Adriana’s POVThe past few days have been the best time of my stay here at Massimo’s house. From the food to the special treatment… everything!Another thing I loved about these past few days was the fact that I hadn’t encountered either Massimo nor his girlfriend. In fact, it seemed like they had disappeared off the surface of the earth.A couple of my wounds have healed and my body even felt better. Micheal came over a couple of times to come check up on me and even though I always reminded him that I was better now, he never listened.The last time he had come over, it ended in a fight. Fine, I enjoyed his company but he had brought up Massimo’s topic in front of me, regardless of how many times I had warned him against it. He had come with the intention of making me believe that Massimo hadn't meant for all this to happen. The hell he hadn’t, but he never showed any ounce of pity for me… not that I wanted him to pity me.“Bull shit…Classic bullshit, Micheal!" I stood up from the
~Adriana’s POV~I remember crying myself to sleep last night and wondering what my fate was going to be and surprisingly, it turned out to be a strange one!The first thing I noticed when I slowly pried my eyes open and squinted into the semi bright room was Massimo who was already standing beside my bed with a paper bag in his hands. As soon as he noticed that I was awake, he smiled slowly and I immediately knew that I was up for something really weird.“Good morning,” I grumbled, rubbing at my sleep filled eyes and wondering what the hell he was doing here by this time of the day but I didn’t bother to ask him that because I didn’t want to have to talk to him.In fact, I didn’t even want him here in the first place!I saw him nod but he didn’t say a word. Instead, he stretched the hand with the paper bag in my direction and for a moment, I wondered if he had really lost it. This was indeed strange.I peeked up at him, wondering what sort of spirit must’ve infested him because Massimo
Adriana’s POVThe drive with Massimo was unusually quiet and in order to distract myself from his intense stares, I looked out the window and watched the scenery move past.“You look beautiful,” I heard him say and in shock, I quickly turned in his direction to be sure that he was talking to me, and yes he was. “Yes, I’m talking to you… I said that you look beautiful.” He said again and I smiled because I had nothing to say to him.“Thanks,” I whispered and turned back to the window. My mind drifted off again to the last time I went out with Massimo only for Jamie to appear out of the blues to pour a bottle of wine over me. The thought made me shudder and for a minute, I thought about asking Massimo to ask the driver to turn the car around but I couldn’t, I was scared.I tried to shake off the fear of Jamie showing up but it just wouldn’t go away. The girl was like a pest and from what I had witnessed so far, it was obvious that she had her eyes squarely on Massimo. This thought bothe
~Adriana’s POV~“What the hell are we doing at a hospital?” I asked again and just like the first time, Massimo completely ignored me. His cockiness as well as the fact that he didn’t even acknowledge the fact that I had just spoken angered me; it made me see red and I almost thought about not following him in until I remembered the kind of beast he always morphed into whenever he wasn’t having his way with something.With hate filled eyes, I watched how he stepped into the hospital lobby like a freaking king and everyone began to bow at him like he was their god or something. The scenario annoyed me more than it amazed me and for a minute, I wanted to throw something at him… a tomato, a drink or something as long as I succeeded in ruining the moment for him.In frustration, I slowly trudged behind him, wondering what this whole drama was all about and cursing under my breath because he had made me dress like a ballerina to a hospital!My grumblings didn’t stop as we went up the elev
~Adriana’s POV~He slowly pulled away from me and to my surprise, he didn’t snap like I had half expected him to. He didn’t even try to pretend like the kiss didn’t happen, nor did he move away from me as the silent car continued to drive along the busy street.Deciding to ignore him and the array of feelings he was igniting in my body, I refocused my attention back to the passers-by on the road who were obviously going about their day to day activities and due to exhaustion as well as boredom, I soon began to doze off.“Sir, are we still making that stop at Walmart?” I heard the driver ask from the front and immediately, I began to pray that Massimo wouldn’t agree to that.I was tired as it is, so tired that even as my head bobbed, hitting the car’s window painfully at intervals, I still didn’t even try to change positions because I feared that moving around would only fully wake me up.“No, Adriana here is asleep,” Massimo replied, making me smile.It baffled me that the almighty Mas
~Adriana’s POV~“You sent for me,” I quickly blurted out as soon as I arrived at the foot of the stairs and found Massimo already sitting on one of the couches, and waiting with a TV remote clutched firmly in his hands.As soon as he heard my voice, he turned in my direction, smiled and then patted the spot close to him on the chair, in a gesture that meant that he wanted me to come sit with him. I reluctantly did as told and protectively wrapped my arms around my body as I went to sit beside him,The fact that I had to share this close proximity with him shortly after drowning in thoughts concerning him made me suddenly jittery and I gulped as one of his hands slowly snaked up my thigh to rest just around my hip bone.“I wanted to talk to you, Adriana,” he muttered softly, drawing my attention.Slowly, I turned to look up at him and as soon as my gaze fell on his dark piercing eyes, I gulped again. At this close range, it looked so beautiful that it could literally be passed for molt
~Adriana’s POV~“Jack…wow” I mumbled over and over again, still in disbelief as I stumbled up the flight of stairs to Massimo’s room.Even though I was excited due to the fact that Jack had been alive all along and that Massimo hadn’t been brutal enough to kill him simply because he had tried to help me escape, I still couldn’t shake out the tingling sensation that ran up my body at the thought of how the latter had touched me earlier.I could still feel his minty hot breath fanning the crook of my neck and could still feel the tingles from the spots where his hands had run up my body earlier, and this bothered me because he isn’t even here to begin with!I could literally feel him everywhere I went and could swear that I was seeing him right now, in my subconscious even though I was certain that he was in the living room downstairs.The different sensations running up my body made me suddenly so flustered and I cried out in anguish when again, I felt a sticky puddle forming at the ba
~Adriana’s POV~“Come here now, Adriana!” He growled angrily, making me flinch in fear but I didn’t move an inch. I couldn’t bring myself to move for fear of what he could do to me.I noticed how his eyes narrowed at me and also couldn’t help but notice how he shut the door behind him as stealthily as possible, and this made my heart begin to race frantically because I could say that that wasn’t a good sign.“Adriana…” he drawled, walking deeper into the room and the more he got closer to me, the more I shifted backwards until I could feel the cool wall against my back.“I’m sorry.”“Sorry for what exactly, Anna?… Sorry for what?” He replied in a singsong voice I couldn’t help but feel like he was only trying to lure me to himself by sounding like this.As he got to the foot of the bed, his eyes zeroed in on the phone which now laid discarded between the sheets and his eyes immediately darkened. “Who were you trying to call?” He asked and I gulped.How do I go about telling him that I