OLIVIA’S POVWe walk home together after the bonfire,Alexis and Jane in front of us, holding hands and looking at each other tenderly.Nate And I at the back with Neil behind us trying to ignore whatever moment we had back at the bonfire. I keep stealing glances at him, hoping to catch him looking at me, but every time I glance at him he is looking ahead.Nate seems extra focused on getting to the house all of a sudden.We get home and Alexis and Jane go up to their room on the far edge of the house, not paying the rest of us any attention.This whole escape from my father, our lives at stake thing, seems to bring them closer, they look like they were on their honeymoon moon or something, while for the rest of us, it seems to draw us apart.Nathaniel goes ahead to the bedroom while I put Neil to bed and tucked him in.Part of me still feels a bit weird leaving him in there, all alone in that room and even though our bedroom is literally next door, I still feel like if anything comes

AUTHOR'S POVAlexis and Nathaniel walked out of the penthouse, Alexis noticed that Nathaniel seemed lost in thought."What's on your mind Nate?" Alexis asked, concerned.Nathaniel shrugged. "Nothing really, just thinking about work."Alexis nodded, not entirely convinced, but didn't press further. They made their way down to the main road.Meanwhile, back in the penthouse, the ladies were working hard in the kitchen. They were understaffed for dinner, and everyone was working their hands off to make sure everything was perfect. Yeila, the newly hired maid, had finished cutting the vegetables and had just put the duck in the oven when she heard the cries of a baby.She quickly removed her mittens and made her way to the living room. There she found Neil, the youngest member of the family, crying in his playpen. Yeila picked him up and tried to soothe him, but he just wouldn't stop crying.Not wanting to disrupt the kitchen staff, Yeila took Neil into the hallway and found a stroller. S

JANE'S POVAlexis discussed the chosen date of the wedding celebration with me. Even though it felt fast to me, there's nothing sweeter than being with Alexis"What do you think about this dress? Don't you think it's pretty?" I asked Alexis. We were currently in the sitting room. I was scrolling through a shopping website to choose my wedding clothes but there were so many beautiful designs that caught my eye which made me unable to choose.The first dress was a lace embroidered off-shoulder dress with a plunging back coupled with long sleeves and flare while the other one was a strapless princess gown."I think anything will be good for you, princess," Aiden said to me without looking at the screen, he then kissed my lips. "After all, mine is just to take it off." He muttered in a deep flirty voice."Cheesy." I snorted at him. "This is one-in-a-lifetime wear, so I have to make sure I choose the best," I replied to him, but he replied with a shrug.I have yet to inform Olivia about th

OLIVIA’S POVFOR the first time in a long time, I feel at peace.I have everyone I love around me and beside me.When we first moved here, I remember being scared, terrified that my father would turn out at any moment and take everything from me.He would take my son.He would take my husband.He would take my friends and I’ll be left alone here, screaming and crying and begging him to return what he took from me.But I’ve not had any bad dreams in a long time now.I feel safe now.And it does help that today is Nathaniel’s birthday.Me, Alexis and Jane are playing it cool, we are acting like we forgot his birthday but here’s the twist - We didn’t.We planned to throw a little surprise party for him, when he comes back.The only annoying part about today is how easy Nate is making this. Throwing a surprise party is supposed to be hard, you know, because the celebrant is suspicious that something is going on and you’re trying to convince them that nothing is going on - that’s the whole

OLIVIA'S POVONE thing about staying alive was the hope it promises and the life it promises, as the days tickled by like a stream escaping the brook of life I was losing focus on my father's threat gradually again and made more attention into raising Neil.Neil was growing fast as he should, different from the way any normal child would.It has been seven months and counting since we fled the gulf not in fear but rather as a precaution and I would likely say it as the best decision we've made as I could not imagine him raising a child in such an hostile environment with the fear of my father and other vices.Here felt more like it, save the time the house was ransacked but ever since then one would fall in love with the peace Hawaii emitted.It was perfect for my sanity as a witch, and helped with the peaceful flow of energy round my chakras.In everything I did I was careful though, one thing about such energy was it could be read from even far away.I was aware of this so I made su