Rory's Point of ViewThe way Nicholas gazes at me makes me softly scoff. His eyes easily offend me. It's like I need to spread out the evidence for him to see before he believes these words of mine. I drink the last drop of my beer from the can and patiently wait for him to process the bomb-like information that I just dropped. "Rory, if you are doing this you could make me agree with whatever scheme that you are trying to pull against Kairos and Isla. This is too much. You are crossing the line." Nicholas took a little pause when he saw the way I was glaring at him now. I gritted my teeth and looked down on the dark floor of his unit. Anger boils in my blood and the only way for me to express it is by laughing. "I am crossing the line?" I asked him. That question was a chance that I gave to him to redeem himself, but when he nodded his head. It felt like I had lost my control and if murder wasn't a sin that would put me behind bars, I would have done it. "I know that I used to sp
Third Person's PovAn emergency happened in New York that Kairos needs to sort out himself and because it's work his father asked Kairos to go check it himself. There is nothing Isla can do to stop him from leaving, hence why she comes home to an empty house. She removed her sneakers and lay in her bed and then she turned on her phone. A sigh escaped her lips after she saw no text message from Kairos. Isla looked around their room in search of something that she could buy online, because at times like this. Retail therapy works best to relieve her stress."My to-receive orders are piled up but one or two more transactions won't hurt me or my pocket, right?" She said, talking to herself.Isla went to her favorite online shopping app. After half an hour of scrolling in there. She couldn't find anything that piqued her interest so she gave upIsla left her phone on her bed to stand up and do her night routine. After spending an hour in the bathroom, she was ready to sleep when her phone
Isla's Point of View My heart was thumping violently against my rib cage. I froze on my spot as the officer showed me his handcuffs. José tried to run away but was soon cornered by the rest of the police officers that the one who was standing in front of me to arrest me was with.“You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have a right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed for you.”“S-Sir, I…"“You didn't know that this is an illegal transaction, Mrs. Lancaster? Is that what you are trying to tell me?” He asked, and I felt relieved hearing that from him. I nodded my head and put down my hands that I was offering to him to put the handcuffs on. The police officer smirks at me as he lightly shakes his head. “Born into wealth or married to one. You rich people are all the same. All of you are shameless.” I closed my mouth and swallowed hard after I realized that it was probably for th
Isla's Point of ViewI wonder who else watches the stars and moon at 2:30 am as if he wasn't pointing a gun at someone else's head because he doesn't want to remove the handcuff from me. The Kairos that I saw in the police station are very different from the Kairos that I know. He seems like a different person to me. Right there and then. I couldn't but wonder if that was the monster that Rory always talked about.The cold winds are blowing softly against the strands of our hair and skin. Its coldness is never a bother to me anyway. Staying inside my husband's embrace keeps me warm. I enjoy it here.Kairos was kissing my hair and then he would comb it with his long fingers."You run away from Mommy? I thought that you were going to spend the night with her. She told me that she need some time with you." "I missed you. I will talk to her and your Dad first thing in the morning, so I guess. It's okay that I went home to you instead of their house," I said while looking up at him, givin
Isla's Point of View"I can't believe that you are getting married again." Italia playfully rolled her eyes at herself. "Well, at least, you will be marrying him as you so I guess this second wedding ceremony is needed... and with the preparations hmm... is it safe to say that this is grander compared to the first one?" She asked me and all that I could do was smile at her.We're currently waiting for Michael, he's a good friend of Mama Olga and like a manager of mine. He kept me looped on this runway shows and fashion week commitment that I learned to enjoy He said he had good news for me. I tried to ask for a clue so I could have an idea about where it was but he hung up."I wonder what that good news is. I think it's about my wedding gown. Maybe he added a little detail?" I said while opening my hydro flask. I just got off the treadmill."Maybe not. As for that gown. He would ask us to come into his studio and show it to us in the flesh. It seems more important than the wedding gow
Isla Carter darted his eyes at me. It gleamed with friendliness. He was comfortable to offer me his hand like we're friends that haven't seen each other for a long time, technically we are. "You should not worry yourself, Mr. McMillan. Isla and me, we have history, we will get along just fine."Mr. McMillan was more than delighted to hear that from Carter. "Are you not going to give this friend a friendly peck?" Carter asked me when Mr. McMillan got occupied by information that his secretary was confirming with him. "We have a history? Really? Was it necessary to say that to Mr. McMillan?" I scolded Carter in a low voice. Carter laughed and that caught everyone's eyes. He stared back at them and dismissed the staff by pointing at me. "Sorry about that. Isla's just being so funny." Carter bore his eyes to me. "Was it two years ago since we last saw each other? I forgot how effortlessly you can make me laugh." Carter playfully touched my chin. His unsolicited touch made me narrow m
Isla Therese Sloane Kairos cleared his throat. I took my eyes off the mirror to look at my phone and that led to me smudging my red lipstick. Kairos leaned on his swivel chair wearing a tempted smirk on his lips. "You know what." "What?" I murmured, cleaning the corner of my lips. "I will do it." My forehead crumpled and I brought my phone closer to my face. "Do what, husband?" "I'll take a red-eye flight to Paris. I can't do this. I said I'd patiently wait until you're done with your model gigs and that I'd be fine as long as we tall through face time." Kairos stops speaking and sighs. "But I can't." "Husband it has only been a day and a half." "I already messaged my secretary that we're flying a red eye." I pouted my lips and sighed in defeat, "Nothing I say will make you stop from coming here hmm?" "Yes, darling." "Even if I try to pay you a thousand dollars to stay there and wait for me like a good boy?" Kairos leaned his face closer to the phone. "I'll double your of
Isla Therese's Point of View. I raised my hand to call for the waiter's attention."What are you doing?" Carter asked curiously. "I'll ask them to put my steak in a take-out box or something. That way I get to eat my steak in pieces, and you can have this table for yourself. It's a win-win." Carter pulled my hand down. He pinned it on the table, and since he was stronger it's a struggle to free myself from his hold. "Carter, let me go. We're causing a scene." "I'll let go of you if you won't call a waiter." I clenched my jaw and that made Carter hold me tighter. "You know that this can be considered harassment and I can sue you." Carter finally let go of my hand. "God, since when did you not know how to chill? What should I do for us to be friends again?" "We can't be friends again, and we're not friends in the past, Carter. You're my client." "Really?" Carter pouted his lips in disappointment. "I thought we were. I didn't know that it was purely business for you, but." Carte
"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