Torn apart

"Why are you here?" her mother asked, looking fierce. Kiera stuttered in shock at her mother's sudden change of emotions, "I.....I...I came to check up on you, you weren't taking your calls or responding to my texts. So I came"Could her mother see through her? She wondered."I'm aware" Mary paused, "But those texts had something else" "Yeah about that," Kiera murmured. "I just needed him for the house; I had some more CCTVs in some corners of the house for checks. James claims we have done enough already by adding extra security, but I still don't feel safe" she lied.Mary stared at her like she was trying to see though her, after a while, she looked away. Kiera's hitched breath lessened. "Well you can't reach Mr. Kendra anymore" "Why? I just told you why I needed his services; I don't need him for any investigation. James has cleared the air between us and I don't want to push the matter further" Kiera grumbled."Because he is dead!" Mary dropped the bombshell, leaving Kiera in s

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Not Again!

Tessa woke up screaming loudly in the middle of the night, waking up the rest of the household. Her parents, the servants and workers that lived with them were alerted with her screams. Everyone panicked as it wasn't normal for Tessa to be screaming at night, she is known to be calm and collected."Darling what's wrong?" Kiera and James ran to their heels, rushing into her room in fright and palpitation. Tessa couldn't respond, she was just trembling, pointing towards her window. Her parents couldn't help but look frantically at the window and back, inquiring endlessly at what the problem was."S....s...someone....someone was at my window," she stuttered. "He even attempted to climb in"How could that even be possible? They both thought to themselves, Kiera and James looked at their selves in confusion. Their rooms were on the second storey of the mansion and the building was placed far away from the rest of the houses in the villa. Only the trusted servants and nannies stayed with th

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She smells trouble

A blow thundered on his face making him yelp in pain, he went quiet in an instant giving the boss an opportunity to speak."Well mister, those the goes into the territory of a hungry lion turns to a meal for them. You can't trespass into the shadows and not expect something bad to meet you. Entedido?"He motioned to the masked bodyguard and whispered something to him, turning back to the captive."My face would be the last thing you'd ever see in your life, let it torment you even in the afterlife" he said with a sinister smile. The man burst into tears unable to speak."Please" was all the captive could mutter."Let this serve as a lesson to all hackers who would want to trespass into forbidden territories. Say your final prayers, mi amigo"Screams and cries was the last thing that could be heard from the building. After that was a deafening silence.~~~~The beautiful morning light streamed in from the curtain blinds, James walked over to the window and opened the blinds, making mor

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Lahat ng Kabanata ng Kingpin's Gambit: Shadows of the Syndicate : Kabanata 11 - Kabanata 13

Torn apart

Not Again!

She smells trouble