After Luciano left, Arielle tried to just go to bed since she didn’t have anything else to do but she just couldn’t fall asleep, she was worried for Luciano even though he had assured her that he will be okay before he left, she just couldn’t rub off the feeling that something wasn’t right and that the coming days were going to be hectic for him, earlier when he had followed her and apologized she had realized that she wasn’t alone in whatever feeling she had for him, no it wasn’t love, more like companionship, they both relied on each other and didn’t want to be on each other’s bad side which made her believe their relationship will only grow better as the times goes by, who knows, by the time two years come by, they would remain friends even after they divorce, she wanted that, wanted to remain his friend for a long time because he was the first person that knew her and actually saw her, cared about the things she liked and went out of his way to do those things for her, for her, it
Luciano walked into his penthouse wanting to do nothing but take a bath a get some much-needed sleep, after the press conference, he decided that he deserved to rest before he kills himself in the process of trying to fix things for his family, he was the only one who still had brain cells left in the whole family as the others were beyond exhausted, his uncle Laz had to go get shots at the hospital after nights of endless brainstorming to find a last solution, the poor man hadn’t signed up for having to come and fix his older brothers mess, according to him, he had been in Hawaii when the call had come, he had to abandon his vacation and run back to Russia, apparently, uncle Laz had warned Don too but the old man had not listened to his younger brother just like he had not listened to his grandson, but when it was time to fix his mess, they were the first people he thought of calling. Luciano spent the whole week trying to fix the mess Deda made by mixing with the wrong crowd, the d
“I did good coming here, I almost changed my mind,” She said when they broke the kiss, he was glad she didn’t change her mind. “You did well by coming here, I am sorry I didn’t call you as I promised, it has been hectic and I just got a short break today,” He explained. “I know, you didn’t even respond to my text, or my calls so I figured you were cramped up with work,” She said, fixing his hair with her fingers, he didn’t even know she called and texted, he has not touched his personal phone since the whole thing started. “I honestly didn’t know you called, I am sorry I ignored you,” “You keep apologizing, that’s not like you Mr. Don’t worry, I understand, I brought you something to eat, you look like you haven’t been eating much,” She said as she let him go and went over to the basket she had brought with her, he didn’t even realize he hasn’t eaten anything except for the quick breakfast he had at the office earlier today while preparing for the press conference, if she hadn
You know the bad feeling one gets when one wakes up from sleep sometimes, the feeling that something was wrong, in a very bad way, that’s the kind of feeling Arielle woke up with, first Luciano wasn’t there when she woke up and he looked like he left a long time ago, she tried to shake the feeling off, maybe he had to return to the office early and he hadn’t wanted to wake her up, but even as she took her bath, she couldn’t shake off the feeling that something bad has happened, she quickly finished bathing and went to get her phone to call him but he didn’t take her call, after trying four more times, she gave up and dropped her phone, hoping that he will call her back soon, she didn’t want to leave the penthouse without him showing up. Her fears were confirmed when she decided to open the internet. She jumped and was on her feet so fast when she saw the headline of the first article that popped up, it read. ‘DON SIEGEL, FOUND DEAD IN HIS HOME’ Arielle blinked hoping she was seeing
“Yes, that’s true and even I am working based off a giving instructions, I can’t go against what I am being told, just stay home so that you can be safe, I really don’t have the time to deal with this right now, there are a lot more important things that need my attention, if you would excuse me.” He replied and started walking away, at first Arielle was much too dumbfounded to say a word and just watched him walk away then she got her voice back and yelled for him to stop. “Who the fuck gave that instruction? I want to see the person, why would they not want me to go see my husband and what right do they have to say so?’ Arielle asked, he wasn’t making any sense, no one had the right to tell her to not go see her husband, she needed to see him and make sure he was okay. “The instructions were given by the boss,” Yoey revealed. Arielle waited for him to say which boss it is because it obviously can’t be Luciano. “Which boss are you talking about here and where can I find him to
Luciano sat looking lost in the interrogation room at the police station where he had been brought in very early today, it still felt like he was having a bad dream because nothing that has happened in the last couple of hours feels real, Luciano Siegel getting arrested was not something he ever thought would happen, it never crossed his mind once that he would be cuffed up and dragged into a police van, never thought he would be trapped in a cell nor an interrogation room but that’s what was happening right now. “So, when are you going to start speaking up? This is not a case when you get to keep quiet, this involves murder Siegel,” The officer said but Luciano chose to not listen or answer him, yes, he knew the man was only doing his job but he has been asked this same question since he was brought here and his answer has been the same but they chose to not believe him, he had no reason to kill Don, he still couldn’t bring himself to believe that Don was gone. After he got the ca
Luciano waited for Yoey to show up, it was almost ten pm and they only reason he was allowed to stay waiting for Yoey till this time was because one of the officers in charge was a close acquittance who was able to pull some strings for him, not enough to get him out of jail though, he spoke to uncle Laz earlier and he had told him they were doing everything to get him out, he already knew it would take up to a week or more before he would be allowed out of here, he couldn’t just sit in cell and be quiet till then, he needed to work on his own too, prove his innocence by finding the real killer and also make sure his assets were safe’ which is why he had got his own people working overtime to find whoever had gotten into Don’s villa and killed him and some of his men, the ones who survived were still not awake from coma yet so until they could talk, he wouldn’t be leaving here, he hoped they wake up soon so that he can get out of here and do the needful, one thing was sure, whoever ki
Arielle couldn’t get a single sleep that night, she tossed and turned all through the night, she was worried for Luciano and sad for his grandfather, before she went to bed, she turned on the news and they showed when he had been moved to the morgue, it had been horrific to watch as she couldn’t believe that the man who had welcome her to the Siegel family over two months ago was no more, the fact that she never got to know him hurt and she had cried thinking about how Luciano must feel losing his closest family member, what makes it even more painful was he wasn’t allowed to mourn, he was locked up and accused of murdering him. She woke up early the next morning with swollen eyes and a banging headache but she didn’t let that stop her as she had told Lily she would go see her today, she got into the shower and took a cold bath, before dressing up in simple plain black jeans and paired it with a black top, she packed her hair up in a messy bun and stepped out of the room, she didn’t
Three months later. “Luciano? Get your ass in here,”Arielle yelled for her husband as another wave of intense pain hit her, she let out a loud howl as she felt the pain shoot right to her back, she tried to take slow steady breaths like she had been instructed to during the classes for the first mom that she had attended but nothing was working and the moron she married wasn’t coming out. She breathed in and out a couple of times, counting one to eight back and forth, she waited for the pain to subside before trying to call him again. “LUCIANO IF YOU DON’T GET YOUR ASS IN HERE THIS MINUTE,’’ She yelled louder this time and the door swung open in seconds to reveal the panicking face of her handsome husband who looked like he saw a ghost when he saw the way she was. “What is going on? Are you okay?”He asked. She knew she should be calm with him and not take out her pain-inflicted anger on him but he sounded so dumb and the look on his face, the sudden surge of pain that erupted in
“So? When are you going to agree to my marriage proposal?”Luciano asked, hugging her from behind. She turned and hugged him, her big tummy getting in the way, it has been five months since the whole thing ended and five straight months of pure bliss, she was currently in her sixth month of pregnancy and her tummy was almost bigger than her whole body. Earlier today at his cousin Macko’s wedding party, she had caught him watching her a lot of times but she ignored him each time. Even though she had forgiven him for what he did all those months ago, she was getting her revenge now and it was fun making him beg. “I told you that I am a hard girl,”She reminded him and even though she didn’t see his face, she knew he was sulking. The past five months have done a lot for their relationship, Luciano has been nothing but the devoting lover, always fuzzing over her and making sure she didn’t lack anything. “Pretty please accept me already, I am a poor orphan,”he pleaded. The corny man she
The days after she got away from Lily were pretty much normal for Arielle, aside from the shock she felt now and then when someone opens the door or when she woke up from sleep, she was doing okay, she stayed at home all day and barely left her room, she watched movies and played games, she was never bored. Today, she decided to spend the day in the garden, since the gardener was working, she decided to help him and also learn the names of some of the flowers and plants in the garden. That’s how she spent her morning and some part of her afternoon learning the names of flowers and their varieties and also getting mud in her clothes while she helped the gardener who seemed overwhelmed by her presence at first but slowly got used to her and they sort of became friends. She thanked him for having her after they were done and she went back inside. It was almost time for Luciano to return from work so she took her bath and decided to watch tv. Arielle turned on the TV to keep her enterta
After Luciano left the house, he did a happy little dance while his driver took him to the warehouse. He was beyond happy today, finding out he was going to be a father was the second best news he had this year, the first being when Arielle had told him she still loves him. Everything that brings him happiness was related to her and he wanted to be done with everything so that he can focus on making her happy. After what she had told him yesterday, he had Yoey make further research and even questioned Macko and they realized she was Big Sean all along and she was the one that changed the deal they had, according to Macko, he never did anything with hard drugs and only persuaded Don because he genuinely thought they were going to partner with the government of Nigeria. With everything that happened and how Macko had helped him, it was easier for him to believe his cousin, it was easier now that they are working together, no, he still thinks Macko is a loser and still made sure to remi
Arielle woke up with a startle, at first, she expected to feel the pain of being tied but there was none and when she opened her eyes, she looked around her surrounding for a moment, lost in confusion and trembling with fear, she dreamt of Luciano finding her and bringing her home, she looked around even more and realized she was no longer chained and the room she was in looked clean and she was on a bed. Realization and the memories of the previous day finally crawled into her head. She got off the bed in a haste to make sure she hadn’t dreamt it or imagined it, she opened the door and collided with a hard chest, her heart dropped in fear until she looked up and saw Luciano. “Baby? Where are you going? I didn’t know you were awake already,”He said. She hugged him and held on to him tightly. “I thought it was a dream, I thought I was still there, I was scared,”She cried into his arms which he wrapped around her. “It is not a dream, you are here with me, you, brave woman got yours
Luciano went to his car to get his phone, he had forgotten to take it with him after he dropped it off in his car earlier, maybe Lily has called already, he shouldn’t have left his phone, he opened his car and saw the phone laying on the seat, he picked it up and like he expected he had a couple of missed calls, none from Lily but five from unregistered number, thinking Lily might have changed her call line, he dialed the number as he closed the car and walked back towards the warehouse. “Hello?”He voiced when the call was taken. “He has picked but she is asleep so what do we do?”He heard a woman’s voice in the background but it wasn’t Lily’s voice nor was it a voice he had heard before plus she sounded older. “Hello? Who is this?”he asked as he heard another voice, this time a male. “Hello, she was trying to reach you earlier with my phone but you were not taking your calls, she is sleeping right now, she looks so tired that I can’t bring myself to wake her up.”The voice echo
“Your husband is a fucking asshole! I hate him so much,”Lily yelled out after dropping the call with Luciano, whatever he told her was clearly not what she had wanted to hear and she looked so pissed right now. Arielle was genuinely scared of what she might do to her now, she watched as the older woman paced around and swearing loudly, Arielle prayed silently that she will not take out her anger on her, she couldn’t bear any more pain, she was so scared for her baby, she felt even more sorry for not being able to tell Luciano they were going to have a baby, if only Lily would let her go already, she missed home so much, missed Luciano so fucking much. “Your husband is playing games with me and he thinks he will win this, fucker thinks he can play my game and beat me at it, I will show him that I have been playing this game since forever.” Lily let out. This was the first time she was showing her face after the fight they had and unlike the last time, Lily didn’t get close to her ev
Luciano sat in his office feeling like hell, he hasn’t gone home for the past three days and nothing he has done felt right for him, he couldn’t give up what was remaining of the Siegel name to a mad woman, she was asking for the impossible. Both Yoey and Macko has been with him on those days even though they both went home to refresh themselves, he on the other hand couldn’t leave, they tried without succeeding to get her location through Lily’s phone location but the woman was much too smart and that couldn’t be found, even the car search came to a dead end when they found out that the car’s original owner did not have any idea who the person that took his car was and it was stolen. The police were not made aware neither did he file for a missing person report, he didn’t want those fuckers messing things up when he knew who got his wife. He just needed to figure out where she was at and find her but that was proving to be so hard. “I don’t know what I am going to do, I am so tired
Arielle woke up for the third time and tried to shake the sleep off her eyes, everywhere seems dark and she could barely keep her eyes open, she tried to get up but she couldn’t, her body ached too like someone had beaten her up, she struggled to open her eyes and when she finally did, she realized she was laying in an unkempt room, the bed which she laid looked like it was moved to the room recently, there was nothing else in the room except the bed and a table, she couldn’t make out what was on top of the table, she got up and sat on the bed looking around her. Her back ached so much. She tried to remember what happened and burst into tears when everything that happened came rushing to her. It was all her fault for leaving the house, she should have stayed put and talked to Luciano, he would have taken her to the hospital and they would have been home together cuddled up but here she was being held in an unknown location, she knew who it was that got her even though she has not yet