Chapter 057|Killing Taiwo"You shouldn't bother about Chucks or dwell on his words, Sir. He has been acting up for a while now and has been unusually cranky of late." She didn't say a word for a while. He turned to leave. "What do you think, Sir Kehinde? Do you also think he is right? Perhaps my association with the outside world have changed my perception way too much and by relation, me?" He turned to meet her gaze, a polite smile on his face. "Sir__" She held his hand. "Don't regard me as the leader of this outfit but the mere child you had told Young with a hushed whisper when I first arrived here he was so fucked for being handed a child yet you had helped in raising that child proving you're also fucked by extension. Tell me the truth. Do you think I have changed?" He gazed at her for a while then smiled reminiscing old memories and how it felt just like yesterday she had stepped into this house, scared, sad and feeling like a pale pastel coloured couch am
Chapter 058|Now she was going to dream"Room service." She knocked on the door once wearing what she hoped on her face was a sultry smile. "I am coming." The door opened seconds later and she dropped her robe. "Room service." The look he gave her instead of making her feel powerful, Dangerous only irritated her, her body crawling as his eyes raked her almost naked body. She knew whose hands her body wanted, whose heated gaze made her core throb. "I love you." She remembered his words. Then she was slamming the door against the man's face leaving him astounded, she was rushing out of the suite, fumbling with her phone as she did the one thing Young had always asked her to do when it got too much. She retreated. Fucking backed down and worse? She didn't deliberate on the thought that it was the first time she was leaving a mark behind her still breathing but instead all she could think of was the man who she had left after he had bared his heart out to her. Because
Chapter 059|You're late"Jasmine, you are making a terrible mistake, hope you know that?" She raised her brow at him, "Because I retreated when the assignment before me got too tasking?" "Fuck the assignment! You know, I know this has everything to do with that good looking oh smug proud Governor of yours, who was supposed to be just a mark!" She stood up, now ready to have a conversation with him since he had finally gotten his preamble done and was stating why he had come. "This is all you have dreamed of for years Jasmine," he said throwing his hand up in the air wildly. "To command respect from everybody here, to have men waiting just to hear your next words of instruction, to be one of the greatest leaders the Native has ever known? What happened to making Young proud and your grandfather? This is their legacy Jasmine and you are growing to throw it all away for a man, with his own fair share of demons and ruins?" "This was my dream because that was all I was al
Chapter 060|Without herThen he turned and she was diving into his arm regardless, just realizing how much she needed his touch, how much just looking at him without touching him, making sure it wasn't one of her pathetic hallucinations, gnawed at her. He took a sharp intake of breath, caught off guard by the embrace then slowly he was hugging her back, his tensed body relaxing, done trying to act unaffected when he was pathetically gone. "I have missed you," he gruffly admitted, his arms still wounded around her waist securing her in his embrace. The sleeping bags underneath her eyes, the way her eyes met his with unshed tears, her arms cradling his face as she inhaled sharply shaken by just how much he meant to her was her reply. Someone bumped against them, there were mango peel litters right next to them with flies rummaging through them, and a child was crying at a distance but none of that mattered, everything and anything fade away until it was only the both of them
Chapter 061|Revenge enoughHe stopped abruptly in his tracks, unable to take a step further not knowing how to anyway. "I am Young's successor," she continued, her words rushed and her voice raspy. "This was never meant to happen, the plan was just to make you feel the same pain I felt when you snatched my only...." She trailed off as he turned. Millions of times she had spectaculated this particular moment, at first with a devilish Glee of feeding off the triumph of knowing she had broken him and then of recent with horror. She had drawn different ridiculous instances in her head of how he will react but never in her imagination did she think, she will see a tear roll down the cheeks of Taiwo. Ever. The disgust in his black orbs she could handle, the anger just made it easier for her to walk away but the pain, the agony, the anguish made her realize that even before he asked, her soul was already his. Because every ounce of pain he felt, washed over her and at that moment no
Chapter 062|Nothing else made senseThe doctor came out from the theatre room, his scrubs lapel dangling in front of him. Chucks who was closer to the entrance was already diving toward him. "How was the surgery?" He asked frantically, while they just held their breath waiting for his verdict. He beamed. "She is out of danger, any seconds after when she was brought would have made her condition critical," Taiwo was to thank for that and they knew. After Jasmine had gone unconscious, berserk didn't even begin to cover how he had felt. Keeping up with him had been almost impossible. Taiwo couldn't believe the panic he had felt when she had closed her eyes, how willing he was at that moment to do everything he could to see her alive. Yes she had taken a bullet for him and Just that thought made him shudder, why will she do something so stupid? But what he felt, when she had stopped moving? It was almost like it was Bankole's death happening once again, but this
Chapter 063|Sensible people don't take other people's bulletsShe was about to throw a tantrum, a fit demanding to be sent home right at that moment, then give them an earful later for even allowing her to be admitted into a place everyone in the team knew she abhorred. Hospitals with their peculiar scent of disinfectants that made her nauseous reminded her of death and death well, reminded her of loss. And that was one word she was trying to learn how to deal with, right. She was stopped from her real mature plan of starting a ruckus by throwing things around when she remembered the events that had led her to the hospital. Taiwo knows. He hates her. Then the images came flashing sharply through her mind, so vividly with its HD lightning and decent visuals. She remembered the panic in her eyes when she had seen the light on his body and even at that moment she knew that her life will be a pile of debris and dirt since she will never be able to live with herself knowing
Chapter 064|Go get your GovernorSome people just never change. But she didn't want him to. She wanted all of him, his imperfections, inability to use words to properly explain how he feel, his dark dark past, his dangerous present and everything his future will bring. Everything and now she was more than determined to find out if he feels the same way. "You stayed," she voiced out, at a loss of what else to say as the tears she was too tired to hold came gliding down her cheeks. "You are here with me." He shrugged, "You took a damn bullet for me, it was the most human thing to do." She felt the first pang of despair. "Are you here because you felt obligated, guilty?" The legendary stacked cards came to her mind. He stood up. "I would have been in the hospital if a random person had gotten into trouble because of me." His words were enough to push just one card while she sucked in a breath, not believing he could easily revert to being so formal, so cold towards her