He stood at attention, his body tensed as he listened to the racket in the distance. He walked towards the training grounds where the noise was most prominent, to see a group of soldiers surround a man while one held him down."What is going on here?" he queried.A soldier dislodged from the group and faced him, he gave a salute before reporting."General we found an intruder.""An intruder? How did he get in?""He was found scaling through the fence of the northern border. He was seen trying to jump over into Victoria. Upon being advised to step down, he jeered at the soldier in charge and attempted to assault them. Hence why he is currently being held down."Dominic stalked towards the struggling man who was currently shouting obscenities at his soldiers, he squatted at eye level to face the man. "My Intel tells me you were trying to get into my City. Do you perhaps want to tell me why?"The man smirked at Dominic and promptly ignored him and his questions, he continued his useless
The look of utter shock on the man's face pleased Dominic. That should shut him up, he thought."Well, what are you waiting for? Go on. You are free to go. Do you need an escort or something" he said as he ushered the man out.The man took a tentative step towards the door and paused as imploringly looked at Dominic almost as if he was waiting for Dominic to strike. "Are you serious? Do you mean to say, once I step out of this prison none of your soldiers would attack me? I can just up and walk away. No repercussions?""Yes. I promise you. The moment you step a foot out of the prison cell you can go home scot-free with no hidden rules. I have decided to let you go and I always follow through with my words.""This is unbelievable. I can't simply comprehend" the man muttered"Whether you comprehend it or not, I have decided that you are free to go, so go. But remember to give a message to whoever sent you, send them my warmest regards while you let them know that I, General Dominic of V
" It does not matter. I am sure you had your reasons for doing so. That is if he is to be believed ." Selena replied in her bid to try and calm Dominic down. She had heard the rage concealed in his words.Dominic paused for a moment, his eyes shone with a light, he felt proud of what she had just said, she was learning to think first before poking into other people's business. "Whoa, you never cease to surprise me. For a while there I thought you'd jump in and plead for his life. Instead, you defend me. I feel very proud of how far you have grown."Selena gasped at the way he said those things, she wanted to protest but decided against it, she knew he was right. Had it been a few weeks or even months ago she knew she would have done exactly what he had said if she hadn't gone through the past few days with Lily, Eleanor or even the kidnapping. "I know, you are right. I see now that what you do and how you handle your people is essential to the dynamics of the city and I respect th
After dinner, Selena goes upstairs to her room. She heaved a sigh and instantly took her phone that was in the drawer placing a call across to Dominic who picked up after the second ring.“I’m missing you right now.” Selena pouted childishly the moment he picked up.She heard a little chuckle from the other end.Selena instantly frowned.“Am I not allowed to miss you?” She frowned even more without hesitationDominic at the other end instantly smiled. “What if I tell you that I’m already downstairs?” Dominic said, giving Selena a little shock. Selena blinked twice, unable to believe what she had just heard.“That’s a lie. We both know that’s not possible.” Selena shook her head negatively choosing not to believe, she had thought it was just one of Dominic's pranks.“What do you take me for? Why don’t you try checking your window?” Dominic added.Selena instantly jumped from her bed and she rushed to the window side where she saw Dominic waving at her brightly.Selena carried her gow
Hearing that Dominic was instantly furious. He stood up in anger ready to punch Silas' face at where he was sitting but Selena was too fast to stop him from any unruly behavior.“You should stop it, Dominic,” Selena said tugging at his shirt.“They aren't worth it, just let them be.” She added in a whisper, her eyes on Silas who had a smirk at the corner of his lipsThat was what he wanted, he wanted Dominic to display in front of his grandmother and get on her bad side again.“Right, I shouldn’t waste my energy on someone like this.” He spat.“What will you even do? Isn’t that the truth?” Silas said, trying to annoy him more.“You are only trying to cover up the truth, that's why. You are only trying to intimidate me with your body size and I could call the cops on you. It doesn’t matter who you are and the amount of money that you think that you have, I will make sure you regret it if you lay your hands on me.” Silas threatened.Hearing that, Dominic burst out laughing and looked at
Dominic was still dejected from the previous occurrence, he didn't know he might actually get into a physical fight with Silas and all the citing rage that he felt had somehow left his body.Selena looked at him with furrowed eyebrows and wrinkles of worry all over her face.“Dominic, why did you do that? Why did you have to give into your anger? What were you thinking, fighting Silas? Now when this gets out people will think the rumors about you are true.” She shouted angrily.The only thing this whole event would bring was proof that the rumors about him being a murder were apparently true.“Do you think I really care about that?” Dominic returned in an icy voice. “ I am after all an ex-mercenary, so no matter what I do they're still going to think those rumors were true.Selena then flares up holding on to his shoulders.“Even if you are an ex-mercenary that gives you no right in doing what you did! You're now a ruler in Victoria and you have way more to lose, way more than Silas a
Dominic returned to Victoria with the first flight that he could take. Upon his return, he was very strict and made sure that everyone was following his orders. His people were on tiptoes and they whispered among themselves what could be the issue. "I think that he's having a fight with his wife. I mean, this was the way he was before he got hitched." "I like him this way. I think she softened him. This is the general that we know." Another person replied. "I think you're due for some punishment so that you will sit straight. Do you know the danger of not minding your business especially now that there's no one to beg for you? You see that Eleanor dare not try the General now if not she would lose her life." They adjusted in their stance and everyone rushed to their individual houses because they didn't want to incur the General's wrath but some certain stubborn people remained without moving. A crack of whip descended on their backs and they scattered. "Why didn't you wait to
Two weeks Later, Selena was restless in bed, her hand hovered over her phone contemplating calling Dominic or not. There was something that was stopping her from reaching out to him be it pride or something else she couldn't place her finger on. But...one thing was certain, she was missing him a lot. She didn't even think about not having to talk to him one day. It was almost as if she was about to lose everything. Her routine consisted of going to work and going to the hospital to see her sister who was still refusing to allow her in except she was asleep. Her mother's anger had waned but the friction between them was still too great. It was only Grandma who was making the house a bit likely. She was also trying her best to make sure that nothing disturbed her relationship with grandma. She was burying herself in work. As the new director of the Star Shooter Consortium, she was even saddled with responsibilities that made her former job seem like a joke. She had spare time for lu