NICO’S POV~Leave a life of crime? No sweet girl I can't do that, that’s all I live for, but im not going to tell her that.“How are you so calm knowing they did that to Sophia?” she asked, and that question got to me.As she raved on and on about how my lifestyle was endangering my daughter all I wanted to do was lift the weird cloth she had on and fuck her right there.“Fine,” I said stopping her, “fine?” she retorted.I nodded, “no more crimes”“I mean it Nico, I can't keep getting wrapped up in the wars you create with enemies I've never met in my life, whatever you and my ex-husband are fighting about, whatever messed up money shit you have tied me to I want out of it, for Sophie’s sake, if I die there goes her chance for survival” she chided.I hated to admit it but she was right, this war between Logan and I wasnt ending soon, he started it and I'll make sure I'll finish it with a bang.“I promise, no more life of crime, im just going to be a plain businessman now and that’s wh
PEARL’S POV~Someone was shooting at us, I ducked, my heart beating out of place as I thought of who I'd save.Kira unconscious on the floor who I've surprisingly grown extra fond of, or the man who risked his neck to save me.I saw Lorenzo and the other men rush up the stairs and soon they returned fire, I looked on the horizon to see there was another boat chasing after us.“Who the hell is that!” I heard Lorenzo ask, “I dont know, but Nico fell over!” I cried.Lorenzo didnt waste any time jumping into the water, he didnt resurface for a while and when he did he was alone.“Where is Nico!” I asked, he shook his head and dived back in, I heard Kira slowly start to come to.“What’s going on?” she asked slowly as she reached for me, “you fell, we need to get you to a hospital before you bleed out” I replied, and she nodded.“But for now I need you to go below, some people are after us and we have no idea who they are” She nodded again and soon I'd taken her below deck.I ran back up to
PEARL’S POV~ I watched them wheel Kira into the hospital, an oxygen mask over her face a nurse compressed her chest.“Is she going to be okay?” I asked in a shaky tone, “Ma'am come this way please, tell us what happened” a nurse called.She walked me toward the nurses’ station and took down all the information I could give her.Nico didnt come with me, and I knew it was more than just a war with Logan because Lorenzo was suddenly missing too.I waited for the nurse to come back with some news, she walked up to me with a worried look on her face, “Is she okay?” I asked, and she touched my arm.“Yes she is, the doctors are with her now, she had a serious infection a few more hours she would have gone into septic shock, she’s out right now but you can go in later when she’s awake” she smiled.I beamed with joy, “Oh thank you!” I hugged her.“But that’s not all, you are Pearl Cavill right?” she asked, I nodded “Yeah I am” “I need you to come with me to see Dr Thompson about Sophie D’Ang
NICO’S POV~I followed her like an invisible rope had been tied around my neck to her swinging waistline.She turned and saw me walking behind her.“Why are you following me? Don't you have somewhere to be? What if someone sees you and reports you to the cops!” she fumed.I grinned, “I can go wherever I want”She snapped and hastened her steps, took a turn and walked toward the nurses’ station, I quickly hid in a corner and peeked.I saw her look for me, and I laughed, for someone who wants me to leave her alone she sure is clingy.I saw the nurse smile and give her directions, I stepped out from my hiding pot when the coast was clear and I followed her.She stopped in front of a room and entered, I walked toward it and I could see there was an adjoining room, I'm guessing the Asian woman was in there.I walked to the other room and entered, I guess this room was made for people who got sick together or something because a clear glass separated the rooms.I closed the door behind me a
PEARL’S POV~What the hell did I just witness, am I about to watch Nico fuck another woman in front of me?“Are you okay, you look like you’ve seen a ghost” she inquired.“Im fine” I replied glaring at Nico who wouldn't stop staring at me as he slammed his dick into the nurse’s mouth over and over.I didnt know what I was feeling, but anger was definitely in the mix. “Just…. Just um a little blue” I lied, clearing my throat, “the um donations yeah they make me blue” I added to the lie again.Kira shook her head in protest, “you don't have to do it,” she said, taking my hand.“I have to, she’s important to me”, I replied, I watched as Nico filled the mouth of the nurse who was supposed to prepare me for Sophie’s donation.Doesn't he want to save his daughter anymore? Is his anger for rejecting him worth Sophie’s life?“I have a confession” Kira started, I turned away from Nico and back to her.“What don't you like the jello? I knew it” I laughed.“Well, that and also I think I have a
PEARL’S POV~What if I'm obsessed with you?Why the hell would Nico D’Angelo be obsessed with me, we are practically strangers bound by a legal document.Meeting Kira changed me. I felt something I'd never experienced before. She woke something in me, and now, thanks to this confusion with Nico, it's gone.The plans we had to help her capture Kenji and avenge her sister are now gone with her.Tears welled up in my eyes as I pressed the ball in my hand, pumping blood into the bag meant for Sophie.I owed Nico a lot of money, yes, but I have to let him know my body is not on the table as much as he wants it to be.One minute he is all over me, the next cold and distant like a psychopath.The nurse who had been brutally fucked earlier came into my room with a warm smile, her day looked awfully cherry.“Almost done pearl, there’s a car to take you home”.“Who is here?” I asked pretending like nothing had happened earlier, choosing to be the bigger woman.“Here” she stretched out an iPhone
PEARL’S POV~“Miss Cavill! Miss Cavill!” I heard as I descended the stairs, I smiled into the camera pointed at me as I stopped and soon more paparazzi followed.“DM Holdings just announced you as the Interim Ceo, following your ex-husband Logan Davis-Malone’s sudden resignation, what do you have to say about that?”I placed my hand in front of me and smiled directly into the camera with an innocent gaze. “yes, I have just recently been briefed, transitioning into the role of acting Ceo until it's official. Safe to say I don't know what’s happening in the Davis-Malone family but I have never been nor will I ever be a member of their family, im Pearl Dana Cavill, and I've never been married to Logan Davis-Malone” I lied perfectly with a bright smile.They were shocked and the questions increased, “But sources say you’ve been married for four years and witnesses say you've been seen many times….”“Let me stop you right there, let me clear the air once and for all” I paused before ta
PEARL’S POV~Camile got up and walked towards Tilly Carson and me, “because she’s an imposter who thinks she’s now queen of the castle,” she fumed.I turned to her, “maybe you should have pressed the knife one inch deeper, maybe you’d have gotten your wish” I replied, and she gasped.“I warned you about what would happen if you came back to this house, what the hell are you doing here, and how the hell did you get Nico to hand you his company, you seduced him didnt you?” she snapped, pointing her crooked fingers at me.I slapped them away from my line of sight and focused on my accuser, “im sorry you had to find out this way, it must have been traumatic for you hearing that on TV, if you could join me in my office upstairs and ill explain everything to you” I smiled warmly.I moved to climb the stairs but Camille blocked me, “and where the hell do you think you are going?” she asked, “Camille, I dont have the time nor energy for this, I have work to do, get the hell out of my way” I r
Pearl’s pov~The day of the pageant finally came. August was by my side as usual; he never left my side, not for one day.“Are you ready?” he asked, kissing my lips gently.I shivered under his touch. “Yeah, I am,” I smiled.“You don't have to do it if you don't want to,” he smiled back.“How are you okay with all of this, August? I'm a married woman with a baby on the way. It feels too good to be true,” I said, touching his long hair.All he did was look at me intensely and smile.“I'm not worried about anything; as long as we are together, I'm fine,” he said.“Oh August, I honestly don't deserve you,” I continued before touching his face.But all I wanted to hear at that moment was Pearlita…He took my hand and helped me up. He looked at me and he was awestruck. “You look so stunning, Pearl, so beautiful. Are you ready for your first debut? You are, after all, the face of DM Holdings,” he bragged.“No, that’s a lie Devina, all of a sudden I'm the evil mistress who won't let the ex g
Devina’s pov~I read the headline again, Rival partner Logan Davis Malone offers his 5million dollar yatch to ceo Pearl D’Angelo for peagent, amidst separation rumours from his pregnant fiancée, Miss Devina Daniels.“He did what?” I crumpled the newspaper in my hands and threw it to the ground. My sister came from around the corner, her eyes bright from her early morning jog.“What’s got you so worked up?” she asked, I fumed and pointed to the crumpled up paper on the floor beside her feet.She leaned down to pick it up, she read it and she laughed.“What’s so funny?” I asked trying to get up with my 37 weeks old belly.“Well I did tell you shitvwas going to hit the fan sooner or later, why on earth did you leave?” my sister Desiree asked, “It was getting to dangerous, I was involved in some diabolical shit I had to skip town” I replied.“Then maybe stop worrying about it and focus on your baby” she replied putting her ear pods away.“This is serious Desiree, there’s a bitch on my as
PEARL’S POV~CHAPTER: Ultrasound & Unraveling“You ratted me out to Kenji!” came a thunderous roar, Sophie was startled.I turned around and there she was Akira Watanabe, a ghost from my past. She looked furious, bloodthirsty anger surged through her, and Sophia looked scared.“Can we talk in the hallway you are scaring her” I always felt uneasy in hospitals because there was too much quietness for such painful places. With my palm lying over my bloated stomach, I strolled alone across the clean hallway. Kira was in a downward spiral about something, something I had no hand in.“What the hell are you talking about Akira?” I asked.She scoffed “back to formalities now are we?” she asked, “you are scaring my child,” I retorted.“Which of them because from the look of things you and Nico have been busy” she spat.“Why are you here Kira? You wanted nothing to do with me, remember? So why are you here?”“Did you rat me out to Kenji?” she asked. I was shocked by her statement, “how the h
NICO’S POV~I waited for Adam at the usual spot for over 3 hours, and the bastard didn't show up. This was his usual shenanigans, and I wasn't up for it.I turned to leave when I noticed a black sedan heading in my direction. I stopped and waited, hoping it was my sleek consigliere driving towards me.The car stopped in front of me, and he got out. He wore a black suit with a pink tie. I sighed. Something about him will always tick me off.“Hi, boss,” he greeted before extending an arm to me. “Adam, you said it was urgent? What the hell is so urgent that you couldnt tell me over the phone” Someone like Adam shouldn't have been noticed in the alley behind La Rue d'Or. His smell was too refined, his outfit too immaculate. However, he remained unflinching when the shadows shifted and I appeared like a menacing specter dressed in pricey wool."You're late to your own fucking meeting, Adam!" I stated in a foreboding tone.Adam looked at his timepiece. "No, I'm not. You simply lack patienc
PEARL’S POV~I wasnt going to rest, no not when a vulture perched and waited for my carcass at my doorstep, with Camille gone, the D’angelo mansion was eerily still.Which made me wonder, what if camille never really left, this house used to belong to Langdon moseley, and cammile and her dead sister grew up here.So what if somehow she was still here, I reached for my phone and called August.“Hey, Pearl, sleep okay?” he asked. I sighed, “Yesterday was wild even for me but I had to do it, im watching TV right now and all I can see is my epic failure as a CEO, some people are saying I resigned to be a supermodel” I managed a small laugh.“In your condition, I don't think it's safe enough for you to keep engaging in risky situations,” he said.“I know that August, trust me but I'll never get the peace I deserve with Camille still out there, where is she now?” I asked “Give me a second let me check, she hadnt moved from the funeral place before i slept off” he yawned.“Were you up all n
Pearl's POV~They say Grief only knows how to wear black. I said, Fuck it, and I decided to go with red.It was audacious, and people whispered before I had uttered a word, their eyes pressed on the slippery silk that hugged every curve. A pageant launch wasn't usually held at a funeral, but I wasn't your average widow. Camille was aware that Nico wasn't dead. But she was willing to take that chance to see him one last time if, truly, she was obsessed with him.Throwing my husband a funeral despite knowing he was alive would make her curious enough to know if Nico is truly dead.The headlines were already half written: *CEO Widow Honors Late Husband Nicolas D’Angelo. It was part trap and part theater. "Pearl," Adam called from beside me, adjusting the gold-trimmed suit I had asked him to wear. "This feels insane," he criticized with a shake of his head."That's the idea," I replied with a gentle smile, pinning a crimson carnation to his lapel. "We need Camille to feel comfortabl
Pearl’s pov~I saw him finally reach for the phone, and the video ended.It was like I was in a trance of some sort after that; soon after, Angelo came in, distracting my thoughts.I was both a priest and a sinner, and I gazed at the screen as though it were a confession booth.Nico's raw, gruff, and remorseful voice blasted through the speakers. Not the smirking, smooth-talking businessman that unnerved everyone. This man was losing his mind.“Pearl, are you ready? They are really calling for your head in there. You have to do or say something to dissuade them. I don't think I can hold them off for too long,” he mentioned before coming closer. “Are you okay? Is it Nico again?” he asked. I saw his hands leaning close to the laptop, and I shut it down.“No, it's nothing, just stunned,” I replied with a nod. “Just a little shaken from the row I'm about to face. With Logan there, who knows how it will turn out? He has been surprisingly calm,” I replied, distracting him from the video.He
Nico’s pov~When I met Camille, I was a 27-year-old guy with aspirations to own empires of my own.I was a good kid, well raised and brought up by Nana Rosa under the guidance of God.But the moment I saw Camille I knew God had left the conversation because Only the Devil could send a smile to meI was a young, naive he started faintly.She was an orphan, and I volunteered as a handyman.She was an odd one; at first she followed me everywhere, and I thought she was harmless, but then I saw the true Camile when Jacinta, one of the girls at the orphanage, died.She was last seen with me; well, you know how that story goes.She was going to be 18 soon, and the orphanage was going to let her go be an adult when a strange-looking man came to adopt her.That was when my woes began.She knew I wanted to become rich and powerful; she knew I wanted power above anything, so she curated a plan just for this.At first, I thought it was crazy, but she convinced me otherwise, and I went along with
NICO’S POV~A shard of glass tore through my skin and before I knew it blood had pooled on the floor where I stood.It felt like my insides were torn to pieces.Dust and smoke from the blast filled the air, I put an arm over my nose and found my way out of the blown-up station.I thought of Pearl, hoping she had run out to safety, Camile had played her game.Her dark twisted fantasy to seek her out.She always does this to get my attention, deliberately put me in trouble and I am sick of this.On my way out of there, I saw the van, and I could hear Adam and Lorenzo.Finally, safely out, I was still breathing.I took a step towards the van and realised that if I go back to my life I'll never figure out where Langdon Mosely is.I had to find him, something was off, I know I fucked his daughter but I didnt kill her somehow it seemed it was a strong enough reason to hunt me like a crazed dog.So I turned and left, I hijacked a car from its owner and I left.I headed to Queens, I knew some