*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* It soon became clear where we were going to when I saw the familiar neighborhood I had seen just this morning come within my sight again. I hadn’t expected him to take me there but given that this was probably the safest place where no one would try to interfere with us, he had chosen it. I wondered if there was another reason but nothing came to my mind and quietly looking out the window I remembered how it had felt before when we had been together and going through these exact places around in a car. It had been such a peaceful and happy journey then, going back to the place that I had come to know as a home for me with dreams of living as a family with Draven. But now I could hardly breathe sitting with him in this car going in the direction of the same house that had the memories of the past I had forgotten. When he finally parked the car in the driveway he got out first coming around to open the door for me before I could get out on my own. He was silent the whole way
*SILIA* “I didn’t know,” I whispered, feeling my head sting and holding onto it I felt it spin. Staggering back I fell right into Draven’s hand that was quick to catch me. “What’s wrong? Are you sick?” he asked, leading me to his comfy office chair and making me sit down. “Should I call the doctor for you?” he asked, already taking out his phone but holding onto his hand I shook my head. “Just give me some time to process it,” I stuttered out and I could see the pity on his face as he brought the other rolling chair around and sat in front of me. “I am sorry that my words hurt you again,” he said and then taking a box he brought it to me and said, “Take a look inside when you feel better.” The curiosity wouldn’t let me stay still and taking the box I opened it to see the box completely full of pictures of me. They were of my working at the café, at the bakery or even just simply walking on the street. There were countless pictures and when I took out one particular one from the b
*SILIA* I had a fear gripping me as Draven took his time trying to understand what he had said. “So you don’t remember anything about the accident?” he asked and listening to him talking about it made me feel better. At least he hadn’t recoiled from my touch and was still holding my hands. “No, can you please tell me about it? It has been messing with my head trying to remember what happened,” I said and he looked doubtful at my words. “Are you sure? It might be that your brain is purposely keeping it away from you to save you from feeling hurt. It might trigger a trauma for you,” he said, looking worried now that I had revealed the truth to him. While he was worrying bout me my baring as already searching for memories and answers realty to an accident. My head throbbed again like it did every time when I wracked it for an answer but I hid the discomfort from my face to have Draven tell me the truth. I felt like there was something vital that I was missing. I think I had seen one
*SILIA* When I opened my eyes the first thing greeting me was the beautiful silver eyes staring at me with a happy smile on Draven’s face. “What are you doing?” I asked stretching my limbs only to find them still entangled by his and pulling me closer to him Draven gave me a long kiss on my mouth making me feel drowsy with happiness. When he let me go I was still staring at him dreamily making him chuckle as he swooped into kiss me again, “If you do that then we might not get out of bed at all today.” To be honest I wouldn’t have minded that even a little but my stomach wouldn’t agree as I heard it grumble. Embarrassed I blush and hid my face against his naked chest while he laughed at my actions. “It has been rumbling for some time now and I felt really bad for not having treated you with dinner last night. I should have thought about it,” he said moving my head away from his chest to look down at me, “But what could I do? After getting you back after so long I needed to make lov
*SILIA* “Do you think this is a good idea?” I asked, looking slightly hesitant as we headed towards my apartment. “Well it’s what we should do for your beloved friend for us to be together again,” Draven said sarcasm dripping from his tone. “But what if she becomes aware of our motives and tried to do something to us again?” I asked hating that I was feeling this strange fright from the thought of facing her again. With what Lisa had done and what her identity was it made me slightly wary of her now. All this while she acted as if she had been the only person to love me and care for me but she had just been using me to keep tabs on Draven. I felt a gnawing feeling in my heart every time that I thought about it. “Well if she is with the Fedelta then she is bound to know about our relationship soon enough. Besides if we try to hide this she might get apprehensive but if we become upfront about it then she might get confused. Although she will take some measures to make sure that you
*SILIA* The amount of lies I had told in this short amount of time was making me want to burst out in laughter especially because I could feel Lisa’s head almost running in over drive at what was happening before her. She must not have thought such a day would come in her life where Draven would come around and agree to be with me. For so long she had repeatedly tried to remind him and accuse him that he was the one to have made me hurt that Draven didn’t have the power in him to actually act out and do something. He couldn’t be with me for so long because of her and here she was acting innocent before me. “Fine! Stop crying please!” she said and by the time she had shouted that there was a knock on the door and I could hear Nick’s voice come from the other side. “Is everything alright?” he asked us through the door and finally sighing Lisa pulled away from me and opened the door. “Okay let me think about it,” she said going to open the door for me. I stopped her and holding onto
*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