Ariana’s POV“Where’s my mother?!” That was the first thing I said to Massimo ever since we left the abandoned house where I had been kept by either Jamie or Jannie (I think one of them was impersonating the other) and the great thing I said as soon as I got into his house which surprisingly felt like home now.I looked around the living room, breathing in the familiar scent and feeling a sweet tingle run up my spine at the thought of being back on safe grounds.“She’s probably asleep, she’s still on medications and her nurse gives her these anti-anxiety pills to make her relax,” he answered and for no reason, I believed him.What I didn’t understand though was that she was taking antidepressants. “Was she involved in something when I was away?” I thought to myself but quickly shook my head to clear off the thoughts.Massimo probably heard my unasked question for he immediately continued; “She was a little panicky when she woke up and the doctors feel that it is as a result of her hav
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 sat quietly on the bed, staring between the debtor who was speaking too fast, and Massimo, whose grin was just too wide, wondering about what they were talking about that had gotten them so excited.The doctor shook Massimo’s hand again, for what felt like the hundredth time before walking away with his briefcase clutched tightly in his hands.It was until after he had walked out that Adriana found her voice, and with a force, she croaked out;“What is happening? Why’s the doctor so excited?”The last thing she could remember was having a head-splitting headache. The one that had weakened her and made her faint, and now, seeing Massimo so happy as soon as she opened her eyes made it all so confusing.“I am talking to you, Massimo!” She exclaimed, causing Massimo to stop. He gently sat close to her on the bed, draped his arm around her shoulder, and with that grin still plastered across his face, he said to her;“You’re pregnant.”At first, Adriana was very sure she didn’t hear
Amy’s POVWith my plane tickets in my hand, I dragged my heavy suitcase through the airport terminal, and at the same time, ducking to prevent myself from being seen by one of my many enemies.It’s been three weeks since I killed Caden and made away with Adriana’s money, and ever since then, I’ve been literally watching my shadow.Everyone and everything seemed to creep me out, even the sound of random songs playing on the radio. I couldn’t help but think that I was being watched, and that was why I decided to leave the country.One of the reasons I decided to leave the country though was because I knew that the police were street me for killing Caden and taking part in a kidnap scheme. They also wanted to arrest me for theft and I couldn’t let that happen.Adriana’s money had been long deposited in one of my accounts, and now, all I needed was to get my sorry ass out of this country before I got caught.Bouncing down the extremely clean walkway, I arrived at the check-in desk but as
Massimo’s POVI slowly pried my eyes open and smiled when I was met with Adriana’s pretty sleeping face. She slept soundly and for the first time since I knew her, she didn’t care if she was stark naked or not.It’s been a few days since Caden’s death and even as Jamie and her twin sister, Jannie served jail terms, Amy was still nowhere to be found,l.It was as if she had disappeared off the surface of the earth with my money, and even as the police had set out search parties for her, placing them in several points around the city, none had been able to come up with information concerning Amy; it was alarming.My train of thought was suddenly disrupted when my phone screen came on, and a text notification popped up on the screen. I groaned in frustration when I discovered that the interruption was none other than Jessica and I frowned as I thought about what she might want now.Picking up the phone, I clicked on the message she had sent after I had finished reading through it, and I f
Adriana‘s POVAs soon as I tried to run, I was immediately tackled to the ground by four lunatics who suddenly realized I was some sort of trophy that could be transported from one place to the other just for them to make money off me.In desperation, I screamed out for help but it was nowhere to be found. I thrashed violently in their hold, wanting to free myself but there was no way I could stand the chance against four people who seemed as though they were high on steroids.“Let me go! Let go of me, you psychopaths!” I yelled out fearfully, whilst praying that Massimo would walk in at this moment, and just as I did, I saw him drive in with a sleek Rolls Royce, moving as though he was a madman.At first, Caden seemed so shocked that Massimo had driven in that he stood frozen to a spot. Even Jamie was suddenly unmoving; it shocked me that one person had this much hold on them.“Let her go!” He growled, causing Jannie and Amy, the two people who still held on to me, to move away fright
Adriana’s POVI arrived at the scene about five minutes before the stipulated time, and even though Caden was nowhere to be found yet, I still couldn’t help but feel like something was terribly wrong.The place was eerily silent and so was my head. It was as if my mind had suddenly gone blank and I couldn’t conjure up even a single thought.Seizing this opportunity, I picked up my phone, and quickly sent a text to Massimo even though I wasn’t sure he wanted to talk to me yet, that is after taking a picture of the secluded place and then putting it on silent before tossing it under one of the chairs where it wouldn’t be easily seen by Caden.I bit my fingernails as I waited for Caden. Time moved torturously slow and every moment felt like I was waiting for years. Just when I was already beginning to think about going back home, a black sleek car pulled over and immediately, Caden stepped out.“Hey, you!” He called out almost too cheerfully but as soon as he saw the look of disdain tha
Adriana’s POV“Did you… did you just say you’re Massimo’s cousin?!” I stuttered with widened eyes. It was unbelievable!As if to further surprise me, he nonchalantly nodded his head at me, smiled in a way that seemed a little sheepish, and muttered; “I am, and I wasn’t lying when I said so.”Something about the way he talked made me suddenly begin to feel suspicious about him. I couldn’t help but remember that I had also felt this way about him during the first few days we met.He had this thing about him, this silent pride. One that made you know that he was a servant in this house but at the same time, you just knew that you couldn’t talk to him the way you talked to other servants.That pride he had was the only thing that stopped me from disbelieving him, so I rolled my eyes as I looked away.Suddenly, I remembered that Caden was somewhere waiting for me. He was probably pissed right now, and with I’m not this thought in mind, I snapped; “I don’t care if you’re Massimo’s father
Caden’s POVMy eyes widened in shock when I checked Anastasia’s pulse only to notice that it wasn’t moving at all! She wasn’t breathing and no matter what I did to resuscitate her, it wasn’t working!“Shit!” I cussed aloud, feeling fear begin to seep into my mind. I couldn’t call Amy for help now, especially when Anastasia had died during intercourse. I mean, how was I supposed to explain to her that I had killed a girl I’d been drilling when Lu called to tell me about Massimo without her flipping out?It was impossible!With a new kind of desperation settling at the back of my mind, I picked up my phone and called the first person that came to mind. Now, I didn’t care about getting money from Adriana anymore, all I cared about was hiding this crime in the best possible way.“Hello, Caden?” His deep baritone voice called out, momentarily startling me. It was Lu, and he seemed genuinely surprised that I was calling him back only a few seconds after our first call.“I need a favor!” I
Caden’s POV“Arrgh damn!” I moaned under my breath as I leaned back, watching Anastasia, a girl I had cast my sights on for a long time now, ride me. She groaned in pain when I smacked her ass but despite this, she didn’t stop. One thing I loved about her though was her endurance and her wildness… She was one of those few humans who could be pushed to the wall but would never retaliate.Again, I smacked her ass, smiling when she bit into her lips, drawing blood, and with a new fierce determined look in her eyes, she began bouncing on my throbbing manhood, whilst throwing her head back.The room was hot and smelled terrible. It smelled like tobacco and swear, with a mixture of bodily fluids and alcohol… and something else that I couldn’t quite place, something that smelled damp.Lying on my back made the smell even more difficult to bear. I felt suffocated and nauseated at the same time…if that was even possible; and if not for the fact that she was so good at what she was doing, I wo
Massimo’s POV“Are you suddenly deaf, Mr Grey?!” Lux barked at me, causing a few of his minions around us to burst into laughter, and even as insulting as that sounded, I still couldn’t find it in me to be mad.Right now, all I could think of was Dylan, my younger cousin who at this moment was standing behind me, putting up a brave front.I liked how he seemed fearless. I mean, it was in our family lineage to be domineering but at the same time, I knew that Dylan was faking it. From up here, I could notice the tiny insignificant stuff that no one else could; I could see how his hands shook almost unnoticeably and how his eyebrows twitched now and then. I’ve known this motherfvcker for quite a while now, he’s suffered some of my bullying and teasing, and so I knew that right now, he was petrified.“And who are you?!” Lux barked, shifting his attention from me to Dylan and immediately, I felt a sense of fear pass through me, and when Dylan wouldn’t speak, he added; “Massimo, are you