Chapter 86
Zendaya’s POV
I was roughly shaken up by someone as I yawned to sit up. What was going on? I had been having a wonderful dream before this rough interruption.
I had been dreaming of Asher and the children. We were all living happily and having a good morning but that had been a dream when I was pushed awake.
I looked at the maid who had shaken me up in anger.
I looked around to see I had fallen asleep on the couch while waiting for Travis and the children.
I looked at the window to see it was morning already.
“What is…” I yawned again. “Where are the kids? Are they back yet?”
“I don’t know ma’am,” she replied.
“What do you mean you don’t know?”
“I just got into the house now ma’am. I found you here and I decided to call you so you would go to your room to sleep well while I set everything straight.”
I immediately got to my feet knowing I should run to the rooms and check for their safety.
I ran to the children’s room to find it empty.
“Oh no,” I sighed running to Travis’s room to see his room was empty too.This belongs to NôvelDrama.Org - ©.
I entered the room and found his wardrobe open with most of his clothes gone and his suitcases gone too.
“What is this?” I asked just as I heard a ping from my phone.
I ran to the room to see a text on my phone. It was from an unknown number.
‘You should have appreciated the love I gave you when you had the chance. I gave you everything and you disappointed me by going for him. That is a very wrong move from you. You should know better than to piss me off. Now you’ll have no choice but to feel my wrath.
‘You will beg me to take you back and I will be here to laugh and tell you how you turned me down.’
This was definitely from Travis. He had abducted the children. I needed them back. I could not text the number back as it was a closed number. I had to get them back.
I became frantic as I searched the room for anything I could use to get to him until I found a letter in my drawer addressed to me.
I opened it to find the letter to be from him.
‘By now I’m sure you must have seen the news about your missing children. But have no fear, I’m with them. You do have options to choose from, get married to me or bid your kids goodbye. The choice is yours.’
I was not going to let this slide. I had to do something or I would lose the children.
I called Asher as I was going to invite him to help with this. He was the only person who would help me.
“Hey?” He said.
“Asher, I need your help,” I said in a frantic tone.
“Hey, what’s wrong?”
“I’ve got a problem and we need to meet.”
“Zen, I already explained to you what would happen if we did. We’ve got to be careful…”
“This is not what you think. It’s really urgent, I can’t say it over the phone. It’s a matter of life and death.”
This seemed to get his attention as he accepted.
“Fine, meet me at my apartment,” he said as I cut the call and rushed out of the house.
I had no choice but to meet with him and if possible tell him everything. I was sure he would hate me if I told him all of his problems were my fault. He would even choose to not help me.
I got into the car and with tears in my eyes drove to his apartment.
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Travis’s POV
I had taken the children to a room and locked them inside. They would stay there until I was done with whatever I was doing.
I carried some groceries as I entered the room to see them huddled at the edge of the room whispering to each other.
“Hey!” I yelled as they shuddered. “Food is served.”
I tossed it to the middle of the room.
“Where are we?” asked Landon, scared out of his mind. “I want to go home.”
“Don’t we all?” I laughed. “Now shut up and sit your ass down. Eat your food and be quiet and maybe I might not take drastic actions towards you guys. Have I made myself clear?”
They all nodded as I laughed.
“You all have been a pain in my neck and now that I have to use you all can you all be a good sport about it? It’s nothing personal,” I shook my head to rephrase that. “Actually, it is personal. Just stay there and don’t make me take drastic actions. Trust me, you wouldn’t like it.”
The children were shaking and crying as I hushed them before leaving the room, closing the door.
I was sure by now she had received my text. I had no idea if she would see my letter but if she had done so she would send me a text back. Maybe not to the number I had used to text her but to my normal phone number.
She had to know I was out for business. No one was going to take me for granted. I had tried enough for her. She would either have to go with my words and succumb to me or she would have to deal with me the wrong way.
I went back to the room I had gone out of to take a beer from the fridge.
These days I had been drinking more than usual. All thanks to her for destroying my life.
I would not succumb to such drastic moves if she would just follow the plan. Here I was turning into a villain because of her. She had brought this on herself and not me.