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
AdrianI pushed away from her the minute her eyes fluttered open and sat up on the bed."What happened?"She stared at me for quite some time before realizing what I had just asked her.She glared at me. "What do you think? You showed up all drunk and made me carry you all the way here after blacking out."Oh, right. I had left the casino hours after our... argument—I'm not sure what else to call it—drunk and wasted and found myself here. But why do I feel like I'm missing something?"Well, you can leave now, since you're sober, or do you need to give me another lecture about how dangerous the world is?"I smiled at the glare she gave me when she turned away and got out of the bed just as she did so too."I think I passed the message yesterday."She scowled and walked out of the room, brushing her hand through her hair, and I followed, straightening my clothes that I thankfully still was in.She sat down on a stool once we got to the kitchen and turned to stare at me."What?" she aske
LyraI still couldn't forget the kiss. No matter how much I tried.The way he had leaned his forehead against mine, whispered sweet nonsense to me, and made me forget the anger I was supposed to feel against him."Just what have you done to me?"I scoffed.I should be asking him that.Just what has he done to me?He had literally shown me a man getting tortured with no emotions in his eyes and then showed up on my doorstep hours later—okay, scratch that; it was his house—his doorstep hours later to mess with my feelings like this.I ran my hand through my hair and tried not to dwell on the kiss again."Fuck!" I failed and thought about how sensual the kiss had been. The way he had pressed his hands against my nape and bit on my bottom lip after.God.I felt something flutter in my stomach and raised my head to the water to remind myself harshly that he had been drunk, though.Really drunk to the extent that he blacked out right after that, so I wasn't surprised that he hadn't remembe
AdrianElio was back.Alfredo had told me that a few hours ago when he arrived at the airfield, and now I was going back to Sicily to update the elders about my plans.It was better for them to know since a war might likely ensue, and I didn't want them to be caught unawares.As for Alfredo, he will meet me there with Elio after he has seen his daughter, and we'll send the assassin to Matteo once Lyra is taken to LA safely.I sat back in my seat in the airplane and tried not to think of the kiss that had been on my mind for quite a while now.The way it had felt, the way she had tasted, and the way she had looked back at me, it had felt very different from the disgust I had seen in her eyes in the underground room, but I couldn't tell which one was true.Probably the disgust since no lady would like to see what she had seen.I glanced up from my thoughts when the pilot announced, "Good afternoon, everyone. This is your captain speaking. Welcome aboard, and thank you for flying with us
LyraGod, my head was killing me.The darkness around me made it worse, and I acknowledged the movement of the floor under me.What the fuck?!Where am I?Where was my dad?We were just talking minutes ago about the Mafia and how he had got in, then we drank the coffee.Thankfully, none of the major happenings of my life were related to the Mafia. Actually, none of my life has been related to the Mafia until now.I tried to move on the ground, feeling the tight rope around my wrist, and I winced at the pain.Fuck!Was I kidnapped?How though?What of Alfredo?Dad?I managed to sit down on whatever it was I was on and noticed the tightness around my ankle too.Fuck!If I wasn't sure before, I was sure now.I have been kidnapped.By Matteo?Maybe, but how?God, I hope they don't cut my fingers or my dad's.What of Alfredo?!I went still when the movements suddenly stopped.God, what now?There were sounds, some crunch under feet, and then, boom, the sound of a door opening.I'm guessing
AdrianI wasn't sure what to say after my phone call with Alfredo.Elio and Lyra have disappeared?How?How did that even happen?He was supposed to be with them?But according to him, he had stepped out for a while to do something and found out that they had been kidnapped when he got back.Where did he go to?What was so important that he had to step out and leave them unprotected?I trained the gun properly on Kael when he glanced at me in the mirror and scowled, "Face your front."He was driving."What else do you want me to say to make you believe me?"I shrugged.At this point, I wasn't sure I believed in anyone.Anyone could be a spy or traitor right now, and that meant nowhere was safe for me.As if he understood that, he turned the car around unexpectedly.I pressed the gun to his temple. "What the fuck are you doing?""You can't go to the family house or where people know you? You know that."Of course I did. "Then where are you taking me to?""Greenville."I stared intently
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