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Chapter 40RAYANA POV‘When I fuck you, Rayana, it will be in a bed filled with roses and fucking candles. Not on your office lounger.’ The words echoed in my mind for the umpteenth time since the moment Alejandro had uttered them to me. The memory slammed into me with so much intensity I had to stop what I was doing to fan myself. The level of lust I had for that man was abnormal, and from the looks of it, since that day, something had changed. He looked like he was helplessly clinging onto the control that was slowly slipping through his fingers. As for why he couldn’t just let for of the man-ego and give in to the chemistry; that was a bloody mystery. Another sigh, I shook my head to clear the thoughts of Alejandro and the feel of his giant cock in my mouth, then stared at the shopping list for the upcoming charity. Out of all invitations I had received, I decided to respond to only one; which was charity gala to raise funds for orphanages all around the UK.That seemed like a
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Chapter 41RAYANA POVStepping out into the pouring rain, I giggled like a high-school girl as Alejandro shielded my head against the merciless patters of raindrops with his giant palm and ran to the car. I was snuggled by his side, the cold of the rain and winter ignored for the warmth of his body pressed against mine. He opened the car door for me before shoving me inside, then shut the door and rounded it.He jumped into the driver’s side before discarding the wet coat on the backseat, then groaned. I laughed!“You hate getting wet?” I asked the question to the obvious answer, causing him to throw me a cold glare and shake his head slightly. He pulled the car from the parking lot and out of the Palace Gate premises into the busy road. Despite the heavy downpour, the city was alive, like always, and I found myself smiling at the fact that at that moment, I was one of the people responsible for these people’s happiness. “A penny for your thoughts?” Alejandro’s voice cut through the
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Chapter 42RAYANA POVRelief settled inside of me when we pulled up into the gated premises of the Vetro Apartments London. I won’t lie, curiosity and anticipation were slowly morphing into one emotion I never knew when this man was near. Fear.The clock signaled that it was a little after 6, and the sun was starting to set, casting orange hues and golden rays over the rainy clouds. The reflection of the rays on the drops of rain made everything look so heavenly. Alejandro pulled into the reserved parking lot before killing the engine, then climbed out of the car before rounding the car to open my door. If there was one thing I had learned about this man was that princess treatment came easy to him. Chivalry was not dead indeed. I took his hand and mounted off his beastly car before following him closely behind. He walked with my hand wrapped in his giant one, and the little act was so natural it didn’t faze me anymore. We walked up to the reception, and shock liquefied inside of
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Chapter 43ALEJANDRO POVThe biggest part of me knew that I was being selfish and that I was only looking out for my own interests. The obsessive thoughts whispered countless dark innuendos up my mind, fuelling the need to fully claim her as mine. I knew Rayana didn’t belong with someone with the likes of me! He belonged with safe people like Franklin, people who would give her the security she sought out and the peace she always wanted. Not someone with skeletons filling up their closet to a point where it couldn’t even close.I grunted to myself, rejecting that thought as soon as it landed inside of me. I was no safer than that Grand Canyon, but that only made me want her even more. Which is why I spent the whole of last night branding her, claiming her for myself, and destroying her utterly for any other man out there. I stood by the coffee machine a little longer just to still my thoughts. We had done it until the tip of my cock ached. Until she passed out from pure pleasure an
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Chapter 44RAYANA POVThe shivers started halfway into the gala night, and I just knew that shit was about to hit the fan. I didn’t know what, yet, but the unsettling feeling that gnawed at me made it difficult to sit still. I sought out Alejandro among the masses of people who had flocked to turn this night into a success, and my eyes literally found him first. The man had branded me. Body, mind, and soul: Alejandro Rodriguez had destroyed me for any other man in the world and made sure that I was wrapped around his finger. And the shit alone was jarring as fuck. I eased out a shaking breath as I walked down the stairs of the grand hall that was used to host the Gala, then sieved through the throng as I made my way to him. His eyes found me from across the hall, and he muttered something to the men he was standing with before parting them and walking straight to me,He seemed to be so far, and I wanted to get to him as fast as possible.My hand reached out for him, and he pulled
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Chapter 45RAYANA POVA daunting weight pulled on my muscles as we detrained from the car at the entrance of the industrial park. I was out in a heartbeat, my gaze transfixed on the big, tall, warehouse buildings spread all over the vast area. Alejandro came to stand beside me before draping a bullet vest on me. “Wear this.” He commanded as he already fastened it around me. I aided him by taking off the coat I was wearing and fastening it underneath, then belted my coat to hide the vest. James needed to think that we were unprepared. “What’s the plan?” I locked eyes with him, somehow the weight of the situation becoming less and less with every passing second. Because deep down in my heart, I knew that this man would move mountains and cross the damn rivers for me. And for my family. “We have men already inside the warehouse. I have their location…” He checked his watch before scrolling onto it and nodded to himself. “But they are not to move until we arrive in there. We cannot ri
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Chapter 46RAYANA POVThe rain poured out the dark clouds that hung from the skies, as though the universe itself was mourning the loss of my brother. But I knew it in me that it wasn’t that. To me, it felt like I was mourning my humanity, my humility. The innocence I had clutched onto my whole entire life believing this world was a solid black and white. Everything that had happened in the past three months taught me that it wasn’t it. There was so much that we didn’t see with our naked eyes, and I can’t believe just how naive I had been this entire time. I had been there when my brother’s life was taken from him, and even as I sat in Alejandro’s fancy penthouse- curled on the lounger- I still couldn’t feel even a small tinge of remorse inside of me.James had signed his death contract the minute he killed our father. Me casting him out of the family tree was just a simple way of teaching him accountability for his actions; making sure he knew there were consequences to every littl
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Chapter 47RAYANA POV“Please tell me we are wrapping this HAL thing. My mind can’t handle working in circles.” Charlotte burst into my office before walking straight to my desk and dumped a large folder containing undoubtedly, a bazillion files I was supposed to look into. “The money was deposited into their bank account, the ribbon cutting was a success, and the construction has already started, so I tell you, we are wrapping the HAL thing,” I responded with a smile as I watched her plop on the chair in front of me, leaning back. “How are you, baby sis,” I asked, taking her fully in with her movements. There was no denying it, something had changed inside of her that night, something that killed the innocence in her heart and opened her eyes to the ugly world we lived in. A pang of guilt stabbed my inside at how I failed to protect them. She and Charles did not deserve any of that. My fight was with James and they didn’t need to get involved. “Winter is almost over, I can’t wait
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Chapter 76RAYANA POVI woke up curled into Alejandro’s side, his whole being wrapped around me like a warm comforter. I let my eyes take him in fully, let them wander on every single nook and crook of his face. I printed each detail to memory, and for the umpteenth time, I was awed by the beauty of this man. Long lashes, thick eyebrows that only models could get from terrible laser operations, lips so full and lush that the V dipped so down low. He had these beads of sweat on his forehead that I just wanted to lick with my tongue because that’s how much I loved him. When sleeping, he looked so beautiful. No angry grunts, no heavy sighs, no tiredness that weighed so heavily on him that it was all evident in his simple glance… Just peace. His scent was the soothing elixir I never knew I needed. I was never really a big fan of scents and personal odors, but Alejandro made me find out things about myself I never really knew I had in me. If it were a few months ago I would cringed at t
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Chapter 75RAYANA POVAlejandro balanced me on one arm as he attempted to open the door, but I beat him to it and twisted the door hand. He pushed it open to reveal a pathway of roses and candles all around. My mouth fell open in a small gasp of surprise as my eyes took in every little detail. Somehow in a span of few hours, they had managed to turn my bedroom into a whole honeymoon suite. The entire room was filled with red and white, from roses to the white small throw on the red bed… And everything else reminded me of the time he first took me. The time he claimed me and destroyed for any other man, living or dead. My breath hitched at the memory and heat spread all over my body like wildfire.“Wow…” I breathed out softly. Alejandro simply le
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Chapter 74ALEJANDRO POVEvery time THAT thought crossed my mind, my whole body shook. Shivers rattled my bones and an unknown force slammed right into my chest, causing goosebumps to erupt all over me and sheathe my body like a second layer of skin.At some point, I almost freaked out thinking I was scared, that I was regretting all of this… But then I figured it was because everything was all too surreal. All unbelieveable. A man like me didn’t deserve this much happiness. A man like me with a closet so full of skeletons that they couldn’t be hidden anymore, deserved nothing but isolation for the rest of his life. Cause as they all love to say, people in our world were all beyond redemption. Right now, I was starting to wonder if that was even true.
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Chapter 73RAYANA POVGrowing up, I always imagined that my wedding was going to be the grandest of all times. I imagined it being the most iconic, even more grand than Princess Diana’s herself. I pictured the entire country going on a national lockdown to celebrate the holy matrimony of the Archducke’s older daughter.I imagined chariots, horse carriages straight out of Disney movies, cherry blossoms littering the ground I walked on. I imagined a literal fairy tale, straight out of the books and brought to life. I pictured myself wearing a beautiful princess gown, all white, my teeth brighter than the golden rays of the sun.It probably would have been like that if my dad was still alive, or maybe if Luke was still alive and it was him I was tying the knot to. Never in my wildest dreams had I ever pictured myself being pushed down the aisle in a wheelchair by my younger brother, while my family stood at the head of the chapel watching with eyes filled with tears. At that point, I j
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Chapter 72RAYANA POVAwareness came in bits and pieces. I could feel it by the slow intake of breath and the blood thrumming inside of me that I was alive. But I was not in the world where the sun rose from the east and set in the west. That one was very much evident. Where I was, everywhere I looked, everywhere my eyes landed on was nothing but pure and raw darkness. It was cold, bone-chilling and there was this eerie sensation that kept on washing over me, like cold fingers caressing my skin and making it crawl. And the funny thing was, I felt like I was floating. There was no ground beneath my feet, and my whole body was lighter than a feather. But in this darkness, nothing else existed. It was just me and the deep nothingness that had swallowed me. There was no pain, no joy, and the entire place was void of any sort of feeling.That’s when I heard it. A low murmur of voices, like I was somehow inside a closed drum and they were coming from the outside. That would fucking explai
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Chapter 71ALEJANDRO POVNausea and fury rolled inside of me like hot green acid. I had hoped that the solo drive after the damn ambulance would calm me the fuck down, but the annoying wee! Wee! Wee! Oof the bloody siren made me want to gut the steering wheel right out of its cradle. Every single sound of it meant Rayana was inching closer and closer to death, and that could only mean one thing. My days of pure and unsullied happiness were over!And no. That couldn’t fucking be. I couldn’t allow it. Rayana was not going to leave me because if she left, then she’d leave with the little remaining piece of my soul.And that would be the worst punishment any man cou
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Chapter 70ALEJANDRO POVPain sliced through me. The kind of agony that made me weak in the knees.I’d fucking seen that bloody red dot as it danced around her. But I was fucking slow. Too slow to react and was not faster than a damn bullet. Horror landed inside of me in all its form as I raced up the raised deck, watching with eyes snapped wide as Rayana went lax in her seat. Her head rolled to the side, and her eyes found mine just before she closed them and collapsed. I caught her body before it could collide with the floor, then placed my hand on the reddened spot where her blood was coming out in gallons. The tether of her pain echoed all around me, and I could all bu
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Chapter 69RAYANA POVA rattling shudder rolled down the length of my spine as we rolled down the long, narrow, and carpeted hallway inside Buckingham Palace. It felt like forever since I had stepped foot in here and I hated the fact that I wasn’t so thrilled about being back to my office. If it were any other day, I would have been on the fucking cloud nine. “You alright?” Alejandro’s hand dropped to my lower back, and the heat from his palm seemed to permeate right through my skin and disperse the concentrated tension down there. I let out a huge puff of breath before staring at him in my peripheral, then gave him an unsure nod. I had wanted to carry out the press conference in my own time and on my own terms: when I felt ready to take over the world again. But that visit from my aunt had me sleepless for days, gnawing and churning me from the inside. The disapproval inside her voice had been deadly; but despite all of that, there was no way I would undo what I did. Yes, I und
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Chapter 68ALEJANDRO POVMolten lava leaked into my stream with a haunting stance. I rolled my head on my neck trying to rid it of the sudden stiffness that held me captive. Having the attention of the Bratva was bad enough on its own, but having the Queen’s meant shit had really hit the fan. “Come. Playtime’s over.” I took Rayana’s hand before jumping off the ring, then held my hands up and caught her before settling her on her feet. She had a puzzled look on her face but didn’t probe until we were inside the lift and it was soaring skyward. “What is it? You are scaring me.” She said in a small voice. I turned to look at her, feeling a muscle working in my jaw. “You
