Ariana’s POVThe night was chilly and silent. The cold wind blew violently against the window and from the sound of Thunder rumbling in the distance, I immediately knew that it was about to rain.My mother loved the rain.Right now, she smiled at me as soon as she heard the sound of Thunder and then squeezed my hand gently before whispering; “good night baby girl,” to me.I kissed her on the head and then whispered; “Good night mama,” smiling as I put out the bedside lamp. In silence, I went up to my room, expecting to end the night on a peaceful note but to my utmost surprise, the first thing I saw when I posted my door open was Massimo sitting on my bed.This was the first time I was seeing him in three days. The last time I had seen him was that day in my mother’s room when he had almost chortled me to death for trying to escape.Today, I wasn’t scared of waking my mom up and if he tried as much as to lay a finger on me, I would have no option but to give him a huge dose of his ow
Adriana’s POVI woke up with a start, panting for air as if I had just run a marathon, and yes I did, in my dreams.I had just had one of my usual nightmares. One where I would always see Jamie… or Jannie standing over me with a huge knife. She usually slices my skin open with the knife but I usually always wake up before she slices my throat open.The dream has been frequent for the past two days and today it was worse, way worse. It made me wake up shivering but as soon as I opened my eyes, I smiled when I saw Massimo’s figure lying very close to me and snoring away.A blush crept up my face as scenes from the previous night played and replayed in my mind’s eyes and only worsened when Massimo suddenly pried his eyes open to find me already staring at him.“Hi,” he greeted with a smile. “Already checking me out this early in the morning?” He asked cheekily and I could only smile as I shook my head at him.“Hi,” I responded.It still felt really weird to experience this sort of extrem
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