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
“That’s too fast, is it even possible?” She asked herself as she read the new article, finding out from the news she just became one of the richest people in the whole of Russia after her husband now ex-husband, signed those papers, it was overwhelming to read about and totally surreal. “He really did everything and made me out to be the villain, a gold digger? A freeloader, a vile disgusting woman who only marries men for money? I am none of those things,” She let out as she dumped her phone and paced up and down, she was so angry and sad, Luciano really did all this to her while knowing she would never do anything like that. “I am going to make him pay,”she let out still pacing up and down, how could he do this much damage to her in just two days, broke her heart, reduced her to a sex slave, and turned her into a bad woman all because he didn’t want to lose what he owned, why did he have to do so many bad things to her to achieve that? She never hurt him in any way or went agai
“Siegel! Once again, you have a visitor,” The officer in charge of him announced and Luciano got up to go see Yoey, he already knew it would be him, who else will visit him on a Monday evening, he had been expecting him anyway. “One thing being here did for you is let you rest, I wish I can say the same for myself,” Yoey said tapping on the glass that separated them. “You can come and take my place, I won’t mind,” He responded as he took his seat, after he signed those papers and the news got out, they got a little more strict with him, now he couldn’t sign anything in here and he couldn’t meet people in person and they had to talk with a glass wall separating them, he didn’t mind that at all. “No thank you,”Yoey said and frowned. “What’s going on? What happened to your face?” Luciano asked hoping something bad had not happened again, he was tired of dealing with sad and unfortunate news. “Nothing happened, at least I hope so,” Yoey said. Still, he was frowning. “What are
The next day, he was called in for questioning and all those formal stuff and he thought he would be released after that but they just questioned him and sent him back to his cell and that’s how the week ran out with Luciano being called in for questioning nonstop, the police were having a field day prolonging his release that he was not the one to pull the trigger, they just wouldn’t let him go and he didn’t know why, the guys that were with Don that night clarified that he wasn’t the one that shot him and surprisingly, there was a CCTV was so close to losing it already, now he couldn’t even speak to anyone, not even after it was proven that footage that showed him entering the house a good twenty minutes after the intruder reportedly got in, the men didn’t know it was and they concluded someone must have hired him, but then even if they assume he was the one that hired the killer, it was not enough to still keep in custody, he knew what they were trying to do, they were trying to fi
Arielle listened quietly to the news that proves what she had known from the beginning, Luciano was innocent and he would be released tomorrow, it was good news and she should be happy that he is free but when she thought about what he did to her and how he went out of his way to make sure the public hated and bashed her, she couldn’t feel happy for him. Well now that he is free, it was time for the real battle to begin because she already knew the first thing he would do is try to get back everything he gave her, she didn’t want it but she would make him suffer before she gives them back and be out of his life the minute she does, he didn’t deserve her, she deserved better than a man who would drop her and turn her to a public enemy the minute things gets ugly. The police found evidence that proved he was innocent and she thought he would be released at the beginning of last week but they prolong it for as long as they could, they must have wanted to find something on him which had
“What I am going to do is give him back everything, spend some time with you until I am okay, and then get out of Moscow, go somewhere far, and start a new life,” Arielle responded and heard Lily hiss. “That’s nonsense, how about you don’t give anything back and fight for what is now rightfully yours, I mean he willingly signed everything to you, don’t be so goody two shoes and treat a man exactly the way he treated you,”Lily advised. Arielle knew she meant well but she couldn’t do that not when she knew why he had done it in the first place, even though he went about it the wrong way. “I can’t do that Lily, nothing is mine, you and I both know why he did what he did and now that he is back, even though I plan on making him suffer a little, I am going to give everything back, he worked hard for them,” Arielle told her. “That’s not the right thing to do, why he signed it over to you is none of your business what concerns you now is making sure he cannot get his hands back on them
“I didn’t kill him, I didn’t even know he was going to be killed, I just wanted to get what I could from him, I am not a killer,” Lily yelled at her. “You might not have killed him but you know who did and you kept quiet about it just so you could steal from a dead man, Luciano was right about not trusting you all along, I should have listened to him, I can’t believe I bought into your lies and thought you were indeed a good person,”Arielle let out picking up her bag, she was done talking with Lily, the woman was far too invested in her evil plans to see the errors in her way. “If you give up everything back to Luciano, you will regret it,” She yelled after she and Arielle stopped for a moment and stared back at the woman she thought was her friend, the same person she had told everything about her, the one she had spent one whole week with, the one she thought will be her source of strength once she breaks free from Luciano but all she could see was a whole different person that
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