Hunter Storm "I know this face, Brandon. I am not buying your useless attitude for nothing." I sigh in frustration as my cousin has been giving me cold shoulder since I arrive at the club where we suppose to meet the police officer who would help us to discuss the great escape plan for Liam."Like you care." He snorts and sips on his cucumber juice."Spill it out, Brand. I am one step away from bruising your handsome face in a public place. Just think about your reputation and tell me what's going on with you." I say with a deep exhale and sip on my cold beer."Why did you do this, Hunter?" He ask the question which I have been preparing myself to embrace since the moment I proposed this stupid idea to get my ass out of the mess."Look, Brand, I won't lie to you-"I take a deep breath." You have always liked her, don't you? Please don't even try to deny it. I have seen you admiring her like you never do with any other women and deep down I know that Valentina isn't a bad girl either,
Anna Harris I haven't slept a dreamless yet peaceful sleep in years. I can roughly count since my grandmother died ten years ago. She used to pat my hairs until my eyes give up and tuck me in the bed even though I was a grown up teenager. Last night I felt the same peace being in the arms of a stranger. I shouldn't call him a stranger though, we have crossed that boundary long ago and now the sexual tension is too high.He made love to me throughout the night and in the bathroom yet my body is aching for him. He turned me into an addictive for him, for the magic he do with my body.My thoughts comes to a halt when I hear a knock on the library door. I flinch by the sudden disturbance but compose myself as soon as a strong feminine perfume fills my nostrils.Oh I hate this brand even though it's expensive. I turn to look at the person, a young woman precisely, not some ordinary woman but a true epitome of heavenly beauty. I am stricken by the sight of her. Don't get me wrong, I am str
Anna HarrisI stare at his face to read why he's so worried for my safety, it just a humanity instinct or he cares for me more than just a fellow human being."Answer me, Anna. Did she say something mean to you or hurt you?" His jaws are tightly clench when he asks me about my encounter with his ex-fiancee."No, she didn't hurt me in either way, Hunter. She came here to see you but left immediately when she didn't find you here." I lie bluntly on his face."Are you sure?" He scrunches his brows, clearly he doesn't believe a word I said."Yes, she only checked here and went away without saying any mean word to me." I lie again but my heart wants me to tell him about her hostility and sermon."I hope you're telling me the truth because I won't spare her if she tries to take vengeance on you just because I dumped her for my own reasons." He seems relieved but not sure if I told him the truth."Dump is a derogatory word, Hunter. She's a woman and needs respect. You broke her heart and hum
Anna Harris"Do not talk unless he asks you a question. He's not a man you would like to meddle. He plays mind games with his preys." Hunter says as the car slows down when a beautiful mansion comes in the view, surrounded by huge walls and an iron gate where a dozen armed guards are posted."You're not helping me, Hunter." I let out the breath that I had been holding."I am just warning you beforehand. Please avoid talking about your father if he asks you." He glances over me."Hunter, can I ask you something?" I look at him and muster up the courage to question him how Nathaniel Storm find out about me.He nods his head in a motion to allow me to speak."You said that nobody except your cousins and Blake knows that I'm staying with you then how does your father know about it?"He stares at me but remain silent and it increases my anxiety."Hunter, I'm asking you something." I repeat with more impatient tone."Have patience, Anna. All your questions will be answered shortly." He says
Anna Harris "Liam Harris, your father and I used to be friends a long ago, long before we step into the mafia business and eventually fell in love with the same woman, my wife but at that time, she was a mutual friend." Nathaniel says, a sad emotion flashes through his cold eyes when he mentions Hunter's mother but what stung more that my Dad loved a woman truly, it sounds weird. The man never treats a woman more than just a mistress.I steal a glance of Hunter whose face devoids any emotion, he sits still like a rock and waiting his father to continue the story that he already knows."But at the end, she chose me over him and that's where our friendship turned sour, he begun to distance himself from us, I thought it was natural for a man whose heart is broken but Liam had the most heinous revenge for us. I and Hunter's mother, Hannah got married within a month of I proposing her and we shifted to New York from a small town of Philadelphia. I used to work in a company, now you may wo
Anna HarrisTen minutes, thirty two seconds later, I've been summoned back in the court of king Nathaniel Storm like a war prisoner but the king has sympathy for his captive, note the sarcasm. I wasn't done crying and cursing my fate for breaking the hell upon me when he sent one of his guards to inform me that my ten minutes are almost over and I need to head back in his office so he can finish the unfinished talk between us.Right now, I am sitting like a rock statue, my eyes glue on the beautiful painting by Vincent Van Gough behind him, it must have cost him a fortune as it looks original. Hunter is also motionless like he already surrendered his weapons.The man clears his throat to gain both of our attention, looking pissed off by our defiance and gesture of disrespect. I can't kneel and kiss his feet if this is his form of respect needs me to do these gestures."Anna, Hunter, now I need to speak to both of you." He says and slide a shiny black folder in front of us with a symb
Hunter Storm The hurt in her eyes pinches my heart. I feel like the most horrible person ever lived on earth, a part of it is true. I killed many people but they weren't saint either. I never felt remorse after a bloodbath but seeing those precious pearls escaping her eyes, I feel a rock crushing me under it's weight yet it leaves me alive to live with the excruciating pain.I never wanted my plan to end in this way where she feels forced and caged behind golden bars. I want her to accept me willingly, exchange the holy vows with no doubts invading her brain but my father always ruins every single chance when I'd get some happiness.According to his own fucking theory, happiness is only an illusion and we must not let ourselves lost in this maze or we'd be hunt down by our enemies. He has been doing everything in his power to keep me alien to any source of comfort but he wants me to make pain and loneliness my friends for lifetime.Heavy foorsteps entering in the room is the warning
Anna HarrisHunter drove us far from the city to his farmhouse near the shore where human inhabitant is next to none, only the noise of ocean waves and seagulls can be heard from the open balcony of my room. Hunter hasn't disturbed me since we arrive here. I am grateful for it as I am not in a mood to go for another round of argument with him.My fate is sealed by Storms.In less than a month's time my life is going to be changed. I will no longer be the girl with my dreams and a free sky to fly wherever I wish. I'd be a wingless bird in a golden cage.Vibration of my phone brings me out of my deep thoughts. Eda is calling me. Guilt pools in my heart as I haven't contacted her in last one week. She must be hell worried for me.Inhaling a long breath, I swipe the green button and place the phone near my ear."Hello, Eda." I try to keep my voice normal."Thank God! You're alive. I thought you jumped off the bridge on the river." I hear her sigh. How did she become such a calm person in