로그인“Let go of me!” I screamed immediately. The man tried to pick me up, but I kept kicking and pushing. I heard the cock of a gun and the boom— A shot. I screamed. The man holding me staggered. He had been shot. He dropped me down immediately and tried to bring out his gun, before he turned around, a second shot came in instantly. It was another of Rafiah’s men. This time, it hit his head. The sound distorted in my ears as everything blurred.“Mia! run.” I heard Raf say. I ran toward Raf, shivering and shaking.****The sound of birds chirping disrupted my sleep. Soft light was coming in through the window. My eyes snapped open.““What happened— I said lazily. Where am I?”“Oh, you finally decided to wake up. I was scared for a minute. Who knew seeing a man shot in front of you would make you pass out for hours?”“Omg… I fainted?”“Yeah, you did.”I slowly turned my head toward the window. Everything looked different. Tall stone buildings, pale morning light, unfamiliar architecture
Did you get them to talk?”“Yes boss.”“Good. Now kill them.”I stood up abruptly from the chair I had been sitting on. “Kill who?”“The men who ambushed your house.”My stomach twisted instantly. “Why would you kill them?”Rafiah barely looked up. His expression remained cold as one of the men beside him stepped forward and handed him a small black folder.“Ma’am, here’s your passport. I collected it and opened it. It had my picture and my name on the data page. “WTF, this isn’t mine.” I let my eyes fall on Rafiah.“We’re heading to Paris. You’ll be safe there.” He saidI burst out laughing in disbelief. “That’s not possible. I can’t just run away to another country because you want me to. Not without getting an explanation.”His jaw tightened, his face looked tense. “That night at the office—”“Yeah?”“I was drugged.”I blinked at him. “Drugged?” I repeated slowly. “What do you mean drugged?”He sat down on the couch, elbows resting on his knees like the weight of everything was f
“Rafiah, the teacher’s coming.”“Yeah, so?”“You’re holding the weed, dummy.”“Oh fuck, man,” he said, tossing the smoke away. “You should’ve started with that.”Phil laughed. “Bruh, the whole point of saying the teacher’s coming is because you had a big loud blunt in your hands.”“Hello, everything okay? The bell rang five minutes ago.”“Yeah, we heard,” they said, still staring at the maths teacher.“Well, beat it,” he said sternly. “Just because your fathers are major shareholders doesn’t give you the right to act above the school,” he muttered.The boys smirked, hands in their pockets as they strolled off casually. The iconic duo. That was their title in high school.Rafiah and Phil had known each other since they were ten years old. At that time, Chairman Khalid and Chairman Morello were business partners and hoped their sons would take over the family business when they came of age. But Rafiah had never, and didn’t ever, want anything to do with the business. He was notorious in
“Hey Lucas, I’m off to work. Might crash at Nikki’s tonight.” “Yeah sure,” he said, sipping coffee at the dining table. “See you tomorrow.” “Yeah sure, bye.” All through the week, going to work had felt exhausting. Maybe because Raf wasn’t around. “No, Mia, focus.” That chapter’s closed. You shouldn’t be thinking about him. I opened my laptop and continued typing reports, trying to distract herself, when I noticed a group of men entering the office. They were dressed in black suits and looked completely out of place among the usual office staff. Their eyes scanned the room carefully. “Can I help you?” I heard Emily ask cautiously. “We’re looking for Mr. Rafiah.” “He isn’t in today,” Emily replied. The men exchanged glances amongst themselves before turning to leave. But one of them paused and looked directly at me. The stare he gave me made my body shiver. It was a cold and unsettling feeling. Like he recognized me. I quickly looked away and pretended to continu
A limousine was on the runway waiting as Rafiah’s private plane landed. “Paris air!” he murmured, inhaling deeply. “Never gets old.” He got into the car and went straight to see the chairman. “Son! Welcome home,” she kissed him on both cheeks, her blonde hair falling neatly as she smiled. It was his Mother. She was 5'9, had a light skin tone with a slender figure. Rafiah’s Mother adored her kids, and treated Rafiah and his sister like they were still little children no matter how old they got. But his father was different. Chairman Khan always expected too much from Rafiah and nothing he ever did was up to par. “I had the cook prepare all your favourite meals. Did you lose weight, Raffy?” Raffy was the name she usually called him. “Mum, forget about me, but look at you,” he said, spinning her around. “You’re glowing! Did you get a new haircut?”. “Yes!” She said grinning from ear to ear, “don’t you like it?” Beautiful he said looking at his Mum, I love it. “Oh you flatt
“What the fuck is happening” I got down almost immediately. I was so stunned I almost stumbled in fear.” I regained balance and ran towards the alley, running so frantically that I missed my step but Rafiah caught me in time. “Mia are you okay?”“What the fuck Raf? why did you run off like that?” I noticed he had a camera in his hands. “Urm—what’s that? Hold on, was someone taking pictures of us? Omg,” I was already on the verge of a panic attack.He held on to my shoulder immediately, “look at me! Mia! I could hear a loud noise ringing in my head. “Calm down! Breathe, listen to the sound of my voice. You’re okay, you’re safe.”The noise in my head slowly subsided and I could focus again. “Rafiah” I said agitatedly, “who was that, is it a stalker, am I in trouble?” Lu— Dave— they’re gonna find out about everything,” I said almost in tears. “I need to come clean. Fuck what do I do?”“Mia, listen to me! Look,” he said, showing me some images that had been taken in the camera. This







