped me in his arms possessively. One of his hands touches my waist. Kairos seated himself on the table top and me on the other hand remained standing.He shrugged his shoulders and put a few strands of my hair at the back of my ear. "I needed to fix things for your flight and the place you'll be staying at." He murmured. He rested his chin on my shoulder. I closed my eyes when his hot breath hit my neck that made the hair around my neck stand up.My hand started playing with the strands of his hair who are now longer than his usual hair cut."Do we really have to leave?" I asked in a low
"This is mine!" I quickly made my way to the first floor of the mansion when I heard Beryl's shrill and hysterical voice."I said I want that!" Raileigh argued back and tried to grab a magazine from Beryl's hand that my daughter is keeping away from her. I just held my breath and finally approached them both. Beryl came up to me then she gave Raileigh a death glare who was also looking at her with raised eyebrows."What are you two fighting about this time?" I asked in a low voice. Beryl pulled away from me a little and showed her a fashion magazine. I mentally shook my head because of it.Would you believe that? A seven years old kids are fighting over a fashion magazine?"She's trying to get this from me. This is mine. She didn't even mind asking if I could lend this to her, Mom. She just tried to grab it from my hand." Beryl told me what happened and then she hugged the magazine again and gave Raileigh her piercing glare. They are fighting over silly things, that's usu
"By next week we will have the results of the examinations that we did on Mrs. Spencer.""Lancaster. She is a Lancaster." Kairos interrupted the Doctor just to correct him. The Doctor then looked at him with an anxious smile and nodded."Mrs. Lancaster." He repeated. He stood up from his swivel chair to shake his hand, but Kairos decided to reject shaking hands with him.Did I seriously fall for this man before? He is a bit rude and snobbish. Even now. I am still falling for him and that made me question my taste when it comes to men."Next week? That's too long. Can't you make a way for us to get it by tomorrow?" I grabbed Kairos's arm to stop him from speaking. He bore his tired eyes at me that is filled with frustration. I pulled him to his back and luckily he didn't say anything anymore."Thank you, Doc. We'll come back next week." I said. I extended my hand to him to shake his hand, but Dr. Aleman chooses to smile at me and stare at Kairos instead whose giving him a fair
"Can you remove your tiara now?" I asked her after I've seen her wearing it even when she's brushing her teeth. Beryl looked at me for a moment then shook her head to decline my request.She finished brushing his teeth and then wiped her mouth with a towel that was just hanging on the side of the small sink of her own bathroom."I want to sleep wearing this." She murmured and gave me her sweet smile thinking that it'll help her to convince me.I narrowed my eyes on her. Beryl snorted then carefully removed the tiara from the top of her head. I followed her with my eyes as she walked towards the shelf where she got that tiara along with all the other jewelry and hair accesories.I seriously think that she's too young to have things like that."Mom." Beryl opened her sleepy eyes and watched me with a faint smile in her thin and pinkish lips."You love him more than you love Papa Nicholas right?" She suddenly asked. I stopped from stroking her hair. She caught my hand and checked o
"Years ago. I got into an accident baby. I was in a coma for months and when I woke up. I-I lost all my memories. I can't remember your Dad anymore and all that I have by my side that time is your Daddy Nicholas. He told me that we are married. I am sorry but your Daddy Nicholas lied to us." An unbreakable silence made its presence known. Beryl was just staring at me with her mouth half-open, probably shocked at the information that I just gave to her."Dad did that? But why would he lie like that?" He asked me in disbelief. Beryl stood up from sitting. Beads of tears pools around her eyes.She shook her head as her way of telling me that she does not want to believe me.I stood up and approached her. Beryl sobs broke the silence of the mansion. She grew up thinking that Nicholas is her own superhero, the perfect king then this happened. She finds out that her hero is a villain disguising himself as one.Beryl sobbed while she is hugging me so tight as if she's trying to hide her