Chapter 79Zora’s point of view The moment I was conscious, I saw myself in a dark room. I tried to stand up but I was tied down to a chair. What’s this? What’s the meaning of this? Where am I? I tried too hard to lose myself but to no avail. I screamed for help but no one was out there, the whole place was closed up, and I was so scared. How did I get here? I tried so hard to lose myself. Someone finally walked in but I couldn't see the face properly. “Don’t you know you are making a lot of noise?” It was a male voice. “I'm sorry, but what am I doing here?” I asked with a shaky voice. “Someone who you think loves you brought you here,” He answered immediately and laughed. I furrowed my brows and suddenly recalled when Derrick told me to stay careful from Austin. Why would Austin bring me here, in this kind of state? I don't think he will ever do this to me. “Who? Who are you talking about?” I asked and he suddenly scowled at me. “All I am here to do is feed you when you a
Chapter 80Zora’s point of view “You mean Derrick drove that van?” I asked Austin with a shaky voice, still wanting to believe if he said no. “Yes, he drove the van to this place, I had to trace it down here and luckily I found you.” He answered me and my hands turned weak and my feet feeble. How can this be true?My mind flashed back to the time when Derrick called me to notify me to stay away from Austin because he had bad intentions. Did he do all of this so I could blame it on Austin?How foolish and so stupid of me to think he is a changed man, I may assume he has plans on ruining me again as he has returned. Who knows if he is still with Mia and they are both in this together? I cried to the point I couldn’t look for words to put together anymore. Derrick would never do a thing like this, why would he want to hurt me, to believe the fact that he did this was still so difficult. “I have always told you to stay clear from him, you know quite okay that he is your ex-husband
Chapter 81Zora’s point of view I left Derrick and went home. The fact that I almost fell for what he said scares me. I don't want to believe whatever he says anymore. I don't know how I drove back home but I got home safely. Ana and I were in the living room when Austin's call came in. “Zora, you left the house alone? Where did you go all alone today?” He asked as soon as I answered the call. His voice sounded so stiff. “I just wanted to ask Derrick a few questions so I decided to go see him,” I answered Austin and he sounded so angry on the phone.“But I told you not to go there, what if something happened to you again? You got hurt or something, you never listen.” This is the actual problem I have with Austin, he always shouts, he yells at me like I'm Ana's mate or something and it annoys me so much when he does that. “How did you know I left the house, did you place a camera in my house? Or you made one of my securities your spy?” I just had to ask because sometimes, things
Chapter 82Derrick’s point of view “Mr. Derrick I can’t allow that, as long as you are here there’s no way I can agree to that till you are free, or maybe all charges against you are dropped.” Detective Dave said and I understood the reason why, I’ll just have to depend on Collin and Lee now. “Alright, I’ll just have to hope Lee will help me out,” I said and he nodded and apologized. “I’ll try with what I can do also to help you out.” He assured me and I nodded. He left after a few minutes he came back. “Mrs Zora is here to see you.” The officer said and I was surprised, I didn’t expect her to come back here. “Alright,” I replied immediately, so she should come in. After a few minutes, she walked in. “Zora,” I called her name and let out a smile on my lips. Suddenly she asked me why I did that to her, I assumed she still believed I was the one. And I explained to her in the way I can, I really feel so bad at the fact that she doesn’t believe, rather she believes that criminal
Chapter 83Derrick’s point of view I was beaten up mercilessly, I fought to the power I could until I was struck down by a plank. “That's enough, take him outside, if he has to die, it should be outside my house, he shouldn't die in here.” I could hear Austin say.My eyes were closed, and the only movement in my body was my breath, I couldn't stand my feet, both my feet and hands were feeble. “Just dump him anywhere.” They lifted me and took me out of this room. They took me to a place, dumped me there, and drove away. I couldn't even move my legs, I managed to bring out my phone and luckily I saw Stacy’s call. I picked it up. “Stacy.” my voice was so down and broken. “Derrick, what's wrong? Where are you?” She noticed how I struggled to talk. I managed to tell her where I was and suddenly blacked out. I woke up and found myself in the hospital with a broken leg. “You're awake.” Stacy stood up and walked to me. “What about the others?” I asked her as she got close to me. “L
Chapter 84Zora’s point of view “We should plan our wedding? Why so sudden?” I asked him and he frowned a little. “Sudden? It's not Zora, if not for the little issues arising, we should have been married by now. I can't wait to have you and Ana as my own.” He said tucking my hair to the back of my ear. “I wasn't expecting that right now, can we just wait a little longer, maybe next year?” I didn't know the reason why but I wanted to think properly about getting involved in another marriage again. “Zora this is what ouss me off, we just started this year and now we should wait till next year? I thought you've always wanted this?” He looked so annoyed. With this strange character he has been portraying lately, will I be able to cope with it for a lifetime? “I know Austin but let's just take it easy, I'm not saying we won’t get married, I'm just saying we shouldn’t be talking about marriage now.”“Then when Zora, when do you think it's the right time to talk about it? I honestly do
Chapter 85Zora’s point of view I couldn’t stand properly on my feet. I need to leave here before I get caught. I walked out hurriedly, as tears flowed down my eyes continuously till I got into the car. I cleaned the tears in my eyes forcefully. How dare he? How dare Austin make me look like a fool? He made me blame Derrick for all he didn’t commit, I’m so stupid! I made Derrick go through a lot, accused him of what he never committed, and rather trusted the one who was planning on ruining my life. What kind of life is this? I cried out so horribly, I was so shattered. I hate myself for this, I should have just trusted Derrick one more time. Ana, Ana trusted him, why didn't I? Austin has gone too far, he has done enough, and he would have to leave my life. Never did I believe that Austin would go this far to ruin my life and not just my life but also the life of Derrick. Austin really shouldn't have done this to me. After crying for a while I cleaned my face properly and ma
Chapter 86Derrick’s point of view I was so surprised when Ana told me her mother was actually getting married soon, I was so shocked. “How did you know about this?” I needed to be sure if she really knew what she said. “Mummy told me about it, she told me yesterday.” She answered and immediately that got me so worried about Zora. I need to hurry up and expose that bastard before he takes Zora as his wife. “Dad, is there a way you can stop mummy from getting married to Austin?” She asked and I let out a little smile on my face, so she wouldn’t look worried. “You don't have to worry, everything will be fine, okay?” I said to her and rubbed her cheek and she smiled and nodded. Immediately my phone chimed and I took it out of my pocket and it was Stacy calling. “Are you still with Ana?” She asked and I looked at Ana and said. “Yeah, what's the problem?” And looked away. “Well, her mother is here to see you, she has been waiting for too long, and Collin and I are going off to ch
Chapter 99Derrick’s point of view I woke up in a hospital, and I found a nurse close to me. “Mr Derrick, you are finally awake, um, sit back I'll go call the doctor, okay?” She said and hurriedly ran out of the room. I felt a sting pain in my back, for how long have I been in bed? With the reaction on her face, it probably might have been a long time. All I remember was how I got shot. After a few minutes, the doctor walked in, with so much surprise on his face. “Finally, Mr Derrick, you're awake.” He smiled and did a little check-up on me. “Doctor for how long have I been unconscious?” I asked him. “For over a week and a few days.” He replied, I was so shocked, suddenly I remembered how I got shot. “Ana!” I held the Doctor’s hand immediately as I remembered I was with her. “They haven't come yet, she will probably come later.” He said and I slowly let go of his hand. That means she is safe. How did I get here, who helped us out of there?“Doctor, is there anyone around a
Chapter 98Zora’s point of view “What hospital?” My voice sounded so faint. “Let’s go there now,” Stacy said and we got into the car and she drove away. Finally, we got to the hospital and rushed in and I was taken to the room Ana was in. “Mummy.” She stood up from her bed and rushed to me and I squatted and hugged her so tightly, kissing her forehead passionately. “My Ana, my baby.” Tears left my eyes as she was brought back to me safely. “How are you, my child? Were you hurt anywhere?” I asked her, looking all over her body. “I’m fine, Mum, Daddy made sure of that, but I’m scared, is Daddy still alive, he was shot by those evil men.” She cried out and I cleaned the tears from her eyes. “Daddy, will be alright, nothing will happen to him, okay?” I tried to encourage her but I also was scared of losing him. I met with Lee and Collin. “Zora, how have you been? I hope Austin didn't hurt you?” Lee asked and shook my head.“He didn't,” I said, but it felt like it was so hard for
Chapter 97Zora’s point of view “Drive safely, sweetie.” He said after letting me go outside his house, I managed to walk into my car, like that way the first day I learned how to walk. When I finally got in, I cried so badly, there was no hope, no one to run to, how could I get out of the mess, I'd have to do what he said or else my family would be ruined. I cried till I couldn't cry more and I finally drove out heading to my house. I got home and found Stacy and Sophia in the living room, immediately Stacy saw me she rushed to me and hugged me tightly. “I know it's hard for you right now but you need to be strong.” She spoke as she finally let go of me and cleaned my eyes. “Mrs Zora.” Sophia looked so worried and she hugged me too and finally let go. They took me to the nearest couch and I sat.“I'm glad you are back home safely, I hope he didn't do anything to you?” Sophia asked me. “Austin has really brought distress to my life, now he insists on getting married to him tomo
Chapter 96Zora’s point of view “What do you mean Ana has been kidnapped?” I couldn't feel my legs anymore after hearing that, immediately I fell to the ground as she explained to me what happened. “Austin! Austin has done enough!” I shouted and most of my staff, including the people in the conference hall all came out. “Mrs Zora, what's wrong? What happened?” Sophia rushed to me while I kept on crying. “My daughter, Austin, has taken my daughter away from me.” I shouldn't sit back and cry, I suddenly cleaned my eyes, and Sophia exclaimed as she heard me say that. “Sophia, we aren't having the meeting anymore.” I stood up from the ground and left for my office to take a few things before leaving. Austin can’t just plug off my eyes and go scot-free. Getting close to my office I noticed Sophia was behind me saying a few things which I wasn't paying attention to. “Mrs. Zora, we need to Inform, Derrick about this.” Sophia suddenly suggested I look up to her. “It's not everything
Chapter 95Derrick’s point of view Immediately I woke up from that terrible dream. I hope Ana is safe, quickly I took my phone and called Zora and hearing from the way she spoke there was nothing wrong but still I asked her about Ana and I found out that she was on her way to pick her up. I begged her to drive safely and revealed to her the dream I just had and immediately she freaked out. “Zora, listen, you need to drive safely, Ana will be right there waiting for you to come to pick her up,” I said to her and she managed to calm herself down. “Alright, I’ll talk to you later,” I said and we hung up, that was the mistake I made, I shouldn’t have told her about the dream, I just hoped she drove safely. I told Stacy and Collin about the dream I had about Ana. “Don't you think Austin is planning on doing it?” Stacy said and Collin agreed with her. “I don't think so, what would be his gain if does that? After all, Zora wants to play along by accepting to marry him so he wouldn'
Chapter 94Zora’s point of view “What do you mean by that?” I asked him as he spoke so rudely and I noticed how he paused for a while. “Zora, do not make me do something silly, you can’t ruin my plans now, you will have to obey me, we are having this wedding on the day we have both planned it.” His voice was so cold and fierce. “Are you forcing me to do what I don't want, that's never happening, Austin…” He abruptly hung up the call when I was still talking. What kind of man is this? He was never like this, what made him change? He would not do anything stupid he can not try it. I dropped down my phone and continued with my work. During lunchtime I left the office and went over to where Mia was kept, although I told Derrick I'd be going there, he wanted to come with me but I declined, I wanted to face her alone. Getting there I was told she had a visitor already, I was quite surprised, so I waited. After a while, I saw Austin heading out. “Austin?” So he was the visitor the
Chapter 93Zora’s point of view “Zora, listen, you need to drive safely, Ana will be right there waiting for you to come pick her up.” He encouraged me and I took it in and calmed myself down. “Are you close to her school already?” He asked me. “Yes I am, I'll call you later, okay?” I said, I just wanted to think straight. “Yes, when you pick her up and get home let me know, okay?” He spoke, he also sounded worried but he didn't want it to be so obvious. “Alright, I will,” I said and he disconnected. I gulped down and tried my best to concentrate on driving, finally I got to her school. “Where is Ana?” I met her teacher and she directed me to where they were kept. From afar I saw Ana talking and laughing with her friends and my mind was finally calm, I could finally breathe properly through my nostrils. “Ana?” I called her and she left them and ran up to me. “Mummy, you came to take me home, it's been a while since you did that, I'm so happy seeing you here.” She laughed and I
Chapter 92Zora’s point of view Derrick left after having dinner with Ana and me. I noticed how Ana looked so happy around him, more than Austin and I'm so glad about it. “Mummy I'd be the happiest if Daddy comes to stay with us, we will finally be complete,” Ana said as Derrick drove out, her attention was still built on Derrick’s car as she spoke with so much plaster of smile on her face. “He can't stay with us, Ana.” I laughed and shook my head as we walked in. “Why can’t he?” Ana asked with a frown face. “You'll know soon, okay.” I kissed her cheek as we sat on the couch. Surprisingly she didn't pester me much about the question, after a while she slept off and I took her to her room and laid her properly on the bed. The next day I got a call from Austin. “Hey babe, good morning.” He sounded calm and immediately I wondered what he wanted to say. Whenever he sounds that way, it’s either he has a favor to ask or something else that would be of benefit to him. “Hey, is every
Chapter 91Zora’s point of view “Zora, what are you saying? I love you both so much and I want to be a good husband to you and a good father to Ana.” He spoke like he meant whatever he said, which I know is totally a lie. “It's fine, I feel better hearing that.” I lied and formed a smile and he hugged me. “I want the best for us Zora, please I want you to stay away from Derrick, I don't want him to harm you or Ana, try to avoid him in any way you can, okay?” He spoke slowly with a feathery voice and he rubbed my hair slowly as he spoke. I pulled out of the hug and just nodded. “You also need to be careful, your life might also be in danger,” I said to him and he furrowed. “Mine isn't so important, you and Ana’s life is, so try to watch out, if anything happens don't forget to call me.” He spoke and I nodded once. “And about Ana, I asked Mary about her and she told me Ana is sleeping, it seems like she has been detouring away from me these past few days.” He uttered, looking a l