DICEWe resigned to the inside of the penthouse soon enough, and on our way there, I could not help but notice how much she was fidgeting. The fact that I knew exactly why she was fidgety caused a small smile to play on my lips.She tried to bypass me towards the stairs, but I gripped her arm and pulled her to my chest. She immediately glared at me."What do you want now?"I smirked. "I just wanted to say… I look forward to having the best 'honeymoon' with you, wife."She tore her arm away from my grip and stormed off. Typical Liya with her mood swings. It made me smile for a strange reason.The guards seemed to be watching us because when I looked at them, they visibly stiffened and some of them even looked away from me. This was one of the many reasons I felt like I needed to disappear with Liya; probably kidnap her to a different world and keep her there… just the two of us.However, I knew Liya would never agree to stay with me alone. She would want to take her family, and maybe h
LILIYA Two days had passed since the incident. The honeymoon has been going quite well. Okay, really well. Dice made sure that there was no day I did not get his cock, and very fiercely too. He was back to being the caveman he originally was, and I could not say I totally hated it. Okay, that was just me trying to be modest; I actually loved how rough he was with me. I've always enjoyed him better like that, only, I hated to admit it. This morning, after being woken up by Dice's cock, I went into the kitchen to prepare breakfast myself for us both. I allowed Sage some time off from the kitchen, and of course, she had not agreed to be laid off her duties at first, but I had managed to win the fight at last. Truthfully, this was my first time making breakfast for anyone at all. My parents had always assigned a cook to me in my apartments; the cook would prepare several meals and leave it inside my fridge so I could heat it up whenever I was ready to eat. Everything I learned about co
LILIYAWe had just finished having breakfast, and I would like to admit that I had judged Dice wrongly. In my opinion, he would have been one of the best chefs in New York if he had taken up the profession.The pasta he had made (with my assistance, of course) was one of the best I had ever had. It was probably the best, but I just did not feel like praising him so much. Why was he so perfect at everything? Now, I was sure he had been laughing so hard at me in his head when I had burnt the simple meal.While cooking with me, I made sure to distract him every now and then, but he never made a mistake which he could not recover from. Just one kiss from him back there and I had almost burnt down the entire kitchen. Great self-control I had there.Those thoughts aside, I thoroughly enjoyed the meal. In fact, by the time I finished my plate of cream pasta, I was grinning with satisfaction. Dice watched me with mirth dancing about his pitch black orbs. I didn't even care that he was holding
DICE"I assume you have planned to take leadership in the syndicate." I said calmly as I leaned back against my chair. I had expected to see Brandon's smile return but he had a huge frown on his face when he sat down opposite me.The room was dimly lit, but neither of us cared about that. There were more important matters on ground. The chilly temperature in the room was not even enough to ease the tension between us."What is wrong with you, Dice?" Brandon asked me. He had called me by my name, for the first time since I clinched the position of a Mob Boss."And who's asking? My therapist?""You are making the worst mistake of your life." Brandon declared, staring me straight in the eyes. Such a disrespectful twat."Let me worry about that." I told him. He leaned forward and gave me the coldest stare ever. My fingers rapped against the table absentmindedly."How are you even sure she'll stay with you after the contract is over? You'll end up losing everything, including her. And then
LILIYAI sat frozen on the bed, hoping I had misheard what Dice had said. His face was utterly serious though, and I feared that I must have heard him correctly, after all.He had what?"Say sike right now." I told him, inching closer. When he did not even blink, I decided to put my request in lay man's terms for better understanding because Dice was literally a millennial at heart. "Say you're joking, Dice. Right now."He stared blankly at me for some seconds, then said, "I'm joking."I knew that tone. "You're not joking."He shrugged, watching me with those very intent eyes. Was he truly serious right now? Had he really given up his position as a Mob Boss? And for me?That was probably why Brandon sounded extra sour while speaking to me. Extra, because he always sounded a bit sour when speaking to anyone. He was only a bit more sour today.Then it struck me. "Would Brandon be the one taking over?"He smiled, but it did not reach his eyes. "You're very smart.""Why?" My voice was hig
LILIYAI lay beside Dice, and at first I did not want to sleep—I had not planned to sleep in fact. I busied myself with just watching him; my husband. He lay beside me with his eyes completely closed and his breathing even. It had not taken him long to fall asleep. I could not help but bust a grin at that.Before we started really sleeping beside each other, I had known that Dice had insomnia. He never slept; like never. I could tell because many times while I slept, I could hear his footsteps going up and down the stairs sometimes. Other times I would wake up to him talking over the phone. Not too loud, of course, but enough for a light sleeper like me to peel my eyes open.Now, Dice was always the first person to fall asleep when he was next to me. He would watch me for minutes, then proceed to tell me just how perfect I was before closing his eyes to welcome sleep. Sometimes he would mumble the rest of the words and plant kisses on my forehead as an apology for his tiredness.I nev
DICEMy garden looked like it was about to witness a whole circus that it did not sign up for. I knew this was all Liya's idea and I should not have yelled like that but I could not help it. I was shocked for the first few seconds when I stepped into this."Well?" I went ahead to ask when Liya just opened and closed her mouth without saying anything. She finally swallowed and answered, "It's a concert I'm planning…""A what?" Did I just hear her right? What did she mean by a concert? This place was a secret location; she was not planning on bringing musicians and other performers here, was she? I was a public figure, for crying out loud. She knew that perfectly well."It's not what you think." She assured me with a nervous smile. The cook stood beside her, shaking like some goddamned leaf. I was not even raising my voice, but I supposed it was my heavy presence taking its toll on them."Then what is it? You are preparing a concert. This only means you plan on bringing in musicians an
LILIYA I wasn't even exaggerating when I said Dice looked like a snack. The man was literally smoking hot in that casual fit. It was simply loose jeans and a black T shirt but that was Dice. The man made everything look ten times better. What made it even hotter was the fact that Dice never really wore fits like this. He had attempted dressing casually a handful of times, but this was truthfully the most extreme. The fit had automatically gone from a basic 6/10 on a normal day to a whole 1000/10 all because of the fine specimen who was wearing it. With the shirt hugging his muscles and abs like second skin, he looked like a true bad boy. Without any doubt, he could actually pass for a bad boy. I made sure to take a little extra time washing up because the garden had really dirtied me up. When I was out, I smelled of cherries and vanilla. A perfect mixture if you asked me. I just loved smelling edible—it was so damn sexy. The first thing I did after getting out was to blow dry and
EIGHT MONTHS LATER Liya had a tear rolling down her right cheek as she gazed at the child in her arms. He was hers. Perfect, a bundle of joy, and most of all, utterly and undeniably hers. She thought she would burst of happiness just by watching him wiggle and whimper in her arms. Was this the love of a mother they spoke of? Just a few hours ago, she thought she would definitely give up due to the amount of pain she was passing through while pushing the baby. Dice had held her hand while she pushed, encouraging her to push for him, and she tried, heaven knew she put in her last strength to get the baby out. She did it. He was here now, even if his dad wasn't, at the moment. She already missed him, and she wanted to see how proud he was of her, because it was always there in his eyes—how much he appreciated her strength. She had missed that look in his eyes, because she had fallen unconscious immediately after the baby was all the way out. The nurse said he had stepped out sometime
LILIYADice immediately pressed his lips to mine, kissing me like I was his oxygen. I knew, because I felt that way too. I kissed him back with as much affection, pouring all my love into the single kiss.We kept going at it until I was nudged onto the bed, and I started to protest right away."Dice…""I know you're wet for me already, princess. Open those legs." He spoke hoarsely against my ear, and ever greedily, I forgot why I did not want this to happen in the first place and my legs were wide open in no time.Because I was not wearing any panties under my nightgown, his fingers met my most intimate part directly, causing him to groan."What a naughty girl…" He mulled, then slammed his middle finger inside me to the hilt. My lips parted in an ‘O’ and stayed like that as his long digit pumped in and out of me without mercy. I was already close to release, so, so close… I could already feel it…He pulled his finger out of my pussy, leaving me needy as fuck and I grabbed his hand, tr
DICEI did not have a good feeling about leaving my wife alone with her bitter sister, Inessa. It was why I rushed to finish everything I had to promptly take care of on time, and before evening, I was on my home.As I drove, I could not help but recall that the contract was ending in a matter of days. It was something that I had been trying to avoid, but it was simply impossible to do so now. It was so close, and even if Liya had not spoken about leaving me in a while, I still had my worries. I could not imagine her leaving me. I just refused to think of it.I was almost close to my house when my phone rang. It was Ethan."Hello—""Boss, Henri! Trevor, actually or whatever. He is… the other men told me that he's inside your wife's room right now and he wants to… he's about to shoot her… I'm on my way upstairs, I—"Boom!And then the line went dead. A fucking gunshot. I had just heard a gunshot, and now the line was dead? My wife… Trevor…"Ethan? Ethan?"I flung the phone to one of th
LILIYAI wanted to cry so bad, but I could not even bring myself to do it. Yet another person who did not want me. My own mother gave me away without thinking twice.I stared blankly at Inessa as she went on and on about our past, and it was only when she called my name loudly that I jerked back to present."Where did you go?" She asked me, rubbing my exposed arm in a comforting manner. I just smiled slowly, unable to quite get used to this side of my sister."I was here all along…""Was not." She retaliated, giving me the stink eye. I chuckled. "I should start the story over again. I was just telling you about the thing that led to me killing Ma's sister and you dare not pay attention?"Well, how could I not pay attention to that now?"Oh, I must have missed that. Tell me all about it."And so she did. Inessa loved to tell stories, and I already knew that asking her to repeat herself would not be much of a problem; she was chatty like that.She had killed Rosa's sister in self defens
LILIYAWe returned home that same day, late at night.Dice and I had just finished taking a steamy shower together, in his room, and I was busy drying my hair with a hairdryer while standing in front of the vanity mirror when my phone beeped, indicating a new text message.I peered into the device on the table from where I stood. It was an email. The first person who came to mind was Papa. Yes, I got work emails a lot too, but for some reason I did not think that this email was work related.I had obviously been staring at the phone for a long period of time, because Dice was suddenly in front of me with his hand waving in front of my face.I blinked twice, then looked up at him. My eyes did not stay up for long, though. They trailed down his shirtless, taut body and wandered down…"My eyes are up here, princess." He taunted and I looked away from his body with the speed of light. He quietly chuckled at this and stepped forward to tilt my chin up so I was facing him. He continued, "Or
LILIYA "She's lying, Papa. How could you believe her? She made up these evidences and you immediately believe her? She's useless and dumb! How could she know all these things all of a sudden?" Inessa yelled, and since I was done playing nice and trying to cover up her ass, I pulled out some more files and walked up to Papa, then chucked the laptop into his hands. "See for yourself, papa. Now, why would I lie about a thing like this?" I questioned and crossed my arms over my chest as I kept my eyes on Inessa. In no time, I could feel Dice's presence behind me and I naturally leaned back into him, causing him to wrap a protective arm around my waist. Rosa's eyes immediately went down to the hand wrapped around my waist and when she looked back up at me, I could not read the emotion on her face. She was not even defending her daughter, which shocked even Inessa. I could see her shock from the occasional glances she threw at her mother and squinted eyes from time to time. Rosa never loo
LILIYA"After this truth, I will leave your lives forever. I know for a fact that it would make you all super happy if I left." I spoke with a lot of bitterness in my tone. Inessa rolled her eyes at once and spat,"Why don't you just get on with whatever you want to say and stop making a party out of it. As you can see, I'm all dressed to go out." She informed me, making a gesture towards her clothing. Dressed in a skimpy dress with heels and lot of jewelries to complete the dress, Inessa really looked like she had somewhere to be. But where could she be going, dressed like that? I shrugged in my head; it was not like that was any of my business. I only smiled, though the show of emotion did not reach my eyes. Only if Inessa knew that she would not be going anywhere for days if I revealed this truth.I did not try to keep them in suspense though, as my parents… or parent and his wife, already had gigantic frowns on their faces."I'll just get on with it." I spoke, then began to take
DICEAll the air left my lungs as soon as Brandon said the words. I waited for sometime to see if he would take his words back, or laugh, anything that would show that he was not serious about this. But Brandon's expression remained the same, as serious as ever."What do you mean by this?" I asked him, my fingers rapping against the table as I struggled to remain calm. I could act like the position of a Mob Boss meant nothing to me as much as I wanted, but in truth, I knew that I totally abhorred watching Rex Corp lose more respect as the days passed, I hated watching the people complain every single day, I absolutely hated watching Rex Corp slowly crumble just because of my decision. It was not that I could choose taking back the position over wiping off Liya's family, but still.Brandon sighed, then ran his fingers through his hair and watched me for a few seconds, intently, like he was looking for something. I did not care what."I was wrong to take the position from you in the fi
DICEShe did not protest when I lifted her off the ground and carried her in my arms, bridal style, moving towards the stairs. She was still sobbing into my shirt, and I did not dare interrupt. She had every right to let all her pain out, even if I personally felt that the people she was crying over weren't worth it one bit.It was the first time I had seen her break down completely; with such a defeated look in her eyes. The results had completely broken her spirit, and while I felt very bad for making her feel like this, I also knew that this was unavoidable, and she could either choose to know this now, or later. She would still learn of it one way or the other.We arrived at my room and after unlocking the door with one of my hands which was underneath her, I walked inside. Then, I laid Liya on my bed, covering her with the duvet before going over to the side to lie beside her.We just lay beside each other—her, avoiding my eyes like they were plagues and me, unable to take my eye