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
LILIYAFour weeks had passed since the incident. Dice was now using crutches, after using a wheelchair for the first few weeks. Sometimes, he would refuse his crutches and limp around. It was hard getting Dice to choose his well-being over his big ego.In these past weeks, he's been pampering me so much, treating me like a literal Queen, and tries everything in his power to make me miss work at least two times every week. As days passed by, he has been getting more and more impatient about having me. He hated his injured leg so much now, and sometimes would try to convince me that it worked well enough to serve us during intercourse. No matter how horny I felt, I always put his comfort before me. Yeah, lately, I was beginning to notice that sometimes, I put Dice's happiness first before mine. I knew I was setting a trap for myself, a dangerous one at that, but I just allowed myself to live in the moment a little, for the mean time.As for our sex life, we settled for every other thin
LILIYAWhile in my car, I kept getting texts from my obsessed husband and I could not stop smiling. He texted me about everything and anything; most were sexual, and some others talked about how 'ethereal' my beauty was—how I should never hide my freckles anymore, while the rest wished me good luck on my presentation.Sometimes, it baffled me how much Dice had changed towards me. He was still a cold, emotionless man, but his human side; the side that showed that he actually had emotions was laid bare for me to see.Greta was at the driver's seat today, so I decided to ask her a few questions, starting with, "Have you ever fallen in love, Greta?"She blushed, and my eyes widened a bit in surprise. I'd never thought I would be alive to witness the day Greta got flustered. So that meant she'd been in love before, right? "Um... Not really. But I've liked someone a bit more than how friends should like each other. I think that's called a crush. Actually, I'm incapable of loving." She anno
LILIYA"Henri, please don't do this." I was leaning against the door now, refusing to tear up or show any sign of weakness to this man. It was like all my walls came back up when Dice wasn't in the vicinity. With him, I got to cry and show all my emotions without hesitation, but with other people, I had to be the perfect mafia princess.How had I made the mistake of thinking that I'd ever loved Henri?"That's not what I want to hear. Are you going to open your legs willingly, or would I have to force them open, sweets?" He was getting impatient now, I could hear it from the tone of his voice.I had picked up my phone sometime into our conversation, then began to discreetly try to put on the device. If I wanted to get out of here in one piece, I had to get some help, in any way possible. I distracted him from my actions by saying, "Giving myself to you is not the problem, Henri. The problem is Dice. He'll kill you if he finds out about this.""Do you think I give a shit about that mis
DICE I gathered my wife in my arms, still so fucking confused about the next action to take. I'd meant to give her to one of my men to drop off in my car, but when she relaxed into me like that, I was a goner. She'd fallen unconscious the minute I held her. I started towards the exit, reminding myself that I'd come back to this scene and disconnect Henri's head from the rest of his body myself. The numerous journalists automatically gave way when I reached the door leading to the exit, as usual. I never needed a bodyguard to make them move when I was in this kind of mood. As I lay her inside the backseat, I reached out and swiped a finger under her eyes, cleaning off the tears that had escaped. When I got Liya's call earlier, I was about to tease her right away, but then I heard her heavy breathing from the other end and I kept my mouth shut immediately. The minute I heard her ex's voice, I was on my feet. I'd been on my way to a meeting in another state, which was why I had sent
LILIYA Dice… agreed!As it turned out, I had underestimated how much Dice cared for me. After the whole talk, he stood up and went to get some food for me, then when he returned, he asked me which country I would love to visit on our vacation. I kissed him until we both ran of breath.Why I suddenly wanted to travel? I had woken up next to Dice and after staring at his handsome face for minutes while fighting the urge to throw up in remembrance of the events that happened earlier, I reached for my phone to distract myself with the internet. Surely, tongues had already began to wag, following what had happened. Thankfully, someone had retrieved the phone for me from the scum of my ex. The first thing I saw when I switched on the phone was the text message from the unknown number, which I had earlier ignored.UNKNOWN NUMBER: You should look before leaping, beautiful. Today, the game officially begins. If you do not go down today, I'll keep chasing you into your grave until I'm success
LILIYAI went back to my seat in the plane with Dice's last statement replaying over and over in my head. What did he mean I was stuck with him? True, I had no idea of when this whole thing between us was going to end,but I had not really been looking forward to being stuck with Dice. I still wanted a normal life, one which I knew Dice could not give to me."You do not want to be stuck with me, right? You look like this is the scariest thing I've ever said to you." He spoke all of a sudden, pulling me out of my thoughts. I had not expected the statement, so I jerked forward a little in my seat. He just watched me intently, awaiting my answer.I swallowed before saying, "It's not that I do not want you in my life, Dice... I just think you'd be bored of me sooner than you think." He stared at me with a blank look on his eyes for sometime, then he looked away without saying anything. I decided not to say anything too, because I did not want to worsen things. I had always looked forward
DICEI locked myself in the office of my penthouse for one full hour, my mind filled with thoughts of her. When would she ever leave my head? My best bet was probably never.I pretended to work, typing away at my laptop in a frantic mode and even if the words made sense, I knew I could do better.Slamming my laptop close, I leaned back against the chair, my fingers running over my stubble. Telling her about the duration of the contract was a stupid mistake. Now she would think she had a choice—that she could leave me. Liya would never be free of me.Especially not now, when I had sacrificed so much. I needed her by my side when I finally lost everything my father worked hard for while trying to save her family.Yes, if I was intent on canceling the death list, I would have to step down, for going against my father's wishes. But my last words as their leader would stand. They would not hurt Liya's family, but at the expense of my position as a Mob Boss. There.I laughed mirthlessly, lo
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