Hera's POV… His scent filled my nostrils, as I struggled to breathe with him hovering all over me. I knew things would change, but I didn’t expect it to be so soon. I should have done this earlier.. “You’re back for good!” I embraced him, feeling the warmness of his skin. “I am, and I should have never left, I’m back because I love you, and I want you.” For once in my life, I felt like things were actually going according to plan. “Hera, you have no fucking idea how much I’ve longed for you,” he whispered, the air crackled with electricity at the realization that he wanted me. I was his meal and he had been starved for far too long. So I let him have me, all of me to do with me as he pleased. “You’re so beautiful, Hera, he muttered, planting feathery kisses on my body.” “Hmm hmm,” I muttered, trying to stifle my moans. “Please take me back, I’ve been lost without you, I know now that I shouldn’t have left you, and I totally regret it.” There was a flicker of r
Juss’ Pov Odd, that was how I felt sitting in the hospital waiting area. I sighed, burying my head in my palms, as I mentally counted down to when the nurse would attend to me. It was difficult to believe Ezekiel actually let me go until I got to the train station and Eggust’s men were nowhere in sight. It wasn’t until I checked into a hotel that I felt completely relieved. I expected Eggust’s men to stop me at the train station or Eggust himself to force me back home with him, but it’s been a bit over one week and none of that happened. No calls from him or even text messages. It was like he had forgotten about me, which kind of gave me mixed feelings. Had he finally decided to let me go? Did he find someone else that he was now interested in? Does he still want to be with me and our child? My mind was racing with so many thoughts. When I woke up this morning, I felt sick and had a feeling something was wrong with the baby. Call it motherly intuition. Although there
Hera’s POV… A very tiny flicker of guilt sparked to live in my heart after they left. Which was quite overwhelming and surprising. I wasn’t one to actually feel guilty or remorse, but Mia had been good to me ever since I got here. I even framed her for stealing, which worked out well eventually. Also, she offered to take me in when I left my aunt’s house. Despite the fact that she was constantly nagging about me being irresponsible, she didn’t kick me to the curb like Marlani was doing. “Did I really do the right thing by letting them take Mia away when I was the one who had blackmailed Juss?” I asked rhetorically. “You’re wrong and you know so stop asking stupid questions.” I looked around to see who replied to me with that much anger and realized after seeing no one around that I replied myself from within. It proved that I still had a conscience. I laughed at the thought of my conscience being active. I had no idea what they were going to do to Mia, but I had a
Hera's POV The trip to David's house was uneventful, except for the myriad of thoughts buzzing in my head, as I pondered on what my next move would be. I had to run from the cops in a place I wasn’t familiar with. As if my life didn’t already suck. Now I was practically a fugitive, with no one to turn to, because every freaking person I knew was being arrested. Well, everyone except David. Despite my fear that I would get caught or sighted at least, I arrived safely. The temperature had dropped by the time I arrived at the subway station. I pulled my coat tighter around me and wished I had been calm enough to pack a muffler or head warmer but the hoodie I wore underneath the coat would have to do. Slinging my overnight bag over my shoulder, I started walking down, my mind full of possibilities. If I hid out in David's house for a few days, maybe I could contact Marlani and get money from her. Or maybe I would just be revealing my exact location to her so she coul
Chapter 94 Marco's POV There are moments in your life when you know you’re being played, but you decide to ignore the signs hoping that the truth would turn out to be a lie. I knew right from the start that Jessica didn’t love me, as a matter of fact a lot of times she proved that by threatening to leave me whenever I was broke. Juss didn’t care about any of that, she started splitting her salary after I lost my job, and never made me feel like I didn’t contribute a dime when she bought the house. When Juss found out I was cheating with Jessica, instead of kicking us out, she left, I wondered what kind of person she was. And I realized what my issue with her was. She was too perfect for me. I’m a cunning, ungrateful bastard and she is a good woman, one I didn’t deserve. Looking back at how things were, I realize that Juss was never the problem, she was the best partner anyone could ask for. That little Eggust Flemming saw that before I did. I was the problem, I kn
Eggust’s Pov The anger I nurtured on my way to the police station morphed to triple fold the second I discovered that they got the wrong person. “How do you mean you got the wrong person?” I questioned Ezekiel in anger, but he said nothing. They arrested an innocent person and while I knew that was mostly my fault due to the orders I gave I was still angry regardless. “I need an explanation.” I demanded. “The person they brought is innocent. She just happened to be guilty by association. The original blackmailer is her cousin, at least according to what she said, which I have a hard time believing.” He said just the way they explained to us. I went into the interrogation room and looked at the lady sitting before me. “How does it feel to be finally caught?” I clenched my fists, “how does it feel to completely ruin someone’s life. Do you know how many nights she stayed up crying? Worrying about what next dimwits like you would do to dent her image? I clenched my fist
Juss' POV "You don't have to be selfish on this one too, Juss. I've been asking like forever. After all I've done for you, you can't do this one thing for me?" Marco complained, looking like a kid who's candy was stolen. I stared back at him as he turned to face the window, hands akimbo while muttering to himself.Sighing, I rubbed the nape of my neck slightly. I just came in from a stressful day at work. I was too tired to do this right now.Sitting at the kitchen table with a glass of water in front of me, I wasn't paying much attention to what he was saying.The Dean had requested a meeting that took up most of the day and I had to rush through 3 lectures after that. I hadn't even had lunch, coming home to Marco acting like a sonofabitch was the least I expected. Not like you can ever expect much from the man."We've gone through this so many times! Tell me, what is wrong with me buying a house in my name, Marco?" I finally asked him. Since we were going to do this, I might
Juss's POVThe weather had never felt so cold in my life. I staggered into my room and sat on the bed, willing myself not to cry but the tears were already blurring my vision.How could Marco have done this to me? After all these years we had spent together. I thought he loved me but clearly, that wasn't the case. After I caught him cheating on me, he didn't even have the decency to chase me down and apologize to me.Why did this keep happening to me? He was not the first man to break my heart this way. I thought with the others that it was because we hadn't been as intimate mentally as we had been physically but that was not the case with Marco. We’d been together for so long that I was convinced he was the one. Now, I don't know anymore.I stood up and went to the mirror, scrutinizing my tear-streaked reflection. Something was wrong with me. It had to be me! I wanted to run away from myself. I needed time to think.Going into the bathroom, I wiped off the mascara from my face, the