Chapter 33TaraIt had been hours since Damon took off to find Gio leaving me trapped alone in the strange windowless room. I had checked everywhere for a way out but there wasn’t any, outside of the large steel bolted door he used to leave. I could not shake the continuous fear that I was going to die here it paralyzed me with fear to think that this was how I died. After everything had been through everything, I fought for this was the end for me. But why upset me was the fact that I would never see my friends or family ever again. Never get to joke and laugh with Evet and AJ again never get to see Lourdes again.Worst of all I would never get to hold my baby girl, and neither would Gio. I was so pissed at him for being suspicious of Damon, for doubting me How could I have been so stupid. Gio had warned me about him he had tried to keep me away from him and he was right. To think I wasted all this time fighting him on this when all he was trying to do was protect me, I even blamed
EpilogueFour Months LaterTara shifts in her sleep kicking and screaming fighting off, what I can only imagine is the nightmare of my cousin and Uncle. It makes my heart sink watching her struggle with the invisible attackers desperately. Frankie told me what she said about her being drugged and too afraid to eat or sleep for two days because she was scared. The look on my brother’s face when he told me about her requesting a rape kit because she was terrified, he had taken advantage of her. While he recounted her story of the first day alone with him to me. It was enough to make me want to dig their asses back up and torture the bastards all over again. It had been four months since we found her in the tunnels half-naked and covered in dirt, her feet bloody and bruised from her running barefoot in those tunnels alone. She was a survivor, my girl, she hadn’t given up once. Not even when she was staring down the barrel of my uncle’s thirty-eight.When I heard the shot ring out in th
Chapter 1TaraI never thought of myself as the type of girl that was amazingly attractive not conventionally that is. I guess you could say I was the type of girl who didn’t care to be. I mean, why would I want to be.?My mother, on the other hand, said that beauty was pain all my life as she combed, braided, hot combed, flat ironed, and permed my hair to perfection. At least it was her idea of perfection anyway. It was one of the few memories I had left of her before she passed from severe liver cancer. She would always say. ‘Baby girl you are beautiful a young black queen in the making and the world is your kingdom to rule as you see fit. But a queen cannot possess just a heart of gold, the courage of a warrior, or tranquility of the ocean alone. She must also look the part to command the respect she deserves so that she may heal and nurture her kingdom.’Back then I always thought of it as my mother’s way of trying to trick dressing up and being more ladylike to fit the perfect l
Chapter 2Gio“Gio, over here over here!” I hear camera flashes in the background as crowds of people behind red velvet rope vi for my attention like hungry vultures swooping down on their poor unsuspecting weary prey crawling desperately away from their inevitable doom. Waiting to swoop down and tear them to shreds. Given the chance, he was sure that would be exactly what they would do. These damn paparazzi were always like this especially when he or any one of the Berlusconi family was concerned.Especially now that we were a very deeply rooted Mafia family worth billions and untouchable in the greater Chicago area. Sure, the family wasn’t exactly out there making Godfather moves anymore but it also wasn’t too far off from how we ran things just more quietly and corporately instead. Multi-million-dollar conglomerates malls, shopping centers, groceries, strip clubs, bars, clothing store chains you name it the Berlusconi family had a hand
“I’m sorry about James and Stella bugging you back there. Sometimes they can be a bit…” she says interrupting my thoughts then goes silent searching for the words.“Eccentric, I know but they seem pretty harmless, and Stella seems to know how to reign her husband in.” I offer desperate to hear her sweet sing-song tone again.“Eccentric is way too kind of a word. They can be downright crazy if you let them, and they’re not married although I have no idea why they're perfect for each other” she jokes.I laugh at her response. “I couldn’t tell by the way she set him in place,” I say observing the dimples on her cheeks as she smiles. “Beautiful women tend to have that effect on their husbands.” She laughs at my response and it’s my new favorite sound.“You sound like my best friend Evet she’s gonna be pissed when she finds out about me dancing with you.”“Why is she a fan of my companies?”“No! more like a fan of your body, she’s tall, curvy with glistening dark skin.
“Isn’t that what monsters like you do kill innocent people who get in your way?”“I am sorry for your loss Tara I really am and contrary to what you think I liked the old man. As for the men I killed the reason their dead now is because they were kidnapping and trafficking foster kids. I’m sure as someone who dedicates your life to protecting them you can understand why that shit couldn’t fly.”“You’re such a fucking liar, you’re just a damn monster who doesn’t care who he hurts. Why should I believe you after you spent the past three months hunting me down like a fucking dog?”“I wouldn’t have needed to hunt you down if you would have just accepted my request to join me for dinner. But I never killed your friends if your sure someone might have hurt them, I’ll hunt them down and drag them back myself I promise you that Tara.” He says looking at me with an intensity that was beyond my expectation.“So, you really didn’t do anything to Stella’s car to make them crash?” “Of course, not s
Chapter 4GioMy blood is boiling right now how the Fuck did Tara find out about these tunnels? They were closed off to the public for years where had she found out about them. Worst yet was she had just witnessed me killing three fucking men in front of my family. No one made it in or out of these tunnels unless they were a part of the family. Anyone else was nothing more than a body under the rubble in the tunnels. Had this been how she was escaping me using old passageways out of the city from her office to keep me from finding her.I was beyond mad I was boiling, raging, scorching hot fury. She was using the tunnels to avoid me. These tunnels had been abandoned since the fifties no one was allowed near the site because they were so damn dangerous. These tunnels were practically caving in when the family first started com
Chapter 5TaraNo way was this happening did he say fiancé shit ...fuck...shit…fuck... Why me? I can't be this fucking unlucky. What the Fuck is my life right now I got to get out of here get far away maybe Ethiopia, Egypt, Ghana. I always thought it would be a beautiful lifetime dream come true to return to the motherland someday maybe now I'll know the truth of my heritage since it looks like I’ll have to flee the country soon. As I announce my exit and try to slowly creep away. I hear Gio’s call out. "No, baby it's cool we’re almost done here. How about you come to take a rest on the bus and you can ride back with me to our place." I grip the handles of my vespa as I scream internally. What!? Why would I do that? Then I hear "Baby don't worry about the bike my cousins will help you."As a swarm o
EpilogueFour Months LaterTara shifts in her sleep kicking and screaming fighting off, what I can only imagine is the nightmare of my cousin and Uncle. It makes my heart sink watching her struggle with the invisible attackers desperately. Frankie told me what she said about her being drugged and too afraid to eat or sleep for two days because she was scared. The look on my brother’s face when he told me about her requesting a rape kit because she was terrified, he had taken advantage of her. While he recounted her story of the first day alone with him to me. It was enough to make me want to dig their asses back up and torture the bastards all over again. It had been four months since we found her in the tunnels half-naked and covered in dirt, her feet bloody and bruised from her running barefoot in those tunnels alone. She was a survivor, my girl, she hadn’t given up once. Not even when she was staring down the barrel of my uncle’s thirty-eight.When I heard the shot ring out in th
Chapter 33TaraIt had been hours since Damon took off to find Gio leaving me trapped alone in the strange windowless room. I had checked everywhere for a way out but there wasn’t any, outside of the large steel bolted door he used to leave. I could not shake the continuous fear that I was going to die here it paralyzed me with fear to think that this was how I died. After everything had been through everything, I fought for this was the end for me. But why upset me was the fact that I would never see my friends or family ever again. Never get to joke and laugh with Evet and AJ again never get to see Lourdes again.Worst of all I would never get to hold my baby girl, and neither would Gio. I was so pissed at him for being suspicious of Damon, for doubting me How could I have been so stupid. Gio had warned me about him he had tried to keep me away from him and he was right. To think I wasted all this time fighting him on this when all he was trying to do was protect me, I even blamed
Chapter 32GioThe sound of wood crashing as the chair I tossed falls in splinters on the floor in front of my closed office door echoes through my home office. It had been over forty-eight hours over twenty went missing and there still wasn’t any update as to where she had been.“What the fuck do you mean you can’t find anything, where the fuck are the men, we had on her?”“Gregorio is dead, and I caught his partner trying to sneak out of town with a couple of sacks full of cash. The mook had over about a mill on him when we caught him at my friend’s car lot downtown. He’s got some interesting things to say about where he got the money from, I thought you might want to hear about its boss.”“Bring him in.” I command the door opens and the sound of a man desperately pleading for my men to let him go. Before being shoved into the office landing on his knees as they through him to the ground in front of me. I inspected the face of the pathetic weasel of a man as he looked up to me. H
Chapter 31Tara“Hey, Tara, you, ok?” Damon asks me from the driver seat as I stare out the window watching the cars go by. The chilly October rain landing against the window as I try to take in the beautiful fiery colors of the autumn kissed leaves. “Yeah, I’m ok still a little nauseous, though.”“You sure? I know that had to be tough with your ex trying to come back into your life after all this time. Why is that any way? I mean the guy ditched you soon as he finds out your pregnant accuses you of cheating on him, but now he’s suddenly trying to win you back.”“That’s Gio alright a manipulative bastard to the end. I cannot believe I hoped that he would eventually realize how wrong he was and apologize not try to buy my forgiveness. Of course, he only showed up himself when he thought I was moving on. God forbid he actually showed he cared about me or the baby.” “The man’s fucked up in the head, serves him right that he’s losing his fucking mind after losing you.”“Yeah, I guess it’
Chapter 30GioFrankie stands across from me glaring bullets at me as I wait patiently for Steel to respond. “Sorry about that boss the waiter just came back, she sent the food bac,” Steel says before pausing I could tell he had something else to say but was considering if he should tell me or not.“What is it?”“He said they wanted him to tell you to go fuck yourself.” He says quickly.“Noted, is she still there?”“No, they’re getting ready to leave now, Should I keep tailing her?”“No put one of the guys on here if she spots you then she’ll get suspicious and there’s no telling where she might go if that happens. Head back to the office Frankie is already here and Shadows on his way now.”“Ok be there in twenty.” he says before hanging up.“Good that’s what your ass gets.” Frankie says as the phone cuts out he was the first person I called after she left the other day. I knew that he was still pissed at me, but he knew why I had to do it. I had my suspicions that someone in my comp
Chapter 29TaraAfter a couple hours of arguing over buying every damn thing girlie inside the baby boutique Evet chose. We finally made our way back to the coffee shop near her house to grab something to eat I sat at our table near the window waiting patiently for Evet to grab our order as I scrolled through my new phone making sure my contacts and apps were successfully reinstalled. I had not bothered to look up from my screen as she sat back down.“Hey there beautiful looks like we meet again.” Damon says from Evet’s seat.“Oh hey, what are you doing here?” I ask caught off guard by his presence.“I thought that was you, I was just stopping by to get some coffee I live right around the corner. But I haven’t seen you around here before, what brings you here?”“I’m here with my friend Evet we were getting some shopping done and decided to stop by for something to eat.”“That makes sense. So, shopping huh? Get anything good to surprise that husband of yours?”“No, I actually found out
Chapter 28Tara“I knew it!” Evet shouts several hours after I showed up at her door after crying my eyes out begging her to take me to my appointment. Now we were back at her house, and she was screaming her head off as I sat across from her on her couch feeling like the dumbest woman in the damn world after telling her the truth about everything. The tunnels where I ran into Gio and his mob goons, the forced marriage, the blow up at the bachelorette party and again at the honeymoon and the baby that I was now carrying. “I just feel so damn stupid Evet.”“Trust me you are. But in this circumstance, I guess you didn’t have much of a choice. So now that your finally free from the mafia tycoon what are you going to do?” she asks staring at me expectantly.“I honestly don’t even know, I spent months running from the man and he still found me then I fall for him, and he turns out to be a fucking sociopath.”“But are you really all that surprised though I mean come on you just said it your
Chapter 27TaraJust like that, things were back to complete bliss with us Gio had taken to a habit of waking me up every morning with a toe-curling orgasm. He took pleasure teasing me each morning, feasting on my pussy like he was a starved man, and I was an all you can eat buffet. To which I would gladly repay the favor as licked and sucked his cock until he was moaning my name as he filled my mouth with his hot warm cum. Today was no exception as I kneeled in the shower the warm water beating down on my head and back as I gripped his cock rolling my tongue around the tip. Before slowly taking him into my mouth until I could feel him in the back of my throat moaning around his cock. He hissed his approval as he reached down running his fingers through my hair as fisted my thick curls before guiding my head slowly up and down his cock.He moans his appreciations as I cup his balls gently massaging them as I stroke the base of his cock with my free hand. I choke on his thick cock try
Chapter 26GioThe brakes screech to a halt as Shadow pulls around Tara’s tiny Ford coming to a stop in front of it blocking her path. The sound of my feet pounding against the pavement as race toward her car pulling at the doors handle after hitting the fob I had copied for emergencies. I briefly ignore the terror on her face as I swing the door open. “Put the car in park Tara don’t make me do it for you.”“What the fuck is wrong with you are you out your damn mind.”“Sweetheart we both know the answer to that. Now get your ass out of this fucking car before I drag you pretty ass out It’s your choice.”“Fuck you in not going anywhere with your crazy ass.” She says trying to yank the door shut and I wedge my body between the door slipping the car in park before reaching to release her buckle. She begins to fight me from the car. Elbowing me in the face cursing up a storm while I throw her over my shoulder carrying her back to the truck tossing the spare keys to the soldier Harvey that