“This is it?” I asked, staring up at the secret house that had been creating confusion in my head. “Yes this is it,” He said, making me glance at him once to see that he still seemed a little off. Falling silent for a little bit I hesitantly looked at the quiet suburban neighborhood. Houses looking similar to the one I was standing in front of went on for rows on both ends. There was a lawn and a garden decorating it. Victorian style with a patio and a swing set gave it a cute image of a peaceful life. Even the flower bushes lining it on either side were trimmed, proper and fresh, making me aware that someone was taking care of it regularly. Stepping up the two steps I made my way to the door and looked back at Alfeo to see that he was right behind me. “You can still back out if you want to,” He said, judging my fear and scowling at his words I shook my head. “No, I won’t.” I turned back towards the door and going up to it I noticed that the lock on the door was a pin protected
*SILIA*“I’ll follow right behind you at a distance,” Alfeo said, giving me the space that I needed. He had been very supportive all this while and I was thankful to be given my time to look around.Walking forward I stepped into the living room first to see that it had been decorated in warm tones of beige and brown. Something that I had always adored. I wondered if they had known about my preferences to have it be color coordinated this way or if it had been a coincidence but standing there had glowed within me a happy feeling.The carpet spread out was made of fur and looked extremely soft and suddenly I saw another vision.‘Yes! I love this, come here feel it under your bare feet,’ I said looking back at someone with a dazzling smile on my face. Bringing my hands up I handed it to someone to take it and finally someone clasped onto my palm making my eyes gleam brighter. Pulling the person onto the carpet with me I finally saw the face get revealed and saw Draven’s happy expression
*SILIA*‘Silia?’ I heard someone call to me and turning around I saw that it was Draven but that wasn’t what surprised me it was the position that he was in. He was sitting on one knee with a jewelry box opened in front of him. Taking my hand in his he looked happy and hopeful while tears already fell from my eyes.‘Dr-Draven, I-I, when did you,’ but I couldn’t complete even one single sentence and smiling at me he said, ‘I have always and always loved you since the first day that I saw you in the café reading a book that I couldn't help but click a picture of you. I never thought I would ever be able to see you again but I was wrong. It had been a small mission for me to catch hold of a local drug dealer hiding in that area but because of that I met you again. It was truly fate that time, when you had helped me patch up a wound on my leg.’He looked down for a second rubbing his eyes, ‘I looked so uncool then.’Chuckling at the memory of finding a handsome man groaning in an alley al
*DRAVEN*“So Alfeo called you too?” Diana asked as the two of us found each other standing on the port ready to board the yacht.“Yes, apparently it had been a major event so I had to attend,” I said, finding it too tedious to be there. The ocean didn’t feel the same without Silia around.“Yeah he did say that it was a once in a lifetime moment of his life,” Diana said as I helped her walk up onto the yacht. Her face held curiosity while I couldn’t be bothered by it. I had planned to open a bottle of whisky and get drunk for the night. As it was, sleep didn’t come easy to me and I had been looking forward to passing out after a week of restlessness and missing Silia.“What do you think it could be? Gavin was excited to come too but had some urgent work so he couldn’t come but I promised to take a lot of pictures for him,” she said, posing for her camera to take a selfie and send it to her boyfriend.I was happy to see that she was in love but I wondered if she understood that some tim
*DRAVEN*Before I could understand what I was doing I was already walking up to her. I couldn't watch her standing there looking pretty for someone else and before she could reply to him I had punched Alfeo making him stagger back and away from her.“Alfeo!” I heard someone shout but my senses weren’t in my control. All I could see was blood. I needed to hurt him. I needed to hurt him enough to somehow get rid of the pain that he had ignited in my heart.“I told you to stay away from her,” I mumbled to no one in particular as I stalked over to him and punched him again, this time making him fall down.“Draven!” someone called out to me but the wind was whooshing in my ears carrying the echo of his proposal.‘Will you marry me?’Laughter resounded in my ears following that question. Memories of Silia laughing and crying when I had proposed to her filled my mind. It irked me, it made me wonder if she would have reacted in that same manner if I hadn’t interjected.Kicking him once again
*SILIA* “You…remember?” Draven’s words made me freeze in my spot. Finally. At last he realized that I knew he was a betrayer and a liar. Alfeo noticed the nervousness on my face and placing a hand on my back he whispered, “This was the moment you were waiting for, right? This was what we worked hard for so you cannot show any weakness now. You are the one wronged and you are the one in power now.” Nodding at him I tried to smile when suddenly I felt myself being pulled away from him and up to my feet facing Draven. His gray eyes were fluttering all over my face, a little disoriented with fear and crazed with fury. “You remember everything!” he said and wrenching my hand out of his tight grip I looked away. “What do you mean? What do I remember?” “Don’t act like you don’t know,” he gritted, coming in my line of sight again, making me face him. For some reason he looked really angry and that ignited a spark within me too. I had always wondered how he would react when he realize
*SILIA*Alfeo took me back to my room in the yacht while I could hear Diana and Draven shout at each other talking about what had just happened.Helping me to sit down Alfeo crouched to remove my heels for me and said, “Relax here while the boat goes back to the dock. Draven will not be able to enter here without the passcode.”He smiled for me probably knowing that I was feeling bad for him and patting the seat beside me I said “Sit down here.”A little confused he listened to me and getting off the bed while he looked at me confused I went to the bathroom. Searching the cabinets for the first aid I found the box finally and took it back to him.“You didn’t have to do that,” he said realization crossing his face when he saw the box.“No, I should, you took all the beating because of me,” I said feeling bad for his swollen lip.“If you treat me like I am weak then it would be too disheartening,” he said and sighing at his words I placed the first aid box beside him and opening it I we
*SILIA*When we got near the dock Alfeo had insisted that Draven left first with Diana but he wouldn’t move an inch and at last we had to both climb off the dock together with Draven and Diana walking beside us.I could see Diana peeking at me every few seconds looking guilty and I knew she wanted to start a conversation or say something to me but she couldn’t muster up the courage to say anything and seeing her this depressed was making me feel sad too. This cool and powerful lady that I had come to know from both my far away past and near present was reduced to this sulky and ashamed form right now because of me.It made me feel distressed and I would have tried talking to her again now that I had calmed down slightly if not for the man walking beside her on her other side.Since we had gotten off the yacht although Draven had insisted on walking with us back to the car he had not once looked at me or Alfeo, seemingly lost in his own world. His gaze and the expression on his face wa
*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