DOMINIC'S POINT OF VIEW ONE WEEK BEFORE PRESENT DAY I looked out my window and into my garden to see Sabine as she was rubbing her gun, ready for another day of training. She had no idea of the war brewing or of the lie that had been her life In my office on the other hand, it was a war zone with multiple papers already out on my table, it was all plans and programs for that bastard that claimed to be her father "Boss" I heard Lorenzo say causing me to snap out of my thoughts "What is it?" I said impatiently, I was not in toe mood for any theatrics particularly because I had to stay away from Sabine this past week because of work "The nanny, Luciana has given us something I think can be useful" "Well, spit it out" I ordered "It turns out Arturo has multiple brothels in your city in America and he has been operating there for years without your consent" he said making me sit up from my chair" What? " I said not believing my ears" Yes sir, what would you have us do? "" Blow t
TWO WEEKS BEFORE PRESENT DAYSABINE'S POINT OF VIEW I looked at him in utter ter disbelief, there was no way he was telling the Truth"I don't understand you.... what do you mean?" I said feeling my head spin from the force of his words"I found this out too, turns out he killed your real parents, the people he worked for and decided to keep you so he could take over the empire once you turned twenty five and then sell you off to Santiago, the man he works with to steal your father's empire..... your birth right" he said to me while still looking at me"This is too much" I said with my hand on my head as I tried to not faint I looked up at him narrowing my eyes as I was suddenly filled with distrust How do I know he is telling he truth? That this is not some mind game? I asked myselfThis was after all the very man that kidnapped me and shot the said man in our house before forcing me into another country, he could be saying all this to play some kind of mind game"How do I know y
SABINE'S POINT OF VIEW TWO WEEKS BEFORE PRESENT DAYShe looked at me with nothing pure of shock in her eyes as she kept her mouth agape and her hands by her side"It can't be" she whispered loud enough for me to hear or maybe I was just too eager to hear what she had to say"I want to know everything" I said while sitting on the steel chair in front of her, Dominic moved from the corner of my eye, his posture tense and alert as though he was ready to strike her in case of anything I didn't think that would be needed though, she looked too frail to be worth the trouble "I am so sorry, if I knew" she said sobbing,. making me want to tear her throat out, her tears meant nothing to me, I wanted the truth and after that, she could be set on fire right in front of me and I would not bat an eyelid "It was a regular day, Arturo and I were secretly dating or just fucking, as he said to me later that week, I was supposed to get you ready for your piano recital later that day and we were out
SABINE'S POINT OF VIEW The sound of the gun shot went off and smoke released from the mouth of the barrel but for some reason, she was not dead I looked up to see Dominic before me and my hand with the gun in the air, his grey eyes on me as they reflected nothing, as though he was shutting me out "Let me go" I said with a false calmness as I stared back at him but his hand in mine did not budge as it held me with not too much force. I knew he could easily subdue me and collect the gun but for some reason he was gentle "Do not shoot her" he said... no, he commanded "Why? why should I not? after all, she deserves this. My parents, my real parents, the ones I cpd not even meet because of her foolishness trusted her and for what for her to sell me off? " I said as I tried to keep the pain from my voice " I did not sell you" I heard her say amidst her sobs and I looked away from Dominic and stared at her as she tried to look composed, I looked into her eyes and stared hard. I had
DOMINIC'S POINT OF VIEW I held my arm where the bullet had grazed as I stared at the dust that my soft caused as she drove off"Bo,, what do we do?" Lorenzo asked me as he stood a few feet from me"Let her go for the time being" I said standing Jo straight, I was lucky to have not suffered too much from the graze, it simply ached"For how long?" he asked "Till tomorrow morning, after that, I want her back home" I said"Yes boss" he said and walked off I looked back at Luciana who sat in fear and regret washed over her as she trembled in her seat" I'm sorry " she said to me" I am not the one you owe an apology too, my wife is hurt and heartbroken so you must dedicate your life to apologizing to her or else.... "I said making my threat plain " I will, it is the least I could do" she said" That and you will work with me in bringing that son of a bitch down, you are a link to him so you are valuable to me" I said" How would I do that? he does not care about me" she said making me
SABINE'S POINT OF VIEW The car screeched to a halt as I parked abruptly by the road side breathing heavily as my mind spiraled I had no idea how long I had been driving or on the road for but I just knew that my fingers were trembling and my knuckles white I remembered as someone that was me used my own fingers to pull a gun on Dominic, my husband before I drove off after hijacking this car, was vaguely aware of my surroundings but was very surprised that he did not seek me put I looked out the road to see thaty car was the only one in sight, the cold dark night with the flies a blanket of stars surrounded me. I licked my cracked lips and swallowed My throat cracked and raged in need of some water, desperately. I looked around in the car hoping to see some water, I opened the small compartment behind me to see a gun, some knives and a bottle of water. After drinking it like it would be my last, I drove off the road again, no idea where I was driving to but I knew I needed som
SABINE'S POINT OF VIEW Knock knock knockThe sound of my soft knocks made me almost chuckle, I remembered what my trainer said to me a few days ago after she beat my ass into the mat, we had trained for hours and my limbs felt like jelly, I was sweaty, sore and tired; I just wanted some sleep but she refused to ordering me to get up so we could go for another sparing match it was the fifth spar in four hours and her punches were a bitch, she hit me without care for the world because'If your bones break, it means you learn a lesson"" And what's that? " I asked as I laid on the mat exhausted and are as I tried to rein in my breathing,.she had just put me through another round of jumping through burning tires because according to her, it would keep me on my feet and I would need the skills it would teach me Incase I needed to fight or jump certain hurdles, I wanted a warm bath but she did not care"Can't we just take a break please?" I had asked her but she only shrugged her shoulder
SABINE'S POINT OF VIEW She sat in front of me shaking visibly as I pointed the gun at her "Start talking" I commanded making her whimper audibly as she shrank back in her seat Her posture and demeanor had me thinking about how she ad Luciana were so different, while she was soft in her aura, Luciana desperately tried to mirror that and she failed but it was a hunch of mine that Luciana thought she was good at fooling people but she was horrible at it "What do you want to know?" she asked "I want to know everything from the time of my parents.... and do not try to fool me with that confusion, I know very well that you know exactly who I am" the spark of recognition in her eyes which she tried to hide was too evident to ignore "I remember you, I was your mother's nanny and I cooked for you sometimes" she said avoiding my eyes "Luciana says she was my nanny and cook and she never mentioned you so clarify " I said " Luciana has always been like that..... as a child she w
MARIA'S POINT OF VIEWI quickly placed my hands up high enough so they could see it and stood as still as possible, the red dots were still on the parts of my body as much as possible. I did not want to die, but I would rather die at their hands than at the hands of AlvarezIt was currently almost evening, but the kind of neighbourhood Alvarez had us living in was one in which people rarely got off of work until late at night, and there were rarely any children around, so we always had our privacy to ourselves no matter what.I paused on the porch of the house with nervous breathing and watched as one man walked forward with a gun in hand and approached me stealthily"Hands where I can see them, ma'am," he said, and I raised my hands higher so he could see them properly. He walked closer to me and looked me up and down before he started tapping me up and down in search of anything He would find nothing whatsoever; all I wanted was to leave this hell"Where are you going, ma'am?" He
MARIA'S POINT OF VIEWI inserted the needle into his neck while he slept, making sure to empty the contents of the needle into his veins. Once I was satisfied with my work, I rushed inside the room without bothering to be quiet anymore; he was not waking up from that, not even if the world suddenly went on fire.I opened the painting behind the wall of the bathroom to reveal a safe, he had no idea I knew it was there or that he even had a safe. Over the years of dealing with him, I realised one thing: it was better to leave him, thinking he broke me so much that thinking for myself was difficult for me, that he had so succeeded in breaking me and making me a shell of the person I once was, that all I could think of was him.That was the only way I had stayed alive so far. I punched in the combination of the safe quickly; it was a mix of numbers, and I had no idea if they held any meaning to him or if they did not. Once the coordinates were in, the safe opened with a satisfying click,
MARIA'S POINT OF VIEWI watched as he got up from the reclining chair with a grunt and limped to the bedroom while trying not to put too much pressure on his rotting leg. The house smelled of the blood and pus coming out from it, making me want to hurl and vomit, but I kept my cool, knowing the kind of man he is.He huffed in pain as he walked over to the door, but stopped as he saw me standing in the kitchen with the door open; he hated it when I closed any doors in the house- he thought I would do something he was displeased with He looked me up and down and said "I am going to sleep now but the second I wake up, you better be ok your knees on that bed like the good whore you are supposed to be" He smiled evilly in that way that made my belly turn in disgust, but to avoid another smack, I simply nodded as I trembled before him" Good, do not disappoint me. We would not want a repeat of two weeks ago, would we?" He walked over to the room, making me shiver at the mention of two we
MARIA'S POINT OF VIEWI cleaned the blood off the new wound on my head as i fought tears, after spending the greater part of my years with him, you would think i would be used to the way he treats me by now but everytime he hit me, i got even more numb and at the same time, i got even sadder as i tried to imagine what my life would have been like if my foolish fifteen year old self had never jumped out of my window to go a stupid new club with my muc older boyfriendIf I had actually listened to my parents and stayed away from him, if I focused on being the smart star student who wanted to major in electrical engineering and spent a few days on the weekend brushing up on my hacking skills, if i had listened to my best friend Chloe then about my much older bpyfriiend and did not act much older than i actually wasI would not be the punchinjg bag and whore of the criminal mastermind that was sitting on the reclining chair in his living room, i would have never been raped multiple by hi
ALVAREZ'S POINT OF VIEWI limped out of bed, dragging my infected leg with me; it reeked of blood and pus, making me retch in disgust and in great discomfort as I limped pathetically to the living room. I had watched the snipers for days now; their routine was deeply engraved in my mindThey worked around the clock in an almost unbeatable routine, while there were at least three snipers positioned adjacent to my house, all from another building, there were two others in cars positioned a few blocks from my property. If one got tired, another simply took his place, it was like clockwork with themMy escape plan seemed impossibleI grit my teeth in pain and pent-up frustration as I peel back the bandage to reveal the rotting flesh that was now my leg, the smell of blood and pus filling the air even more. I applied the treatment I had concocted a few days ago in the bedroom, I was not allowed visitors, so there were no doctors for meI had no access to working phones; I suspected that m
SABINE'S POINT OF VIEW I stood frozen as I looked at the face that mirrored my own—my mother, the woman who was supposed to be dead at the hands of the man who raised me, the man I called father. She stood frozen as well, her eyes filled with nothing less than shock and wonder. Dressed in all black, everything she wore was a deep shade of mourning, from her worn jeans to her top and scarf. The man by her side stood like a soldier, ready to fight, his defensive posture beside her unwavering and strong. She walked forward, approaching me with a smile. Her bony hand reached up, causing me to flinch. She paused abruptly, looking at me with a mix of hurt and understanding. "My baby, I thought you were dead," she whispered. "I was told you were killed off that night too, and I accepted it—I really did—until I heard Vitiello had taken a new wife. At first, I didn’t think much of it until I learned from a close confidant that you looked exactly like me. It felt like a dream come true, l
"DOMINIC'S POINT OF VIEWI watched as the car drove out of the gates of the mansion and ran towards it in hopes that i would be fast enough to stop it but she has sped off and drove off in a such speed, she zpoomed into the night. I turned to the guards , the foolish men that were supposed to e guarding the gates and us inside the house"You fool! how could you ket her go huh? i should get your head for this you bastard, if anything happens to my wife today because you foolishly let her out of the safety of this mansion, i promise you, dear Santa will pay for your stupidity!" i sneered in his face as i referred to his fifteen year old daughter, i knew everything about each guard in this place, the cooks, nannies, everyone that was to come in or out of the mansion for at least three weeks did not come in without me knowing something about themI ran back into the mansion and towards Rapheal's door, knocking on it harsher than i intended, i waited till the door came open to reveal a dis
SABINE'S POINT OF VIEWI watched the door for a moment as thouh it would suddenly disappear and i would wake up from this cruel dream but even as i stared hard at the door, it never opened neither did the room disappear, it had really happenedIt is just sex Sabine! sex betwen two adults, you were brought here for one purpose, revenge and now i discover that your FATHER is responsible for making my mother some sex slave!He had called Alvarez my father, like he did not know hot i felt about him now, after all Alvarez had done to me and my family, Dominic still referred to him as my father. I watched the door with tears in my eyes as my mind went back to the words he has said to meIt was not just the way he said it, it was the tone of his voice as he spoke and the look in his eyes as he spat those words at me without regard for my feelings. All i had meant was that he needed to relax and actually communicate with me about his feelings because sex would not fix the hollowness in his h
DOMINIC'S POINT OF VIEWI slammed the door behind me as i walked forward in anger, the words i had spoken echoed behind me like a broken clock reminding me of the impact they must have had on herIt is just sex between adults,, not love Sabine, just sex!I had said to herIt was a lieA big fucking lie i utterred in rage at the words she has spoken which took me back to the orphanage and the foster care systen as the couple would look at me like i was an alien before they moved onto the other childre, the ones fit for the photos, the normal onesIt was not just the words i had spoken, it was the way she looked at me. She loked like i had broken her beyond repair as she stared at me with unshed tears that filled her eyes but se willfully prevented them from falling. It was the look of utter hurt and despair in her eyes as she stared at me in shock and hurtI had vowed that i would never hurt her no matter what but tonight, i had drawn tears from her eyes and made her look at me in desp