[Flashback to Rory's Point of View]"Come back right away. I'm going to bring food for breakfast. You haven't eaten anything since yesterday," Kairos reminded me which made me stop walking away from him. I made up my mind after I got that call from him while he was on his way here. I will do everything that I can to run away from him and that decision of mine will never change. There is nothing he can do that will make me change my mind. He is obsessive and I believe that there is no way he'll suddenly change. Once he is sure that he has me on his palm, he will once again show his true color. The Kairos that I ran away from will once again show themselves."I'm not hungry. I'm on a strict diet---,""You will still eat, Rory. Because if you don't, I will lock you here. You know what will happen next." I don't know if he's trying to scare or warn me. Either of those two, I was unaffected by both, I made sure that I looked like that though it felt like I was trembling internally.Kairos
[FLASHBACK Rory's Point of View]"As you ordered, Ms. Rory. 1209 pieces of different flowers are in this hotel room," Lily Sage said when we stopped in front of a room that was the next location of the photoshoot. She swipes the keycard and then twists the doorknob before she pushes it to open the door.The well-decorated room filled with flowers and other props welcomed my eyes. Although, I know deep inside that it will look exactly like this, for I made sure that it will, I still have this urge to check it, just in case they miss something. "Everything we need is here. The small rectangular table is filled with mouth-watering foods. The cameras, the dresser, and the sets of outfits." She gestures it to me as if she's assuming that I haven't seen it yet. That made me roll my eyes. And because she and the other staff did a wonderful job here, I won't blurt any insult for today, maybe?Ambling carefully towards the opened French door that will lead me to the terrace, I find myself stop
Flashback to Rory's Point of View"You can eat your breakfast first before you continue with that." I violently removed Kairos's hand from the side of Kairos' waist and pulled away from him."No!""Go on, Lily. Have your breakfast first then continue with that work of yours afterwards." I couldn't even put in what I was going to say, especially since everything happened so fast.Unable to control my irritation, my hand landed on Kairos's left cheek with a thick crunchy sound. His jaw dropped at what I did.He was caught off-guard and shocked but those emotions quickly became anger. I prepared myself to hear him shout and curse at me but he didn't and instead, he closed his eyes and did his breathing until he calmed down a bit.When he opened his eyes again. Kairos is way calmer. "Stop bossing around my employees as if they are yours, regardless if they are your friend or not. I will be the one to tell when they'll stop working to take a rest or eat but if I tell them to work until they
Isla's point of view. The car stopped moving even with my eyes closed. It feels like I could see our driver getting out of the Rolls-Royce which only means that my husband and I are finally back from our month-long honeymoon. It was a month-long honeymoon that started on the wrong foot but after we settled everything. Things go so smoothly and now here I am. I can't believe that we are back in our reality after that quick escape. "Isla? Isla baby, we are here," Kairos whispered in my ear after he lightly tapped my shoulder, instead of opening my eyes. I snuggled closer to his neck and wrapped my arm around my waist. "Oh, are we? But I am still so tired and sleepy. I don't think I can walk inside. We should stay here for a moment," I suggested to him as a joke. The door to his side opened and I slightly opened my eyes to peek at what was happening. I shrieked out of shock and quickly wrapped my arm around his neck after he lifted me off his car and carried me in bridal style toward
Rory's Point of View. Biting my lower lip in anticipation. Atlas finally gave in to my request and he is currently calling Kairos. My hopes are high that he would answer his phone this time. He is back in the city. He's got no excuses to continue ignoring me like this. When Atlas pulled his phone away from him without even opening his mouth to say something. I already knew that Kairos once again ignored his calls. He slowly turned to me with a spark of triumph on his lips, telling me that if we made a bet this time. He is the winner. Playing with his phone in his hand. He slowly cut the distance between the two of us. "He didn't answer his phone. You should give it up. I don't think he'll ever set his feet here to see you. You'll grow old and die here without him coming to see you for the last time," he mumbled. Those words scared me because no one in their sane mind would want to live a life like that but on top of that. It angers me. It forces me to keep holding on even when I a
Rory's Point of ViewEyes glued at me. Kairos was very much comfortable on the antique sofa as he was waiting for me to come out of the bathroom. My throat ran dry. No words want to come out of my lips and on top of that. I don't have an idea how I'll approach him. We were staring into each other's eyes for a few seconds before an emotion glistened in his eyes and his expression changed completely. "You're here," I muttered faking a smile as well as my enthusiasm. He nodded his head once but there were no signs that he would smile at me anytime soon. "Well, you called and I have time to spare for you today. What did you call me for?" He asked me with his signature low register voice. It was a good thing that I was already wearing my lingerie and my hair was all dried up thanks to the blower when I stepped out of the bathroom otherwise I'd look like a terrible mess and I wouldn't have been able to do the thing that is etched on my mind. "Have you eaten? I haven't. Didn't Atlas cal
Isla's Point of View. I watched his car drive away making me shut my eyes. My hands moved on their own to go ahead and try to stop his car from leaving but no words accompanied that and so I was left unnoticed. "Shit!" I muttered to myself. Pacing back and forth in front of the door. I wonder what would happen after this. Things aren't supposed to be this way. I didn't bring that up to offend him in any way and he should know that. I was on the verge of getting my phone out of the pocket of my flap bag to give him a call for I don't want to spend another moment having this petty argument with him. I'll ask him to come back and apologize when the front door suddenly opened. Kairos's mother popped right behind me wearing a warm smile while she was eyeing the very same path that his son had taken when he drove away from me. Panic is barely visible in my eyes. I looked behind her to check if there was someone else behind her and I started to wonder if she heard us having that argumen
Isla's point of view. "Good morning, Mrs. Lancaster." A man whom I assumed was in his mid-thirties greeted Olga and me the moment he saw us step our feet inside the Hermes store. It was my first time to be in there and I am not supposed to know what this place looks like on a day-to-day basis. One thing is for sure. It's not supposed to look like the usual store filled with people shopping in every corner but this looks oddly empty. It was as if the shop was exclusively open for just the two of us at the moment and no one else could shop, but just the two of us. I looked around. I saw the security guard wearing a suit and flipped a small signage. What's written in there is something that I am not sure myself too. "And finally. I got some company. This is my son's wife. My very own daughter-in-law, Isla Therese." I only snapped back from my little world and wonderment after I heard Olga introducing me to the man. The moment I turned my eyes at him. His hands were already waiting fo
"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