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Melanie’s POVIt didn’t come as a surprise that, Hayley was right.When Aria called and I asked her if it would be possible for us to meet in the hospital instead, her response was, "I didn't expect anything else."I also informed her that we were going to have company and she was totally fine with it. Now, Hayley and I were seated at a table at the cafeteria, five minutes into our lunch hour.“Do you think she’s still coming?” Hayley asked. “She’s five minutes late.”I waved her off. “She’s probably stuck in traffic,” I said. “You know how it gets during rush hour.”Hayley sighed. “Okay, I’ll wait five more minutes and if she doesn’t show, I’m getting something to eat and you look like you need another cup of coffee.”That would be correct. Although the breakfast and coffee helped a lot, I found myself getting tired when I wasn’t even halfway into my shift for the day. Then I had another cup of coffee bef
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Melanie’s POV“Yep, I have a crush on a hot doctor,” Hayley answered.“I like talking about boys that aren’t related to me,” Aria said, “Tell me more.”"You're the one that always brings up your brother in our conversations," I argued. I had to defend myself.“That’s because you get all pouty and quiet if you’re not talking about him,” Aria replied.“Uh…huh, that’s why she’s letting him keep her up all night,” Hayley said and Aria turned her head so fast I thought she was going to snap it.“What did you say?”“I mean look at Melanie, she has sunken eyes and has been slow all day. I can only think of one thing that’ll have a person looking like that in the morning and it has a happy ending,” Hayley explained.I watched, Aria's shoulders relaxed in relief that I hadn't told, Hayley exactly what went down last night but I couldn't help but feel a little disappointed that she would think I told Hayley
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Ava p.o.v “Ava!” Tricia yelled from the living room for the twentieth time. Tricia is my roommate turned best friend, we met in our first week of resumption. I needed a roommate, so she offered I stay with her even though she wasn't looking for one. Mom must have liked Tricia at first sight because she agreed without hesitation, saying for a young girl to live alone is very dangerous. My mom can be extremely protective when it comes to her kids, but let's face it, which mother won't turn a tigress when it comes to her kids? So I don't blame her for being overprotective, even though it's driving me crazy at times. So for the past two years, I've been living with this wild wolf, shhh, don't tell her I say that, or I'm dead meat. Tricia can be sweet and caring when she wants to be, she has a heart of gold, the best roommate I could ever ask for. But occasionally, her big sister mode kicks in, and she becomes wild, but I love her. “What?” I asked innocently, I could practically se
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Ava p.o.v The tension in the air is so thick it could be cut through, it's so suffocating I almost choke on my saliva when swallowing the lump in my throat. I cough a few times bringing almost everyone's attention to me, each gaze passing a silent warning. Some look would be like keep it down' others is 'don't get us killed bitch' while some are 'are you crazy' kind of look. I walk shakingly around to the table, seeing everyone wary also brought me on edge. I subconsciously take a step back from the table with the three most intimidating men I've ever seen, the arura radiating off them is dangerous enough to kill someone on spot. Especially the one sitting between the other two. He's a Greek God sent down to one earth to put chaos among women, No doubt he's specially made by God himself to place a second figure of himself on Earth for everyone to see. He has midnight, wait no scratch that, He has charcoal color hair that's neatly combed back. No single hair is sticking out. Hot c
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Ava p.o.v What's the worse that could happen, I shudder at that. It's obvious something isn't right.The urgent movement in the kitchen made me pause for a brief moment, my gaze sweep the kitchen then stop on paled Tricia trying to hide behind the counter.I rose a questioning brow at her when she realized it was just me, she place her right palm on her chest to calm her racing heart."Why were you hiding?" I alright I shouldn't have asked mainly because I already know why, she roll her big doe eyes coming out of her hideout. Funny to say it was the big counter that sat in the middle of the kitchen, which was stupid because anyone would easily see her."Don't tell me you didn't see Dario." She scoff, silently telling me she didn't need to be reminded of Dario's presence.I sighed softly, that's one of the many reasons I don't appreciate the thought of having a boyfriend, having to tell him everything and wanting permission and all. Especially one that is Rich, Tricia's state
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Vincenzo p.o.v He woke up each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as it sounds and as impossible as it actually was, Happy.And during the course of each day his heart would descend from his chest into his stomach. By early afternoon he was overcome by the feeling that nothing was right or nothing was right for him, by the desire to be alone. By evening he was fulfilled, alone in the magnitude of his grief, alone in his aimless guilt. Alone even in his loneliness. I am not sad, He would repeat to himself over and over.I am not sad.As if he might one day convince himself or fool himself, or convince others. The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad. Because his life had unlimited potential for happiness, insofar as it was an empty white room.He would fall asleep with his heart at the foot of his bed, like some domesticated animal that was no part of him at all. And each morning he wou
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Ava p.o.vI didn't realize how much I've missed my Mom and siblings until now, the day passed by painfully slow, I've been waiting anxiously for this day. Now I'm sitting in the taxi my feet bouncing off the floor eagerly as we move down the familiar street I've spent all my life in.The three hours ride from the University located in the main city of Seattle is already killing me, and this short ride from the bus stop to our house just seems to be taking forever. This is the time I regret ever deciding to school so far away from home, well in my defense. I have to be far away because of a particular person.You know him, no need for a reminder.If I had my ways, I wouldn't be coming back to this place, but I'm missing the people that means the world to me.Finally the taxi pulled up in front of my home, the single story white building that stood proudly before me. Hurriedly paid the driver, I raced up the small stairs of the front yard of the house.The door swung open before I could
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Ava p.o.v Waking up at 6am on a Saturday morning, with Tricia swearing and ranting on the phone is not how I've planned my morning. I whine from every cursed word she utter, if she isn't scary when angered, I would have hang up on her but I don't wanna get myself strangled to death at my early age.I don't know how I land myself with such a talkative friend, I don't like loud people and I most definitely do not like noise. But at some point in life, I need to interact with all characteristic of people. Although I appreciate having her as a friend, she stood up for me many a times but let's face it, she could talk a dead person to life."Are you even listening." Tricia grunt from the other side of the phone.I've block her out since she wasn't saying anything I would understand."No." I answered meekly, there's no need to lie. What if she ask me to repeat what she had said, then I wouldn't know how to answer to that. I hear her growl and I bet she's glaring at the phone s
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Melanie’s POV“Yep, I have a crush on a hot doctor,” Hayley answered.“I like talking about boys that aren’t related to me,” Aria said, “Tell me more.”"You're the one that always brings up your brother in our conversations," I argued. I had to defend myself.“That’s because you get all pouty and quiet if you’re not talking about him,” Aria replied.“Uh…huh, that’s why she’s letting him keep her up all night,” Hayley said and Aria turned her head so fast I thought she was going to snap it.“What did you say?”“I mean look at Melanie, she has sunken eyes and has been slow all day. I can only think of one thing that’ll have a person looking like that in the morning and it has a happy ending,” Hayley explained.I watched, Aria's shoulders relaxed in relief that I hadn't told, Hayley exactly what went down last night but I couldn't help but feel a little disappointed that she would think I told Hayley
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Melanie’s POVIt didn’t come as a surprise that, Hayley was right.When Aria called and I asked her if it would be possible for us to meet in the hospital instead, her response was, "I didn't expect anything else."I also informed her that we were going to have company and she was totally fine with it. Now, Hayley and I were seated at a table at the cafeteria, five minutes into our lunch hour.“Do you think she’s still coming?” Hayley asked. “She’s five minutes late.”I waved her off. “She’s probably stuck in traffic,” I said. “You know how it gets during rush hour.”Hayley sighed. “Okay, I’ll wait five more minutes and if she doesn’t show, I’m getting something to eat and you look like you need another cup of coffee.”That would be correct. Although the breakfast and coffee helped a lot, I found myself getting tired when I wasn’t even halfway into my shift for the day. Then I had another cup of coffee bef
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Melanie’s POV“You didn’t get enough sleep, huh?” she asked.“It’s not what you think,” I said."Oh, it sounds like you were busy with your hot, Italian boyfriend which ended up with you being sleep-deprived," she said. "Now it makes sense why your eyes look so huge."I sighed. When was I going to learn to keep my damn mouth shut?"Okay, I am sleep-deprived and it has something to do with, Adriano but I promise it's not what you think," I repeated. "You need to get your mind out of the gutter."“Girl, my mind lives in the gutter and it’s beyond saving so don’t even bother,” Hayley said. “Now tell me, does Adriano look as bad as you do or is it just you?”“Hayley!”"What?! I'm just trying to find out to what degree he tired you out last night. On a scale of one to ten, with one being not at all and ten being out of this world, which is it."I shook my head. “I don’t know why I even bother
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Melanie's POV"Hello…. I'm right here," I said, infuriated that they were ignoring me.“We know exactly where you are, little nurse,” Adriano replied.“Then stop talking as if I'm invincible!” I yelled.“No need to yell, dear. We're just looking out for you,” Alice said.“I'm quite capable of taking care of myself,” I replied.“That's why you're trying to skip breakfast?” Adriano asked.“I don't need a lecture from you and neither do you control what I eat,” I huffed.He ignored me and turned to, Alice. “Like I said, she doesn't leave this house unless she's eaten breakfast.”Alice nodded in response, and then he turned to me.“Have a good day, little nurse,” he said. “I'll see you when I get back.”Then he grabbed his suit jacket and walked out of the house while I struggled not to throw the vase on the table at his incredibly fine ass.Alice's chuckling drew m
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Melanie’s POVIf someone had told me that I was going to spend most of my night stitching up a man with a stab wound, I would have laughed in their faces.And it would have been more unbelievable if the person had added that the same person I stitched up would try to harass me.I’d been living here for weeks and even though, Adriano and I had tethered on the edge of our attraction towards each other, he had never done anything inappropriate to me or even made me uncomfortable.I didn't communicate much with the ground guards in the house but I assumed they'd be like, Ralph. Grumpy, quiet, and focused on their jobs. The last thing I expected was for Mateo to come on to me considering I didn't think he was dumb enough to have been oblivious to my conversation with, Adriano in the medical room which would have given him a pretty good guess on the dynamics of my relationship with, Adriano.The look on, Adriano's face when
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Adriano’s POVAfter Melanie left the kitchen, I opened the low-level drawers. I kept a few knives and other tools in there in case it came in handy to, Alice not that she'd ever had any need to use them because she was protected.But the knowledge that she had the tools to protect herself if it ever comes to that allowed her to rest easy and it wasn't a big deal for me to do it for her. Plus, she was great with knives so I pity anyone who makes the gross mistake of underestimating her.Luckily, the drawer had what I needed. I took the secateurs from the drawer and slipped it into my pocket. I won't be able to sleep if I didn't exact retribution. Maybe this would be a warning to anyone who didn't get the message earlier.I left the house and walked towards the driveway where Ralph and Nik were standing watching over Mateo with identical glares on their faces, clearly pissed that he'd sent them on an unnecessary search.Mateo
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Adriano’s POVThe last thing I wanted was to go searching for an adult male by this time of the night.I’d had a long day and after my briefing with, Nik, I wanted to take a shower and crawl into bed.But no, that fucker had to go wander off. Ralph left him alone for a few minutes to go get the car from where he parked it earlier so he could drive, Mateo home but when he got back in the room where he had been sown up, Mateo was nowhere to be found.“Go tell the guys outside to search the grounds,” I told Nik. “He might have wandered outside but I’ll check the house just in case.”Nik nodded. "You got it, boss."We went separate ways and I started my search from the empty guest rooms, maybe he was looking for a place to sleep and stumble into one of them, but he wasn’t in any one.I even went to the gym and movie room, but still, I came up empty. That was when I took my search downstairs and started he
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Melanie’s POVAfter, I took a shower and changed into a pair of pajama shorts and tank top, my stomach growled loudly.I had a huge dinner at, Phoebe’s place so I felt freaking full when I got home but the night took such a strange turn that now I was fresh out of energy and completely starving.I also had tons of missed calls and messages from, Aria whom I hung up the phone abruptly on. Each of her messages were varied versions of what’s wrong and if I was okay. At one point she even threatened to drive over here if I didn’t call or respond to her messages.Sighing, I picked up my phone and replied to her texts with a simple 'I'm fine' but my phone vibrated after a few seconds.I swiped to answer the call and put the phone to my ear. “I already told you that I was fine,” I said into the receiver."You didn't respond to any of my messages for over an hour and you thought a simple 'I'm fine' was going to suffi
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Adriano’s POVI was in my study with, Nik debriefing what happened tonight."It could have been way worse if you didn't have quick reflexes," Nik said.I nodded. “I can’t say the same about, Mateo,” I said.“Mateo has always been fucking slow,” Nik replied. “he could have easily dodged that swing if he’d been paying attention.”He wasn’t wrong. Mateo was fucking slow.When that, Russian fucker took a swing at me with a knife we didn’t know he had on him, my reflexes kicked in almost immediately and I swerved to the side, narrowly missing a blade to my face.Mateo, who was standing beside me did get slashed by the knife before I could disarm the fucker and once I did, the last thing on my mind was extracting any sort of information from him so I slit his throat with his own knife.“You know by killing that fucker, we lost out on finding out the rest of their hideout,” Nik said.“We didn’t really need him. I admit it would have been easier but there are other ways to find that out,” I s
