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*****Leo POV*****The way to the penthouse is very quiet. I don’t feel like talking to both Niki and Owen. I just want to get into my bedroom and retire for the night, but my two roommates have other plans. Owen has never clashed with Niki and has no idea what he is starting. I can tell that Niki is about to snap and it will be ugly. Princess psycho is what I call her when she’s mad, because she becomes a real daredevil. One cold stare at Owen and he gets it. One more word and I will fucken’ kill him is my message to him. He knows that I mean it and walks away. I am really pissed at him for the way he spoke to Niki. She is not my woman, yet, but I will not tolerate that kind of disrespect. I am the only one allowed to piss her off and even I have my limits. Not only that, he knows that I am pissed about him lying to me about the Davi maid. Niki’s eyes are still blazing even though Owen is no longer in sight. “He is right,” I say and Princess psycho comes alive. I knew that she wou
*****Leo POV*****“I guess I am in,” Marcus announces in delight and I just want to punch him on the face. What kind of a business man does not even try to negotiate rates with the bank. The bank is absolutely gorgeous in this case, but dude, please!Niki does not get all excited like an amateur. She maintains the same demeanour. My first assessment of her was wrong, she has done this a lot of times before. She is a pro. Her next words are calculated and intentional. “I have not heard why we should be associating ourselves with you, Marcus.”She is sizing Marcus up and he has no clue. This woman is damn good. I wonder if she’s ever lost on any deal. I look at Marcus, curious to hear his pitch and dude has nothing. “Because you have already come all the way from Lilly town to meet me,” he says, with a grin. Really, Dude? That’s the best you can come up with? Now I’m pissed with him for the whole men tribe. “That’s a very weak argument. I just wanted to get out of town,” Niki’s respons
*****Leo POV*****“Who the fuck let you in here?” I don’t think I have ever been so turned off and irritated by naked women in my life before.The girls stop making-out and look at me with a shocked expression. I don’t know if they expected a fucken’ welcome party when I did not invite them. In fact, I have shut them out for over six months now.“We..we,” Maggie stutteres. “Get the fuck out!”They jump on their feet with widened expressions but make no attempt to move towards the door. Whoever told women that they have unimaginable power when naked was a dumb ass. I am really pissed off but they are moving towards me, flattering their fake latches and doing all sorts of sexual gestures. “Please, Leo. We miss…”“I will not repeat myself.” My cold stare gets them running towards the door. If only that worked on Niki too, I would be a happy man, but unfortunately for me, defiance is her middle name. I sigh and recollect myself before walking into her bedroom. I am fully aware that I am
*****Leo POV*****I wake up three hours later with Niki’s alluring body tangled around me and her head resting on my chest. Fucken’ amazing! Dreams like these don’t usually come true in the mafia but here we are. I am well aware of the impossibility of any of this lasting but I will bask in this moment and explore every part of this amazing body every chance I get. My growling stomach is a reminder that I have not eaten anything since last night. Niki had cereals in the morning, it’s now after lunch, she must be starving. I can’t help but smile at the thought of her eating something. My impossible babe does love her food, although I have no idea where it actually goes. With that thought, I grab my phone and send Luca, my third in command a message of my order and he responds immediately to acknowledge receipt. With Owen away to sort out the maid fiasco, Luca’s been in charge of the men and I’m glad. Luca is quiet, extremely loyal and efficient. Owen would definitely be on my case alr
*****Nikita POV*****After the provocative shower, I could not get Leo’s sexy body out of my head no matter how hard I tried. It took me the whole two hours of turning and tossing in bed struggling to fall asleep after he left he hanging like that. The bastard is really hot and he knows it. I head straight to the shower the first thing in the morning and last nights memories come rushing in, leaving me breathless. The way his body pressed against mine and how his experienced hands touched me at all the right places still linger in my mind. I wonder how the real thing feels like. “Careful now, Niki. He is playing games with you, don’t be so gullible. You can play this game too, remember?” My pep talk is enough to get me ready for my revenge. I strategically leave my toiletry bag half closed, tempting him to look inside. I wish I can be here to see his expression when he sees the condoms I left inside. I did not take Father and Hunter’s offer to get condoms the day I flew here because t
*****Leo POV*****Niki is unsurprisingly shocked when I tell her that uncle was the one who tried to abduct her years ago. We spent so many years hating each other, I don’t want her to find out the truth and hate me over again. I also want to make it clear to her that Owen and I had nothing to do with that. “Obviously! You were fifteen back then, dummy,” is her response. I love how relaxed she is around me. I want to tell her that even if I wasn’t fifteen, that even now I would never hurt her, but I can’t because it’s not true. In two months time, I will kill her father if I can’t find Jake’s killer. Knowing her, the chances are she might want to stop me or avenge him and I can’t guarantee that I won’t hurt her. I don’t make any promises but I pull her closer and kiss her instead. This, pleasuring her and making her scream my name, I can rely on, and that’s what I will do the whole week. I cant suppress my laughter when she feels my dick pressing on her thigh. She has the unique abi
*****Leo POV*****Owen and I roll on the floor with his gun falling a distance away from us. I catch a glimpse of Niki before the door closes and a sense of relief washes over me. The bullet missed, she is alive, but that was too damn close. I roll away from Owen and jump to my feet. “What the fuck, Owen!” I yell, ready to tear my stupid cousin apart. I can’t believe he actually shot at Niki. Owen sits up and looks at me, dumbfounded. “She shot you.”I completely lose it. Owen has not been himself lately. I understand that everything has been stressful but his slip-ups are becoming really dangerous. “It’s Niki, freakin’ Davi! i.e. the reason we are still alive and our damn life insurance. What the fuck is wrong with you?” I am really frustrated with him, I can’t help it. He seems to have forgotten why I agreed to be Niki’s bodyguard in the first place. Owen sighs. “She shot you and I panicked, okay?” he explains and I totally get him. He will chose me over anyone else and over any
*****Niki POV*****The walk from the courtyard to the elevators feels really long. It’s hard to walk with Leo insisting on walking right behind me with his arms around my waist to conceal his erection from noisy hotel guests. My heart is already pounding and panties are already damp. His erection, that is pressing on my butt is not helping. I give out a sigh of relief when we finally reach the elevators and jump right in. We are midway up when Leo presses a stop and block button and we come into a standstill. “Le…” I don’t complete my sentence and our lips meet into a passionate kiss. Soon, my back is against the corner with my legs up around his waist and panties pushed to the side. Leo’s pants are down to his ankles and his manhood is pulsating inside me. I am not a shy person but sex in an elevator is not something I would have imagined ever doing. “Yes! Ahh..” I smack my lips shut to mask the moans but he won’t have any of it. “You are going to scream my name over and over agai
*****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