Nirelle and Zane finally moved their father into a decent room, but he’s still warning them they’re making a “mistake”.Do you think he means facing Yvette is too risky… or that revenge itself might backfire? Comment your guesses, because I’m screaming at the possibilities.
NIRELLE'Is this some kind of joke?' Zane asked before I could voice my thoughts. "You want to act as if you were worried about me? Now after eleven years?""I have been searching all over for you," Yvette said, trying to reach out to him."You know if you want to act, you need to get your story right at once so you do not jump from story to story," I say, lifting myself from the sofa and coming to stand beside Zane. "Did you already forget that you had told the entire story to me?" I ask, and she looks like prey that had been caught in a trap and was trying to escape.She let out a sigh and a laugh and then plunged aggressively to the sofa beneath her. "Did your husband arrange for you to meet him?" She asked, pointing from me to him, and then a sly smile appeared on her face. "Or did you begin to remember your past, and then you went digging?" she asked, and I was shocked.Why did I think that she was going to accept her wrong and apologise? Why did I expect anything better from her
NIRELLESeeing the gates of the Thamore mansion makes me sick to my stomach; I feel my legs and hands shaky as we approach it. I close my eyes to calm my shaky breath, but it does not work; it is almost as if I had been plunged into some kind of fear."Stop the car!" I say, startling the driver and causing him to stop abruptly in the middle of the road. We were so lucky that this wasn't the main road; if it were, then we might have caused an accident."Nirelle?" Zane turned to me with his eyebrow going up in confusion. "Are you okay?""Can I just have a moment to myself?" I ask, and he nods. I see him look at the driver from the mirror; he nods curtly, and he gets out of the car, so we are alone."If you want us to, then we can go home," he suggested, and I was about to give in. I opened my mouth to agree, but I stopped myself."No, I can't go home; if I do, then it would feel like she is winning," I say, and he looks at me as if he were trying to unravel what I was saying to him. "I
FIVE MILLION REASONS NIRELLE"When your mother got a job at the Thamore corporation as a cleaner, we were happy, as I had just lost my job, and we were already on the verge of taking loans. The salary she would get would be enough to feed and clothe us until I got a new job," he began.Zane had managed to calm him down just enough and convinced him that this was a time for vengeance, and his two could help us find a way to put Enoch and Yvette behind bars for a long time. No matter how we looked at the situation, they were both wrong. The number of atrocities they had managed to pile up for themselves was enough to make sure they never saw the sun again."One day, she told me that she had been promoted from the role of a cleaner to the role of the front desk at the chairman's office. The pay was better and the work hours more considerate, so she was not always stressed. I had not thought much of it because she was a woman who did excellently well in her job; I just couldn't understan
NIRELLEI take a step back, ready to run away as Michael had said, but before my brain can process running away, Zane takes a step inside and rushes to him. He pulls him by the hand and then glances at me. I can't believe I am the bad child. My first instinct was to save myself, to run just because he had said it was okay, and Zane, all he thought about was running towards him."Go get that lady." Zane's request broke through my thought wall. I stood there blinking at him as I tried to understand what he meant. "Nirelle?" he called my name again, and I nodded, turning on my heels and racing down the stairs. Not to escape but to find a way to forgive myself for the betrayal I was about to showcase."Excuse me?" I stop at the front desk, and the lady looks up at me."How can I help you?" she asked. She did not look like she could do anything, and I did not know why Zane had asked me to get her. Maybe I should have asked before running off to do his bidding."Umm," I hum, trying to get m
NIRELLEWhen we step out of the car, one bodyguard walks in front of us while another walks beside us. I let out a long breath to steady myself. I could not even lie that I was not nervous because of how visibly shaken I was. Zane revealed that he had spoken with him but never met face-to-face because they knew it would alert Yvette, and he was not ready to face her yet. They had managed to delay the reaction time from Yvette; she would only get to know after everything had been done."We are here to see Miceal McBree," Zane declared as we got to the front desk. The lady looked at us as though we were crazy for requesting to see him. She took up her phone and pressed it to her ear."We have a possible code eleven," she said gently while maintaining eye contact with us. I could not help but feel nervous that the hospital director was going to double-cross us, even though we had managed to get him on our side."Sir?" the lady said, this time her eyes flickering down; the confidence she
NIRELLEA WEEK LATERLucien, Theo and Zane had been able to set up a meeting with the hospital where Yvette had kept my father. They had been discreet to make sure that Yvette was only alerted after the meeting had been done. Zane and I were to go see him while Lucien and Theo were swamped with the preparation for Lucien's first public appearance.I was worried about Enoch and Wolfe recognising Lucien, but he knew that they would recognise him, and now it meant the war was on full display for the entire world to see. I could not stop or delay it any further. With the Thamore and Wolfe families at each other's necks, now was the best time to come out, knowing that one of them would try to save their neck by associating themselves with Lucien.My money was on my father, even though I knew too little about Wolfe; Enoch has never done anything that was going to benefit others. He always thought about himself first without fail. Yvette's taunting messages about how I was a selfish daughter