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The book is about to get more intense and please pay attention to the Point Of View of the next chapter, it's an unknown character's point of view, just so you don't get confused since he's actually unknown and this is where he's coming in. I bet you'd love the next chapter🤭🤭 and I bet you won't even see what's coming. However, thank you for your support, we're over halfway through this book. If you made it to this point, I would appreciate it if you keep reading and never stop, I would love you to complete this journey with me. You can also check out my other books✨ Remember, every nice thing you do to my books(comments, reviews, gifts, gems, likes) means a lot.Chapter seventy two(darkness)Anonymous’ Point Of View:I sat on the armchair, my elbow resting on the armrest with my cheek on my fist.I stared at my subjects who stood before me with their heads lowered and their hands at their backs in respect.I chuckled, my voice echoing in the dark warehouse.“So he's been busted huh?" I soliloquized."Yes, darkness,” one of my men responded."And she isn't the heir huh? But Landon had made her believe he wanted the heir while we only wanted her.”.I pulled out my phone from my pocket, searching for Landon's number.I gave him a ring and he answered the call immediately.Without letting him speak, I spoke first. “Get over here," I commanded in a low voice before hanging up.In a few minutes, Landon arrived. He walked into the warehouse, making light streak in from the door as he opened it.He halted and lowered his head when he got near.“Darkness, here I am," he said."What was the assignment given to you?” I asked."To bring the girl so we ca
Chapter seventy three(heartbreak)Aurora's / Tiara's Point Of View:I let out a sigh as I looked at the clouds.The atmosphere was cool and nice, even making my day better. A grin was plastered on my face as the cool breeze grazed against my delicate ivory skin.Today, I would be introduced to the mafia family as the mafia Queen. Finally, after all these years, this is the part where I succeed and get everything I want.The asset has been transferred. The assets were several copies of forged arts that could be sold for billions of dollars as there are a lot of them.I stood at the backyard at the edge of the swimming pool in my blue dress.The splashing sounds from the artificial waterfall were relaxing.Just as I got lost in the moment, smiling with my eyes closed, someone came from behind me, breaking the silence.“Darling, what are you doing here? You'll become the mafia Queen in an hour, let's get you inside, Queen,” Mum's voice echoed as her hands wrapped around me.I giggled as
Chapter seventy four(darkness and doom)Sapphire's Point Of View:I winced in pain, grabbing my ankle tightly.Landon stood there, glaring at me without an ounce of pity. Soon, he left the house.My eyes kept wavering, unable to stay open, yet unable to close from the banging pain that waved through me. I managed to reach for my phone but I didn't even know what to do. My hands were too shaky to even click the screen.Luckily, the door slammed open and some men whose face I recognized from the dinner last night came in, scooping me up from the floor.The tallest one among them threw me over his shoulder. My black hair poured forward, dangling and waving left and right as he walked.He took me outside into the car.~I sat in the backyard with my Father, Sergio, discussing.It's been two days since I got shot in the ankle.I had barely recovered yet but I could move my leg though I could barely walk but I was managing to keep up, at least. It was worth it anyway since Landon's reputat
Chapter seventy five(bomb blast)Sapphire's Point Of View:My hand shook as my heart pounded in my chest.Who is this man and why did he have Eric and Tyler's phone?What did he mean by everyone and everything I know would be doomed? What was he doing to Tyler and Eric? What's going on? What does he want?I let out a sigh, shaking off the thoughts from my head.I had no time to be shocked for now. I would figure it all out later but now, Scorpio needed to be saved.“I need you to get up. Let's get you to the hospital.” An inconsiderate thing to say to someone who was only halfway conscious but I couldn't take him to the car alone. I needed him to stand up and carry his legs at least.I grabbed his hand, pulling him up as I groaned.His legs were jelly as he managed to get up. Eyes closed, he followed me out of the backyard and went into the building with me.I took him outside, putting him in the back seat.I took his keys from his pocket, getting into the driver seat. I inserted the
Chapter seventy six(Scorpio as a leverage)Sapphire's Point Of View:The firefighters and ambulance arrived and the fire was extinguished immediately.Luckily, the cops arrived early enough and followed the directions I gave, catching the man successfully before he got away.Scorpio was being taken to the hospital and I went with them.As I squeezed his bloody, peeled hand in mine as we were in the ambulance bus, it reminded me of Tyler.It brought back the memories and I remembered how I felt that day. I remembered how I yelled at Landon. I remembered how he almost died from protecting me. I remembered how crazy in love I was with him those times.My heart still fluttered for him but in a painful way rather than ecstatic. I still loved Tyler but I guess he didn't belong to me in the first place anyway.To prove how much I loved him, I even went as far as volunteering to give him my heart just for him to live.That same heart, he had broken now.But I need not be told that I broke him
Chapter seventy seven(deal? Deal!!)Landon's Point Of View:How did my life turn out this way? From skyrocketing to hitting the bottom. Starting from scratch wasn't possible. Not on darkness's watch.He would make sure I never got successful anymore. He would watch me crumble and beg for mercy but he wouldn't spare me.I couldn't even step out of the mansion. I was only managing to hold up when I knew the worse was coming sooner.I had no money and I would end up selling my car and even my mansion just to survive.Survival was my top priority and nothing else.I brought this upon myself. I knew the consequences but I went on and did what I wanted anyway.I was sent to get Sapphire herself to get the code but I was more focused on the asset.I just wanted to get it for myself and it wasn't greed that caused it.It was because I knew that the trillions I had wasn't mine in the first place and darkness could take it anytime if he wanted to, so I wanted to get some money for myself and be
Chapter seventy eight(2-4-2-5)Sapphire's Point Of View:“No buts, gorgeous,”.Shocked, I said nothing, trying to keep my mind collected.“Which path are you taking? Will you sacrifice your dear brother? Or will you give in.”.“What do you want?" Defeated, I said.“Come to darkness and surrender,”."Send the location, I'll be there in a few minutes.”.The call went dead.This was a tough decision but if this was the only way I could protect this Scorpio then I would gladly do it. After all, he has protected me a lot, both indirectly and directly. He told me to run even though he knew the consequences, though I didn't understand what that meant but I think I do now.“Are you leaving?" Scorpio asked as I turned to him.The red pointer on his head disappeared.I flashed him a smile. Little did he know it was a bitter smile rather than a sweet smile.“Yeah, I'm sorry but it's really urgent. My friend is throwing a party and I wasn't aware. My other friend reached out to me now, informing
Chapter seventy nine(Please, don't kill me)Landon's Point Of View:After two days of trying to plot a perfect plan to save Tyler from Darkness, he was released without even having us to do anything.He joined us in the plot and from the Intel I have been gathering, it says that Darkness has gotten the code and has started distributing the bitcoins to crypto currency companies, though he told some of them that the bitcoins are fake but they signed a contract with him to sell them out, only considering the gains and not the fact that it was illegal.And since no one can differentiate the real ones from the forged ones, it was safe for them.I had every information I needed and I had them stored in a flash drive, including the names of the involved crypto currency companies and it would be used against them, including Darkness himself.And it was said that an increase in bitcoins is noticed out of the blue all over America which is unusual as they are not recorded but after a few hours,
††032††Jasmine's Point Of View:Damon ran out of the booth.“Emergency!!" He shouted. “Someone is in there, he's not breathing!" He shouted again.Everyone gasped. "Did he kill him?” The murmurs increased.Ah, yes, just what I wanted to hear. Music to my ears.As the murmurs increased and everyone began to have their own belief and choose sides, the emergency of the college came with a stretcher, but the murmurs didn't stop.What we heard next was sirens, they were loud and clear.Damon's face looked confused as he spotted the cops who walked in next. A snitch must have called the cops.The cops walked towards Damon and looked at Dylan's dead body for a while before speaking with Damon, saying they would have to lock him up for the meantime.He tried arguing and refusing but that only made him look guilty.They took him away even though he was ranting and refusing. In the very end, everyone still kept murmuring and I had no choice but to leave.In the next few days, Damon was release
††031††Jasmine's Point Of View:I climbed back into the car, looking directly at the chauffeur through the rear view, our eyes meeting.I crossed my arms, not knowing how I should feel about being busted. I felt like it was a useless plan anyway, it wasn't necessary to make him jealous in this particular way.But at the same time, I was mad that my plan didn't work out just the way I planned it. It was embarrassing for me to have to beg her and get her forgiveness for trying to claim what isn't mine in the first place.“Return us to the hotel." I commanded the chauffeur.He nodded immediately, driving off slowly until we arrived at the hotel. I got out of the car, entering the hotel and making my way into my suite.I let out a sigh, my back hitting the bed. I remained in the position, not knowing when I fell into a deep slumber.It was the buzz of my phone on the bed that woke me up. I squinted my eyes, reaching for the phone and looking at the screen closely to look at the time.It
††030††“Hey, you're back." The man said as he flashed me a smile. "I thought you left the child and we've been planning to put them up for adoption actually.”I nodded, forcing a smile as I didn't even know what to say.“If I may ask, what made you leave that day? I mean you just had a surgery and you left straight up which was bad for your health at that moment in time.”I let out a sigh, shaking my head. "I'm really sorry. Can I just get to the next step now? I just want to do this fast and get out of here as soon as possible. I'm sorry if that actually sounded rude but I had no better way to put it. I just don't have all the time in the world.”He nodded. "I understand. Let me go get the papers for you to sign and claim your kids back since we were initially planning to out them up for adoption after proper maturity,”I nodded, watching him get out of his seat and walk out of the office.I sat there, staring at nothing exactly.In no time, he returned, but without any files in his
††029††Jasmine's Point Of View:"You want your child, huh?" I smirked. “So that's all you care about? That's not going to be a problem, the problem is I'm not giving you the child” I scoffed.He looked at me, pleading with his eyes but I couldn't care less.I jerked my hand away from him, turning to leave immediately with my personal bodyguards.We got outside the place and the shielded me from the approaching fans. Just as I was about to get in the car, I spotted Damon approaching on his wheelchair. I halted, looking directly at him even though this was not the best time for this.I swallowed, narrowing my eyes at him.He got to where my car was but my bodyguards didn't let him get close to me.He looked at me, trying to get past the bodyguard who didn't move an inch.“Let's have a conversation," he said, almost as if he was pleading.I shook my head. "No.” I simply responded.He looked me in the eye. “Why have you been ignoring my calls and everything? You've been ignoring me recen
††028††Jasmine's Point Of View:I began to stay at Dad's place as I couldn't return to Damon's home again. I couldn't stay with someone like him again under the same roof. It was like sleeping in the same room with a serpent, but luckily for me, I discovered the serpent even before he could consider biting me.I need not to tell him right in the face that it was over and I discovered all his schemes for him to know that I was no longer stupid.It took me nothing. Absolutely nothing. And he understithat his plans have been ruined. He tried explaining countless times, obviously to feed me lies and ensure his plan still works one way or the other, but I wasn't going to fall for the same trick twice so I didn't even give him the opportunity to get to me.I appreciated his help so far in helping me build a name in the modelling industry, but at the same time, he could have made it clear if he only wanted to do me a favor. And he could have also made it clear if he was using me. If he ment
††027††Dmitri's Point Of View:I just couldn't believe she could have done this to me. I understood that she hated me, but despite the hatred, I didn't see the need to do this to me.She knew well that my health was on its last legs and I was in pain. No one would be heartless enough to do this to their own father because he put them up for adoption.I thought I heard her mention that it was only an assignment, but that didn't matter.A lot of things have been happening recently and I thought life was only against my wife and I. I never knew it was all orchestrated by my own daughter who I already apologized to. I even went as far as arranging a letter for her, thinking she would understand and forgive me, only for her to send people to burn down my house, the place I've been stuck for months now even though I had more mansions.My health just didn't permit me to be moved here and there anymore. I only remained in one place, traveling from one place to another was stressful for me.B
††026††Jasmine's Point Of View:As I cracked the door open, I heard a high-pitched moan flowing out from inside the room. The moan continued, becoming louder and louder and what followed was the sound of meat slapping against each other.I swallowed, peeking into the mansion to get a glimpse of whatever was going on in the house. Just then, I was met with the shock of my life.There was Damon, thrusting into a woman with pull force and pulling out immediately, grinding in and out of her.That was none of my business, but what shocked me the most was that he was fucking standing which means he…. he was never actually crippled.Damon was able all these while? But he was only hiding it?A gasp fought to escape my throat, but I cupped my mouth immediately, silencing the gasp. I didn't realize tears were welling up in my eyes until it began to prick my iris so badly that I had to blink multiple times to hold back the tears.I felt my heart squeeze in my chest. I didn't know what hurt the
††025††Jasmine's Point Of View:“Where the hell do you think you're going?” The security men asked.I scoffed. “What do you mean?"“You haven't paid for the cleaning if all these. You need to pay the money we would give to our cleaners to clean this mess.”"Do I look like the reason this place was set on fire? I'm sure he was paying several thousands for this place in a year, so why can't you guys take care of little maintenance like this?” I asked, frowning."This isn't a little maintenance. This is a whole lot,”“The money he paid for this year hasn't been exhausted or has it? The year isn't over yet so use the rest. Thank you.” I responded, shoving them out of the way before walking out.I went out of the building and went straight out if the estate the into the car.“Where are we going to, miss?" Rufus asked, tilting his head to look at me.I fastened my seatbelt. “The headquarters. I have something to do there.”"Alright then.” He responded, starting the car and driving away.In
††024††Jasmine's Point Of View:After the man called the firefighters, they arrived in no time with their truck and equipment.As they trooped into the estate, I went in with them too, climbing on their truck with them and allowing them to carry me and the security men back to the burning house.They stepped out of the truck, gesturing for us to get down and move back, away from the fire and allow them to do their job.I swallowed, reluctantly going back as I watched them extinguish the first starting from the gate to cool it down.They then got closer to the gates, breaking it open. They then went in, extinguishing the fire of the whole mansion slowly and steadily until the whole house was safe.The two security men held me back as I tried to run inside, yelling and shouting to go search the mansion myself and see if my father was in the building.I fought hard to escape their grip. But all my attempts were futile as they held me even tighter.“Let me go!” I screamed, but they didn'