*SILIA*It felt strange to be sitting in front of Draven like this just passing time.“You know it’s almost as if we are on a date,” I commented, sitting outside a cafe that overlooked a small rundown bakery.Placing down his own coffee cup he narrowed his eyes and shook his head, “No, don’t you dare take this as our first date. I can’t let something like this to be a part of your memory as a date after we got back together. This isn’t enough.”“You know I am fine with anything as long as it’s with you. We used to have coffees like this quite some times in the past. You know taking a break in between work,” I said smiling at him as I was now happily able to recall and reminiscence of the time that we were together.“Even then I am sorry I should have done something sooner. It might sound like an excuse but I hope you understand that I got too wrapped up in work,” he said making me laugh.“What are you talking about? I am equally responsible for this. I was just as involved and pushing
*SILIA*“This room?” I asked, making Draven nod and I entered first to see that the room had Alfeo already present there with the man. Carlo is tied up to a chair and he faces away from me so he cannot see me enter yet but Alfeo does and he nods at me in greeting.When I am about to round and step to the other side he merely shakes his head lightly to tell me to stay put and Draven stands beside me looking at Alfeo, wondering what he was up to.“So you don’t know what La Fedelta is?” Alfeo asked Carlo to make us understand the reason he had told us to stay put.“For the millionth time, I don’t know what the fuck you are talking about!” Carlo shouted out, taking me by surprise.“Are you sure you aren’t lying? The consequences wouldn’t be good for you otherwise,” he said and Carlo made a frustrated angry groan in response while once again yelling, “I don’t know shit! Why the fuck have you kidnapped me!”I am sure Carlo realizes who he is talking to but I have to give it to him to still
*SILIA*“How much longer is it going to take?” Alfeo asked kicking away Carlo’s body to the side.“I kinda feel sad for him,” I said remembering about is parents.“You don’t have to, the man didn’t care an ounce about them to actually take care of them,” Draven scoffed glaring at his dead body. He paused for a moment and then simmering some of his anger he continued, “Although he might not be that bad too for he saved their lives. The least which he should do.”“What do we even care about some guy and his parent’s lives?” Alfeo asked shrugging nonchalantly, not the least bit bothered by it. “This is common in this business. You should get used to it. You do know your boyfriend is known to be emotionless and ruthless, right?”“Yeah and I don’t really mind that much but it just made me wonder how I would feel if something was to pose a threat over my loved one and what I would do then,” I said looking over at Draven to let him know that I was thinking about him.Titling his head he look
*SILIA*“You are weaker than I thought,” Alfeo commented as the now wide awake Darla looked at us with a meek disposition.“It makes me wonder how she even got into this,” Gavin said, agreeing where he stood to the side, “It was almost too easy for me to catch her.”“Alright we can think about all that later let’s get to the job at hand,” I murmured making Darla look at me and then move her gaze away very quickly to the other side of the room where she saw Carlo’s body was dumped for her to take in and know of the fate that awaited her if she was to try to act smart.Alfeo nodded at my words and then coming forward he stood in front of her and said, “You should be well aware by now exactly why you are brought here so I will not beat around the bush. If you want your life safe then answer our questions and we will make sure that you can go back in one piece unlike him.”She gulped when Alfeo gave her the warning and pointed at Carlo but still she didn’t budge that soon and shaking her
*SILIA*Suddenly there was a banging on the door.“Open up! I have some bad news!”“What’s Diana doing here?” Gavin murmured, rushing to open the door as all of our attention now centered on her.She stormed in as soon as it was open and looked really worried about something.“What’s the matter?” Gavin asked her, approaching her from behind as she faced him once and then looked at all of our faces.“I think they are onto us,” She said almost in a panic, “We are unable to track down the other five guys that I had sent the people after and we have no idea about the rest.”“What? How is that possible? It’s only been around an hour since we kidnapped Carlo and Darla, they shouldn’t be able to find out so soon!” Draven shouted, taking the tab from her that she had bought with her and was holding out for him to see. Leaning closer to him I saw that there had been CCTV footage of different areas and all of them showing empty rooms with all the furniture intact except for a few strewn and ruf
*SILIA*“I feel like you only keep me around to use me,” Nick huffed as we drove to Lisa’s house.Gasping dramatically at his words, I widened my eyes, placed a hand on my heart and asked, “Whatever made you think of that?”“Maybe because you never call me for a simple cup of coffee or to hang out like how normal people do? Why is it always lining up on the edge with you?” He asked, beeping at a slow driver in front of us.“That’s not why you are angry. You would never skip work and stop for a brunch even if that’s the last thing I ask you to do for me,” I said with an accusation clear in my voice, “Besides I gave up after I called you a few times before and you always said you were too busy for that.”“Move it you motherfucker!” he shouted at the man ahead of us honking at him again as he took his time answering my question.“Well what is it?” I asked not giving up yet when I didn’t receive an answer from him.“For one I know that you are doing something dangerous again-”“No, I am n
*SILIA*“I should have known I wouldn’t be able to win from you,” I sheepishly smiled approaching Draven from behind Nick who for once didn’t look as scared as he usually was in front of him. When Draven’s expression only narrowed further at my words I shielded myself further behind Nick and said, “But you should know that what you did was wrong!”“That’s only because I didn’t want you to get hurt,” he said making me feel guilty and then all of a sudden he looked away and then mumbled, “Also I wanted to see if you could get yourself out of there on your own. I wouldn’t have actually kept you locked there for more than half an hour.”There was a smile on his face and it was making me confused looking up at Nick who was staring at me with same surprise I tentatively asked, “So you aren’t mad?”“Not yet but if you don’t stop hugging another man before me then I just might,” he said and at once I let go of Nick and ran into Draven’s arms that opened to catch me immediately.“So I did the
*SILIA*“Are you sure we should be here now of all times?” I asked, looking at the quiet unfamiliar diner that Draven and I were sitting in. “I mean shouldn’t we go back and plan something to somehow take down Lisa or at least try to track her?”I was worried especially after that note. It really made me question if it was a good idea for us to do what we did. Draven said it was better if they made movements than to stay still as it would be easier to catch them than when they would be comfortably hidden somewhere.“Hey relax a little, we aren’t going out of our way to waste time, we have just stepped outside for some dinner. It’s perfectly alright to take breaks in between,” he said, taking hold of my hand and bringing it up to his lips.Suddenly realizing something I asked, “Did you bring us out here because you knew I was hyperventilating before in the conference room where we showed the note to the others?”The guilty smile immediately came on his face making me realize that it ha
*SILIA*I think I needed to run away.“Silia? What are you doing here? Are you alright? Everyone was looking for you. It's time!” Diana said hastily coming to me when she found me in the washroom of my suite.Her words only made me panic more and shaking my head I said, “No, Diana I don’t think I can do this. I don’t think I can go out there like this.”My words must have not sat well with her because she donned a softer expression and with a hand patting my back gently for me she pulled me into a hug.“Come on, tell me what is it? What is troubling you and I swear that I will make it alright,” she said and although her hug made me feel good it also reminded me of why I wanted to run away from my own wedding.“This! See this is the problem! I can’t even hug you properly without this belly getting in my way,” I said pointing at the small bump that kept us apart from hugging properly.She seemed to realize what I had been going through and smiling at me she asked, “What are you afraid o
*SILIA*“I don’t think that Romani would actually set this grand of an event,” Diana muttered from beside me. It has been a week since we came back home and the cold mafia woman who we thought was injured was stronger than anyone we knew and had been completely fine even after that blast. Apparently she became unconscious because of exhaustion and nothing else.“According to him he is creating history and he wants the whole world to remember him and this day properly for centuries to come,” I murmured, spotting him introducing Draven to everyone around while laughing heartily. No one would say that he was sick seeing how well and about he was moving around.“He certainly chose a very strange reason to be remembered in history, ‘The man who gave away his business empire to a Mafia Don’,” Alfeo laughed, chiming in on our conversation.“Do you even know how terrified the public and media is over this? I heard the president is on his toes with this change,” Nick said, sipping a glass of c
*SILIA*“Yes! Fuck we did it!” Alfeo shouted enveloping Draven in a hug which I joined along with the others.We were probably making a lot of ruckus pulling, pushing and rejoicing, unable to believe what had happened.We won!We actually won!A clearing of a throat grabbed our attention as Samantha said, “Mr. Romani is waiting for you.”Calming down at her words Draven pulled away from us, smiling at the hoots and laughter. Looking at me he kissed me once and said, “Thank you, this wouldn’t have been possible without you.”I simply smiled at him and then turned back to the rest as he said, “Make sure that all the injured get treated and rested well. We are flying back today itself and celebrating this victory!”“Alright we’ll arrange everything you just go and meet him,” Gavin said and nodding along as I turned to leave with the others when suddenly I was stopped.“Miss Morgan, Mr. Romani wants to meet you too,” Samantha said, making everyone stop in their movements as they all looke
*SILIA*I couldn’t grasp the sense of reality. I had killed the one person that had previously meant the world to me. I had thought that I hated her a lot but even now when she had said that she hated me I couldn’t help but feel hurt. I didn’t want her to hate me. I had wanted things to have never gone the way that they had.I never wanted to lose her.“Shh, it’s alright you did what you had to,” Draven said and slowly walked towards me. I could see the pity in his eyes and I am sure I looked like a mess but his eyes didn’t stray to anywhere else but my eyes. His gray ones pierced straight into mine, reminding me of the peaceful shine of a breezy moonlit night.Reaching me he first gripped my hand over the fork and prying away my hand carefully from the weapon of murder he took hold of my violently shaking hands that couldn’t control the tension now that they weren’t holding onto the wood for dear life. Throwing away the fork to a safe distance away he immediately pulled me into a hu
*SILIA*“You might have reached till here but I cannot let you go any further than this,” Lisa said, it felt as if it had been days since I had seen her and I wouldn’t have minded it being a little longer or until I died for me to face her again.I still can’t believe she had left me alone there with Luca to suffer, it was worse than simply killing me. She wanted me to ‘suffer’, to prolong my misery.“You really think you can stop us?” I asked, challenging her, feeling my insides burn with hatred.She ignored me and looking at Draven she said, “If you still care about your people’s life then you would back away while I am giving you the chance to. You will lose the game but will return back alive.”Wasn’t she being a little too cocky?If Nick had been enough to take her down alone then the twelve people we had brought with us were definitely a lot stronger.“And lose the opportunity to kill the person who has been the sole reason for all our sufferings? No, thank you,” Draven said wit
*SILIA*“Hey! Hey who are you people! Get off my farm!”A man came shouting at us like a lunatic when we stopped our cars in front of his house.Getting out of the car Alfeo approached the man and introducing himself he said, “We just need a little assistance from you. We need to check something in your barn. Can we please do that?”“No absolutely not!” The old and hot headed man shouted at us, “You think I'll just let you jackasses get into my property just like that. Absolutely not mister.”“We will be happy to pay you a good amount of money for that. If you would just let us in then this briefcase full of money will be yours,” He said, showing him a briefcase that had been brimming full with money. By the way this farm and house looked, he really needed that for repair works and maybe to even live life in general.He stopped and hesitated for a minute when suddenly the door to his house opened and through it came an old lady, probably his wife.“Al? Who are these people?” she aske
*SILIA*“Yes! She was right about it,” Gavin shouted barging in through the door with Nick trailing behind him. The two of them looked really spent and when I was about to ask Nick what happened but he put up a hand before me to stop me from speaking.“My eyes have been fried from staring at a screen for around thirty six hours now and I fear that if I even blink it shut it isn’t going to open anymore,” he said and then mumbled under his breath, “That's why I hate Mafias.”“So what did you find?” Draven asked and the rest of us huddled closer to his laptop that he had brought with him.“So far we have learnt about a small vineyard that is very exclusive and is situated on the island called Martha’s Vineyard. It is registered under another woman’s name so it was hard for us to track it down but we finally did. The label vine that it makes there is called, ‘Dives Uvae’ which also means rich grapes in Latin.”“A silly name if you ask me,” Alfeo muttered in between to which Diana laughed
*SILIA*“Only ten days are left,” Gavin said, making all of us sigh in frustration.“That's too little time and we still don’t have any clue about where Romani might be,” Nick mumbled, having joined the Mafia unable to stay away from this life after getting so deep into it once again.“No we don’t give up hope here, we can still turn the situation around, we just need to think from another perspective,” Diana said, making me nod along but if truth be said even I was losing confidence with how little time we had left.“If it makes anyone feel good then at least the Ravens aren’t in any position to even care about this game when they are already so deep in their own troubles,” Alfeo said, making me nod along.“Not to forget that the Phantoms don’t seem to have any clue about Romani too, although they have become more frantic in their searches,” I said, frowning near the end.No matter what anybody said or did it was clear that we were all on the edge with how close we were to winning an
*SILIA*“What was that just now?” Draven asked, looking slightly dazed as we took the elevator up to his office.“Just a little mental torture,” I said smiling at him. “He hadn’t hurt me physically as much as he did mentally every time that he touched me or tried to brainwash me into loving him.”I didn’t realize but a frown had taken over on its own and seeing that Draven said, “Let me overwrite that memory.”Pushing me against the cold walls of the elevator he kissed me. I fought for control, my body turning hot at his touch. After staying away from him for so long it was as if every time that he touched me he was quenching a thirst in my body.Our tongues slid against each other, gently caressing, massaging and sucking. I wanted to take control again like how I did before but as soon as he realized what I was doing he brought his hand down to my thigh and gripped it, making me gasp at how close he was to my crotch. He then pushed a knee gently against my excited entrance, leaving i