Hi, everyone. I just want to thank you all for the love and support you've shown to this book since I started. I meant for it to be a single book about Adrian and Lyra but thought along the way, why not write a story for her friends, Greg and Bella, too? Therefore, I'll be continuing this book with Greg's story, which will be M/M, and Bella's story, after which will be W/W. Hope you enjoy them. PS: What do you all think of Adrian and Lyra's story? did you see the betrayal coming? did it catch you off-guard? what areas can I improve the book, or is it okay the way it is? I want to know your thoughts. Thank you all for reading. Ruthiana.
GregI pushed open my apartment door that evening, pulling in with me the man I had met earlier that day at the club, and he pulled his pants off, taking out his cock."You have a condom, right?" I asked as I wrapped my mouth around his length and he pulled out a wrapper."Good."I led him to my bedroom after a while and collapsed on the bed while pulling out a bottle of lube from the drawer in my room.Shit, I still haven't taken off my clothes."Are you both pretending not to see me or what?"I and my one-night stand both yelped as a man in the corner of the room spoke up in the darkness, and I gaped when I turned on the lights to see Kael standing in the room."What the fuck?! What are you doing here?"The guy whose name I still didn't know backed away, pulling up his pants as he went, "You could have told me you have a boyfriend.""What? No. He's not my boyfriend!"I glared between Kael and the retreating figure till we were left alone in the apartment.I walked up to him and almo
GregI didn't sleep throughout the night, my eyes wide open to make sure the half-dead stranger in my apartment didn't fully die, and I woke up the next morning, alarmed when I opened my eyes to see the couch empty.The fuck?Where did he go to?I stood up from the stool to look for him but paused when I heard his voice whispering in my bedroom."I'm fine.""Okay, sir.""Okay, sir."I wondered who he was talking to. Adrian?I barely made it back to the living room, looking everywhere but at him when he came back, and I wondered why I was even hiding.It was my house for God's sake, and he's the one who had barged in."You're awake."I nodded, "And you're alive.""Fortunately.""So, care to explain to me what is going on?"He sat down on the couch and winced at the pain that he must be going through.I would still suggest we go to the hospital.Okay, maybe not. I reconsidered when he said his next sentence."I'm hiding from the police.""What? Why?"Oh my God, does that make me an acc
KaelIt was freezing cold, my clothes too thin to fight against the cold in the apartment building, and I felt my body grow weaker by the hour.Fuck.I needed to do something.A motel.Maybe, but I needed to get some cash.I also needed treatment.Crazy as it might sound."Stay low."The words of Adrian floated through my mind as I tried my best not to fall asleep in front of the door, but it proved impossible.I kept blacking in and out."The fuck!" I heard a familiar voice say a few minutes later, after I had blacked out again, and I unfolded myself from my position, almost falling down if not for his arms that wrapped around mine.We almost fell down together again."What are you doing here?"He felt my head and neck for some reason and cursed loudly."You're burning up."I guess I am."I'm not trying to bother you again. I just need some money to rent a motel. I lost my wallet."I felt the words come out of my mouth but wasn't sure if they conveyed what I wanted to say."Just come
GregOkay, I don't know why I said that."You can actually stay till..."Ugh!I wanted to remove my mouth for saying such nonsense or shut it up for at least a week because why should he stay with me?I'm sure there are other people he could stay with, like the members of his mafia, but instead, I had to go and say that nonsense.I sighed and got into a taxi outside the apartment building, remembering how quickly he had taken me up on the offer and requested that I buy him some new clothes.Agreed, he looked like a clown in my clothes, which were obviously too small for him, but he had no right to order me around like it was my job.He was just like my exes.I smiled and greeted the receptionist who had almost given me homophobic panic on my first day, and she smiled now, erasing all my homophobic allegations against her.She moved to the side to show me the wide-leg trousers she was wearing. "I was so lucky to meet them on sale."I nodded, "Lucky you."She went back to her work while
GregOh my God, I'm so going to kill this motherfucker!I sat up on the bed as the sounds and noises from the living room increased, making it impossible for me to sleep."What the fuck is wrong with him?" I groaned as I stood up from the bed to go ask him exactly that, and he looked up at me from the floor where he was when I opened my bedroom door."What is wrong?""What is wrong?!" I scoffed, stepping into the living room more."You're the one who is preventing me from sleeping by doing God knows what by 2 am.""Oh." He stood up from his position on the floor and headed for the kitchen, where he grabbed a glass of water."Didn't know I was making so much noise."I nearly lost it when he placed the glass in the sink and turned to me."Place the glass back in its place after using it."I went past him to the sink to do that myself and sighed.God, he was such a nuisance when he wasn't lying in my bed, about to die from a fever.He went back to the couch I had offered him after he bec
GregI immediately became worried."What? Why? Is it painful?"He covered my hand with his before I could inspect the injury some more and pushed it away from him."I'm fine. I just need to get dressed and fall asleep."I pursed my lips as he stood up. "Are you sure?"He turned to me at the door, "Yes. Didn't you mention needing a beauty sleep a minute ago?"I scoffed as he shut the door behind him.Beauty sleep?I never said it like that, and did he have to be so derisive all the time?It wouldn't be the first time since I met him, yet it always managed to get to me.The asshole.I got into my bed and tried to shake his thoughts out of my head, but how was that possible when he was a tall, muscled criminal in the little space that was my apartment?****I woke up to a bang the next day, my heart departing for me for a minute when I heard the sound again from the living room, and I found the source to be Kael when I stepped into the living room a minute later."What is going on? What
Kael I'm losing it.Like, going out of my mind, about to go crazy, type of losing it.But staying in a little apartment for several days without any action will do that to anybody.Okay, maybe not anybody but me, who always had something to do every night.A shipment to receive on this side, conflicts to settle on all sides, and a whole business to supervise.I was always busy day and night, but now, I had nothing to do.The boredom was killing me.I watched with a guilty pang as my accommodator walked into his room.Okay, maybe that was pushing it, but he had been out all night.How was I meant to know that he wasn't at the police, spilling my whereabouts or telling some other people about the criminal in his house?Maybe he had.He had probably been drunk or...Okay, stop!He wouldn't be back here if he had done any of those.I pondered what he had said and lay down on the couch. "Getting laid if that makes you feel any better!"It made me feel weird to be honest because...I'm not
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