Chapter: Chapter 220 Incidents;Unrelated?It was towards midnight the next day when Bianca received a short, one-line text from St Just. Her Masters had kept her informed, all throughout the operation. Cuddling Cian, who had a bit of a sniffle and was generally restless and clinging to her, Bianca turned on the dim bedside light and read the message. Her heart was pounding.Found Hila, it read. Safe. Alive.Just four words, but enough to make her clutch her son to her chest and sob in joy.*St Just and O’Grady stared at the bundle on the ground, which seemed to be just a heap of smelly clothes, if you didn’t look carefully. And the gloom in the room made it near impossible to see clearly. But the young woman, the firebrand who had kneed Rudy in his b*lls, had pushed past them, like a guard dog as she stood, facing them.Waving her gun, one that seemed oddly too big for her tiny figure.“Ye folk are the real thing, aren’t ye?” Her Irish brogue was pronounced as she glared at them, her large green eyes moving wildly from one f
Last Updated: 2025-07-12
Chapter: Chapter 219 ProserpinaRia Delano was at her desk at Shangri La, going over the details of a conference that had just been held. Browsing the papers, she looked the picture of a working woman, thought her husband, the Capo, who had come in, silently, like a large panther. He would never get tired of looking at his wife, thought Philippe in admiration, his chest puffing out with love and pride. Ria wore a pair of tortoiseshell glasses, for her eyesight had suffered after the injuries she had received in the car crash, when she had lost her baby. Her long blonde hair was twisted into a messy bun on the top of her head, tendrils having escaped to frame her beautiful face. As Ria studied her phone and then flicked her eyes to the screen in front of her, she glanced up and noticed her husband. Leaning back and stretching, she arched her back and dimpled, taking off her glasses.“Don’t you have anything better than to stand at the door and gawk at me, Philippe the Capo?” she said, but her voice was teasing. A p
Last Updated: 2025-07-09
Chapter: Chapter 218. The FurySerena opened her eyes slowly. She was still too weak to move. Her body ached; her mind was still in a state of fugue. She kept drifting in and out of consciousness.Her mind was in a fog. Thoughts drifted in and out of reach. Where was she? What had happened? Her body refused to move, her arms numb, her legs unresponsive. Panic rose in her chest until a soft hand found hers — warm, trembling, real.“It's okay,” the voice said again, closer now. He was crying. “You're safe now, love. You came back.”And then, slowly, like stars blinking into a night sky, memories began to return.Louis. Her beloved Louis.Serena turned her head ever so slightly, a monumental effort. Machines beeped softly around her. The hospital room was quiet, save for her labored breath and his. He was beside her, eyes red, clutching her hand as if it were the only real thing in the world.Tears slipped from the corners of her eyes. She was alive. Broken, weak, barely whole — but alive.And for now, that was enoug
Last Updated: 2025-07-09
Chapter: Chapter 217 The changesOnce Piers Delano took charge, things moved swiftly.And young Siobhan was also bundled along to the hospital, as someone informed her, despite her reluctance to go along with the strangers.Siobhan Sweeny was flustered. She never let anyone get to her, had never known what love was. As for making out, she had been too disgusted with the creeps who kept climbing into her bed when her ma was out, dead drunk, to want to chance it with a boy of her age. Fighting her mother’s suitors off ever since she had blossomed into a curvy young woman, with her long, dark hair and flashing green eyes, had made her curl her lips in disdain when her friends at school drooled over boys. Having seen and heard her Ma in bed with some of her men friends, Siobhan thought it looked and sounded gross.But the sight of the tall, broad man, older than her by a few years, in his twenties certainly, was making her behave in a way she had never reacted. When Rudolph had crashed onto her body, she had felt somet
Last Updated: 2025-07-09
Chapter: Chapter 216 Claude in despair.Again, thought Claude, his eyes misting over, his father had said that before. What had he meant?Claude shut his eyes and tilted his head to heaven as his father growled on,“We need to find the leak. Get Paddy on it, boy.”The call ended.The second Delano son lowered his head, his shoulders slumping. A quiet desperation engulfed him. Nothing he ever did would come up to his father’s high standards, ever…Unlike Louis. Or Rudy, who was appreciated by Lucien Delano. And of course, Piers, the man who ran the mob with an iron hand, now. But he, Claude…? The big man sighed and lowered his head.If he did not know better, he thought bitterly, an unusually cynical smile touching his firm lips, he would ask himself if he was really a Delano. But his looks, mirroring his brothers and sisters, put that doubt to rest. And of course, he thought, his heart clenching, his Mumma would never… He wanted nothing more than to call his Mumma, to listen to her soothing voice. He felt he had f*cked
Last Updated: 2025-07-07
Chapter: Chapter 215 Out of control!!!he hospital room was still, quiet except for the soft hum of the machines and the rhythmic beeping of the heart monitor. Pale morning light filtered through the half-drawn blinds, laying stripes of warmth across the woman's motionless form.Serena’s eyelids fluttered once, then again, longer this time, as if something deep inside her was stirring. The faintest crease formed on her brow. Her lips parted slightly, dry and cracked, but trying to shape a breath, a word, a question she didn’t yet remember.Inside her, awareness moved like a tide returning. First came the sound—the sterile buzz of the hospital, the faint echo of footsteps down the corridor, the steady pulse of her own heartbeat in her ears. Then the weight of her body registered, like waking from a long and heavy dream. Her fingers twitched, a subtle, nearly invisible movement.She didn’t open her eyes yet, but the world was no longer completely dark. Shapes floated behind her eyelids, shadows of memory, fragments of voices
Last Updated: 2025-07-07
Chapter: FinalePiers's loud shout made the hall fall silent. For a minute, every head in the room swivelled to stomp in the doorway.Even Lucien Delano and Proserpina, absorbed as they were in their burning need to lose themselves in their desperate need for each other, stopped. Proserpina blinked as she turned to look, safe as she was, nestled in her lover’s strong embrace. And the Mafia Don scowled in annoyance, muttering,“What is with that fool boy?’Piers whipped his head to face his parents across the room, an arm around Hila, holding her to his chest as he cried, "Mumma! Pappa!’And when he was hurrying to them, his eyes were wild with excitement as he cried in joy, dragging his lover beside him,‘I…you… I mean… Mumma, I’m going to be a dad!”Proserpina was out of her husband’s protective arms as her son whooped and threw his arms around her, laughing with him. Lucien watched drily as Claude and Ria immediately crossed to him, pulling him into a huddle. Tara joined them, and after a pause, so
Last Updated: 2024-10-27
Chapter: “I wanted to meet the father of my child…”LucienHe began to make his way slowly through the milling throng of his guests to where his Woman was standing, in a daringly backless gown, her beautiful body making his staff harden with desire. Ria and Tara had chosen the slinky gown for her. When Proserpina had protested in embarrassment, her hands on her pink cheeks, the girls had declared,‘Mumma! Even after eight kids, you still look WOW!’It had been one of those rare weekends when Tara had come home. Ria had little Jamie on her lap, jiggling the fat little girl who was cooing at her Pappa, for the Mafia Don was hands down, her favourite person. Jamie was the apple of the Don’s eye, as Ria often teased her father.Lucien, who had been in the bedroom working on his phones and tablet, had been watching them in amusement.After the heart attack, mild though it had been, he had taken to spending time at home, working from his office or sometimes, his spacious bedroom.‘Please…but it’s BACKLESS!” Proserpina had gone on, her eyes m
Last Updated: 2024-10-26
Chapter: True LoveA love like the kind her parents shared was almost like a fairytale…She sighed and touched her small belly. Big Philippe placed his large warm hand over hers and whispered concernedly in her ear,“Princess?”She looked up into his dark eyes and felt the rush of affection, of love that kept them bound to each other. Philippe, the Capo would bring the Moon and place it at her feet if she asked for it, she thought and unmindful of the crowds milling around her, the sound of glasses clinking, the chatter of people as, Ria reached up and pulled his head down. Murmuring against his lips,‘Philippe Diaz, I love you,” as she kissed him.***Piers Delano was staring at his phone. His mind was on other matters, although he had turned up for the party after his twin’s wedding ceremony. It had been a brief ceremony; Philippe had been born a Catholic, so there had been a small wedding service at Church. Old man Diaz had passed away a few years ago, and Philippe’s brothers, both of whom had been a
Last Updated: 2024-10-24
Chapter: A few Years laterA few years later.The years have been kind to him, thinks the Don fondly as he surveys the guests at his daughter’s wedding party.Lucien Delano has aged but in his predictably indomitable manner, he looks and of course, his wife is testimony to the fact, that he still behaves in the same manner as he used to.His still-muscular physique belies his years and he continues to practice in his gym and has a friendly bout of boxing in the Ring, off and on. His son Claude is now an established name in the world of boxing, simultaneously running the underground fight clubs he has set up, and partnered with Paddy. The two of them work in tandem, Paddy with his enviable skills on the computers, has managed to make the Fight Clubs very lucrative indeed! thinks the Don.The Mafia Don is still actively handling the matters of his mob, which has branched out to become a powerful organisation, but one that is totally against human trafficking. He has made his millions through his arms dealings, a
Last Updated: 2024-10-23
Chapter: JamieLucienHe looked at his Woman fondly. She was on the bed, her head lowered to the baby at her nipple, the little child whose brown curls were bobbing as she sucked hard at her mother’s swollen teat.Proserpina wore a look of divine bliss, and Lucien moved over to her, taking her chin in his hard grip and kissing her.It was all he could do, for she had been spending almost a month at the hospital now. A month during which the Mafia Don had practically lived in the hospital too, his only concern being his Woman.And of course, the littlest child of his, who had charmed him already, though she was too small, too tiny to utter a word. Yet she could be ear-splittingly loud, too!He found himself staring in wonder as the baby yawned, exposing her small toothless gums, pink in colour, as he watched her face adoringly. And when Proserpina laughed at him, at the way he fawned over his youngest daughter, the Mafia Don growled at her, his eyes hungrily wandering over her.“Woman, I want to bree
Last Updated: 2024-10-23
Chapter: “She hasn’t seen her littlest babe yet!’RiaShe was running down a corridor that stretched out endlessly. The sound of the man’s footsteps thundering after her made her pant in fear. He was after her. She stumbled and fell, picked herself up, and kept running, her hands reaching out in the dark for some door, some way out of this place. And then, suddenly, out of the blue, she grabbed a shirt sleeve.The face of the man looked up in front of her.She screamed as Dusak’s face appeared out of the gloom, grinning maniacally.He had blood pouring down his forehead and a large hole in his cheek where he had been shot. But he opened his mouth and spoke in a guttural voice she knew she had heard before.“LOVELY Ria, my Ria, I am going to be with you forever now...'He reached out a long skeletal hand with talons, and that was when Ria screamed.Dusak Rudenko began shaking her throat ungently, and she felt a gurgle of panic erupt within her. A deep fear, unnamed and unknown.And then Philippe’s voice came into her consciousness, be
Last Updated: 2024-10-22
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