Reina’s POVI could identify the voice wherever it was that I was, and I didn't need a soothsayer to tell me who exactly it was. “ Nina” I was with Richard, who had insisted on coming with me even though he couldn't walk properly yet. “ Is everything okay? You look rattled, and your eyes look dark, is everything okay?” She took a step closer. “ I know that I shouldn't have come here now, maybe it isn't just the right timing, but I had to come to you”“ Okay” If it was pretty urgent, then she could say whatever it was that she intended to say. “ Jackson…. Jackson somehow managed to break out of his cell and his whereabouts are not known by anyone “The first thing I had was a bell chiming before it declined. “ You said what?”Fuck it, I had heard it perfectly the first time, but here I was hoping that maybe it was just an imagination, and it would go away soon.“ Jackson escaped,” Richard uttered before cursing loudly. “ What exactly would he do that for? And now, when my legs stil
Richard's POVSomething spiked up in my blood and all that I wanted to do was to place my hands around his neck, groping him until he couldn't take in air anymore. He had stepped over that thin line that he shouldn't have. My stomach hardened as it knotted in succession until I took in gasps of sharp breaths. “ You shouldn't have said that, Jackson, you just made things worse than they should have been” I answered. “ Let me do the talking” I mumbled at her to which she nodded at me to go on. He let out a sneer.“ Oh, it's the bulldog who is always around her. I saw you today, acting all sorry when you went up to the tombstone, don't you know how suspicious you looked when you did that?” “ You were there?” “Of course, I was there. I couldn't miss the only chance I had gotten of seeing Reina. Let's cut to the chase right away. Reina, I want to see you, I will send you an address and I want you to be there”. I chuckled, letting out a dry one from my throat. What exactly was he? Who
Reina's POVAll of Richard's behavior was suspicious, the sudden change when he had asked me to go to bed was what exactly had prompted me not to. I wanted to know where exactly it was that he intended to go, and color me when I saw him ditch the stick to the side before walking out so well. I had almost let out a chuckle and had intended to give him a piece of my mind when he stomped off and something ticked off within me that he was going somewhere. I had followed him carefully, and it led me here, where it seemed they were about to open a can of worms with dirty secrets which I didn't know inside of it. My heart leaped when I flashed back to the fact that Jackson had visited Richard while he was still in the hospital, and now…My eyes penetrated him and all I wanted right now was for him to drop dead. “ You intended to kill him, didn't you?” Richard's face held a shocked expression as he was trying to come to terms with what exactly it was that I meant. “ What are you talking abo
Reina's POV I spun around on my heels, walking away because I didn't know what exactly it was that I was supposed to do, I didn't know what exactly it was going to come to, but I just didn't want to imagine that Richard was going to kill him just like that. You know. A voice whispered to me, one that I shook my head trying to dispel it away from my numerous thoughts. Lying gently on the bed. I made a note right there to check on my baby with the doctor when I had the chance to do so. Just to make sure that she was fine and there was no harm that might come to her nor me, now thinking of how exactly to go there without Richard suspecting a thing was at the top of my priorities. I was sure it was going to be a girl, I wanted one, and I knew Richard wouldn't be opposed to that as well. I couldn't bring myself to tell him now, I wanted the situation to be fine. Straying my hand over my stomach which was beginning to bulge a bit, my heart soared unexpectedly when I heard the gentle
Richard's POV I hadn't proposed the first time because it was an arranged marriage but boy, no one had told me how my heart was going to slam so hard that I might not breathe. What if Reina told me a no? What if she wasn't interested in me? What if all this wasn't what she wanted, and she wanted something else? Maybe, the flowers and fine dining with decorations. Shit, I had messed this up, and I don't know how to make it even better at this point. She looked obviously smitten by it, but she wasn't making a move. I had seen this ring shortly before I went to Jackson's and I knew immediately that it was meant for her. Reina didn't love massive stones. She loved tiny pretty ones and that was the one I had gotten for her. I had ditched numerous suggestions to the wall when I had picked it up. I could still recall one who had told me that ladies love huge stones, but I haven't gotten it. I was so sure that Reina would love it and in excitement had even shown Jackson who had cursed at m
Reina's POV ‘But I wouldn't want you to do so if you are going to risk your life for it’ those words had imprinted themselves in my mind before I could even think of contradicting it. Now, I was left with what exactly it was going to turn into if I let him know of what was going on. That I am pregnant.“ Oh, that is so beautiful” I listened to my mother as she kept telling me I should lift my finger high enough for her to see. I did as she wanted, not a word leaving my mind of what had been said. “ Thank you mother, Richard said he will be coming right after the press conference, he will be coming formally to talk to you” My father snickered. “ He is finally coming to do the right thing, after what seemed to be years”I knew my father had given his consent years ago, but that had been a while, and they hadn't known all that I had gone through until I had finally opened up to them. They had stood by my side through it all. “ Have you talked about it with him?” A concerned look gr
Richard's POVRyan's hands squeezed hard on my shoulders. “ Don't tell me that you are beginning to get cold feet already?” I snickered, pushing his hands off. How exactly was that possible? How would I be having cold feet when I was getting married to the most beautiful woman I had ever known today? The one that I had always wanted to have in my life. “ Is that even possible? It is Reina we are talking about here, and she has been in my life for ages, I have always wanted to have her back in my life, so why would I?” I tried to get a smile on my face to get his mind off how sweaty my palms were. Was that even possible? I didn't want to even think about that because no matter how much I did, it just doesn't seem right at all. Reina was everything I have always wanted, so it wasn't even possible that I was having cold feet right about now, and I knew that I had to be something else. Yes, that had to be it. Gosh, you can do it. I kept on cheering myself. Yes, I can do it. I can do t
Reina’s POVI was still, stunned and at the same time broken because this wasn't what I was expecting him to say, fine, I knew that I should have thought about this probability, but there was none and now this. “ You didn't mean that, did you? I am pregnant! With your child. Not it. Our child isn't an it. It is human and you know that” “ Reina…” he tried to touch me, but I wasn't having any of that, I didn't want him to touch me. It doesn't boil down with me. Whatever it was that he was trying to do just didn't boil down with me. All the high expectations that I had all crumbled to the ground before my very eyes, I guess that I had thought too highly of how it was going to be and now, I was going to have regrets. A bump got stuck in my throat and I couldn't push it down, no matter how hard it was that I tried to. It just wouldn't bulge, why does it have to stay stuck so well? What happened to it going down and now...“ Please don't “ I put out a hand at him, stopping him while sti