Skai Jackson's POV

The strong urge to go to the toilet gripped me as I woke up from my slumber.

I looked at the small windows which revealed the dark clouds alongside the stars that were shining it it's full glory which made me realized it was late at night.

Two of Andre's men were fast asleep on a wide cushion that was on the other side of the jet while Becky folded herself on the cushion opposite where I sat.

I guess everyone asides the pilot and I were asleep which means I'd have to struggle my way to the toilet with my hands tied.

I looked beside me to find Andre wasn't sitting there, my gaze was still fixed on his empty seat when I felt someone tap my shoulder.

I jumped in my seat with the chains dangling from my hands which broke the calm silence of the jet.

"Hello darling." My eyes rose to a smirking Andre who was caressing my shoulder.

Shooting him a dead glare I tried to get up from my seat, I succeeded halfway but I felt a sharp pull from behind my head.

Andre pulled me by the tips of my braids which made me slump back into my seat.

"You don't walk way from me when I'm talking to you!" He gritted his teeth as he said those words which made his jawline sharper than usual.

"Let go." I scoffed as I twisted in pain the pain was unbearable because I had hit my head and now a devil was pulling my hair on the same spot.

They should just kill me.

I thought to myself as he let go of my hair, he stood in front of me as he peered into my face.

His eyes were roaming from my face down to my bust and then my abdomen,I was beginning to get uncomfortable as I shifted in my seat.

"You never stop being beautiful." He said calmly as he squat in front of me which made our faces to be on the same level.

He trailed his hands from the tip of my finger to my elbow, he paused for a while as his glistering green eyes looked into mine.

I tried looking away from his face as the scene was getting tense but he gripped me by my chin and forced me to look at him.

"Are you scared ?" He asked me as he began trailing his hands up my arms.

"Why shouldn't I ?" I eyed him as I watched him make circles on my bare shoulder.

"Because I love you." His eyes twinkled as the corner of his lips curled in a smile.

"Spare me that crap." I eyed him before looking way to fix my eyes on the small window that showed the dark clouds.

"Don't provoke me Skai. You know I loved you and I still love you that's why I'm doing all of this." He gripped both armrests on the cushion I sat on and he leaned closer to my face as he said those words.

"Do you really think I'd not find out, you're just a stupid player!" I spat those words on his face as I gave him a scornful look.

"What are you talking about ?!" He narrowed his eyes at my face.

The tugging in my bladder felt stronger and I knew I had to go now. "I need to use the toilet." I said as I changed the subject of discussion.

"Don't you dare change the subject!" He snarled as he pointed a finger at me.

"I really have to go." I whined as I pinned my bounded hands against my bosom.

"You're not going anywhere, until you talk !" I looked around hoping someone would wake up.

"I need to go!" I said as I tried to get up but he he pushed me back down.

"Never walk away from me !" His loud voice made the two men who were asleep on the other side of the plane jump up from their slumber while Becky whined in her cushion.

"What do you want from me uhn ?!" I shouted back at him.

"What do you want ! Since day one you picked me, it was like you picked my life to ruin!" Becky was now up and she looked at Andre and I with a clueless face.

"You should have just left me alone, you shouldn't have come after me !" The anger that was sprawling through my body made me more pressed but I was wasn't bothered.

Andre bobbed his head downwards before looking sideways at Becky who was rubbing her eyes as she sat upright in her seat.

"You told her, didn't you ?!" He asked her with his teeth clenched but his voice was calm.

Becky rolled her eyes before letting out a huge sigh. "Yes." She answered casually as she relaxed back into her seat.

"Are you insane ?!" Andre turned his body fully towards her.

"She was going to die, so I thought she should know before then." She shrugged as she twirled one of her curls.

Andre reached for her probably to hit her but she got up swiftly and held his hand. "Don't you lay your hands on me you filthy crap!"

"You don't have any right to! Those days I cringed by the sound of your name are over." She spat into his face as she eyed him.

"You're gonna ruin this plan!" Andre growled as he balled his hands into fists.

Becky began laughing hysterically as she gave a sign to the two men who stood behind Andre.

They both gripped Andre firmly by the elbow. "Que es todo esto ?!"(what's all this ?!) He said angrily as he struggled within their grips.

"Siguiendo órdenes.(Following orders.)" One of the mean said as the looked straight ahead.

"From who ?!"

"Demi parte!(From me!)"A man with a strong Spanish accent spoke as he walked out of nowhere while Becky turned dramatically in where she stood.

"Morales?!" Andre wasn't the only one who had his jaw dropped because I could feel saliva dropping down from my lower lip because they were wide opened as I watched the turnout of events.

"Holla amigo." He chuckled as he took his seat in where Becky formerly sat.

"Did you really think me helping you wouldn't cost you ?!" Becky smirked as she walked closer towards me.

"Before resurfacing back into your life, I watched you and your men closely and I found out you've been a bad leader." She shook her head as she took her seat beside me.

"Your men. You don't regard them, you don't respect them and you don't pay them well." She pouted her lips as she arched one of her brows.

"So she came to me with a good deal and some fleshy pleasures, I agreed." He and Becky shared a knowing smile as he flashed a wink at her.

"You're my cousin! How could you ?!" Andre barked at Morales as he struggled with the men.

"Oh shut up!" Morales got up swiftly and went head to head with Andre. "My father was supposed to hand this empire down to me but your dad had to kill him!Do you think I'm foolish ?!"

"That was an accident! He didn't intend to do it, ¿Cómo mataría a su hermano??(How would he kill his brother ?)" André shouted as the veins around his neck formed rigid cords.

"Era un hombre codicioso!(He was a greedy man!) He wanted the empire too, he stole it from him and I'm going to take it back!" Morales punched Andre on the face which made him start to bleed on his temple.

"What have you done ?" Andre asked calmly as he looked down at Becky.

"I regained my dignity." She said as she rested both arms in the armrest as she sat upright like she was on a throne.

"You took that away from me when you dumped me 6 years ago even after being my first!" My eyes grew larger as I turned my head to look at Becky in a shocking manner.

"Oh please I was never a good girl." She waved me off as she turned her attention back to Andre.

"How much did your loyalty worth ?" He asked the the two men as he looked up at him.

They both shared a laugh before one of them began to speak."50 million dollars and a better leader."

"So what are you going to do now ?!" He angrily asked Morales who was smiling victoriously at him.

"What you want, you want to marry your senorita uhn and then go kaboom! But... " He trailed off as he looked over at Becky who walked up to him.

She wrapped her hands around his neck and placed a kiss on his cheeks. "We'd not marry you two, we'd just kill you as two pathetic single humans." She giggled as she played with the curls on Morales hair.

"And then we'd get married !" Morales said before he held Becky by the waist and kissed her on the lips.

"What about Archer ?" I immediately asked as I was beginning to feel bad for him.

Becky immediately turned her head towards me and she walked up to me with a nasty look on her face.

"He was just my cash cow, I got all the money I needed from him and he gave me info from your company." She wiggled her brows as she looked into my eyes.

"You're crap! Archer is a good man, you..." A heavy thud on my face cut my words short as I tumbled on the floor.

She walked over to where I laid and raised her heeled boots on my face, she was about to hit my face with it when I felt liquid coming out of my interiors.

"Becky !" Morales stopped her as he walked towards us.He looked down at my abdomen then he flashed me a angered look like before he gripped me by my elbow.

"You're peeing yourself, estúpida!(stupid!)" He called another man who immediately came out from the jet's cockpit.

He handed me over to him and the man immediately took me to the rear end of the jet probably to the restroom.

As we walked down the aisle towards the restroom, I could hear Morales shouting harsh words at Andre and it made me scared more than I was.

I thought this was a just a “love gone wrong” aftermath but I was now in the hands of a revenge seeking criminal and bitter hearted slut.

Drake Johnson's POV

My vision was awfully blurry as I tried opening my eyes, my eyes were trying to make a focus as I looked around where I laid.

Then I realized I was in an hospital room, looking down at my body I felt weak and heavy while I saw some cords connected to my arms.

"He's awake !" I turned my head to my side and I could see Khalil under the arms of a young slender woman.

She was wearing a white lab coat and a surgical suit under it, her long brown hair was put in a ponytail.

"Drake can you hear me ?" Khalil paced towards me and he took my left hand in his fragile cold hands.

"Yeah I can..." I said faintly while I squinted my eyes still trying to make a clearer view of my environment.

"Oh God." Khalil said before encircling my body in a tight hug which made me whine in pain.

"Hey, easy, easy." The lady rushed to Khalil and withdrew him from me.

"Oh I'm sorry, did I hurt you ?!" Khalil said as his eyes ran through my body.

"No, I'm okay." I chuckled slightly as I sat upright on the bed while I looked up at the lady who seemed to be close to Khalil.

"Oh Hi I'm Gift." She smiled widely at me as she stretched her hand for a handshake.

"Doctor Gift." Khalil shook his head at me as he rolled his eyes at her.

We both chuckled at Khalil's over dramatic display as I shook hands with her. "Drake." I said calmly.

"I'm aware, and I also know you a strong man."I narrowed my eyes in confusion at her remark.

"Thanks ?" I replied in a tone like I was asking a question.

"Well you've been unconscious for approximately a day." My eyes grew wide as I realized how long I've been laying here.

"What ?!"

"Yeah and we didn't expect you to wake so soon because you were brought in a pretty bad state but you're good now." She smiled warmly at me as she took her note off the the cabinet beside my bed.

Then my mind went back to the bomb incident and I remembered Darius and his team were still at the crime scene when the bomb went off.

"What about Darius ?! Thelma ?! His team ?" I threw questions at her as I shifted uncontrollably on my bed.

She looked at Khalil awkwardly then down at her note before looking at me. "Darius is fine, he's in good condition."

"That's not all I asked you." I could feel my heart racing while Khalil stood closer to me.

She took a deep breath before she responded"Thelma and most of the cops are in a really bad condition..." She paused as she looked she walked towards the end of the bed.

"They are fighting for their life." Her words came out sharp as she gave me a pity look.

I leaned back into my bed and closed my eyes tightly. "Would they survive ?"

"Well the probability of that is really low but we have faith." She pursed her lips as she reached for my legs.

"Do you feel that ?" She asked as she hit various parts of my legs.

"Yes I do." She nodded with a smile as she wrote on her note.

"You'd be fine bro." Khalil told me while Doctor Gift walked up to me.

She pinched under my eye bags so she could have a view of the colour of the muscles beneath my eye socket and she did the same for the other eye.

"All clear." She assured me as she looked down on her note to write some things.

The door to my ward was thrown wide open with Doctor Jeff walking into the room with my mom trailing behind him.

"Oh Drake's awake." Jeff said with his famous broad smile as he stooped beside Gift.

"My baby." My mom gasped as she ran to where I laid. She wrapped her arms around me as she ran her hands through my back.

I couldn't help but also put my arms around her because I felt tired and hopeless about everything that had been going on.

"Hey Mom." I said as I withdrew from the hug.

"Drake you're gonna be okay." She assured me as she rested her hands on my shoulder.

"How are you feeling ?! Do you have an headache ? Are feeling nauseous ? Do you feel weary ?" She bombarded me with questions as she ran her hands through my body.

"Mom I'm okay." I told her as I took her hands off me.

"But you don't look good. You need to get more medications."

"I just woke up from a coma how am I supposed to look ?" I asked with a straight face as I exhaled sharply.

"Well...you need more care and medications. Jeff do you think..."

"Mom! It's fine !"

"Oh..." She looked down at her palms that were resting on my laps.

Realizing I took out my frustration on her I reached out for her hands but she refrained. "Mom I'm sorry I didn't..."

"No it's fine." She gave me a cold look as she stood up from my bed. She grabbed her purse off the bed and walked towards the door while Gift followed her.

I slapped my forehead as I watched my mom get hurt because of me. "Way to go son." Jeff teased me as he walked closer to my bed.

"I should have been calm."

"I don't blame you that much, you're under a lot of pressure so it's hard to be calm." He said as he rested an arm over Khalil.

"I know right ?!"

"But that does justify what you did to her." He pointed a finger at me as he cocked his head sideways.

"Why don't you seat with your brother ?" He ushered Khalil to seat on the edge of my bed opposite me while he took a seat on a high stool beside me.

"Doc,How's Sekani ?" Khalil asked him and my face contorted into a sad face.

"Well he's still in coma." He shrugged as he balanced himself on the stool. "But he's responding to treatment and that's a good sign." He pursed his lips in a smile as he rubbed his hands against his thin thighs.

"Thank God." Khalil gasped as he covered his mouth while little tear drops ran down his cheeks.

"Yeah, we are glad the bullet didn't penetrate deep into his skull." Jeff smiled briefly at Khalil before focusing his attention on me.

"We did serious extensive hours of surgery on that kid. He's really strong you know ?" I nodded in pride as I felt tears bubbling in my eyes.

"He wants to live and he chose to live." I said as I smiled back at Jeff.

I was happy that Sekani was going to survive his ordeal with Andre and he's going to live, I can't wait for Skai to reunite with him.

"Yeah and it's patients like him that makes doctors like us love our job even more." We all smiled and I felt like a huge part of the load heaped upon me had been lifted.

"Thank you so much Doctor Jeff."

"Jeff will do." He said before he focused his attention on Khalil.

"I see you've formed a close friendship with Gift." He smirked at Khalil who was now gleaming with joy.

"Yeah, she's really nice and she really calmed me when Drake was still under comatose." I squeezed his hand as he spoke which made him give me one of his adorable smiles.

"I see." Jeff nodded at him as he got up from the stool.

"I'm glad all of you are getting better but I can't say the same for those cops fighting for their lives downstairs." His gleaming face turned dull as he looked at me.

I let out a huge sigh as I felt guilty for their lives. "Is is that bad ?"

"Truth be told I don't think they're gonna make it, they were still in the house when the bomb blew up."

"That's why you were fortunate because you were in car about driving away when it hit you and the same goes for Darius but not for Thelma." He gave me a straight look as he cocked his head to his side.

I took my mind back to the day of the incident and I realized I was on a phone call with Mom which made me leave the scene.

Guilt and sadness filled my mind as I realized she was the one that saved me and I just spoke to her harshly.

"So,"Jeff said sharply which took our attention off the sob story he was telling us. "I have other patients waiting for me and I'm badly booked so Gift would be assigned to you ." He nodded at me for an agreement and I nodded back.

"Good." He smiled at us once more before he turned around to leave the room.

Khalil and I were both quiet for a while after Jeff left the room. "Come here bro." I called Khalil as I stretched my hands out to him.

I sat upright as Khalil sat besides me and laid his back against my chest while I rested my arms over his shoulders.

"We're going to be alright. We're gonna get Skai, Sekani would wake up and we'd all go on a vacation and forget all of this. " I assured him as I rubbed his shoulder.

"I hope she's good." He said as he pat my thighs.

"She's a fighter, she'd be fine." I smiled as I remembered her fierce moments.

"I'm going to get her back."

"You better !" Khalil slapped my knee as he gave me a sassy look.

"Roger that." We both chuckled as I ruffled his hair.

Life as we know it can be rocky at times and challenging but good news like this and encouraging associates can make it seem less worrisome.