Another chapter's coming later. Hope you enjoyed this chapter. My stomach hurts so, good bye for now.
“Your brother here is going to sign a contract that’s going to make things easier for both of you, aren’t you Nicky?”Nicholas’ eyes were down, he seemed almost ashamed.As he should be.Rain thought to herself.The bastard never once apologized for leaving her, he avoided the topic whenever it was brought up tried to justify everything he did.Typical Nicholas.“What kind of contract?” Rain asked trying hard not to let her disappointment show. Rain recalled her life in Japan before she decided to come to Italy.She always felt alone despite living in the same house with three other girls. She stayed up all night and didn’t rest through the day, she would write…and write and write and her publisher would keep asking for more, keep setting deadlines. The was like a walking corpse, writing about things she wished she could have in her life and then crying after every chapter, depression consumed her and though her friends tried to help, they couldn’t but she made them believe tha
Rain sighed as the hot water cascaded down her skin. How long has it been since she’d taken a proper shower. Elisa always helped to clean her up and made sure to avoid her wounds so Rain wouldn’t really call it a proper bath.Rain had been given her own room in the mansion after breakfast.Breakfast.Her fate was decided at that Gabe in the morning. Nicholas had signed and despite the guilty and determined expression he carried on his face all through the process, Rain didn’t believe one bit that her brother had changed overnight and that there was a hundred percent chance that he would run away as he did before.She would stick to her whole plan because she was in this all alone, she decided.Alexander was following the rules of the family…these were not people to be messed with either, she couldn’t make him break his rules no matter how unreasonable they seemed to her.At least not yet.She would win them over, each and everyone of them just as she had planned before. Then th
“Has he left?” Enzo stood behind Alexander and Aldo and Vlad stood by the door to his study, both of them on high alert as he went through the files in his hands. The profiles of each and every man that had attacked them at the basement…and almost killed Rain. Recently, that was the only part of the incident he could focus on. That split moment when her life left her body and she had been so cold and lifeless in his arms haunted him…it made him question so much about himself. If Nicholas managed to repeat that stupid shit he pulled a few weeks ago, she would have to die by his hands…those were the rules and one that his father had called to remind him after Andrea who Alexander had almost forgotten existed, told his father about Rain. “He left early this morning, he went to see his sister beforehand but she didn’t open the door so they didn’t get to see each other before he left,” Enzo said from behind him. Alexander’s lips twitched. Was he just about to smile? Why did he feel s
“Assistant,” Alexander deadpanned. This was the second time in two day the man was shocking her spirits out of her body. She stared at him with her mouth slightly and secretly waited for him to laugh out loud and tell her that it was a silly joke. Of all the jobs in the world. “Why? You don’t want to?” Alexander asked, doing that thing with his brows where he raised one up in question. Rain shook her head…slowly because she was so confused that she wasn’t sure how to react in that moment. “It’s not that I don’t want to…it’s not like I even have a choice—I just—why me? And I thought Enzo was your assistant?” Rain had crossed paths with the man when she made her way to the room. He had given her a strange look before muttering a greeting and leaving with Aldo and Vlad who she hadn’t seen in a really long time. “Enzo is a Capo régime and most of the time, he isn’t even supposed to be by my side but he chooses to be but no, he isn’t my assistant,” “But he does everything for you,
How did it get there? Rain stared down at the rose she had found by her bedside the second the woke up. The scent drifting in the air and causing her to smile. It reminded her of her time in the cabin and Rain didn’t realize how much she missed waking up to the comforting scent of roses until this one was brought to her. Rain silently wondered with a smile, would they still let her go back to the cabin or did Alexander plan to have her stay in the mansion permanently? Did Elisa get her a red rose? How thoughtful, weird but thoughtful. Rain looked at the rose with her full attention, her eyes taking in every detail. From the dew that was still on the petals and the thorns that still remained. She shivered. The sight of those thorns bringing back memories, Alexander. She was thinking about him first thing in the morning. Could he have been the person to give her the rose? Almost immediately, Rain laughed at the thought and shook her head. She got down from the bed and went straigh
Rain decided on a black turtle neck tucked into plain high waisted pants that Elisa had brought for her. There had been extra clothes I’m the fucking bag…Rain wasn’t sure how the woman pulled it off but now that it had been made clear that she was only human and not secretly a demon, Rain had ran out of theories for what Elisa had succeeded in doing.Damn.“If it was me arranging my traveling bag, there’d probably be a hundred of those clothes out of it but here you are…you’ve achieved the impossible!” Rain said dramatically as she buttoned the trousers and tucked in her shirt properly.Elisa rolled her eyes and then dumped all of the contents of the bag on the bed.“You don’t know how to fold or how to pack, accept it. Move on,”Rain gasped and held her chest in mock hurt.“You’re so cold Elisa…”Elisa started hanging the clothes in the wardrobe one by one, not even bothering to look at Rain as she admired her look in the mirror.Black sneakers?Definitely!“Oh Elisa, what
Andrea Salvatore stared down at her feet as her father, Derrick Salvatore and the ex Don of the Guerrieros, and her future father in law spoke to each other.She stood there at the far end, she was not to speak until she was spoken to, she was not to move until she was told to.“If only I had a son yours to success me,” Derrick laughed dryly, “ I wouldn’t bother getting my daughter married to a man of my choosing but alas,”He sounded almost sad. Andrea didn’t really see a reason for the man to be. He wanted Alexander as his son and now he was having him so what was with the stupid mask of sadness.Mr. Gregory had a faint smile on his lips as he patted his friend’s shoulder and then his eyes met Andrea’s as well.“I think you’re very lucky to have a daughter as beautiful as Andrea as your only child because it means that you can have the perfect successor because you get to choose him and not wait for him to be born and then go through the stress of trying to make him a better ma
The cars were already lined up and waiting by the time they were outside. Rain held the schedule Enzo had given Alexander and followed behind him, trying to be as quiet as possible. They were leaving the safety of the mansion and going to yet another public location where they could be killed or worse. Rain tried her best not to show her fear as they both entered the car and the doors shut behind them. “Montero owns a lot of restaurants and bars in Italy and for the past few years we have been in good terms with him…we are his biggest customers till date,” Alexander said, the first words confusing her and then the rest making her nod in understanding. He was explaining the situation to her, letting her know why they were going to meet this Mr. Montero. “So why is Enzo scared that he might try to kill us—you?” She stuttered and just fucking gave away her fear. “The enemy of my enemy is my friend, we are in a similar situation,” “Oh…” “ We’ve recently just become shareholders in