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
TRIGGER WARNING ⚠️ JavierI barged into the house, staring at all of them with disdain mixed with suspicion. They all sat with much uprightness, acting like they had something planned for me.I walked briskly to my seat, waiting for them to state the reason why I was summoned like a goat.A pin drop silence followed for almost close to a minute. I banged my hands on the table, capturing their attention at once.“If nobody is saying anything, why is my presence summoned like that,” I shouted. I cared less if they were old enough to be my father, if they knew me when I could barely walk myself. I was their leader now, they needed to start bowing for me.My eyes went over to my father, his head was bent down and from the way he sat, I could see his eyes closed. The last conversation we had in my house replayed itself in my head. How disappointed was he in me. But as usual, I was not interested in him being proud of his son.“You,” I pointed to the forefather. “You run your mouth at ever
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
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