*****Nikita POV*****~Three years later~My chubby bundle of chaos runs into the study giggling with Becca running behind him. I can’t help but smile as I get off my chair and pick him up. His sticky fingers wrap around my neck and a wet kiss lands on my cheeks. This is heaven. “What are you doing to aunt Becca?”He giggles more, an infectious sound that has completely changed my whole world. I can’t believe I ever wanted him dead. Just the thought of it sends chills down my spine and leaves me with the guilt I can’t wash off. “Nick don’t want dress.”I laugh. It’s like this every morning. My son gets chased around the house by everyone and he loves every moment of it. “And why is that, Cuteness?”He shakes his head and pouts his tiny mouth. “Don’t want to.”“You might not look like her but you inherited your mother’s stubbornness,” Becca says, amused. I stick my tongue at her. Nick looks nothing like me. The only Davi physical appearance he has is my father’s eyes. That’s why I na
*****Leo POV*****I put on my dark shades and lean against my car while waiting for Owen to land. I am assuming that the approaching aircraft is his because very few planes use this Kali private airport. I can’t wait for this mission to be over. It’s taken three years of traveling the whole world and a lot of money for me to get to this point. Victory is almost mine, I can feel it. Tomorrow I get to go back home and finally face my volatile drop-dead gorgeous impossible queen. Saying I miss her is an understatement. Her estate will be my first stop, I don’t care if she spits fire or even shots me. I am snapped out of my thoughts by two figures approaching me. I swear Owen has a hearing problem. I give him a dead stare even before he gets to greet. “What’s Lucas doing here? What the fuck is wrong with you?”“Hi, Leo. Nice to see you again after, let me see…..oh yeh…. two and a half years. How are you? We missed you,” Owen babbles while Lucas looks sheepishly at me. I shake my head b
*****Nikita POV*****The picnic with Becca, Owen, Zanine and my cutie pie is exactly what I needed to clear my head and get some perspective on my future. We all can’t stop laughing at Zanine, who is desperately trying to get Nick to give her a big hug like he does to Colt and Becca. “Come here you munchkin. Aunty Zan will even feature you on the cover of her magazine,” Zanine desperately pleads while Nick giggles and runs away. This is all a game to him. “You do know that he is barely three years old right?”I am really amused by Zanine trying to bribe my son like this. “Well, it’s a sexy men alive and he is a…”“A boy, toddler to be exact.” I interject before her imagination get better of her. “Fine, no cover but this is all your fault. I am very good with kids you know?”She actually blames me. Unbelievable!“How is him running away from you my fault?”“He got the vibes from you when you were pregnant.”she accuses and I am dumbfounded.“What?”“You did not like me before I met
*****Nikita POV*****I am still glaring at Leo who does not look the least deterred by it and pulls me even closer to him instead. My heart is already racing, he has no right holding me like this after what he said to me the last time we spoke. I want to kick his balls really hard but I have no idea what’s really going on here. I play along and let him plant a kiss on my lips just to go along with the fiancée bull. I am glad Becca and Colt are not here to witness this because I would never hear the end of it. Leo looks intensely at me before doing the introductions. “Babe, meet my new friend, the incredible and powerful king of Kali, Franco Green.”Franco bursts out in laughter, delighted. “King of Kali? I will take it my friend,” he beams. I roll my eyes in my head. Leo really knows how to puff this asshole up. “Next to him is the amazing and also powerful, Dion Young.”I curse in my head. Dion is the general of the Kali military. He is apparently the dumbest man to ever occupy
*****Leo POV*****Everything happened so fast. One moment I am hearing Niki’s voice and running to the front, the next, Franco and his wife are excitedly planning our wedding. It’s all really twisted how they can just decide to marry us off but I would be lying if I say I don’t like the idea of her being mine, forever. “You are enjoying this, aren’t you?” Owen asks, not impressed. “I can’t say I don’t.” I confess and Lucas laughs. He finds all this amusing, including Niki’s temper. “You do know that it’s wrong, right?”Owen continues. “Who died and made you a voice of reason?”“Leo, Niki is not the type you can just force into marriage like this. It will backfire really bad.”“I am not forcing her into anything. I am also being forced into this but I choose to look at the bright side.”“Right.”“What’s that supposed to mean?” I ask sharply. His sarcasm is getting on my nerves. “This is too convenient for you. It’s as if you planned it,” Owen continues pissing me off. I can’t bel
***** Leo POV*****I get to the corridor a few minutes after Niki. Hunter is already kneeling next to one of the Davi man, who is lifeless with a gunshot on his head. Franco is standing a few metres away swinging his gun around his finger. “Why did you shoot him?” Niki shouts, charging towards Franco. Pure madness is charging unarmed towards an armed psychopath in his territory but this is very typical Niki. “Watch your tone, woman. Your fiancé might be my friend but I won’t tolerate being disrespected.”Niki clenches her fists and curves her lips and I know that trouble is guaranteed. My volatile princess is mad and I know too well that she does not back down when she’s mad.“Why the fu..”I catch up to her and cover her lips with mine, swallowing her angry words that would definitely get all of us killed. She struggles but I use all my energy to hold her tight before carrying her away. She wiggles and kicks all the way to her guest bedroom where I kick the door open, walk in and k
*****Nikita POV*****Things have become complicated and really confusing to me. One moment I am fuming and irritated with Vicky who keeps coming to ask me about stupid wedding stuff, the next I am livid and charging towards her psycho husband who has killed one of my men, then Leo happens. The way he said he missed me and the look on his face before he kissed me left my head spinning. It’s like Palmland all over again. My body just yearns for my fake fiancé. Two hours later, I am ready for the fake I do and Hunter is looking teary at me. “Seriously old man, get over it already.”Hunter laughs through his tears. He is acting like this wedding is legit. “You look so beautiful. Your father would be so proud.”I roll my eyes at him. I must admit that the dress is perfect and comfortable, way better than the one I chose for myself when I was about to wed Ethan. I was secretly wowed when the designer came to help me dress. Unlike the wasteful ones, I get to keep this one because it transf
*****Nikita POV***** “Leo,” I call to him as reality sets in when the door slams shut. We are all alone, just married and horny as hell. My heart is fluttering out of control while watching him impatiently strip off his clothes, an action that makes me gasp. This man has a body and stature of a god. His impressive erect manhood has me weak on my knees. I lean against the wall, unable to peel my eyes away from him. He is completely naked while I am still fully clothed. He kicks away his clothes before turning to me and catches me still ogling. “You like what you see wife?” he asks with a smoky amused voice and his head slightly titling to the side. “All yours, till death.”I swallow my saliva and watch him approach. I am pretty sure that he can hear the drum beat of my racing heart. I should probably stop this before we both get too emotionally invested in this fake marriage. “Leo..” I warn when he reaches me, wraps his arms around my waist and gazes into my eyes. This just feels to
*****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