ADRIANWe were already deep in the forest when I felt it. A pang in my chest.There was something wrong. I suddenly stopped running and Nora walked up to me.“What’s going on? You're holding up the pack.”I looked behind me and saw that everyone had truly stopped.“Something is wrong. I don't know, I just feel like it is."She laughed.“Do you miss her that much?”“Who?” I asked and then it clicked. ”Don’t be ridiculous.”She looked at me somehow.“I mean I do but don't be ridiculous. That's not what this is about. What I'm saying is that there's something wrong. I don't know what it is but I can feel it in me."She turned around and mindlinked everyone.“Is everyone here accounted for?” Check on your partner.”We made sure that everyone had a partner to make accountability easier on days like this.“Yes, everyone is here.”Nora turned back to me.“You see, everything is fine. You didn't have anything to worry about."She was saying that but I knew what I was feeling.“I know you're
KAYA“No!”It was too late. The knife was already in him and I couldn't do anything about it.“Who’s kid is this? I know it's not yours so who has this kid?”I couldn't even answer her.“Milo, please stay with me baby. Open your eyes, I'm here. I'm here. Mummy's here. I won't let anything happen to you.”“Who’s kid is this? Did you have a kid here already?”Milo's eyes were closing and I didn't know what to do.“Somebody help me! Help me!"She just stood there watching me as I asked for help.I wanted to leave him and run inside for her but I didn't trust her not to do something for him so I just kept screaming.“Somebody help!” Tears gathered in my eyes as I watched his blood drain to the ground.He was barely breathing.“Shit! Let's go!” I suddenly heard her shout and I looked up.They were back. I screamed so that they would know that something was wrong.Serena needed to pay for what she had done and I wasn't going to let her get away with it.It was Adrian and he just stood the
KAYAI didn't even know I had fallen asleep until I fell down from the bench.“Ah!” I fell on my arm with so much force that it hurt so bad.When I noticed that the sun was coming up already, I ran back into the hospital.Last night after the doctor had left us, Adrian turned to me.“You don't deserve to be here.”“Adrian" Nora wanted to say but he raised his hand to stop her.“Leave, it's all your fault this happened. My son is in the hospital fighting for his life because of you. It's all your fault. Get out!”I covered my head with my hands and trembled and I didn't even realize I had fallen to the floor. It reminded me of my dad when he wanted to beat me all those times.He'd be so angry that he'd just keep shouting and shouting and I'd use my hands to cover my head so he wouldn't hit me.Sometimes he hit me and sometimes he didn’t.“Please don't hit me. Please.”I couldn't even look up at him because I was so scared about what he would do.Nora knelt in front of me and pulled me
KAYA“I fell.”He didn't hear me.“What did you say?"”I said I fell. I fell down from the chair.”He looked at me and just sighed.“We’ll need to get you a room and then we'll check you out.”Nora walked up to us.“What’s going on?" She looked at me ”Why is your face like this?”She moved past the doctor.“Let’s get you a room."I went with the doctor to the room and they immediately put an IV in my hand.Sleep suddenly took over me and I slowly closed my eyes and went to sleep.By the time I woke up, I kind of felt better and it was less cold.Nora was beside me and she was reading a book.“Hey.”She dropped the book and turned to me.“Hey. You're awake. You want something?"I pointed to the cup of water beside me and she brought it to me.“Thank you. What the hell happened? I don't remember a lot.”I noticed the cast on my arm.“Did he hit me?"“What? What did you say? Who hit you?”I suddenly felt drowsy and I couldn't even open my eyes anymore.“Adrian. Did he hit because of wha
KAYAI didn't even know I had fallen asleep until I fell down from the bench.“Ah!” I fell on my arm with so much force that it hurt so bad.When I noticed that the sun was coming up already, I ran back into the hospital.Last night after the doctor had left us, Adrian turned to me.“You don't deserve to be here.”“Adrian " Nora wanted to say but he raised his hand to stop her.“Leave, it's all your fault this happened. My son is in the hospital fighting for his life because of you. It's all your fault. Get out!”I covered my head with my hands and trembled and I didn't even realize I had fallen to the floor. It reminded me of my dad when he wanted to beat me all those times.He'd be so angry that he'd just keep shouting and shouting and I'd use my hands to cover my head so he wouldn't hit me.Sometimes he hit me and sometimes he did.“Please don't hit me. Please.”I couldn't even look up at him because I was so scared about what he would do.Nora knelt in front of me and pulled m
KAYA“Nora, please let me go. I should be the one apologizing and not the other way around. Adrian entrusted him in my care and I got him injured so I should be the one begging. Not you, not him.”It had been a week since they'd kept me in this hospital. My hand had healed since the day after I broke it but I didn't want to tell anyone or take off the cast because I knew that would raise suspicions.The only person who knew about me and my secret was mad at me so basically, I was stuck wearing a cast I didn't need.”Has he woken up? Milo, I mean. Is he okay?”She nodded and placed her hand on mine.“He’s fine, Eve. He's responding to treatment and he's going to be okay. It's you I'm worried about. It's you I'm scared for.”I laughed lightly to put her off her worries.“I’m fine, Nora. Really, I'm okay. Do I look like I'm sick?”She opened her mouth but didn't say anything at first.“Nora, what happened that day?”I should have known this question would come up.”I don't know. After yo
KAYAJust as I'd hoped, he wasn't in the room when I went there.My heart was already beating so fast, wondering what on earth I was going to say if I saw him there.Should I start with how sorry I was or maybe I should start with he fact that I didn't mean for any of this to happen.The fact that he had already been on the edge because of how far my father was going to make sure that his other packs were wiped out, I knew it was just a matter of time before he started hating me.I mean, seeing the damage that had been caused by my father and his cult, and the fact that now, his son had been injured because my greedy sister had come all the way here to kill me, even a saint would be mad.So right now, I didn't even blame him if he treated me differently. Everyone had the right to be mad and this was his time.I slowly entered and slid through the door, meeting with Milo 's eyes in an instant. I could see that he wanted to come down from the bed and rush over to me but I stopped him i
ADRIAN“You’re sure the wolves are from Hank's pack?”Nora nodded.“Yes, I know the scent anywhere . Besides, I saw her sister before she shifted."Her sister. Serena.So she followed her all the way here just to cause trouble for her and kill her.Nora was right, Milo was not the target, She was. What exactly did she want from her this time around?She had left the pack for her so why did she come after her?“But don't you think it's strange that she came here on that day?. Why hasn't she come here since?”I looked up from the work in front of me.“What do you mean?”“I mean, she knew that Kaya was here all along so why did she take so long to come here?"She asked the question like she wanted an answer but right now, I wasn't thinking in that direction. I just wanted to deal with the people who injured my son.“I don't know, Nora. I'm not in the mood to play detective.”She rolled her eyes.“Maybe it's because she has someone giving her information on the inside.”“What?" That was t
KAYAI ended up sleeping in Milo's room that night because I really didn't want to sleep alone. So I decided to sleep with him. In the morning, I had just opened my eyes when the door opened. Nora stood in the doorway, already prepped for the day and she signalled me to come out since Milo was still fast asleep. I slowly removed my arm from under his head, trying not to wake him up. “Tobias is here, in the waiting room.”Already? What time was it? “Nora, I need you to do something. Go to his office and get the files of Lucy's murder. I want to go through them. After that, I'll meet you up at the house. We need to go through her house to know what her life was like.”I'll just ask one of the guards to take me to Lucy's. “You’ll question him alone?” “Yeah, I just need to shower first.”I genuinely felt like I could use a few more minutes in bed but that phase of my life
KAYA“Kay-”“Adrian, please. I'm trying to get some sleep. Sleep that I couldn't get because you left me in that cell for days! Please, leave me alone.”I walked over to my side of the bed and pulled the covers over me. I didn't have time to banter words with him. “Why’re you acting like this? I thought I already apologized. Why are you making it to be something it's not?”I knew what he was doing. Riling me up so I would talk. But I won't give in to him. I had to get up early tomorrow. Tobias was coming and I was almost definitely going to be spending the first part of the day alone since I wanted Nora to go and get me the case files. After I saw Tobias, I would meet up with her so that we would go to Lucy's house together. From what I gather, the house had been closed down since the murder. I just hoped that no one had gone into the house after the murder to mess things up. “Kaya, going to bed while angry isn't going to make things better. Besides, I had no idea you were going
KAYAThat's exactly what I did when I got home.I headed for Lana's took where I saw the maid feeding her.“My Queen.”“Is she crying? Let me see her?”I dropped my bags and headed straight to take her. She seemed heavier as I carried her and her face lit up as I called her name.“Hello, my princess. Did you miss me? You seem to be going well.”I didn't know whether I should be happy that she was doing fine or I should be sad that she probably didn't notice that I was gone.“Maaamma!”I just froze, not being able to say another thing.I looked at the maid who had a big smile on her face.“Is that her first word?”Th
KAYA“Milo, where the hell is your father? Isn't he getting my texts? Why isn't he coming? Why didn't he come with you?”The door opened and Nora walked into the room. “I don't know. He hasn't been home. I haven't seen him yet.”What on earth was going on? Where was my husband? “What about your brothers? Are they okay?” He nodded. “They’ve been asking a lot of questions about you and dad though and I'm running out of things to tell them.”I needed to go back to my home. “Nora, get us out of here. I need to go back to my kids since my husband has forgotten who he is.”My head was still spinning when I tried to stand up. “Kaya, you need to rest. You hit your head pretty bad.”I touched my head and thankfully, there was no bandage. Only a bandaid. “Don’t worry about me. I'll rest when I go back home and check on my kids.”I could tell that we were still in the station, they probably just took us to the lounge area.By the time I get back home, Adrian better be dead or dying becaus
KAYA“I don't think he did it.” Was the first thing I told Nora as we entered the back of the car. “I know..I was trying to rile him up to see how bad his anger was. Perhaps that was what led to her death. But he remained calm.”I knew that was what she was trying to do..So what do we do now?Oh well, I'm sure this whole misunderstanding would be cleared up today because I couldn't spend another night in that cell. And why the hell had Adrian not come looking for me? Hadn't he checked his phone to see my texts or calls? And didn't Milo see the text?What the hell was going on?Didn't they realize that I wasn't around or were they finally relieved that I was out of the house?“Either way, we still need to find out what he and Lucy had that made him call her that much. It's not normal for a business relationship.”I'll try my best to speak to him today so he can clear things up..There were just too many inconsistencies. “I mean, if there was nothing going on between him and Lucy,
KAYAI don't know if Nora forgot that we were being arrested and we were going to have records and could possibly go to jail if not for the fact that we were who we were. But if this was a normal situation and we had really planned to kidnap that kid, there was no way we would not spend the rest of our lives in jail. She didn't even care about the fact that he was the district commissioner. I think that fact even irritated her more because she just kept speaking to him no matter what he said. It was like they knew each other before and she hated him already. “You kidnapped my son! There's nothing else you want to say! People in the bar agree with the story!”People in the bar? The motorcycle guy…he was the only one who could tell the truth. “The people in the bar are drunk fools! They wouldn't know what's happening even if the sun came down and fell on their heads. You want to believe them?”Nora was surely going to wear him out eventually. All I had to do was stand there and wa
KAYA“Get down and get out.”Weren't they supposed to bring us out? “We’re in cuffs, you flipping twit!”They turned around to look at us. Well, me and Nora's angry face. “Oh.”What did I do to deserve this?.They finally had mercy on us and brought us down from the car. “Walk straight and don't look at anyone. You're the bottom of the food chain.”He's not going to be on the food chain by the time I get out of here. The place was big. I'm guessing it's because it's the district. We got in the elevator and the only thing that could be heard at first was the changing of floors..Well, that was until the officers decided that they wanted to tell us about how wild their last night was. Nora couldn't hide the disgust on her face and she made sure that they saw it. “Do you have something to say, girl? Or you want me to hit it out of you?”“I’d like to see you try.”“What did you say?”As he walked over to Nora, I just closed my eyes because I was beginning to get sleepy and anything
KAYAI just sat there on the floor, thinking about my life..I felt quite weak and I was really hungry. My stomach made a noise and Nora heard it. “Was that you?”I nodded. It was funny how the two ladies in the cell passed out and till now, they haven't moved an inch. “Dont worry about it. I'll look for something to eat for you.”We were both in the cell. How would she find me something to eat? Besides, we both needed to eat. Not just me.An officer came back with fresh breath mints and opened our cells. “Look sharp. The father of the boy you took wants to see the two women who caused such a ruckus yesterday. You should have planned your escape better.” If we had truly kidnapped the kid, there is no way they would have never found us because as soon as we left the bar, that's the last time anyone will see us. But I just left them to believe what they wanted to. It was obvious everyone here was a knuckle head and I didn't have the time to engage them. If they were going to take
KAYABy the time I woke up, it wasn't morning yet and Nora was standing by the gate, staring out. “Nora, you know you're not on guard right? You can sit down. You can't stand through the night. You need to rest too.”She came back to sit beside me. “I’ll get us out of this. Don't worry, I'll think of something.”I didn't want her to put pressure on herself. Anything that wants to happen should happen. I didn't have the strength for anything that was happening right here. “Don’t bother yourself, Nora. We’ll be fine. As long as we don't get thrown in jail, nothing will happen. We'll figure a way to get through this.”It was past midnight and the activities in the station had died down. It just remained a few officers who hadn't fallen asleep asides the ones who had. I looked at the female officer who was busy working. She looked so focused. An idea suddenly struck me. I calle