Running her feet as fast as possible, she was trying with everything to run away not only from her past, pain, trauma or suffering but from those inhuman people who were monsters in human disguises.Her breathing was hard. Her legs were hurting. Her throat had dried up completely because she was running for more than hours now. Her golden brown eyes scanned her entire surroundings. People were passing by, minding their own business. The streets were engulfed with different vehicles which were running, honking.She placed her both hands on her knees and bent her upper body a bit to calm her aggressive breathing. She heaved while trying to search for a public water cooler to quench her thirst, but she found none. Turning her head behind, she checked if someone was following her or not. To her relief, it looked like those inhuman people had lost their way to her who were following her.Exhaling a heavy breath, she crossed the road and walked for a couple of minutes more. She saw a publi

"Mr. Karlson, a man named Paul Haiden is here. He is claiming that he is this girl's uncle,"Hearing Leo's words, Damien stretched his head to look at that little girl, Kaya, but his brows arched in confusion, by witnessing her lowered head."Do you know this man named Paul Haiden, Kaya? He asked her, gently and in return just found her nodding her head."Is he your uncle, dear?" Damien questioned again.Kaya squeezed her eyes shut before wagging her head again in her answer.Turning his head around, Damien looked at Leo and uttered curtly."Take him inside," Leo nodded and then walked out. Kaya's heart was throbbing inside her chest in fear. She didn't want to meet that man. He was inhuman and it was him from whom she was running away that day, but she knew better than to tell everyone the truth. The terror that man, Paul Haiden, had stored inside her heart was soul shivering. She couldn't even dare to tell him the truth to anyone about how much pain he had given her, both mentally

"What is she doing here?" Kaya slightly shivered at that hoarse tone of his voice. She clutched Damien's hand while hiding herself behind him. Stretching her head a bit, she peeked at that stranger with those icy blue eyes and stone hard voice.She gulped, witnessing his eyes already on her. She again hid herself completely behind Damien. Zian clenched his jaw at her stupid behaviour. Is she mental or what? Why was she hiding herself from him like he was a damn ugly monster? Zian tore his eyes away from her to look at his father, and before he could ask anything further, he heard his father shutting him off."Kaya is going to stay here with us from now on,"So this little rat's name is Kaya, but wait…did he hear his father correctly? Is she going to live with them here, in their own house?"What? But doesn't she have her family or her own house to live in?" He questioned, without caring how rude he might sound. Kaya felt extremely hurt after hearing his question. She lowered her eye

Damien entered the room and saw Zia sitting on the bed. She was caressing Kaya's head who had fallen asleep. Her head was placed on Zia's lap. Noticing his presence, Zia looked at him. With a sigh, he walked towards them. Sitting on the bed, Damien glanced at Kaya's face. Her tear stains were still clearly visible on her cheeks. Exhaling sharply, he gently kneaded that kid's hair. He still couldn't believe his own son got so harsh on that girl who had saved his mother's life by putting her own life at risk."Did you scold him?" Zia asked, a bit worried. Damien huffed before nodding gently. He looked at his wife."I didn't want to, Zia, but he left me with no other option, mi vida," This time Damien sounded upset too. It was not like he loved scolding his son. He just wanted what was good for him. "After the way he was talking to her and the things he said to her, I just couldn't make myself to ignore his behaviour anymore," Zia sighed. She placed her palm over his hand and clutch

The sound of the glasses and people cheering, loud music were resonating in that club. "Here comes the star of our night. The bad boy, Zian Karlson," Austin uttered, raising his glass of wine, watching Zian entering the place.Zian rolled his eyes. Shoving his hands in his pocket, he walked inside like he owned that place. Girls gazed at him with desires, not only just because he had some looks to desire for but almost everyone in their campus had heard how of a beast he was in bed.Ignoring the flirty and seductive smiles the girls were giving him, Zian walked towards his friend Austin, John and Hedrick."Took you long enough, Karlson," Austin asked, sipping from his glass. "Was stuck in traffic," Zian answered while signalling a waiter to come towards him with his fingers.Grabbing the glass of alcohol from the tray, he dismissed the waiter."I seriously needed this," he uttered, chugging down the entire glass in one go."Easy there, Zian. What happened, buddy?" John asked. A scow