LOGINKayla Moreno
Riley looked round before her eyes went back to me, her eyes popping wide open from disbelief. “You don't want your employers brewing rumors tomorrow morning right miss Moreno? What are you saying??”Riley said, confused. " What do you mean Riley?" “If I heard you correctly, you'd want me to get a call boy for you? What about Sir Jaden? want to cheat on him?”Riley half screamed trying to lower her voice. " Cheat?, so I don't get to cheat too?" “Huh" her mouth struck open bewildered. “never mind, it's almost 7:30pm, get someone for me before 9 like I said.he shouldn't have a single flaw.my child should be flawless” " Yes ma'am”she bowed, still unsure of what was going on. I'm probably sure it'd be no news. In the next one week,Jaden has a way of making life turn to his favor, this one wouldn't be an exception. Riley arranged her space, sorting out files and mails directed to me. “You've got many proposals to buy the stocks we have off the market, you don't still fancy the idea?”she asked. I knew she was trying to make this easier for me, she's always been there. “Silvers won't let their guard down so I have to keep mine too" I reasoned. "She sighed, shaking her head. I checked my mail, none was important. Standing up,I took my bag. “Let's call it a day, it's only you and I” She grinned widely,her best word she loved me saying everyday. “Thank you,my husband should be waiting,”she concluded, hastening up. “Tell the driver I won't be going home today, you know where to take me to” She nodded, eyes on the ground. " I'd make sure to find someone that meets your standards and real quick as well”she concluded. Perfect. Outside the company had everything bubbling with life. Workers getting off for the day, waving and greeting. Streets with lovers holding hands, children tagging along with their parents. Balloons on every convenient store and supermarket. “It's the couple's day Miss Moreno" Riley enlightened me. She saw how confused I was looking. I nodded before entering the car. One thing was for sure. I'd never regret this one. 3 HOURS LATER The clicking of the door knob meant that he was in. For some reason my heart started beating fast only then. Thoughts of my father hearing of this, the look on my little sister's face, the mockery I'd face in a whole. “Did Riley call for you?" I asked the guy who just entered as I scanned him under the dim light. this wasn't what she expected of a call boy,it was as if Riley specifically picked him out for some reasons. tall, muscular,thin waist,and abs to die for, that black hair that falls beneath the mask he wore. The messy but insanely handsome dk type with perfectly shaped jawline. I giggled for some reason, this was going to be a long night. “Do you guys also come half naked or this was also from Riley?” He smiled. That smile.. It was strikingly familiar, but I can't just pin- point it now, especially when my eyes were already getting tipsy from the wine I drank. “I heard my lady needs my touch,"he replied, totally changing the conversation. How cocky. Those flirtatious words got me smiling. somehow forgetting my worries as he advanced slowly towards me,inch by inch till he was a face away from me. My heart thumping, this guy has made my heart beat for the second time, reasons I don't know why. Again. This was just how he flirts with every lady he touches. I felt his hands going through my curves under my lingerie, missed emotions swept through me as I stared at the masked man before me. His hair extremely close to his mask,wet from sweat?sex?or working out? “SEX ME!" I mouthed as he let out a grin,taking me off my feet to the bed. He slowly raised my lingerie, tracing his hands at the skin beneath it. Sending shock waves to my body. He stopped a few inches from my clits. He gazed at me as I looked at him, waiting for him to continue. “I hate suspense" the words fought it's way out of my mouth as I looked at his mask,I saw him grin once more. He bent low and kissed me on my lips. “And I love it when you wait for me" he said, his deep voice reaching my ears for the second time. *. *. * “Let me go…I'm fine.. I can walk,”Jaden's drunken voice echoed as two guys dragged him out of the hotel to his car where his driver was waiting for him. “You get drunk from just a bottle of whiskey and you want to get down with it Everytime again.it’d be a miracle if you haven't spilled all your secrets”liam mouthed irritated. Liam pushed Jaden to the car and dusted his clothes as if pissed off. “He's one hell of a drunkard" he cursed as he told the silver's driver who just looked at him and started the car. “I think I should stop this job of an assistant, Ryder is misusing it now..fuck it's 10 and I'm here still answering for him”liam shouted angrily. Going back inside into the hotel. *. *. *. Noah West I started my car. I must get to Kayla immediately. How can her husband be that ruthless and shameless to have cheated on such a lovely woman who I've had a crush on ever since I knew her. I've never had feelings for any other lady ever since I set my eyes on her. She'd probably be at the Moreno's family house. Now she'll be mine. I'm ever so grateful I came to have a glass of drink at this hotel today. She must be feeling really bad right now, maybe sucking to herself how he did that on their anniversary. She must have been so shocked. My eyes turned to the road. Fuck Where has my mind been,I tried reaching for the breaks but it was already late. My car popped open the air bag right before I diverted my car to a three nearby. Sirens blowing,my heart unstable. That was all I could remember. I need to see Kayla. I needed to tell her I love her. That was all I could remember before passing out. *. *. *. Author's POV He fumbled on her nipple as he sucked on the other. She let out a moan. Fuck. Damn this guy was good. He slammed my hips in his. His dick reached the far end of my walls. I pulled out, immediately pushing himself all in Fuck. His low groans. His sweat dripped on me. My pussy dripping from a long ride. The bed makes jiggling sounds. Clapping sounds from his dick right inside me. I was about to cum,he was too. I cried from this crazy pleasure engulfing me. My legs round him. As he came inside me. Our heartbeats racing, syncing. The silk cotton, bringing in waves of cold breeze that brought sudden chills to my body. I cuddled him tightly. My eyes closed from a tired ride. I slowly feel asleep.KaylaPRESENT The compass chain felt hot in my palm. Like it was burning through my skin.“What??” The word left me broken. Almost airless. I stared at the guy who I've always nagged insulted and called names but he still wasn't ready to let me be.The room tilted so fast that I sat down heavily on the close chair I could lean on.Ryder crouched in front of me. His knees on my rug. His hands didn’t touch me yet. Like he was afraid I’d shatter if he did.“I gave that neckchain to you that day,” he said again. His voice was low and rough. He was also finding it hard to believe “ Fourteen years ago. At Victoria beach. London. You saved me.”Memories slammed into me.A crowded charity event. I wasn’t supposed to be at the back beach. I’d run there to cry after my mother’s funeral three days earlier. The sound of music felt wrong when she was in the ground.Then I heard splashing. Gasping. A boy. A few years older than me. Dark hair plastered to his forehead. He was thrashing in the wate
Author POV London, 14 years ago. Victoria Beach. 4:37 PM. The charity event was chaotic. White tents, loud music, people in suits sweating under the sun. “Brooks Foundation Annual Children’s Gala” banners flapped in the hot wind. Cameras flashed every few seconds. Thirteen-year-old Ryder Brooks hated every second of it. He wasn’t supposed to be near the water. His bodyguards had said it three times. “Stay where we can see you, young master.” But the tide was low and the waves looked harmless. And he was bored of rich men talking about donations. So he slipped away. He ran past the tents, past waiters carrying trays of juice, past his mother calling his name. He didn’t stop until his bare feet hit wet sand. The backside of the beach. Quieter. No one here. Just rocks, seaweed, and the sound of waves hitting stone. The water was cold when he waded in up to his knees. Then his waist. Then his chest. He thought he could touch the bottom. He was wrong. One step. The sand gave way
Kayla POVThe next day.Denying yourself also means looking away from the person who makes your heart flutter. I… I… I can’t be attached to this guy. Not really. No matter how hard my heart throbs for him every time he walks into the house.We’re in two completely different worlds. He’s in a world where no one gets to touch him or take him for granted. Where people bow. Where his name opens doors and closes throats. Ryder Brooks. CEO. Power. Fear.I’m in a world where my father is at the verge of fighting life and death, alone in a hospital bed without his daughters beside him. I’m in a world where my sister had her first real taste of sex and now acts nonchalant about it. I’m in a world where more people hate me to the core than love me.I can’t be with a man who grins like the devil in front of me, then turns cold as ice in front of everyone else. A man who would burn everywhere for me, but won’t let anyone see him care.I suddenly felt stupid for pushing him away all this while.
Kayla Two weeks later.I was given a month off work. A full month to recuperate and get myself back. Back to breathing without pain. Back to walking without limping. Back to being Kayla, not “the girl who survived.”Riley had been sorting things out for me all this while. Bills, calls, press releases, the rumors. She handled everything so I didn’t have to.I heard the news too. The secret. Everything I didn’t get to know before.Flora. Or whatever name she’d been using that week. She was my ex-husband’s sister. Jaden never told me he had a sister. Not once in two years of marriage. All those years I thought he was an only son. I’d only seen his parents twice. The first time was at our wedding ceremony, where his mother cried more than I did. The second time was at a charity event they invited us to,where I was first introduced to Ryder. Even then, his parents never associated themselves with me. I tried. God knows I tried to be upright. Perfect. The daughter-in-law they could brag a
Author POVLiana stared at the scattered money on the floor of the unfinished apartment. The bills looked pathetic now. Worthless. Seven million naira and Flora had stepped over it like it was dust.Her chest rose and fell too fast. Her breath came in short, sharp gasps. She kicked the concrete block again, then again, until her designer heel snapped off. Pain shot up her ankle but she didn’t care. She didn’t feel it. "Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!" The word tore out of her throat, raw and desperate.Flora knew. Flora knew about Jaden. Flora knew about the pills. Flora knew Liana was the one who told her brother where Kayla would be that night. Flora knew Liana wanted her sister dead.And now Flora was walking away. Free. With all the information Ryder Brooks would pay in blood to have.Liana’s hands shook as she dug into her designer bag. Her fingers fumbled past lipstick, keys, and a compact mirror. She found her phone. The screen was cracked from when she’d thrown it against the wall earlier.
Author POVThe door to an unfinished apartment burst open with a crack that echoed down the bare hallway.Flora was shoved inside. Hard."Ouch!" Flora screamed in agony when her hair caught on a piece of exposed iron rod jutting from the doorframe. The metal tangled in her strands and ripped a few out by the root. Tears sprang to her eyes."Why the fuck did you drag me here with all my things, Liana!" Flora shouted, yanking her hair free. She untangled it with shaking fingers, strands coming loose around her face. Liana closed the door behind them. The sound was heavy. Final. She leaned against it and crossed her arms."Now listen, and listen very carefully, Flora….or whatever name you're using this week. I don't want you spilling my name in whatever you and your brother did to Kayla. Because you both didn't do it properly."Flora flinched. She turned slowly, eyes narrowing. "Am I dreaming, or is this really an eighteen-year-old girl talking to me with zero respect?"Liana let out a
Kayla POVI jerked awake from the cold, suffocating slumber.For a moment my mind was dazed. Foggy. Clueless. Like I was floating somewhere between awake and dead.My throat was dry. So dry my chest hurt with every breath. The pain cut through me like glass. I blinked repeatedly, trying to clear my
Author POVThe whole world spun in Ryder’s eyes.“Kayla!”His voice tore out of his throat, raw and desperate. It echoed off the concrete walls and vanished into the rain. He had just seen her. Two minutes ago. Standing on the porch, an umbrella tilted over her head, her phone’s flashlight glowing
Author POV Ryder stared at her. He wished he could lie. God, he wished he could smile and tell her it was nothing. That Liam was wrong. That Flora’s phone was a dead end. That Kayla was safe. But he couldn’t. His phone still lay in his hand. The screen was dark now, but the message burned behi
Author POV Interrogation Room, Police Station – 10:47 PM The room was concrete and cold. One metal table,two chairs. One flickering bulb overhead that hummed like an insect dying. Flora sat with her hands cuffed to the table. She’d stopped shaking an hour ago. Now she just stared at the wall. Bl







