“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
“You have lost your mind. I was away for two short weeks and you lost your mind?” He asked and Arielle glared at him. “You just got back and your first thought is to pick a fight with me? Why?” Arielle asked. “I wonder why, what do you think? I got released and got back home and you are not here, waited for you to show up only for you to be coming back by this time of the night, since when do you go out or keep late nights?”he barked out, for someone who just got released, he cleaned up pretty fast, shaved, and even cut his hair, he didn't look like he was waiting up for her because he was worried about her, he just wanted to pick a fight with her. “I don’t know what crawled up on your trousers and got it twisted Luciano but you have no right to question what I do, I don’t really have the strength to deal with you right now, so I am just going to pretend that this never happened, welcome back though,” Arielle said and matched upstairs ignoring his shout for her to come back, sh
“Where are you coming from? What have you been up to all week? If you don’t tell me, I will ask the driver and the bodyguards, better to tell me yourself or,” “Or what? What are you going to do? What can you do?” Arielle yelled cutting him off. “You learned to talk back didn’t you,”he said and she eyed him. ‘When did I not talk back to you Luciano? When?” She asked folding her hands against her chest. “So you are not going to tell me where you have been all day?” He asked, ignoring her question. “I am not obligated to answer that, instead of being so arrogant and whatnot, if I were you, I would be begging on my knees,”she let out. “And why would I do that?” He asked coming back to stand in front of her again. “What do you think?” Arielle asked and walked away from him. “I see you grew some wings but I am sorry to break it to you, you are nothing without me,”“That will be you Mr. I can call the cops to come bundle you out of here, wait, I don’t need the cops, I can have
Arielle woke up the next morning in a bad mood, she wasn’t looking forward to the day at all, she woke up to another threatening message from Lily, and on top of that, she had a banging headache, she just wanted to stay in bed all day and that’s what she did until Luciano walked into her room without knocking, one would think he would let her be after their confrontation last night but no, he just has to be the agent of darkness functioned against her, she glared at him, how can he look so good right now when she looked like hell and felt like hell. “Don’t you have better things to do than being here? What do you want this time?” She asked with a frown. “Ooh my lady, once we are done with this, you won’t have to deal with me anymore,”he said and sat down. “And what’s this about? I want to be alone,” she said and waited for him to talk. “It is about our little fight for ownership, I want us to resolve it right now,” He stated. “And what if I am not in the mood to talk right now
“Are you still not going home today? It has been a week boss,” Yoey said when he walked into the office and Luciano looked up from what he was doing, his assistant was all set to go home for the day but not him, he had no home to go to, Arielle hated him and he was to blame for it, he didn’t want to face her just yet until he has fully resolved the whole thing, he was getting there. In the past week, he has been able to link Lily to Perez and found out who she was before Don had found her, he found out her real name was Lauretta Uttar and she was pretty much a freeloader, everything about her was all wrong, she was once a mistress to another rich man who died too, what’s more, shocking was finding out she was Perez’s mistress too, she had been two-timing his grandfather, not like he had been surprised to find that out, what did surprise him was the fact that the person she was seeing turned out to be Perez of all people, the bastard came to see him as soon as he heard he got out and
“I know you don’t, you don’t even look happy, you are always lost in thoughts and you look like you aged a little, I haven’t gone through a breakup before but I have seen people who have and that’s exactly how you look like, I wish you don’t have to do it this way.” Yoey let out. “Yoey, you might be right about me doing this all wrong but I won’t go back now, I rather she hates me and stay away from this messy stuff than have her with me and have her witness all of this, it will get nasty soon and I don’t want her involved, I will fix things once this is over, for now, I can’t, the people we are dealing with are known to do shady things. Luciano responded, leaving no room for further debate. “Yeah boss, I will see you tomorrow, please take a break too,” Yoey said and left, once he was on his own, Luciano stood up from his seat and went to the cabinet in his office, make himself someone coffee, and went to stand by the window, looking out into the busy city, everyone was moving on
“What kind of trash are you spitting right now? Did you forget I was arrested for the murder and that my gun was found at the scene of the crime, how would you think that someone else killed him if not the people you work with, why else did you go into hiding?” Luciano barked at him. “They told me to, they made me believe you will kill me if you find me, I was already hiding before he was killed and I didn’t think of anything else than to stay away and they helped me,”He revealed. “Okay, so why are you here now? You no longer want to hide or they don’t want to help you anymore?” Luciano asked. He couldn’t stop himself from being angry at his cousin, the idiot caused too much damage to the family for him to just be forgiven but he seemed to have some information so no matter how angry he was at him, he had to keep it in check and listen to what he had to say. “I found, what they really wanted, why they approached me and then Don, it was all part of their grand plan, Don and I wer
“I honestly didn’t have anything to lose, I lost everything already but they won’t leave Betty alone, Lily keeps talking to Betty, she keeps threatening to harm Betty, I can’t let them do that, she is the only one that loves and cares about me, also she is carrying my child, I don’t want anything to happen to them,” Macko revealed. He looked so different talking about his woman, for the first time, Luciano could understand him, he would do anything to protect Arielle too, even though she wasn’t with child, he would still go against the world to protect her. “Okay, that I can understand,” Luciano said. “Yeah, I know, you love your wife,” “I do, but right now, she pretty much hates me,” Luciano revealed in sadness. “Why? Because of the divorce? I thought you guys were in it together,” “No, it was all me, and she hates me for what I did,”“Does that mean she is no longer with you? You can’t let her be on her own, that's dangerous, they will go for her, they might turn her against
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