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
“Such a weak woman,” She belittled herself, how could she fall for him so easily, she knew the answer to her own question, it was hard not to love him when he was the most caring person she has ever known, he worked his way into her heart even though she had built a wall over it, how could she not love him when he was the only person who has truly cared for her and cared about her needs, she could lie and say it was just gratitude to him that she felt but what would she gain from lying to herself, of course she wasn’t going to admit it to him, he warned her not to fall for him and she wasn’t about to dump her feelings on him, she just wanted all this problems to be over and for him to come back to her, she would love him in her heart and show him with her actions and when it would be time to say goodbye, she would do so knowing she experienced what it was like to love someone and she would take that feelings with her and cherish it forever. she already knew it won't be as easy as she
“Why do you want me to sign a divorce paper?” She yelled at Yoey throwing the file away as if it was hot and had burnt her, she waited for him to explain but he just stood up from where he sat, picked up the file, and set it back on the table. “Why do you want me to sign a divorce paper? You can’t tell me this is what my husband wants too because I know that’s not what he wants so if this is some kind of sick joke, you better stop it because it is not funny, this is not even the time to make jokes like this, what kind of a person are you?” Arielle yelled at him when he refused to say anything, she couldn’t believe what was happening, he didn’t want her to meet up with Luciano, and now he brought a divorce paper on behalf of Luciano which she was sure he wasn’t aware of and now she couldn’t help but think Yoey didn’t just hate her a small amount, he hated her a lot and he wants to use this moment when Luciano isn’t around to get rid of her, maybe he thought she would be stupid enoug
“Siegel, you got a call,” The officer informed opening the door to the room Luciano was in, he got given a better room, which was still bad compared to what he was used to but it was better than the other room and he had a little privacy there, he took the phone from the officer who walked away, his legal team was definitely pulling a lot of strings for him, being moved to an enclosed room and being allowed to take calls were not things the police would readily do for free. “Yoey? Why are you calling instead of coming to see me? What happened to what I told you to do?” Luciano asked when he picked up the call, it was Friday and he was supposed to have made Arielle sign already. “About that, I am currently at the mansion,”Yoey informed. “Okay, has she signed? Get the papers to the lawyers and make sure everything is finalized today, and you have to bring it here for me to sign too, you don’t have a lot of time young man,” Luciano said. “Boss, we have a problem, your wife,” “Wh
“Why, just why are you doing this Luciano? I thought you cared about me?” She asked, choking on unshed tears. “I don’t care about you, Arielle. Who do you think you are? You are nothing to me, the only thing I wanted which I got to its fullest was your body,” Luciano let out pulling her to him, he met to only pull her close to let what he was saying sink, no way did he mean to place his hands around her waist neither did he mean to kiss her but somehow, their eyes met and he lost his senses, he found himself kissing her and she was responding to him like she always do, he lost his mind when she wrapped her arms around his neck and moaned into his mouth, he lifted her up into his arms and dropped her on the bed their lips never parting, he knew he should stop this madness and let her go but he missed having her like this so much that he couldn’t stop even if he wanted to, he broke the kiss just enough to take off her dress and took in the beauty in front of him, she was breathing he
Arielle felt like her heart was going to explode in pain, she tried so hard not to feel hurt and prepared herself so much for when she meets him, telling herself all the way through the drive here that all she wanted was to hear it directly from him, hear that they were over from his mouth while she looked at him but when he did say those words, it hurt so bad, and then he kissed her and made love to her only to say the worse shit to her right after yet she didn’t hate him, she felt hurt of course but she just couldn’t bring herself to hate him, she hated herself for it, she should hate him, that was the right thing to do after how he treated her but like a fool she still cared for him and wished he overcomes his present situation, she didn’t like meeting him like that, he lost weight and also looked like he hasn’t been taking care of himself, he didn’t even bother to shave. Yoey was waiting for her at the entrance with a look of pity, she so wanted to beat him up for looking at her
After signing, a thought suddenly came to her, at first, she ignored it but the more she thought about it, the more it made sense, why else would Luciano sign over everything he owned to her, except he was trying to safeguard then and signing them over to her means they will no longer be in his name which means they can no longer associate everything with his name, she hoped that wasn’t the case, she knew she will find out soon if it was a mistake add if they really plan to use, she manage to fall into a restless sleep at about four am on Saturday morning only to be woken by a knock on the door, she sluggishly get off the bed and went to unlock the door and saw Yoey standing outside the door, she knew what he came for so she went back into the room and brought it. “I signed it, I can leave the house freely, now right?”Arielle asked as she handed over the file to him, he looked surprised and she wondered why when he had wanted her to sign so much yesterday, and he was here so early f
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