The cherry-red gown fell to the ground as Laura stood naked in one of the female toilets. She wrapped her hair in her normal ponytail style and wore her original clothes. Laura pushed open the door and came out."I knew that prick would not give up his whereabouts so easily.""There is one problem, though. The information you emailed was tampered with. Monad and Macerio have been distant for almost twelve years. I think he spoke the truth when he said he did not know about his current hideouts."So you suggest that the barrier was hacked and the details were tampered with? If that is so, I have to inform the others." The call came to an abrupt end, leaving Laura in great suspense and confusion. She glanced at her black watch and scrunched her brows."Diego? Come in, I did not hear..." Laura tapped her earpods, attempting to establish a stronger connection with the home server, but her actions were futile. She groaned and pulled the handle open, leaving the cherry dress hanging from th
Ace yelled, not minding if it was Nathan that he talked to in that manner; besides, he had every right to be angry at him. First of all, he had set up a mass destruction explosion without their notice, and now he was not even showing any sign of remorse. Millions of both good and bad people must have been killed all because of his outrageous manner of dealing with things. And most of all, it was sure that Laura couldn’t have made it alive."I tried to reach her, but I could not. Our server was hacked an hour ago. Diego did everything he could to strengthen the barrier, but he could not. I came up with the idea; there were no other alternatives." His cold tone resulted in Ace clenching his fist tighter in annoyance.‘No other alternatives?’ He murmured skeptically at his words. ‘So that was the only good choice he had!’"You are not getting the point; Laura was still in there! She had a child in her stomach! And you just killed both of them!" Ace hollered, revealing to Nathan that Laur
‘Mm, what were you doing here? Do you know the motel? Don’t you have parents?""Nope, I am an orphan. My parents died in a car accident when I was in the twelfth grade. Since then, I have been borrowing to survive. Well, to cut a long story short, I am in great debt." Yvonne lowered her head while she caressed the worn-out necklace on her neck sadly. It does look like they both had their fair share of losses. "You? Why were you there? You look better off than me and richer too, so I do not expect you to be in the same situation as I am."Came to murder someone...." Laura mentioned this while lowering her head. She was still in a daze but managed to respond to the girl’s question. Her broad eyes scanned through the environment where they were, and she heaved a sigh. At least for now, Laura was sure of her safety, although she was wary about the girl.Her timing was impeccable, but what held so much curiosity was why she would be here at this hour of the day. To be factual with figures,
Camila stood, stunned for a moment after her brain had processed his sentence to its fullest peak, and stuttered. She hadn’t expected him to easily admit defeat without pulling out his gun or, more so, beheading her tonight. All of Camila’s expectations flew with the wind. Her gaze softened while she monitored the aura change in Nathan.Something she had never seen before just happened. Nathan was feeling remorseful, but why? She hadn’t even begun with his chapters, and he just gave up like that, which was unlike him to do so. Could it be that she had reminded him of his dirty past? Hell, No! This was Nathan, whom her brain was accessing right now, and no matter his obscene past, he never gave a fuck nor showed a remorseful remark. It was either a cold scowl or a plain stoic expression. This was new!&n
Ace quietly gazed into her silvery black pupils as he squeezed her palms into his. Knowing he had offended her, he let go of her palm and apologized. "I did not mean it. It is just that... I am so upset right now.""I know and I understand that too... We have a mole in our organization, Ace. The faster we get rid of whoever is responsible, the better for us," Laura mentioned, her gaze carrying an unsettled expression in it."What are you talking about?" He tried to make sense of the signals Laura made, and when he did, he sighed. What she just said made a whole lot of difference, which explained why their server was hacked all of a sudden.She was always right when it came to noticing that their information was stolen and publicly exposed to their enemies. Ace rested his head on the chair and drove to the hotel owned by Nathan. It was a two-hour straigh
Thud!Again, her heart rushed and pumped more blood into her body, which was getting weak from standing. Laura’s ears tingled solemnly to hear the words he had uttered, and more so, she fought to know whether they were sincere."What was he sorry for?" Her mind blanked out immediately, and unconsciously, she slumped into the arms of Nathan. His tight, firm hands carried her whole body to the couch, where he laid her down on the couch and caressed her face. Still stuck in a daze, she found herself on the couch and quickly snapped herself out of that unfading daze. Her arms wrapped against his firm chest, and she coughed slightly. Was this still Nathan? The cold man she knewLaura’s head spun excruciatingly as it filled its capacity with questions and questions and ques
Laura screamed as she grabbed Nathan’s tie and glared into his gray eyes. She could find nothing! No remorse for his statements—nothing! ‘This was how he truly felt towards her? Like a piece of trash.Her heart sang into the deep blue ocean, wondering where it all went wrong."He was our creation, for crying out loud.""To me, that child was only a façade in my life. I never wanted it; you did, so you must bear the consequences. The child is dead, and you caused it.""You fucking said that to me? Tell me what you said was only a lie."Her voice croaked hoarsely as she stumbled backward away from him. Laura hung her hands on her head and stared into blank space."Face the truth and sto
"What else can I do?" Macerio chuckled deeply as his voice sent shivers down both Olive and Asher. Both men stood there with sweat on their foreheads. Obviously, this man still had these authoritative glares and tones, and they could not help but cowardly bow their heads. As they were equally scared of this man.His years of gambling and crimes were no match for many young mafia rulers, especially Mr. Nathan from the Ezra Cassano lineage, yet he was able to surpass him! What a mystery!"Look at me; I am nothing but a broken man with a dead daughter and half a leg on a wheelchair. Should I go on? I was definitely not the old master in those days. That bastard asshole has ruined everything! He brought nothing but shame to Johnson’s name!"Macerio ranted with every one of his words, cursing Nathan’s generation if there ever was one. He crushed
……………Meanwhile, In Ace’s House.Ace tossed around the bed with his arms stretched out while looking for Laura on the bed. When he did not find anyone, he groaned and sat up on the bed. His eyes fluttered open to see an empty bed with himself on it.‘Come on, Laura, you could not even wait for me to get up before running away. Groaning once again, he stood up from the king-sized bed, put on a white silk shirt, and headed downstairs. Due to his blurry eyes, he skipped a step and fell. Ace cursed, stood up, and headed st
Still in the hospital,Once Levi was out of sight, Asher slumped onto the chair, balled his fist, and mumbled some words out of his mouth. He recalled all that Levi had said from the beginning to the end, and his head focused on the number of zeros in a billion dollars."I am sorry, but you are not worth it, Macerio. Besides, you never treated me fairly; why should I do the same for you?" An unexpected feeling of anger surged through him as Asher walked closer and closer to Macerio’s body. He smirked and rolled the cord, which connected all his breathing tubes to the socket. Thoughts ran quickly through his mind, while some little voices ringing in his head urged him to cut off the wire.‘Cut off the wire.‘End his life.
The imminent dayAsher paced about with his hands swinging from left to right. He stopped for a while, yelled anxiously, and continued to dial the number again. This early morning, the shareholders were tipped off about last night’s incident owing to the media’s influence, and very early, they threatened to pull their funds away. On hearing this, Asher’s hair stood straight while his fist balled together as he overheard their assumptions. Pretty right and said! Like how he assumed they would think!They did not even wait to hear the full story and quickly threw all the blame on him."Olive, think about it; the shares are dropping fast." Asher cried painfully as his legs trembled on the white tiles. In front of them was Macerio, lying half unconscious on the bed, and then the beeping sound of the machines. "I failed him."
"Yeah, I know." He paused and looked at the book she was reading. It was one about motherhood, and he frowned deeply. He had truly thought that Laura had strolled past the loss of her first child, and now seeing her with the book, he felt devastated."Don’t blame Nathan; it was the urgent thing to do. He was right all along; having a baby was lame." Laura gushed off the feeling from her head and tossed the book into the same trash can. Her head flung over while she adjusted herself on the bed to sleep."He made you risk your life, and you don’t care?""I did care, but now that I have finally understood what he meant, I know I was the one that was forcing him. Hearing Olive's statement made me realize that I was the one who forced Nathan. We
Laura grimily added, smiled at the camera, and turned around back into the red Maybach car parked in front of the red carpet walk-through.Once she got inside and the car sped off for a long distance, her smile turned into a deadly frown as the person behind her iced the entire atmosphere. She shifted her gaze to Nathan and yelled."What the fuck was that? Did you know how suspicious it was for a grown man to fall and kill himself? What are you going to do about that? What if they can point it at what you are doing?"Laura rambled anxiously with her fingers entwined together. She was nervous and afraid, even when she faced the camera. She wasn’t used to the new plan. Their mission today was only to humiliate Macerio in front of the public and get him to confess his crimes, which was all! Not the fucking suicide plan!"
"What are you talking about, you silly asshole? You can never beat me in terms of everything. You are only a psycho and not a true mafia member. A psycho with bloody needs!" He spat out fighting to search for his inhaler.Yes, I am, and you see, all your men are at my service. Monad is dead, and I did it. Vincenzo is dead, and I did it, and guess what?"What?""Maine was the one who sold your real location to me and had me plan this event earlier. So you see, I am always a step ahead of you." Nathan continued to grin as he brought out Macerio’s pills and inhaler from his back pocket. He threw it at him like a piece of dog and watched him struggle to reach it. And when he finally did reach it, Nathan continued."Don’t bother taking it. They are all counterfeits! I made sure your health worsened by conniving wit
On The rooftop of Macerio’s house.The loud party noise made it impossible for both Asher and Olive to focus on the game they and Macerio were playing. A while ago, Macerio’s birthday party kicked off. There was nothing that could ruin the party. Nathan was distracted, and the party seemed perfectly fine.His guards were on the lookout for any sort of mishap that might disrupt the happy movement of the party."Cheers to my long life and wonderful prosperity," Macerio added as he clicked glasses with Olive and Asher. He chuckled happily as he sipped elegantly on the sweet, expensive white wine. "To think that I won’t be alive when I clock eighty"Hmm," Asher responded as he concurrently checked his message tag log for any new message from Dianne. A few minutes ago, she had texted him with an emoji sayi
He smirked once again as he reminisced about last night. Never had he thought that one day he would have a blissful sleep without encountering any form of nightmare.Something about this was quite fascinating. She came into his life, and now he had a perfect night. What else can she do for him? His selfish mind wandered off, thinking about the possibility of having Ashley stick around for some months, even years. He stopped thinking, left the room, and headed straight to the dining room, where he met the hot-cheeked Ashley alongside Catherine."Boss Nathan," She greeted politely while moving out of the dining room to the mini kitchen to finish setting up the table with delicious meals. Her eyes glanced at Nathan, who lazily sat on the chair while scrolling through his phone screen. Seeing this, she dragged Ashley into the kitchen."Why didn’t yo
The weather turned a little dull as night approached, quite sooner than they had expected. Through the side mirror, Levi looked at Nathan, who seemed lost in thought."Are you still bothered about how tomorrow will turn out? As long as we stick to the original plan, everything will go perfectly. Olive is on our side," Levi winked with a bright smile on his face while mentioning Olive, Monad’s right-hand man. This was meant to be a surprise gift, but it appears that he has to give it to him right now.His left hand plunged into his right pocket and brought out an actual invitation card to Macerio’s eightieth birthday. How did he get it? That was not that difficult."Olive? You mean Monad’s guy?" He lazily frowned, sat up properly, and laid his head on the chair. Nathan’s face had a scowl, and his brows creased, annoyed at his action when he heard