AUTHOR’S POV.“What do you mean by he did not touch you?” Daniel frowned.Sapphire pressed her lips together and turned to look at Emerald who stood in a corner of the room silently.The urge to move over to her and slap her across her face was so hard that she only sighed.#FLASHBACK#“You abducted me?!”Aidan parted her lips and breathed out. “Chill, Sapphire. Chill,” he smiled at her instead, to the disgust of Sapphire.“You are smiling?”Aidan shook his head, moved over to the floor where Emerald’s cloth was lying, and turned to give it to Sapphire.“Put this on,” he said and turned his back to her.Sapphire glared at his backside for a while before she dumped the jacket on the floor and then wore the dress.After she was done, she moved over to Aidan and grabbed his arm to face her.“What is going on? Did you send those men?!”“I am sorry, Sapphire. I am truly sorry.”“Sorry? That’s all you gotta say? You abducted me and all you can…”“It was not me! It was Emerald!” He cut her s
AUTHOR’S POV.Daniel dropped his phone and hurried after Sapphire who dashed to the bathroom. “Babe?” He leaned down and patted her back as she knelt by the water closet and vomited in it.He kept stroking her back till she raised her head and then took a bowl of water and then rinsed her face with it.He pulled her up gently and then carried her up in his arms when he saw how weak she looked and then carried her out of the bathroom.Sapphire buried her face in his neck till her back touched the soft mattress and then lay on it while Daniel pulled the duvet on her.“Are you okay?” He asked as he caressed her cheek.“God, no,” Sapphire moaned.“Sorry. Do you want to eat now? You’ve not had anything since morning,” he said, worry evident on his face.“Not yet,” she shook her head.“Nothing? Not even fruit or anything?” He asked.“I’m going to vomit it all so what’s the point,” she frowned.“Still, you gotta eat something so that you will…”“I am fine,” she cut him short with a his
AUTHOR’S POV. Sapphire inhaled and exhaled in fear as she read the sentence and then exited it hurriedly. She went to her call log, clicked on Daniel’s number, and then called him. It kept ringing for a while before he finally picked up the call. “Daniel!” “What’s wrong, babe?” He asked. “Come home.” “What?” “Come home, right now. Leave where you are. Don’t drink or eat anything there and come home now! I… I need you!” She cried. “Sapphire, calm…” “Please, come home…” she burst into tears. She heard the creaking sound of the chair and then he spoke up again. “I’m on my way. Right now.” Sapphire dropped the call and watched the video again. She kept crying as she watched it and almost immediately, a call came in and she picked it up. A low, thunderous smile came up as she placed the phone on her head and she breathed out gently. It was the anonymous person. “You must have been scared to death seeing how he rushed out of there,” they said amidst laughter. “W… why are you do
AUTHOR’S POV.Sapphire did not know how long she lay in bed as she wondered and tried to solve the puzzle before she slept off.When she had returned to the room earlier, she hurried to the inner room she had discovered the previous week and checked the boxes again. It was definitely tied the same way Agatha had tied the ribbon.Of course, it could be a coincidence, but it was surely no coincidence that she lied about working here for two years when she’d been working for him for more than that.In fact, she was convinced that the design of the ribbon was similar. Because it was not common, and because it was unique, she knew that there was a huge link between Agatha and this person.Sapphire stirred in her sleep as she felt a hand tap her and when she opened her eyes and met with the smiling face of Agatha, she sprang up and moved to the other side of the bed.“W… what are you doing here?” She stuttered.“Are you okay? You look like you just saw a ghost,” Agatha said, the smile not l
AUTHOR’S POV.When Sapphire returned to the sitting room with Daniel, she returned to the dining room and told him she would eat out instead.“Should I order it in or do you want us to go eat out?” He asked her.“Let’s order it in,” she said.“I’ll get my phone, I’m coming,” he said to her and then walked to the stairs.After Daniel was out of sight, her phone rang and she removed it from her pocket. It was the null ID and there she assumed that it was the anonymous person.Before she picked up the call, she raised her head and her brows pulled together when she saw Agatha standing opposite her.“Sapphire Preston,” the person said the moment she placed the phone on her ear.She stared at Agatha again and she shook her head gently in disbelief. If it was Agatha, she should not be anywhere around as she would be the one talking, right?So, why was she standing there, looking at her?Were her assumptions wrong?“It is tomorrow. I hope you remember.”“Why are you doing this to me?” She si
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