LyraDrinking a dozen beers after the asshole left didn't help to make me feel any better.In fact, it just made me think and groan in anger; I felt the need to do something.Cause havoc.What could I do?Destroy his property?I couldn't even get out of the house.Make him jealous?I don't think he would get jealous considering how disgusted he looked earlier.Spend his money?My eyes lit up at that.He was a businessman and probably advocated for spending wisely, so spending his money carelessly would get him all riled up, right?I stood up from the kitchen counter to go get my phone and laptop that I hadn't really used since Kael got it for me, and I swiped onto Chanel's website page, where I searched for the most expensive thing.Bulgari was next.Followed by Gucci and some other big name brands that I knew and shopped from, and I found myself on a car dealership page before I could stop myself.But what was the point of stopping myself?I was here to spend his money right, and a c
AdrianAlfredo was the first person to greet me when I walked into my study later that morning, his ass sitting on my desk, and he cocked an eyebrow, "Where did you go to?"I walked to the couch in the room and sat, ignoring his question, "Here and there. Why?""You don't just travel to Rome for no reason."Yup, but there had been a reason, right?Scolding my best friend's daughter, who was hard of hearing, but still, I shouldn't have called her that.The look that had washed over her face when I called her a whore was still etched in my memory, which I hated."Adrian?"I sighed and ran a hand through my hair. "I needed to oversee the progress with our establishments.""You could have done that here.""And what are you aiming for?"He raised his hands and stood up, "Nothing. Just curious... and excited for the upcoming party."I rolled my eyes; of course he is.His favorite part of the event would be held, which will make him more excited and bring out that part of him I hate to see.
LyraI ended up calling Adrian's right-hand man myself after I remembered that he had saved his number on my phone the other day.Those robots outside were unmoving."What is it?" He asked when he picked up the call."That is no way to greet someone you locked up inside a house."I could hear him sigh through the line, "What is it, Lyra?""I need to go out or I'll lose my mind, so tell these men to let me out or put me on the phone with my dad."He definitely wouldn't agree with this after hearing me out."To tell him what? That you went clubbing and almost put yourself in danger?""I was perfectly fine.""So you think, but you were not; trust me. Just sit tight and wait for your transfer process to be over; you'll soon be out and going to school."I sighed and prepared myself to reply when I suddenly heard a beep indicating that he had cut the call."What?!" I scoffed, dialing his number again, and he picked up."What is it?""You don't just cut off a lady like that."He sighed once
LyraThe club was as lively as ever, with Bella standing at the counter, and she gaped at me when she saw me."What?" I asked, sitting by the counter, and she glanced up to meet my eyes."Y-your outfit..."I looked down at the shirt and jeans I had borrowed from the delivery girl before placing the helmet on the counter."What about it?""You shouldn't look that hot if you're not a lesbian."I chuckled, adjusting the loose pants and shirt, and I picked up a glass of cocktail that was already lined up on the counter."What about Greg?"She shrugged, "preparing for an event with his new fling or something, but he should be here any minute."And he did appear a few minutes later, looking surprised when he saw me. "Girl, where did you go? I didn't hear from you after that night."I nodded, unsure if I should tell about my temporary locking-up situation and how I had gotten out, but I decided against it after a while.That wasn't a situation you just tell to friends, especially new ones.
AdrianThe party was in a few hours.The party I usually held every three months for my business associates, friends, and enemies.It was meant to be a networking party; at least that was what I had planned for it to be from the beginning. A party to celebrate life, success, and a connection to the Mancini family, but it ended up being this party that showcased discipline, violence, and a darkness that comes only with a Mafia family.Thanks to Alfredo.I slicked my hair back into place, placing my feet in my shoes and smoothing out my tux, and I stood back to stare in the mirror after that.I was ready.Remaining just the finishing product.The essential product to even be allowed into the party.My mask.Yup, the party was a masked party, an element essential to protecting the identity of huge figures that normally made it to the party, and I stared at myself one last time in the mirror before stepping out."Is everything ready?" I asked Kael, who stepped into view from the corner wh
Adrian"What?!"I turned to Kael, who was quiet with a tab in his hand, and I pulled him into a corner immediately."What?""The ships took a hit, and Lyra ran away from the house.""Fuck fuck fuck fuck! How did... How did that happen?""Which...""The both of them. The ships, her, how did she run away?""She made a deal with a delivery girl to leave in her clothes and bike."God, she was going to be the death of me."And the ships?""Exploded. Two of them.""What?!" I couldn't believe that."Should I shut down the party?""What? No!"I ran a hand through my hair and put on a smile when some people by the corner turned their heads in our direction.They couldn't know what was wrong.They couldn't know, or things would become imbalanced in the system.The power, the strength—they would all become questionable if things went wrong, and I couldn't let that happen."You, take care of it and keep it under wraps, and Lyra, find out where the fuck that... where she went to."He nodded and le
AdrianHow did she even make it here?The distance.This was Sicily for crying out loud and a long distance away from Rome, where she was supposed to be.I straightened my back and glanced at the crowd that was now focused on both of us.Fuck!This was basically the reason why I had kept her a long distance from where I stayed.To keep her hidden and out of my world, but she had come into it like a moth attracted to light.Even Alfredo was staring at me from where he stood."Who brought her?"A guy in a red mask raised his hand and stepped forward, and I used a hand to lift the mask from his face before scowling at him.It was Mason."And what did I say about keeping your playthings in check?""They're never to cause any uproars."Everyone knew it.The dogs, the nobodies, even the newbies knew it."So what do you think should be your punishment?""I...""An amputation? Your leg? Hand? Dick?"Dick that had probably fucked her.He bowed his head. "I'll take anything you decide, sir."Ug
Adrian I was gulping down a glass of whiskey when Kael came back into the house, and he came to a stop beside me."And?""They've been loaded onto a plane and are on their way back.""Good."Hopefully, they wouldn't remember a thing of what had happened by the time they woke up."And the ship?"Now that my best friend's daughter was out of the way, I could take care of business matters even though that was supposed to come first."The police are looking into it. They think it's a faulty electric system.""What? Not a bomb?" It was the least thing I had been expecting since we lived in a world where everyone was after everyone but a faulty electric system?That was what had fucked my plans up?I refused to believe that."No. They're investigating, so they should come to a conclusion soon."Fuck!"Hope our men are on the assigned team that is investigating?""Yes sir.""Now, prepare a plane. We're going to Rome.""Oh."****LyraThe light was too bright, my head pounding crazily and my
BellaOne month later,The town was just as quiet yet noisy as I remembered it. Most tourists were bustling around as they got some things, and I picked out a few things myself for dinner since we didn't have the luxury of ordering pizza here."Here." The elderly man said as he handed me the ingredients for soup I had bought, and I paid him in cash, thanking him as I left.Seriously, where was this girl, Quinn?I glanced around, trying to find my companion, who was just as dazed as a child by the things he found here.Okay, yes, there was a lot of antique and beautiful stuff, but getting lost among the crowd because of that was not...I gasped and smiled when I suddenly felt her arms wrapped around me from behind."Seriously?"She smiled, kissing away the scowl I had only just managed to plaster on my face."See what I found." She raised up a type of camera that looked really ancient."Wow..." That really dripped with a lot of sarcasm, or at least that was what I planned, but I think
Quinn "Oh fuck!" I sighed in relief when I finally saw that she was okay.Phew!You should have seen the way my heart skipped when I got the news that she had been kidnapped from the condo.Like, how the fuck did that happen?Who was even the...I turned to the other guy in the room, raising my own gun to aim when I finally saw who it was. "Matteo?"He tucked the gun he had been holding into his pocket and faced me."Isn't it odd that no one is here?" And there were no dead bodies outside or within.It was almost as if no one else was here except us, and that was weird. If this had been a kidnap mission like he had said, after all, he was the one who had sent me the video of him being kidnapped, then called me to tell me he found her.I raised my eyebrows, immediately becoming suspicious, and raised my gun again.He rolled his eyes, knowing exactly my thought process."You still don't get it, do you?""What?""This is what might happen if you guys keep up with what you've been doing.
BellaThings kept going great after that.Days after that.The sex.The glances.This thrilling feeling that came with just being around her.I threw my head back and moaned loudly when her tongue slipped into my pussy, slopping quite loudly."Ahh... Quinn..." It felt so good."Hmm-mm. Feels good, huh?"I nodded, unable to get the words out thanks to her adding another finger to the finger that was already driving me crazy by my clit, and she raised her head up after another mind-blowing orgasm on that same kitchen counter.I smiled and opened my mouth wide to accept her kiss when she raised her head up a moment later.God.So obscene and hot, I loved it.The twirl of her tongue, the salty but sweet taste, she bit on my bottom lip for a second when we finally pulled apart minutes later."God, Matteo is going to kill me, but..."Right, her meeting with that Moretti lady. She had told me about it a few days ago when we decided to come to this condo for privacy.Yes, it was the condo we
QuinnWe all got into the car, with Matteo taking the wheel again after we finished with Hastings, and we maintained the silence we had kept on our way here—except for the time I caught Riley staring, or maybe it was the other way round as I had been staring too—till we got home.Both I and Riley got out when he got to the house. Matteo remained inside to drive the car to the garage, and I waited for him to drive away before I caught Riley's hand in mine.She glanced at me for the first time since we left the lawyer's office. Seems like the visit to the lawyer hit her hard all over again.She blinked a number of times. "What?""Come with me.""Huh?"I didn't give her a chance to understand what I was about to do before I was dragging her all the way with me to the back of the house, where I let go of her hand to search through a bunch of thick bushes that had some flowers in them.I turned back for a moment to see her giving me this ridiculous look. At least she wasn't looking so sad
BellaThe drive to the office was dead-ass silent. Like I'm talking pin-drop, cemetery-type silence as we all sat huddled in the car, and I smiled at Matteo for the third time when we made eye contact through the car mirror just because I was not willing to get caught fixating on the person beside me.He smiled back again, definitely thinking I'm weird or at least acting weird.I sighed deeply.After the little confession session we had out in the alley the other day, what am I saying, yesterday, I would have expected things to be more expressive between us.You know... those things people in relationships do, but for some reason, we have just been avoiding each other for the most part of today; I couldn't understand why.Okay, I know I'm part of the problem since I'm not making any moves, but at least she should do something, right?Ugh!I fidgeted unconsciously, pissed at all this tension and weirdness.I glanced at Quinn for the hundredth time even though I've kind of convinced mys
Bella"Huh?"I kept my hands around her shoulder, unable to move my legs anyway because of how wobbly they were, and I stared up into her eyes once she said that.She stared at me too, quite troubled."I think I might like you too."Okay, not love, but at least we were past the fuck buddy stuff.She pulled away and ran her hand through her hair after a moment of just staring at each other.Like, what do we do now? Have some more sex. Kiss.She nodded towards the club and back at me, "Are you going to... We should go home or..."Right, I had even forgotten I was drunk before and kissing another lady because the thought of being just a fuck buddy to her had irritated me.Now that she had said she liked me, I felt more sober than drunk.I moved away from the wall and stumbled a bit right before gaining my balance."Yeah."I wondered where home was now.The family house?Maybe. After all, it was my father's house but more Quinn's than mine now. I was definitely going to feel out of place.
Quinn Drunk, annoyed, tipsy; maybe still drinking, was what I had been expecting when I stepped into the club; the GPS had indicated the car was parked in a few minutes later. But instead of that, the person I had come to look for was by the bar, kissing a lady that basically had her whole body on her now. I felt my insides twist with this feeling I couldn't quite place. Jealousy. I wouldn't know, but just the sight of what they were doing and the fact that they kept kissing had me storming over to them without warning and basically throwing the other lady across the room before I could stop myself. Those familiar amber eyes stared up at me in surprise, "Quinn." I didn't wait for her to get another word out before I was dragging her out of the club and into an alley that enveloped us in complete darkness if not for the flickering streetlight beside it. She tore her hand away from me and glared, stumbling a bit when I turned to face her. Oh, she was drunk but still...
Quinn Matteo didn't seem to buy the it's just sex theory, though, and I sighed, turning away from him."Is that advisable though?"I shrugged, "Why not? It's not like I forced her to have sex with me.""But she's..."Yes, Jose's daughter. I knew and shouldn't have started any of... I wasn't even sure what we had now, especially if she really felt the way she had said earlier."I think I love you."I pushed the words to the back of my mind, facing Matteo, who sighed in resignation again."Just be careful. Getting involved with her could make things dangerous, and you shouldn't have any distractions, especially in the early stages of this..."Taking over, he meant.It was already my fourth month as the leader of this organization, and things were going well, at least on the surface.I nodded and sat behind my desk, shoving thoughts of how naked a certain person had been on that desk a minute ago.He sat opposite me.I kind of knew what he might want to bring up."Hayden..."Yup, knew i
Bella Fuck!I grinded my hips against the table, chasing after the high that had come over me as I came super hard on Quinn's tongue a minute earlier, and she raised her head to my lips to kiss me after that, sucking my tongue and spreading my salty taste all over our mouths.It was obscene but also hot."Hmm..." I purred, loving it."Get on your knees, princess. Time to put that mouth to use." And even though I had been willing to do that, hearing her say that while she leaned back against the chair in the study had me hot and bothered on a whole new level.Fuck, and this was not what I had been planning when I left Lyra's house.Like yes, I had wished and fantasized about having sex with her over the past three months that I was supposed to use to figure out my life, but I had also been planning to talk about whatever the hell I was feeling.Now I wasn't even sure what was going on in my mind anymore, but that wasn't going to stop me from doing what she ordered, though, so I got on