KEISHA set up a table and a chair on the balcony. She has been reading a book to enjoy the red moon above her, not wanting to miss a second of it for sleep. Her eyebrows rose after hearing the massive gates from afar open. She stood up from her seat and walked to the edge of the balcony to see who would go to the mansion at this hour. Her mouth slightly opened after seeing the mafia boss get out of the car and looked up at her. The cold air brushed her skin, and seemingly hard to breathe properly. He was wearing a black and white suit matching his pitch-black hair. Eros smiled slightly as he watched Keisha's hair and nightgown sway with the wind. "It's been a while," he whispered to himself before walking inside. He walked up the stairs and went to the balcony Keisha was staying at. He inhaled sharply after seeing her sitting down on the table with her legs crossed, leaning back, and hands behind her while staring at him. "You're still alive?" Keisha asked sarcastically. "Unfortun
Keisha stayed in that position while reading her book for hours and her husband was still fast asleep. She was already used to staying still for a long period of time so this was a piece of cake. Once she finished her book, she looked down at the sleeping mafia boss. His lips were slightly open as he slept and was making faint snoring sounds. Keisha stroked his hair as she got a better view of his face. How can someone have a perfectly symmetrical face? For a man raised with knives and guns, his face was flawless. "Do you get plastic surgery?" she asked before poking his cheeks with her fingers multiple times. He suddenly grabbed her wrist and opened his eyes. "Keisha," he called out with eyebrows furrowed in confusion. Her eyes widened and she suddenly stood up. Eros slammed on the floor. "I know you're attracted to me but goddamn," he commented as he groaned before pushing himself up. Keisha cleared her throat as she backed away from him. "I was just curious," she answered with
"Fuck you, Eros!" she screamed as she breathed heavily, feeling pain behind her. Eros leaned towards her and offered her his hand. She glared at him before holding his palm. Instead of pulling herself up with his help, she pulled him down and rolled away. Eros hit the grass and dirt, making Keisha chuckle loudly from the side. Eros glared at her before sitting down. "What? You made me fall down first," Keisha reasoned before rolling her eyes. "You're not hurt, right?" Eros had to make sure she was fine. Keisha touched her body all over and nodded her head. "You don't see any bones sticking out, do 'ya?" she joked with a laugh. "Why are you out here, anyway? There's a training room inside the mansion," he reasoned and she shrugged. "Your uncle was here a couple of minutes ago. He suffocates me," she explained and his eyebrows furrowed. He clenched his jaw before standing up. "Where is he now?" he asked with a dagger for eyes. Keisha blinked a couple of times, noticing how his tone
Keisha stroked his back slowly as she felt his tears fall on her shoulder. She listened to his muffled breathing, and he suddenly broke down after saying something odd. (Perhaps it was because of their fight?) she thought to herself. After all, this was the first time the brother fought one another after James returned here. "I know it must be tough what you two went through," she uttered like a mother while calming him down with the strokes of her fingers on his back. She sighed heavily. "But you only have each other now. You shouldn't make an enemy out of your brother," she murmured. "You don't know how family rivalry happens," Eros retorted before lifting his head from her shoulders and wiping the tears away from his face. "But that's not what I was crying about," he explained with a chuckle. Her brows furrowed and she tilted her head. "Why were you crying then?" she asked as she grabbed the clean cloth and dabbed it on his face to clean his wounds. "I just found someone who I
THE FOLLOWING morning, Eros' face became better and less swollen than yesterday. He received a formal letter asking him to meet Reyna in a specific location. He wondered what that woman wanted that she requested to meet in a secluded place and to keep this a secret between her, and the brothers. However, he has no intention of staying in the same room as James. He will be going to this suspicious meeting without him to save himself the headache. He could possibly think of many ways of this being an ambush since Reyna was already seen at the mall where their informant was killed when the information about Keisha was about to be revealed. Either way, Eros already knew Keisha like the back of his hand."It was a bait," Eros murmured. He used the informant to reveal those helping Keisha. Eros drove to the location where Reyna wanted to meet him. Guards followed him, and all of them were hidden in plain sight. The building was scanned first before Eros was safe to enter. No one else was
EROS waited for more than two hours but Keisha's mother never came. This was the only exception that he had to wait for someone yet it turned out to disappoint him. Expecting nothing more from this meeting, he left the facility. He stepped outside and inhaled the fresh and cold hair. He sighed heavily, creating a mist around his mouth. "Investigate where Reyna Lexington is," he instructed his men before walking back to his car. He looked at the time before driving the long way back home. Upon arriving back at the mansion, He saw Keisha looking down on her balcony. She stared at him intensely before going back inside the house. Eros side heavily, as he thought of telling Keisha what had happened earlier. After gathering his thoughts, he walked upstairs and knocked on her door. "I'm going to sleep," she declared, rejecting him from entering. He knocked again and said, "Your mother wanted to meet me but she never came." The door suddenly opened and Keisha looked at him with a baffled
SEBASTIAN watched the whole scenario play out. His sniper aimed his gun toward Shadow but he stopped him from firing his shot. "Let him escape," he instructed and the man put his gun down. Sebastian put out the cigar he was smoking and looked at the moon. "Chase Reyna down. Bring her body back to me," he instructed. "Her body?" The sniper furrowed his eyebrows, realizing what their leader meant. "I want her dead." A few of the assassins entered their assigned cars and started following the car she was inside. Reyna realized this and asked the driver to make the drive fast. The gunshots stopped once they made it to the main road. Unexpectedly, they stumbled upon the heavy traffic. "Too many casualties can happen here… use every car on our way as a shield," she instructed while struggling to keep the pain she was feeling under control. The driver fastened his pace and maneuvered the steering wheel to get in front of cars, creating more of a traffic, and slowing down the assassins a
CRYING inside the morgue, Keisha hugged her mother's body. She cried puddles of tears but her heart and mind was not grieving. She asks herself who would do this bold move to kill Reyna, and kill her in the process too. The car successfully reached the mansion yet when her stepmother tried to get out, the car then exploded. She was in shock at the time. If Eros didn't react quickly, she would have possibly been injured badly, or even died. If she didn't need to act like a worried daughter, that situation would've been avoided entirely. "She was the best… partner I have ever had," Sebastian, on the other side of the table, mourning over her death. Putting up a facadé to fool everyone in the room that he was deeply devastated. The doctor, James, and some mafia members were in the room with them. He cried like a hopeless husband without a direction in life now that his wife is dead. "I can't live without you, Reyna!" he screamed with his fake fear and agony. He continued crying with h