Kingston’s POV Evading the journalist was the easiest thing for me. I made sure they couldn’t get a facial picture of Luisa or Chris. They were more than satisfied with our back pictures as if it was the most pleasant picture, they could get hold of. I know it was their job but it was so late at night, yet they were staking outside an innocent woman’s house just to fire her with questions. They have learnt to respect themselves to a level in my presence. I don’t respond to any of their questions. Never. If I needed to pass on information to them, I would request a private interview. They need to learn how to respect people’s privacy to a level. I would make sure none of the pictures surfaces online, even those of the back pictures. Jimmy smiled at Luisa the moment she gets in the car. Chris was asleep on her lap, and I collected him to make her feel comfortable. “How are you holding up?” He asked her. She smiled. She gave him a genuine smile that she had never given me before
Luisa’s PovI had come to accept Kingston in my life. He was good to me and Chris, plus he cared. I had gone back online to check the news; no matter how I wanted to show that I couldn’t care about what others thought about me. I found myself going back to check some of the comments, and there were none online. The pictures. The news. It was as if it never existed in the first place, and no soothsayer had to tell me it was all Kingston’s doing.Now, we were in the stage of getting to know each other. The only problem was Clarissa and her daughter who always came to visit. Kingston had accepted her as his daughter, and they visit always. Nelly had a room in the mansion. She usually played with Chris and I felt that he would get too close to him. I did not mind them getting closer, but I minded her mother’s attitude toward us. It was also obvious that Clarissa hated me. Whenever I tried to have a conversation with her, she shut me up. In Kingston’s absence, she called me good
Kingston’s POVWhen I received the first DNA test, I was in denial. There was no way Nelly could have been my daughter. I only did the DNA to humour Clarissa; I did not want her to come up with any excuses in the future. I trusted my doctor and believed it might have been a mistake. So, I asked him to perform another DNA which also came back positive. There was no way I would allow a child of mine to live far from me, so I decided to give her a room and permission to visit whenever she wanted. But the closer I got to her, the more convinced I was that she was not my daughter.Clarissa found an opportunity to visit every time I was around. I left her just because of Nelly. I mostly ignored her, but she was always bringing up new topics like, “Nelly won a quiz competition in school.” Or “Nelly’s teacher said she is one of the best students in her class. She is just like you.” I knew what she was trying to do; she was trying to make Nelly look like a perfect child to me, and fo
“What are you doing here, Derek?”I was surprised to see him. I never thought I would see him again, and yet here he was in front of the Sanchez mansion asking for me.“I wanted to see you again.”I turned to the security guard, “I know him. You can let him in.”He nodded, while Derek drove his car in. When I received a call that I had a visitor, I thought it was my mother. She had insisted on not visiting the mansion until I fully got married to Kingston. Sometimes, I found it difficult to understand her moral values. I was shocked when the guard said it was a man, and it was Derek.I sat quickly beside him in his car, until he packed in front of the fountain. “I had no idea you are coming to visit me.”He smiled, “I wanted to surprise you.”What was with everyone trying to surprise me? “How did you know where I live?”He chuckled, “Come on, Luisa. You are famous. It will be wrong if I don’t know where you live.”As we moved into the sitting room, I could feel most of the m
KINGSTON’S POVI had found out everything I wanted to know about the bastard – his name was Derek Wilson. He was a lawyer; a famous one that had won a lot of cases and hardly loses cases, twenty-seven, never married and had few criminal records. I didn’t go deep into his records because lawyers could have those when they get too dedicated and loyal to their clients. I also believed that everyone had a way of dealing with getting their work done. Involving in some criminal activities might have been his. As a businessman, I don’t fault the process as long as the end result is yielding. I also knew most of his activities these days because I had put a tail on him; I knew he had met with Luisa just thrice including when he visited her in my mansion. I didn’t ask Luisa about him because I was learning to trust her. If she wanted me to know anything about him, she would tell me all about it. The strange thing was, he was closer to Clarissa than Luisa. Seth had sent me pictures of h
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVENClarissa’s POV.I have never lost what I wanted severely in my life before, but with how my plan was going, I think I was going to lose out big in this deal, and that was why I had to do something about it.Derek, my partner, lay his head on my lap while kissing each of my fingers seductively. I sighed, “I don’t think she is going to fall for you, Derek.”He smiled. His smile was so cute that it melts my heart. It was one of the reasons I had fallen for him, and why I was pinning on him. Derek was what I called handsome and brilliant. Most of the deals we had tried out were from him, and he mastermind most of it all by himself.“You think so.” He questioned.I nodded.“I think she is already falling for me. She just needs more time to think about it.” He stood up, walk to the table, pour a drink into his cup and sipped it. I was expecting him to come back to my lap to rest, but he sat on the opposite chair looking at me with a strange gaze. “What!” I sai
The look on Luisa’s face was something I could get used to. Her mouth was left open, and she gazed at everything like she was seeing it for the first time. She had opened her mouth twice to speak to me, only for her to close it back in astonishment. She ran up the stairs, then back down. Then, she moved around touching things, then she was back at my side. I smiled. The way she acted brought a sincere smile to my face, and I was glad that I postponed all of my meetings for this date.“Are you serious right now?” She asked.I had no idea what she was talking about, so I asked. “About?” She twirled, “Why is no one in the mall?” She stopped to give me a fake angry gaze, “Are you going all cliché on me right now? Renting the mall all to yourself just because you are a billionaire.”I laughed this time; it was loud and I felt the vibrations in my chest, “Princess, I did not rent the mall. I own it.”Her eyes got wider, “You own the mall too. You own this particular mall.”I nodd
Kingston's POV“Hello, Kingston,” Clarissa said with a huge smile on her face. Luisa came out of her hiding place, and security made sure to send everyone in front of the mall home. I know they would be willing to post something about the billionaire and his estranged fiancée, but I trust Seth was going to handle that. That was the reason I paid him as much as I do.The three of us went back to the restaurant. Clarissa wanted to sit beside me but I told her to sit opposite me while Luisa sits beside me. Clarissa pouted, but I couldn’t care about it. When she saw that I was not giving in to her, she sat opposite me.“What are you doing here?”I was angry that she had spoilt my date with Luisa, but my face was expressionless.“I wanted to see you. You have been so busy, that I hardly see you at all.”I raised a brow, “Why do you want to see me? I don’t think we have anything to discuss, right?”She looked at Luisa, then back at me. “Can she excuse us? I will love to speak with