Long ass chapter but what the heck, we're now getting to the best parts of the book. finally!!!
It was not as loud as Rain expected it to be.Once they stepped in and we’re noticed, the hall quietened even more.All eyes were on them, some looked on in fear, some in attraction and others just pure lust.The hall was filled up with at least a hundred—if not more—people. Most of them were extravagantly dressed, women glittered and men pulled up their collars too high and their ties too tight. It was a ball alright. A place where everyone definitely came to show that they were better than the other, they were more well off and shined the most.The Equinox Ball is supposed to be a charity Ball considering what she had researched on Google, but right now it just looked like a place where people came to show off how much money they had.Others would walk in and think, ‘Damn, everyone is so fancy!’ But Rain knew better, Rain could see beneath all those façades.Ninety percent of the people there were just showing off fake luxury they could only afford once.The remaining ten per
“This is Mr. Edgar, he’s a well known painter…he’s done most of the works in my apartment, I’ll show them to you when you have the chance!” Viola was introducing this particular person with a smile and she seemed rather excited to do so. Mr. Edgar was a really tall man, he had to be at least seven feet tall but he was polite enough to take a seat once he noticed the were approaching him. They joined him at his table and Viola introduced the both of them. He was handsome, he had the nicest green eyes Rain had even seen and those glasses that rested on his nose only added to his charm. “It is a pleasure,” he stretched his hand out for a handshake, a smile that didn’t actually look like a complete smile but was still a smile nonetheless was on his lips. The man looked mysterious, she liked that about him. He also didn’t drool over her and Viola like a hopeless idiot. The men Viola had introduced Rain to in the course of twenty minutes were all the same men with just different faces. S
Rain was forced to go back into the Ball. It wasn’t hit but it was suffocating and what was worse was the sight her eyes met, Alexander and Andrea hand in hand…walking around like a bunch of teenagers that just lost their virginities to each other.“Where have you been? I’ve been looking everywhere for you!” Rain was startled by Viola’s sudden voice, the woman stood behind her, her cheeks flushed red and her smile even wider than the past few minutes.“Did you have more to drink?”She nodded and then shook her head and then burst into a fit of giggles before placing her fingers over her lips.“Oh my God, I’m drunk!”“No shit,” Rain said with a laugh, Viola pulled Rain in for a sudden hug and planted a kiss on the side of her cheek.“What was that for?”“The dance is about to start, come so we can hand our cards over to the matron,”There were going to be seven dances, not everyone chose to fill their cards with names but because of how many offers Rain got, her card was full.
After Rain’s dance with Mr. Edgar, she decided that she wasn’t going to dance anymore, no matter what Viola tried to do to convince her. “Come on, you only have one more dance left and we’re going to be giving plenty of time to rest,” Rain shook her head. “I didn’t even dance this much at my prom. I am definitely done for the night!” She said and let out a long sigh. Clink. Clink. Mrs. Lombardi held up a glass and but it with a spoon. “Would you all please have your seats, the food is about to be served and I have a few words I would like to say,” She was so soft spoken but she didn’t look frail. Rain liked the woman, she looked like she had experienced so much in life but she still didn’t let it weaken her. Soon enough, their entire gang found the table where Rain and Viola had taken. Luigi, long faced Romeo, and Enzo who looked like he’d had one too many drinks. Seriously, what was with everyone and getting drunk at this Ball? “Hey Rain,” Ok…that has never happened before
He wasn’t supposed to be there.“Fuck!”Alexander brought a cigarette up to his lips and lit it up.He let it burn and didn’t bother inhaling or exhaling, he was too busy trying to curb his anger to do that.“Why did you suddenly walk out?”Alexander’s entire body tensed as he heard the voice behind him. The same voice that haunted him for years, the nitpicked at every single decision he made in his life and made he question his own intelligence countless times.“You know everyone saw that, it didn’t look good,” Alberto walked up to the railing of the balcony where Alexander had rested his arms and stood next to his son.Alexander was trying hard to stop himself from looking directly into his father’s eyes, out of habit...His mind warned him continuously that he wasn’t supposed to.“Why are you here?”Alberto chuckled, “You might be Don now but that doesn’t mean I won’t attend the parties I used to attend,”“You know that’s not what I mean!”“Are you raising your voice at
TWO DAYS LATER…“Hello?”“Son, it kind of hurts to know you don’t have my number saved in your phone,” Alexander gritted his teeth and fought the urge to end the call immediately.“Do you need anything?” He asked coldly. “I hear Mr. Finn and you have a meeting today, I don’t know what it’s about but you know I and his father have been old friends so make sure you—”“ I will do whatever I want to because it is my decision to make,”His plan was already in motion, he didn’t need his father’s approval for everything anymore.“Now if you’ll excuse, I’m really busy,”Alexander couldn’t explain the satisfaction he got from ending the call but it was slowly replaced with anger.The second Alexander brought his phone down from his ear, his expression darkened instantly and there was the sound of something getting snapped.Alexander looked down at the broken pen on his desk, he unclenched his fist to see just how much damage it had done. He clenched his jaw tighter than it already
Andrea Salvatore paced around her room like a lion searching for it’s next prey but in this case, she was in search of her assistant. She wanted to make sure she found the butch before any of the information she had in hand got out.Andrea thought back to the message she had gotten while at the Ball two days ago.I KNOW YOUR SECRETI KNOW ABOUT NICHOLASI HAVE PROOFEVERYONE WILL KNOW SOONThat was enough to destabilize Andrea and make her lose her bearings.She had went straight to the office, hoping to find her assistant working late, she was going to confront her, going to ask her why she would send such a message and what exactly it was that she knew.Andrea inhaled deeply, she held a glass of orange juice that she had asked the house keeper to bring up for her, she couldn’t drink alcohol...Not when she was pregnant.Shit!Shit!Shit!She bit her nails as she dialed her assistant’s number for the seventeenth in the past thirty minutes and just as it had been before, i
Rain ate in complete silence, watched from the corner of her eyes as Enzo escorted Alexander’s unknown visitors out of the house…their faces were red, they looked severely annoyed…Alexander must’ve said something that didn’t please them.Well, get in line. She thought.“If you don’t feel like eating, you could take a break Rain, I’m not trying to force you,”Rain looked up at Elisa and gave her an apologetic smile.“ I’m sorry,”“ There’s no need to be,” Elisa said as she proceeded to clear the table, Vicky appeared at Elisa’s side almost immediately and began packing. Vicky also looked to be I’m a sour mood but Rain couldn’t bring herself to give a fuck.There was this heavy feeling in her chest that wouldn’t go away.Probably because she realized last night that she was beginning to get way too comfortable in her prison, after what Alexander had done…what he had attempted, that discomfort was back and she knew she couldn’t tell Elisa about any of it.She wished she could ca