“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
Arielle stared at her phone not knowing what to do, she was scared to turn it on, if she did she knew it will either start ringing or there will be another photo of her parents waiting for her, Lily and her people were not backing out not even after she told Lily that she already handed everything back to Luciano and they went their separate way already, in fact, she got worse after she told her that and resulted in messaging and calling her every moment that she had to turn her phone off most of the time. It was hard living in a hotel and she didn’t know for how long she would live the way she was now so she had chosen to use a cheaper hotel, not only that, it was further away from the mansion and anywhere near Luciano not like he was looking for her, in fact, she was sure he wasn’t even aware she left home, even if he did, he won't even care, the earlier she knows that, the better for her, one thing though, no matter how she tried to make herself forget him, his thought always find
“Why will I make things up, for start, you are in Solntsevo, right now, at that cheap ass hotel down south and your room number is**” “Stop!” Arielle yelled, cutting her off. “What do you want from me, Lily? Why are you following me around?” She asked, she didn’t know how Lily got her location so accurately. Now more than ever, she would make sure to move by morning. It was already too late to leave she would have, the neighborhood wasn’t good enough for her to walk around at night. “Now we are talking, listen carefully and do as I say and both you and your parents will be just fine, but if you don’t do as I say, I can’t guarantee your safety,”Lily said and Arielle could already tell she was about to do something impossible. “What do you want?” She asked and waited while biting hard on her lips, almost peeling them from fear and anxiety. “See, what I want is very easy, you go to Luciano, you get him to hand over whatever shares he has of the Siegel empire to you and you will
Luciano felt relief wash over his body as he wrapped her in a hug, she was okay, she was fine and he found her before they did, he thought he won’t find her, thought the worse when her phone finally started ringing but she didn’t take her calls, he thought the worse had happened to her, he imagined her laid in some cold dirty floor, chained, until Dreg had said she was at this hotel, it came as a shock to him because she had enough money to go to a better place why she chooses such a rundown hotel in a place like this was beyond him but he was just glad she was okay and nothing happened to her like he had thought when he couldn’t find her. “You are okay now, I found you,” He whispered as he held her tighter, he expected her to be mad at him but she was hugging him too, he said a small thank you to the universe, well too early because she pushed him away at that moment and made to go back into the room but he didn’t let her close the door on him, he pushed his way into the room and c
The ride back to the office was quiet, Luciano wanted to take her directly to the penthouse but he already told Yoey to meet him at the office and he couldn’t cancel, she wasn’t even looking at him, he messed up so bad, he didn’t know how he was going to fix the relationship he broke just yet but he wanted to fix things, life would be hell without her and he confirmed it tonight already, somehow, he couldn’t figure out how but the woman sitting away from him became the most important person in his life and he wanted to keep her close to him forever. When they got to the office, she walked ahead of him without saying a word to him, and he followed silently behind her. “Boss, you are here, thank God,”Yoey said when he entered the office before Arielle did, she had waited for him to enter first and followed behind him. “Wow, you guys have made up already? You finally listened to me?”Yoey asked when he saw Arielle, Luciano wished that was the case but they were far from making up. Th
Arielle pretended to be sleeping but she couldn’t help listening in on their conversation, they were talking about Lily, they knew she was an evil person, and from what they were saying, Arielle realized Lily might be the one who killed Don which means she had lied when she had told her she wasn’t the one that killed him, what can’t that woman do? Arielle couldn’t lie, she felt relief and safe now that she was with Luciano, plus he told her he loves her, she knew she would be a fool to just believe him and forgive him after everything he put her through but he was right about her being safer with him, that’s why she had come with him, not because he had said he loves her, she was putting her safety first. the fact that they knew just what Lily was told her all she needed to know, she was sure Lily knew they know about her which was why she wanted her to get through to Luciano and get what she needed for her, or maybe she is not aware yet and was just trying to use her, if only she kn
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