QUINN’S POV I laid back in the car, a cigar in between my fingers and little flickers of light falling away. My eyes closed, the sound of water washing on and off the beach shore was my …. I wasn't sleeping but for the first time in months, I was at peace.I just couldn't tell what exactly was bringing this ephemeral feeling. Was it the distance that I had given my life as a Mafia? Was it that this place resembles where my parents were buried or was it that Gina was not her? I opened my eyes, that awkward sweetness was deadening into me again. I sat up and looked out the window. For a moment, I thought I saw her but then I looked again and Gina wasn't there. I shut my, exhaling slowly and rubbing the sleep off them.Another one of those hallucinations again. What the hell has she done to me? I feel as if I'm in bondage, like I cannot rest and I cannot find slumber until I am near her. Until I hear her voice. My heart use to be so hollow and hardened, how is it that this s
SAMANTHA’S POV “Fuck!” I flung the cellphone to the wall. The gadget shattering on impact. Gently i massaged my temples pacing a little to calm myself down. But it wasn't working. There was still a half-empty bottle of rum on the reading table, I Walked over and picked it up, gulping everything down. Completely ignoring the burn on my throat. Then I stood there, taking short exhales and waiting for the alcohol to kick in. Today is one silly ridiculous day. She picked the location, yesh, but it was on my husband's turf. To be frank, she was most likely in danger than I was. ‘Who in heaven’s name called the police?’ I let myself find the bed and lie down. ‘I will gut that son of a bitch when I find him.’ my eyes shut calmly, for a moment the stillness of the room seemed to quiet my pensive nerves but then, a knock on my door crushed my peace.A deep from settled on my lips. I took out my gun. Lip tight and anger spread across my face. The fucker who is disturbing my peace, oh
SAMANTHA’S POV I signed the discharge paperwork and left the counter, my bag in hand. A sigh escaped my lips as I looked back at the hospital ward. All I could think of was last night. After everything I did for Leo, he still treats me like dirt.Unconsciously, I wore the same dejected look at I left the hospital. Completely immersed in my thoughts to notice the car in front of me until the driver honked.“Hey bitch, you are blind?”I looked up, he voice was awfully familiar. The woman smiled at me. “You look like a mess. Where did that tough gil I met yesterday go?” Gina Romano said, popping open the backseat for me.I looked around. Indeed, Leo didn't send anyone to pick me up. I sighed again.“You getting in or not?” she called out to me again. I huffed, fuck everything, I can't believe I am still waiting for that bastard. I hopped in. She drove off immediately. Today she has chosen to wear her hair long and the wind blew it into a nice tousled while she rode the car like a
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
GINA'S POVMy plan touched down on East side, Orlands Airport. I took the rental car and drove into town. It is going to be a long drive to my destination so I called home. I talked with Derek than I called an old friend.“Hello, Guss.”I heard a chuckle at the other end of the phone.“What's funny?”“Oh, nothing. I'm still surprised you asked me for help. I mean. The first time we met ended you making one of those Hispanic girls slap the nuts of me.”I smiled. That was funny. “I'm glad you don't hold grudges.”“Grudges don't suit a black brother like me plus, the lady is hot by the way.”I let out a small laugh. “Take care of her.”“I will.” The line cut. I dropped the phone and stepped on the gears. The retried nurse told me that Aura was not adopted. She was taken by her family. Going on this hunt, made me realize why Quinn and Leonardo may have never found this if they looked. Hailey’s husband has access to filed that no one else can. Rock Creek hospital was a military hospital b
GINA'S POV“Hello, Quinn, finally. I've been calling.”“I'm sorry baby. Its really messed up over here.” I can hear a hint of frustration in his voice.“Is she really Aura.” He was silent for a moment. “Yeah.”“Oh my god.”“Mhmm. It really sucks. I didn't think I will ever have to meet her again under these circumstances.”“What are You gonna do?”“Leonardo and I have agreed, we will stay. If we left her alone back then she wouldn't have ended up the way she did. We have to make it up to her. Anyway we can.”“Quinn, are you growing a soft spot for her?” I wish so bad that he can understand how disgusted that made me feel.“I know this is so out of place but she is Aura.”“I don't care. Your Aura has become a bitch. Who she was in the past past doesn't validate or save her from any of the harm she did in the Future.” I was almost yelling, veins popping from my head. “Gina, please. I understand what this is like but I don't think you understand that we owe this girl. We have a lot to
SAMANTHA’S POVIts been a month since I fell off that base building. I still had fractures in places where fractures shouldn't be. But that wasn't the scary thing, it is that once again I had to sit in the same room with the men who put me here.Quinn is standing behind Leo. His massive figure pressing too hard against his suite. His face is ice cold and he wore no smile. Like the executioner on a visit with Hades. Leo was comfortable settled in the third cushion chair in the room. His legs crossed and his eyes fixed on me without blinking.I held my breath and squeezed my palms together. Trying to remind myself to calm down that I was here welcome. “Samantha Honey, it's alright. This men are your friends. That have been looking for you. Tell them how you found us.” The old lady said. I smiled brightly and then returned my gaze to the two men. I gulped. If only she knew what we all meant to each other now she wouldn't have cramped us up in the same room.“I remember two weeks ago, L
LEONARDO’S POV“Its Samantha’s father. All of a sudden, he has grown a soft spot for the girl he once abused. Now he is hunting my men down and tearing my syndicates apart and I can't do anything about it.”Gina’s eyes are locked with mine. The light in the room made them glimmer. She has tears in her eyes too, that's why. Her face held an expression of pity. She is worried about me and knowing that made my heart melt. The kiss on my lips made me realize how much I'm still in love with her.“Matteo will squash you. You don't have what it takes to hold him down, Leo.” I flashed her a big smile. “I won't go down without a fight either. You don't need to bother about all this. Its my business.”“And you saved our… Derek, I can't just standby and watch you suffer. Plus, Matteo should pay for raising a kid like Samantha.” She turned around to stare at Quinn who has been fuming with anger since they walked into the room. He exchanged glances with Gina. Hie frown deeper instantly.“Forge
GINA’S POV The telephone rang. I sprang up from the chair immediately. My face has paled out, I'm covered in cold sweat and half asleep. I staggered to the phone. My head weighed a thousand pounds and there was this throbbing ache gnawing at the back of my head. I could feel the pain, I could notice how blurry everything is but I couldn't care less. Its been two days. No one has called. No one is replying to my texts, no one is reaching out. My hair is haggard, pulled out strands littered the floor. My eyes are sullen and my body felt like it came out of a washing machine. Broken and beaten up. I picked up the phone. “Hello. Quinn, is that you?”“This is Daisy from Hudson Pizza calling to ask if you…” I hung up, sighed and crumbled to the floor, hugging my knees. Oh, God what happened to them. Please.. someone should call please. Tears soaked the knees of my pajamas. I covered my mouth and muffled a sob by pressing my lips into my palm. I don't want to wake Hailey. She has been
QUINN'S POV We took the Jet. Leonardo had informed us he ks coming to meet us so we met him at the Delgado train station. There was a small eatery just off the station, across the road. We booked a private space and ordered burgers. The only means on their menu that allowed us to keep our food on our laps while we covered the table with maps. Leonardo brought the most advanced map of them all. He brought guns too but he came alone. His own way of warding off suspicion from himself. Now we are all standing, looking over the draft on the map and trying to figure out where exactly Samantha is going. She was last spotted taking route that intersected several other roads including a mountain path, a valley and a ranch. She could be anywhere. I sucked in a deep breath and exhaled. My eyes returned to the cell I was holding. There are markers of different landscapes and infrastructures in all directions. It still didn't make it easier where she is going. Leonardo stroked his chin an
GINA’S POV “Are you sure?” Quinn asked, pulling the picture closer to him. He peered at it, trying to see what I saw.“Yes. I remember when she had that cut. I don't know if there is any way she could have come to know that my son is here but I do know that if there is anyone mad enough to track you guys down, it's her.”“I thought Leonardo said she had a miscarriage?” Quinn reminds me.“I know which is why I feel it in my gut that she wants to kill my baby because she lost hers. I know it's a hunch but…”“I will check it out. We have nothing right now. This is the best we have been able to make out in hours, we will work with it.” Hailey’s husband took the lead immediately. He had Samantha's image printed out and he left with some of his own to have her face run through any database there is and see if she may have come anywhere near Australia.Meanwhile, I suggested to Quinn that we call Leonardo. He didn't buy it. He wouldn't even entertain it but I insisted. If anyone could find
GINA'S POV “How did you figure it out?” Quinn asked, his legs crossed and his back resting on the plush seat in his office. I sat on the table. He was wheeled so close that his face could touch my lap.“Reggie once told me that that girl, Aura, was slaughtered like an animal. And I found his description strange because he never said anything that would make me that he was close to you guys enough to have tagged along when the two of you went to find Aura. So I wondered how he knew. He didn't say something which I expected to hear and I found it rather strange.”“Why was that?”“He didn't talk about who the guy that killed her was. The way he spoke of the guy, it was obvious he knew him well but he avoided giving any details about him. Not even his skin color. Why else would someone do that if not that they unconsciously wanted to make sure the person was never known.”There was a small smile tugging on Quinn's lips when I was through. I could tell he was impressed.“Aren't you a sma
QUINN’S POVWhen I saw the pained look on her face, I regretted every advising her to do this. Even though she finally settled back and looked comfortable again, the feeling still did not go away.‘I adjusted the headphone and continued to listen to their conversation. I seemed to have missed a word or two while I was lost in thought.“I guessed that would be his question. Quinn still hasn’t stopped thinking about that girl.” I frowned. It was like I could see him making that small grin like he knew everything about me.“Honestly, I don’t care” Gina said, indifferently. “just answer the question.”“I will but Gina, arent’t you curous to know how all this began. I will gladly tell you along with what Quinn wants to hear.”I squeezed the car seat. Even now he stills jumps at any chance to soil my name. There was an uncomfortable silence of Gina’s lips before she finally spoke.“Since you like telling stories, go ahead.”‘Damn it.’ I smashed my fist on the steering wheel. This fucking s