Two chapters as promised. I'm already working on the next chapter, but it may not be updated today. Thanks for your patience.
Raegan, her eyes shimmering with emotion, gasped as Cade opened the ring box, revealing the exquisite diamond that sparkled in the garden's ambient glow. Overwhelmed with joy and love, Raegan nodded, her voice filled with a mixture of laughter and tears. "Yes, Cade, a thousand times yes!"The proposal was a surprise to Raegan. She didn't expect him to propose so soon and here of all places.The fireflies around seemed to celebrate with them as Cade gently slipped the ring onto Raegan's finger. They forgot all courtesy and kissed with reckless abandon. "Hold on. I think it's better if we keep this a secret for now. It's Gale's wedding day, he and his bride should be the center of attention. If we announce our engagement now, everyone will be more interested in us and that wouldn't be fair." Raegan said and Cade smiled.This was one of the reasons he loved her. She wasn't selfish. She was always considerate of other people's feelings."You're right. We'll make the official announcement
Two years into their marriage, they found themselves on the brink of a new chapter; a chapter that would bring both joy to them – the birth of their child, Noah. Their son, Noah, was a manifestation of their love, a tiny reflection of their union. From the moment he entered their lives, their world transformed into a realm of baby giggles, sleepless nights, and boundless affection. Cade and Raegan revelled in the simple joys of parenthood, watching their son grow, learn, and discover the world around him. The first three years were a series of milestone celebrations for the family—Noah's first tooth, first steps, and the bittersweet moments of letting go as he headed off to preschool. Raegan had stopped working for her family’s company after Noah was born in order to spend more time taking care of him while he was still an infant. And now that he was being enrolled in preschool, decided to start working again. She wanted to be busy while he was away in school though she no longer wish
The perfect plan came to him a few days later. Since taking the child from the house would be impossible, Grey knew that he had to take Noah from outside and the best place to do that would be from the school. Since Grey had enrolled his own daughter in Noah’s school, he already knew the school’s infrastructure and security measures so it would be easier to take Noah from there. After the Idea came to him, he began to make his plans. He didn’t really care about how his actions would impact his daughter because she wasn’t his real child. He had adopted her from an orphanage after changing his name and also getting his plastic surgery to change his face. Having a child with him made him seem less suspicious and more like an upstanding member of society. She was two years older than Noah and didn’t know she was adopted. He named her Davina and everytime she or someone else asks of her mother he would only say that her mother was dead.When he had first adopted her, all he wanted was to u
It took almost three weeks for Davina to get close to Noah because he wasn’t really a social kid. He preferred to keep to himself and was more interested in solving jigsaw puzzles than talking to other kids in his school. But Davina was a bubbly kid, easygoing and easy to talk to. And she had the determination in her mind that she was helping her daddy on a super secret mission so it wasn’t hard for her to become his friend. Then she told her daddy that she had done the mission and asked when she could get her new toys. “Being his friend is just part one of the plan.” Grey said to her as he personally prepared her lunchbox while she ate breakfast. “When you go to school today, give him this special lunch I made for him okay? Yours is in the pink pack and his own is brown, you said that’s his favourite colour right?” “Yes daddy.” “Good girl. Make sure no one else eats his special lunch, okay? And when you come back today, I’ll take you to buy all the toys you want.” He said and she
Raegan nearly fainted when she discovered that her son had been taken from school. She called Cade in tears and he immediately left work. Cade used all his connections to make the police issue a city wide search for Noah. But before they could set up roadblocks, Grey had already crossed to another city and went into hiding with Noah and his men. The search continued as the days passed by, Cade extended the search into other cities. Every lead they chased led to disappointment because they were only fragments of their speculations. Flyers with their child's innocent face covered the walls around the city, but the elusive truth remained hidden from Case and Raegan. They were at the police station almost every hour with no news and what made it even worse was the fact that no one had called to demand ransom for Noah yet so they didn’t even know if he was alive. Their journey took them through the darkest corners of despair. Sleepless nights were spent scanning missing persons databases
The aftermath of the car accident had left Cade battered, bruised and unconscious. He looked peaceful even with the bruises that were plastered on his body, as he slept in oblivion. Day after day, Raegan sat beside him, hoping and praying that he would wake up again.As two weeks passed, Cade gradually emerged from the cocoon of unconsciousness, opening his eyes and taking note of a presence beside him — Raegan. Soon enough, he was fully conscious and widely awake. His bruises however, still needed more time to heal. On the day that Cade was to be discharged, the attending physician, a bearer of news both heavy and irrevocable, entered the room where Cade and Raegan were. "How are you doing, Mr Milton?" The doctor smiled at Cade. "Getting better," Cade smiled back at him. "That, I can see. And you, Mrs Milton?" "My husband is alive so I am well, doc," Raegan nodded at the doctor. The doctor, Mr Wills, was a tall, lanky man. He had a smile plastered to his face, that only made way
Meanwhile Grey had gone into hiding with Noah and his men after the police began their search. They were hidden in an abandoned warehouse on the outskirts of town. They moved only at night, hidden inside cargo boxes mixed with the supplies in a delivery truck heading to Mexico which was why the police hadn’t found them yet. It took them several weeks to be able to get safe passage to cross the border illegally. Each of them were put into separate boxes, even Noah, though Noah was sedated so he wouldn’t scream for help. But the delivery truck had a fatal accident after crossing the border. Only a few of the boxes survived the collision. Grey and his men were among the boxes that went up in flames. Noah’s box was among those that fell out of the truck because he had been kept close to the top so he had survived. The company sent another delivery truck to gather up the remaining boxes that could be salvaged and transported to the warehouse in Mexico, but because the original driver was d
Once more the couple embarked on the journey of parenthood, but this time, with more care and fear. They were so careful because they could not afford to lose this child this time around. Cade made sure to increase the security of the whole family, because he did not want to take any chances. Cade increased his bodyguards because he too was obligated to take care of the child. He also hired a new, and more efficient security staff who had military training. He reinstalled all CCTV cameras and increased their number, by even installing them in the most unlikely of places. Cade did not stop there, he connected the cameras to his room, so that he and Raegan could see what was happening inside and outside of their compound. He would not want to hear that his child was kidnapped or taken again. As for Raegan, he never let her out of his sight. The first few years of the child's life was indeed rigid with security. Soon, it was time for William to be enrolled in school. Cade and Raegan had