Author's PovAce was the first one to leave a sharp cut over Max's arm as he skillfully moved around avoiding the raging man's attack leaving the injury behind. Max hissed slightly before raising his eyes to the blank steely eyed man who moved his gloved fingers over his bloodied dagger wiping the freshly painted blood off. Max clenched his jaw when he found a tint of disgust in Ace's eyes while trying to clean off his blood."That's it?" Max provoked the beast who snickered lowly glancing at his wife who stared between the glaring guys still sat on the ground where Max had pushed her to."Move back." Ace's nonchalant voice echoed in her ears as she without any protest followed his instructions and scooted away from the hall which has now turned their battlefield. After she obeyed him, Ace turned his hawk eyes towards the narrow eyed man who looked beyond amused yet the hint of resentment he bore for the duo was there."I thought you were better than this, Maxton," Ace said gaining Ma
Author's PovAce stared at the door wanting to turn the knob of it and barged in but something was stopping him. His stiffened frame silently heard the water rapidly running making him sigh heavily, he knew his wife was once again trying to find solace in the lonely cage she had trapped herself for the last two days.It had been two days Alvin died, the fall crushed his brain and he died on the spot, as expected his death was declared a drug overdosed which became the headlines of only a day. Ace and Aurora were the only people who knew the truth behind Alvin's death, there was no way for Aurora to overpower Max as no authority would dared to go against him, but Ace had. Ace was equally influential and powerful as Max but the bitter hatred he bore for Alvin didn't let him to try to give that bastard any justice. He didn't care how he died, his only concern was attached to this woman who hadn't cried once after her father's death, she was trying to lock away her emotions but Ace knew
Author's Pov Flashback Ace and Max were just a few months apart, their bond and entanglement was weird, they both were left at the orphanage the same day making them to share the same birthday, they were even kept in the same room and were taken care by the same people who raised them together. Ace's parents supposedly died and he was left on the door of the orphanage, he tried to find his family for years when Alvin took him in but he never was successful and eventually he gave up.While Max had a different story, he was a result of a night stand and his mother didn't want him, she was asked to abort him by Max's father but due to her bad health, she was advised to give birth to him as abortion could risk her life, so naturally she gave birth to him and left him at the gate of orphanage. Max's father was alive and he actually appeared in his life years after, but not as a father.Ace and Max shared everything with each other from the time they started understanding the meaning of f
Author's PovFlashback ContinuesAce sighed heavily taking a seat on the bench before palming his forehead. Rejected, again. He was again refused by the scorpions, as per the person he approached told him that their boss never took anyone under 20 in their gang. He had been trying for months to get in that gang but to no avail, even after his training they refused him.Ace wasn't scared of Alvin knowing about him trying to approach the scorpions as he knew Scorpions were far more powerful and confidential than him, they never revealed any of their men's information, so he knew Alvin would never get to know it, he just needed to join the gang after that he would leave Alvin and his mansion for good, the only person he would have a contact would be his girlfriend, Aurora as she already told him that she had talked with her father about them so he wasn't worry about it after all he was doing it for her and his brother. In front of scorpions Alvin wasn't even an insect, his underground b
Author's PovFlashback ContinuesAce clutched his stomach as another wave of pain hit him but this time it was mixed with the heartache he felt watching his little brother looking at him with utmost hatred, Ace wasn't familiar with watching these kinds of emotions in Max's eyes. He looked lost, destroyed and evil. It felt like he was a completely different person than the one he once knew."Don't look at me like this, don't look at me like you're the one being wronged here!" Max retorted thrusting his face closer to Ace's bloodied ones as he motioned his men to leave him which they did. Ace's aching body waved almost falling on the ground after the support left him but Max was fast enough to catch him, Ace's body fell against his little brother’s as Max held him like he was hugging him. Ace closed his eyes tears gathering in his eyes, 9 years! He hadn't seen his brother for nine fucking years and when they finally met Max hated him due to a mere misunderstanding! "M-Max, my brother
Author's PovFlashback Continues Ace's body was buried in the same barren land he was almost driven to death by his brother, but his time on earth wasn't supposed to end that time. He didn't know the profession he hated the most would became the reason of his survival, the only right decision in his whole life he took was entering Scorpions, the day he was supposed to meet the man who took him in by talking to his boss had left a few men behind to keep an eye on Ace to inspect if he was sent by an enemy or genuinely wanted to enter their gang.And there was this young man who was sent to meet Ace with the two other men left behind to follow Ace, they were ready to attack Max and save their man but that young man knew it wouldn't be a smart move. Max had nearly 10 people guarding him and they were only three, freshly trained and no professional experience to deal with them. He knew that cut wouldn't kill Ace but the lack of air could.Just a second they left, all the three of them ran
Author's PovLeaning against the wall, Ace watched the gloomy faced woman standing on the balcony, he couldn't help but sigh heavily before narrowing his eyes at her. From the time he told her about his and Max's past she had been behaving like a mute and distant. He didn't mind her avoidance as she had done it even in the past and he kind of was used to it but her silence wasn't settling well with him.This time, her silence wasn't the result of anger or resentment towards him instead it was due to something else, and he even though knew the reason of selective muteness, he refused to acknowledge it with conscious mind. Ace was himself had started loving the art of loneliness, he liked being alone and no one around him to talk but he had no idea why? But with her he always ended up talking more than he ever had done.Pushing himself away from the doorframe, he walked near her standing figure, her arms were wrapped around her body but the coldness hadn't have any mercy on her. The wea
Author's PovHearing his words, Aurora's breathing paused for a second as she had no idea why his words seemed to have double meaning, his poker face, blank eyes and pale complexion wasn't helping either, she couldn't find anything by inspecting his looks. In the past, Aurora used to guess what Ace must be thinking or feeling just by one glance in his eyes and it frustrated her sometimes at how he was like a open book when it came to her. But now, he indeed had learned the art of masking his expressions, even from her."Ace," He blinked once before tilting his head slightly watching her wordlessly, he knew she wanted to ask something and his silence told her to go ahead."Will you ever let me go?" She whispered what her heart had been fretting about for the past months now. This man had taken more than she could bargain for, wasn't this enough to sate his vengeance which was directed to her? Her father died, she lost her everything just to please him and earn his forgiveness, her dig