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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 26Luca RomanoThe driver seems to have gone insane. I simply enter into my car—today, I'm going earlier to work than usual, but he seems to be on a mission to get me killed. And quite literally, with the way he swerves and goes between other cars, I already know that something is wrong."Get off the wheel!" I scream at him."I have it under control," he tells me simply.It's not like I can't drive. I can. But somehow, the wildness of the situation takes me by surprise to the extent that I can't act decisively. Maybe he really does have it under control. If he thinks he's going to get me faster to my company with this method, maybe I should trust him. Maybe he knows what he's doing.However, soon he goes off track. He is not driving any safer, but he slows down a little so I can be a little more rest assured."Is this another route?" I ask him apprehensively. "I don't appreciate it. Let's continue with the conventional," I tell him.He frowns. "This is the conventional," he re
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Chapter 27 Luca Romano She's as shocked as I am, and it takes quite a while for her to compose herself once again. But when she does, she finally gives me an answer and stops my heart from beating in anticipation. "Alright," the acceptance was simple, but it's... it's literally my world. This was turning into something big. If we could talk online and keep in touch with each other, I'm pretty sure soon enough we'll get even more attached to each other, and I can't be happier. We exchange numbers and just sit there watching each other for a while. A thought enters my mind, but I block it out. I don't want her to suddenly be all bad with my little concerns, and I don't want to destroy the happiness between us at the moment. However, the thought comes again, and it even turns into fear, so I decide to tell her. But even before I say anything, she frowns. "What's wrong?" I blink at her, wondering how she manages to know that I'm feeling anxious inside. I take in a deep breath; m
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Chapter 28Luca Romano I feel a chill at how he considers the organization. "It's a criminal underworld," I tell him, but he glares at me. Clearly, his mood is completely turned around just from me mentioning it, and he's very angry at the moment, already descending into that calculating stage that makes him exactly who he is and sorry to complicate matters when it comes to dealing with our enemies."It's not just you," he says to me, his voice cold and angry. "Not just you, but a lot of others that are affected. And this family is already being shaken by them," he says. "Many of our businesses have been attacked already, and they have different assassins but you know who," he informs me.My eyes widen in shock. "If it's - how did it get so serious?" I question."That's not the correct question," he tells me, glaring at me. "The issue is how did it get so serious without your knowing.""I blame my not knowing?" I question, but he nods simply."You're supposed to be aware of something
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Chapter 81: Luca RomanoI look straight at my sister in disbelief. Challenging for my position, the one that's mine by right - that's simply going too far. I am not quite sure what has suddenly gotten into her for her to even try this, but I am very angry with her now."How can you even-" I start, standing up to my feet and stomping on the ground in anger, but my dad is looking at me, his eyes firm now."Sit down," he said. My eyes widened in shock as I look at him, wondering if this is really it. I take a moment to contemplate my choices before I sit down finally, somehow having the feeling that this is going to be more than a mistake for me.I'm not quite sure if I should continue going along with what I have chosen, but when I think about it, I can't suddenly start changing my idea and what I have stood for just because of the consequences that await me. What would that make me? I wouldn't even feel like a man any longer if I suddenly started conforming because of the threat of los
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Chapter 80: Luca RomanoIt is one thing to be defiant and say everything I want to say to every other person who questions what I choose to do. It is one thing to be myself, act free, and not care about what others think of my decisions. But it is another thing entirely to speak the same words to my father. And that is my situation now as I stare straight ahead at the man who holds my future in his hands somewhat and looks like he has a lot to say to me right now."I heard something about you refusing the marriage," someone says. I snap out of my thoughts and look at him boldly, deciding that it is best to face him man to man and tell him what I want. He keeps frowning hard at me. This is pretty much a family meeting now because everyone is here. Maybe he arranged it this way for this particular reason.If he thinks that because of all the people present and all the officials of the Romano mafia empire here, I won’t continue presenting my argument, then he is mistaken. He is the one w
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Chapter 79Vanessa HollowayI couldn't help but feel like this was fated for the two of us to suddenly be sharing a meal with each other in a restaurant. Both of us, two parts of the same coin and facing the same situation of a forced marriage. I couldn't help but think that maybe we should just go along with it. After all, his eyes were very shocked when he noticed that it was me, but that was the same for me. I didn't know myself that he was the one that I was supposed to face. I had no idea whatsoever. And there was actually no way I could ever have known that it was.I was being prostituted. I knew that just as much as he was right now. With a sum of a higher class, they said, I was forced to drop my appearance as a journalist, to open up my ears and start calling myself my real name for just a while. But I told myself that the moment this was over, I would ensure that he would regret it if he decided to throw in his own blood with me and tried to be a thing with me.At his part,
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Chapter 78: Luca Romano My sister comes to meet me and seems to want to have a long conversation, from the looks of how long she is spending and how she doesn't seem to be leaving anytime soon. "Is there anything you'd like to tell me?" I get questioned, frowning at her. She smiles at me slowly before she continues, her voice taking on a lighter tone."There's something else. You need to listen carefully to what I'm about to tell you," she informs. I look at her in surprise. What on earth does she have to tell me that is actually so important?"Speak," I start, but she is already talking, and she doesn't need me to prompt her."What has happened is going to give us more resources and also give us backup against the various. I have more power over the family farm and can tilt the scales in our favor," she tells me. I can hardly believe my ears."What?" I ask. She doesn't seem to be joking at all."I know how it is to you. I know what you feel about it," she tells me. "She wants her m
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Chapter 77Luca Romano I don't know what to say about her, how she reacts. It's surprising, simply put, and also incredibly interesting. "What is it you know about her?" I ask her. She raises an eyebrow."Don't worry yourself," she says. "I can't think," I respond coldly, wondering what has suddenly gotten into her and also wondering why she would decide to treat me like this, or her husband. "Are we now leaving each other in the dark about important things?" I ask her slowly, my voice having a dangerous edge to it as I question her actions and how she treats me right now.She seems to be a little uncomfortable. Finally, she responds, "I've done my research and I found out about him. I also know that he's not someone we can play around with. He's a very powerful figure in the criminal underworld. And also, there has never been anybody he came across that managed to survive." She told me, sounding rather fearful, "How did you survive?"She asked me all of a sudden. I blink, refusing t
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Chapter 76 - Luca RomanoI stare at the man in front of me. I know that negotiation isn't going to get me anywhere. I don't even need anyone to tell me - I'm really well aware of the fact that he's here to take me alive, and that nothing I would say ever would change that. I'm feeling rather crazy inside as I look at him and try to plan.My phone is in my pocket. My hands are not really where he can see them. They are in my pocket, so I can pull off a trick or two on him, if I'm lucky enough. I wonder silently whether it's a good plan at all because personally, it seems like it's only going to be futile in the end. I really don't see how he's not going to be aware of my little trick if I actually decided to try it out, and I knew that it's already a daunting task in the first place for me, even more so when I decide that I'm going to try to talk to him and use my phone at the same time while maintaining that I am giving him my full attention.I am taking a deep breath as I try to calm
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Chapter 75: Dante IcarusI don't really think my plan is feasible. It's not supposed to work at all because of how stupid it sounds, but somehow I have confidence that it's going to work either way. It simply borders on betting. Betting is only a bet that the relationship between Luka and Ikira is far further off than I would like it to be. However, I know that betting against myself is probably the best option I might have. I might have acute knowledge of it, but my analysis proves that for her to actually be protecting me, they might even be already having sex.Either way, I would find another way to get to him if he doesn't just come on his own. So even as I wait some distance away from where I called him to with her phone number, I didn't want her, but I think that it's too easy if he's actually going to come. I'm already making plans for what I would have something to work with when it actually doesn't work. But suddenly I see the car driving up quickly towards the space in the d
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Chapter 74Dante IcarusLooking at the records in front of me, the files that are supposed to be easy to analyze, I find myself boiling in rage as the words blur in my vision. Twenty-two attempts at killing one man and he's not dead yet. I breathe, banging my fist on the desk, my eyes flashing in anger. This is absolutely impossible. This piece of information is something I can't fathom. Usually, one is all it takes, especially when I send my sharpest blade who goes by the name of Zora. But this time around, it takes a hell more than one, and even then there doesn't seem to be any results.I stopped sending her a while ago. It was pretty much clear to me that I wasn't going to get anything as a result from her, so it was best I send others that would be more obliged to comply with my will. Yes, I did everything - I followed all the rules, sending those I trust like her favorite colleague and companion, and also sending a couple of minors with some assistance from the tough guys, but t
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Chapter 73 – Luca RomanoThe experience with her was bliss, and not just in words. I enjoyed it with every fiber of my being, and I was sure she did too. We started meeting with each other after that day, frequently in a way I wouldn’t have expected. Not in my house every time, of course, because then my dad or someone else might get wind of it, and I’d be in serious trouble if they started suspecting anything. But hotels were a good place for us to meet, to enjoy the pleasure of being in each other’s arms. I couldn’t help but feel like this was absolutely wonderful between us. I never wanted it to end. It was a deeper aspect of our relationship now that we were exploring further, now that we were finally having sex again after literally years of refraining. The only time we had done it before was that one-night stand that got us started with each other. Now, it seemed like something had finally ignited within us, and I never wanted it to end. I wanted the fire between us to continue
