My phone beeped and before I could check who it was. I already knew who it was. The only person who was bombing my phone with text messages was Nicholas, considering the circumstances at the moment. I am glad that he is the only one who is contacting me. I am going to lose my mind if Diana starts calling me too. I rolled to the left side of the bed, with my eyes closed. My hand started to move around for my phone and just when I was holding it in my hand. It buzzes again for a new message that went through. 8 messages from Nicholas and three missed calls. Will you just please answer your phone? I need to know what's happening. My eyes slowly drift to the clock placed on the spot where I got my phone. It's 2:16 in the morning. If I remember it right, Kairos is a heavy sleeper and I am sure that he's fast asleep and dead to the world right at this moment. Pressing his number to dial's Nicholas number. It took just one ring for me to hear his voice from the other line. "Where are yo
"Kairos made a deal with me. He wants a child with me and he wants you and your family to acknowledge me, in exchange for that. The company's merge will push through and I am going to say yes to this, Nicholas." The silence between the two of us stretched. I could feel him staring at me for nearly a minute, waiting for me to look back at him and meet his eyes, but I couldn't so he decided to avert his eyes from me and stare in the very same direction where my eyes were glued and plastered. "Do you like him?" He asked but instead, I managed to come up with something else that we could talk about. "Diana will be furious, of course, but a win is a win and this is a win situation for your family as well. The merger with the company will still happen and on top of that. You don't need to force your sister to be with the very same man that she loathes, leading her to run away not just from him but from her family as well. Kairos PR team will handle everything. They'd make sure that this wo
The security guard stationed at the gate stood up from his chair as soon as he saw me walk inside. He pressed another button at the gate automatically locked. Playing with my fingers as my feet slowly brought me near him. I needed more courage to ask a favor from him. "Is there anything else that I can do for you, Miss Isla?" He asked, hearing my name take me aback. I was used with everyone in this household calling me Rory hearing my name, my real name slipping out of their lips felt weird. Pointing at myself, my eyes asked him whether I heard it right and he only smiled at me which reminded me of the actual reason why I was standing in front of him. Lightly shaking my head, I tried to charm him with a sparkling smile but when I didn't get the usual reaction that I'll get from men. I breathe deeply and stare straight into his eyes. "Please don't tell Kairos about this. You saw it. It was Nicholas that I met up with and we didn't even leave. I'll tell him about this. I'll just wait
Pinning me with my face against the wall. Kairos guided me to widely spread my legs for him and I willingly did. I gasped but was not entirely surprised after I heard a ripping side, and then my nightgown gown fell out of my body straight to the floor. Kairos was ravishing me like a beast with the use of his lips. He couldn't wait to explore and so when he suddenly stopped kissing me, confusion sipped through me, and when I looked at him.He was fuming mad together with a realization in his eyes. My forehead knotted wondering what could it be that upset him this much that he'd stop ravishing me when we were both in the middle of our hunger for each other. "Kai, what's wrong? Why did you stop? I want your touches," I said but he went up to my bare back down to my ass, and my nightgown that he had ripped apart from my body. "You went to see Nicholas with no bra? Your tits were on full display? He saw it." His last three words weren't a question anymore but a statement that he was so su
An official statement from the Kairos team drops at exactly ten this morning and I can see the world going feral, burning in fire even. We'd be the hottest talk of the town for a few weeks and unless I could take all the attention that I would get from all the eyes that would look at me each time they could as well as all the lips that would murmur their opinion. The only option that I have to stay sane is to stay at home. Eyeing the door of his office from the living room. The sides of my head argued whether I'd barge into his office for a real-time update or continue to act nonchalant even if this thing was killing my nervous system. Nibbling my nails as I grew more anxious about the situation. The front door opened and Kairos' female butler that I had a misunderstanding last time walked in with two paperbags in her arm. His security guard already knows my real name and I bet she does too. She probably thinks that I am a hypocrite for acting up when I am an impostor. "Let me help y
"The more I want to fuck you in this very same spot, fucking strip your clothes now, Isla," he whispered in my ear which sent chills down my spine. I looked at him biting my lower lip. I needed to be sure that he wasn't playing with me, but that is the thing with Kairos. He never bluffs. I swallowed hard, his eyes following mine as I stared at the arch door to the west wing of his house where the dining at the kitchen can be found, where Faye is working for our meal now. I whimpered out of disbelief after he withdrew his long finger out of me and suckled on it as if his finger and the trace of my wetness on it were the world's sweetest delicacy. "Let's go upstairs. Let's just do this in your room. Faye will have a heart attack if she walks up on us and you are banging me roughly from behind." As I was trying to negotiate with him. Kairo's hands were on the move, unclasping my bra from under the shirt that I wore. He easily pulled it off me and even sniffed it before he dropped it on
Kairos cleared his throat to stop his brother and his mother from talking as if we were not with them. "What brought you here, Mom?" He asked. I badly want to hide behind him or excuse myself from this if I can. "Hijo, I bet you know exactly the reason as to why I am here. Your father nearly had a heart attack after he heard the news and do we need to find out about it in the news portal and articles like everyone else? What are we? Are we not your family?" Olga asked, she sounded sad rather than mad or disappointed. "And is it true that she was an escort?" Her eyes carefully crawl towards me and I can tell that she is holding her breathe after she had spit that question out. "Mommy, please. I expected the Father to react the way he reacted but not you. You are better than this. You are not like that rich and greedy friend of yours." Olga stared at her son with her eyes wide open and her hand placed against her chest while her lips were slightly open. "Hijo, why do you sound so ag
His car stopped right next to a private jet. I rolled it down just to make sure that I was seeing it right. The private jet has their surname on it. Of course, he has one. I glanced back at him and Kairos stared back at me wondering why I was looking at him the way I do now. "It never really crossed my mind that your family owns a private jet. I expected a first-class seat but for some reason never this," I told him as I excitedly unbuckled my seatbelt. I am down with my episode of all of this is too good to be true, and he is too good for me. This was all served to me on a silver platter and might as well feast on it for as long as all of this will last. "Mr. Lancaster, do you have an expensive champagne on board? And some charcuterie board that includes a caviar?" "Everything that you want. I made sure that you can have it and oh, this private jet belongs not to my family but to me, to our family in a way." I smirked at him as I glanced at the diamond ring and a new wedding ring
"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