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Chapter 18Vanessa's POVAs it happens, me kneeling in the middle of the room is just a slight punishment—something minor for me to do before he brings out the handcuffs and ropes from the bag. He comes over to me and starts adorning me with them. I smile at his art. When he ties me up, as it happens, he'd learned from the best—me, especially. I'm pretty sure he didn't have all this knowledge before because the way he rounds and knots the ropes around my breasts, pushing the blood to one side and making crosses with the ropes around the rest of my torso, just stopping short of my pussy, is nothing short of professional.He looks at me in satisfaction. I'm restrained in more ways than one, but I can still move if I put in enough effort. He cuffs my hands above my head decisively before tying the cuffs to a rope hanging from a support on the ceiling. Now, I'm sure that things are about to get painful—painful but fun. I'm masochistic in that way.He goes over to the bag and brings out a
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Chapter 19Luca Romano, The session with her this time is more than electrifying. She's a freaking goddess, her beauty unmatched. Yet, she gives me all her body, not keeping any part of it away from me. It's hot the way she submits to my every will, lets me bind her, untie her at will, lets me whip her, use her, and abuse her body without constraints. That excites me the most. This isn't just a job for her. It's something more. But I'm a bit afraid if I can continue leading her on.We finally collapsed on the ground beside each other, a sweaty mess. I still have a smile on my face. Somehow I've completely forgotten about all my worries, and all I can see is her."This one was amazing," I tell her simply. "It's the best I've experienced in ages."She smiled at me. "It's the same here," she responds simply.I look at her seriously. "I can give you about a million for this."She looks at me apprehensively."What do you say?" I ask. I actually expect her to look excited at the prospect o
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Chapter 20Vanessa HollowayWe are both tired and happy after that devastating sex, going two rounds back to back. Even I, who seems to be the more active of the both of us, the more enthusiastic, am tired. I'm exhausted. However, I'm not completely happy, knowing that nothing has changed between us despite how much we connected just now physically.It breaks my heart. I can't keep the feelings locked up—they're bubbling. Yeah, I can let it out and let him know how I feel. If I keep waiting for him to do the confession as the guy among us, I might keep waiting forever. It'll be foolish to let this man go, considering my heart beats fast for him. I know that soon enough he'd be flooded by women. I have to grab him now that I still have the chance.So I find the words from the depths of my heart, and I speak with as much sincerity as I can, mostly telling him exactly how I feel, telling him what I know. Leaving myself more vulnerable than I had been when I let him take full control of m
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Chapter 21: Luca RomanoAfter the session with Vanessa, long after she had gone - in fact, two days after - I found myself more of me and able to focus. Her words had given me a new sense of purpose, realigned me to what I was supposed to do daily, and so I was able to carry out my work with ease. I didn't call her again, but I had started chatting with her a little more regularly. It was more in agreement to her request, but all her responses seemed overjoyed.If she thought that this was a change and improvement, then I was fine with it for the moment. The conversation factor didn't make the relationship between us deeper. The stranger's image in my mind still distracted me from her, and I knew that we might as well be deceiving ourselves.Most of our talks, however, were about the killer that's after my life. She keeps on giving me updates on what's going on with her investigation, and I don't mind at all. She has an even longer list of killers now, and slowly, with each passing da
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Chapter 22: Luca RomanoI can hardly believe my ears. She has a lot of spunk to come all the way to my office just to tell me this. However, as she leans back in her chair, I see that she's actually concerned. And despite how she makes it sound, she cares for me. I think of everything she's told me - she is right, and that makes it even more painful. This matter with the killer is affecting my life and also my future. I have an entire empire waiting for me to rule. It's already on a platter of gold. All I have to do is maintain it. So I have the advantage over her. She's fighting actively. Ambitious, but it's useless. But the only concern is that it won't be so useless if I'm not able to fight myself. Because if I can't, then her hard work is going to pay off and I will lose the fight to her despite my obvious advantage and head start."I simply don't want it to be too easy," she tells me, looking at me quite seriously. "That's why I said a moment ago that you are losing your touch. I
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Chapter 23Kira RogersI keep putting it off. I dread meeting the man face to face because I'm well aware that I might not be able to do it, and the powerlessness makes me feel apprehensive about even going near him. For the next couple of weeks, I completely stay away from that instruction, carrying out other minor jobs that have been given to me: warn him, beat her up, kill them.The little jobs kept me going and keep my mind off the main issue at hand as I have to think of strategic ways to carry out my jobs. Usually, I don't even take those ones—only the killing parts are the ones I carry out because the others are for minors, and I can't be risking my identity to do something so small. However, it's the best I can do to distract myself, and I definitely don't want to go to a party once again, fearing that something similar to what happened the last time would happen and shift my life from its balance."You know that you have to do this sooner or later," Xavier says to me, frownin
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Chapter 24Kira RogersIt takes me quite a while to get to him this time around. It's a poison—short-term but very effective all the same. You'd never find a substance that can disorient a guard so much to the extent that his tears drop. Luca is in the car, and I'm waiting for my plan to turn into a success. I've drugged his driver impeccably, and now his sense of direction is all wrong. Even I don't know where he's going to end up, but I know that he's going to keep on driving safe until he finally can't drive anymore.Thinking about the ingenuity of the idea, I almost laugh out loud to myself. It's brilliant, even in my own eyes. I'm not about to burn Luca in an accident. That would be a very cowardly way of killing him. What's more, I want to meet him first, so it's another reason why I make sure that this setup is complete.First of all, I can almost see him screaming at the driver to get back on track, to get a hold of himself. From my distance away, I'm keeping close track on my
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Chapter 25Kira Rogers I think about the guilt upon me, the thousands of people I've hurt due to taking lives of their family members and friends. Looking straight at him, I don't know why, but I feel he would understand—and not in the way my colleagues such as Xavier understand my situation. He's in it also, in the same job with me, but I'm not sure he feels that emotional attachment to his victims. He seems carefree enough about what he does. But Luca—he somehow seems different. The look in his eyes somehow tells me that he's going to sympathize with me."They tie me down, tie me here. I find myself drawn back as if I'm in a contract circle because it's breaking." His eyes have a deep expression to them as he speaks."I'm so sorry." The words are genuine and heartfelt. I don't know why I'm talking with him like this. I should add him to the list of people I kill. But somehow, I just don't."You aren't going to try to run away now, are you?" I ask him.He smiles at me. "I'm not sure
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Chapter 40 - Luca Romano"I'll tell her the pure truth," I think to myself, but I know that it doesn't matter what I say—what really matters is how I say it. So I get my information across as tactfully as I can manage, hoping that I wouldn't come off as a traitor."The girl I'm involved with, well, I was involved with," I start out, typing another message. "She knows that someone is trying to kill me. I continue, and she's an investigative journalist. I had... After my first encounter with you, I told her about it in one of our meetings," I say simply, because I'm not about to completely deny my involvement, tell her that somehow Vanessa just wants to look into her for no reason at all. I need to let her know exactly what's going on no matter what. And if it means taking some of the blame, then I would do it."She is very good, and I think you might be in danger, so I decided to warn you. I've told her to stop, but she just wouldn't listen," I finish before waiting patiently for a res
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Chapter 39 - Luca RomanoI realized my mistake the moment after I make it. I feel a sense of dread creeping upon me. I might as well have simply confessed that the name she professed was true. I know that there is a tendency that she doesn't exactly know, that she is not sure yet and simply tries to sound sure so as to deceive me. How could I let such a simple tactic work on me, I think to myself in dismay, knowing that I've given her away nicely now.I should have known that this girl is an investigative journalist and that as such she has a lot of techniques. She already had a very good idea, I tell myself internally so as not to blame myself too much—a very, very good idea of who she is, so I can't exactly be the cause now, can I? I think to myself as I contemplate what else would have happened. When I think about it now, I wouldn't have said anything if not for the fact that she had been so accurate in her depiction of her, and for her to have the name like that, well then, most l
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Chapter 38 - Luca RomanoNot wanting her to kill me herself is one thing, but it's another entirely to stop me from wanting to die. Somehow I feel lighter and happy, at least just at the thought of seeing her again. After the conversation with her, I don't feel that heavy feeling in my soul anymore. I feel refreshed, rejuvenated, and ready to continue living, pushing forward.Sure, my sister might be already poised to take everything that I own by birthright, but it doesn't mean she has to get it so easily. The odds are still in my favor even though everything is probably already set. I'm not going to waste my opportunity. I'm going to do my best and get my ultimate goal. Of course, I know that there are a lot of chances of me failing, like the last failure, and the consequences might be dire, especially to the men that work with me, but I'm willing to take that risk. I'm willing to continue fighting and acting according to plan in order to bring my future to reality and take hold of
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Chapter 37 - Kira RogersI don't expect to find a depressed Luca Romano this time around. I heartfully kidnap him and Serge Vang, succeeding in my mission because, well, it is somehow getting easier and easier. Either he is getting more careless, or I'm getting more used to maneuvering his security personnel, who don't seem to be skilled in the art of protecting him at all. They don't even do their jobs right, I think to myself, shaking my head as I bring him over to a valley.I think it's nice to talk with him one last time in such a scenario before taking him out, but unfortunately, he somehow has suicidal tendencies at the moment. I feel completely shocked by the words that he says, and somehow my will to kill goes away. He seems to not want to kill himself but rather have me do it. I wouldn't have had any problems with that previously, but I'm not about to be used as his tool to get what he wants. At the same time, I just somehow feel a little apprehensive.So I decide not to kill
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Chapter 36 Luca Romano She doesn't look like she's joking this time around as she points the gun straight to my head—clear indication that she's here to finish everything. I will consider myself blessed. At the field and the flowers around us, remembering how the lights at the end of the tunnel had looked a moment before we got here, I find myself smiling even more. She frowns at me, but the joy can't leave me at the moment."Well, at least you are very thoughtful," I tell her, nodding in appreciation."Thoughtful?" she says, glaring at me. "What do you mean?""It's a wonderful place to die now, don't you think?" I question.She looks around and seems to consider it. "Well, not the worst place," she says. "Better than my bedroom.""Definitely better," I say, recalling how I had almost died that day right in my bed where I'm supposed to be safest."What's up with you?" she questions, frowning apprehensively. Her gun lowers ever so slightly, but that's not what I want at the moment."
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Chapter 35Luca Romano. Yet another day at my office, but this time around I'm feeling drained and tired of everything in general. Somehow my life seems to have turned upside down all of a sudden, and there doesn't seem to be anything looking up at all. My sister is diligently working hard to take my place, and I've been trying to compete with her—something that was not supposed to even be a competition in the first place.What's more, I'm failing badly in my task because, well, the last attack didn't go so well. It's all my fault, I think to myself, as I recall how the men died then, for no just reason at all. As I think more about it, simply reminiscing about how it all fell through makes me feel overwhelming guilt. That day, just three days ago, I lost about 20 of the men assigned to me, and there was hardly any result at all. We were supposed to raid their hideout, but as it happened, we didn't have the right location.I remember telling them that it's not time yet, wanting us al
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Chapter 34 Kira RogersHere we are, just the next open days—a series of missions and training sprinkled with the joy I get from talking with Luca. He is easily now one of the greatest people in my life, definitely closer to me than Xavier. But then again, Xavier is not really a friend in the truest sense; we've never connected in any way that I have with Luca, and definitely never had sex with each other, keeping our relationship as platonic as possible.I'm glad that Dante hasn't ordered me to go after Luca's life anymore, but it's a little unsettling. It's not like him to let someone off the hook, especially since I know that there's no reason for him to attack anymore. I'm actually very surprised to see that there is some tension in the crypt now. There aren't only criminal organizations around, and there are a lot of thugs around, but suddenly things seem to be getting intense both between the various gangs and also in the Shadowfang organization."What's going on?" I question Na
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Chapter 33Kira RogersMy last encounter with Luca is not in the shuttle. Surprising. I don't know how things escalated to such a level, but I find myself smiling as I drive by. I drive back with my bike, feeling a light feeling within me. He has taken my number; somehow that makes me completely happy. I feel as though our talks are going to be interesting, and I can't wait for him to send me a message.It doesn't take up to five minutes before he says something: "Hello, Dearest." I wonder at the name he is calling me, but I don't complain. If anything, my heart is beating fast already, just from his words alone. I respond to him before putting my phone away—safety first. I would drive back before I talk with him.I quickly get back to the crypt and make my way to my apartment. Usually, I have other things to do, but I already know that he feels like talking, so I want to talk as long as possible. "I'm still stranded," he says. "I'm waiting for my driver to come and pick me up." "How
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Chapter 32Vanessa Holloway.I don't expect that he would actually have her name by this time. The way he got it makes me more annoyed because if indeed she told him directly, it means that they are talking and things between them might be more serious than I think.I just want to quarrel with him, but he doesn't want to give me a name. "Well, it's fine," I tell myself when I speak with him calmly, deciding that one way or another, I would get that piece of information all on my own. I feel very mad at him though, but I don't show it. He's dead set, deciding to leave him to himself. If he thinks that what he's doing is going to end up well, he should continue. Meanwhile, I'm not stopping at anything. I made sure to let him know that exactly before I left.Before long, I'm in a bus heading for my office. I'm going to check through a lot of files now, and I'm going to put in all my effort and make a lot of phone calls. Above all, I need to really find out her name because it's a critica
