The ride back to the city was silent as Kiandra was too shaken to say anything and Lucas wanted to give her time to process what she had witnessed.Kiandra could still see the pool of blood and the sight of those dead bodies. The one that affected her the most was the dead body of the man who had tried to kill her.It was so easy to take a life and Lucas was an expert in taking people's lives. She glanced at him and saw that he was focused on the road. He didn't even look bothered or agitated at what had just happened.Was this how calm he was when he sent that man to kill Zendaya? She wondered.“Did you really have to kill them?” Kiandra asked in a low voice, breaking the silence between them.“Huh?” Lucas replied, as he didn’t hear what she said.“Did you really have to kill them?” Kiandra repeated, her voice louder this time.Lucas glanced at her for a second before returning his gaze to the road. “What did you think I was going to do to the people who tried to kill me and you?” he
“Can you stop referring to me as though I’m an object you own,” she requested.“No. As I said earlier, you’re my toy and I'll refer to you as such” Lucas retorted. “Besides, if something happens to you, who will amuse me like you do?” he asked and Kiandra grew further irritated.“Pull over!” she snapped in anger.“No, toy,” Lucas deadpanned, further annoying her. “I have to make sure you get home safely.”“So your personal amusement and money do not go to waste,” Kiandra replied sarcastically, and Lucas nodded in agreement.“You can’t take me home, as I have to pick up my daughter,” Kiandra told him as she was tired of arguing with him. It would only lead to her getting upset.“She’s with your friend?” Lucas asked and Kiandra nodded.Lucas then pulled over and brought out his phone to check something. Kiandra didn’t bother with him and she looked outside the window. She turned when he started the car again. Her eyes fell on the screen in the car and her eyes widened with shock when s
Lucas arrived at his destination and the gates slowly opened as the guards recognized the car.Ignoring the greetings from the guards, he drove the car past the gates, and soon after, he parked it in front of the warehouse.Upon getting down, he was met by Spider who had been waiting for his arrival. "Has everything been taken care of?" Lucas asked, referring to the men he had ordered them to kill."Yes sir, everything has been taken care of," Spider answered and Lucas started to walk into the building. The building looked like a warehouse outside, but only those who walked there actually knew that it wasn’t. Hence, the reason why it was located on the outskirt of the city where it wasn't easy for anyone to access.It was Lucas’ den for torturing those who crossed him. No one who had made it there ever made it out alive. Lucas let Spider lead to the way to where his special prisoner was being kept. Spider could feel the dangerous aura Lucas emitted and he could tell it was going to
Kiandra took a deep breath and she rubbed her temples with her fingers. Even though Zendaya didn’t mention it all the time, Kiandra knew her daughter was curious about why she had no father. Kiandra had never explained to Zendaya about her father, mainly because she couldn’t explain to her daughter that her father tried to kill her and also because she didn’t want to lie to her daughter about Lucas.When the time came, she would tell her daughter the truth and let her decide what she wanted to do.So Zendaya didn’t want to go to daycare because she felt intimidated by those who had fathers. She would have to talk to her daughter about this and manage to make Zendaya get over her fear.Taking another deep breath, she walked out of the room and went to meet Zendaya, who had taken her seat at the dining table.She then proceeded to serve her food, after which she sat down beside her. “Hey, do you want to talk about it?” she asked her daughter in a calm voice.“No,” Zendaya answered, sha
****Thirty minutes earlier. Zendaya watched as her mother worked on the computer in boredom. She would have gone to her if not for the fact that she was scared of her mother sending her to the hospital.She didn’t like going to the hospital because of the doctors, nurses and injections they always gave her whenever she landed there. Zendaya opened her mouth to tell her mother that she was bored but her mother was busy and she didn't want to go to the hospital.An idea suddenly popped into her head. She quietly got down from her seat and tiptoed to the door. Zendaya looked back to see if her mother noticed her at the door but Kiandra was so engrossed in her work and the fact that there was a huge computer screen in her front only obstructed her.Zendaya saw that the door handle was higher than her reach, and so she quickly went back to get her lunch box. Her growth was affected due to what had happened to Kiandra while she was still in the womb and so, she was smaller than an averag
“I love the name,” Lucas sighed in resignation, and Zendaya clapped in excitement. Her eyes went up to his hair and he smiled. “We have the same hair colour,” he said what was on the girl’s mind.“Our eyes too,” Zendaya pointed out, and he nodded. “I’m bored,” she said out of nowhere. As a normal child, she had a short attention span, and so she was tired of playing the piano.Lucas was clueless when it came to entertaining a child. “Hold on, I’ll be right back soon,” he said, and he left the room. Rushing to his room, he picked up his laptop and rushed back down to the music room, where he found Zendaya seated on the floor with her food in front of her. Not thinking twice, he went and joined her on the floor. “Do you want to eat?” she asked, offering her food. “No, eat your food,” he replied.“Have you had breakfast?” Zendaya asked curiously, and Lucas shook his head. She got up from her seat and pushed the toast into his mouth, shocking Lucas. “Mummy always tells me to eat breakf
Jealousy immediately hit Kiandra and she subtly turned and glared at Lucas while wondering what he had done to Zendaya to make her change so much. “Shall we?” He asked and she nodded. Without wasting time, they both left the room to Lucas’ study. Lucas was the first to enter the room after which she entered. She closed the door and when she turned, she found Lucas standing too close to her. A gasp escaped from her lips and she instinctively moved back, her back hitting the door.The smile Lucas had on his face only made her more nervous as she knew it wasn't a good thing whenever Lucas smiled. What devilish idea had he come up with to torment her this time? She asked herself.“S-sir?” she stuttered. Damn!!! Why was she stuttering? That would only add to Lucas' ego.“Why do I get the feeling that you didn’t like Zendaya talking with me?” Lucas asked straight to the point. He wasn’t oblivious to the stiff body language and the subtle glares Kiandra gave him while they were in the musi
Daira looked at her phone with a dumbfounded look on her face as she was still trying to understand what had just happened. She was in the middle of a photoshoot when she received Lucas’ call. Lucas hardly ever called her and so, she was excited to see his call. The excitement however died down when she heard a voice in the background before the call got disconnected.That was definitely a woman’s voice she had heard. A frown then appeared on her face as different thoughts started coming to her mind.She was no fool not to know that Lucas wasn’t in love with her but she was hoping he would come around one day but in the meantime, she was expecting him to respect their relationship and not cheat on her.“We’re done here,” Daira said to the photographer. He had been taking photos for over thirty minutes, he should have had more than enough shots of her and so, putting an end to it shouldn’t be a problem.The door to the room opened and Arabella Fraser-Gerano walked in with Isabella Ge