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
DICEDevin had already handled the issue before I could get to the venue. One of the many reasons he was such an efficient right hand. When one of my men—a spy, had brought up the news about one of our business partners planning to elope, I had immediately changed cars to meet up with the fucker before he succeeded with his plan.This man was owing me a shitload of money and he thought he would be able to run away with it. He thought wrong, he should've known I have eyes everywhere. I was able to get his exact location and my plan was to shoot him on sight at first, but after I'd cooled down a little, I realized I'd have to get my money first.Luckily for me, Devin had done the necessary before ending the mother fucker's life. I was definitely raising his salary in the company, even if I knew he didn't really need it. Now, I had to go handle a certain temptress back at home.As my car entered the compound, I immediately caught sight of a strange car in front of my gate. Who the fuck h
DICEI did not stop at that. Before Henri could get up on his feet again, I went to him and slammed my boots against his head. He held his hands up to protect his face, and luckily for him, I wasn't in the mood to ruin his parade or I would have ripped those hands off his face and destroyed the skin.I blamed the sudden softness on my side, on the scent of the waffles, tarts and cake they'd been baking. The room smelt so sweet that it was possible I could have diabetes already without even tasting anything. The floor was stained with spills of flour and other ingredients, so as the tables and countertops.This place hardly looked like a place where these three had been mourning the dead. In fact, one would think Cecilia had just given birth and they were celebrating the child's arrival."Dice, please! Please, have some respect for the dead at least!" Liya suddenly yelled from behind me.I spiralled sharply, just to yell back, "My house is not a memorial ground!" "We didn't say it was
LILIYAI was so angry at Dice. So, so angry that I knew I wasn't supposed to be in his room, watching as his doctor tended to his injuries. Doctor Sam had given him a sedative to keep him out as he worked on treating the wound.Devin had called and told me he was outside the country at the moment but he would try to return as soon as possible since he would have to take over most of the activities at Rex Corp for the meantime.Henri had narrowly escaped death. Miraculously, a mattress lay on the back of a truck, by the side of the window. When he jumped, he'd landed safely on the mattress.Henri had looked down a couple of times before jumping. This meant that he already knew about the mattress being there, yet continued to act scared for pity. I wished I had been strong enough to not beg Devin to spare his life.Over the phone, I'd pleaded with Devin for over ten minutes to spare Henri's life. No matter what he'd done, I couldn't imagine someone dying when I knew a way to prevent it.
LILIYADice kept looking at me like he could not believe what he was hearing. Though it was so cute to see him caught off guard, I still wanted to hear what he thought about what I’d just said."Dice… say something." I pleaded with a pouty tone. He watched me some more, before finally responding, "I should be immune to your antics by now, but you make it so hard to do the right thing.""Believing me is the right thing." I countered. Dice raised his hand to caress the side of my face and I leaned into his touch, as always."I hope it is, princess, I have no idea when I became so damn soft around you, but if you take my trust for granted again…" He trailed off and I shook my head."I won’t. I'm willing to see where this goes." I assured him, but he kept looking at me like he was still doubting my words. He sighed after a while, then wrapped his hand around my neck and pulled my face to his. Our lips joined in a slow, perfect kiss, and it was different from every other kiss we’ve ever s
DICEA tap on my right arm alerted me. I wasn't truly sleeping, but I let a couple of seconds pass before peeling my eyes open. Liya smiled at me.I'd expected a handful of things when I decided to look at Liya, but a smile had not been one of them. She'd read the message. I knew that because when I secretly spied at her while lying down, I'd seen her reading through my phone with a downcast expression on her face. So why the hell was she standing at a spot beside my bed with a gigantic smile on her face?"Sorry for interrupting your sleep." She started. Thank you, but I have insomnia, so you did not really interrupt anything. Of course, I did not tell her that. I only watched her as she continued, "Your breakfast is here, and I thought you should eat first before taking your meds."She still had that creepy smile on her face; it was rubbing off the wrong way. I decided to come out of my stunned state, and pulled myself up, moving back to lean against the headboard."Thank you." I mut
LILIYAI blinked twice. Was he for real right now, or was he just trying to deceive me?"What do you mean you’re canceling the death list, Dice? Be for real, right now." I went to lie beside him on the bed, my eyes wide as I looked up at him. His eyes travelled straight to my lips, and remained there. I smacked his chest."Focus, please!""Ow!" He whined at the same time, then glared playfully at me. I waited, until he pulled me closer to him, grunting in discomfort as he did. I put extra effort into avoiding his injured leg as I lay in his body."I'll look for other ways to take out my revenge on you, don’t think you've completely disarmed me. But I would not be killing your family. I'll make sure to destroy that list." He spoke, facing the ceiling. My brows creased."You sound like the list is not in your control or something." I accused him while snuggling closer to him, so I could properly bask in his strong, masculine scent.He sighed, then tilted his head to the side to look me
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