Chapter 3.
Our new lecturer.Adrian pov.It was a Monday morning, I was dressing up in my small, and poorly furnished room, whose painting on the walls was already peeling. The room had stained and worn-out linoleum floors, and it had a few pieces of furniture, which were just my wooden bed reading table, and chair, the room was filled with the smell of cheap detergent. The lighting was a harsh fluorescent which was almost broken as cracks were obvious around it.I tried to make the room look better by adding a few decorations around it and covering the windows in cheap linens, which added a little bit of beauty to the room also, I made the room so neat.I finished dressing up and left my room to the mini dining room, which had just four wooden chairs neatly arranged around a cracked and crippled dinner table in the dining room and a few dishes were placed on the table.Mom was already seated, with Galton, my younger brother, they were waiting patiently for me to join them for breakfast. He was just like the male version of me, very handsome and young and he was a teenager of age 15, but was way more gentle and reserved than me, though he loved teasing me."And finally the princess arrives." He muttered as I came in sight and he opened his covered plate, "Can I eat now Mom?" He questioned Mom cutely, and she nodded, falling for his cuteness."Sure, your sister is here by the way.""Thank you, mom, I love you." He muttered again and dogged into his meal immediately.I chuckled and ruffled his slick hair, before settling on a seat beside him, directly opposite my mom.We began to eat and I was smiling all through, feeling just so happy that I even began to hum a song to myself as I ate. Mom must have noticed my happy mood that morning, which was so unusual, but she decided to remain silent, probably thinking that her prayers were already getting their answers. I rolled my eyes and chuckled when I remembered why I was happy. My wicked lecturer had been changed! I bet he was fired, good for him."You seem so happy this morning, are we safe? Or should we start running?" Galton muttered with a mouth filled up with pasta as he ate. He must have noticed my happiness too and had decided not to be like Mom and had voiced out his mind which resulted in him getting a hard glare from Mom. "What Mom?" He questioned Mom whining while I only chuckled.I stood to my feet, distracting the mother and son little scolding, "You know what Mom? I'm happy because I might finally pass my exams now as the bittered lecturer has been changed." I told her happily, throwing my hands in the air happily with my smiles illuminating and room."Oh dear! Good for you." Mom replied smilingly."Thank God, I can now sleep peaceably at home without any worry. Do you know you always kill your lecturer in your dreams?" Galton said, his lips formed a smirk."Shut up Galton and face your food, when adults are talking, keep quiet." Mom scolds him again.I glared at him silently, deciding to ignore him, then replied mom, "Thanks mom, I will leave now, I don't want to be late, the new lecturer will be introduced to us this morning." I told her.I pecked Mom's cheeks and that of Galton's, though he pulled off a disgusted face and muttered, "Ew!" But I'm sure he loved it and I left after, I left without Ryan and only called him to inform him that I was gone.I got to the school and was just beaming with smiles, I got into the lecture room as I would be having literature that morning and the new lecturer too would be announced and presented. I took a seat at the third flight of chairs in the art theater, waiting.I was one of the first few students that arrived and I noticed that the hall became so much filled up as seconds turned to minutes and as the clock ticked to the main time for the lecture, I also noticed that every word on the lips of the students had a thing to do with the new lecturer and I became anxious and sweaty, almost dying of anxiety.The door to the theater hall finally opened immediately the clock struck 10:00 am and the lecturer entered, I mean Mr. Sam, our formal lecturer. "No, no, no!" I thought with my heart cracking in excruciating pain, almost developing a panic attack."What?""What's happening here?""I thought he was changed!" The students around me murmured, making their bitterness known and I realized that he was not wicked to just me.I felt myself stiffened on my seat and all I wanted was a shoulder to cry on."Good morning to you all." He greeted."Good morning sir." The response was so weak."Well, as you must have known, I won't be teaching you anymore." He said and the class roared in gladness. I felt at peace immediately like a bowl of chilled water was poured on my hot self. He didn't seem to mind the students' relief, he just continued, "Permit me to introduce your new lecturer to you, Dr Raphael O'Neill."I turned my head to the door and a man softly walked in like he was careful of getting broken by any obstacle, like he was a runaway model, and I forgot how to breathe. What is happening to me? Who is he? I wondered."Hello all, I'm Raphael." He introduced himself when he got to the podium. His baritone and husky voice rang out throughout the hall. "You can call me Dr Raphael, I'm your new literature lecturer for the time being." He concluded with a hard task smirk. What is that? I wondered.I watched him silently as I tried to put everything together, I was beginning to feel weird in my body, a feeling I had no explanation for and a feeling I hadn't felt before in my life. Snap out of it Adrian, just focus! You have to start understanding more of this course today, not this weirdness! I yelled in my mind, scolding myself to stop the feelings and uneasiness.I stared away from the man to drop my jotting note on the desk with my pen between my fingers when something snapped in my head, "Lecturer!" I remembered him calling himself our new lecturer.I jerked up from my seat, "Lecturer?!" I shouted out subconsciously."Are you okay miss?" The question got me back to my senses, and I saw myself being the center of attention.I squeezed my body, feeling a sudden biting cold due to the piercing gaze around me. "I'm sorry." I apologized and got my butt back on my seat."You should be careful next time, Miss Williams! He might look nice, but don't misbehave and don't you dare take his niceness for granted!" Mr Sam snapped at me and I nodded vigorously."Don't worry sir, I will just take it up from here." Dr Raphael butted in and the lecturer left. I watched as he got the projector remote and a display arose on the board. "Introduction to literature." It read and I widened my eyes in astonishment, "What?! He is starting from the beginning!" I beamed, already blessing the new lecturer in my mind.At first, when he entered, I didn't know that he was our new lecturer, I can't believe I almost started up some weirdness for him. Thanks to the Lord, I realized quickly."Who can tell me what literature means?" Dr Raphael questioned and surprisingly, nobody raised their hand. "What? No one?" He was equally surprised."Not our fault Dr, literature was one of my best courses until Mr. S.am began his thing and we lost interest,t and yeah, he didn't mind." A guy replied to him."Just sit down." Dr. Raphael told him and he obediently sat down, "I will start now from the beginning and I will urge you all to pay rapid attention to everything I will be teaching today, because if you still don't get it after today, then I'm scared you will never understand the course again." He stated and we chorused a "Yes Dr Raphael".Dr Raphael began his lecturing, ignoring all what everybody said to him, and til he was done, my pen was dancing between my fingers as I wrote out almost everything the lecturer said. I relaxed in my seat when the day's lecture was done, having a bright smile on my lips. That was my best literature class ever!"Who is Adrian Williams?" Dr Raphael suddenly questioned as he got ready to leave.I was shocked to hear my name from him, "Is that me, or is there another Adrian Williams in the department?" I thought and feared that maybe he had noticed my results and found me so dull and useless. I stood up when I noticed everyone's gaze on me."Meet me in my office in the next one minute."Epilogue.Months later...Author's POV.Adrian was in the hospital, staring into space and that was how she had been for the past months. Always staring into space, thinking.Things had happened those past months, and Natalia couldn't be revived. She died while saving her daughter, leaving Adrian and Galton orphans.Lincoln Lime was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment, and all his property was given to Adrian as compensation, though she rejected it, giving the government a chance to own the properties til further notice.Galton was very hurt by the death of Natalia, and he was adopted by Raphael, even though he was of age, he wanted it.Ryan and Beatrice also got married and Beatrice was pregnant."Adriana." Adrian was called out of thought by Raphael, and she turned to him with a thin smile on her lips."Hey, you're back."Raphael had gone to grab her a basket of fruits as she craved."Yes," He leaned to her forehead and pecked her with his hand caressing her protruding stoma
Chapter 120.The end Adrian's POV.We have been hidden here for more than enough days and I haven't seen Mom no matter how I tried.The proposal Lincoln wanted to make with me just went by like that because I couldn't choose one, I couldn't lose my Mom, neither could I lose my baby whom I just know about.I love them both. So much.So I chose none and he left me then.Since that day, I haven't seen Lincoln, and I have been locked in the room. The only time I saw people was when I wanted to eat, they would bring food for me to eat.Today, like every day, the door opened, but this time, unlike every day, it was Lincoln who entered, and unlike every other time, when he would come by just to tease me and try to kiss me or seduce me.He tried to touch me just once, and after that, he left me, but today, he came into the room looking so annoyed.Lincoln grabbed my arm and began to pull me out of the room, "Lincoln, I..."He's cut me off with a snap, "Shut up and follow me!"I had to shut m
Chapter 119.Realizing where they are.Raphael's POV.I rushed to meet up with the investigator as they returned from their investigation, "Any news?" "No, Mr O'Neill, not yet." He replied to me.My body grew cold and my inside turned crisp like a nipping fall was happening inside of me. I was not okay, and the only thing stopping me from running mad was an unknown call that would say that Adriana was dead.I bet I would die immediately. It was very certain."What's your job if you can't find a little missing person? One got missing, we were thinking of escaping her, now another, and all you could tell us is that you can't locate them?"We've been waiting impatiently for words from you, and now that the words come, all you have to answer to us with is no? Why? It's days and do you have any idea of what that bastard is doing to my Mom and my sister, especially my sister? "If she's your sister, won't you locate her even if you have to enter the ground to find her? Are you playing shi
Chapter 118.Sorrow mixed with happiness.Adrian's POV.I couldn't let him go to my Mom, I ran to him when he was walking away and fell on my knees in front of him while weeping.I held onto his legs and cried, "Please, kill me and let my Mom go. She did nothing wrong and think of the good times when she would support you and fight for you."Think of the times my Mom would hit me because I treated you badly and spare her because she did nothing wrong to you. I am the one that wronged you. I chose Raphael over you and I should be punished. Please kill me and let my Mom go."Lincoln squinched in front of me and wiped my tears with his thumb, "You will be my gain in all these things I'm doing, so if I kill you for your Mom, what will be my gain? Nothing."I shook my head still, "Please don't hurt my Mom.""How will you believe me if I tell you I won't? You don't believe me when I told you at first.""Then let me see her, I have to be sure that she's okay, please." He twisted his lips, s
Chapter 117.Kidnapped.Adrian's POV.I know it was very bad of me to sneak out of the room and away when I could have waited behind and told what I wanted to do to Raphael, but I couldn't wait anymore for his judgment, he was taking too long to take a step and help to locate my Mom.I had pretended to be asleep after calming down from the shock of Millar's death and for the fact that I could have prevented her death, maybe if I was fast enough to stop her the other day she came to me, I would have saved her.Or maybe if I pretended that she was my friend as she said when she arrived, I should have saved her.However, the truth remains that she was dead, and I couldn't save her, but there was my Mom who needed me. She was in the custody and must be suffering. I would have been calm that my Mom would be fine since Lincoln had her, but he was bold enough to kill his girlfriend, so who is my Mom that he couldn't kill? So I had to leave to do what I could to save my Mom.When I was gett
Chapter 116.Why my brother?Raphael's POV.I managed to lure Adriana to sleep because she kept on shivering and reminding me that Millar was good.That was yet, another one of our difficult times.I gently closed up the door behind me, making sure to keep her in and to make sure not to wake her. I returned to the sitting room.I met Galton, Ryan and Karla sitting down in different thoughts, they sat on different sofas."Do you find something else?" I questioned randomly.Ryan raised his head to stare at me and he shook his head, "Nothing yet. The guards haven't returned since you left."He rubbed his hands together and was deep in thought, "Last time we saw Millar, it was two days ago when Andy went to the mall to buy her dress. Millar seemed to have something up her sleeve to be keeping from us, and she wanted to tell us, but_"He cut himself off and sighed."But what?" I moved closer to him, "Anything is useful right now Ryan.""But we didn't allow her to talk. You know Millar is a