Unknown POV Shit! Shit! Shit!!How on earth did they manage to get out?!I crouched on my bed, my laptop close to my face as I stared in disbelief at the latest news.For the past one hour since I got back and got rid of every single evidence that I was at her place, I've been googling through the Internet expecting something tragic.My jaw dropped in shock when I saw the headline of the news a few minutes ago."Alexander Blake's ex-wife and child narrowly escaped a fire accident."Of course they had used his name instead of hers, that was the main reason why the news blew up within minutes despite the fact that it was just past one in the morning and most of the world was still fast asleep.How on earth did they survive?I made sure that the gas spread to every single part of the house, I was careful enough to make sure that it didn't look like something done on purpose.Now all my work would go down the drain.If no one suspects it to be arson, Katherine or even Alex would definite
ALEXANDER'S POV "Where's Katherine? How is she?" I asked him, my voice sounding breathless.He sighed and shook his head."Alex.."No!No!!"Tell me she's okay. Tell me she's alright!" My hand reached out for his collar and I gripped it tightly.My chest felt very heavy and my breath was rushed. I could feel the nervous and worried eyes of the nurses behind me, but I wasn't bothered.No one would escape my wrath if anything happens to Katherine.His hands gently held mine and took it off his collar, he looked calm for someone who was just threatened."She's alive, Alex."I let out the breath that I didn't realize I had been holding and bent my head.She's alive!!Thank goodness.That's all that matters."Where is she?" I looked at him."At the ICU."My heart dropped."ICU?"That meant that she was seriously injured.He nodded in response."We're trying our best to make sure that she's okay.""What do you mean by that? Aren't there enough doctors in this hospital? I don't want you to
ALEXANDER'S POV Katherine didn't call me to let me know that Franklin was discharged.That thought kept me wide awake all night as I tossed and turned on the bed.Did she really mean what she said? Was she going to stop me from being with my son?No way.I can't let her do that.I won't.All just because I punched that asshole, whatever he was to her.My eyes felt heavy with sleep but my thoughts were heavier, it stopped me from succumbing to the invitation to sleep."I won't let my son spend a single hour or a minute with someone who thinks with his fists," her words echoed in my ears, harsh and final.Who does she think she is?I only punched Charles because he got on my nerves, I never acted like that in her presence before so why would she quickly conclude that I was a violent person?My thoughts were interrupted by the sound of my phone ringing and I took a look at the alarm clock beside me.Past twelve.It was barely dawn! Who the hell was calling?I grabbed my phone angrily a
KATHERINE'S POV "Mom!!" I groaned in my sleep and turned. My eyelids felt too heavy to open and I didn't try to push them. "Go away, Franklin. I'm so tired," I mumbled. The banging continued and I suddenly felt hot. Why can't he just let me sleep? Once again I tried to force my eyes open but it wasn't opening but I was no longer deeply asleep like I was earlier. My senses were awake long enough for me to know that the sound of banging on my door and Franklin calling me was nothing but a dream. I tried to go back to sleep, eyes still heavy but I couldn't. The first thing I noticed was the heaviness in my chest. It pressed down on me like a weight, thick and smothering. My throat scratched as though I’d swallowed ash in my sleep. I coughed, half-awake, and rolled onto my side. The air burned my nose. Something wasn’t right. I blinked into the darkness, but it wasn’t dark. A dull glow seeped beneath my bedroom door, shifting and flickering like a restless thing. My mind,
Unknown POV They came back earlier than I expected. I hated things like these because their sudden arrival would push me into rushing the carefully crafted plan I had in mind over the past three days.I lowered my car seat and immediately leaned back as the approaching headlights got closer.It would be a shame to give out my hiding spot right now.Not when I was this close to finally getting my pound of flesh.The car slowed down and the engine died some meters away from me and I listened to the sound of the car door opening."Can I watch TV while you make dinner?"A little boy's voice chirped gently and I felt my lips curl into a smile.The boy was with her.Good.Even perfect.I've never seen him before but the headlines mentioned something about her having a son, turns out she really did.Katherine's short chuckle was like an arrow pierced into my heart and I clenched my fist in anger.She sounded happy.Well, she'd better enjoy it.This would be the last time she'll ever be happ
KATHERINE'S POV My hands trembled slightly as I held Franklin's. Tears welled up in my eyes and burned through my lashes.What the hell was I thinking? That someone like Alex would ever change? I must have been blinded by dreams of being with him. How could he punch Charles right in front of Franklin's room? How could he act like that? Like he owned me?Why didn't he wait for a response from me before acting that way?But even as I asked all these questions, a part of me knew that he had the right to be mad at Charles and that maybe I went too far with the words I used on him.I shouldn't have said that he doesn't deserve to be a Father.The pain in his eyes was engraved in my memories and no matter how hard I try to shake it off, it stays.Franklin made a sound and I immediately sniffed, my free hand flying to my eyes to dampen the tears threatening to fall off from my eyes."Mom..?" He called gently.I squeezed his hands."Yes baby?"He lifted his head and I supported him."Where