LILIYA"How did you get in here?" Inker asked with a baffled look on her face. Brandon glanced back towards the door like he was surprised about how he entered too, but when he returned his gaze to us, he was wearing a sly smirk."I'm not too sure you want to know that." He said simply."No, I want to. I locked the damn door, this is creepy." Inker complained, and I just sat there with my mouth slightly hanging open."Like I said, I'm not sure you want to know. Plus, that's not what's important right now." He left the side of the couch where he had been standing to make himself comfortable on a couch. When he was comfortable enough, he continued, "You're looking for a man to rile Dice up, and since Devin is off limits, I'm the safest option. He would hurt me, same with Devin, if you had chosen him for the job..." At this point, Inker turned to give me an ‘I told you so’ look."He'd hurt us for sure, but he would not kill us. I hope.""What do you mean by that?" I spoke for the first
DICEThe entire hall had frozen in place the moment I arrived, and I could literally hear every measly heartbeat in the room. The beats were too fucking loud, and as usual I wanted to end the noise. It would be better if the heartbeats just became bloody quiet.I was boiling with rage. Out of all the men she could use to get to me, she chose Brandon. She fucking chose a man who I knew was trying to get evidence that I was about to betray the Syndicate because of her. So fucking stupid."Dice." Her voice was a breathless whisper, but it translated loud and clear enough in my ears. "What... What are you doing here?""My bar, too." I told her, trying to smirk, but failing to pull any expression whatsoever due to how angry I was."Oh." Yeah, oh. Unable to resist it any longer, I allowed my eyes to glide over her tight curves in the sinful dress she wore. She'd dressed like the devil's concubine for Brandon; she'd never done it for me. It was easy to figure out that she'd done it on purpos
LILIYAMy face was burning up and I'd already shut my legs with the speed of light. Dice looked as cold as ever, and no matter how much I looked, I could not detect a single hint of lust in his pitch black orbs. I'd really just embarrassed myself.I parted my legs again, but only a tad bit this time, just to take out the toy lodged between my legs. Dice followed my movements with an unaffected look on his face. I wanted to cry so bad. It really didn't take him much time to get over me."You can go now." I murmured, avoiding his gaze as much as I could. I'd taken the toy out already, and I held it in my hand."Keep those legs open." Dice ordered as I made to clamp my legs together."No." I retorted easily, starting to pick up some of my clothing littered across the bed. Dice started to walk towards the bed and I began to move backwards until my back came in contact with the headboard.He got on the bed too and began to walk towards the bed with predatory steps."Dice." I warned, coveri
LILIYAThree days later, I returned to the office after being away for a whole week. Dice drove me to work, even after being mad at me the past three days for withholding the plan with my mom.We talked casual things, ranging from music, to social media, to football... The list went on. I tried my hardest to sit down for the first few minutes of the ride but I gave up soon enough and knelt on the chair. By the time I glanced back at the cheeky bastard who was also my husband, he had a full-on smirk on his face, obviously enjoying the pain I was going through."It's been three days, but it still hurts so bad to sit. You're such a caveman!" I accused, jabbing his side with my elbow. He laughed easily, succeeding in getting me so mesmerized by the sound like it was the first time I'd heard it all over again. It actually wasn't, but it was one of the few times he'd let me hear it again and the sound was still the most beautiful I'd ever heard."When it comes to you, I am. But then again,
DICE Liliya left without a word to me. I’d specifically texted her to wait up so we’d go together since I was still in my ‘nice husband’ mood, but it seemed my wife had already had her fill of my forced kindness. Too bad I wasn’t ready to drop the act. It was the only way I could make her say the words to me. It was the only way I could guilt trip her into telling me the truth which was that her selfish mother and herself had planned to use my obsession with Liya to their advantage. Of course, I’d found out already, but it was cute to sit back and watch them think they were winning. Maybe they were, though. I’d gotten too caught up in my wife’s fake web of affection already, even before it got very obvious. I could not bring myself to recover from it now; having already begun to think of ways to eliminate the death list, or at least half of it. And this was all because I knew I could not bear to watch her hurt like she would when the list started to reduce. Even if her stupid famil
LILIYAI'd never been so terrified in my entire life, I kept looking over my shoulder and replaying scenes in my head where Dice would catch up with me. I didn't see any of his cars or convoy following after us, though, so I guess it's victory... for now.Sloan sat beside me in the passenger seat, his eyes closed and his breathing too damn slow. I needed to get him to a hospital, and fast. Jane followed behind us with her car with a measured speed.The last person I actually expected to see while saving Sloan in that basement was Jane. I'd seen my shock on Sloan's face as well. She'd walked inside the basement in her elegant manner and a soft, bruised look on her angelic face as she studied Sloan for a long minute. He watched her too, but his eyes were void of any emotion. He reminded me of Dice. Why were they so brutally unfeeling?Sloan had asked her to leave, and it was what caused her to actually blink. She refused bluntly, as I'd expected and proceeded to ask me how I planned to
LILIYA"He will be. He is a very strong man, because from what I've seen he's been bleeding for weeks. I'll conduct a test to see if he'll need a blood transfusion, but for now, we've placed him on a couple of painkillers and other drugs to help him recover." The doctor said and Jane spiralled to look at Dice. Before she could say anything, I asked the doctor, "Can we see him now?""Sure, but please ensure that you do not bother him too much. His health is still a little delicate." He answered. Jane who had turned to listen to the doctor, spun back around to face Dice again."Weeks? Really? He'd just been stabbed!" She yelled at him. The doctor stared at us in confusion for a while, but went on his way as soon as Dice glared at him."And who stabbed him?" Dice queried. She opened her mouth, but no words came out."Jane, there's no need to start casting blames. We just have to hope for the best right now. At least, the doctor has assured us that he'll be fine."She face-palmed herself
LILIYAOn our way home, Dice got a call and he had to leave the car to another one, so I was left alone. I ordered the driver to take me back to the hospital, but he paid no attention to me. Dice had ordered that the driver must go back to the mansion, which was the reason for the ignorance.Usually, Nate was the one who stayed back when Dice had somewhere to go, but today Ethan took his place. I decided to converse with Ethan anyways.“Ethan?” I called out quietly, because he was sitting just beside me. He turned to me with his signature blank expression on his face. I continued, “Is Nate okay?”“Yes.” He said simply.“Why doesn’t he want to be around me?” I asked the guard again. He looked beyond annoyed now, but since he was obligated to respect and obey me, he answered,“How do you mean, ma’am?” He asked. I huffed.“Stop acting like you do not know what I mean, and please do not refer to me as ‘ma’am’, it makes me feel old.” I complained. Ethan exhaled sharply. It looked like he’d
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