"Rory, is there something that you might want to tell me? One of these days? In the far future? On our wedding day?" He asked. Holding my breath it started to feel as if my body would soon collapse. I stared straight into his eyes faking the feeling of confusion.The corner of my lips stretched into an innocent smile. This is what I do best, to pretend as if I know nothing when I seriously know what's going on."None. Why? Is there something that you want to know about me?" I asked him back. His grip on the steering wheel tightens and when I look up to him I see him clenching his jaw.Why do I feel like Kairos knew something? Not the full story or the full-on details but he has his suspicion and he might be able to catch me and the Spencers with all these lies.Kairos stepped into the gas and started to drive faster than usual. It bothers me but I didn't want to say anything. Grasping on the seatbelt. I purse my lips in a thin line, bearing the silence between the two of us and soon en
"Because I already miss you so much, Isla... and I can't get mad at you anymore," Kairos said my real name the second time around and I don't think he realized that he did. When he said Isla while we are on the way here in the hotel the first time around. He meant my name and Isla de Santillan is just his sleek way of making it seem like he is still clueless that it is my name. He called my name back then to stop me from going on about Gresya and Kio because he had enough of that conversation. "I'll see you at our wedding Rory," he said with a faint smile on his lips. Why call me by her name when you already know that I am not her? I'd rather you call me by mine and get angry with me, punish me for fooling you. I raise my hand and graciously wave back at him after he looks back at me before he completely gets inside his car. Heart thumping not knowing whether I'd tell the Spencers or not. I press a button for the elevator to close. Everything that happened within the last two hour
"Sneak out and meet me at my suite." I discreetly look around before I crumple the piece of paper in my hand once I'm sure that no one is staring in my direction. It felt like Kairos gave me an ultimatum to come up at him and confess to him about the deal that I had made with the Spencers. If I did that, I think he would forgive me but he might cancel the wedding at the last minute and that's going to be my fault. Both Diana and Niklaus will blame and I might end up not getting anything from this deal of ours. They can't take back that half million that they had transferred to my bank account. I need that so I can sweetly start a new life. "What are you doing?" I immediately took a step to widen the distance between Niklaus and I. The double doors of the chapel are closed. It's just me and the Spencers standing outside for my entrance before I walk down the aisle. Nicholas glanced to where the head of the organizers was, telling me to be silent, but I couldn't. I don't want his fathe
Nika stared at my finger. Her eyes were filled with curiosity and I soon heard her shoot a question, "What are you doing?" I stopped playing with my finger where I used to wear the engagement ring that Kairos crafted on his own for me—for Rory rather.It's been a week since our wedding day happened. When I heard him call my name. I thought that he would call off the wedding but to my surprise. The wedding pushed through and the Spencers didn't even know that Kairos found out about their schemes. He told me that they should never have found out that he already knew. I just know right there and then that he has a plan to get back at them. I just don't know what exactly it is. Afraid that I might face a new level of anger from him. I kept my lips shut and proceeded with our deal like nothing happened."Nothing." The corner of my lips lifts, "I have these rings that I like. I was wearing them for a couple of days and got used to them but I lost them. I used to play with them unconsciously,
A baguette in my tote bag and a roll of fresh flowers in my right hand is the right count that I need for me to replace the wilted one in my vase. Nicholas and I continued to walk down the streets towards my apartment, laughing with each other as if we had been friends with each other for a long time. We stopped in front of the three steps stairs that one must take to reach my front door. I turned to him and the curve on my lips slowly faded, not sure whether he wanted to get inside, if I should ask her to get inside, or drop a subtle hint that I didn't want him to get inside and fake a reason. Act like I am busy and there is something else that I need to do. "Do you want to come in?" I asked him in the end. Nicholas looked around, searching for a hint before he made up his mind, and just in time he answered that. Nika walked past BS, ignoring me completely. Thinking that I might have done something that might have completely upset her. My eyes followed her but while she was busily in
"Would you possibly believe me that my intention to you were true that I want you not just for a call of my flesh? You will not, Isla!" He said with a raspy voice, his frustration dripping. Amid his outburst. Nicholas bit his lips to stop himself from saying things that he shouldn't be spitting out right in front of me. He sighed and moved his head once as if a realization finally sunk in his head that this was a useless conversation. One step closer to the door and his hand already on the handle. I called for his attention. He abruptly turned his body back in my direction, waiting for me to do what I just did. Now he is all ears, his body language and his stance are urging me to speak to him now."You are right. I still wouldn't date you and have a relationship with you even if you approached me before that night. You are too good to be true. How can you fall in love with me when you know what kind of woman I am? You'd soon hate me after you start hearing all those malicious whisperi
Nika licked her lower lip as she eyed me from head down to toe after I slipped on the party dress that she had chosen for me. It's a silver sparkly backless dress with a plunging neckline that ends right above my thigh. "What are you wearing underneath that dress you, lil slut?" She asked mischievously. Hearing the word little slut from Nika sounds like a compliment rather than an insult. I looked down at my chest, subtly telling her to eye it too. Because of my small nipples, I can walk around braless with no one being able to tell because it would be barely noticeable, especially with the type of fabric that this dress that I am wearing and on top of that. The party will be held in a club, no one would notice it unless someone stares at me the way Nika does now. "Nothing up and a lacey black thong under. Why?" I answered though confused as to why she cared about what I was wearing underneath this party dress of mine. Nika raised her hand in mid-air asking for a high five that I gav
"I know her, Niks. I have been looking for her for the last two weeks," Kairos said to her though he said it in a whispering manner. I was sure that her ears caught it all too well for now she was staring at me with her eyes wide open out of shock. Suddenly, the EDM doesn't bother me as much as it does and I feel like dancing. Holding my breath while Nika's eyes run back and forth between Kairos and me, picking the right choice of words to come up with. I breathed deeply and it felt like the whole club heard it too. "Looking for her? It's been two weeks since she moved here." Her finger pointed to me and Kairos as she tried to slowly mumble words. "How well do you know each other?" She asked only that this time. The question is directed at me and she wants me to start being honest with her. "We barely knew each other, Nika. I was only with him for a week." "Yeah, but we did what most people wouldn't even think of doing with the person they are with for just a week," he said, runni
"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