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Claiming The Archduchess Chapter 13
Chapter 13ALEJANDRO POVThe tension in the car was thick and cloy; I could almost taste her confusion on my tongue as she tried to decipher what the hell had happened in our walk from the office to the parking lot. I know it wasn’t in my right to be acting this way but good fuck!That man fucking irked me.He didn’t deserve her. Heck, no man deserved Rayana as much as I did. Cancel that, I was not even worthy to share the same space with her, let alone breathe the same air she breathed. Rayana was a rare kind of jewel. The kind that when you laid your hands on it, you stash it away from the prying eyes. I had watched her from afar since I signed the deal with his father, I had seen how she operates, and the sick fuck that lived in my soul wanted to claim her.All of her. From the silky black strands of her hair down to her tiny toes that were peeking out of those black shoes that looked so good on her. I didn’t respond to her. I was afraid that what was going to leave my mouth
Last Updated : 2025-01-21Claiming The Archduchess Chapter 14
Chapter 14RAYANA POVWe arrived shortly after six in the evening, and Alejandro dropped me off with the small information of him having to fly back to Italy that same night. My mind lagged behind and I nodded unthinkingly just for the sake of it while I kept on digesting on the things he revealed on our little excursion the whole day. I stood at the stairs of the castle and watched his car drive down the long driveway, red lights fading and swallowed by distance. I stood there for a minute longer, my bottom lip sawed through my teeth as my mind raced a mile per second. Before I could even think it through, my body decided for myself. I threw myself into the house before rushing to where the car keys were kept, then took the black key fob and raced out of the house. I bumped into James on the front door who cursed me like we did not share a DNA, but I paid no mind to his rumblings and ran out the door. At this point, it was clear to everyone who had eyes and ears that our relat
Last Updated : 2025-01-29Claiming The Archduchess Chapter 15
Chapter 15ALEJANDRO POVMy ears clogged on the descent, and I ground my teeth hard as the craft soared through the clouds to the ground. I stilled myself in my seat and pinched my eyes shut, letting the thoughts of a certain kitten with black eyes and lush curls fill my brain with fluff balls and butterflies that spread their wings in the pit of my belly.There was just something. Something about the way she moved made me feel like she was the holy grail that has been in my entire life. The way she smiled, the way her brows knitted when she refused to believe something… the simple way she caught her bottom lip through her teeth when she thought hard and deep…Rayana was the epitome of the woman’s beauty, and the beast inside me wanted nothing more than to claim her fully. Her very breaths, her laughter, her cries; I wanted to claim them and make them all mine. My musings were interrupted by the sound of the jet tires squealing as they touched the ground, and in no time, the night
Last Updated : 2025-01-30Claiming The Archduchess Chapter 16
Chapter 16ALEJANDRO POVI stood in the hotel room overlooking the black waters and white creeks. Lights from the boats and cruises cast a warm glow into the black oblivion, casting a sweet disguise of ferry lights and hiding what lurked in the night waters. I took a sip of my whiskey, my mind racing back to the recent happenstances of the past two weeks. Everything seemed to have been cooked straight out of the hell kitchen. And while everything that happened was right up there in my plans, nobody prepared me for the mental exhaustion it cast onto me. My life was a long charade of death, deceit, and lies, and not even once have I ever felt even an ounce of remorse. But this time… Something caught up with me. I was mentally drained, my body aching from the very scalp down to the little toenail. And as if that was not enough, some idiot out of hell thought it was a good idea to steal from me. And not just that, but to destroy my property.Emporium Express was mine just as it belong
Last Updated : 2025-01-30Claiming The Archduchess Chapter 17
Chapter 17RAYANA POVHours bled into days and the news of the archduchy being involved with the Cosa Nostra still made me sick to my stomach. At one point James found me in my new office and decided to give me a rundown of how unfair I was and how he could never forgive me for what I had done, and all I had done at that moment was stare at my poor brother who definitely had no idea of the dark side of running the archduchy. Would he be so pumped if he were to find out that the very archduchy he worshipped with his very life was deeply involved with the underworld's most dangerous gang?I guess we would never know. A heavy sigh bubbled out of me as I yanked myself back to reality. It has been close to a week since Alejandro flew back to Italy. And during this entire time, there has been no word from him at all. A pang of bitterness lasered through my insides at the idea of him suddenly going MIA* on me after dropping such bombshells on me and leaving me to ponder them myself. Bu
Last Updated : 2025-01-31Claiming The Archduchess Chapter 18
Chapter 18ALEJANDRO POVMy phone vibrated right when I flipped her over, wrenching a whiny moan from her. Kimberly wiggled her ass in my face as she attempted to have me concentrate on her. But I was a man living on borrowed time, and no amount of pleasure or sex could cloud my senses to a point where I could ignore calls. I mean people could be dying when I was busy, balls deep into some random woman; or my enemies could be flooding my territory all ganged up to kill me. “Don’t be greedy, sweetheart. You have claimed all of me already.” I slapped her ass as I walked away from where she was bent, ass in the sky and face on the couch. She let out another annoyed sigh, and I stifled a chuckle. Picking up my pants from the floor, I searched my phone from the pocket and when I found it, stared at the screen with utmost shock as the name ARCHDUCHESS remained displayed on my screen as the device continued vibrating in my hand like it was cursed. I contemplated letting it ring, because
Last Updated : 2025-01-31Claiming The Archduchess Chapter 19
Chapter 19ALEJANDRO POV“What have you got?” I asked as I settled into the seat of the Cadillac, Viper slithered into the seat beside me, excitement bubbling from him like he was a kid about to show me his favorite drawing. I waited patiently.“You are not gonna believe it.” He smiled as he pulled out his iPad again and scrolled a few pages before thrusting the device my way. I grasped it and saw a picture of foreign men. Utterly foreign. I tried to search my mind as to where I had seen their ugly faces before, but I came out blank. They were all too new to me. “This is?” “That is the new Turantello Familia.” He pointed to the device, and confusion poked holes into my brain. “I am listening.” I probed, as calm as winter snow. That’s what sex did to me. It calmed the raging blood lust and made me reason with a clear head. “Since the former Turantello was absorbed by us, and its Dons gave you all the rights to their lands and everything, what you see there, are former members of
Last Updated : 2025-01-31Claiming The Archduchess Chapter 20
Chapter 20ALEJANDRO POV“What gave her out? I swear I wouldn’t have thought she was a spy.” Viper said as the craft soared through the clouds, taking us to Naples where we were going to settle this mess once and for all. Somehow Francesco needed to know who the real boss was. I guess letting him just be made him think that he could go around branding shit in my territory. He was still in disbelief that we had encountered that, and that the girl almost outsmarted him just like that while he was blinded by the blue British eyes. “A few things. One, how she seemed to know exactly who we were as soon as she walked it. Two, the wine bottle was already opened. If the gun plan failed, then the poisoned wine would definitely get us. And three, the fake Alissia name? Anyone could tell that she is a bloody descendant of Athelstan.” I pointed out causing him to shake his head in disbelief. He wiped a hand down his face before slouching into his seat, causing Kaito to chuckle where he was ca
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Claiming The Archduchess Chapter 66
Chapter 66RAYANA POVWhen I opened my eyes, the first thing I saw was triple, obsidian orbs staring at me with so much tenderness I began to melt right there and then. The gaze of them was soft, gentle; a concoction of comfort and reliance. Alejandro’s hand traveled from the path next to my neck before threading his fingers in my hair, then smiled that lazy smile that always made me weak in the knees. He was such a beautiful man; a stark contrast to what I saw last night.Last night, I had seen him in his might, the horrible things he was capable of doing. And just thinking about it all left me on the precipice of indecision. I didn’t know whether I was to love him more or fear him.“M.m.” He grumbled
Claiming The Archduchess Chapter 65
Chapter 65ALEJANDRO POVEverything beyond the skies ceased to exist. The darkness I loved and worshipped filtered through the cracks on the walls of the dungeon while the fucker continued spewing things that were only guaranteeing his death. Things along the lines of how ‘he’ was going to fuck Rayana’s corpse after they delivered it to him. Like I would ever let that happen. Not in this life or the next. Rayana was mine to tame, mine to train, mine in all shapes and forms of the word. No fucker in this world or beyond would stake a claim on her while I lived. And I was about to make it known to the rest of the wo
Claiming The Archduchess Chapter 64
Chapter 64RAYANA POVI still wasn’t sure where all bravery came from, or where I got the guts to stand in front of the most dangerous man in all of the UK and call him up on his bullshit. Maybe it was from the fact that I had the devil incarnate standing guard by my side and ready to maul and maim if he so ever tried to pull any other shitty stunt, but still… I couldn’t believe I stood against the man who cooked people for a living and handed him his shit on the platter. After a little back and forth, the chef managed to convince Alejandro that his little proposal was worth taking. I wanted to believe his little act of loyalty was his patriarchal instincts kicking in, but I knew better than to delude myself into that.
Claiming The Archduchess Chapter 63
Chapter 63RAYANA POVWhen the door slipped closed, the first thought that infested my mind was that I was not staying behind! Fuck everything else. The times I had been without Alejandro, something lethal always happened, something that always resulted in a near-death experience. And I would be damned. “Where are you going?” Charlotte sat up straight when I jumped out of the bed, her face puffy and tear-stained. One look at her and I knew I owed her my life. Which meant I wasn’t going to sit around here and wait to be fed with the news of why I was hunted by the Russians. I needed to hear it all with my own ears, and then decide what I was going to do about it!
Claiming The Archduchess Chapter 62
Chapter 62ALEJANDRO POVMy whole body felt like a weightless piece of paper when the news reached my ears. I felt light on my feet, the blood inside of me simmering on low. I allowed the bloodlust to infest my system, let the darkness swallow my soul whole, blackening every piece of me that was left human.Calamity brewed and formed its path to my throat, the bitterness of it spreading inside my mouth. My whole body itched to destroy, to shred everything in the vicinity to pieces… It was not the fact that my girl was almost killed, twice in a week while I fumbled on straws trying to nail the one person who was after her head; or that I warned her against this crazy idea of going out there in public.
Claiming The Archduchess Chapter 61
Chapter 61RAYANA POVWestfield London plus month-end frenzy was not the most ideal combo for a little getaway… Especially for the most wanted person! The mall was insanely crowded with month-end throngs, and going up and about was almost a pain in the mess. If bumping into people here and there was not crazy on its own, I just couldn’t shake off that rattling awareness of eyes following me at every turn. And no matter how long I had it, I just couldn’t get used to it. It was unnerving, and there was no way I could relax under the watchful gazes of Alejandro’s men. I would look around at some point to see if they were near, and I would see nothing! Just normal civilians going about with their lives.
Claiming The Archduchess Chapter 60
Chapter 60ALEJANDRO POV“What is this madness of going out?” I asked, trying to be as understanding as I could possibly be. I seriously didn’t think Charlotte would come knocking here. It was clear I underestimated the lengths the two sisters could go just to see each other. The how’s of it didn’t matter, because she was here now. And it could only mean one thing; they were dead set on going out. “All we are asking for is a few hours of gallivanting around the mall. Just a few hours. I mean look at her. She is room-rotting in here.” Charlotte pleaded her case and gestured to Rayana. She looked perfectly fine to me. I am talking about a grey loungewear set that clung onto her body, accentuating her lush curves and perky tits. I
Claiming The Archduchess Chapter 59
Chapter 59RAYANA POV‘In today’s top stories, we have shocking developments in the ongoing investigation into the attempted assassination of the royal Archduchess Rayana Elizabeth Mountbatten, shortly after her return from the official assignment in Russia. The media descended upon her residence and office, eager to get into the depth of the story with no luck, as the archduchess has barely shown her face in public this past week. Some even suspected…’I couldn’t let her finish, I knew whatever was going to come out next was going to be a complete BS and I was so not ready!I angrily yanked the remote from where it sat and flipped through a few channels. An advert played as I waited patiently t
Claiming The Archduchess Chapter 58
Chapter 58RAYANA POVI didn't realize I was a sobbing mess of snot and tears until that magnetic pull yanked at me from all corners of my soul."Kaito, enough. " Alejandro commanded on a roar, and I knew it right there that he had caught our conversation. I searched his face for any sign of emotion, but the fucker looked like he wore a mask, hiding all he felt and thought. His indifference made everything Kaito dished out sound like a tale. Something he read out of those documentaries you watched on tv.And there I was, my heart shattering every single second I thought of the injustice he suffered. How could people be so cruel? A 16-year-old already killing his way through the cartel just so he could see the rise of the next day?
