"And in the end, we were all just humans. Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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George Miller

How am supposed to make it right? To make my son feel alive again? "You won Mr. Miller. You killed your younger son". Jade's words running In my mind don't even skip a second to make me second class. I have already lost my deary son. I will not lose my second.  

" I know Father gave you money to shut your fucking mouth." I heard Catherine vague voice coming from her room. Anxiously moving back and forth in the room, running her hands in her hair. " It's not my problem if father gave you 10 million instead of 100". So, she knew it all this time. Why didn't she tell Daxton if she knew? What is she planning, this vicious bitch?. Before I open the door I heard what set my soul on fire. " Listen to me carefully. I asked you to kill both. But you missed. I have nothing to do with you now. I'll kill you with my own hands if you ever tried to call me again". She threw her phone on the bed and rush to the bathroom. I checked the room and slowly move to her bed. Alfred's name was written on the last call.

All this time I was blaming myself that Daxton got shot because of me but she is the one who ordered him. This doesn't mean I did nothing wrong. Daxton maybe got healed from the bullet wound but the pain I gave to him by sending Olivia away will never fade.

" Now, You are talking to yourself, Father. Just admit it, Your legs are almost in the grave." Wiping her hands with the towel. She threw the towel on the chair and relaxed on the soft mattress, anger raged in my veins. " All these things for attaining the highest position". I gritted my teeth in frustration.

" Don't tell me father with qualities like narcissistic and bumptious, you are ill-mannered too". She gave me her plain smile and slowly ticked her heels towards me, snatching the phone from my hand. I fell on the bed and my cane drop from my hand with sudden force. She placed the cane on my neck and pushed it on my neck horizontally with full force. At one point I felt like my thyroid bone is going to crack. Straddling me, she pressed her full energy on one point. " I think your time is done Father. Tell Liam that I love him". She grinned like the devil himself in her soul smiling at me and telling me that my time is done now.

"But before you die let me tell you the whole story. I followed you that night and heard everything you asked Alfred to get rid of Olivia. So I thought why not get rid of both when I can and that idiot Alfred accepts my offer without a second thought". My eyes get a dull image of her. I managed to kick her on the back which is difficult for me but getting alive out of here is way more important. She fell on the bed beside me while I coughed and place a hand on my throat gasping for air.

Without wasting any second, I gripped my hands on her little neck. She slammed her hands on me but that's not going to help her. " You deserve to die, you snake". I clenched my jaw and clutch my fingers on her neck with more force. Her eyes went wide, her hands are trying to reach my face but I lift my face upwards. I'll kill her now and end her story forever. She would never be able to do anything to him. She doesn't deserve Marcus, I'm doing a favor to kill her as Marcus's grandfather. Her body movements finally decreased and I lose a slight grip as I thought she lose her consciousness. Taking a deep breath, one hand was still on her neck, My head felt dizzy but I shake my head and suddenly something sharp like glass slam on my head. I fell backward but I tried to keep my eyes open. Broken vase pieces pierced in my skin while liquid dripped from my head to my suit. I pull myself together and make my way outside her room taking little steps against the wall. I look backward, she is still lying on the bed on her back struggling to get air more than her lungs can consume.

I heard footsteps from behind. Gabriel standing in the hall saw me and panicked running towards me. I felt that this is going to end. This torture. I'll ask Parez to take Olivia back too. I'll make things right. I'll show Catherine her actual place. I'll make her suffer in the most barbaric ways. I place my hand on the handrail taking steps like a baby who learns how to walk in the early stages. The feeling of falling from the stairs always scared me.

" Father". I heard Catherine's vicious voice from behind. I look back still holding the handrail tightly. Her dress was stained with my blood and terror running through my body, quickly I move down the stairs but my body rolled down from wooden stairs. A hundred times my body hits by the edgy stairs make me bleed more. When my body aches stop for a second, lying on the floor on my back I look up. She is Standing on the stairs not even flinching a little for what she did. Gabriel holds my body while crying and asking my name if am alright. But my body is resisting to move even my tongue. It felts like everything slows down for a second. I can only hear my unsteady breath and my erratic heartbeat struggling to keep me awake. Her merciless and cold-blooded expressions haunt me for my son. I'm afraid of what she'll do to my son. " Save my son," I asked Gabriel holding her hands while tear droplets rolled down over my cheeks and darkness covered my eyes.

Daxton

" Your father fell from the stairs". Without even thinking twice we run towards our car. I look back and apologize to them. I'll come back again to apologize but I need to go. My anger issues always make things worse but I have never thought I do things like this. Olivia! Where are you? Am just praying for your well-being. I have never prayed for anything ever.

when I open the front door of the car, Kyra jumps inside out of the blue. She passes a plain smile, asked me to move a little backward, and slammed the door on my face. I look at her from tinted glass but she's looking at the front ignoring me. Nic passed me with his pouted face still angry from the small scene I created. Okay, not small I know. It's way bigger.

Kyra deliberately did that so that we can make this work. I think I have read her wrong, she is a mixture of kind and evil. Evil is never going to remove from her not because she took drugs or anything. But whenever I saw her, I get that vibe that this girl can survive anything. Jade pulled the car on the runway while Nick turned his face immediately on another side leaving me with the chaos I created. But I know how to make it up with him. I hugged him from behind, Kyra and Jade notice me but don't give a tinker's damn. He neither push me away nor hug me back. So, I did the same thing that he did years back when I got angry with him. It disgusts me like hell, I'll show him now why I slapped him when he did that. I take a deep breath while both of them are excited and chuckling. I lick his cheek which sends shivers to his whole body as an electric current passes through him.

" What the fuck, Dax". He turned around while Kyra is clapping whilst a hand on her face to hide her laugh. I move my shoulders upwards same my hands acting innocent. His furrowed eyebrows slowly relaxed and a smile played on his lips.

" You are disgusting, Dax"

" I know you liked it" I wink. Ewww is what he said in return. He punched on my bicep. I acted that it hurt and we all laughed together. I nod Kyra from the mirror and said Thank you.

Jade parked the car and we run inside. Gabriel standing in the hall with puffy eyes that most of the time one got from crying. Uneasy atmosphere spreads all around the hall, as I reached near the couch where several men standing wearing all black clothes. I pushed them aside and they move making a way for us. My body froze when I saw father lying on the couch, blood all over his body. Doctor with his equipment standing in a corner holding both hands in front. I called my father multiple times but he doesn't move or open his eyes. Nic hold me from behind and asked me to sit but I denied and asked Doctor what's the matter.

He moves backward and with trembling lips inclined he said " I'm sorry, Sir. But he already loses a lot of his blood because of hemorrhage."

" What do you mean lost his blood. Don't you have blood banks?" Nic's voice comes from behind. My whole body trembles hearing the doctor's word.

" He is already dead before I even reached here"

When I look at my father's soulless body, I fell on the floor with my knees pressing the floor hard. Why? Why did it happen again? Why did it all happen to me? Why everyone is leaving me one by one? Why? Jade sits beside me wrapping his one arm around me. " Calm down Dax. Calm down".

The ticking of heels which is vague a minute ago become louder and louder. We tilt our heads, Catherine standing on the edge of the stairs, wearing a black dress, gloves covering her arms till elbows. I know she is not on good terms with father but at least she shouldn't disrespect him like that. Marcus runs towards his grandfather asking him to come out of his sleep. My heart clenched with pain, I heard this saying once when you are suffering already, god double your suffering to check your endurance. Is it that time? I look upwards but I know he is not going to reply obviously. Why am acting so irrational these days? I need to get back. I need to, for Marcus's sake.

I get back on my feet. " How did it happen?" push my hair backward from my forehead. People keep staring at me with those pity eyes which I hated the most. " I'm asking something. How the fuck did it happen?

" He just fell off from stairs". Catherine displeasing voice makes me look at her again. Her lackadaisical attitude towards Father's death increases my suspicion. " Who saw him first? Are you at home at that time?" Offended by the curt question I asked, a smirk played on her lips which were for nanoseconds and no one could see that except me.

She tilts her head towards Gabriel and moves forward by taking little steps. Her pale face looks paler than usual maybe it's just because of father. She gaze at Catherine with those red puffy eyes then managed to make eye contact with me. There's something going on between two of them.

" I saw him first. He was weeping from pain and his breathing was shallow and he-.. d-.. died in my hands". She is on the verge of crying and tears filled her eyes. So I asked her to leave instead of interrogating more.

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Catherine already prepared everything for the funeral without even letting me know anything. Marcus stuck with me from the hours, not leaving my side for a second. So, I picked him everywhere and dressed him as well. Whenever I asked him to go to his mother, he start crying. Even Jade and Nic stick by side all the time. I've never felt this weak but I still have a few people who are my support system and I need to be strong for Marcus too. It's been hours and after reaching back and she asked to hand over father's shares to her which is unexpected but with the personality she attain I don't doubt that she steep this low. I need to get back on track, I can't lose my shit. For Olivia, For Marcus, For the sake of Father, at least his last wish was me to get back to my senses for Company.

I ask Sophia to get the board members in the conference room by 10. I don't want anyone to takeover Olivia's room or her position. Until then, Sophia will handle Olivia's work. I'll find you my Luv. I'll never give up. When I reached their Catherine leaning on the wall next to the conference room wrapping her arms on her chest with confidence. Pushed her body she look at me with those clever eyes. " So, you started shaving again huh?" Traces her finger on my cheek bone then on jaw line. Before she hand touches me again, I grip her wrist with full force and jerk downwards with disgust.

"Guess What?"

" What?" She raised her brows.

" You started this shit. But I'll make sure to end this" I winked her and make my way inside the room.

I'm already expecting her ferocious mind games. It is quite easy to gain back the trust of the board members. She doesn't even know who is she facing? Anger is visible in her eyes but her tight lips manage to smile. She had never faced extreme type of embarrassment in her whole life that she faced today.

"Bribing my board members was a very low plotting game, sister-in-law. You should thing something big to watch my fall." I whispered in her ear while smiling at other members who are leaving back to their work. She gripped the table with her hands.

" This is not the end Daxton. You'll bleed tears of blood. I'll make you regret what you did today". Grabbing her handbag she stormed out of the room with fury.

Pulled the chair backwards I relaxed placing the shoes on the table, loosing the tie closes my eyes I take a deep breath. My gadget started buzzing in my pocket. Ugh !!! Why people don't let me relaxed for a while. I heard Jade voice from other side. " Boss there's something you should know".

" What is it?" I said with dry voice.

" Two tickets were booked on your father name to Canada on the same day you got shot". My relaxed position changed to tense and my shoes touch the ground as my heart lose it's normal pace. " Where in Canada?" I asked one thing and rush immediately towards the elevator.

"There will always be a person who looks like a poem the earth wrote to keep you alive. I have read it somewhere.

You are that person. You are keeping me alive, Olivia."

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Do you like it? Though, A lot of things happened in Daxton's life. Poor Dax faced a lot. Maybe spring bloom again in his fall.

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On these days that feel like you and me
Heartbreak anniversary
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On these days that feel like you and me
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