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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 49Kira RogersI find myself walking along the dilapidated streets of the crypt. The whole place is dark, even in the early morning light, but I'm fine with it. However, a couple of children, most likely pickpockets, can be seen playing around.I frown when one comes up to me and asks me for money. I put my hand into my pocket - if there's anything there, I would give it. But then I turn sharply to see another child slipping his hand into my second pocket, so slight, so stealthily that I can hardly feel it, and bringing out some money. I hold his hand tightly, glaring at him and the little girl who is in front to distract me."So it's a ploy," I say, my voice cold."Please, please don't hurt us!" the two of them cry out in terror. It's one thing they're trying to pickpocket from me, but another thing entirely when I'm a killer and I know about 1,000 ways to kill them and 2,000 ways to torture them before doing so. I am about to probably break their bones - discipline here is b
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Chapter 50, Kira Rogers.I warn him as soon as possible, hoping that he will receive my phone call when I call him. He doesn't seem to be very receptive to my ideas, but somehow I trust that he will take my words seriously. I hadn't given him this kind of warning before, so maybe, just maybe, he will decide to take it very seriously this time around and perhaps save his life. Why am I even bothered? The thought comes to me, but I shake it off immediately, trying to infuse urgency into my words as I speak to him so that he understands just how serious I am and saves himself from the murder attempt on his life.Soon enough, I am seated in my room—my little apartment—making some tea for myself. I can hardly keep myself calm; that's the reason why I have suddenly decided to have something to cool my nerves. I don't feel happy—instead, I'm worried sick—and I want to call him, but I know I can't keep spamming, especially if he's really in danger. I need to hold myself back so that he will n
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Chapter 51 - Luca RomanoWhen she promised that she would help me, I could hardly believe it. Yes, I looked straight at my phone, staring at it for a couple of seconds before finally managing to piece myself back together and take in my surroundings. She can't be serious. Sure, we have some kind of commitment to each other, and we seem to be getting along with each other fine now, but I know that the balance is rather unstable now and we aren't really close friends. We can consider ourselves friends—we are even chatting online and maybe soon we'll be dating—but still, there's a lot of uncertainties along the way.But with her promise, I find myself reconsidering everything. She's taking this step forward first of all this time around, unlike how it has been ever since, with me always being the one to push things in order to get in the town quicker. I feel very happy and light-hearted. I wonder if she is for real, and I ask her something in that line."You're welcome," she tells me, an
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Chapter 52 – Luca RomanoIt takes me quite a while, but I smile to see that I am finally at home. I stare out of the window of the sitting room, somehow feeling a little annoyed that I'm not with my dad yet. He's supposed to be here as soon as possible to talk with me, but instead, he isn't. It's natural for him to keep me waiting. So, why am I angry at him? I'm trying to get to Kira—I want to talk with her. She's the one person I always want to talk to, after all. However, she's not online. I'm not about to call her again, just in case she needs space."Who's making still? In other words—Debbie!" I exclaim. I find my sister online; for some reason, she's not usually like that, so I am very surprised. I decide to spend some time talking with her for months instead of simply treating her as some sort of competition all the time. "So, what will happen to you?" she asks me. "And how did you get out of the skate bed?""I will only answer your questions if I have my lawyer with me," I repl
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Chapter 53Luca Romano My dad looks straight at me, staring into my eyes as if trying to boil through my brain just to figure out what is actually going on in my mind. I stare steadfastly in response, deciding that I'm going to keep him engaged and that I'm not going to bow down. He nods at me, as if I'm satisfied with what he's saying."We can get everything back from them," he says. "We're going to have to take them all down—all of them—because they are impudent. They're actually going overboard by striking us, too—black and gay—and so we're going to take them." He tells me, "It's all the same for that." With no further response, it sounds as if he's just bluffing, but I know my dad. It's more than bluffing. Everything he's saying now is dead serious, and he's going to do whatever he says. Moreover, he's going to end up becoming a major motive—a major goal—for us over the next couple of months. Now he’s going to be totally fixated on wiping out the Shadow Fang all by himself.I kno
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Chapter 54 - Luca RomanoMy dad doesn't give me much information when I ask him. He remains cryptic, saying a couple of vague words now—literally anyone can come up with. Personally, I feel a little annoyed at him for hiding it from me. Whatever role he thinks I have to play in this, I somehow feel like I won't be willing to do it, whatever the hell he wants to actually get me to do. But I don't complain now, especially since I don't know what he's thinking when he stares at me like that. He's having a kind of wicked thought in mind. I make sure not to meet his eyes as he stands up."You should get ready," he tells me. "Just as they are trying to target you, and getting you is climactic in them winning this particular fight. They are going to use you as the method of winning this for ourselves," he told me. I had no idea what he was talking about, but I knew that since it was my dad who was talking, I could trust that he was dead serious with everything he was saying, and that he wasn
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Chapter 55 Elena Romano"I wonder what I'll do if I'm put in his current position, if I'm faced with the dangers that he has to go through on a regular basis now."As I look at him, already zoned out while talking with my dad, I start to feel pity for him. He has gone through so much, and the only crime he has committed for everyone to want to kill him so badly—and for everyone, even my dad, wanting him to be a pawn in their own game—is simply being the heir and the next leader of the Romano Empire.Sometimes when I think about what he has to go through and what he has endured so far, I start to wonder whether I actually want this for myself. Why am I fighting to get his position from him when it can be nothing more than a pain later on? I don't quite know, but somehow I can't bring myself to stop. I'm addicted to it. I'm drunk with the prospect of having all the power that comes with the Romano Empire. The mafia is a world that I have been dreaming of for all my life now, and I'm not
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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
