MasukANIKA’S POVPrison was the worst look on Liam.Apart from the fact that it definitely did not deserve him, there was more so how he looked.Dark circles framed his eyes, and his eye bags seemed to have tripled tremendously. Was that a stubble growing across his jaw? The clothes he had been wearing earlier that day had turned rumpled and wrinkled, and there was a faint sweaty smell on him from probably not being able to have a proper shower in two days.And even with everything, he was still trying to offer me a small smile to set my mind at ease.It was not working.How could it work when he was suffering while I got to sleep in the house all comfortable?It wasn't fair.Although the nights that he was not there, I was consistently plagued by thoughts that it should have been me and not him.Every time I closed my eyes, I saw him being dragged away in handcuffs.Every time I blinked, I saw the police manhandling him like he was some criminal.Every time I breathed, guilt wrapped itself
BREE’S POV‘Cynthia, why aren’t you picking up?’‘I thought that you loved me how could you do this’‘PICK UP MY CALLS!’‘I swear to fucking god Cynthia-’This situation was laughable… the fact that It was finally occurring to Felicia that falling for me was about to be the biggest mistake of her entire life.Felicia was dumber than most, I did not expect her to leave me alone with her phone unlocked, and that gave me enough time in the world to find her unreleased designs.Honestly, I did not have an aim when I was going through Felicia’s phone, but the gods were really on my side because… this was huge!And judging by Felicia’s reaction, I got the required result.I felt Jonathan’s arms snake around my waist from behind. His chest pressed against my back, his breath hot against my neck as he murmured,"What are you doing?"I snapped my phone shut instinctively, my pulse jumping at the sudden contact. My heart hammered against my ribs as I twisted in his arms, my fingers tangling in
LIAM’S POVI don't know how many hours that I stayed holding Anika as she cried.But I did not budge, neither did I say anything. I just let her cry to her heart's content while I stayed rubbing her back continuously until her heavy shoulder racking had slowly reduced into tiny hiccups.I knew why she was this miserable.Even I had watched the days where Anika had put her all into this launch, and to have it just stolen like this... this situation was bound to be soul crushing for anyone."You have to calm down, baby. We will get down to the bottom of this, I swear it."Once I said that, she raised her head from my lap and sat up to look at me."I trusted her," she sniffed. "I mean I knew that I should not have allowed her to take a picture of my drawings but I still thought that... Fuck! How could I have been so stupid?"She shouted and started hitting herself repeatedly.I grabbed her hand immediately and frowned at her."Stop it."My heart hurt seeing her like this."I hate to be t
ANIKA’S POV“You have to see this Ma’am” Flora walked up to me with a panicked look on her face.I had an extremely terrible feeling immediately she walked in looking like that. Flora was usually a very capable person, and hardly ever come to me with any minor issues. In fact she was the best assistant that one could ever have.So the fact that she was actually coming to me, and that was the look on her face…. Then something had to be extremely wrong this time.I pushed my chair back and stood up “what is the issue?” I asked.She showed me her tablet.It was like my entire world had come crashing down, shattering into a million different pieces before my very eyes, and there was nothing that I could do to stop it.I was looking at my designs, but they were not dome by me.Apparently there was this new fashion house that just opened up… Cynthia’s couture. How ironic by the way, and they had just released their first launch. The only problem was the fact that the new clothes that were r
BREE’S POV“Are you ready?”I smirked at the man sitting across from me, sipping a glass of chilled Mongolia.“Is that a question?”This was what I had been waiting patiently for since the very second that Anika thought that it was the best idea to crawl out of whatever grave that she did and ruin my entire life…. She thought that she had won.Ha.There I say that woman was the most foolish one to think that she can just live a happy life after everything that had happened. If she wanted that, then she could have made sure that I was dead.Keeping me alive was her greatest mistake.And I would be judge, executioner and I will execute punishment over her.She would pay in blood….I would do that, even if it killed me. I looked up at him “of course I am ready” I said.He nodded.Just then my phone buzzed and I looked down at the text.I can’t wait to finally meet you babe.The laugh tore out of me before I could do anything to stop it and I turned my phone to show the man “she can’t wa
ANIKA’S POVI slammed my sketchbook shut the second I heard my office door open, and only calmed down when I saw that it was just Felicia.“Oh” i said playfully and rolled my eyes.She raised a brow at me suspiciously."What are you doing?" she asked.I smirked."Wouldn't you like to know?" I said teasingly.She narrowed her eyes at me."Now you're making me suspicious."I laughed."You are such a drama queen”She rolled her eyes dramatically before taking a comfortable seat on the chair in my office. She threw one leg over the other and rested both feet on my coffee table like she owned the place.I stared at her blankly."You know placing your feet on tables is bad manners, right?" I asked.She shrugged without an ounce of shame."Just because I know doesn't mean I have to give a fuck."I scoffed."You are really unbelievable.""I've been called worse.""I know, you are a menace”She grinned proudly like that I was giving her a compliment.Then her expression suddenly turned serious
ANIKA’S POVI told Liam to come home early today, because I had a surprise for him, but now, I was this close to chickening out.“Come on Anika you can do this” I told myself in the mirror over and over again.Then I shook my head.Fucking hell this is cringe I cannot do this-Too late.The front d
ANIKA’S POVI glared so hard at Simon that if gazes could actually kill, he might as well be six feet under.But unfortunately, the eyes were not yet evolved to be that lethal.He glared at Liam who still had his arms around me.This was actually so laughable that I couldn’t even stop the scoff tha
ANIKA’S POV“Baby?”I snuggled deeper into the warm hands that held me.Liam had insisted on babying me through my injuries. Hell, Liam always babied me, and at this point I feared that I was quickly getting spoiled.Not like I was hating that fact whatsoever.It was blissful here, just being Liam’
LIAM’S POVAll the nervousness that I felt just completely vanished the second that I had Anika in my arms.The soft scent of her hair attacking all of my senses all at once. I let it, I wanted it to…. So damn much.It took so much from me to not reply to her texts all day.It felt like torture, st







