Adrian"How is she?""Okay.""Does it seem like she remembers anything?"Kael shook his head as he walked beside me to my car that was on already.The valet handed the key over to him and walked away while we both got into the car."She seems pretty normal and is going about her daily activities without trouble."I didn't trust that about her. Sooner or later, she would fall into trouble and need me to save her, and I really couldn't keep getting distracted by her.I needed to focus and erase her from my mind, but the way her neck had felt under my hand still remained vivid in my memories."Okay then. The money?"He nodded to the bag beside me, "Intact. We had gathered every income we made from our businesses to cover for the loss, and the buyers have agreed to wait one more month for their supplies."It was crazy how the ship had exploded."And you said the police concluded that it was a faulty electrical system?""Yes sir.""Anything suspicious yet?""Not yet. Everyone seems clean,
LyraThe nightmares started soon enough.I wasn't sure what they meant.The man and the eyes that kept falling off their sockets—it was almost as if he was in front of me, but when I woke up, I always realized I was alone and drenched in my sweat.I seriously started to wonder what had gone wrong."Are you okay? You look like a ghost." Greg said when we met up later that day, and I sighed."I don't know. I'm starting to have nightmares.""Concerning that night?" I nodded, collecting the drink that the bartender handed to us."Thank you.""But... I mean..." He rubbed a hand across his forehead"I don't have nightmares, nor does Bella.""I know right. I wonder why mine is different."He sighed, "Maybe you were..." He didn't complete his sentence, fidgeting with his fingers as if I didn't already think of that possibility, and I sighed too."Raped?"He nodded his head slowly. "I would kill myself if that happened, but...""No, it didn't. I would know if I was raped, but I wasn't. It was
LyraFuck!The eyes again.They were moving, crawling out of the guy's face, morphing into something; it felt like it was calling out to my own eyes."Arghhh!" I woke up with a scream when my eyes began to crawl out too.Okay, this was getting out of hand.I still couldn't get to the bottom of this, and I was losing sleep on it.Fuck!I got out of bed and went into the bathroom even though it was just 4 am in the morning, and I prepared the bathtub for a bath."All I know is that he mainly runs his business back in Sicily. I don't really know him or why he told me to follow you around."Sicily.That was where Greg, Bella, and I had gone for the party.Could he have been there?Was that why he had found me?I settled back in the tub after the water had become warm enough and just thought about it.The whole ordeal.The route we had taken to the house.It had been dark that day, but I could try recreating the path in my mind.I sighed and ran a hand through my hair, exasperated.As if I
AdrianJason was the first person to greet me when I got back from Columbia; well, it wasn't really a greeting since I had his brother locked up in my dungeon and all, and I sighed at the state he was in when I got down from the car—drunk and disheveled."What do you want, Jason?"He came forward to meet me, "My brother. I know he acted stupidly, but people make mistakes.""Not trying to rape the target and letting her get away.""He was... I don't..."He knew I was right, but of course he wasn't going to let it go."But we've worked for you for so long.""Something you get paid for."He sighed, "Can't you just let it go?"I scoffed and tapped his cheeks after getting even closer to him. "You should be lucky I'm not keeping him locked up for my next party. Don't worry, I'll give him a nice and clean death."Okay, that was a lie, but he didn't have to know that."No, no, no."I ignored the cries of the guy behind me and didn't even bat an eye when I heard a gunshot behind me.I glanced
LyraThree weeks later,Greg, Bella, and I were all out of breath when we got into an Uber later that afternoon, and we all glanced back out of the car, expecting my "bodyguard" to just pop up out of nowhere."Do you think he fell for it?" Bella asked, and I shrugged."Most likely. But it doesn't matter, as we only need to make it to Sicily before he finds out."Then, it would be difficult for them to find me since it was an island with no one on my back already."Right.""Did you take everything you needed?" I asked both of them, and they nodded"Only the essentials."Due to our predicament of fooling the bodyguard, we had been unable to pack like normal girls would for a trip, but we weren't going there to party either; I was going to find answers."We can always buy anything we need when we get there too."They both nodded, and we headed to the airport, where I had already booked our flights.Thankfully, I had also stopped to withdraw some cash since I thought we might need it on t
Lyra"So what are you doing here in Sicily?" Alfredo turned to me after the guy that had called him earlier left and asked, and I shrugged."Vacation"He chuckled, "Vacation?"I nodded. "What is wrong with that?"He shook his head, "nothing. I just wasn't expecting you to fly all the way from Rome to Sicily for vacation. Rome is already a tourist center on its own."I shrugged, "Well, I love going to new places.""Hmm"We both fell silent as we sipped our drinks, and I kept glancing at him.Why not ask him? He could know something. I said to myself.He caught my eye when I glanced at him again and I cleared my throat, embarrassed."What? Thinking of how to hit on me?"I rolled my eyes at his question and turned to him completely.He glanced at me and away. "What is it?""I... Do you know a guy named Adrian, Adrian Mancini?"I thought I saw a strange expression move across his face, but his fuckboy annoying smile was back on his face before I could dwell on that."Why? Here to find him
AdrianFuck, I shouldn't do this.I shouldn't even be thinking about agreeing to this at all, but she had offered, and I needed to fuck her out of my system just as much as she needed to fuck me out of her system too.Not to talk of the sexual tension and constant turn-on that were always messing with my brain and work.I backed her up against the car door and claimed her mouth again before I could think rationally, sucking on her tongue and taking as much as she offered to me, and I wrapped my hand around her nape tightly.I was fucking thirsty.Drunk on her if you will, but I had to make sure she never thought about it again.Having sex with me.Or getting together with me.She had to hate the idea or thought after this, and that was why I planned to do this my way.The way I normally had sex with most of the ladies I have sex with.We got out of the car when the driver pulled up in front of the house, and I all but carried her into the house with me, then straight to my playroom.A
LyraI stared at the paddle in his hand, trying not to whimper at the ice cube that melted in p*ssy some more, and I licked my lips multiple times when he came closer to me again.Fuck, this was crazy. Borderline crazy.The fact that I was tied to the floor and ceiling while he roamed, fully clothed about me.I would have never expected things to escalate the way they did when I made him that offer in the car, but they had, and I felt like I wasn't going to regret it.In fact, I was curious.What would it be like?Painful?Enjoyable, as he had said?I was also intrigued by his interests.So this was what he was into.Chains, control, dominance.I mean, I had seen a bit of it that night in New York when we had sex, but I would have never expected him to have a whole room dedicated to it.The whips, the canes—they all looked similar to the porns I've seen, but I would never know since I had never experimented.Well, until now.He continued to roam around me, trailing the paddle across