When I woke up, it was at around 4am. The pain had stopped, as well as the dull headache. There was a dim light glowing from the bedside lamp, but it was just enough to illuminate the room.I could still hear the chirping of the birds, which reminds me again of Logan and his multimillion naira mansion.Then I jerked up!My baby! I touched my stomach, and my heart started to race really fast.I am no longer in pains, and the bleeding has obviously stopped, and I really slept for hours; I am not sure I have slept this long since I was a child, and now, I have been sleeping uninterruptedly for hours since I met this stranger who is being extremely nice to me for no reason.What have they done to my baby?! I wanted to wail and scream, but it is still dark outside, and I am yet to fully understand my new environment.Silly me, I should have thought and made adequate plans on my own before running away just like that. Now what if I have landed myself in the hands of an evil man and his fami
Logan’s POVI woke up feeling like shit.“Took way longer than I expected,” Ethan said.I recognized his voice immediately, and I turned to him. “Ethan,” I muttered.“Do you feel any better?” Ethan asked.“No, but I would like to have a mirror. I know I look a mess already,” I said and ground my teeth.“There is no way I am letting you get close to a mirror right now until you are completely on your feet,” Ethan said.“Aside feeling like shit, I don’t feel much pains,” I said as I stretched my body on the bed. “The doctor has confirmed that you will be fine. There are no broken bones, and that is why you are not wrapped up in bandages,” Ethan said, chuckling.I groaned. “I detest bandages.” I said, and then looked at Ethan worriedly, “Where is Leah?” I asked.“Relax, man, she only went to her room to get a nap. She has been up by your side ever since the accident, and she hasn’t slept a wink.I had to literally force her to go and rest her head. You gave us all a scare, Logan,” Ethan
Indeed, the farmer’s wife was right about their daughter; she is a chatty and vibrant teenager who unbelievably knew so much about the world even though they lived far away into the bush. I have spent a couple of months there now, and each time, my heart ached for what could have been; the love and happiness the farmer and his family shared were rare.I have never met a family so contented and at peace with their environment, and to think that his wife gave up her job in the city just to move down to his ranch.It even came as a shock to me when their teenage daughter spoke so fondly about Logan D’Nores, and to prove her point, she has magazines of him in her bedside drawer, and her most desired dream would be to see him someday and tell him how much of a fan she was.“She buys magazines that carry his pictures any time we go to town,” the farmer had said so one evening over dinner when she would not stop talking about the famous Logan D’Nores.Apparently, she is not conversant with
I sensed that Ethan shook his head.“Logan could have told you, but he was protecting you way too much. Little did he know that you are slimier and more devilish than he would ever have imagined,” Ethan said.I expected to feel venom in his words, or scorn and anger and vengeance in his voice, but all I felt was an unexpected calmness.Something tells me that he is not exactly calm instead. Why should he? He is practically standing in front of the woman that plotted and killed his best friend and boss.Well, maybe this is the calm before the storm, which I am fully ready for now, only that I would rather he did not do anything violent in the home or even around the home that took a total stranger like me in without questions and showed me nothing but love and hospitality.Ethan cleared his throat, but he still did not move an inch. “Well, I will tell you what Logan failed to,” he said and paused.I have no idea if he expected any response from me, and I have been through so much to ev
Logan’s POV“Why isn’t Ethan picking his damn phone?!” I muttered in exasperation and I continued to dial his number and pace around the living room.Leah just sat on the couch and stared.Ethan has been gone for some days now without telling me where he was going, which is unlike him, and very upsetting.“You need to relax, I am sure Ethan will soon be here,” Leah said to me.Then something clicked in my head. “Hold on, did he tell you where he was going?” I asked Leah and she looked away, a sheepish grin playing on her lips.Damn these folks, they are indeed playing a fast one on me.I heard the door creak open, and I turned immediately to scold Ethan, knowing he would be the one entering the house, but everything in me went still at who I saw beside Ethan.Alice.Leah and Ethan immediately went upstairs, leaving us alone. Seeing Alice after the betrayal is shocking, but nothing prepared me for the sight that beheld me; her stomach bump.We stared at each other for a long period of
As I got ready for school that morning and headed to the bus stop, I had no fucking idea that my life was about to get this shitty.When the black luxury van had swerved past me, I had shrugged it off to the mere careless driving but here I was in a locked dark room, no idea of how I got here, my head banging terribly and some really huge men standing before me. I made to stand and felt a sharp pain, I was cuffed.Shit."What am I doing here?, Who are you guys!?"My voice broke at each stop. They made a jeering sneer at me and laughed out loudly.I felt pain as one of them grabbed my chin so hard and pulled me forward."You better learn how to lower your voice here girl. If you weren't the boss special order, we wouldn't mind having you "I was mad at this point and I did what next came to my mind. I spitted out my saliva on him and before I could think of what was about to happen, he slapped me..so hard I felt my eyes spin. My blurry eyes saw his hand coming up again and I tried scu
"There's a tracker, Don't think of running away either. I will find you with or without the phone babygirl"I wiped out the tear that had found it's down to my face. This man was inhumane. Wedding?.... wedding?How can you kill a man and decide to wed his only sister against her wish.The slight bang on the door announced he had left the room. I tried breathing and it still was hard. Sulking in a deep breath, I climbed off the bed. If I couldn't run away from him, I might as well end the whole drama. My room was at the far end of the hallway, it took a whole lot of tiptoeing to come down the wooden coloured stairs. My heart was right at my throat as I moved. I could get killed at this junction and unapologetically.As I stood, just below the stairs, my eyes frantically searched for the kitchen, looking behind me, the way was right under the stairs, Quickly with the help of the dim light from outside, I sought out for a knife and there it was, snatching it from the knife holder, I th
The paparazzi was wild.When our convoy stopped at a gradual speed at the entrance of the red carpet, at first I didn't understand why we had to wait in but when I looked out and saw the bodyguards stopping the paparazzi from crossing the red carpet belts, I grew some goosebumps."Who is your lady for the night?""Is Miss Victoria or D'Angelo first daughter with you Logan?"And they went on and on, screaming as much as they could. I glanced up to Logan. He was all so relaxed and scrolling through his phone. I drew in a breath, we were about to go live. I used to sit in front of the TV in the small apartment I and my brother stayed in and watched him. All these moments. From driving into the venue as dramatic as he always did to stepping out and giving his signature smile and the pictures they took of him, it always had me blushing all through and through but here I am sitting with him and about to go live."You ready?"I turned to him. Well, I was expecting him to just go down and w