LOGINXAVIER’S POVI sat across from my mother at the long table. The room was big and dark as my uncle and the other big men in the family sat around us. Nobody was talking. They were all looking at the white paper on the table which was the main reason we are here in the first place."If you sign that paper, Xavier, you will leave this house with nothing," my mother said coldly to me.I held the blue pen in my hand thinking of what to do next, but the fact is that I don't want her money but Nichole safety matters to me now more than anything. "I don't want your money again, mother.""You are throwing away your father's wealth because of that girl," she said, shaking her head. "She doesn't even care about you son."I looked at the black ink on the paper. "Nichole cares about me and you tried to make people think she is a bad person, but I know what you did."My mother did not deny it as she leaned back in her chair and touched her gold necklace."I did it to save you," she said, looking r
Xavier's povI sat at my big desk with my head down, rolling a crushed red ring box between my thumbs. My head hurt very badly where the mean men had hit me with a heavy wooden stick. There was also a big purple bump near my hair, and it felt like a hammer was banging inside my mind. But the pain in my head was nothing compared to the pain inside my heart right now. My heart felt like it was breaking into a thousand tiny pieces.Every time I closed my eyes, the same scary picture played in my mind. I saw Nichole crying out in the dark night as I saw the bad men grabbing her arms and dragging her into a dirty alleyway. She was reaching her small hands out to me, crying my name and asking me to help her. I had tried to run to her, but the men had hit and knocked me down. I failed to protect her then, and now she was all alone with those scary men.I picked up my phone with shaking hands and held it to my ear. "Marcus, did you find that black car?" I asked, my voice trembling with fear
NICHOLE’S POVThe big iron door shut with a loud bang, and the huge noise made my eyes snap open from the sleep I was in.I woke up sitting on a hard wooden chair in the middle of a dark, dirty room, and I saw that my arms were tied behind my back.My head hurt from the bad liquid medicine the mean man put into my neck at the party, and my mouth was so dry that it felt like sand.I pulled as hard as I could on the thick ropes around my hands, but the knots were very tight to a point it cut into my skin when I tried to move.A single yellow bulb clicked above my head, swinging back and forth on a long wire, and I saw Beatrice and Mira standing in front of me with mean smiles."You took everything away from me, Nichole," Beatrice said, taking a slow step toward my chair as she looked at my face.I looked up into her eyes, taking a deep breath to stop myself from crying out loud. "The police are going to catch you for doing this to me, Beatrice.""Nobody knows where you are right now, an
NICHOLE’S POVThe small glass box in Xavier's coat pocket was bulging against the fabric, and I knew my life was about to change forever.I stood beside him in the center of the rooftop hall, holding my breath as he squeezed my fingers in front of fifty guests.Xavier turned his body to face me, taking my other hand in his grip. "You fought through every mess they threw at you, Nichole, and I am done waiting."I looked into his eyes, feeling his fingers around mine as I thought about the months of court battles, the news stories, and the fear of Beatrice coming after us."You don't have to do this in front of everyone," I whispered, smiling as tears gathered in my eyes."I want every single person in this city to know you are with me," Xavier said, reaching his right hand inside his suit jacket as the guests around us began to clap, their voices rising as people raised their glasses toward us. I decided right then to stop looking over my shoulder and just let myself be happy with him
Beatrice’s PovRaymond stood near the doorway with his duffel bag resting against his leg, and the sight of it made my heart feel off.I had known something was wrong for weeks. He had been coming home late, keeping his phone screen turned down on the table, and dodging every conversation about our business accounts. I thought he was just stressed about work, but seeing that bag packed by the front door made everything click into place."I am leaving you, Beatrice," Raymond said, his voice quiet as he adjusted the collar of his suit jacket.I stepped into his path, blocking the narrow gap toward the hallway. "What do you mean by that? You cannot just walk out on me after everything we built together.""I don't care about the business anymore," Raymond replied, looking down at his shoes instead of my face.I recalled how distant he had been over dinner last night, staring right through me while I talked about our quarterly goals. The missing bank transfers, the sudden password changes
Xavier found the file at three in the morning and I woke up to the sound of his chair scraping back, hard, like he'd stood up too fast."Nicole," he said. "Come look at this."I sat next to him, still half asleep, and read the screen over his shoulder. Then we saw a name and a photo of a man with tired eyes, a lab coat, research papers which was dated years back, buried under fake company names."He was a scientist," Xavier said. "My father was brilliant, apparently, he worked in neuroscience before he vanished off every public record.""Vanished how?""That's the thing." Xavier's hand was shaking on the mouse. "He didn't disappear but the syndicate took him… or even bought him. I can't tell which yet.""What was he working on?"Xavier scrolled down, and his face went pale. "It was something called the project threadline and I don't know what it does yet, but the funding numbers are insane. Whatever it is, the syndicate wanted it badly enough to build an entire cover operation aroun
‘Ma please you can't go in” The secretary dragged.Raymond didn’t look up when the office door swung open. He remained busy at his annoying files that have kept him rigid since morning, his expression clearly looks pissed off by network issues from his system.He was still necked deep into his work
The Breaking NewsThe time is 10:12pm.BREAKING NEWS:“Xavier King involved in a fatal midnight crash. The victim is in critical condition, the source of the woman remains unidentified.”Mira stared at her phone,her heart thudding vigorously , her thumb trembling as she scrolled through the screen
(Ryan & Xavier)“Hey, bro!”Ryan entered the hospital, his voice cracked through the sterile silence of the waiting room, loud enough to make a nurse glare at him, but he didn't care, he grinned anyway, with a duffel bag slung over one of his shoulders barging into the quiet hospital.“Man, you loo
(Xavier's Pov)“Get me the car keys!”Xavier's calm but commanding tone got the chief guard into tremendous fear of obedience, as he fumbled towards his boss, rushing with his car keys. Xavier took the keys from him. His tone wasn’t raised, it didn't have to be as authority dripped from it, the k







