Eliana:“I’m sorry, I needed to play the act as Vladimir grew suspicious last night” I said looking at Lorenzo who nodded. Having assured him that this was all an act in front of Vladimir, the man immediately calmed down.“You could have given me some sign” Lorenzo said shaking his head “you’re lucky that I didn’t act upon it in front of the kids”It wasn’t like he could do anything anymore. I was a free woman, Vladimir having ‘paid’ him back the amount he paid to get me in double, Lorenzo couldn’t say no. It sickened me that I felt like I was some potato bag being sold or thrown left and right, but right now, I couldn’t care less about it as I considered what we were planning.“I would have, but with Vladimir’s hand on my thigh, I believe that would have been somewhat impossible” I said sitting on the chair in front of his desk. I crossed my legs over the other, looking him in the eye as I waited for whatever he was going to say.“I need your help finding someone”“I beg your pardon?
Vladimir:“What did you find, Luka?” I asked entering the office. The men who were sitting on their chairs, got up when they saw me. I nodded at them to leave, leaving me alone with Luka. No one knew of what I had planned and the less people knew about it, the better it was for my wife’s safety.“Hello to you too, Vladimir” Luka teased making me chuckle. I placed my hands on his shoulders, massaging them as I waited for his response “your suspicion could be very right. Luka has studied in the best schools despite being away from his father. He grew up having everything a kid could ever dream of. He studied law, and against all odds, he refused to be alongside his dad. Then years later, he chose to start working with Lorenzo, but he was never seen referring to him as father”“Anything that would lead us to Lorenzo being around Leonardo as he grew older? How the payments were made?” I asked looking at the screen where Luka was showing me what he found. Luka shook his head “no, the money
Eliana:Never in my life did I have to fight the urge to punch someone in the face as much as I did now.Looking at Lorenzo who smiled at me, I clenched my fists as I entered the dining room alongside my husband and kids.The man who has kept a whole life hidden from me.A man who has sold my own mother to James, claiming that he loved her.The man who broke her soul and heart as he made her hate her own daughter.A woman who was supposed to be a queen was a slave of her own thoughts, mind, and pain, and the main cause of that was Lorenzo.Flashback:“Lorenzo is who sold our mother to James, Eliana. He wasn’t forced to, and he didn’t need to. He just sold her after an argument they had. To stop him from feeling the guilt, he sent me away with a nanny to take care of me” Leonardo said looking me in the eye “he told me that you were the one who killed her, or more specifically, you were the reason behind her death. Seeing you now, I don’t think that you were the reason behind her death”
Vladimir:“What in the bloody world are you planning, my love?” I asked Eliana, wrapping my arms around her waist as I pulled her closer to me.She smiled, biting her bottom lip as she grabbed my shirt’s collar, pulling me closer. I leaned in, kissing her lips, her teasing behavior only told me that she was up to no good.“I’m playing Lorenzo’s own sadistic game”“You are playing with fire, my beautiful malyshka” I whispered kissing her neck, sucking on her sweet spot, enjoying the moan that escaped her lips. The two of us were supposed to be getting ready, but seeing as I had no idea what my beauty was going on about; it seemed like I needed to find out first.“And you are heating up that fire” she whispered back, pulling away to look me in the eye. I smirked and lifted her in my arms. Her legs wrapped around my torso as she connected her lips with my own.“I’m guessing that you have a little plan of delaying us?” I asked against her lips. Eliana looked down at me, resting her forehe
Eliana:“So? What have you decided?” I asked Vladimir who smiled wrapping his arms around me. He hugged me tightly, kissing the crown of my head.“We have no other option than to trust him right now. We’ll see how things turn out later, but I will have you know; if he does turn out to being a dick, I will be sure to kill him myself” Vladimir teased making me laugh “he wants to share the money gets from this Lorenzo thing, fifty, fifty. But he wants full control over the D’Angelo family…”“Which is not what the two of us planned when we first decided on this” I said stopping him. Vladimir kept his eyes on my own, studying my expression for a few seconds as I nodded “and what did you tell him?”“I told him what he wanted to hear; he has control over this throne, but I will do my best to have things go our way. For now, I need him by my side. The man has full control and access over things that you don’t have, and Lorenzo seems to trust him a lot. Therefore, we will let him believe that
Vladimir:It took every bit of self control in me as not to yell at everyone to stay quiet and just listen.Had it not been for Elijah who asked them to be quiet, and eventually Nikolay who snapped, wanting to listen to what Eliana had to say; everyone would have been complaining until now.Leonardo sat by Eliana’s side, looking at us with wide eyes, and I wasn’t sure whether he was enjoying or fearing the sight before his eyes. But either way, he made no attempt in speaking to voice out his thoughts.“So, you’re trying to explain to me that this man, your brother, Lorenzo’s son, is against Lorenzo?” Viktor asked raising an eyebrow “and he isn’t after me for…”“Don’t test your luck too much, Romanov” Leonardo spoke for the first time, stopping my twin “if I am not against you; it is because first, I didn’t know the woman; she chose to give me up as a child. Second, if Eliana, a woman who has been raised by her, is now your best friend, then I am pretty sure that you didn’t go ahead ki
Eliana: “It’s done” Leonardo said putting his phone back in his pocket as he walked toward me in the garden. I sat on one of the benches, staring into space as I regained my thoughts. “Why didn’t you tell me?” I asked. I didn’t bother looking at him as I recalled the memory of how bad his back was. I could tell that the wounds have healed, but their marks only told me that he has been through a lot worse than I have. “Tell you what, Eliana?” he asked. He sat down beside me, turning to face me as he listened to what I had to say. “That he had hurt you? That he used his…” “What would the difference be?” Leonardo asked. I ran my fingers through my hair before he sighed and carefully wrapped his arm around me, pulling me in for a hug “I wasn’t patient for this long to watch you collapse on me the second you’re told about my past” “We’ll get through this, soon. I wouldn’t have told you if it weren’t for your nosy Pakhans” “Ha, ha” I teased shaking my head as I pulled away from his ar
Vladimir:I smiled when I opened my eyes to find my beauty laying in my arms. Her eyes closed as she slept peacefully for the first time in months.I knew that we slept in, and I was well aware that it was late, but I also knew the reason why no one bothered to wake us up. The two of us were not only exhausted from last nights’ love making, but we were both mentally drained from being at the D’Angelo house for a while now.Therefore, seeing that my beauty was finally at peace, I didn’t have it in me to wake her up.Slowly getting out of bed, I walked toward the bathroom only to smirk when I saw the love bite that Eliana left on my neck. She was never one to usually leave them, but when she did, I couldn’t help but feel proud of the fact that she was ‘claiming’ me as her own for everyone to see. I washed my face and brushed my teeth, as to start getting ready for the day.I got inside the shower, turning the tap water only to smile when I heard the bathroom’s door get knocked “come in”
Eliana watched as the eldest of her younger siblings left school. She sat on the bench by her side, not knowing that this was her sister. Having met her mother earlier, Eliana was sure to pay for her school and ensure that her university fees were paid. The young girl opened a bag of chips to eat as she waited for the bus to arrive. She looked at Eliana who was sitting by her side, looking at her phone before extending the bag of chips to her “do you want some?” The girl was twelfth grade, she graduated this semester, and Eliana was sure that she would be thrilled when she found out about her life taking a turn that she didn’t expect “thank you” Eliana took a piece of the chips from the bag, before nodding in thanks one last time “are you waiting for your sibling, kid?” “I came to see my sister, she goes to school here” Eliana said looking at the girl “which grade are you?” “Twelfth, I graduate this semester” “Nice, congratulations! Do you have any plans for college? Univers
Vladimir:“Mummy, daddy is opening his eyes” I heard my daughter Ayla whisper. “Shh, baby girl, daddy won’t want too much noise around him” Eliana told our little one. I could already picture Ayla closing her mouth as she looked at me. I opened my eyes to close them again, the light blinding my vision momentarily.“I’m sorry, love, let me dim down the lights” Eliana said gently. She dimmed the lights down and I fought to open my eyes again, and having to fight the urge to close them again, I looked at her, my son and daughter who sat on my bed beside me.“Daddy?” Xavier whispered as low as he could. I smiled and raised my hand to his cheek, gently rubbing it before pulling him to me. Ayla laid on my other side, hugging me. I smiled at their concern seeing as both were careful when it came to my bandaged chest, and seeing Eliana looking down at me, I nodded at her, raising my hand toward her. The kids moved aside a bit, allowing me to pull my wife in for a gentle kiss.“I am proud of
Eliana:I looked at the camera that was inside my and Vladimir’s room, knowing that Lorenzo placed it there to listen in on our conversations, or more specifically, MY conversations. I sat on the edge of the bed, waiting for him to send one of his men for me. I laid back on bed, resting my head over my right arm which I placed under my head. The idea of me being here was starting to annoy me, and knowing that things were getting tied up was another thing that I was happy about. The loose ends that were there was almost done, and adding up the ‘mistress’ part was only to spice things up a bit as to find out whether he really did have other children or not.Flashback:Vladimir and I entered the bedroom late last night after putting Lorenzo to bed.I wrapped my arms around my husband, hugging him tightly as he kissed my neck, knowing exactly what I wanted. He turned me around, my back facing his chest, as he slowly grinded himself over my bum, making me feel his hardening cock. His lip
Vladimir:I wrapped my arm around my beauty as the two of us entered the dining room the next morning. Things have been cleared here and throughout the whole house. Eliana had ordered the maids to clear everything out; the house finally looked like a normal person’s place.Lorenzo was yet to walk out of his bedroom, and though I didn’t expect him to be out of it for another few hours due to his near overdose; I didn’t know what to expect. “Do you think that we should start with breakfast? Have his food be made when he wakes up?” Eliana asked, looking up at me. I knew that she was hungry. The two of us have had our active morning as to both distract and prepare her for what was to come when Lorenzo left his bedroom. The man would be a raging volcano waiting to explode, but he also needed to thread his movements carefully, especially since he believed that we didn’t know about Leonardo being Eliana’s brother.“Let’s give it another few minutes, if he’s not out; we can start” I told my
Eliana:I laid on my husband's chest as he ran his finger over my lower back, assuring me that things were going to be okay. I hoped that they ended up being so, because if not; we were not the only ones who were going to get affected.“Do you really think that things would end up going well?” I asked, raising myself to look at Vladimir who smiled, pulling me to him, kissing my lips. Having stayed up with me throughout most of the night, I was surprised to see that he woke up before me. However, I was also thankful for the fact that he didn’t get out of bed and kept holding me in his arms. “Yes, malyshka. Everything will be fine” Vladimir said gently. My chest ached as I remembered what I did last night. The idea of me so cold heartedly killing my brother broke me, and knowing that I did it because it was the right thing to do didn't make things any better. If anything, it made things worse for me. I laid back down on his chest, wanting to embrace his touch before we left. A few mor
Vladimir:I watched as Eliana walked inside the hotel again.Her eyes seemed drained of life and I had to fight back the urge of running toward her, cradling her in my arms. She walked toward me, her lips quivering as I wrapped my arms around her, hugging her tightly. She laid her head on my chest as I laid mine on the crown of her head. “Can we please leave?” Eliana asked. Her voice above a whisper, clearly not trusting it to speak out loud. I nodded and wrapped an arm around her, guiding her to the door. I could tell that she was barely seeing in front of her. Her eyes looked around everyone around, but she wasn’t really seeing anything or anyone. Her mind elsewhere, and not knowing how it actually went; I didn’t know what he might have told her.I ran my finger over her arm, assuring her, but I knew that nothing I was going to do was going to make a difference. The woman was shattered, inside and out, and I didn’t know how much she was going to handle before she collapsed again.
Eliana:“What is going on?” Blake asked, looking at Leonardo. His arm was looped around my own, holding me close as we both looked at the man that I was supposed to call my brother. He wouldn’t look at any of us, and I knew for fact that Vladimir was starting to question the man. The man was in our house and heard our secrets. Lorenzo’s eyes met mine and he nodded, smiling before walking toward us. Blake tightened his grip around me, pulling me closer to him.“I am impressed by your hosting skills” Lorenzo said, crossing his arms over his chest. He looked at Blake before shaking his head “and the fact that a cop is by your side rather than your husband” “It is your event and gala. I am your daughter, Vladimir, just like everyone else, is a guest here” I said coldly “as for my friend who is standing next to me. Regardless of his position, I don’t think that you have any right to…”Blake cleared his throat, stopping me from completing my sentence. I nodded and walked away as he pulled
Vladimir:“What do you think?” Eliana asked, twirling around, showing me her royal blue dress. I wore my black tux and was fixing up my tie when she walked out of the suite’s dressing room.I smiled, cupping her cheeks before connecting my lips with her own. Eliana smiled in response, clearly understanding that I loved how she looked, and despite hating WHY she was wearing this; I loved that she looked confident in her outfit. Her own hands went to my tie, fixing it for me despite the fact that I still hand my hands on her cheeks making me chuckle. It was something that I was in love with her for. The way she cared about the small details, how things went and worked.She wore a necklace that I bought her years ago making me smile at the memory behind it. It was our first real anniversary, and I wanted to get her something special that I knew she once liked but didn’t tell me about.The crystal necklace dangled from her neck, reaching her mid breast. Her earrings matched the necklace,
Eliana:I looked at Lorenzo who called both Leonardo and I over to his office a few hours after our last encounter. It has been a few hours since it happened, and despite the fact of hoping that he had calmed down from it; I knew that he wouldn’t just let it go.His eyes were fixed on the glass of wine in front of him, avoiding our eyes as he took deep breaths. Leonardo and I were quiet as we waited for his lash out which didn’t seem to come. Lorenzo got up from his chair and walked toward me, his wine glass in his hand as he approached me. I couldn’t help but notice that he didn’t look at Leonardo, and that fact alone came as a surprise to both me and Leonardo, especially considering the fact that Leonardo was the one who held his hand, stopping him before he touched me.“Need I ask what the FUCK WAS THAT?” He yelled so loud making my eyes widen. My heart raced against my ribcage as I didn’t know what to expect as a reaction from him. He threw the glass on the ground beside me, its s