GINA'S POV I raised my head slowly. I felt like it weighed a ton. Someone was tapping on my arm to wake me but I was woozy and I couldn't make sense of his face.Tired of trying to understand what was going on, my eyes shut again. The second time I woke up, it was because I felt myself get lifted off the car seat. I shuffled on the individual’s grip and he let me go immediately. I fell, unable to stay on my feet, I crumbled to the ground. That's when I heard his voice.“Stubbornness won't do much for you. You can barely stand.” He said. There was clear concern in his voice. I felt his hands on my hip, pulling me up from the floor, I rested on his shoulders, not resisting anymore.“That's better. One step at a time okay.” I nodded. He threw my hand around his neck and lead me like that all the way to my apartment doorstep. I gladly gave him the key and he unlocked the door. I was lying on the bed the next moment.He went over to the kitchen to make coffee and I managed to pul
QUINN'S POV Hailey hurried downstairs. I was already in the car, selecting one out of my pack of large cigars. She knew better not to keep me waiting. We had an appointment today with someone special. The someone who had Hailey out all day when Derek had a fever. I heard her heels hit hard on the ground as she ran towards the car. Georgie held the backseat door open, she slipped in immediately. Georgie joined me in the front.“Where to now?” Georgie asked her while I pretended I was focused on the circles of smoke I puffed which disbursed as they hit the window.“Lilac Hotel, off west street.” She said. Georgie stepped on the brakes, screeching the car into th road. I looked out the window, the flash of cars seemed to distract me form a while. I needed them too because I was going to get pissed if I dared as much as peep at the backseat. Apparently, Hailey was terrible at reading the mood. She didn't seem to realize that what she was about to do next was really going to make
GINA'S POV The morning of the next day, I drove myself to the villa to see Derek. He was awake and rolling around his play room when I came in. He was in Diapers, putting the superman toy I bought for him in his mouth. I rushed to him immediately, holding his hand as gentle as I could.“Derek out of your mouth, okay.” I made a gesture that displayed how he should do it. He laughed at me instead of listening. “Bad Derek, take it out.” I made the sign again. He giggled and beat his hand on the floor but he still had the toy in his mouth.I pouted, realizing he was at it again. Making things difficult for me because he thought it was fun. I wanted to pull it out if his mouth but I knew better. In the past, when I tried that, he bit me.“Derek please spit out out.” He shook his head, and mumbled a ‘no’“Okay, what do I do to make you spit it out?” I said, coming closer. He sat on the floor and he held up another toy. I took the toy from him and I sat down. That's when he spit it o
I bid the visitors I could, goodbye and hopped into my Bentley. Nanny Ann just called. Quinn and Hailey had returned. Hailey was looking as pale as a ghost and Quinn was covered in blood. Georgie was burning a metal batten in the incinerator. It was a weird thing but that only made the object more suspicious. I drove fast through the highway and up the mountain path. I knew Quinn well. Hailey too. Whatever she endured, there was no way she could keep her feelings in any longer than she already did. She would snap and Quinn would hit her if she went too far which she almost always did.In the past, I had been around and I had been around to quell the fighting but now, so silently I prayed that I would arrive just in time to do it again.Even with the Bentley flying through the roads of New York, it still took a full hour before I got to the villa. I left the car for the guards to drive it in while I hurried into the house with the documents from the auction on hand and my heels
“Are you just going to stand there?”I gulped. He knew I was here. I could hear the bottom of a cocktail glass make sounds on the wooden table next to him. I peered into the dark and I see too glasses. He was expecting me. Something about that had my gut twisting again.“Lovely evening, don't you think.” I sauntered towards him, tucking my hair behind my ears as I took one of the glasses and poured the entire thing into my mouth. If I was going to do this I need to lose some level of my sanity.“Save me the pleasantries and get to the point.” His voice held the deep dark tone again, excluding that frightening air.“What point?” I asked, feigning surprise as well as I could.“I am here to congratulate you. I heard you killed Hailey’s lover. Pretty bold.” I took a few steps forward so he could see my full figure standing on the roof with him in that dim night, my shirt black gown accentuated by the glittering holden chains.“Hailey was always silly. Living in a fantasy in a world like
I stretched out for the twentieth time, rubbing my hip. Quinn that bastard. He wasn't even the littlest bit gentle. Fondling me like I was his toy. Makes me wonder how bad things will be if we actually have sex. The thought almost made me shudder in fear. At the back seat, Hailey sat next to baby Derek, tickling him but smiling more than the baby himself. I glanced at her from the rear mirror and I couldn't help but smile too. She was brighter today. Quinn hadn't decided anything though but she knew what he would say. It was written all over my face.I popped the car door open and stepped down. “Hailey, come on. We have to do some shopping.” I voice out, drawing her attention to me.“Oh of course.” She said, slightly startled.“Don't forget to bring him with you.” “Alright.” She went right to that while I took in the beautiful waterfront facing the mall. Sunglasses on as always.Hailey came up next to me a minute later and we head straight into the mall.Hailey separated from me
LEO’S POV I stood there, watching the car disappear into the dusty streets. I locked my lip and exhaled but I couldn't shake it off. The feeling I just got when I looked at that child. I didn't see his face, Gina was quick, which is sensible though. Little kid need not be known by me for his safety sake.I turned slowly, heading back inside. Trying to ignore that electric feeling coursing through me the moment I went near that boy. Like we had a special connection or something.My men were coming up at the entrance of the mall, probably wondering why I left all of a sudden. I got to them and they lead the way. Walking down to a food stand at the far left end of the mall. Someone was seated, scooping vanilla ice cream from a cup into his mouth . He had a gloves over his hands.I joined him, picking a regular beer for myself.“After months of communication, we finally meet. I was beginning to think you weren't sincere when you said you loved me.” The man looked up, a grim tuggi
SAMANTHA’S POVI took off the braiser and climbed inside the tub. Sinking into the warm water and letting the heat take away the aches and cramps. I was still sore, an aftereffect of falling down several times because I was staggering drunk.Leo was seen out by a lake with a woman yesterday and he was gripping her behind. All the while I had been with him, he was fond of gawking at women in parties he threw in his mansions but never had he been so close to one.The picture didn't even shade that nasty grin on his face, everything about his mood at that moment made my blood boil. I called him a dozen times over but he didn't return any of them. Alcohol became the only solution to the pain threatening to rip open my chest and still hasn't gone away.But right now, with my head above the water and my eyes focused on the white ceiling, I couldn't help but wonder why I was so upset. Perhaps it was because, deep down, I had the gnawing feeling that I was getting punished. I stole him of co
I stood sit, staring at the empty sea where my ship once sailed. Some boken pieces of metal managed to float, the wave drifting them to shore for me to see. Perhaps, like the universe, it was trying to wreck me displaying what I had lost before my eyes.Somehow it all seemed sort of unreal. Like a very bad nightmare. My bleeding arm gnawed at me and my vision blurred a few times from the throbbing headache behind my head but it didn't seem to make me want to believe that this is really what It is. I just watched 200 billion worth of cargo go up in blast and flames.In that moment, I felt the meaning of emptiness. The hollow, dead-like and soul crushing feeling that I had lost so much. My body was weary and slightly trembling but I couldn't bring myself to walk away. The loss hit me too hard to let me move, even when the obvious screeching of a car was evident. The engine stopped, and the driver got out. I did not look back until he spoke.“What an explosive day, don't you think?”A d
I hopped into the Ferrari and Reggie hit the brakes, screeching into the road. Everything was forgotten; my grief, my sobbing and even shaving. That shipment was carrying nearly half my life savings. I lose that and I will have a taste of bankruptcy for the first time. There is nothing a Mafia lord feared more that losing moneyThe port is still an hour ride from us even though Reggie is disobeying every traffic signs. I loaded up the revolver, placing them next to us. If Quinn is really there then there is definitely going to be a blood bath in motion.My phone rang, the Don managing the port is calling. I picked the call, impatienting yelling into the phone.“Where the fuck have you been?!”“Boss, I'm sorry but we are taking in heavy fire right now.” I could here guns offloading in the background and men sprouting curses.“Do you have eyes on Quinn?”“No, boss he isn't here.”“Find him.” I cut the call, ramming my hand on the car door. I took in a deep breath and exhaled. Su
LEO’S POV I sat alone in the silence of the room, nursing my bruised arm. The grandfather clock ticking one second after the other and the breeze swinging the curtains side by side. There is a lingering ache in my chest. I sucked in a breath but I couldn't exhale. Yesterday kept coming back to me each time tried to breathe, to release the pain. I shut my eyes, feeling tears fill my eyes until the glittered when I opened them. The tears threatened to fall but everytime I looked at the picture frame in front of me, I wijced the tears back. I didn't deserve to feel sad. I didn't deserve to cry. I didn't have to right to grieve. The day Sofia died, I didn't go to find her body, I didn't ask of her again. She was the only one who treated me like I was human and I disregarded her like she was filth.What was I thinking. Remembering the past now made me wonder how on earth finding I thought I could find someone to replace her. I didn't deserve happiness. Sitting in the quiet I
My heart stopped when I heard those words. Every bit it the way he said it, was enchanting. Tonight he came to me with a fine black shirt and faded blue jeans. We looked like teens hiding out in a garden because we didn't want anyone to know, we were….“Sofia.” His voice broke into my reverie.“Yes.”“I… know you are. I know you…. You are probably upset about…”“Quinn, please, not now. Don't change the topic here.”He was quiet, pursing his lips like he always did when he is embarrassed. That was something that almost never happened. He sucked in a breath and exhaled.“I am sorry. I am really sorry. I held back even ehen I knew you didn't want me to. I made you feel like you mattered only because of what you could do for me.”He squeezed my hand.“I am sorry I didn't tell you what I should. I made you keep quiet and hold back so much. To constantly ask yourself what exactly we are.”I looked down at our hands. “You don't have to apologize. This is my fault too.”“No, it's n
The rest of the day went like flashes. I must have blacked out but Quinn’s last words lingered in my sub-consciousness. It felt like a dream. Like I fantasied it and even when I opened my eyes on the hospital bed and I saw him, heads down, sleeping soundly, i still found it all hard to believe.Perhaps it was fathom fear that left my heart still racing or it was the fact that I couldn't believe he said that.To be honest, I had forgotten. I had completely forgotten we got married a while after we met. There was just this unspoken rule that no one should refer to it because it wasn't real.I turned my head to stare at him, lost in a reverie where I actually imagined what it would be like if we lived like an ordinary couple and Dereck was our son.I guess it was because of how carried away I was, that I didn't hear the nurse come in.“Mam. You are awake.”I looked her way, Quinn’s eyes opened immediately. As expected, he didn't exactly dose off.“How are you feeling?” She asked,
“Anyone. Anyone. An….”“50 billion dollars.” The crowd gasped looking around immediately. Searching for who spoke. I looked back, at the man in the dark. I knew it was him. A frown creeped up my lips. As Gina, there were some habits I had as Sofia which I never gave up, one of them was Losing an auction.“Going. going. Go…”“200 billion dollars.” I yelled it, standing up with my plaque held up. A smug look on my face. Let's see him outbid that. “This item is… is…. is…. SOLD!!” He hit the hammer on the table and I clenched my fist in victory. I hung my head up, allowing the pride to inflate my ego. Standing in the middle of the room, felt somewhat exotic and nostalgic. The memories of that auction was rushing back and I felt as though it was repeating itself. The thought made me smile at how my mind could wander sometimes.There was no way it could repeat itself. It was night that day but more importantly, Leo was in the room and I walked over to him because his little stunt had ch
GINA'S POV I stood in front of the mirror, not staring at myself but at the emptiness that had become my life. Revenge made me feel hollow with each passing day. If Quinn had not been as easy going as he was, I wonder what would be my faith. I had to admit, I liked being in his arms, there was an assurance that it gave me which I couldn't find anywhere else. Last night, I spent it reminding Quinn that all I wanted was to sleep. He played deaf far too many times, trying to get my PJs off. But eventually, he succumbed. I sucked in a breath and exhaled, shutting my eyes. Today is just odd. Since I woke up, I had been feeling uneasy. Like there is something I wasn't telling myself.I grabbed my towel I head into the bathroom, filling the tub and taking a minute to soak. I guess perhaps I'm feeling this way because I knew deep down that last night I actually wanted Quinn not to listen to me. I just couldn't understand why when it came to Quinn, I just couldn't accept how I fe
LEO’S POV I just stood there, my fingers slightly clenching the bridge of my nose. Exhaustion was evident in the silken look on my face but frown on my lips deep, dark and menacing like the glare in my eyes as I stared at the drunk Reggie drooling on my Multi-million dollar couch.I bet even God knew it was the past we shared they was keeping me from shooting him or perhaps it was just that I didn't want to wipe blood off that couch.I took a moment to exhale, letting the air flow out with the hot air. I scratched my hair in slight frustration and the looked towards the door where the butler was hiding.“Get that thing off my couch.”“Yes Sir.” He shuddered in, running like a frightened child, to wake Reggie. I left them disappearing upstairs. If I stayed a little longer, I will probably shoot them bothThe first thing I did, the instant I pushed the bedroom door open, is to fling myself on the bed, shutting my eyes immediately after.I tried to envision Gina's face when she
GINA'S POV Quinn parked the car miles away from the government house. If we needed to be normal, a Ferrari would definitely destroy that impression. We flashed our IDs at the checkpoint and stated our destination. We were led right to the office on the second floor. An air-conditioned white tiled off with the American flag placed in the most expensive flag-holder I had ever seen. We sat close on the brown cushion. Quinn scrolled through his phone and I admired the picture of the United States president, unaware that Quinn had abandoned his phone and was looking at me until I turned. He smiled.“He is too old for you.”I frowned, raising my middle finger at him. This is the third time today he made an annoying joke. What's with him anyways. He has never been this… calm.He chuckled at what I did. “If you want to look at anything, look this way.” “At what?” He leaned forward, so fast. I couldn't even react before his face was right next to mine. His board chest almost touch