Lyra"I... I don't know."My heart was in my throat at this point, and I tried not to let my panic show through my voice.I was shaking profusely, though."Get up.""Huh!"I watched as the guy stepped away from me but kept the gun trained on my head."I said up! Keep your hands where I can see them.""Oh, okay."I stood up from the bed, trying to wrap the duvet around myself as I was naked.Fuck me for not putting anything on after peeing, but I hadn't been expecting a robber to come into the house at this hour, though."I don't have a lot on me right now, but I can transfer some money to you if you want. You don't have to...""Shut the fuck up and keep your hands where I can see them."He dragged me forward with his arm around my throat and pressed the gun to my head before pushing me forward. "Walk."I did, and groaned when the duvet suddenly fell to the floor, leaving me naked again.Fuck.He continued forward, though, stopping at intervals to check through the rooms as we went, an
AdrianThe cat was out of the bag, finally, or should I say, unfortunately.I ran a hand through my hair and took out my phone to call Alfredo, who picked it up immediately."Alfredo.""I need you to come to Rome now.""Rome, why?""Somebody was sent to assassinate me.""What?! Are you okay?"I nodded even though he couldn't see me, "Yes, just leave everything and come here."I cut the call and squatted in front of the dead guy.He could have been sent by anyone: the Bellini's, the Rossi's, Steve Carlos, who thinks I had his father killed, or even someone within the family.I stared at the guy's face and pursed my lips when I found no answers on it, not like I was expecting to, but maybe I could find a mark, a tattoo, or something that would indicate where he was coming from.I went through his pockets and pulled out a phone.There were a few tattoos here and there on his arm and leg, and there was the gold chain around his neck.A gift? I wondered.I pulled up his shirt to see anothe
LyraI woke up to a pounding headache and the worried face of my close friend the next morning, and I sat up on her bed with a groan."Oh my God!"My head was going through a revolution at this point."Are you finally ready to tell me what actually happened yesterday?"I rolled my eyes, pushing the hair out of my face as I tried to get up. "Or you can let me wash my face and have a cup of coffee before relieving that memory.""Which memory?"I could still see the brain of the dead guy from last night and his open eyes, and for some reason, that reminded me of the falling eyes from my nightmares.Wait?It hit me right in that moment.He couldn't...Wait, there's no way.There's no way he had been part of that happening.It looked gory and horrific, at least how I remember it in the nightmares, but maybe it isn't even like that.I shook my head, "No...""What is it now? Did you find out that I'm in the Mafia too?""Uhn?" I turned to Bella, confused."That is what you kept blabbing on ab
LyraI stared at Adrian about an hour later, dumbfounded and flabbergasted. "The company has been made mainly for money laundering."He nodded, staring in a way that made me nervous and hot, and I shook it off.We were talking about something important right now."But why? How?""I used my connections in the Mafia world to bring some clients to the firm, and then we used that profit to conceal our own profit. I'm sure you understand how it works.Of course I do.This was crazy."So that's why he went into hiding? Because the FBI was really onto him?""Mostly, but also because he got attacked in his house.""What?"I felt my heart skip at that information."Attacked?! When was he attacked?""Two days before you came to Italy"More like I got kidnapped to Italy."He was attacked by a Mafia group and escaped, but he thought you might be in danger, so he sent you to me.""He what?"Does that make sense?He sent me to a Mafia leader in the case that I got attacked by another Mafia group."
AdrianGod, I am losing my mind.Crazy thoughts, most of them about Lyra, were killing me, and they shouldn't; I should be focused on the fact that Kael had likely betrayed me, but I just couldn't get her expression out of my mind.The way she had looked when I said she was nothing more than a fling.A great fuck.I sighed.I wasn't so sure about that anymore."Adrian."It was just..."Adrian!!" I jumped out of my reverie as Alfredo's voice finally got to me, and he glanced at me."What is wrong?""Nothing.""Is it Kael?""Yeah..." Partially "You couldn't have known that he was a traitor."Yes, I could have, should have even, but "he told me that the Bellinis are planning something.""Something. What?""A coup. Maybe with Kael.""A coup, and you think he'll tell you that if he was really part of them?"Exactly what I was thinking."Or it could be a ploy."I cocked my eyebrows, "maybe.""So what are you going to do?"I stared at the private jet he stopped beside in the airfield a minu
Lyra The sun shining through the blinds was what woke me up the next morning, and I cursed immediately as an intense headache went through my whole head. Fuck! I sat up on the bed. What happened? I went to the strip show. Danced to some foreign songs I couldn't recognize. Then there was the guy that met me in the kitchen. Alfredo. He took me to a room where... I held my head as memories of what I had done last night flooded my head. Oh God, no. I hadn't done that. Ugh! I tried to erase the memory of me practically begging Adrian to have sex with me from my head. How did that happen? Was I that desperate? My God. I stood up from the bed and tried to steady myself before I went out into the hallways. I needed some water or coffee, then... Oh my God, Greg. Where was he? He was the one who had accompanied me to the strip club because Bella had her shift that day, but I couldn't remember coming back home with him. Adrian or Alfredo must have done that. Then where was
LyraThe club was quite similar to other clubs I've been to.Loud music coming from the insides, bouncers at the front door, and a long line that wasn't so long outside.I wasn't sure why I had expected it to be different.I moved forward with a dark shadow behind me."Are you ready?" The shadow asked, and I nodded.I was.It was just to get in there, dance on the stage, and attract his attention, then I'm done."You sure?"I turned to Alfredo just as the person in front of me finished with the bouncers."Yes."I smiled tightly at me and turned to the bouncer, "Hi."I put on a seductive smile and handed him my ID."How is it going today?"No answer."Okay."I turned again to see if Alfredo was still behind me, but it was only a lady in a black dress and a gum that was making quite a pop in her mouth.I turned away and took a deep breath before walking in."Thank you."It was showtime.I removed the jacket I was wearing over the short red dress underneath with its halter neckline and m
Adrian"Get out." I said to Alfredo before either of them could say anything."What?""Get out of the car."I felt my fists clench in an attempt not to kill either of them."Oh yeah, sure." He scrambled out of the car and handed me the keys."Wait till I call you."I got behind the wheel and started the car, ignoring the stare that Lyra gave me."What are you doing?" No response."Adrian!!"No response.Instead, I zoomed off down the alleyway and drove onto the main road, my eyes laser-focused on the road.I didn't want to see her in that outfit.Think of what she had just done.It was infuriating.I came out of my reverie when her yell filled the car, and she glared at me, "Slow down! Are you trying to kill us?!"I still didn't answer as I stepped on the gas and zoomed past a traffic light before parking in the alleyway beside a casino.She got out and bent over the side, heaving profusely."The fuck! You asshole!" She hit my arm and glared when I got out of the car."Follow me.""W
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