“Daira,” Liam exclaimed and he moved to hug her much to her displeasure. “I’ve missed you so much,” he said, and she squinted her eyes suspiciously at him.
“You did?” she asked.“Of course. I have no other bimbo to trouble in my life and so naturally, I’d miss the only one I have,” Liam responded, and he watched as Daira became red with anger.“Lucas,” she cried as she walked up to him. Lucas, who didn’t want to be touched by Daira, turned and went to sit down.This was one of the reasons Lucas concluded that Liam hated her. To every other person, she acted rude to them but to him, she acted like she was a damsel in distress who couldn't protect herself.Liam despised two-faced people and so he always tried to bring out her real nature in front of Lucas.“Ignore him. He’s annoying,” Lucas said and Liam chuckled.“Tell him to go. I have something important to discuss with you,” Daira told Liam.“Well, you better get talking, as I’m not going anywhere,” Liam said as he made himself comfortable on the couch.Daira turned to Lucas looking for help, but he didn’t look like he cared about Liam’s presence. Seeing that Lucas wasn’t ready to say anything about Liam, Daira had no choice but to go ahead.“My family wants to know which day next month you would like to have the engagement party.”They had only agreed to get married but no formal ceremony had been done as Lucas always found an excuse to get out of it.“I’ll let you know once I’m free. Anything else?” Lucas asked.Daira bit her lips. She had come there hoping that Lucas and she could get intimate, but who knew that the asshole would be there?“If there’s nothing, you can go,” Lucas said as he stood up.“But,” Daira started. However, she was cut short by Lucas, who walked up to her and gave her a quick kiss to shut her up.“I’ll see you some other time,” and with that, he left the room, leaving her alone with Liam. not wanting to be annoyed further, she quickly left.After Daira left, the door to the study opened and Liam saw Lucas walk in.“Why haven’t you called off the whole arranged marriage?” Liam asked after Lucas returned to his study. “It’s clear you don’t love her, which is why you let me get away with my behaviour towards her.”“I promised the old hag I would get married to her, and I have no intention of breaking my promise,” Lucas replied.“Promises are meant to be broken, especially this one. Daira is just a dumb and immature girl. How you haven’t snapped at her is something I’m still trying to understand, considering how short-tempered you are,” Liam retorted.“I have a meeting tomorrow and I need to get some rest,” Lucas said, and he immediately left the room.‘I’ll find out your reason for not yet calling off the marriage one day, and when I do, it’s going to be game over for you and Daira.’****Kiandra woke up the next day and she got herself ready for her job and Zendaya ready for daycare. “Be a good girl and mummy will reward you,” Kiandra said to her daughter when they reached the daycare.“I don’t want to go, mummy,” Zendaya said in a whisper to Kiandra.“I know you don’t want to but try to understand mummy has to work to feed you and buy you dolls,” Kiandra tried to explain to Zendaya.“Will you stay with me if I don't want dolls anymore?” Zendaya asked, and her question made Kiandra chuckle at her innocence.“You’ll love it here,” Kiandra assured her daughter as she handed her over to the woman in charge. The look on Zendaya’s face was a sad one, but she would have to learn that mummy wasn’t always going to be around here.“Bye,” Kiandra waved at Zendaya, who didn’t wave back as she was angry at being left alone.Kiandra quickly took a taxi to her workplace, and she managed to make it in time. After being directed to her boss’ office, she knocked on it.“Come in,” she heard the man say, and she opened the door. When she got inside, she found another man sitting down and talking to her boss.“Good morning, sir,” she greeted while trying to see who the man was as she made her way over to her boss.“Good morning, Miss Aidan,” her boss replied. When Kiandra finally got to where the man was, she gasped internally upon seeing Lucas Valencia in the seat.She knew there was something strange about the blond hair, but she was hoping it wouldn’t be him.Did he figure out who she was? Did he know that she had a daughter for him? Was that why he was here?“Good morning, sir,” she greeted him without letting herself slip. He turned and looked at her without any expression on his face.“And who may this be?” Lucas asked the man seated in front of him. He recognized the woman to be the mother of the girl from the park. ‘What a small world,’ he thought to himself.“She is my new assistant,” came her boss’ answer.“Fire her!” Lucas said, shocking the remaining two in the room.“Excuse me but are you insane?” Kiandra asked, not caring if she was being rude.Lucas didn’t bother to answer her. Instead, he fixed his attention on the boss. “If you want this deal which could skyrocket your company’s earnings to continue, then fire her, or you can consider yourself my enemy,” he said to her.That wasn’t a tough decision for the man to make. A nobody compared to someone who was one of the most influential men? “You’re fired,” he said to Kiandra.“What?! Are you really firing me?” she asked.“Yes,” her boss or rather ex-boss answered. “Leave before I call security.”“Why did you ask him to fire me?” she asked Lucas. “What did I do to you?!” she cried out when he didn’t speak.“You have ten seconds to leave before I call security to come and drag you out,” her ex-boss said.“Not until this asshole tells me what I did wrong!” Kiandra flared up, not caring about anything anymore. The man immediately picked up the telephone and asked for security.“Tell me what I did wrong, Lucas Valencia, for you to take this job away from me after a year of searching for it?” Kiandra continued to probe him.Lucas, meanwhile, sat in his position unbothered by Kiandra’s scream, and this infuriated her the most. Why was this bastard hell-bent on ruining her?First, he tried to kill her daughter, and now he got her fired from the job she wanted to use to take care of Zendaya.The door opened and two hefty men walked into the room. “Drag this woman out!” her ex-boss ordered the man.“I’ll go out by myself,” Kiandra said before either of the two men could lay a finger on her. “You’ll regret this one day, Lucas Valencia,” Kiandra swore to him.Lucas finally reacted as he chuckled. He had heard that countless times, and so far, nothing had happened to him. What did this puny little thing think she could do to him? It would be fun watching her try.“Till then,” Lucas said, and Kiandra glared at him. “Why not leave before they drag you out?” he mocked her further.Kiandra turned and left as she didn’t want to be further humiliated. When she got outside the man's office, she saw all the employees who were present giving her a sad look.It seemed they had heard everything that had happened in there and this only added to Kiandra's humiliation. Deciding not to pay any attention to their looks, she held her head high as she walked away from them to the elevator.As soon as she left the building, she immediately brought out her phone and called Samantha as she needed someone to vent to.“Are you that free that you have time to call me twenty minutes after you resumed?” Samantha asked jovially after she answered the call.“I got fired,” Kiandra told Samantha. If she didn't, the latter would have spent minutes urging Kiandra to tell her about her experience and this would only add to Kiandra's already sore wound.“What?!” Samantha screamed in school. “How?” she demanded an explanation, to which Kiandra didn’t hesitate to give.“Why is that bastard he
After Kiandra left him standing there, his mood was ruined and so he decided to go home instead of the office.He had just come out of the shower when his phone rang. He checked and saw that it was Spider calling him.“I sent the information you requested for,” Spider told him, and Lucas hung up.He immediately got dressed and took his laptop, so he could read the information on Kiandra Aidan.Opening the file, he started to read it. There was nothing suspicious about her life prior to graduating from high school.However, Lucas found whatever happened after, suspicious. In the report, it says she traveled prior to her eighteenth birthday, and she somehow became pregnant with her daughter, Zendaya.There was nothing however in the report about who the father of Zendaya was. There were no pictures, no name, and no evidence of who the father was.The fact that Kiandra didn’t even have a boyfriend all through her high school days made it difficult to ascertain who he was.And what was ev
When she finally turned, she saw that he had gotten up from his seat. He took a long stride to her and reached where she was standing a few seconds later.“Why would you offer me a job, and what in the world makes you think that I would accept your job offer?” Kiandra probed wanting to know just what was going on inside that head of his.“Well, to your first question, the answer is because I am in the mood to do a good deed,” Lucas answered but the look Kiandra gave him made him know that she knew he was lying.“And secondly,” he continued moving a step closer to Kiandra which made her move backwards as he invaded her personal space. “If you don’t accept my job offer, I’ll make sure you don’t get a job anywhere else,” he said with a smile on his face and somehow, Kiandra knew he would do what he said.“Why are you offering me a job?” she asked once again.“Because it’s best to keep your enemies close to you. You have an issue with me and it’s not because of my actions in the past two
The ride back home was silent as Kiandra was too stressed to say anything and Zendaya wasn't ready to speak to her mother in front of the driver. It was after they arrived back home that she spoke.“We came back to our new house?” Zendaya asked in surprise when they arrived back at the same place they left.“Hmm, we are not leaving again,” Kiandra told her daughter as she dropped her down. “You’re burning up, come and use your drugs.”“No, I don’t like using my drugs,” Zendaya said, and quickly she ran into her and her mother’s room in an effort to escape.Kiandra put the suitcase down and opened it. She then brought out the drugs Zendaya was going to use before going to her room.“Zendaya,” Kiandra called as she also entered the room. “You know those drugs are for your own good.”“They are bitter and I don’t like them,” Zendaya persisted.“Well, it’s either you take the drugs or spend weeks in the hospital,” Kiandra laid out before Zendaya. As much as Zendaya hated the drugs, she hate
Zendaya's little smile made Lucas smile as well, and he felt his heart being tugged with happiness. He wondered why he felt so happy just seeing the little girl smile.A lot of children had smiled at him but they didn't have the same effect as the one the little girl was giving him. They only annoyed him.He was distracted when the door to the room opened and Kiandra came out. Like a spell being broken, the smile dropped from his face as he turned to look at Kiandra who had purposely taken her time even though she knew that he was waiting for her.Her eyes fell on Lucas and then on Zendaya and when she saw what was in her daughter's hand, her face contorted into a deep frown. “Zendaya, what did I tell you about eating chocolate before breakfast?” she scolded her daughter as she walked over there Zendaya, who had already expected Kiandra's reaction, gave her mother an innocent smile and she was quick to point at Lucas, pushing all the blame to him. Kiandra quickly collected the choc
Lucas sighed and he returned to his seat. How was he supposed to tell Liam that he was doing this because he felt a sense of attachment to Kiandra’s daughter and to Kiandra herself?For some reason, he felt like he knew her even though the reports from his men clearly proved that he didn’t know her and that they had never met, but for some reason, he was doubting the report.If his intuition was true, this meant that Kiandra had altered the evidence and to do that, one had to be powerful, something Kiandra was definitely not.So how was she able to alter the evidence? All this just made his interest in Kiandra increase as he knew there was more that met the eye when it came to her.The door to his office opened and Kiandra walked in. “Mr Volcano asked me to give this to you,” she said, handing over the file that Liam had given her.“Hmm,” Lucas said and he collected the file from Kiandra. “Oh, that reminds me, I have a task for you.”He had promised himself that he would teach her a l
Kiandra a was taken to Zendaya’s daycare by Lucas’ driver. On the way there, she called Samantha and asked if she could take care of Zendaya until Lucas finally let her return home.Samantha didn’t waste any time in agreeing, as she looked forward to spending time with Zendaya.The hardest part of it all was having to explain to Zendaya that she would be staying with Samantha and that it wouldn’t be the last time this was happening, all thanks to Lucas.Zendaya didn’t like what her mother told her, and she made it evident by crossing her arms and ignoring her mother on their ride back home.Kiandra was used to Zendaya’s tantrums, and so it did not faze her in the slightest. By tomorrow, all of Zendaya’s anger would have evaporated.Samantha was already waiting for them at home, and so Kiandra dropped her off and went back to the office.As soon as she got back, she went to Lucas’ office, so he would know that she was back. It was already evening, and so almost all the employees had l
After Kiandra finished speaking with Liam, she proceeded and called Samantha on a video call to see how her daughter was doing."Hey Kia, how are you?" Samantha asked."I'm exhausted, Sammy," Kiandra replied and she sighed. "How is Zendaya?" She asked."She's over here, we're watching a movie," Samantha replied."Without me, I feel left out," Kiandra joked as Samantha passed the phone to Zendaya."Hello, honey," Kiandra greeted."You look tired," Zendaya replied instead of returning Kiandra's greeting. Her face contorted to a frown when she saw how Kiandra looked."I am tired. Mummy's been busy with work," Kiandra told Zendaya."Then you should rest. That's what you tell me to do when I'm tired," Zendaya said, and it made Kiandra laugh."I will after I end the call," Kiandra said and the line immediately got disconnected.'That brat!' she exclaimed under her breath and smiled. Zendaya had disconnected the call just so Kiandra could rest. It also warmed her heart to see that her daught