ADRIAN I didn't even know which I enjoyed more. Being unconscious or being awake. At least when I was unconscious, I didn't have anyone telling me my schedule and breathing down my neck to make decisions. But then again, I was limited to a spot so…everything has its pros and cons. Kaya was against the idea of me taking over so early but I didn't have a choice. Her life had been disrupted for several months and I wanted her to have her time back. I'd promised her an easy life, and that's what I wanted to give her. I couldn't thank her enough for what she has done the past few months. I'd heard from the elders everything that had happened even though she told me first. She was always a leader. Always ready to do the best for her people. That's why I wanted to take the burden off her. I'd slept enough for a decade and I was ready to work for another. “You need to rest. You just woke up.” She'd often say. Rest? If I close my eyes any more, I might as well be dead. ”The fact that
KAYA It was like a breath of fresh air. Waking up with Nora breathing down my neck and telling me that the elders were already waiting for me or there were some issues that needed my attention. Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed being busy with something other than my kids and all the work I'd done made me know that I liked being involved in the court and all but then, it was never my duty. It felt like I was on a vacation. “Damien arrived safely. Nancy and the boys send their greetings.”He had settled for a home close to the wolves. Adrian didn't like it all that much because he was the King of the Lycans and not the wolves but he decided to go along with it. “I hope he's happy and can start afresh.”It finally felt like things were going fine. Adrian was finally awake. There were no threats so far. I was happy. The kingdom was happy. The kids were happy. Even though I knew that there was a chance that it won't last forever because that's the way things were programmed to happen
ADRIANIt went without saying that I was the father of the day. Milo had graduated at the top of his class and I couldn't ask for anything more. It won't be nice if someone else surpassed the prince. I sat and watched as he brought his friends over to greet me and then, different teachers came. I smiled at the way he took pride in me being here. “Ladies and gentlemen, it's an honor to be here and to witness the graduation of your sons and daughters and also my son's passing out. These kids have put in extraordinary effort to be here today and we are proud of each and every one of them. This is just the beginning for them.”Kaya had planned a party for later tonight. She had put in so much for this to happen and I could see how much it meant for her to witness this. “Mum! Can I take Lana?”Kaya and I looked at each other. “Where are you taking her?”“I'm just going to be over there with my friends and I want to be with her.”I didn't see why not so I gave Kay a small nod and he ca
KAYAI didn't know what was happening at first. When the guard came back to tell me that Adrian Said we should leave, I was against it because I didn't see any reason why we couldn't leave together.“Where is he and what's he doing?”“Who, my Queen?”“The King. What's he doing that he's saying I should go home early?”I should have known that there was something wrong from his facial expressions and the way he hesitated to answer my question but I didn't just want to think too much about it. Maybe if I had, I would have known that he was hiding something. He snapped his fingers. “Oh yes! He's taking pictures with the prince and princess and there are a lot of people there and he knows that you wouldn't want to wait so he says he'll bring them to you.” Well, he was right in saying I wouldn't want to wait because I didn't want to but then…“Okay, come on boys. Let's go home.”I loaded them into the car and went back home. I expected a text from him but when I didn't get one, I figu
KAYACancel the party? Far from it. I had something else in mind. Adrian however, wasn't a party to that idea. No pun intended. “Our daughter is missing! And you still want to throw a party? Can you listen to yourself?” I knew what I was saying and I could hear myself. “There is nothing wrong with what I'm saying, Adrian. I simply want to go on with the party as it has been planned already. I know what I'm.doing.”I knew that what I was saying was pissing him off which was fine. Right now, tensions were high and he wasn't thinking straight. “Your baby is missing! Lana isn't even sick months old yet! And she's out there with random people. Who knows if she's still alive?!”I stood.up immediately. “My daughter is alive and no one has killed her and no one will kill her. Why can't you just trust me on this?”“Trust you? Do you know what you're saying? How can you talk about a party when your baby is out there missing? How insensitive can you be? What is wrong with you?”I didn't w
KAYAI told Adrian the party would hold and it did. The reason why I was doing this was because I felt this wasn't random. Someone from nowhere won't come and take my baby and people often liked to see the damage that they had done. And there was a high chance that the person responsible would come here tonight. That was why I wws going to make it a mission to speak to everyone here tonight. Adrian would not understand it even if I got a tattoo about it. I knew he wouldn't come to the party which was fine. I'd explained everything to Nora and I knew I had her help. Milo wasn't still feeling up to it so he wouldn't be coming either. The man he had bought water from was still down in the cells. I'd gone down to meet him at some point and it didn't seem like he was ready to tell me what I wanted to hear. Perhaps he thought since I was cool, then it was a joke. I'll deal with him according to what I find out tonight. Lana would be very hungry. I wonder if they've given her somet
KAYA It's a good thing I wasn't the only one having fun..Milo left Penelope and her dirty husband bowing there while he sat beside me and sipped from his gobbler. It had been a while since I dealt with stubborn people. Other people came to show their respect, while glancing at the unfortunate couple who had happened to fall into my trap. So far, nothing out of the ordinary has happened but I had hope and I hoped that I would find what I was looking for. There was no need to panic. When they saw that the situation was not getting the reaction they needed, they will surely say something. The time for my speech came and I made it to the centre of the room. Adrian had not come down and in all honesty, I didn't expect him to. He was solving this in his own way and I was solving it in my own way too..“Ladies and gentlemen, my warmest welcome and appreciation goes out to you. Thank you all for being here tonight for celebrate with my family and I on the Prince's graduation. He has wo
KAYAI just stood there frozen because there wasn't anything that I could do. I mean, if I jumped out now and told them that I was here, I didn't have back up with me to arrest them and they could easing get away or harm me. Now I understood why Adrian always said I should be with a guard. But if a guard had been with me, they wouldn't have come in here. Damn, I didn't even know who had these voices. How would I identify them? “I don't know. Maybe she doesn't know that her baby is missing?” I'm thinking the people here are the person behind the kidnapping and the people emoloyed to do it. “How dumb can you be? Why won't she know that her baby is missing? It's a baby. The kid is practically glued to her side.” Maybe if I opened the door a bit and looked to see who they were. I saw that the door waa already cracked open a bit but I could only see one man. I hadn't noticed him at the party tonight but I took more of what he looked like so I could have him.arrested as soon as I l
KAYA That meant that Tim didn't know that Lucy was trying for a kid again. “I’ll come see you later, Tim. Just hang in there. You'll be out in a bit okay?”“That’s not what matters to me, Luna. I just want you to find who killed my wife. That's the only time I'll truly be at peace. If I get out without knowing what happened to Lucy, my life would never be the same.”I could understand his point. “And I'll do everything in my power to make sure that I find who did this. And I'll make them pay. I'll see you later.”I left him and went back upstairs. “I was about to come down to meet you. I've put people out to look for her. We should get news before the end of tomorrow.” I didn't see Lana in her arms so I figured that someone else had her or she had fallen asleep. I had been focusing on the wrong person so much that she had time to run away and we had no idea. But then, there was no way that I could have caught onto her trickery. If I hadn't gone to the house and decided to cal
KAYAHe nodded. “When she eventually told Lucy and Lucy told me, it happened to fall on a date when I was in the hospital for the injury on my leg. There was no way I would have been out because I was in surgery and I didn't wake up until three weeks later. When Lucy realised, she apologized to me and came back home. I forgave her. I didn't blame her one bit.“Alisha is manipulative. When she noticed that things were good again, she came for me. Lucy had to travel for some work. One night, I came back and found her in my home in nothing but lingerie. She climbed in through the window. I didn't even want to hear what she had to say before I asked her to get out. She cried and begged, saying that I wasn't being fair with her and that it wasn't fair that Lucy had to get everything she'd ever wanted. She said that Lucy didn't have to know what was going on between us and that we could keep it a secret.“The fact that she had lied against me before just made me even more angry and since s
KAYA She stayed on the phone for quite a while, while I asked the maid to get me something to eat. Maybe because I had rushed my food, I didn't feel like I'd eaten anything. She got off the phone before I could get my food. ”What’s going on? What did he say?”I could see the disappointed look on her face.“He says the house is empty. It's like no one ever lived there. She packed up everything and left.” What? Packed up and left? “Why would she do that? How the hell didn't he see that she was leaving?” ”He said she must have done it in the dead of night. I don't know. I'll only run when I have something to hide.” Did Alisha run? Or was she forced into leaving? With Alisha not in the picture, that just left a lot of loose ends untied. There were a lot of questions to ask her and now that she was MIA, there was no one to ask them. “I need to see Tim. I'll be right back.” Since I couldn't get to Alisha, I might as well speak to someone who might have known her. I need to know
KAYANora helped me grab the first aid box and as soon as I put the soaked cotton wool to her skin, she turned around and looked at me like I had betrayed her. “I’m sorry, I'm sorry. I'll soon be done.” I threw that one out and went in another time with another soaked cotton wool. She didn't flinch for that one. “Well, that means I can't put on another diaper for her.”I just put a bandage over the wound and put on another diaper. “Who helped her get dressed today?”“I don't know, I'm guessing it's a maid. she was already dressed by the time. I went to pick her up.”Since I wasn't exactly having anything to do outside the house, I'm guessing I would be spending a lot of time inside. Sandy and Alisha were coming over. “I’ll be at home today so I'll take care of her. Are you going out?” She shrugged. “I don't know yet. Adrian might want me to do something for him today.” Adrian…“Okay then. Please call Sandy and Alisha to check again if they're still coming. I don't want to spen
KAYAI slept in my room alone again today.Right now, I wasn't fighting with Adrian but I didn't want to be in the same room as him. Because no matter how much I tried to avoid it, we would most definitely fight.And right now, I didn't have the strength or will power to get into a fight with him. He however, didn't understand what I was trying to do.He wanted to fight. And I didn't.So he came to my room that night to look for me.I didn't even know it was him. I thought it was Milo who had come to tell me that Lana had fallen asleep. I had to leave her with him because I was falling asleep and since she still had so much energy in her, he took her.“Come in!” I simply shouted without even turning aroud.When I heard the door opend and shut, I close
KAYA“Detective, I'm sure it goes without saying that a man who killed his wife won't jeopardize himself. Tim didn't do this.”I'm pretty sure he had gottne that memo so I dismissed him after reminding him to find Lucy's phone quickly.I didn't think that whoever took it would be stupid enough to leave it on but I had to count on that little possibility that they were and hope that they could find the phone.When the detective left, Tobias remained.“Nora, can you check on the kids for me? Lana should be having her second bottle by now.”She nodded and left, realising that I didn't want to speak to Tobias in front of her.“Tobias…”“You realise that what your officers have done is unforgivable. What if we are never able to find who
KAYA“When Tim told you that he had seen a keychain and a bag on the counter, why didn't you believe him?” “Because we didn't see it for ourselves. We thought he was trying to throw us off. He had just been caught with his wife's body. He'd do angbting to get out.” While that was right, it was also stupid. Would he kill and stay here to mourn her? “He was crying. Tim was crying when he was found right? Would a murderer cry after his killing? Or would he run as fast as he can so he won't be found?”Seemed like there was a whole lot more to police work than passing the military exam. “My Queen, psychopathic serial killers have done worse from cutting up the victim's bodies to -” “Is Tim a psychopathic serial killer?” That question threw him off guard but he had to answer it. I needed answers. “My Queen-”“It’s a simple question, detective. Is he or is he not?” “He’s not.”I was tired of speaking to him. It was annoying. “So why would you classify him with them? Do you have proo
KAYA“Twenty minutes isnt a lot of time to do all that.”I brought out my phone and called Nathan. “Nathan, I need your help okay? You don't have to be scared. I want you to help me go down to the dungeons and give Tim the phone. I need to speak to him.” I thought he reject to do it. I didn't want to have to call Adrian. That was if he was even at home and not going around with his new son. “Okay.” I stayed on the line while he went down to the dungeons.I needed to hear what he had to say about that day and not what he told the police. He had been under a lot of stress at that point and it was only reasonable that he would tell them what they wanted to hear just so that they would leave him alone. Nathan gave the phone to the guard at the gate so I could tell him to let him pass through and take him down to Tim's cell. “Um mum, he's here.” “Tim, can you hear me?” Someone cleared their throat in the background. “My Queen, yes I can hear you. Is there any problem?”“Tim, I'm i
KAYA I looked over the calendar. It was obvious that she had used this yo time her missed periods, fertility window and the time she'd get pregnant. “That is not enough proof that she was cheating. We can only speculate. There are still a lot of loose ends.” She was right. “Why don't you look through their personal effects and I'll check through the house?”I nodded and she left me in the room. I was here to find out about Lucy's life so I would check her things first. There were some papers on the nightstand. All they were were cards and random notes. I looked through her clothing, hoping to find a safe or something that the police hadn't looked through yet. I searched her entire closet but nothing came up. Did Lucy have any secrets? As a woman, if I had something to hide, where would I hide it? The police had already been through this place and they didn't find anything. Hmmm, maybe I should read the case files. Maybe then, I'll have a better picture of what happened.