{ Leopoldo } The front door opens while I'm still playing in front of the TV and I jump up in that same second, surprised and pumped to see Jolene home so early. Around three hours earlier than normal, this feels very exciting. "Hi, baby. What's up? Why are you home so early?" I ask as I walk up to her and hug her, lifting her up for a couple of seconds. She seems stiffer than normal and she doesn't respond to my kiss right away, so I stop and pull her back down, "What? Something happened?" "Nah, I just got bored in the coffee shop," she murmurs and finally gives me a little smile. I kiss her again and this time she responds for a bit, but then breaks the kiss, "What were you doing? Didn't you hear me yelling?" "No, I didn't, why were you yelling?" I ask, stepping away from her so I can get a good look. Luckily, she looks unharmed, but my instinct is telling me something is up. She’s not acting normal and she smells worried and anxious, "What the hell happened, Jolie? You're actin
{ Jolene } I need to get out of this house expeditiously fast, especially when Leo starts getting handsy as we walk from the table to the couch once we finish eating. I know I'm a bad person and I’ve always been unapologetic about my badness, but for some reason, having sex with Leo –or being intimate at all– knowing I'm going to do something that's possibly going to hurt him, feels really wrong. "Wait, wait," I stop him again when he tries to grab my ass while we're watching TV, "Can we save this for later? I need to go get dressed, I want to go to Jonah's house and tell him about our trip. He needs to get ready too." Leo stops and looks at me, confused. And hurt. "Right now?" he asks, with his sad-puppy face. But thinking 'sad-puppy' just made me remember he's a literal dog so I start feeling anxious again. What if he turns into a fucking wolf in front of me? I would pass out, that looks extremely ugly, "When are we even going on that trip, by the way? We didn't plan a date."
As soon as Jonah arrives the next morning and we get inside his car to start our trip, I start to feel like I want to throw up. I feel like shit, literal shit. Leo is such a good guy, he's been super nice to me the whole time, he’s been super into me, lifting my self-esteem to the max... but I haven't even known him for that long. Tricking him should not he this big of a deal. And five million dollars is a lot of fucking money, he has to understand. He’ll probably be a little mad a me, but once he manages to run away again, maybe we can rekindle our situation? Unless he hates me forever and never wants to see me again. And what if that happens and I lose him for good? I’ll be so sad. Because… what if he's... like, the love of my life or something? Gah, I know he's not, even if my heart is talking at the moment. I need to shut it up. The heart has nothing to do when money is involved. I would never lose the opportunity to have that much money just because I really like
"Hey, hey, hey! Let her go!” Jonah says, stepping out of the car to look at the big guy grabbing my arm, "We just gave Leo some sedatives. He's fine." The big bad guy gives us both wary looks, but finally lets go of my arm to grab Leo's body and pull him out if the car. He looks dead. "He's fucking skinny as hell, have you been starving him?" The BBG growls in my face. "Jace, chill out," the other guy says, realizing he's being super mean to me for no reason, "Let's get him inside." As both of them grab Leo to carry him and move him inside, I finally pay attention to them and I realize they're the guys I saw the second time I met Leo, when he ruined my groceries. One of them is Leo’s brother. The BBG. "Both of you, follow us. King Archibaldo is waiting inside," the nice guy says. Jonah comes to my side and grabs my hand. "Thanks for protecting me, Jo. I didn't know you had it in you,” I whisper, squeezing his hand. "I don't have it in me, I'm shitting my fucking pants,
"All I wanted was to be left alone," I murmur, shaking my head, not making eye contact with anyone, "I’ve already told you a hundred times, don't want to be the Alpha, it's just not in me. I don't want any of this shit." "It belongs to you," Archie says, making me roll my eyes. We’ve repeated this conversation a lot, "Jace has been the replacement Alpha, but people still ask about you. They think they're safer if you're around. They want you. Beatrice is living here, just waiting for your return. She's your fiancée, Leo, whether you like it or not, you signed the contract and we need the connection now more than ever.” “She's living here, where?" I ask, looking at Archie. If she’s here, it means her dad is impatient for this union. I guess that’s why they were being so intense about finding me. "Here, here. In a guest room," Archie answers. I take my hands to my hair in stress and I push everyone away from me because I'm suffocating again. Just five minutes awake in here and I
As soon as the call ends, I get on my bank app and I wire ONE MILLION DOLLARS to Jonah. The maximum amount I’ve ever wired him is like twenty bucks. Maybe once I finally get Leo to forgive me, the fact that I’m a millionaire now will sink in, but it hasn't yet. I don’t feel anything yet. Just guilt. Since Archie gave me the money and Leo’s mom gave me a disappointed face, a heavy fucking block of guilt got dropped on my heart. I tried to walk out, but I wasn't able to walk past the front door. I can’t leave without Leo, my legs refused to keep walking. So, I made a plan. We’ll run away together, like he already did once, except now we have money, we can live a normal life... together. I know he would be into it because he said he loves me just a couple hours ago, I want to ask if he meant it or if he was just high. But whatever it is, I need to talk to him. However, it looks like it won’t be right now, because he refused to hear me out. I can wait, I guess. I hope it’s
"What the fuck are YOU still doing here?!" Jace growls as soon as I step out. He's shirtless now and angry, so he looks fucking... he looks very good, actually. Just like Leo but with a mean, uglier face and big bulging muscles. I prefer Leo, of course, but I have to admit this guy is ripped. "My name is Jolene," I say, ignoring his snarling. He's not that scary now that I witnessed him get fucking dumped. He’s just as lame as the rest of us, "We have an enemy in common: Bea." "What? Bea is not my fucking enemy," he says, clasping his fists and starting to walk towards me. I move until I'm behind a couch, putting it in between us for safety in case he wants to jump and bite my head off, literally, "Get to fuck out of my house!" "Shh, shh, boy, down!" I order, because I'm clearly dealing with a rabid fucking dog. The way he looks at me... yeah, he wants to eat me, "Do you even have a brain? Can we have a civil conversation?" "Why the fuck would I want to have a civil conversati
Three people walk in on us before Jace can get away from me. But he doesn’t get away from me, he actually grabs me by the face and throws me way too hard, so I fall on the floor, directly over someone's feet. “Ouch,” I say, because that shit hurt. A lot. "Oh, my goodness, Jacinto," the woman gasps and she grabs my arms to pull me up like I weight nothing. I realize, this is Leo's mom, "Are you alright, girl?""No, he... he chocked me, punched my stomach and threatened me with torture," I lie, because why not? Fuck Jacinto, he's my number one enemy now. Bea can become my sister wife, I will kindly accept her if it means Jacinto will suffer, "I'm just a human, he's so much stronger than me. Ow, I think I need a doctor.""She's fucking lying! I just threw her to the floor,” Jace tries to defend himself, but Leo's mom rubs my arm protectively. That's when I notice the other two people. Archie and a beautiful girl, looking at Jace in disbelief. Something tells me that's Bea. Oh, no, she'