Leonardo We arrive at Nova's house after our long six-hour drive. Despite all the warnings from Roman and the boys, I still came with her to meet her parents.I know he won't try something stupid while his family is present.Or maybe they're all in on it. Including, Nova. My subconscious fills my head with negative thoughts.But I know she's not. Her relationship with her father is over. I don't think anything can fix it, especially after I expose his work.The idea brings a smile to my face. "Should I press the doorbell or will you?" I ask Nova after some time. We got down from the car and stood in front of the door for more than a minute."Yeah, I uh... I just need a minute." She exhales and I can see her fingers fidgeting."Baby, we've been out here for more than a minute. We both know you don't want to be here, just say the word and I'll take you home." As much as I want to see the look on Edward's face when I walk in with his daughter, I have to consider the fact that the re
Nova "Hello, Nova." Deshawn greets me after he appears from the dining room."Shut the fuck up! What the hell is he doing here?" I ask angrily. If they want this dinner to hold, Satan's incarnate has got to go.Either he goes or I go. I'm not eating with hell's child."Nova calm down and take your seat." Chance pleads, all I do is glare at him with anger. "Deshawn is a family friend that's why we invited him over.""He humiliated me! That status should have been revoked without asking- wait what do you mean by we?" I look at Chance first but he picks now to be silent. I turn my gaze to my mum and dad and their expressions tell me everything I need to know.I feel a hand rubbing up and down on my thigh softly. For a minute I let myself get angry and forgot that I had come here with Leonardo.I look around again, at the faces that betrayed me and all I feel is anger.Deshawn, on the other hand, had taken to his surroundings like a duck to water. He had been doing well to avoid eye c
Nova It's too quiet. We've been driving for what feels like hours but has been mere minutes, and Leonardo still hasn't said a word to me. After I walked out of my parent's house, despite my mum calling for me and my brother trying to stop me from leaving, Leo tried to talk to me when we got settled in the car but I ignored him. I could feel his gaze burning a hole in the side of my face as he drove and looked at me occasionally. His phone has been ringing repeatedly but he ignores the call again as he did the first time. Since then his mood has changed and he's been quiet. I can tell because I noticed his jaw clench after he checked who was calling.After a few minutes of silence from both of us and his phone, it rings again. He looks at it, and his clenched jaw tells me all I need to know. "In my experience, if someone keeps calling repeatedly it might be because they have something important to say. You should pick up."He continues to stare ahead, his gaze not leaving the road
Leonardo I’d always been in control of my reactions, at least publicly. My grandfather had driven any impulsive displays of emotion out of me since I was a child.In the words of Nicolas Ricci, emotion was weakness, and there was no room for weakness in the cutthroat world we lived in. What just occurred right now is not how I wanted it to go at all. Nova and Priscilla were not supposed to meet yet, or ever. As I stand on the driveway watching Nova's car leave after she successfully found her phone, all I can think of is how this short meeting may have unleashed a lot of havoc."Fuck," I yell angrily on my way inside. I'm not surprised to find Priscilla lurking around the entrance. I'm sure she watched the whole thing through the window, looking and hoping I slip up.I'm not stupid. I know what is at stake."Who's she?" Priscilla asks as I make my way to my room. I ignore her and I immediately hear the familiar sound of her footsteps following behind me. "I'm talking to you, Leonard
Nova Oh my God..."N-no it's... it's not possible." I stutter.Ghostface can't be Leonardo.He takes slow steps closer to me "Princess, let me explain." I want to yell and tell him not to touch me. But all I could do was stare at him as if a second head had magically sprouted next to his head."I... I don't know what to say." That was the truth, I'm too shocked to form coherent words."Say anything." It sounds like a pleaThe pieces begin to form clearly in my head. I'm still confused but there's enough to form a clear image in my head.My mind begins to unravel all that has happened and then I remember the first time I saw his eyes and how blue they were. I look up at him and all I'm met with is the regular shade of black that I've gotten accustomed to on Leonardo. "Take off the contacts," I demand.I don't care much for politeness right now. I'm surprised when he doesn't decline or try to ignore what I asked for. He takes the boring contacts out and places them on the table be
Nova I couldn't sleep well last night. I kept tossing and turning for some time during the night before unexpected sleep finally knocked me out. When I was awake all I could do was lay in bed trying to think of how my whole day suddenly went downhill in such a short period.First, it was my dad and Leo acting like they didn't know each other. And then finding out Leonardo is married... with a child! Oh, God. I kissed that man. I made out with him on my kitchen counter only to find out he was taken.Men are so fucking annoying. I trusted the fucker and he just laughed at me behind my back. How could I have been so stupid?"Ugh! Fucking hell, Nova!" I groan out loud. My phone chimes somewhere around me and I search around until I find it.UNKNOWN: You’re so pretty when you sleep.My heart drops when I read the text. I already knew the fucker was in my house from the glass of whiskey and mask on my nightstand, but his lack of shame enrages me. I feel the blood rush to my cheeks as fury
Leonardo Fuck. She’s so pretty when she thinks no one is watching.My little prey trudges into her bedroom, her tattered slippers dragging against the smooth stone floors. She’s tired. Dark circles are beginning to form underneath her eyes.I want to smooth them away, just to bring them back again. But I want her to be tired from staying up all night, taking my cock into her body until she’s depleted of all her strength. Even then, I’ll still fuck her.I deprived myself last time. Refused to touch her when she hadn’t earned that from me yet. I consider not touching her an act of mercy. She had just found out about my identity and about, Priscilla too. Everything was... intense if I may say so myself.My mind travels back to the night I watched her touch herself. The look on her face told me she wanted to fight me so hard initially, the anger and fire in her eyes only turning my blood to molten lava. The harder she fought her inner battles, the harder my cock fought against the co
Leonardo The screams of pain bouncing around the cement walls are getting a tad annoying. Sometimes it sucks being the hacker and the enforcer. I really fucking enjoy hurting people, but tonight, I have no goddamn patience for this whiny asshole. And normally, I have the patience of a saint. I know how to wait for what I want most. But when I’m trying to get some real answers and the dude’s too busy shitting his pants and crying to give me a coherent response, I get a little testy.“This knife is about to go halfway through your eyeball,” I warn. “I’m not even going to show you any mercy and shove it all the way through to your brain.”“Fuck, man,” he cries. “I told you that I just went to the hotel a few times to drop off some packages. I don’t know anything about some fucking meeting.”“So, you’re useless is what you’re saying,” I surmise, inching the blade toward his eye. He squeezes them shut as if skin that’s no thicker than a centimeter is going to prevent the knife from g
Leonardo I stare at Aaliyah and I can't help the small smile that appears on my face."You look happier," she mutters.I smile at her, "I am. So, when can you stop playing my fucking therapist." This was something we unknowingly started years ago after she got together with Roman and she witnessed me kill a man that almost raped her while Roman was been electrocuted repeatedly and made to watch. What I did was nothing compared to what Roman would have done if he had successfully gotten out of that chair. I was the lesser evil in my opinion.Aaliyah didn't see it that way. So here we are for one of our unexpected therapy sessions. You'd think for someone who is eight months pregnant she'd want to be in bed resting, instead, she's here grilling me about mental health and shit.I miss Nova. I'll make sure she pays for setting me up like this when she gets back from class."Why?"I chuckle, "Do you believe in fate?"She shook her head, confused. "I don't think so. Why?""Well, my answer
Nova Leo just strolled out of the bathroom with a towel around his waist looking as delicious as ever. My eyes roam over his body and I trail the droplets of water running down from his chest to his stomach imagining what my tongue would feel like when I lick it clean."Why do you look so good?" The question is out of my mouth before I can stop it.He smirks, "I can't help it. It's a blessing, baby.I move off the bed and stand in front of him. "I have the urge to climb you like a tree every time because you look so fucking good!" "Oh, really? What's stopping you?"There's a drop of water rolling from his shoulder down to his stomach. I bend in front of him before darting my tongue out to lick the water right above his navel. Leo releases a loud moan and it does something to me knowing the amount of control I have over him."That feel good?" I ask teasing."Fuck, yes.""Yeah," I look at the tent that's now forming under his towel. "You get that hard easily a lot?" I tease him and
Nova & Leo I make my way inside, trying to ignore the rush of blood in my ears and the deafening decibels of the metronome in my chest. The rush calms down when my eyes meet with bright blue eyes, silently reassuring me.If Leo was not here, I don't know what I'll do.But I do know it won't be pretty. People who say they aren't capable of violence are liars. Everyone is capable of it. It's a matter of learning what will push you to that point.I've spilled blood. Out of luck or whatever anyone wants to call it.This crusade is fueled by love. A pretty, sparkling, soft emotion, capable of wreaking more havoc than hate.Hate can't dig under the skin the way love does. It doesn't alter your cells or spark chemistry. You'd bleed for someone you love, never someone you truly hate. But hate holds a dark power of its own. And right now, both hate and love are driving my decisions.I'm volatile and angry.Terrified and nervous. As I look at the man I call my father, bound, and bruised
Leonardo I cock my head to the side, staring at the running man with bewilderment. “Why does he run like that?” I ask, genuinely concerned if Charles Klay likes to peg himself with foreign objects. Maybe one got stuck because Jesus fucking Christ, who runs like that? I can't believe we've been chasing Edward and his lackeys for close to a month and this limping ape is the closest thing to him that we've got.“That… that’s a good question,” Nate answers through my earpiece, sounding just as bemused as I am. He’s watching through the drone hovering over the awkwardly running dude. We’ve been tracking Charles Klay since he fled from Councilman David’s house. He wasn’t hard to find despite his best efforts to stay hidden. I’m sure it hurt his shriveled little soul to have millions of dollars and not be able to fuck off to a tropical island with strippers and blow. Guess the dude hasn’t fried his brain with drugs so badly that he’s not aware of the massive target on his back.H
Leo I stare at Nova's face and the way she grips my hand and rubs it reassuringly. "Let's go inside, baby. I have a surprise for you.""A surprise? Leo are you sure you want to go in there? All you have in this place are bad memories. Why would you want to go in there?" The worry in her tone almost deters me but I remembered why I chose to come here.I pull her closer to me, my hands wrapped around her waist. As my fingers roam all over her soft supple skin I have it in me to fuck her here against a tree and from the way she's breathing I'm sure she feels the same way. "It's okay, my love.""I just don't want this ugly place to trigger any bad memories for you." She places her palm on my cheek.I lean my face into her touch, "I'll be fine, I've got you. Just be here, okay? Can you do that for me, baby?" I ask her"Always. It's you and me, Leonardo Ricci."I kiss her deeply and passionately. "That's my girl. Now, let's go see your surprise.""This is an unexpected place for a surpr
Nova"Can I take you somewhere?" Leo asks. I've just stepped out of the bathroom from my shower, yanking a brush through my wet, tangled hair. I tear the bristles through a particularly brutal knot, uncaring of the way the strands tear. "Baby, you're hurting your hair. Let me brush it." Feeling defeated, I slump my shoulders, trudge over to him, and sit on the floor between his spread knees. He takes the brush from me and gently starts running it through the sopping tresses, slowly detangling the mop on my head. It feels nice, but I'm too tired to appreciate it. Leo was right. Happiness is fleeting, however, over the past weeks, he's done everything in his power to help me hold on to any semblance of peace. Finishing with the brush, he sets it down on the bed and gathers my hair together. I nearly choke when he begins braiding it. "Where the hell did you learn to do that?" I ask. I'm tempted to twist around like a dog chasing its tail, just so I can witness this. "Aaliyah taug
Leo "I'm not surprised my mum hasn't called." She sighs tiredly before sitting on the bed "Even my brother, Chance. Do you think they're part of everything alongside Edward?""I don't know, baby. I don't care what they are part of as far as they didn't come for you.""Hmm," She's silent for a beat. "I can't believe our fathers love each other. It's scary to imagine." There's a small smile on her face and I'm happy to see she's gradually moving past what happened."I'd rather not have that sort of image in my head right now, darling.""I'm sorry," she smiles.I settle in deeper next to her, slumping against the stone wall, careful not to touch her, though my body is vibrating with the need to. We haven’t touched since I found her in the hangar, and each second feels like a stab in the chest. Fiending for Nova Carter is a feeling I’m old friends with, but this is the first time I refuse to act on it. “You don't have to apologize. Tell me about her,” I say. “Tell me everything
Nova "So, If I'm not hallucinating, why the hell is Tiffany tied to a chair? And why are we in a hangar? How did I get here? Whose jet is that?" I asked Leo after taking a look around. The last thing I remember was running and then seeing a dead body before I passed out.How the hell did I get to this unfamiliar hangar? I woke up not long ago to see Tiffany tied to a chair with two bleeding stab wounds in her thigh. Leo said he was responsible and he didn't look one bit remorseful about it.I stand up from the bed and I'm about to walk down to where Tiffany is when Leo holds me back. "I'm going to explain, baby. But first, you need to rest.""Why is she here, Leo? Why did you hurt her?" I want to give him the benefit of the doubt. I know he'd never hurt Tiffany without reason, but I still want to hear him say it."Because she hurt you. And for that, she can't go unpunished." "W-what do you mean?" My throat still hurts a little with each word I utter."Tiffany was the one who brought
Leonardo I'm going to kill Alessandro. I intended to kill him before but the urge to kill him is stinger now, it's almost maddening. And as for Edward, I might let Nova decide what happens to him."Can I at least have a bandage or shirt to stop the blood? It's too much" Tiffany asks."Keep talking before I decide that the next place this scalpel will enter is the side of your neck. Keep talking."She sighs defeatedly before obeying. Alessandro approached me first. He seemed to know everything about me and how my brother was murdered. He said he and Edward could help me get revenge and also pay me if I did what they wanted. I was desperate, so I agreed. He gave me a file that contained a lot of things about you. He didn't disclose fully how he got it but he knew I knew you. He later on told me that you were once an agent part of this secret organization funded by some government officials, but you went rogue." Tiffany's eyes lock with mine. "He said you were desperate but he's no