Adriana’s POV“Hey wait, what are you trying to do?” I asked Massimo jokingly, whilst slapping my hands on the wall to keep myself from falling.At that moment, Massimo was behind me, with his hands firmly planted on my shoulders as he guided me through wherever it was that he was taking me. He had come to me earlier, seemingly extremely excited because of some surprise that he couldn’t stop talking about, and then had me blindfolded after he had forcefully made me wear a dress.“Now, it’s getting weird,” I chuckled. “Take off this blindfold. I need to know where you’re taking me to.” I laughed, trying to tug at the black cloth over my eyes but before I could reach it, he slapped my hands away from my face and proceeded to hold both hands in it.“We’re not taking them off until I say so.” He responded with finality.Still chuckling, I shrugged and even though I wasn’t really comfortable with being blindfolded when I was wearing stilettos, I simply let him do his thing.“Just don’t ma
Adriana’s POVThe first thing we woke up to was news of Caden escaping, again, from police custody.This information didn’t sit right with me and for a minute, I began to consider the possibility of him being let out by a police officer because I mean, who the heck escapes custody all the time like it was their home?I frowned in frustration, staring at the wall and at the same time, wondering what Caden would do to me now that he has escaped. I began to really consider the idea of taking my mom to Bora Bora because that was the only way she wouldn’t have to go through that uncomfortable situation again.“Babe, you should stop overthinking this news,” I heard Massimo say beside me and for a moment, I froze in surprise. When exactly did he start to call me by that name?Was everything he said to me the other night really true?My stomach tingled in anticipation, causing a build-up of very strong emotions to well up at the base of my stomach. With it came a rush of feelings that I couldn
Adriana’s POVNo matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t stop thinking about my encounter with Caden at the shopping mall. Something about it still felt strange and even though I haven’t been able to wrap my head around what it was, I just couldn’t shrug it off.Another thing that bothered me was Massimo. I couldn’t bring myself to tell him about how I had stumbled across Caden because I feared what his response would be. Knowing the kind of person that Massimo was, he could accuse me of still having soft spots for Caden, and thus the reason I had simply let him go without informing him or the police about it.“Eighty percent of your time these days is spent on overthinking, babe. What’s it?” Massimo’s voice snapped me out of my reverie.I turned to look at him with a forlorn smile plastered across my face and then shrugged when he cocked his eyebrows at me. “A girl should be allowed to think sometimes,” I muttered jokingly but he wouldn’t buy it.“A girl shouldn’t be allowed to worry a
Adriana’s POVI do not know how long I was knocked out but when I woke up sometime later, I found myself tied to an iron chair, right opposite Massimo who was also tied up, and looking extremely pissed at the moment.Wait, what the fuck is happening?In my confused state, I twisted my body so B as to look in the direction of the one thing that Massimo has been staring at with so much anger, I wasn’t shocked when I saw that it was Lisa, his stepmom.Now, what the heck was up with this bitch?“You cannot tie me up here… even if you hate me so much, which I know you most certainly do, get Adriana out of this psychotic game of yours! She’s too fragile to be tossed around all the time!” I heard Massimo yell out to her, and even though it was the sweetest thing that I was all he cared about right now, I still couldn’t help but shake my head at how stupid that sounded.He had just given his psycho stepmom a free pass into his head, and now the LA harlequin just knew exactly who to torture
Adriana’s POVI tried to be as silent as I could be while I watched Massimo cut himself out of the ropes tied around his chest and midriff. At one point, I was so careful that I found out I had been holding my breath unintentionally. I sighed.“Are you sure you do not need my help?” I asked quietly, eyeing his bulgy chest and wondering how possible it was for him to twist around those ropes around him.He was too bulky, and his body too rigid to move swiftly like I’d have loved him to, and I knew he also thought about that because he stopped to eye my body skeptically, but then quickly turned away to start cutting the ropes.“I’d have asked for your help but you’re too far from me,” he replied in a whisper.“You can as well toss the knife in my direction,” I replied, with a frown. “I can easily move around in these ropes, it’ll be easier for me to cut them.”My reply made him snap his head in my direction again, he stared at me as if I had grown horns and with a dismissive shrug, said
Adriana’s POVI still do not know how I did it but in less than twenty minutes I had successfully helped Massimo and myself escape the guards after us. I had also successfully gotten us to a main road; the only problem left now was finding a way out of there, and probably getting a cab that would take us to Massimo’s.“My stomach hurts,” Massimo grunted. I had been so caught up in trying to get us to escape that I hadn’t noticed that he was losing so much blood, so bad that more than half of his white shirt had been soaked through with his blood.In fear, I helped him to the floor, helped him lay in an open field, and then cut out a portion of my clothes, using it to apply pressure to the open cut.I was no expert in stuff like this but from the purplish hue surrounding the open gash and the small pus that had begun to accumulate around its surface, I knew that it had been infected. We needed to act fast!Yh“It hurts, normally I wouldn’t whine about an injury like a pussy but this o
Adriana’s POV“Are you trying to say that Lisa did this… and that she held you and Massimo hostage in the house basement while I was out on my business trip?” Massimo’s dad asked me for the nth time again and this time, I nodded without saying anything.He seemed to be in great shock to hear that his lady dearest is a kidnapper, and I wouldn’t blame him though. That lady looked too pretty and fragile to do a thing like this.“…And you’re sure that Massimo isn’t making you tell this lie?” He asked, making me flare up in anger.It was one thing to not believe that your wife was a hardened criminal but another to accuse someone of lying just to get her behind bars. The part I hated the most was him implying that Massimo had made me do this simply because he was aware that Massimo hates her.“I beg your pardon, Sir?” I seethed angrily, quickly rising to my feet but was immediately held back by Michael who draped his arms around my shoulder.“Adriana…” he whispered into my ear as if in a b
Adriana’s POVMy mouth hung open as I stared at Michael in shock, wondering exactly what must have possessed him into doing something as absurd as this.It’s been three weeks since Massimo got discharged from the hospital and after getting the shocking news that Massimo had been the one to disown his father and not the other way round, the next shocking news was the one which Michael just gave me.“You’re getting married?!” I exclaimed again, still in shock and to worsen matters, it wasn’t Gina! “What about Gina?! How the hell is she taking this news?” I shrieked, more concerned about Gina than about Michael and whoever he was getting married to.“She’s taking it pretty well,” he answered nonchalantly, “…at least a lot better than you are.”Massimo, who was seated in a corner of the room, said nothing. He seemed unfazed that Michael would be getting married, and to someone that wasn’t Gina! The same Gina who had been with him for years now without terrible fights.This was insane!“Yo