*SILIA*The last time I had been here I hadn’t been able to take in the beauty of this magnificent building and today even though I have all the time in the world, my nerves were stopping me from truly admiring the stately base of the Calix Constructions headquarters.“You look as pale as your white heels, are you sure you are okay?” Diana asked from beside me. A mix of concern and laughter was clear in her voice making me turn to look at her and honestly shake my head to reassure her.“I am so excited and nervous at the same time that I am unable to understand how to maintain my sanity. I feel like I am going to make a big blunder as soon as I step in,” I confessed making her take hold of one of my sweaty palms and give it a tight squeeze.“Come on. I have heard all about your epic first visit from Alfeo so don’t give me this shit. I know you are more than ready to face this building and Draven again. Even better now since you already know him,” she said reminding me of the first tim
*SILIA*“Draven! What the fuck are you doing?”Diana had been the first one to say anything at all while the rest of us had been standing still unable to respond to the scene before us.Any normal person would have by now been horrified at being caught in such a state at their work. Especially by their family but it didn’t seem like Draven could even hear Diana’s words because denying to release that woman from his hold he continued to kiss her for another thirty seconds after which he finally pulled away from her.All I could say was that it was a blessing that her ruffled hair had blocked out Draven’s face and their kiss because if not it would have been worse for me. I don’t think I would have the energy to stand here right now if that were the case.“You fulfill your promises well. That was the best kiss I had in a while,” Draven could be heard saying as he brought up her hand to his soft lips and kissed it. This gesture caused the woman to giggle while hitting his shoulders with
*SILIA*I had little to no excitement to clock in for work today unlike yesterday.After that breakdown that I had suffered yesterday for reasons unknown to the others I was sure they were all now completely aware of how much I had hopelessly fallen in love with Draven along with that new assistant of his.It was humiliating. I had never lost my composure like that before and I never wanted a repeat of like that again.To me I had always thought men took a second place in my life. I had always learnt to put myself before everyone else, given that I had been the only one who could look out for myself in this big lonely world. It was therefore surprising to see myself react in this manner for Draven.Something about him felt different to any other relation that I had made till now.“Fuck yes! Let me look at that beautiful face.” I heard someone call out and turning around I saw Alfeo jogging towards me coming out of a room. Behind him a few other men and women stepped out with some file
*SILIA* “As you can see this room is already occupied so why don’t you come here at a later time?” Alfeo stated. Unlike how he usually kept a charming expression on his face for the women this time he had been devoid of that. It was strange to see Alfeo’s face look so grim. I had half a mind that anyone else would have been intimated by now and run away but Julia didn’t.“Oh don’t say that there are still two other booths that are completely empty. Let me kill some time. I was getting bored and I wanted to make friends with the two of you, this seems to be the best opportunity,” she said passing me a smile.“What makes you think you can become ‘friends’ with me? Who do you think you are?” Alfeo asked his voice almost freezing me to my spot and for the slightest second Julia seemed to have lost her composure.It was probably low of me to feel happy but I did.“Fine. This is the only free time that I have all day today, let me shoot some and I’ll be out of here. It won’t take more than
*DRAVEN*The loud bang of my door opening was a clear indication of my beloved sister. Since I already knew she was here with only one purpose in her mind I made sure to ignore her.“Seriously? What is wrong with you?”It was clear that she was pissed off again but it had been such a tradition these days that neither was it surprising anymore nor bothering enough.“Everything,” I said knowing that it would make her bristle up and one glance at her face told me that I had been successful.“Then why aren’t you correcting it? Why are you purposely being such a jerk?” she asked making me look up at her with a raised brow.“I have always been a jerk.”“Yes to me and many others but not to Silia. Why are you acting like this!”“I am not acting any different from how I would have treated any additional baggage that I would have been forced upon by my sister. The only reason I am tolerating her in our gang is because of you and Alfeo.”She must have seen the truth in my eyes because she didn’
*SILIA* “Hi Silia!” Delilah one of the women that I work with and Alfeo’s staff greeted me as soon as I stepped into Alfeo’s floor. It was one that was just below Draven’s and looked like a typical office space of luxurious and busy companies. There were cubicles here for all the assistant workers in one corner while the main secretaries had their cubicles situated just outside of Alfeo’s office. A mini cafeteria was also installed in this floor for the busy workers for a quick snack if they needed one along with a nap room that was often used by my colleagues who had been working to their bone. If I be honest they got enough money for the work they did but it would be hard living a life such as theirs. They had me believed on the first day here that they had been robots disguised as humans. Taking my seat in the assistant cubicle’s area where my table was set I looked at the few papers that I had to segregate and then fill the numbers into an excel sheet. It was probably the easie
*SILIA* Looking around once I made sure that all the cubicles around me were empty. It was lunch time and except for a few workers almost everybody had left for the cafeteria below. It was a colleague’s birthday giving me the solace that I needed. Satisfied with my luck I took out my phone and typed the name ‘Cirillo Romani.’ Something told me that I shouldn’t be discovered by Draven or anyone else with this name. It almost felt like a taboo to be brought up in front of them. The internet results came up at once and I realized that this name was bigger than I had realized. “Oil Tycoon. Billionaire. Philanthropist.” He seemed like a sensational and big personality who had almost all of the oil and petrol industry of North America under his belt. His business was bigger than Draven’s but unlike the Mafia he had been an angel sent to this earth. He not only doing charities for various organization for poor and sick but he even helped with projects in favor for endangered animals and p
*SILIA*“Hey, where are you lost?”A tapping motion on my forehead snapped me out of my vision. I was acutely aware of a shiver run through my body leaving goosebumps in its wake. The pain that I had felt in my vision throbbed all over my head that was thankfully but slowly dulling with every passing second.“Yeah, I am sorry what did you say?” I asked trying to gain focus again. It was hard for me to grasp my sense of reality this soon but so as not to elicit any suspicion I tried to snap myself into present again.I couldn’t afford Alfeo to learn about my visions.Pushing against his chest lightly to create some distance I forced my chair to roll away from him and finally I felt some jitters relieved from my body. The near death experience that I envisioned in my head was so real that I had to forcefully clamp both of my palms together to stop them from visibly shaking.Was I going to die?When? Why?“No but what happened to you jus-”Realizing that he was going to ask me about my v
*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