LISAPerks to moments of insanity? Yeah, that thing that happened with Axel Ivanov was definitely what I'd call the perk of insanity.It's been five days since I saw him, five days since our encounter at the alley, not like that could hardly be called an encounter, he had kissed me, and that was the last thing that I expected. I never expected Axel to voluntarily kiss me, to give in to the insane attraction that was burning between us but he had done just that, kissed me deeply till I forgot how to breathe, till I forgot who we were, till I forgot that he was Axel Ivanov and I was Liza Volkov and we were enemies whose families have long been enemies who wouldn't hesitate to wipe each other out at the slightest provocation.But I didn't quite feel like that in his arms, I didn't feel like that when his tongue plundered my mouth and he held my wrists behind me to kiss me senseless. Instead, I felt a voracious hunger, a voracious desire so strong it consumed my entire being, it impaired
LISAOur drive to the library and the process of picking out the textbooks and materials for our assignment was quiet and fast. I had thought getting started on the assignment would take a while but Axel was surprisingly helpful.He was more than surprisingly helpful and in no time, we were almost done with work that should have taken us at least three days.My phone vibrated for the umpteenth time and I muttered excuse me to the man sitting opposite me before picking up Tana's call."Girl, where have you been? I've been calling you since you left. Have you checked online? it's going crazy. You didn't tell me...""Tana, I told you I was going for a group assignment, I'm actually in the middle of it right now and if I can call you back or meet you in the hostel by midnight, I should...""Yeah, you said it," she replied in a tone that made me know she must be rolling her eyes to the back of her head, "but you didn't mention that your partner is Axel Ivanov.""Yes, Axel is my..." his hea
LISA"So, you've been getting fucked by Axel?"Tana asked or rather suggested for the umpteenth time since two days ago that my picture with Axel went viral. I'd been scared, anxious that Angel was going to call at any minute, demanding to see me because she has seen those pictures before Prince took them down but that didn't happen.Which meant she didn't see the pictures before they were taken down.I was lucky, extremely lucky at that but that didn't mean I'd be as lucky next time. But there won't be a next time. There was never going to be a next time. "Are you even listening to me at all?" She waved her hand in my front, "or are you here busy," she winked suggestively, "fantasizing about Axel?"God! I groaned and looked around. We were in class, granted, it was not her class and she had followed me here to interrogate me about my alleged sex life with Axel. The lecturer wasn't around but the lecture room was almost filled with students and she was here throwing words like fuck
LISAWe aced the first stage of our assignment and subsequently the first presentation. I still couldn’t believe that Axel made that kind of good partner but then, I was starting to see just how perfect he is with building and living in a facade. He was so good at it that one would never see past his flirtatious smiles, contagious energies, and playboy manners to the lethalness that really made up his existence. No one would see his hands and see the blood on them, they can’t see the number of lives he has taken with his hands, the number of pains he has inflicted, the kind of torture he had carried out on people. Just like people would see me and see the girl with a baggy top and pants and big glasses and sneakers, they wouldn’t see a girl who dances on poles to seduce unsuspecting victims, who’d and has put holes in a lot of people’s heads. And that was exactly what I was one step away from doing right now. Put a hole in the fucking head of Axel Ivanov.Instead, I forced myself
LISAMy mouth parted slightly as Axel stopped briefly in front of an apartment. It wasn't a mansion like I'd been expecting and it wasn't an apartment block either, it was just an elite bungalow that befitted the image Axel had built for himself in school.But was completely unbefitting of who he really was. The gates slid open automatically and he drove in.I expected guards and his soldiers to be running around the house but I saw nothing, well, except for flowers and more flowers that beautified the front of his apartment and made up a small pathway to the front door. Wasn't it ironic that someone like Axel was growing flowers?"Are you not going to get down?" his words jolted me out of my reverie and I turned to see him unbuckling his seat belt. I didn't even realize that he had packed the car. I got down cautiously, half expecting guns to be pointed at my head and for his men to dash out of their hiding but nothing happened. I heard nothing except for the slight thumping of my
AXELMy eyes followed Lisa as she trailed her fingers over the spines of the book, her eyes everywhere but on me and a somewhat jittery movement to the way she was moving. I didn’t know if it was because we were alone in the house or because of the implied challenge in the air but whatever it was, it was a bit unbecoming of someone like her. I wasn’t going to kill her for fuck’s sake. I was no psychopath, and I expected equal competition from her if we were going to tease ourselves and dance around a fire but she was making it no fun if she keeps picking the coward’s way out. And the girl in my library right now, the one trailing her fingers over the spine of my books doesn’t look anything like Lisa Volkov, she looked like a cautious little girl especially with her hair packed into a kid’s ponytail and her eyes devoid me of make-up.“So,” she started after she had walked the entire length of the library back and forth, “how come you have this kind of big library?”“I love books,” I
LISAMy limbs went numb and my body went slack against Axel as his lips delivered the torture he had promised.His hand tightened around my neck, holding my head in place to kiss me deeply, roughly, and harshly as his tongue thoroughly devoured my mouth.I loved it and I hated the fact that I loved it. I finally regained control of my limbs and I raised my hands to push him away but to my greatest surprise, my hand fisted around his shirt and I pulled him impossibly close to me as I kissed him back with equal intensity. Our tongues danced around each other, twirling and fighting for dominance and before I knew it, his arms were on my butt, holstering me up and I instinctively wrapped my legs around his waist as the kiss grew deeper, hungrier, and more desperate as our hands roamed around each other’s body, freeing buttons and pulling off shirts as we moved around the library and through opened doors and the next thing I knew, my back was on a bed and he was hovering over me, tongue
LISAWhen I dared to open my eyes after I had partially recovered from the aftereffects of the toes-curling and intense orgasm that was still making my legs shake, Axel was still looking at me, a dark, feral, and predatory look in his eyes. Seeing him like that made my blood surge faster, made intense hatred run throw my veins as the import of what I had just done slammed me in the face. Oh, Fuck. I sat up at the same time he bent his head to take my nipple into his mouth again and our heads nearly bumped into each other at my sudden movement. I reached for the nearest clothes to cover myself and his eyes narrowed at the movement, that smug self-satisfied smile of his forming on his lips."Come on Red, I've seen all of you so what are you hiding again?""And that will be the first and the last time you'll see it so get lost," I retorted, anger simmering through me. How could I stoop this low? How could have I allowed this to happen? I looked around the room for my gun but it was no
LISA A YEAR LATER Have I just spent the absolute best year of my life? Yes. Best was such an understatement to describe the year I just had. Axel made sure to keep on his promise of being the best thing that has ever happened to me and each day was better than the last. And he also made sure to keep up with the promise of putting babies inside me during our honeymoon because here I was, heavily pregnant and the scan has confirmed that we were expecting twins. Axel has never allowed me to hear the end of it. He was always bragging about his skills and all those yadayada nonsense and that was how he was able to impregnate me during our three months honeymoon. Yeah, we did use three months for our honeymoon and I was sure we were the only couple that had done that. I wanted us to go back after a month but Axel had insisted that we spent three months and in the end, it was all because of me. He wanted me to learn all the things I've mentioned that I wanted to learn while making sure
AXELI still couldn't believe my eyes, just like I couldn't believe everything that had happened for the past 2 hours but one thing was real. Lisa was here by my side, wearing my ring as we walked out of the airport hand in hand and into the car that was already waiting for us.“But how did you do this?” I finally asked, speaking for the first time since I confirmed that she was the one sitting beside me on the plane, “how were you able to make that happen?” I asked as the car drove us to the hotel we booked for our honeymoon. “My brother-in-law helped me,” she sassed, leaning closer to me like she has been doing since we entered the car. It was like she couldn't believe that I was here and she needed to feel my body to confirm that. Not that I was complaining though. I'd gladly allow her to enter my body if that's why she needed it. “Your brother-in-law? Prince?” I asked incredulously suddenly slammed with the idea that Prince somehow knew of where she was all these while but I k
Lisa's POVMy disappearing act was the most unplanned and spontaneous decision I'd ever made in my life and now I'd realized that it was a poorly thought-out decision, one that only caused the people I loved more pain than the relief I'd expected it to bring them.As much as it literally blew my mind that I'd finally gotten married to the man I wouldn't have dared to dream of while I was growing up, I couldn't stop myself from feeling like a burden and a magnet of unfortunate events for him.It was bothersome that I could easily trace every misfortune that had befallen him back to myself, it was as though I was a catalyst for his misery over and over. It felt as though trouble trailed dangerously close behind me and affected everyone in my life, most especially Axel.I'd broken his heart and betrayed him, stolen a shipment that he'd worked tirelessly to procure, and made being a hostage a mentally challenging chore for him, and now I'd been oblivious to the fact that I was being used a
AXELSIX MONTHS LATERMy entire life had been turned upside down ever since Lisa disappeared from the hospital, it hurt like hell that the moment I’d gotten her back, I’d lost her without single trace. I’d been wild the day she disappeared, I was fucking angry at everyone and I raided the hospital angrily.I spat threats out and shook the very foundations of the entire hospital because I needed at least a single clue as to how Lisa had disappeared. But no single person had any reasonable information to offer me and my heart had sunk with fear, what if I’d lost her forever?I regretted having gone for the meeting that day and leaving her unattended, the two days when I didn't step out of the hospital she’d been perfectly safe and then the second I left, she was suddenly lost to the fucking wind? I blamed myself and feared what would become of me if I never found her.Every day for the last six months had been a recurring nightmare, I was living in a world where Lisa wasn't by my side an
Axel's POVEverything felt like a blur in the past two days, time seemed to be at a standstill and nothing made sense to me asides from updates on Lisa's fragile and critical health. I'd been seated for hours in the private waiting lodge of the secluded recovery room I paid for to ensure she was being catered to in the best conditions.It felt like no time had passed yet time had dragged aimlessly for the last forty-eight hours, I was always on edge whenever the doctor approached me with news, I didn't know how I'd react if I lost her— I'd lose my damn mind, that's for sure.In over 10 hours, the last news I'd gotten about Lisa was that she was still unconscious and her vitals were unstable. Since then, I'd shuffled between pacing up and down, running my hands through my hair in frustration, feeling like my heart would burst from the scare, and refusing to speak to anyone that dared to tell me I deserved rest— rest? I'll rest when Lisa is awake and stable.Involuntarily my mind drifte
Lisa’s POVMy heart ripped into a million pieces while I watched what had become of the day that I’d love to keep replaying in memory on a loop, my father has turned my wedding day which had just made me shed tears of unimaginable joy into a freaking shit hole.As he called to me with an arm stretched out, I felt a wave of disgust and hatred for him that was impossible to conceal. I was certain that my facial expressions gave away just how much I detested his guts as he stood before me.My heart kept beating uncontrollably and I could barely form the millions of questions that flew threw my mind, I needed to breathe but I didn't care to catch my breath as much as I terribly needed answers to those questions from my father.I couldn't believe the smug and unapologetic look he has on his face, it was as though he didn't care about hurting me as long as she had his way. I finally mustered the courage to speak but I was certain my voice would sound cracked and snotty because of how much I
Axel’s POVA serenading symphony of wedding songs that Lisa and I had chosen was being played on the organ and my heart squeezed in its position in my chest because I knew what the start of the music signaled. It had meant that in no time, Lisa would be walked down the aisle by her father toward me.As I looked down the empty aisle I noticed that Volkov’s men has moved from the positions outside the church and had joined my men indoors.They all seemed to be in sync for some reason, but I couldn't possibly guess with the excitement in my veins, still, I looked over at Prince and nodded toward them so that he’d observe them and u could focus on Lisa, and he’d understood what my gesture meant and nodded back at me sharply.I quickly shifted my mind from worrying about what might be irrelevant and focused on my wedding day again.I became tense yet excited at the prospect of looking at her beautiful face for the last time before she became my wife before this congestion. I stood before t
Axel's POV I was certain that I hadn't stopped smiling while I got dressed for the event of the day, I was thrilled beyond human comprehension. I'd retied my bowtie a couple of times because my mind kept wandering to Lisa like the hopelessly smitten man I was, I could barely focus on myself. I'd decided to wear a dark blue double-breasted suit instead of sticking with the conventional rite of black suits for the groom. I buttoned my jacket and dusted it proudly while I checked myself out in the mirror, Lisa was lucky to be getting married to an absolute snack, I laughed as the silly thought crossed my mind. It hit me again that very moment, I was truly getting married to the woman that made love feel so good I was certain we'd cheated the laws of the universe. I'd never thought I would be so certain that someone was made for me, my soulmate, and my entire world. Just then, a hand landed on my back and rubbed it aggressively and shook me out of the thoughts I'd immersed my mind in.
LISAIf anyone had told me that my love would become an ethereal dream after being a complete nightmare a month ago, I'd have spat bitterly in their face. But yet, here I was, living the life I wouldn't have dared to dream of after all the unfortunate events I'd been through.My nerves could barely contain my excitement and my heart was an endless leap for joy because I was about to get through the day I'd fantasized about a million times over the past month. I was beyond elated and I couldn't hide it, I didn't want to anyways, it could easily pass as the best day of my life.I was getting married to the man of my dreams, the man that surpassed my dreams and made life a living fantasy. It was I and Axel's wedding day, finally! I'd already said I do in my head several times but the thought of saying it as a vow before a church intrigued me greatly."Girllll! I can't fucking believe your luck with love, teach me a thing or two please?" Tana's excited voice broke through my thoughts and