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“No, of course not.” He subtly points to the driver with his chin.I glance up at the driver as his eyes flick up to us in the rear view mirror.Shit. I turn and look out the window in annoyance. You can’t even trust a fucking cab driver. The trip is long, over an hour, but I don’t mind. I’m hanging out the window like a dog, lapping up the scenery. The place is colourful and alive… so different to anywhere I have ever been before.With every mile farther away from the ship we get, I feel a little more of my positive self return.I’m doing this.I’m really doing this. I have a fake passport, the means to have a lot of money and possibility to go anywhere I want in the world unencumbered.I have never felt so free and I am finding it hard to wipe the stupid grin from my face. As if reading my mind, Stace is looking over at me smiling, too.Can he feel how happy I am?Finally, after what seems like forever, we arrive and the cab comes to a halt. I peer out of the car as my bravery insta
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What if he gets into trouble because of me?What if they kill him?Oh no, my mind starts to race. What if they do kill him? What if they torture him to death and think that he was in on this with me? No, they wouldn’t. He would blame Stucco, that’s what I would do. Someone was already stealing from the ship. The key went missing remember.Fuck.Should I fess up?No. Don’t be stupid.The air in the room changes and I feel panicky and sick.I look over at his broad back as he stares down at the street lost in his own world. What is he thinking about?Is he onto me?I don’t want him to take me shopping now. I want to get as far away from him as possible. I feel guilty. I know he is feeling somewhat guilty for letting them take me, throwing money at me and all. What if he knows I took it and he is setting a trap to see if I will really go through with it?Oh, I hate this. I am not cut out to be a fucking criminal.My thoughts are broken by his deep, husky voice. “Come on then.” He moves t
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“Ah, yes, ship.” I roll my eyes.“No. Why would I tell them anything personal about me? They are not my friends.”I smile as a warm, fuzzy feeling runs through me. “Am I your friend?”He smiles and puts his arm around my shoulder. “I would like to think so.” He pulls me toward him and gently kisses my temple. What a sweet gesture. He instantly goes back to looking at his dresses and I stand and watch him with my mind going crazy.I don’t want him to go.I want him to stay with me and be my friend. My gorgeous, beautiful, fuckable friend.He is the first person who I could tell about my past and now he is telling me his.We buy two of the dresses and a pair of heels before we head back to the hotel. Silence has fallen between us as we walk hand in hand, and I wish I could act happy and joyful, but the fact is I really don’t want to say goodbye to him.This is it. I will never see him again. We get to the room and I open the door. We walk in and throw all of the bags on the floor. I’m n
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Istareat him as a clusterfuck of emotions whirl around me like a tornado.“Asking my dad if you can take me on a date is your lifeline?” I whisper.“Taking you on a normal date is,” he answers as his eyes search mine. He’s genuinely nervous. Maybe he thinks I’m going to say no.“Seven sounds wonderful.”He smiles. “I’m staying downstairs on the next level.”I smile. He even booked a room for himself.He stands awkwardly in front of me. “I will…” He pauses as if not knowing what to say next. “I will see you at seven then?”I nod through my smirk. He turns and walks up the hall and I watch him. The elevator doors open and he disappears, looking very pleased with himself.Holy shit!I jump up and down on the spot. He asked me on a date, he asked me on a date. I run into my room and punch the air. Oh my God, what am I going to wear?I have to look good.Irresistibly good.I open the closet and find the two date dresses that we bought today. Damn it… I wasn’t even paying attention to the
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“My safety isn’t your concern, but thank you.” I sip my champagne. “This is so good.” I hold my glass up to him.“Hmm, yes it is,” he replies as he eyes the bubbling liquid in his glass.“So you bought a suit for me?” I smirk.He smiles bashfully. “I did.”Our eyes are locked on each other. “It looks really good,” I whisper.“I had to try and match my beautiful date. I had an advantage. I already knew what she was wearing.”His beautiful date.Oh, my.“Well, you haven’t had a date in six years.” I smirk cheekily.He laughs. “You caught that, did you?”I smile. “Yes, I caught that.” I take a sip. “Why haven’t you taken a woman on a date for six years?”He shrugs and rearranges his napkin on his lap. “I don’t know. Things haven’t gone as planned, I suppose.”“What were the plans?”He licks the champagne from his bottom lip and I feel my insides clench. “I just…” He hesitates as he thinks. “I just always imagined I would meet the right person and everything else would fall into place.”“
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He shrugs. “I did that for about twelve months and it was the perfect job. I worked three days a week with no hassles.”I frown, feeling like this story isn’t adding up.“I got to know the guy I was working for and he seemed alright. Anyway, one day I was waiting at the helipad for him to arrive in his limo and I was approached by another man. His private pilot had recently become ill and he needed someone he could trust to take him to his ship urgently.”I sit back in my seat, disturbed.“He offered me fifty thousand dollars.”I frown. “F-for one trip?” I stammer.He nods.“So you did it.”He nods. “I was getting three grand a trip from the other guy.”My heart sinks.He shakes his head in disgust in himself. “I knew for him to offer me that kind of money he had to be into some pretty heavy stuff.” He pauses.“But you did it anyway.”He nods. “I was saving for a house and that would be the final deposit that I needed.”I smile in surprise. “You own a house?”“Yes.”“Where?”“Manhatta
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“Oh, let me speak to her,” his mom pleads.He laughs out loud and I know it’s because we are drinking this champagne like water. “No way, you will scare her off.” He laughs.“Oh, Stace.”I hold my hand out for the phone and he shakes his head. “No,” he mouths.I open and close my hand out for the phone.He laughs and shakes his head again.I stand and walk around to his side of the table and snatch the phone from him.“Hello.” I smile nervously as I fall back into my seat.“Hello, dear. You are out with my Stace?” Her voice is warm and loving. Oh, she sounds so nice.“Yes.” I smile. “I’m a lucky girl.”This time it’s him who smiles goofily.“Is he okay? I worry about him so much.”I fake a smile as my heart drops. She has good reason to worry. He has gotten himself in the shit up to his eyeballs.“He is wonderful.” I smile. He picks up my hand and kisses the back of it.Oh God, he is just so…“Please look out for him, dear.”Stace rolls his eyes and holds his hand out for the phone.I
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The one that makes me think of youThat’s all you gotta do.We sway to the music and she smiles up at me. “Look at you, dancing all date-like.”I shake my head with a grin and twirl her away from me violently and she laughs out loud.“Stop talking, you’re distracting my moves,” I reply as I twirl her again.We come close again and she looks lovingly up at me.“What is this weird, hippy song?” I ask.“I don’t know, but it’s my new favorite.” She smiles innocently.I stare down at her and so many emotions run through me, but the overwhelming one is regret.Regret for what I did to her.Regret for how we met.Regret that this feeling she gives me can’t go on forever.She starts to sing up at me and I know it’s the champagne singing, but it just may be the most perfect thing I have ever heard.If only.Cut it out. I have to get out of this sappy mood. This isn’t me. This isn’t who I am. I don’t do sappy.I twirl her violently again and she laughs out loud.I will remember this, dancing to
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I bought him that black Ferrari that he loved so much. Funnily enough, he hardly ever drives it. It’s a trophy car and a waste of money, if I’m totally honest. Stace has started a development company. If he had his time again, he would have gone back into The Marines, but now that he has a criminal record, that wasn’t an option. He’s doing well and has four men working for him. Sometimes he flies a helicopter for fun on the weekend if he has the time.Like a whirlwind, they come through the kitchen back door. Seb is bouncing his basketball and Stace is carrying groceries in bags that they have just bought.“Dada!” Molly screams in excitement and he laughs and scoops her up and spins her around in excitement.The ball bounces continually and I shake my head. What is it about ball bouncing that drives me so mad? “Stop bouncing that ball, please, Seb,” I call.“Yeah, okay,” he replies from the lounge room as he turns on the television.Stace puts Molly down and she runs off to play with
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I open the blue, arch-shaped door and we walk inside. The flooring is tiled in all different shades of green in big diamond shapes, and the walls are a warm terracotta colour. It is the epitome of South America and exactly why I wanted this house when I first looked at it.It’s warm, earthy, and inviting.“This is the lounge room.” I gesture to the lounge room and we walk through the hallway. “This is the kitchen.”He looks around the timber kitchen and smiles. “Where is the laundry?” he asks.“Oh, through here.” I walk through the hallway and show him the laundry and he looks around. His dark eyes come back to my face.“Where is our bedroom?”Nerves flutter through me. It’s been a long time. “Upstairs,” I whisper.He takes me by my hand, leads me back to the staircase, and we continue upstairs.“Last door on the right,” I murmur.He puts the puppy down and walks me up the hall to our bedroom. His eyes scan the space.There’s a large bed with white linen and timber furnishings. It’s s
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Stace nods as he drags me to my feet, his hand holding my jaw the way he wants me and his tongue caressing my lips.Oh God, I’ve missed this.“We need to go home,” he whispers.“Diamonds.” I smile as I wrap my arms around his broad muscular shoulders. He’s much bigger than he was before.He walks me backwards until I am up against the wall, his hands on my face, his hard length up against my stomach. “I couldn’t care less about the diamonds,” he breathes into my mouth. “It’s you that I want.”His mouth drops to my neck and I close my eyes in pleasure as his whiskers dust my skin. We kiss again and he’s right, we really do need to get home. I could come on the spot.“Diamonds and home,” I breathe.He bends and picks up our new family member and we walk into the office and up to reception.“We are here to empty our deposit box,” he says. He hands over his identification and I watch him. He’s different. Harder, yet softer, if that makes sense. His body has changed from all of his weight
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“I don’t want you to deal with this alone.”“I have been alone my whole life.”“Shelly,” he whispers sadly. “I fucked up, but I can fix it.”“It’s broken for good, Todd,” I whisper. “We can’t be fixed.”A knock bangs at the door. “Hello, Shelly. My name is Erica and I am a psychologist. We had an appointment booked for this morning.”Grateful for the interruption, I smile. “Yes, of course. Come in, please.”I’ve been in rehab for two weeks. It’s been six weeks since I was shot. I finally got the message through to Todd and he stopped coming to see me, although he still rings me every morning and night. The psychologist has diagnosed me with Stockholm syndrome, and so, for now, I am just playing along and agreeing with themSix long weeks since I lost the other half of me.Does he think about me all the time, like I do him? Sometimes I wake up and I feel like I won’t be able to survive another hour without him.Are they right?Am I crazy?It doesn’t really matter anymore, I suppose, an
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I am woken up by Todd. “Good morning, Shelly.” He smiles broadly.“Hi.”“You look better today. How are you feeling?”“Fine.”I stare at him for a moment. I have to know. “What happened to the man?”He frowns. “That animal has been charged with your kidnapping and rape. He has been deported to Columbia for trial.”My face falls.“I hope they give him the death sentence.”“He didn’t rape me.”“Yes, yes, he did. His semen was found in a rape kit test carried out on you. DNA testing has come through.”“It was consensual,” I snap.His face falls. “You don’t know what you are saying, angel.”“Yes, I do.”“No, you don’t. You have been kidnapped and beaten into submission by that freak.”“His name is Stace,” I snap. “Don’t speak about him like that.”His eyes meet mine.“I’m in love with him,” I whisper.He screws up his face. “You’re not in love with him. He has brainwashed you. You are traumatized.”“I’m not in love with you.”“Yes, you are,” he commands. “You have been through a lot.”“I’
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A siren rings out from outside, and suddenly, after a commotion, ten policemen come storming through the doors in full swat gear.They run to me. “Roshelle.” The policeman unties me. “Are you okay?” He lifts his face to meet mine. “What happened?”“A man came in and shot him,” I whisper.“What man?” the policeman asks.“He left in a car,” I whisper as my eyes find Stace.The hit men came through.I need to cover for them because they just saved our lives.Iinhale deeplyas I try to get comfortable. I’m half asleep, groggy, and incoherent.“Shelly,” a familiar voice whispers.I frown in the semi-lit room. Who is that?“Shelly,” the voice whispers again. “Come back to me.”I frown as I drag my eyes open and the pain in my leg throbs. It’s semi-dark, dusk, maybe. I glance around at my surroundings. I’m in a hospital room.What? Where am I?“Shelly. Oh my God. I thought I was going to lose you,” he whispers as he drops his head to rest on the bed.I frown. What the hell? “Where?” I stop
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Antonio looks out into the darkness of the factory and I can see his evil mind ticking.They know I’m telling the truth… in a roundabout way.“That’s why I went crazy on the day you were supposed to arrive. I knew that they were going to blame him for their crime.” I shake my head as I try to talk my way out of this. “I knew he had literally hours to live.”“He still does.” My father sneers.“He didn’t do anything wrong. If anything, you owe him. He saved me from your animals. He’s going to jail for a very long time. Leave him out of this,” I plead.Antonio glares into space. “Bring Stucco to me.” He growls.“He’s minutes away,” one of the other men replies. “He just texted through.”Antonio and my father’s eyes meet again. I fiddle with the rope tying my hands behind my back as I try to subtly break free.“Walk the perimeter.” Antonio growls. Two men immediately walk outside to check our surroundings. He dials a number on his cell phone and he waits for an answer.“Hello.”He listens
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“I want you to marry Antonio.”My eyes hold his. I need to distract him long enough for her to run. “Why?” I ask.He starts to pace again as he puts his hand behind his back. “I told you, I’m dying.”Can’t come soon enough.My eyes turn to the men around me. Six in total. Four I was in the car with, and then the two guards with guns. His bodyguards.I start to slowly look around for the exits. “Why do you need me?” I ask.“I want to hand what I have worked so hard for down to my blood son.”“He doesn’t want your filthy money.”His dark eyes hold mine, and he steps forward toward me. The fear rises in my throat. No matter how much training I have done, nothing can cure the fear I have of this monster.“Your son will take over the family business.”“I don’t have a son.”“Yet.” He smiles darkly. “But you will.”I shake my head. “I would rather die than hand a child to you.”He smiles. “And you will as soon as I get my child.”Fear starts to close my throat. “You’re pathetic, can you hear
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My blood starts to simmer, and with renewed fury I stand and turn the handle to get back out onto the floor.Locked.Fuck it.I stare at it for a moment, knowing I have to go to the bottom to get out. My adrenaline starts to pump. I am going to have one of two welcoming parties.The police or Vikinos’ men.I want the men. I want my revenge and I’m going to fucking get it.I’m furious. I glance at the time on my phone. The police should be here within fifteen minutes to pick Rosh up, hopefully sooner, and then I can start my attack.With Rosh safe and out of harm’s way, I can go back to the original plan. I start to jog down the steps. We are on the tenth floor, so it is a fair way down. Two flights down I hear a noise in the level underneath me and I stop on the step. I peer over the handrail as I try to see what’s coming up the stairs.Bang, bang. Clatter.I frown. What is that? I lean over the rail again and see a maintenance man cleaning the rail and I pick up the pace. I jog down
