Isabella "I changed him?" I wanted to ask. Alessandro looked at me with eyes that pleaded for understanding. "Tell me about what happened," I settled for, and he did. He told me about how Damon and the rest of his men, injured, followed him to the pathways of the Mafia in Rome. I could tell that Alessandro didn't want to say the full thing about how Damon killed a number of people who may not have been involved with what happened to me, but I pried it out of him nonetheless. By the time he was done with his tale of how Damon had them finish off the men that belonged to the Don, I realized I wasn't afraid, neither was I surprised. I had expected it. After all, I did hear them tell me that if anything happened to me, Damon would burn the world to the ground. However, it happened to be in sharp contrast to what Alessandro said about Damon being as cool as ice. I asked him to tell me about how it was different from who he was before, and what he told me made me realize how different
Isabella Finally, the two weeks ended and Paula was cleared to go home. Once we reached there, I discovered that most of my things were packed up, as I would also discover that Damon had finished booking our travel plans. We were on the way to the airport when the car suddenly stopped. "It looks like there's an accident in front," Alessandro said as he turned back to look at me. Damon had already gone to the airport, leaving me, Paula, Miguel, and Michael to meet up with him. I felt apprehensive most of the morning, but looking at the company with me, I decided it was safe. The sudden stop in the middle of the road made me resume the apprehensive feeling. "What do you think could be wrong?" Paula asked, voicing the question on my mind. "I don't know. Well, let's just hope it's not something serious," I said. Finally, the car started to move, only to proceed at a snail's pace. Worried, I reached for my phone to call Damon and tell him that we might be running late due to traffic
Damon Worry barely scratched the surface of what I felt when Miguel called me to tell me they were being attacked. I drove as fast as I could to the address he texted me. I wasn't fast enough, I thought, as I kept being stopped by unnecessary roadblocks along the way. When asked to slow down, the kind police officer would tell me, "There's a roadblock ahead with an accident along the way you're going." Most times I didn't wait for them to finish; I just drove off. Philippe sat beside me with his hand on the dashboard, making me feel as though I was driving too fast when I could. When my eyes turned back to the road, I saw yet another traffic point. I hit the steering wheel in anger and desperately searched for a shortcut. There wasn't any, I realized after looking around for several moments. I tried to keep myself together as my mind swirled with different possibilities. If they were being hit constantly by a van, it was only a matter of time before they were forced to come out
Isabella I was unconscious, or at least I thought I was, as all I saw was black. I was surrounded by the same, and most importantly, I was bound. My hands were tied behind my back, my feet were bound together, and I was on the floor of a moving vehicle. I heard a groan and then another followed by a whimper, and then silence. "Alessandro," I wondered, recalling him getting shot along with Miguel. My words came out as muffled sounds, and I realized that my mouth was taped shut. I screamed in my restraints over and over again until it turned to wails, and I was crying uncontrollably. I was the one who convinced Damon that he could go ahead. “Why is it taking you so long to get ready?" Damon asked as his hand circled my waist and pulled me towards him. I gasped as my breasts came into contact with his hard chest, and I was forced to stand on my tiptoes. "Talk to me," Damon said, and I realized I was still silent. Damon reached down and grabbed a fistful of my ass, squeezing my chee
Isabella Inside the office, the brightness blinded me, or at least it threatened to blind me. The office was well-lit, but the paint was a strange choice. It was painted orange from the walls to the furniture and even the tiles. Perhaps the owner of the office had a strange obsession with colors. My eyes were hurting, and I wanted nothing more than to return to the darkness or the faint brightness of my new room. Suddenly, the chair behind the large table turned around, revealing a woman who was strikingly reminiscent of a snake. Her neck was long, as was the rest of her face. Her nose looked flat or close to it, as if it had been flattened until it resembled that of a cat. Her eyes appeared to have been glued in one particular direction without the help of botox. The woman looked at me with hard eyes behind a pair of thick-rimmed cat-eye glasses. "You may leave her," the woman said. "I will handle it from here," she finished, addressing the man who had left the room. "Welcome,
Isabella I turned around to see Damon, completely livid; it was evident in the way he was panting for breath. I didn't realize I was standing until I was halfway on the journey to him from my chair. Relief flooded me the moment he rested his head in the crook of my shoulder and breathed in my scent. "Where are they?" I said as I leaned into his embrace. Suddenly, Damon's shoulders started to quake. At first, I thought he was laughing, but the feeling of liquid on my shoulder told me it wasn't. We stood there for a while until he wiped his eyes and looked at the man behind me. "I'm going to fulfill your promise, you know," Damon said. I was confused about this promise between them. "You should," Valentino said. "But don't you want to know who put me up to this?" he asked. "I already know; it's Cassandra. There's no need to check. “It is her. They called me again, threatening and all. But do you know why I decided not to retaliate? Why I chose not to send a message to refrain fr
Isabella Valentino came back quickly. I wanted to ask Damon for more information. I made a mental note to do that later. I heard multiple footsteps behind me, so I turned around to find the snake woman. "I brought a witness," Valentino said. "And I'm going to record the conversation," Damon said as the woman settled to stand beside the table. "Knock yourself out," Valentino said with a scowl on his face. Clearly, Valentino was not pleased. He muttered and grumbled through the words of his agreement with Damon. They shook hands and pricked their fingers as the sign of a blood covenant. I looked at Valentino again. He looked like a man who is easily moved against his deals. He seemed fickle, and that was a bad trait. Still, I was glad we reached this point. Later on, Valentino apologized for putting a spy inside Damon's suite. "It was necessary. Simply a precaution," Valentino said with his hands raised in surrender. "The men are injured. My apologies," he said as he led us throu
Isabella Valentino was true to his word. He sent Miguel and Alessandro in an ambulance later that evening. The two men moved into the empty suite that Julian had stayed in, and over the course of the next few days, they regained consciousness and soon started to bicker. It was proving to be a familiar scene, as I had seen them do the same in the van, and concluded they were closer to usual. By the third day of them coming back, the two were bickering about whether or not they should have their own masks. "Something to cover half of my face, mostly. Not a full mask, just a half," Miguel said. "I don't understand why this is even a subject of conversation. We don't need masks," Alessandro argued. "We do. Maybe a black one with the sticker of Damon's mask on it. Or even if we can't do that one, maybe we should do a half Japanese mask," Miguel suggested. Alessandro asked sarcastically, "You know what?" Miguel, seemingly oblivious to the sarcasm, was interested in listening to wha