*SILIA*Making my way towards the exit in a hurry I am briefly aware of the eyes on me but unlike before I couldn’t be bothered by them. All I knew was I needed to get out of there. My heart was crushing in my chest. Its fragments a dust inside the shell of my body.How many more times did I need to fix it for you to break it again Draven?By now the mall has become busier from before and being careful to not bump into anyone with my injured shoulder I walk on the extreme side of the mall against the walls. Thee exit is visible to me in a distance and wiping the tears I am about to head towards it when I hear someone call out to me.“Excuse me, ma’am!”I don’t want to stop so I refuse to look back but I recognize that voice and the guard from before quickly catches up to me.“What happened?” she asks blocking my path while looking down at my shivering body that I clutched tighter to myself to somehow stop it from vibrating so much.“I-” I try to speak but words get caught in my throat
*SILIA*“This is not right you need to stop,” Nick said coming up to me with a bottle of water.“Why? Why am I not allowed to drink my pain away?” I grumbled wanting to get lost in the oblivion again now that I was bobbing in and out of it.“Please, Silia come on, you know that it isn’t good for you, especially because of that gunshot wound,” he said making me tug at my shirt to look at the bandages inside.“Oh for fuck’s sake be more aware of me as man,” he said tapping my hand to make me let go of the stretched material. He looked annoyed and I could understand why he would be, I had forced him to baby sit me all day today.“Nick,” I called feeling my eyes water once again, “Why did they do this to me?”“Oh my god, this is your seventh break down since this morning,” he grumbled but nonetheless sat beside me in the empty park bench that we both had been occupying since the last two hours. He wrapped his arm around my shoulders and like each time before that morning he patted my head
“Nick please let me go to a hotel. I’ll rather stay there than go to Draven’s place”.With some consciousness back in my mind I had now realised the position that I had fallen into. Don't get me wrong I loved Diana but having to see Draven again, so soon, was not something that I believed my heart could do.Therefore I requested again, “Please Nick can you let me off at a hotel, any hotel. I'll stay the night there I don't mind staying alone.”“Absolutely not. It is not safe there and Alfeo will chew my head off if he finds out that I had let you be in an unprotected environment.” As he said this he increased the speed of his vehicle and rushed towards Diana’s house I could see the familiar streets passing by and the closer I got the more I could feel my heart beating; almost ready to fly out of my chest.“Then what about Alfeo’s home. I can stay there, right? That shouldn't be a problem.” Giving me a strange look that clearly spelled out ‘are you crazy’ he asked, “You do realise that
*SILIA*“Silia would you please tell me what happened?” she asked the question that I had been dreading to answer.“Diana, please not today,” I said not wanting to create a rift between a siblings bond. I am well aware of how much Diana wants me and Draven to get together but if Draven doesn’t want to be with me then what can we do? We will only be disappointed and in the end hurt each other.Not saying another word she first brought me inside the house closing the doors behind her and making me sit on the couch. Pouring out a glass of water for me she asked, “Have you eaten anything?”“I had some lunch,” I said but when she started to get up I shook my head and continued, “Please don’t bring me anything to eat. I don’t have an appetite.”“But it isn’t right to leave your body in this state,” she said again going towards the kitchen when I sighed and said, “Unless you want me to puke please don’t get me anything. I don’t feel very well.”“That is exactly why I am telling you to fill y
*SILIA*When I wake up the next morning I am briefly aware of my surroundings. There is a light streaming in from a small gap in between the heavy curtains that have doused the room in darkness. Thankfully for that small stream of brightness I understand that it must be morning now.Diana is no longer by my side and with some difficulty I pull myself up in a sitting position taking her room in. Without her there beside me the room felt cold and unwelcoming and rubbing my eyes I try to adjust them to the light to help me figure out my escape route better.Looking for my phone I grasp for it around me to find that I had tucked it under my pillow. Taking it out I switch it on to see that it had still been quite early in the morning, around seven to be exact. I wondered if Diana had left for work but knowing her I knew that she would skip a day if it meant to safeguard the door from me leaving here without an explanation.I dreaded that interrogation and I dreaded the possibility of seein
*SILIA*Being careful I tip toe out of Diana’s room to hear the shouts increase to a level where I could put names to the voices.“Let me just see her once,” Draven shouted throwing a vase down probably the one that was usually kept on the centre table of the living room.“No! Absolutely not! It’s been so long since Silia came back here and I am not letting you push her away once again,” Diana screamed back, her voice quivering with an anger that made it clear that she wasn’t listening to anything that Draven had to say.“You know that she needs to go back, right? Let me take her home!” He argued making my heart hurt at the direct way he was telling Diana to throw me off his property.“This is her home!” Diana screeched in frustration and I stopped wondering if I should make myself known or go back to sleep.It was clear that if I went out right now then Draven would try one way or other to hurt me but even if he didn’t I knew my chest would ache if I were to see him now.My phone buz
*SILIA*“Diana can you please let me go?” I said trying to distance myself from her.“Silia, please I am really sorry about what Draven just did, you know how much of a bonehead he is. Believe me he only wants to protect you,” she said and sighing at the repetition of the same topic over and over again I looked at Nick to help me to the sofa and away from her.Walking there I saw the scattered glass pieces and thinking otherwise I moved back towards the door to directly make my exit.“Silia, Please don’t go back. Stay with me. I will somehow get Draven to agree,” she said but I had enough of their nonsense.“Why? So that I can keep waiting for the time when Draven would finally come to his senses and accept me?” I asked trying to relay to her how frustrated this whole situation had made me.“No, that is not what I meant. I am just- I am sure if you come back,” she started to say but I cut in, “You sure what? That Draven would somehow fall for me? But no I don’t think he will.”That wa
*SILIA*“Should I come with you?” Nick asked getting out of his car. Stopping for a second I looked up at the apartment and turning back I said, “No, it’s alright I’ll manage it somehow.”“Still if you need me for anything just call me and I will be right there,” he said with a small worried smile.“Of course, be ready for my call. I will contact you soon,” I said already making plans for what I was to do if Lisa still didn’t tell me the truth. My steps felt heavy as I made my way up the stairs to my apartment. I had purposely taken the steps to stall for time and think about what was going to happen next.I didn’t think it was wise to alert them about the information that I had so I think I should be asking her in a roundabout manner even then I really just wanted her to spit out the truth to me. Reaching my door took a shorter amount of time than I had thought and ringing the bell I waited for Lisa to open the door for me.“Oh my god where were you?” She asked as soon as she opened
*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