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
~Adriana’s POV~The first thing I did when I snapped my heavy eyelids open was to slap away Massimo’s big arm which had been carelessly draped around my aching body.“Anna?” He drawled sleepily but I ignored him and instead focused on trying to sit up as my body, especially around my cookie, throbbed painfully from all of his vengeful actions last night.I felt him move behind me but didn’t give a damn and after I had successfully helped myself up, I looked around the room in search of my clothes only to find them on the floor, and in shreds.“Motherfvcker..!” I cursed loudly under my breath. This made Massimo sit up too but as soon as he saw what I was looking at, he muttered something incoherent under his breath and went back to sleep like I didn’t mean shit.His attitude pissed me off and for a minute, I thought about hitting him hard on the head until he passed out but quickly changed my mind because I knew that he was still in a very bad mood and that he wasn’t even close to forg
~Adriana’s POV~A wild cry wracked my entire body as I stumbled into my room and threw myself on the cold floor dejectedly. Massimo had embarrassed me in the worst way possible and now I felt used, betrayed and dirty… and above all, I felt like a piece of trash. An old dirty trash sack to be used by the uncaring likes of Massimo and then dumped into a dumpster like I didn’t and never meant shit.I wanted to curse at him, to yell out profanities but I held my tongue in despair because I knew that no matter the amount of curses I rained on the monster, there was absolutely nothing I could do to change him. He was an animal, a beast who didn’t give a damn… moreover, I would only get myself in more trouble by doing so and the idea of getting punished again by him, the way I’d been earlier disgusted me. I couldn’t go through that for a second time.I cried for a long time, stopping to remember how he had easily discarded me at intervals and wondering how long I would have to endure this