I AM NOTHING LIKE HER!!!

CHAPTER 31HELENWhy is he not here yet?What is going on out there? I kept asking myself as I shot up from the bed and paced the room again like a lunatic.I was losing my mind. Fear and anxiety was crippling my mind and I wished there was something I could do.It had been a while since I heard the noise from downstairs, and it had been exactly three long hours since I had walked out on both men. I had been waiting since then for that gentle knock on the door that would decide my fate.I wanted to be mad at him for keeping something like that from me. For treating me so right, even when I was just a gift bait for a business exchange. But it felt like he had made up for all the wrong, and it was not like I had any other choice.I looked through the window of my room towards the darkening garden, and I wondered for the umpteenth time if I should try my luck and run off. I might be really lucky now since every employee in the house whom I have met treats me with as much respect as their

Last Updated : 2025-07-02

LETTING HER GO...

CHAPTER 32LUCIOAll through the ride home, I was dreading the myriad of questions Parker was going to have waiting for me while he sat in my study or even stood by the door, waiting for me by the time I got back home.But to my surprise, he was nowhere in sight as I trudged into the house and to my room.I had left earlier with so much annoyance and had hoped I would at least get something done.But I only just realized that I had made a very stupid mistake, as Parker had foreseen in sending her away.I looked around my room for anything worthwhile, for anything at all that made sense, but it was just my bed and a closet filled with suits and shoes. Apart from that, my life was empty, and unlike my father, I was going to die with no glory and no honour.I reached for the closest thing to my arm - the bottle of cognac by my dresser - and flung it as hard as my anger could carry against the wall above my bed, and listened to it shatter like the pain in my heart.I wasn’t even sure what

Last Updated : 2025-07-03

I BROUGHT A GIFT...

CHAPTER 33HELENMaybe my head has been submerged in whatever for too long, or maybe the muffled sounds I heard were of someone else in the bathroom who was trying to say something to me.I raised my head above water level and waited a few seconds until my eyes and heartbeat adjusted to normal, and then I saw the matron standing over me and looking at me with a queer look that said more than words could tell.‘Urrhm, good morning?’ I said, and it sounded more like a question.‘There is someone downstairs to see you,’ she said and turned to leave, but I still had questions I needed to be answered.‘Me?’ I asked and waited for her to turn her back. ‘Who?’ I added quickly before her neck turned to face me.But she didn’t say anything. She merely just gave me a, I-guess-you-are-not-especting-me-to-answer-that look and walked away.‘Fuck’ I said aloud to myself and got off the tub.I was as surprised and curious as I was worried.Someone is here to see me?I hope to God that it’s not Lucio

Last Updated : 2025-07-04

LOVE...

HELEN‘Don’t you dare do anything stupid,’ He warned me, just some minutes before Alex walked in, and with one of his men following closely behind.He was getting out of his coat when he noticed the man standing beside me and paused in his action. He looked at me with curiosity and concern in his eyes before staring back at Parker.‘Hey, seemed like you got a visitor today. I didn’t know about that’ He finally said as he pulled the last sleeve of the coat from his left hand and handed it to the man standing beside him. Then slowly walked towards us, waiting for one of us to explain what was going on.To my surprise, Parker walked towards him with an extended hand and a smile on his face like a businessman trying to close a deal.‘It’s a pleasure to finally meet you, Chief. I am Parker, and I have heard so much about you.Alex looked at me again, and when I said nothing, he took Parker’s hands in his and they shook hands like old buddies.‘It’s unfortunate, I have never heard anything

Last Updated : 2025-07-05

THE QUEEN AND THE PAWN

LUCIOI strained my eyes on the files in front of me, even though my brain was no longer making any sense of the jumbled letters scribbled on the papers.I had a deadline. I had severe consequences staring back at me if I dared not fulfil my duties by the end of the day.But my mind and brain chose to betray me just when I needed them.Instead, they worried about something that wasn’t there, something not worth worrying over - or maybe it was worth it, but not at that time.I loosened the first button on my shirt that seemed to be on a mission to snuff out the last breathe of air from my lungs - or was it just my anxiety choking at my throat?I wonder why I have to keep up with this charade of looking responsible even while I was at the brink of losing everything - including my power. My appearing responsible wouldn’t make any sense, then would it?I freed the rest of the buttons on the t-shirt and slowly peeled the fabric out of my body, wishing the world would slow down to my own pa

Last Updated : 2025-07-19

I AM DOOMED!

HELENThe room looked just like I had left it - a dark cage.It slowly sipped into my soul and consumed the confidence and energy I had gained in Chief’s house.It attacked my defenses and threatened to pull me back into the hole I had thought I had escaped.But I should have realized that that hole had always been there. It never left. It had only been momentarily shielded by the light that blanketed it for a little while.Even in my discomfort, I felt satisfied.The ache in my head was from the blood rush I felt when I saw Lucio again, but it had nothing to do with how merry my heart felt in all the chaos.I didn’t want to think about that just yet. About how my legs got weak immediately I worked into his office and saw him bare-chested by his desk, even after I had paused a couple of minutes outside the door to gather every last ounce of strength I needed to face him again.I put all the trashy thoughts that were forming in my mind away and walked briskly to the edge of the bed, wh