Will fondled King’s hand gently and then patted his shoulder before he let go of him.“After her mother died…” he started and moved to the window.“I did everything… I tried everything that I could to make her not feel the emptiness of her mother’s death,” he said as he stared at the blank space of the opened window.“Given the fact that she had witnessed the gruesome death of her mother, I thought that she needed to have a good life and then I supported every decision that she made. I really tried to be a better father for her,” he sniffed and nodded his head.“I don’t know if I am successful in that aspect. No, I know that I am not. I watched my daughter suffer and trapped in the past that she had created for herself,” he said.He was talking about the panic disorder that Payton suffers from.“I took her to many hospitals. I hired the best therapist that I could find but, it was hard to pull her out of the past, they said. Her will matters more.”“I thought marrying another woman wo
King held the car for Payton and waited till she entered before he joined her after throwing at Max another cold glance.He clasped his hands together as the car drove out of the compound and they sat side by side in silence.After a while of sitting in silence, King swallowed and turned to look at Payton who looked out of the window.“H… how is your dad? Is he okay?”Payton nodded her head and sighed. “Yes. It’s just a migraine.”Their eyes met and the memory of them kissing came crashing in which made Payton tear her eyes off him hurriedly.She breathed out in the silence that had fallen in the car and then dropped her index finger on her lips.What were they thinking by kissing each other?King nodded his head as he saw the discomfort on her face and reaction.He would accept other things, but not the awkwardness between them over a kiss.Their relationship was not good, so the least they needed was the awkwardness that was going to set in because of a kiss.“A… about earlier—”“It
“You hugged me on purpose that day. At first, I didn’t give it much meaning. But, after the article came out, I knew it was your doing.”“What proof do you have?”“That question. Your reaction. Besides, I do not need any proof to know what you could have done. Your plan was sabotaged because the internet could not find you as you had planned. You had thought that they would dig you out and you probably believe that once they do, I will have no other choice than to side with you and agree to the relationship.”“W… what are you talking about? Why would I…”“But do you know what would have happened if they had found you? I would deny you still,” he said to the lady bluntly. “I will not accept for my morals to be dragged in the mud. King, you know me better than all this!”“I would have denied ever meeting you… if it means keeping my reputation in check.”“Reputation, reputation, reputation!” She hollered and stomped her foot on the ground.“Has anything ever mattered to you more than th
“I will do whatever you want me to do. If silence is what you want from me, then so shall it be. Please… you cannot cast me away,” she cried.Daniel shook his head and pulled her up gently. “I am not doing that, Sasha. If you need my help, you can call me.”“No. I don’t. Don’t leave me, please. One year? I can wait. If it is five years you need, I shall wait but you can’t leave me, please.”“Sash…”“I can even be the second wife!” She screamed and he drew his brows together.“What? Wake up, Sasha. This is the twenty-first century.”“So? I don’t mind being the other woman. I will be your mistress. Or whatever you call it, but please…”King pulled back gently and shook his head. “Take care of yourself,” he patted her shoulder and then walked out of the house.Sasha stood in her position for only God knows how long before she clasped her hands together and burst into laughter.Somehow, she knew it was going to get to this. She wiped her tears amidst laughter and then shook her head.He s
“Oh, shit! Are you blind?!”Payton cussed through the loud noise from the speaker as she glanced down at her white shirt that was now stained with red wine and then raised her head to look at the man who had bumped into her.He definitely was not paying attention to where he was going. His head buried in his phone was proof on its own.“I… I am sorry. I was not looking,” he smacked his tongue and glanced at the screen of his phone again.“You definitely were not looking,” Payton hissed as she threw the man a cold stare.She does not know what was making her more angry tonight. The man not looking exactly sorry as his eyes were still on his phone, or her step sister… hosting a birthday party for her fiancé.When the man did not say anything anymore and only looked around like he was looking for someone while he took quick glances at his phone, she hissed and pushed past him.As she arrived at the bathroom and stood in front of the mirror, the words her stepsister Ava had said to her fl
The harsh rays of sun that glimmered through the window made Payton squint her brows and then roll on her stomach.Her head banged so terribly that she felt like it was going to come off from her neck.Groaning and moaning gently, her phone rang, giving a loud sound and she hissed again.She stretched her hand and dropped it on the bed beside her to search for the phone that was usually beside her on the bed.However, it did not take long before she realized that she was not touching the bed… but a skin and that that was not her phone’s ringing tone.Hold on… her hand was on a skin. A person’s body………“Dariel.”When the sound finally stopped and the voice of the raspy man came up, Payton snapped her eyes open and then sat up.Realizing that she was stark naked, she laid in the bed back and pulled the cover on her body before she let out a scream.King let out a grunt as he did not get what Dariel had just said. The woman’s sudden scream would not let him.Waking up, naked with a w
Payton felt her legs weaken as she watched the video and she fell to the ground instantly.Her eyes dilated and she dropped her phone.She was trending with this unknown man on the internet. Their obscene videos were on the internet.“You are a disgraceful woman…”Max’s voice rang in her ear and tears dropped from her eyes.She had no idea what was going on and she could swear that she had not gotten into this man's bed on her own.The bell rang and she watched the man move over to the door.She didn’t know who he was talking to, but when he returned to the room, he walked past her and headed to the bathroom again.“There is another bathroom over there. Use it, and get your clothes on. We’re leaving here. The paparazzi is here.”That was all she heard before she heard the loud bang of the door.She did not see his face, but she could feel the anger that was oozing from his voice.It was definitely not a coincidence that this man and she had a bit of a clash the previous night and had
CHAPTER 4. KING THORN.“Why did you do that?!” Payton shouted the moment she settled in the back seat with the man whose name she still did not know yet.King.King?Those reporters called him that!His name was King!King, my ass.She hissed.“It’s you,” she turned around as she heard King say to the driver.“Man, I had to come out here myself,” the other man said.“How did it…” he stopped talking as his eyes landed on the woman beside her King.Instead, he ignited the engine and then drove away.“Where do we go?” He asked.“Where do you stay?” King turned to ask Payton.“Why?“Where?”Payton turned her head to look out of the mirror and then closed her eyes as she heard her phone ring from her bag.“If you think it would be okay to go home alone, then, talk so that he would stop the car. You probably don’t know the amount of people that have your face imprinted in their memory already,” he said, not sparing her a glance.Payton spaced out for a while, wondering