AUTHOR’S POV.Daniel tried to break the hug but Sapphire did not allow him as she kept her arms wrapped around his waist. He sighed with a smile and then hugged her again.They had been in that position for many minutes and Sapphire had refused to let go of him.He could only wonder if she was truly okay. Especially this morning when he woke up and she was already awake, her eyes pinned on him.Now that it was time to go to work, she did not let him go as she kept hugging him.“Do you want me to stay home?” Daniel asked her.“No, just a second more,” she moaned as she sniffed him.After a while, she finally pulled away and then raised her head to look at him. “I love you,” she smiled.“I love you too, Amore,” he said and then kissed her forehead.“I love you very much and heaven knows that much,” she said again.“I know, babe.”“Trust me, I could not have asked for a better husband.”Okay… something was indeed going on.Daniel was convinced.“Babe, if anything is wrong, you know you
AUTHOR’S POV.George sprang up from the chair and kicked away the table in front of him.The news about him had generated a lot of attention and every blogger was carrying it. “Turn the TV off!” He yelled at no one in particular.He looked around the house and when he did not find Charlotte anywhere around, he dashed towards the stairs and then ascended it rather aggressively.When he got to her room and no one was in there, he yelled and then turned on his phone.He browsed through it, dialed her number, and then waited for her to pick it up. It kept ringing till it ended and he got no reply from her.“Dad!” When he heard the unmistakable voice of Emerald, he turned around and then scurried out of his room.“Dad, what is going on?!” She shrieked.“What do you mean?”“The company is being sued for fraud and I heard you’re under the allegations of abuse and embezzlement!”“That is not true.”“The prosecution company has taken over the company for whatever reason! Did you see what is o
AUTHOR’S POV. Daniel kept his eyes fluttering for a while before he finally sniffed and shook his head. “What are you saying?” Charlotte exhaled and nodded her head. This would definitely be hard for anyone to accept. “George is not their biological father. Someone else is.” “How? It does not add up. I can’t seem to fathom how that must have happened. She cheated on George? Why?” Daniel asked. “She got pregnant by her ex-boyfriend, and pinned the pregnancy on George, who was her fiancé at that time. She was two months pregnant when she married George, but she kept it from him till after a month of their marriage. Initially, she had carried the twins for eleven months, but, everyone had assumed it was for nine months,” Charlotte explained. “And you knew about it… from the start?” “Agnes and I were best friends, and I knew when she was pregnant because she told me. One of the reasons I accepted George’s offer back then was because I wanted to help take care of her children. I wa
AUTHOR’S POV.“Car key?” Daniel said, and when the man removed it from his pocket, he snatched it from him and then rushed to the car.Mogan rushed after him and then settled beside him in the car.“Do you want me to drive?” She asked, but he did not answer. Instead, he ignited the engine and then drove.“Move it!” The head of the security hollered and then a few of the guards rushed to the car, entered it, and then drove out of the compound, and then after Daniel’s car.As Daniel controlled the steering with one hand, he began to dial Sapphire’s number and Mogan snatched the phone from him immediately.“Keep your eyes on the road. I will keep calling her.”She placed the call on speaker as she called and she kept getting directed to voicemail as her phone was out of reach.“It’s been many hours. Where could she be?” Daniel said, panic very evident in his voice.“She could not have gone far… given her current condition too,” she nodded her head certainly.“Go through the call log and
AUTHOR’S POV.“If you’re listening to this voicemail, that means I have gotten very far from you. I’m sure you’re probably disturbed right now and I understand you. I wish there were better ways than this, but unfortunately, there is none. Why did I do this…? I guess I just got tired of you… of us… of this thing that we call marriage. It should have never gotten to this level, and I am sure you know, right? About your baby, I’ll bring him to you one day. Yes, one day. Do not look for me, Daniel, or I will keep running to wherever I can. Don’t find me. I am not lost. I left on my own accord. Stay well, and have a great life ahead.”Daniel exhaled as he finished listening to the message and he listened to it again while he stood transfixed in a position.“Daniel!” Mogan dashed inside the room and when she saw Daniel that way, she nudged one of the men in the room and they shook their heads.“Daniel, did you find her? She’s nowhere around here,” Mogan said.Daniel turned his head to look
AUTHOR’S POV.“What do you mean?” Liam asked with a furrowed brows.It was past midnight already and everyone was still awake. Daniel had settled on the floor, looking like it was the end of the world for him.Heck. It indeed was!He had loved his woman so much that she had become his weakness as much as she was his strength.“We ran a check on the car, it is not registered under any company. The plate number is not registered under any of the taxi’s associations,” one of the men said.“How is that possible?” Liam asked.“We have no idea, sir. We tried to narrow the car’s path but we ended up losing it as other cars that looked like the car were mixed up with it.”Daniel heard and he stood up from where he sat. “What are you saying?”“I’m sorry, sir,” Alfred bowed.“There is no lead on her and the cab, is that what you’re saying?” He asked and Alfred bowed again.“Run a thorough check on the plate number again. I refuse to believe what you are saying,” Liam said and turned to face Dani
AUTHOR’S POV.“Now, what is going on?” Liam asked as he glanced at Daniel and then returned to look at the road.“Hey, Alfred,” Daniel said as the receiver picked up the call.“Sir.”“Gather the best hackers on the team… or find them wherever you can and bring them to the base. I’ll be waiting,” he said and then ended the call.“Sapphire has no reason to leave the house, I am sure of that,” he turned to look at Liam.“So, you think he kidnapped her?”“No… they probably threaten her. We gotta find Isabella’s mother. There’s no way I’m sitting still with everything that’s going on,” Daniel shook his head.“Yeah, we gotta find her,” Liam nodded his head.==Sapphire finally got out of the bed rather grudgingly. She walked to the curtain, pulled it to the side, and then looked out of the glass.Her stomach had been protesting all through the night as she was very hungry. She had not eaten anything since she left the house the previous day, and right now, she felt like she would faint.She
AUTHOR’S POV.“We should start going home, Daniel,” Liam said to Daniel as he returned to the base.“Not now,” Daniel groaned from where he sat.His eyes were pinned on the huge screen in the room as the other men were working on the laptop.“Daniel,” Liam palmed his forehead.Since they left home in the morning, they had not returned to the house nor had Daniel slept off or taken a bit of water or food.He had at least slept off for about an hour and had had a bit of food to eat.Daniel refused to do anything. He only watched as the men worked hoping a lead could come on.“Daniel,” he called her name again.“It’s past ten,” he added.When Daniel did not even act like he heard him again, he sighed and went to settle on the chair beside one of the men.Hilda’s call came in for the umpteenth time and he declined it again.Liam pressed his lips together and clasped his hands together as he wondered if he should keep cooperating with Sapphire or if he should tell him what was going on ind
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“Spending a whole three months in France made me assume that you and Daniel will not return here again,” Hilda snorted as she settled on the chair beside Sapphire who had her eyes glued on the big screen in the in house Cinema. “We had to return. I’m near my due date and we don’t want to deliver our baby there,” Sapphire smiled as she dropped her hand on her friend’s hand. “You really spent three months there! I thought it was just going to be a week or two vacation!” Hilda hollered. “Trust me when I say that I don’t even wanna return. It’s really fun there. Plus, we were not there all through the three months, we traveled to Rome, Amsterdam, and so on.” “Tsk, no wonder you don’t always pick up my calls.” “You nag too much, Hilda. At least you came to see us in France with Liam about two months ago.” “So? That is enough. You don’t miss me at all?!” “No, no, I’m not saying that. Of course, I miss you a lot,” Sapphire shook her head. “Oh, Pookie… come here,” Hilda leaned closer t
FINALE.~~~DANIEL~~~I settled on the bed beside my sleeping wife and then dropped my hand on her stomach.“Amore, time to get up.”I stared at her sleeping, innocent face and then shook my head. Since we returned from Mogan’s party around eleven PM last night, till now, 10:56 AM, she had been sleeping.I proceeded to move the hair from her face and caressed her cheeks.“Amore.”When she did not answer nor stir in her sleep, I shook my head and then smacked my tongue.I do not like waking this woman. It usually takes a while before she answers.I raised my head as the maid walked out of the closet and I raised my brows, “Are you done?” I asked as I glanced at the bag in her hand.“Yes, sir.”“Take it to the car,” I said and she nodded her head, bowed, and then walked away.Today was the day I was going to show her the surprise that I have for her and I can’t wait for her to see it and be happy.I kept shaking her gently till she finally stirred in her sleep and then I exhaled. “Good mo
AUTHOR’S POV.“Babe, come help me with my shoe,” Sapphire said after she finished adjusting her dress.“I’m coming!” Daniel said from the closet.She settled on the edge of the bed and then sluggishly picked up the shoes from the ground.This evening, she was feeling heavier and lazier than usual. She just wanted to stay in bed and sleep, but it was Mogan’s party, and they gotta be there too.She panted as she felt beads of sweat gathering on her forehead and she wiped it off.She turned to look in the direction of the closet again and then Daniel did not come out still, she exhaled and shook her head.This was something she could do herself. However, she could not as she was tired and pregnant!She needed him to come help her, but he was not leaving the closet.“Babe,” she swallowed hard.When Daniel did not answer, She tried to wear the shoe herself but her stomach was making it hard for her so she just gave up again.“Daniel!” She snapped.“Amore, I’m coming,” Daniel came out of th
AUTHOR’S POV.For about a minute, the room was quiet as everyone kept mute.They definitely did not see that coming.Alice was the first to find out about Ethan and Mogan. She just knew something was up when Ethan had stopped calling and coming by to tell her to beg the woman.At first, she thought that Ethan was giving up on Mogan, but then again, she knew that was not the case.He had been waiting for her for several years to give up that way.So, she dug into it after sharing her thoughts with Daniel.As usual, Daniel and her husband just told her to mind her business and leave the two alone but she didn’t agree.When she found out the truth, it was when the two had rented out the whole restaurant just to have a date and immediately, she called Daniel and then Thomas.The three agreed to keep it within them and not say anything as it might be as if they were invading their privacy.Alice, at first, didn't agree with that. She literally wanted to go in at that moment and be like, “B
AUTHOR’S POV.Sapphire carried the funerary urn tightly in her arm as she stared at the sea with Daniel beside her, and then Liam, Hilda, and Carlo behind them.She closed her eyes as she muttered words on the funerary urn and then sniffed gently.Her mother had specifically told her that whenever she died, she wanted to be cremated and then that her ashes be poured into the sea.Sapphire had tried to persuade her mother not to do that as it was better for her to be buried, but Charlotte declined. “LETTING GO.”Charlotte had said. She said it was the best for her and Sapphire.The cremation process had taken two hours and afterward, Daniel had driven them to the sea that used to be her mother’s favorite“Amore,” Daniel patted her shoulder gently, gesturing to her that it was time to let go of her mother.After a while of clutching it closer to herself, Daniel watched as Sapphire began to sprinkle the ashes in the water while she muttered words and smiled.“Till we meet… to part no mo
AUTHOR’S POV.Daniel clicked on the button on the laptop, leaned back, and then raised his head as Liam moved over to him.“What’s that?”“Let’s watch,” he smiled.When Daniel had told Liam about his experience with Baldwin, the man had felt very bad and sad for his friend.Instead of getting mad at him for keeping it to himself all that while, he instead pulled him into a hug and muttered words of encouragement to him.As Daniel and Liam heard the scream that came from the laptop, they glued their eyes to the screen.Baldwin was hung up in the air while his feet were dangling around. He was stripped naked and looked around in fear.“Holy Moly!” Liam exclaimed as he watched the video in front of him and then glanced at his friend who had no expression on his face.It definitely was his idea.“What are they doing?” Liam asked as his eyes met with the firewood on the floor centered on where Baldwin was dangling from.“Showing him what hell feels like,” he raised the corner of his lips i
AUTHOR’S POV. Charlotte sat patiently behind the counter as she waited for the man to appear and after what seemed like an eternity, he walked towards her with two cell guards behind him. “See who is here,” he snorted as he settled on the chair and then tapped the glass which divided them. Charlotte stared at George and then nodded her head, she watched as the guards left them alone and then leaned her back against the chair. “You must have missed me, no?” George laughed. “You left without telling anyone. Should I be happy about your presence? You don’t think I am going to accept you, do you?” He raised his brows. “You… you look so good in that jail uniform,” Charlotte commented and then chuckled. “What?” George frowned. “That uniform. I said it looks so good on you,” she smiled again. “Hey!” “I heard you’re sentenced to twelve years imprisonment, with four years probation afterward.” “So? Do you pity me?” “Pity you? Come on, no way. I don’t even mind if you’re sentenced to
AUTHOR’S POV.“How could you say you don’t want to meet him?” Sapphire pulled her brows together.“You might not know… no, it is something that you know very well. I am not like you. I’m not going to seek validation from another man just because MY DAD, George, is in prison. Never. He treated you wrong… not me. Get your facts right, while growing up, I was loved by him. He hated you so it is understandable if you choose to accept another man. As for me, I am not interested in that shit. All I need is to get away from this fucking country and away from you all. I hate you very much and staying in this country with you all is messing with my head and I might want to do something bad again… you know I always do,” she breathed out and swept her hair to the back.“Have fun with your new father… but I don’t care. Just give me money, and I will leave. I know you want that more than anyone else.”Sapphire smacked her tongue and exhaled. Of course, she wanted it. She took a glance at Carlo who