All Chapters of Appealing To His Gaze : Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

Devin POV I stepped into the dim lights and I immediately had a feeling down my spine that something was wrong. It didn't help that a lot of hips gyrated to the music but I felt like something deeper was about to happen if it's not being careful and I didn't need to stick here for long to find out what it was. Festus stood solid behind me, but I thought about it again and realized that if I wanted it to have a full idea of what was going on, I did it to him to be present and tell me the entire truth instead of beating around the bush. "Why did you bring me here?" "I want you to have freedom. Ever since the start of these issues you've never allowed yourself to be free. How stupid does that sound to you?" He chuckled.Festus wasn't doing any of this because he just wanted to do it. If I didn't know better I would have thought that Aiden had reached out to him and he was trying to appease his conscience by taking me somewhere where he didn't sound guilty about anything but I knew th

Devin POV "Pick up the damn call!" Stella's name pops up on my phone. Stella is stepping on my nerves. "It is either you return home or we allow the press to consume you. I don't think any of this is going to be pleasant to you but what can I say?" Her message dances over my phone screen. Anyone with their head intact will know for sure that Stella has even more sinister plans for me. She might be hurting, and my family is also doing the same, but that doesn't mean that she has forgiven me for causing her grief. She acts as if she's in charge of making sure that she stops the unnecessary attack against my person. If I didn't know better, I would think that she truly has my best interest at heart, but it's a lie; she's looking for ways to annoy me even more than she already has. "Stella get the hell away from me." She doesn't stop; instead, she keeps typing. "You do not deserve peace. I know that you run away because you're trying to keep your reputation in check. News flash it

Devin POV I wish different expressions appeared on her face as she tries to make sense of what's going on. "I don't understand anything. You sincerely think that I'm going to be happy covering you up from people who are going to help me deal with you?" I don't make any move instead just keep watching and waiting, if I had to realize that the entire world did not revolve around her hand, and if she wanted anything differently, she just needed to ask as politely as possible."Where is everybody? It almost seems as if you're not seeing things from my own perspective,e and there's nothing I can do to help you with that." I respond, waiting for the shoe to drop. If nobody comes out anytime soon, then I'm going to know that I have made a huge mistake, but in the meantime, I still think that everybody is looking for ways to cook me. "So... "So, what?" She scoffs, looking at me like I'm a complete non-entity. "Everything is going to be taken away from us, courtesy of you. I don't know ho

Author's POV. Stella marched into the office of the man that summoned her after so long. "I don't really care about what this meeting is about but I'm not going to stand here and watch you insult me. First it was that telling me that he wanted me to forget about everything that had transpired because I'm suddenly going to be amnesiac?" She clapped her hands in fury.Aiden had no need for Stella except for the fact that he wanted to conquer within instead of fighting a battle that he didn't even understand. The first thing that he was going to do was to eliminate anything that posed as a threat for his own upheaval. "Darling you don't want to be unreasonable at this point. I'm looking for ways that you and I can come to a point where we don't have to want to murder each other." He reminded her slowly. Stella wasn't in the mood to listen to any part of stories that was going to make her reconsider going to the press and telling them every damn thing that she knew. "I don't care how

Devin POVI had absolutely nothing to tell anyone besides trying to make sure that I got out of this mess one way or the other. Stella and the family were ready to sink their claws into my skin but I wasn't going to let them. One thing that I wasn't going to tolerate was to make myself become the object of ridicule.Anybody could go ahead to have different opinions about me but as long as I did not work in that same office it was not going to have the effect that they wanted on me and therefore I was going to make it a bit harder for them to be able to move past what they already knew. If I was being honest with myself I didn't have the mass required to be able to push all my energy towards the things that I thought I wanted. I wasn't also going to deceive myself into thinking that I have been able to figure everything out. Timone knocked before entering. "I shouldn't be interrupting but I have quite a few things that I'm willing to try out. It's not really about what's trendy but