*****Nikita POV*****~~In a monarch country of Leap~~“Where the heck have you been?”Rebecca, Colton and I exchange looks. We were all hit really hard by the old man’s sudden death from a heart attack. Barely a month since his death the young Mr West has pushed everyone to the limit. More than twenty employees have already quit and we are also seriously considering it. Everyone now appreciates just how cool of a boss his old man was. Unfortunately, his son did not inherit any of his good leadership and communication skills. “We went out for lunch, Sir,” Colton responds. “And who the fuck gave you that permission?” Mr West yells. Other employees peep to see who is been shouting at this time. Every single one has had their fair share of his yelling. “We finished our work early and it was lunchtime,”I respond and intentionally leave the Sir part. I will only show respect when earned, boss or not, this man does not deserve any of it. “Your working hours are 8 to 4, that’s when your da
*****Nikita POV*****Hunter and over fifty of our men walk in and fill up the reception area. All in black with leather coats and gloves, mean looking and heavily armed, they claim the space and own it. All the company employees are now out of their offices watching and our stupid boss is literally shaking. I get off my seat and they all simultaneously go down on one knee and bow their heads. Shit! Now I look like a real mafia boss.I walk towards them and stop in front of Hunter with a sinking heart. The fact that they are here kneeling in front of me means that Leo was telling the truth. Father is no more. “Speak.”“Your father was executed yesterday,” Hunter says. I don’t fall apart. The pre- warning Leo gave me and that brief period of recollecting myself was a blessing. The worse thing I can ever do is break down now in front of these men who are now under my command. “Who did it?” My voice is calmer than I feel. I want to scream and tear everything down. Hunter shakes his
*****Nikita POV*****Becca and Colton are still shocked by the splendour that’s now my empire but I would rather it was not. Had my brother been still alive, all this and everything evil that comes with it would be mostly his. In just a year, I have lost my whole family and I don’t know how to emotionally deal with it. I can’t get myself to use my old bedroom because of the horrible last memories I had there before leaving the country. I use a guest bedroom instead and Becca insists on sharing with me. She wants me to grieve and take it all out but I have nothing. I am still not able to sleep though, so I think about my next move….being Kita, permanently. I have thought hard about my next step. Hunter is not impressed that I have decided to dissolve the empire, neither are my men. They don’t seem interested in the lucrative retirement offers I am offering them. “This is our lifestyle, we will be lost without it.” That’s what Hunter tells me. I will let it slide for now, but I have
*****Leo POV*****Seeing Niki a day before in Leap has raised an almost unbearable need deep in my soul. I need to see her, talk to her and hold her in my arms. I knew when I flew to Leap that I would not be able to see her long but I still had to. That brief moment was everything and I hope it felt the same way for her too. Not only that, it was important that she got to recollect herself before her men arrived. Most of them will judge her by how she responded to the news, that’s why I had to break the news to her first before they arrived. The kiss was a bonus prompted by seeing her luscious lips so close to me again. I just couldn’t resist. She did not kiss me back, I must have caught her by surprise but the familiarity left me wanting more, so much more. Our three days of passion in Palmland all came back to me. It’s all I thought about on my flight back. I know that her plane landed an hour after mine. I was disappointed that she did not use her bedroom though. I waited to see
*****Nikita POV*****Colton and Becca are more terrified by the blood oozing from my neck than being amongst the whole tribe of murderers. Them being exposed to all this is what fuels my already raging tamper. Leo had the audacity to show up in Leap, pretending to be caring and then turns around to do this!“Kill them all”I mean every fucken’ word. I came back to bury my father and had no intentions of going against any of them, but they had to push me into this. It was the same with my father. He became the devil because they killed his wife first, his retaliation earned him the nickname, but they made him that way. Well, I am the devil’s daughter and I will be damned if I let them get away with this. “No!”The objection comes from the person I least expected. Our man are confused by contradictory orders and turn to look at me for direction. Hunter is the one who has been giving them orders for a long time because he was Father’s second in command, but they are aware that I am the
*****Leo POV*****Madness is being worried about someone who has just given an order for all of us to be killed. Over three hundred mafia members all on the ground with Davi men holding their guns on our heads. My brain is screaming for me to stop fussing about Niki and come up with a plan to get out of this situation. I blink and shake my head a multiple times but the blood oozing from her neck makes it hard for me to concentrate. What the fuck possessed Luca to do this?My head is still spinning when Hunter objects. That’s a surprise. I would have thought he will be the first to start shooting. Niki is clearly not impressed with whatever the two of them are talking about. I can hear her anger rising but it seems Hunter is not aware. I know her too well. Soon she will be a furious daredevil none of us can manage and it happens. She is actually worse than her devil father when she’s angry and right now she is livid. The Davi men are shocked by her next move, but I am not. Her shootin
*****Niki POV*****~Two days after Nick Davi’s funeral~I toss and turn on my bed but can’t find a comfortable position. My stomach is cramping badly, I am sweating and I have a fever. “Are you okay, Kita?” Becca is really worried about me. It’s already midnight but she has not gotten to her bed because she’s been sitting next to mine and fussing over me. I shake my head and hold on to my cramping stomach. I can’t be in denial anymore, for the first time in my life I am definitely coming down with something. “I thought it would pass but it’s getting worse.”It’s no use pretending to be strong when she can clearly see that I am in pain. I have taken painkillers but it’s getting worse. “What can I do?” my angel on earth asks. I force a smile. I don’t know what I did to deserve such a caring friend. Becca’s gentleness and kindness is so genuine it makes me miss my mother. I never had a chance to get spoilt by her, most of her memories have faded but I am certain that she would have f
*****Leo POV*****I have a cast on my left leg and have to get used to walking with crutches. Riah thinks I deserve worse for spying on Niki for such a long time. She is starting to sound a lot like Owen these days. Just like we expected, Lucas was used to blackmail Luca into killing Niki. The poor kid was terrified by the time Owen picked him up from the police station. His abductors picked him from his university at gunpoint, forced him to call Luca and kept him in the boot of a van. He had no idea where they were taking him. It seems that the plan was interrupted by a random road block by the feds, forcing his abductors to desert the van, leaving him in the boot. It was when the feds searched the van that they discovered him tied up in its boot. This is, of course, what the feds are saying, but they lost my trust a long time ago. Lucas never saw the faces of his abductors. For all I know, the feds could have been the abductors and let him out when they thought Luca had done the jo
*****Leo POV*****When more hours pass without a trace of Niki, I completely lose my sanity. “Hang in there. Niki is the strongest woman I know,” Owen says but I can’t believe anything until I see her. “She is my everything.”“I know and most importantly, Franco and Dion know it too.”“They are monsters, Owen, and Niki is pregnant.”“She will be fine. You have to believe it,” Owen insists and I nod my head. It’s only when Hunter gets intel about the murder of a man he and Nick once hired to build a secret grave Crego and the signals going off from the Crego grave that hope returns to me. We are an hour off but Niki is definitely still alive. Getting that assurance gets me pumped up again. My heart leaps when I see her. The love of my life. She weeps on my arms while I thank heavens for her safety. We all get a reminder of how crazy and mean Nick Davi was when Niki opens the vault. I know that he is dead, but I want to punch him really badly for speaking to my wife like that. We a
*****Nikita POV*****I wake up in an unfamiliar place. The hazy image of Franco standing above me gets clearer and I sit up. “Morning sleepyhead,” Franco beams. There is really something wrong with this man. “Where am I?”“We are in the great Crego and the weather is wonderful!” he responds with so much excitement, you would swear we were related or friends. “You drugged me,” I accuse. The last thing I remember was arriving at the cemetery and someone putting a sack over my head. Crego is in another country away. He shrugs his shoulders. “You are not the cooperative type, my friend.”“What do you want, Franco?”He opens his hands. “Money, Niki, money and you have loads of it.”“I thought we were friends,” I accuse. “Of course we are.”“You kidnapped my son!” I exclaim, Anderson rising within me. “Come on now, Niki. The little guy was not harmed.”I shake my head and bite my tongue. Nick might not be physically harmed but being snatched by strange man will still scar him. “Why C
*****Leo POV*****A week later, the country is still in chaos. People are fed up with the ruling party and begging ex president Marlone to lead them again. The politicians are throwing each other under the buss and literally begging us for forgiveness. I look at Niki. “Babe.”“You can’t be serious!” she exclaims in disbelief. “The country is burning, My Love. We can’t let it continue.”“They tried to kill us!”“I know. I think we made our point. Everyone now knows the truth. I don’t think they will ever mess with us again,”I explain. “I agree with Leo. It’s enough now,” Daniel says. “I know that you are angry, I would be too if someone attacked my family like that. Dad says people are angry and getting desperate. He can’t lead again, that took a lot from him the last time. Please, Niki. I want to get out of here and plan my wedding,” Lorraine pleads. She definitely inherited her father’s diplomatic ways. We all look at Niki, who thinks we are all too soft and weak. She is probable
******Nikita POV*****It does not take long for Hunter to return with Lorraine. As expected, he has taken extreme measures to ensure that they are not followed and Lorraine has nothing that can be used to track her here. It’s easy to see how devastated Lorraine is by Daniel’s death. I’m really curious to know her reasons for turning him down because it’s not lack of love.“Hi, Lorraine.” I keep my cold straight face. She runs to my arms and starts weeping. “I.. I.. loved him. I really did,” she chokes on her tears and I now feel bad for the lie I told. “My parents spent their lives and went through hell to unite this country,” she mumbles, a story we all know too well. “My siblings and I have always been under scrutiny. We learned very early on that anything we did could be used by the opposition against our parents,” she continues. I know that too. The whole country got to know when President Marlone’s children were mean to anyone at school. It’s been like that even when they we
*****Leo POV*****A day later….“Hey everyone, Daniel’s father-in-law is on television,” Lucas shouts and we all congregate in front of the screen. Former president Marlone’s views matter a lot to us for different reasons. He still has a lot of followers and influence here but we now we have our eyes on his daughter for Daniel. “Former President Marlone, many consider eliminating the mafia the one thing you failed to accomplish during your presidency. What are your views on what’s going on now?”the journalist asks. Former President Marlone smiles and shakes his head. “My mandate was to eliminate the criminal organisation called the mafia. So, I, and my government appointed the best detectives in this country to only focus on that. We had the best undercover agents, who infiltrated the Davis, the Booi’s and Siko’s. The so called DBS or big players in the mafia world.”We all exchange looks, wondering which one of our previous men were undercover agents. “And?” the journalist asks ea
*****Leo POV*****I get into the bathroom and find my wife puking over the toilet. This should be disgusting, right? Then why do I feel like kissing every part of her body?I crouch down next to her, gentle tag her hair back and pat her back. “You don’t have to stay,” she says before gagging and puking again. “There’s no place I would rather be, My Love.”She frowns at me. “Eew.”I can’t help but laugh at her reaction. “We are in this together, Babe,” I say with a lump on my throat. So much has happened between us, but we are still here and this baby is the stamp of our love. She gets up, flushes the toilet and rinses her mouth before responding to me. “You are very weird, Mr Booi.”I chuckle before whisking off her feet. “We are pregnant. Babe, we are really pregnant!”She wraps her arms around my neck and looks down at me in disbelief. “I told you this a few hours ago and you did not seem interested.”“I thought you were too smitten and speaking in tongues.”She rolls her eyes
*****Leo POV*****We can see the bullets but thanks to the impenetrable walls, none get through. This wall in my books, still the most impressive invention of all times. “They are not in uniform and did not identify themselves as police,” Hunter says and my lethal wife is absolutely thrilled. “We have already won the case. We just have to live through this. On them boys,” Niki says and we gladly comply. The bastards clearly did not expect us to retaliate like this. I don’t really blame them. Guns, yes, but I wouldn’t expect any mafia to have bombs and drones. We are definitely winning this without even facing the fire. Owen and Lucas are even competing on who has taken down the most of our attackers and Daniel is actually not bad despite his complaints. We are still celebrating our victory when a missile comes out of nowhere. “Abort! Everyone to the basement!” Niki shouts and we all dash to the basement. The walls and the roof shake at the point of impact, before tumbling down. T
*****Leo POV*****Niki opens and closes her mouth, speechless. Did she really think I would ever let her go?“You have a lot to make up for, Missy,”I tease and she looks at me in disbelief. Sizzling hot! “Shooting you was an accident, why am I making up for it?”“Not telling me that it was an accident and trying to tear us apart, thats what you are making up for,” I say while wrapping my arms around her tiny waist. I plan on shamelessly riding this wave forever. She smiles and curves her sensual lips. I know that means she is about to fight me and I decide to change my strategy. “I will tell Nick that you shot me.”“That will definitely get Mrs defiance in line,” Owen responds. He’s himself again now that he knows Niki did not really pull the trigger. “You wouldn’t!” Niki cries and searches my eyes. I stand my ground, knowing that I have won. “Nick! Come to Papa, my boy!” I shout very loud and Nick shows up and runs towards us. That’s my boy!“Fine, I will make it up for you,” Ni
*****Leo POV*****Niki shot me right through my heart. I took my last breath. I should be dead, except I can hear them talking. Is this how someone dies?My fingers are crossed when Owen approaches. I pray and hope that his first instinct is not to avenge me. I hope he knows that I would never forgive him if he killed my wife to avenge me. I sigh with relief when he sinks down and sobs instead. I know that he will be fine eventually, it’s Lucas I’m worried about. He is just staring into space. The boy has seen too much trauma in his lifetime. I should have insisted on keeping him away from the mafia despite his determination to stay. I hope Luca will forgive my failure in protecting his boy. Hey! If I am dead, this is not so bad. My volatile wife is still fuming, but she can’t stop herself from grieving for me. Madness is wishing you could reach out and embrace a woman who killed your, but I can’t move. I guess I am really dead. It’s a pity I will never get to kiss, touch, make sweet