Trigger warning ⚠️: reader's discretion is adviced🙏🏼AlceoWhen I returned home, everyone looked at me like I had developed 2 heads. I quickly walked away and had myself tended to, back to the beautiful looking Alceo that I know.The knock on my door dragged my attention from the clothes I was looking for.“Come in,” I answered, going back to my previous position.The door squeaked open and I peeped from where I stood. Unbelievable, it was Nina.“Well well well, who do we have here?”“Hi Alceo, I–”I cut in so fast, the privilege she once had was over. I'm stripping her off it. “To you I'm Master Alceo, not Alceo, or Al. If you do not wish for your head to be on a stake, do as I say.”She inhaled a bowl of air as courage. Just in time, I saw the pair of shorts I was looking for. I reached out for the black pair of gloves that was sitting idle on my cupboard.“What do you need that for?” She asked with fear, lacing every word coming out of her mouth. Knowing exactly what it meant whe
MariannaSince Alceo left that morning, I couldn't help but wonder where he was. What he left to do without saying anything to me. Maybe Diego was right, I didn't stop loving Alceo, I just shut that part away from me and transferred every love I had into Cael.A knock forced me out of my reverie, I reached for the gun first and tiptoed to the door.My eyes went to the wall clock, it was 5 minutes past 10pm. I cocked the gun and held it beside my head.“Marianna it's me,” I heard his voice and I hurriedly put the gun away.I unlocked the gun and he walked in with a bag beside him. He had changed his look and taken care of his messy face. I rushed into his arms, hugging him tightly.He was caught unaware, so it took some time for him to wrap his arms around me.“I was so worried, I thought something had happened to you,” I quickly cautioned myself and disengaged from the heart-warming hug.“I got something for you,” he said, dropping the bag beside me.“What is this?”He dipped his hand
AlceoShe caught me unaware by running back into my arms and kissing me unaware. I had always wanted to do that but I was scared if she was free with me yet. I'm glad she did it first, thoughI was ready to wait till we were very cool.I pushed my tongue into her mouth as we both fought for dominance. Wrapping my hands around her waist, I lifted her off the floor and carried her. Her legs were wrapped around me firmly as I used my hand to find the nearest room.I lowered her to the bed without breaking the kiss, her hands fumbled with my trousers pulling it off hurriedly. I helped her with her trousers and as we broke the kiss to pull off our top, our eyes locked. Lust and desire filled them, we were desperate to have each other. Our breathing was harsh and loud, like we had been soaked underwater for hours.“Are you sure you want us to do this pretty? Are you sure you won't hate me after now?”I needed to be sure, I wasn't ready for her fit after our session. She replied to me with a
MariannaThe smell of freshly made tacos had me stir from my sleep. I swung my hand at the other side of the bed, looking for the man that we made love over and over the night before. Feeling the empty space, I reached for Rosco's polo which was big enough for me to be called a gown.I rubbed my eyes and dragged my feet towards the smell of the food. His rigid beautiful brown skinned bag welcomed me, I took my time admiring him. His upper body was naked, while his lower body was clothed in the shorts he wore from the day before.He swayed his hips gently as he tended to the food, singing out from the headset in his ears. I laughed and went ahead hugging him from behind.“Morning love,” he said, removing the air pods in his ears and turning around. “Did you sleep well?”“Hmmm hmmm,” I nodded and rested my head in his chest.“I made breakfast, it's almost done. I'll serve it soon,” he said, turning the cooker off. “Sit моя любовь.”I ruffled my nose at the name he just called me. I had
AlceoMy relationship with Marianna had gone back to normal, the first phase of our lives; where all we had to do was plan our lives and play and have sex. I had gone home a few times to pick up some of my things, like my credit cards and clothes. Money wasn't a problem in any way, she had me and she had Rosco; both of us were more than enough for her. He made sure to drop by the house at least twice a week to make sure Marianna was okay. He still didn't trust me with her and I couldn't blame him for that; knowing the feud between our families, it was normal he behaved like that.My ringing tone jolted me out of our lovey-dovey, the caller ID on the screen was Aleksi. I silenced the phone and went back to her. It was what we had always wanted, a life where killings weren't involved.The call came in again, she stood up this time and looked at it. “You should pick that up? I'm pretty sure that they are worried sick about where you are.”I picked the call and excused myself to the corne
AlceoI yanked him back before he could finally disappear with the others. “Uri, is that a threat?”“Take it anyhow you like, I don't care,” he spat in my face and freed himself from my grip.“If anything happens to her Uri, I'll make sure to come for your head,” I shouted after him, making me earn the middle finger from him.I was all alone in the room, wondering what had just happened. The power being transferred to Uri didn't really worry me, I was trying to get away from that life. All I wanted to have was Marianna and I'm glad for having her.“Alceo,” I turned slowly. Nina was standing behind me with her eyes filled to the brim. “Why?”“Why what?”“All my life, I have waited for you. Why did you choose to humiliate me like this? I love you, what else can't you see?”I got closer, speaking directly in her face. “You do not love me, you loved the power I held, the power I wielded. Now, it's all gone. It's with Uri, you can go ahead and marry him.”She released the dam in her eyes,
NinaI stared outside the window of the hotel, alternating my look between the wall clock and the air outside. My scarf was wrapped above my head in a way that would conceal my identity. I was running out of patience, waiting to meet my lover. No one knew about him; if they knew, if Alceo knew, my head was going to be next on the stake. The door suddenly opened, with his head popping out first.I dropped my scarf, going to welcome him with a kiss. “You are late, I've been waiting for close an hour now.”“Sorry about that love,” Javier Bezzio said, the great Italian mafia leader. “I've missed you so much.”“Me too,” we went for a deeper kiss and ended up on the bed.I was about taking my clothes off and getting ready for a steamy round of sex, but then he suddenly pulled down my clothes and sat me straight.“You said it was urgent Nina, what about it?”“Well,” I drawled. “There's some bad news Javier. I know that the initial agreement was that I would marry Alceo and then we would fini
JavierThe look of surprise on her face marveled me. It gave me a satisfying feeling, it almost felt like I should relish it physically.As I lowered myself to her dying body, I said to her. “One less person who would ruin my plans.”I stared at the bloodied knife in my hand and swiped it over my tongue. Chuckling, the taste of blood wasn't so bad. I went back to my cigar and lit it again. Inhaling the first drag in, I puffed out the remaining smoke.“It feels so good,” I smiled, like a man who was receiving the best blow job of his life.After I finished smoking my cigar, I looked at her, blood had run dry from her face. Her pretty eyes were shut and her skin was going pale. Any moment from now, she was going to be cold. Fortunately for me, the name under the booking of the hotel was hers. I never show my face anytime I come around. The next problem was how to carry the dead body away from the hotel without anyone spotting me. It was going to give us the Italians a bad name.“Where s
AlceoThe days pass us by quickly; minutes turning into hours and hours turning into days. The bigger portion of it wasn't left behind; days turned into weeks and weeks turned into a month. Word on the street was that Javier was still on the run with the house and Rosco desperately looking for him.When Marianna told Rosco about how everything went, he was skeptical about her decision at first but reluctantly had no choice but to accept it. We managed to act cool but deep down I knew how much Rosco loathes us.Our lives have been beautiful ever since then but paranoia wouldn't release its tight grip on me. My presence seemed to calm Marianna down, knowing that I was crazy in my own way. I would watch the world burn for your sake if she demanded it. She lived freely and Javier became her past.She hummed along to the music playing from her phone inside the bathroom. She decided to use that day to wash her long dark hair, there was no way she was going to let me in with her.“It's high
MariannaThe mumbling sound of disagreement was starting to get to my ears. I refused to take my gaze away from the forefather, we both stared at each other like our lives depended on it.He hit the table, silencing everyone at once.“If I hear you well, Alceo Romanov is of Russian descent. His father is the late Isiak Romanov who got into a crossfire with your father, right?”“Very well forefather, you are correct,” I responded in affirmative.“I'm afraid my dear Marianna, that will not be possible,” he said. Deep down, I knew that was a response I might get. Rosco and Alceo believed that I was at least going to attain my rightful position today but I purposely kept that part away from them. Alceo renounced his position just because of us, and I wouldn't take my father's position and leave everything that concerns us. I love him too much to do that.“Why forefather? Is there something attached to it?”“The Russians are our enemies, one of the main reasons Javier was stripped of his
Marianna As usual the asshole who called himself my husband that stole my rightful position was up there, smiling at me. It's only a matter of time, sorry hours and minutes. Heaven knows why he decided to answer the message sent out this morning.“Good morning elders of the house,” I started to say. “You gave me an option the last time that I was here and I am here to present to you what I found the past few days.”Oblivious of what was spoken about the last time, the smirk on his face still did not disappear.I brought out the recorder in my pocket and handed it over to the house boy. He connected it to the speakers and everyone listened to the devastating truth on it.As I looked up to see the look on his face, it had been replaced with one of shock. Now was my turn to smile, a proud smirk plastered itself on my lips, refusing to go away.Huge uproar of mumbles arised and he kept adjusting himself in his seat. He had begun sweating and cursing himself. Even the great Javier still h
AlceoThe night felt like eternity to me, I couldn't close my eyes to sleep properly. Any little sound, I was up; knowing that Diego's killer was still roaming freely with no idea of him being exposed.Then I thought about Javier's words to Diego, he has a bigger plan than to rule the Italian mafia. He was after the Russians too. If I could connect all the dots properly, that would make a lot of sense why Nina kept pressuring me to marry her. Not because of my father but because she needed to marry me and then get rid of me for Javier. After that, he would be successful in penetrating the Russian mafia.The pads of my palm stroked Marianna's hair gently, showering her with a lot of thanks in me. Her giving birth to Cael made me come back to my senses. Thank whoever made her fall into forced labor, might as well be Nina; every disappointment is a blessing after all.Her light snores captured my attention back to her, she is a very beautiful woman. Ecstatic that we ended up with each ot
MariannaKnowing Diego's final moment was both torture and relief for me. At least we knew the son of a bitch that murdered him. Rosco and Alceo sat there without saying anything. His head was bent and I could hear very gentle sniffs from him. I never saw him as someone who could cry but I guess the death of a loved one was the most torture to be ever created.My eyes were starting to hurt badly, I could feel how swollen they were. Without looking at myself in the mirror, I pictured the color to be red.I reclined in the direction of Alceo and laid in his body, he wrapped me with so much warmth and care. Maybe my tears weren't enough but there's still a lot more that I would do.I decided to go first, the silence in the room was shattering. It could pass for a graveyard.“I'll go to the house tomorrow and show them the evidence. Javier Bezzio needs to be dethroned, he has done nothing but harm since he assumed that title.”“No way,” Alceo said.“I'm not going to let you put yourself i
AlceoThere was no amount of consoling that I could do for Marianna. First of all, I was glad that the Russians had no hand in Diego's death; maybe a little but not totally. And his Russian spy is dead as well. All the pieces of the puzzle were falling in place. Before I could return back to the surface of the earth, I heard screeching of a car outside in the compound.I had zoned out and forgotten that Marianna asked us to call Rosco. She sat by the phone and kept crying her eyes out, holding the phone like her life depended on it.The door flew open and I met with Rosco's bloodshot eyes. He searched for Marianna with his eyes and came straight for me. There was no time to tell him that I didn't cause her tears. 2 heavy punches hit me in the face and he held me by my neck, choking me. I tried to break free, but he was just too strong. Marianna ran from her position and tightened her grip on him.“I told you if she shed a single tear, I'd kill you,” he reached for the gun in his pock
MariannaIt's been over a week since Alceo came back from their house about Nina's death. No news or any progress has been made concerning it. And I could see worry and fear starting to reside in his eyes and his gestures. He became more clingy and protective of us, always swearing and promising to protect us.I decided to indulge him in the house chores I wanted to do. It was a general cleaning and it would be so cumbersome for me to do.“Al,” I called out for him. He came out with an apron tied around his neck, making him look sexy as fuck. I was beginning to drool just by looking at him.“You can take me if you want pretty,” he came closer, running his index finger over my cheek. “The sitting room is big enough for us to do as we wish and you can be sure that I would make you scream my name loud enough for the neighbors to hear.”I snapped out of the trance he was trying to put, I hit his hand away and pinched his arm, making him curse out.“Ouch,” he whined. “That wasn't nice, pre
AlceoImmediately I stepped into the room, every eye turned at me. Uri's situation was worse, it wasn't up to 48 hours since he was proclaimed the new leader that a death happened in the family. And it was more suspicious, because it was Nina's. Someone he was closer with.Frustration and worry resided deep in Uri's eyes, for a moment I wanted to sympathize with him but I decided against it.“I thought you weren't going to come around,” Aleksi said in a low voice to me, coming closer.“I could still turn back and return to the love of my life, it's not too late,” I replied to him in a straight and sharp tone.“Now is not the time to do all these, let's figure out what happened first. Then we'd sort the rest out ourselves.”“There's nothing to sort out, just let me be.”I went straight to the body and pulled the cloth covering her face. She was stone cold and dead by now, her face was pale and hard. I examined further, lowering the cloth again. I saw the spot where she was stabbed, it
AlceoKrrrrr-krrrrr-krrrrr, the incessant ringing of my iphone forced me out of bed. In my sleepy state, I walked to the spot where Marianna made us plug our phones. She was a huge advocate of not sleeping with our phones because it caused radiations of some sort. Without checking the caller, I picked up.“Hello,” my voice was gruffy and scratchy. “Who is this?”“At least, wake up from your stupid slumber and check the caller ID on your phone.”I could recognize that voice from hell. “What else do you want Aleksi? At least, you all have successfully taken away my father's legacy from me.”He sighed before saying. He knew how much pain I was in. “Nina is dead, we found her body in front of the house this morning.”“Well I didn't kill her, if that's what you are asking,” I said nonchalantly.“Arrrrrgh,” his grunt forced me to push the phone away from my ears. “This is not a joke Alceo. I know you don't like her but not enough to the point of killing her. So please we, I need you to come