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Chapter 41: Luca RomanoA couple of days after my talk with Kira, I decided that it was finally time to stop pretending as if nothing was happening. Instead, I needed to do my best to keep the two warring parties from destroying each other. I wouldn't be able to stand by and watch my friends being destroyed by each other, so I needed to take a proactive step and do exactly what Kira had told me.I called Vanessa again, taking a long look at her number when she didn't respond. It was the first time she didn't respond to my immediate call, and it was very strange to me because usually she responded before I even made the call. "Baby, something's really wrong now," I thought to myself. Could it be that she has been killed already? The thought was enough to make me feel rather suffocated and annoyed inside. I could totally see Kira already having killed her, but I needed to hope that hadn't happened because it would really be a shame and I wouldn't be happy at all."No, Vanessa is dead,"
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Chapter 42: Luca RomanoI make my way quickly to the fountain that Vanessa required me to go to, but I made sure that the guard doesn't follow too closely. Even from a long distance away, he's a bit too conspicuous. Even when he's far away from me, I expect people to brush it off as him being a normal tourist. His job is simply to stay where he can see me and come to my aid if something's going wrong.He doesn't seem quite happy about it, so I frown at him, still in my car since I'm still making the arrangements. "I don't need everybody looking at me as some kind of rich folk. That misprotection and stuff is going to attract even more enemies," I tell him, frowning. I'm not usually one to show off anything. I like to live a quiet life despite all my riches and all the things I have.To my benefit, the guard needs to understand that so that he can protect me well, and also he needs to learn how to do it from a distance. "How will I be able to protect you when you are so far away from m
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Chapter 43 Luca RomanoI look straight at Vanessa, wishing she would simply obey my instruction without asking questions. She looks at me, her eyes a question in itself. I already know what she wants to ask me: Why should she stop?I rub my fingers on my temples. "I don't mean I should stop because I like her or anything," I start. I notice the twitching of her eyelids as I mention "like," but I quickly continue, not wanting to dwell on it and not wanting her to think too deeply into my words. "It's because of how dangerous she is," I tell her. "She is probably very protected, and by doing this, by starting to look into her, you are endangering your life."She looks sweetly at me, but finally her eyes go down in defeat. I know that as much as she wants to continue, she understands exactly what I'm saying, and she knows that it's true. "If you go there, you might be captured and killed before midnight. After a couple of deliberations from them," I tell her. "I don't know exactly all t
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Chapter 44: Vanessa's POVHe calls me suddenly after another couple of days. I'm actually busy at the moment, but surprisingly, I'm not on Kira's matter right now. I'm trying to write another paper, so I smile when I see his call. I don't know what he wants, whether he wants to go on a date, even though that seemed like a stretch. However, I'm not about to refuse his call and simply decide that we should meet instead.I send him a message—this time I'm the one initiating our meeting. It feels nice for a change, but somehow it also feels like a step back because he usually calls us together. He agrees without hesitation; at least that's something. If he had decided that he didn't want to see me, then I would really feel terrible, and it's not the kind of terrible that can be fixed with a drink or simple encouraging words.When I meet with him, he's at the fountain having such a thoughtful expression on his face, such a dreamy look in his eyes that I can only wish he's thinking about me
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Chapter 45Luca RomanoI decide to give her complete control this time around. I feel like I owe it to her that she should get to own me for one more second, one last time, before I do what is in my mind to do, knowing that it might change things between us forever. She walks around me contemplatively. I don’t know if she senses anything, but she doesn’t let on.“Well, you know what’s first?” she starts, frowning. “You can’t be fully clothed anymore.”I nod at her and then take off my clothes slowly. Before long, I’m standing completely naked before her, my legs spread to reveal my dick hanging in the middle. I don’t look up at her; I instead stare down at her shoes. She’s in complete control now, and somehow, her being clothed while I stand exposed is some sort of gesture of submission.I wait for her to command something. Instead, she walks straight up to me and takes my dick in her hand, holding its length firmly. I start to feel a heat as it hardens, and she rubs a little, stimula
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Chapter 46: Vanessa Holloway I feel like it's a last supper. The way he gives me complete control, not struggling at all - it's normal, but this time around there's something uncertain about it. I make sure to vent all my frustration on him as much as possible with underhanded techniques, a couple of them unconventional. I don't want to pass on this opportunity to have sex with him one last time. I don't want to make the mistake of letting him go so easily, but I feel like I won't actually have a choice sooner or later because he has his mind set already.I found myself waiting for him to tell me what's on his mind. It's clear because I know him, but maybe he thinks I don't know what he's thinking about. I close my eyes, pretending to be asleep. Only I would try to want him to tell me what's on my mind and at the same time try to act as if I'm not present. I just don't know how to face my fears, how to face the possibility of all this wonderful stuff between us ending because Kira ha
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Chapter 47: Luca RomanoIt's the day after I had my deep talk with Vanessa. I'm just waking up from sleep and I'm feeling very tired. Despite how long the rest had been, somehow that conversation seemed to have taken its toll on me. It still rings in my head, mentally pushing me to my limit, while my body still tries to recover from the pain and punishment she inflicted on it yesterday.I get up however, pushing myself because I know I have a lot of work to do and the work isn't going to do itself. I need to get to my company and I need to spend my time there. I need to build it up more than it is already because somehow I see my future there more than I see it in my own home as the leader of this empire. I don't know why, but I feel like this mafia is no longer my calling. I somehow believe that it's not going to work out for me, knowing how diligent my sister is in trying to get it and knowing that I'm not interested anymore. In the beginning, I hadn't ever been so interested in maf
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Chapter 48Luca Romano:I'm still trying to wonder how she knows when she questions, "Did anything happen?" and the statement tells me a little truth. I start to feel as if I'm some kind of detective, but I don't let myself get used to it, knowing that Vanessa is out there and she's the expert.She wasn't even sure about it, I think to myself. She just assumed I was in the car and also assumed that the bomb was planted there. I think to myself, wondering at how lucky I am that she thought so deeply into whatever this was. There's every tendency that she would just have shrugged it and left it to chance that I'm not in the car that has been placed with a bomb, and also that I'm not completely secure where I was, but she decided to warn me all the same."It's destroyed completely," I tell her, trying to keep my voice level on the phone call. "Completely gone right now. All my things in it are lost."She sounds thankful as she responds, "At least you are still alive.""Yes," I tell her,
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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
