POV: Raphael She got into the car reluctantly, banging the door in anger. I feel like reaching out to her and strangling her. I’ve really been with strange guys in the past, I’ve dealt with my cousins, my uncles, and some of the meanest guys in this city. But none come close to Victoria, she is so tough to deal with. She drives me crazy with her actions, she makes me want to yell and thrash everything around me in anger. You won’t believe that she made me tell before she got into the fucking car. And when she finally got in, she started whining about my lack of empathy, giving me a silly attitude.She lost a bit of the attitude when we spotted the white SUV on our way out of there. I called my buddy at the prescient and asked him to keep the red light on that lane for twenty minutes. They are Dominic's boys and I know they will not turn back without getting her. He is such a crazy bastard, his boys would rather die trying than go back to him with excuses. When I saw them going in a
POV: Raphael Only a fool dares to steal from Dominic Morrell. I took a huge risk when I double-crossed him. It was just a business deal that was supposed to stop the trafficking of underage girls in the city. At that time, I thought I was doing the right thing, I was hell-bent on making this city better and I made such a stupid move that put me in such a terrible situation.You see, two years ago, when my family thought I was out of town studying to be the businessman they wanted me to be. I was actually here in this city, building my business network, and making my position known in the city. I made friends with some guys in the Mafia, and I got close to cartel rings, keeping my enemies closer like they say.I did all this to gain relevance in the city and know my way around. I made allies and friends in a few months, and I had one friend who helped me get around easily. His name was the one person I could trust, the one person who saw through my disguise before anyone else. His na
POV: Claire “Where are we going, Kyle, what do you have in mind?” I asked him as he sped along the busy road, driving so fast.“slow down, Kyle!Where are we going?” I asked him again, my eyes taking in the firm look on his face. We have been driving for over one hour and it’s beginning to look as if he doesn’t have any plans to check into a hotel or get a short-term apartment. He kept his eyes fixed on the road, ignoring me. “Slow down, Kyle!You’ll get us both killed!You can end your life if you have a death wish, but don’t fucking take me you!Slow this fucking car or pull over and let me out of here!” I scolded him furiously, earning a chuckle.“I didn’t force you to come with me, Claire. You chose to be here, you insisted on being here. So shut the fuck up and let me think!” he yelled back at me, sounding so mean and angry. “What did I do?” I thought within me. Why is he so angry with me? If he didn’t want me here, he could have just said so. Why is he being mean to me? I h
POV: Claire“Where the fuck do you think you are going?” he asked me fiercely, pushing me roughly on the wall repeatedly, trying to hurt me. “What the hell is wrong with you, What has come over you, Kyle!Stop it!You are hurting me!Stop it!” I yelled at him, but he wouldn’t let me go. He kept hitting me on the wall, making me scream in pain. The doorman and valet intervened and pushed him away from me. They pushed him so hard that he fell on his butt and yelped furiously. He was back on his feet the next second and he tried to attack them but they stood up to him and forced him to back up.“You are not going anywhere Claire, we are going to face this together because this is all your fault. I wouldn’t be in this pathetic situation if I wasn’t dating a fucking child who can not do anything without her sister. You caused this Claire, and you must fix it!” he yelled at me, pacing the walkway like a lunatic.“Are you fucking insane!” I screamed at him, shaking my head to clear my thoug
POV: Claire The more I waited, the more time passed, and the more frightened I became. I could feel my heart beating in my chest, it felt as if it would jump out of my chest any second. I clutched my chest, trying to hold my heart in. Kyle kept talking to the guys holding him, trying to bargain for his freedom. He sounded so dumb and stupid, I wonder how never saw this side of him before. Like, how the hell does he expect them to flip on their boss because of him?It’s like asking them to commit suicide for him and that is so dumb and stupid. He kept trying to bribe them with many things, he even offered them my sister's Diamond necklace, telling them about my sister's rich fiance and how he could get them more Diamonds if they helped him escape alive.“Shut the fuck up, dummy!If you think they would flip on their boss for a low life like you, then you are even more stupid than I thought. They are not like you, they don’t step on everybody’s toes and they don’t screw everyone over f
POV: Claire The moment he asked me that, my eyes involuntarily moved to the guy who had hit me and broken my lips. Before I could say that he was the one that hurt me, we all heard the sound of his gun going off and the next thing we heard was the scream of the guy I was lolling at. He had shot him in the ear, taking off one of his ears without blinking his eyes.“Nobody hurts her without my permission!She is my property and she is under my care until I decide whether I’ll keep her or not.He asked his boys to lock Kyle in the dungeon and get a room for me until he was back from a very important meeting.He took off his apron, grabbed his keys, and went out the front door, leaving me with these thugs who now hate me more than they hate Kyle.“You see,This is what I was trying to tell you all before. She is a witch and a seductress. She has a way of making you fall for her when you don’t want to. She tricks and manipulates you into thinking that you are special and that she desires
POV: Claire “Don’t you worry your pretty head about me, I have witness that would back me up when I tell him that you threw yourself at me and begged me to fuck you. It’s so easy to bitch, he would never doubt me because I’ve worked with him for almost six years now. And you?You are just the whore that came in a few hours ago. Imagine how he would feel when he finds out that you tried to play him. He will find out how cheap you are and you will face the same sentence as your boyfriend. I’ll tell him you threw yourself at me and begged me to fuck you and set you free.” He laughed. “Let’s see what punishment you will get for trying to trick the ruthless Mafia Lord, Dominic.” He told me confidently, smiling widely. The doorbell rang and some of the other guys walked in with some girls that looked like whores. He seemed familiar with the girls and he called them by names, talking dirty with them. He sat on the couch like a king with two girls on each arm caressing his abs while gi
POV: Claire “If you make me repeat myself one more time, I’ll fucking tie you over there and let every guy in this room take their turn on you. I suggest you stop being stubborn!” he scolded me angrily, glaring at me. The girls seemed to be loving their new job, they were on me the next minute, trying to drag me over there. You won’t believe that one of them is pissed off at me because she wasn’t chosen to suck his fucking dick. Like, what the hell is wrong with these people?“Play nice and you will get rewards, keep being stubborn and you’ll get nothing but pain!” the first girl whispered to me, flicking her tongue on my cheek, making me want to gag. I stood there unmoving, while the guys jeered at me. I stood in their midst like a cheap whore, my eyes filled with tears.As the dim light of the room shined on my tear-streaked face, I forced myself to walk up to him, taking one step at a time. My body is trembling with a combination of fear and anger. My eyes kept searching for the e
POV: RaphaelIt took a few days for the girls to get back on their feet. Turns out the poison Eloise used on them is a deadly chemical that could turn them invalid for the rest of their lives if not handled properly. If they had stayed there longer for her to administer another dosage, it would have been detrimental to their health. Good thing we got to them on time, good thing we took her out before she could hurt them more than she already has, especially Victoria who is a few weeks pregnant with my child. She had no idea she was pregnant, I had no fucking idea. It was discovered during her body exam at the hospital, and I couldn’t be happier in my life. This changes everything…It doesn’t just validate our relationship; it’s going to keep every other man away from her; it will be the one reason why I will fight everyone, including my grandfather, just to keep her. I couldn’t take my eyes away from her, even when she fell asleep on the hospital bed. It’s amazing to know that a lit
POV: VictoriaSo it turns out that Eloise Kendall was still lying and playing games with us down to the last minute. After the building exploded, Raphael got up as fast as he could and ran up to me, making sure I was okay. Miguel was here the next second, and they smothered me with love and care, checking to see if I was not hurt. “Claire…My sister…Where is my sister, where is Claire?” I managed to ask in my confused state, turning around to find her. They heard me asking for her, and they turned around with me, searching for her. We spotted her in Dominic’s arms as he struggled to get her to wake up.“No! No! No! No!Claire!Wake up!Claire!” I called out to her, struggling to get up but failing miserably as usual. Raphael took one look at me, and he turned in my direction, and he knew I needed my sister. “Stay with her; keep her safe!” he told Miguel as he left my side and ran to Claire’s side, administering mouth-to-mouth while Dominic called out to her, yelling at the top of h
POV: Victoria“Move away from here; she has a bomb; she is going to kill us all!” I yelled in Carl’s direction as I saw him approaching us slowly, thinking that my Mom was not seeing him. Of course, she is seeing him through the device in her hand; she knew the moment they took off the power grid that they were here. She came up to us and smiled excitedly, clapping her hands as if it were the happiest day of her life.“The guys are here to save you. Your Prince Charming has arrived, and they came prepared to save you. Are you not excited?” She asked us, smiling so happily. I turned to Claire in fear, and she had the same look of fear on her face, too. “Let them go, Mom; they don’t have to die because of us,” I begged her.“Of course, they do. Why the hell would you ever think that they deserve to live, why would you think that?” she asked me angrily.“I have been waiting for them for so long, they are the reason why we are still here. Of course, they would get what they deserve; the
POV: Raphael“How is he?” I asked Miguel a few minutes later after he spoke to the guys he put in charge of his parents. We have been waiting for their report and for a minute there we thought that something bad has happened, we thought they were under another attack from Eloise. We were contemplating whether or not to cancel the mission tomorrow and go back to Havana to save the Myers and get them out of town before coming back to face Eloise. But the call came in just a few minutes before we made the decision to cancel the mission. Turns out that the guys are even more efficient than we thought. Immediately after Shaun came out from surgery, they moved him and the Myers out of the hospital and took them to a safe house outside the city. “You did good, guys; I’m proud of you. Where are they now? Where did you take them?” he asked the boys after confirming that they were safe. “I’m sorry boss, but we can’t disclose our location to anyone yet, not even you, Mr Myers.” They told him
POV: RaphaelWe were all awake all night, going over the plans over and over again, looking for any flaws. Dominic and I did not have any misunderstanding as we worked together, in fact, you will never know that we even had a fight before we started. Saving the girls is more important to us and that’s what we focused on.We could not walk up to the front gate together because that was where she was expecting us to follow. We flew a drone over the property, and we saw that half of her security guards were stationed at the entrance, waiting patiently for us. I’m sure that she must be expecting us to show up at her gate any moment from now. I mean, she wasn’t expecting us to back down, was she?“Get the helo ready, we leave two hours after the ground team,” I instructed Carl. We decided to split the teams into two so one team could create a diversion while the second team sneaks into the house and saves the girls. We agreed to use a helicopter to drop a few guys on the building while th
POV: Raphael“If you are here to give me attitude and make my job more difficult for me, I suggest you get the fuck out of here right now. I’m too busy to deal with your attitude, Raphael, I mean it!” He told me furiously, glaring daggers at me. It’s obvious to everyone looking that this guy is angry with me for a completely different reason. I mean, he cannot be this furious because I said I wasn’t helping, right?“I’ll do anything to save Victoria, even if it means putting up with your bullshit!” I told him, repeating my earlier response and ignoring his earlier comments about my attitude.“Are you testing my patience? Are you trying to piss me off?” he yelled at me, letting the others turn to us curiously as they wondered what was going on between us. I turned to face him and he came to stand in front of me, glaring at me as if he wanted to punch me.“If you have something to say, why don’t you say it to my fucking face, Dominic. You keep saying you have moved past my betrayal, but
POV: Raphael“Shaun, what is going on over there, Are you hurt?” Miguel asked him in a panicked tone as he got up immediately and viewed his body to see where he was shot. I’d already seen it when the nurse took his phone but I didn’t say anything because I don’t want to get him more worried and upset than he is presently. He was shot in the chest and stomach, and I could tell that he is in pain, but he is just faking it to put Miguel’s mind at ease. It would break Everyone if something bad happens to him. I know I only just met the guy today, but trust me, I would feel it too because he is such a great guy and he doesn’t deserve to die. I see him like Carl, he is loyal to a fault, just like Carl. I could see it in his eyes that he would do anything to protect the Myer’s, even putting his life at risk for them. He is still bleeding from the gunshots, the bullet has not been taken out and the bleeding has not stopped. He must have lost a lot of blood while waiting for Juliette Mye
POV: Raphael“If you had a way of getting them back all this while, why haven’t you done so yet, why are they still being held hostage, Mr perfect plans?” Dominic retorted angrily.“ It’s your perfect plans that got me into trouble with Carlos Gonzalez in the first place, remember?” He asked again, scoffing at my words. I wanted to refute his decision one more time, but he stopped me with a wave of his hand, dismissing what I had to say as if it didn’t matter. “Save it, Ralph, I don’t want to hear it!” He told me angrily, glaring at me. “Tomorrow, I’m saving the girls and bringing them home to their family and loved ones. You can keep planning and stalling for as long as you want, I don’t care. But I’ll advise you to stay the fuck out of my way before you get hurt!” he warned me, walking past me and heading back outside. He turned around when he got to the door and he turned to Miguel and said,“I'm going out there to make plans on how to save your sister and my woman. You can
POV: RaphaelI didn’t want to deal with Dominic now because I knew that he must be so furious with me for keeping him in the dark all this while. I have not been sending updates to him as he instructed. I’ve been too busy to even think about him. As expected, he was angry with me, and his tone was so rude when I called to inform him that Miguel and I were crashing at his house tonight. I thought he was just being unnecessarily angry. I mean, I know I didn’t call him to give him updates, but he should have called me to, right?When he didn’t hear from either me, Carl, or even Miguel, he should have known that something was wrong, and he should have called to find out what was happening. He knows the enemy we are facing is so cunning and evil. He should have called us to check up on us and see if we were okay. But he didn’t call either, and now he is pissed at me for nothing.I was getting ready to give him a piece of my mind, but when I set my eyes on him, I immediately felt guilt