Laura:I sat alone in my room. It was dark and I had a bottle of wine open in front of me.It was a quiet afternoon. I swirled my drink and sighed loudly. Could today be any worse?I sighed even louder and took a sip of my drink.“Damn you, Dante!"I cursed him. I hated that man with passion and I wanted him to disappear from the face of the earth.I closed my eyes and the ordeal I went through at the hospital played back again in my mind. That fool had embarrassed me.I took another sip and a deep breath escaped my lips.Since he banished me from his home, I have been hiding out in my home. My father had called me but I had ignored all of his texts and calls.Pearl had so been bothering me but I had ignored her as well. Unlike her shameless brother, she was kind-hearted and on my side.I took another sip and the warmth of the liquid sok began to set in. It was about time.If it hadn't been for her and her baseless loyalty, I wouldn't have been able to get this far with my plan.I sig
Laura:The raw excitement in his eyes set my body ablaze. What was he saying?What was I saying?Screw this! I was overthinking all of it. I had always wanted to try this out and here I was having second thoughts when my mate asked me to do it.“Laura?"“Yes. I want to play…"My face erupted in a burst of fiery colors. I was terribly flushed. I had never expected this to happen to me. I had to be the luckiest girl in the world.“You will call me Sir, from here on out."He stroked my chin and gripped my hair a little harder.“Do I make myself clear?"I gulped slightly.“Yes Sir."He smiled and kissed me tenderly.“Good girl. Now how about you put on something that will please me."He got off of me and I hurriedly got out and ran to my closet. My legs were trembling and my juices were gushing out of me. If I knew that it was going to come to this, I would have prepared properly for the occasion.I grabbed the sexiest lingerie that I owned and dashed into the bathroom to change. I heard
Mystery POVI sat in a restaurant and ordered the lunch menu.My mind was filled with so much. Who knew that all these bastards were cheating on themselves with each other?I chuckled to myself. It was a laughable site Dante was with Erica and Lorenzo was fucking their maid. I watched when Lorenzo proposed to Erica. A flimsy proposal.I was the waiter that day and I had already poisoned his glass of water but I decided to wait and enjoy the show. Maybe this would lead somewhere.I smiled to myself. It eventually did but now that bastard was fucking Laura.I was at her house earlier and the ruckus that came from her room could be heard from miles away.“Sorry sir, your order will take a while to get ready. We are so sorry for the wait."The beautiful waiter walked up to me and apologized. I dismissed her with a smile and leaned back in my chair.It was a beautiful pack indeed. Too bad that we were going to bring it to rubble. I had seemed to have taken quite a liking to the friendly at
Dante: Erica lay down beside me and she that her back to me. I tried to touch her but she shrugged me away. "Erica?" I touched her again but her response was still the same. Soon I heard sobbing and her body began to tremble. "Erica, please talk to me." She stopped crying for a moment and turned to me. Her eyes were red and the tears made her look even worse. "You shouldn't have brought me here. You should have let me leave your office when I had the chance." I looked at her in disbelief. After everything that he had together, she was still mad at me? "What are talking about?" "You know very well what I am talking about! You should have let me go. Why can't you let me go?! Why do you keep trapping me in this endless loop of emotions? I don't want to be like this anymore!" I looked at her stunned. After all the sex we had, she still spoke to me like this? "What is your problem? What can I do to show you that I love you?" "Nothing, Dante. The time to show me that you loved m
Erica:It seemed like it was fate. As soon as I left the mansion, a taxi drove by and I flagged him down.He stopped right in front of me and I hurriedly got in.“Elite Avenue."He gave a single nod and sped away.The light zooming of the taxi was enough to cover the silent tears that I cried on the way. My eyes stung and my body felt irritated and angry and loved at the same time.I didn't understand the cocktail of emotions that I was feeling. I felt miserable inside.More tears streamed down my face. If anything, I was thankful that they didn't choke me when I spoke to the driver.Maybe they did, but I didn't notice or he didn't care.I sat there in silent sorrow. The sobbing was minimal but the tears were still hot and bountiful.I looked out of the window, not looking at anything in particular. Building passed but I didn't care.Why should I care when I was getting married to Lorenzo and not Dante? Why did I have to be put in this situation? What had I done to deserve this?A man
Erica:"Ma'am? Ma'am? Are you awake? Can you hear me?"My eyes fluttered open and I looked around me. The bright light bleached my irises and I squinted as I tried to adjust to the light."Ma'am? Ma'am?"I stood up in alarm but thousands of hands grabbed me and urged me to lay back down. My eyes looked around in shock.I could see a sea of blue with face masks and blue tunics"You have to take it easy, Ma'am. You are in the hospital. You were shot in the leg and have glass injuries on your legs and feet. How do you feel?"It was only then that the events of the past few hours came rolling back into my head. I gasped, my heart nearly jumped out of my chest and I heard the ECG give an abnormal beep.The assassin. I was shot. I was more than certain that the bullets were meant for me. Someone wanted dead."The emergency team found this on the site of the crash."They handed me my bag and I nodded that it belonged to me."Alright. We need to call someone to let them know that...""No!"Th
Erica:The next day came so fast. I could barely get a wink of sleep. I was paranoid and full of fear that the assassin might track me and kill me in my sleep. I had no doubt that it was Hazan who tried to kill me, or at least, he had sent one of his men to finish me off.Dr. Blake had come in every hour or so to check on me and even took a night shift to watch me.I was more than grateful. I needed a friendly face around. A friend l face that didn't belong to Lorenzo or Dante or Javier.Javier!I hadn't even given the explosive revelation of Clarissa being his mate much thought. The shock from Lorenzo's proposal still clung to me. I hadn't been able to think about much–except Dante–ever since.I felt my anger for him rekindle.Deep down I could feel seething hatred for him. I wanted to rip out his heart.How could he lie to me like that?Wait. Did he lie to me?I searched my memory for something, anything that he might have said about a mate but I couldn't find anything.It was all f
Erica:I still didn't sleep as so I got home or at night either. The pain in my leg was ebbing away but my heart and mind were still very troubled.The kids were also swarming me and looking at me with worried stares. Elma had her arm around my neck and they all insisted that they slept with me in bed that night.It was a tight squeeze but I was happy to have them around me.The next morning, Lorenzo came in to check on me. His hair was mussed and his brown eyes had a piercing depth to them.I looked at his hand and there was a tray of steaming hot bacon and eggs that were slightly burnt at the edges.I smiled. It was the thought that counted, wasn't it?"I'm sorry that breakfast wasn't perfect. I left them on the stove to answer a business call."He gave me a sweet smile and placed it on my lap. The kids were still clinging tightly to me and I saw Elma give Lorenzo a poisonous stare.I was taken aback. What was wrong with her?Lorenzo caught her eye and he cleared his throat loudly a