"Don't you think you've maybe had enough?" Phoebe asks me quietly, a frown on her perfect forehead. I'm just starting to feel a buzz, so no, I do not think that I've had enough. Raquel and her fucking cousin are now gyrating against each other on the dancefloor, rubbing it in my face that I am not in the company of Alessandro after he allegedly chose me over Raquel. I am the one that lost, and that doesn't sit well with me. Maybe tomorrow when I'm completely sober I will think of this situation in a different light, but now I'm just pissed off. And Alessandro knows it too. He's sitting next to Dario and they seem to have a serious conversation, but every now and then his gaze slides over to my side and then to the two blondes in concern. But it's not their lives he should be concerned about. It's his dick. Because as soon as I get the chance, there will be a knife going into his crotch. "Maybe we should go home." Phoebe continues. "I can ask Trey if I can't get off a
I'm dead. I have tequila sweating out of every pore in my body and Thomas still demanded we train this morning. Do I regret taking all those shots? Absolutely not. I kneed Alessandro Moretti in the balls, and I'm still high from that. It was fucking epic. The way he held his poor balls in his hands, the redness in his face. He never expected that move, and that is the only reason why I got up this morning when Thomas knocked on my door. Because he taught me how to bring Alessandro Moretti to his knees. I've never felt more powerful. Only now I'm lying on my back, covered in sweat and out of breath, with Thomas standing over me. "You know, you could make a lot of money as a hired killer." He drawls lazily. "I have some connections if you're ever interested." I inhale sharply. "I can't even overpower you, I would suck at that job, don't you think?" He smiles. "But you managed to overpower Moretti. Not a lot of men can say that." Yeah, fucking epic! I don't even feel
Those words totally turn me on, but I don't take action on it, wrestling myself from his grip and get up. "Who the hell do you think I am?" I tighten the towel around my breasts. "Do you think you can just ghost me and then just pitch up whenever it suits you?" The bastard has the audacity to smile, turning on his side to look at me better. "Did you miss me?" I can't believe this asshole. I decide to give him a taste of his own medicine and drop my towel, turning my back on him as I open my closet doors to find something to wear. "Maybe you can put on something nice to wear like Phoebe." I give him the stink eye and throw on a ratty T-shirt. "I still think you look hot." He chuckles. "You know it would be very nice to have a girlfriend like Phoebe who greets a man in lingerie and breakfast." "Fuck you!" I spit out. "You are not my boyfriend." He raises his eyebrows. "I'm not? So why are you so upset that you didn't see me?" I'm going to explode in anger, so I take a f
"What are you saying?" Alessandro wants to know. I sigh. Did I not make myself clear? "I'm saying we're all in or we're out." I rub my eyes, frustrated at this situation. "It's never going to work." He shakes his head. "My parents have been together for years, my mother is kept safe, and that setup works." "No offense, but your parents are living a lie." How can he not see that? "A lie that is keeping everyone alive." He looks at me like I'm the dumb blonde that showed up with him at the club last night. "Listen, if you want to live like that, go ahead and do it. But I'm not going to be a part of it." "So you'd rather be dead?" He asks in disbelief. "Or do you just really don't want to be with me?" I throw my hands in the air. "That is what you took from this? That I don't want to be with you? After everything?" He turns around and starts to get dressed. "What, you're leaving now?" I laugh. "Again?" "Well, we're not exactly solving anything, are we?" He throws his T
"You're what!"I exclaim in shock. Of all the things she could've told me, "I'm pregnant." is the last thing I expected to come out of her mouth. "SSShhhhh!" She looks around with wide eyes, but nobody is paying us any attention. "Is it Evan's?" I ask softer. "When did you find out?" "Of course it's Evan's!" She whisper-shouts. "He's the only person I've slept with apart from the boyfriend I had in high school!" "So what, you didn't use protection?" I know I sound like a complete hypocrite right now, because apart from the shot to not get pregnant, I didn't use any protection either. Sammy blushes and looks everywhere but at me. "You didn't use protection?" I'm actually shocked. "You're like the most responsible person I know!" "I was drunk! So I didn't exactly think with the correct brain!" And I can't blame her because I would have probably made the exact same mistake. I'm really glad now I went to the student health care center with Alessandro dropping me like I'm h
Me: You're still stalking me? The Devil: I never stopped. Phoebe and I are sitting at the kitchen table, hoping to hear something from the conversation going on in the living room, but it's futile. Sammy and Evan are talking in hushed tones, I just hope she tells him the truth of what's going on. I never thought he was a bad guy, I'm sure he'll step up and take responsibility in whatever form Sammy wants that to be. Gosh, I can't imagine being pregnant at twenty-one, you haven't even really lived your life yet. "I think you're next." Phoebe says. I frown. "Next with what?" "Getting pregnant." She says as if it's just a walk to the supermarket. "First I got pregnant, now Sammy, they say news always comes in threes." "You know, sometimes you come up with really stupid shit." I shake my head and get up from the table, opening the fridge to have something to do with my hands. All this baby talk is making me nervous. I'm not stupid, I know no birth control is one-hundred per
I wish Alessandro would look at me like Kevin is looking at my sister right now. With stars in his eyes like he would do anything for her if she asked him to. Be in a freaking relationship with her like normal people. "Do I look okay?" She asks him. I roll my eyes. She looks smoking hot in a tiny black dress and the same thigh-high boots I tried to seduce Alessandro in. I'm wearing a white blazer dress with white ankle boots that she of course advised me to wear. And then she made me pose for various pictures with her, stating she dressed us like that to look like opposites for her social media pages. I don't think I'm cut out for the model life, I find posing for pictures extremely tedious, but I told her I would do it, so now I can't exactly say no. "You look ravishing." Kevin smiles dreamily, earning him another eye roll from me. "We should go, I think Thomas is already waiting for us." I might puke if I have to witness the sickening love birds complementing each other e
I'm knocked on my back by a hard body and momentarily lose my breath, but then my hands feel the familiar planes of Alessandro's body as he lies on top of me to protect me from the gunshots around us. People are screaming, and I hear the words 911, but I'm in that place where all I feel is calm whenever I'm in danger. I feel rather than see Alessandro take out a gun from a holster on his hip. I know for a fact that he's not always carrying, so the fact that he is right now, indicates that something is going on that I don't know about. And maybe that was why he was so upset when I didn't agree to his terms of not being his girlfriend in public. The gunshots subside and Alessandro gets up from me. "Is everyone okay?" "What the fuck was that?" I hear Kevin say, and I'm just glad the poor guy is alive because I would've felt really guilty if he was shot when we invited him into the danger. Especially with a promising career like his. I open my eyes as someone takes my hand and lift
I look down at my three babies, where they're all bundled in the same incubator. They were born on thirty-three weeks, but none of them had to be incubated. I'm so proud of them, all of them able to breathe on their own. I was so worried, but they did it. I've never cried so much as I've been crying in the last week. The pediatrician said they should stay in the incubator for at least two weeks, and they were each placed in their own one. But the nurses said when they're apart, they cry, and when they're together, they don't. It's the cutest thing ever. Alessandro can't tell them apart because they look exactly alike. I don't know how, but I know who is who. Their father proudly named them, and right now, Arcangelo's mouth cutely yawns, even though they're sleeping. One week until we can take them home. Right now, they've wearing onesies courtesy of their aunt saying Thing One, Thing Two, and Thing Three. I miss Phoebe in the house, but she has to follow her own path, and she
FARRAH "I'm so sorry, Thomas." My bodyguard is a lone figure at the grave of his wife. "Me too." He says softly with his head bowed. "I was so busy with..." He doesn't complete the sentence, so I take his hand in mine and squeeze his. "It's okay to say it." "I was so busy protecting others, I didn't take care of my own family." He completes the sentence on a sob. "You know that's not true." I tell him. "You were looking after all of us. You just didn't think her past would catch up to you." "But I should have!" He turns guilty eyes to mine where I'm sitting in a wheelchair next to him. "That's what I was trained to do, and I failed my own wife." He's going to feel guilty for a while, probably forever, so I don't say a word. Alma's killer was from a religious society who has been following her and Thomas's lives for a while now. They believe that she betrayed her country and her religion. She would have been stoned to death if she was in her own country. The government has tak
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Trey looks worriedly at me, his eyes darting back and forth in the dark street. "This ends tonight." I go over my body again, making sure for what seems like the hundredth time that I have all my guns and hand grenades in place. It seems like the fuckers are playing right into my hands. Thanks to Enzo's intel, I have the remaining four elders all under one roof in one night. By now, they must know that Fabiono is dead, but they still think I'm inside that jail. They probably know it was me, too, so they're most likely having a meeting to decide what they're doing next. Little do they know, I'm striking while the iron is still hot. Trey shakes his head, his eyes on the surveillance footage on his phone, all courtesy of Evan. Farrah was right, I did orchestrate Evan's bullying so I could be his savior. It was one of the best things I ever did, too, because I now have access to a satellite that gives me vision all over the world. And I have a gre
ALESSANDRO As soon as I stop in front of the quaint cottage, a shot gets fired from me from somewhere in the house, and I duck. I slowly get out of the driver's seat with my hands in the air. If this guy is as dangerous as Thomas said he is, I will be dead in the next second. "My name is Alessandro Moretti, I believe my wife is in there." I shout, hoping they can hear me. I take it as a good sign when I don't get shot at again. The front door opens, and a sight for sore eyes greets me. I run to that door as fast as I can, and then I scoop Farrah in my arms, her smell that is uniquely hers enveloping me. "What the fuck did you do, asshole." She sobs in my neck. "Are you okay? I thought you were in jail." I pull back so I can look at her. There are dark circles under her eyes, and she looks tired, but she's always the best thing I will ever see. "What are you doing on your feet?" I ask her. "You're not supposed to be walking around. You're supposed to be still." She hugs me ag
ALESSANDRO Dario is waiting for me when I walk out of jail the next morning. I don't like the look in his eyes. "What's wrong?" I want to know immediately. He holds the keys to his car out for me, and I grab it. I may be the younger of the two of us, but I've always been the one that was in control. He's never seemed to mind. It's just how our personalities work. "Farrah is gone." The earth drops from beneath my feet for a moment, but I take a deep breath. With Farrah, I've found that there's always an explanation. I get behind the wheel and wait for him to get in beside me. "What happened?" "One of her bodyguards was found with a single stab wound. Luckily, he's not dead." Dario sounds worried. "The hospital's cameras were conveniently out of order for about two hours, but both her and Phoebe are gone. And the other bodyguard." "What about Thomas?" "Still missing." I'm trying to keep my cool, but I bang on the steering wheel. "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!" Thomas has a few numbers I
FARRAH "Oh my God!" I scream. "T.J!" Damian doesn't even stay at the crash. He just swerves his car and goes around the wreck. "What are you doing?" Kevin shouts at him. "You have to stop, we have to help her!" "Are you okay? "Damian looks at me in the rearview mirror. "I'm fucking fine!" I'm about to lose it. We just left a kid there in a crashed car. "We have to go back and help her." Damian is still calm as he grabs his phone from the console and dials 911. He calmly tells the operator that there was a crash with the address, and then he disconnects before the operator can ask any questions. Phoebe is sobbing next to me, and I feel my own tears wetting my cheeks. We just left Alma there. What if she was badly hurt? Who was that behind the wheel of the truck, and why did he crash into her? The windows weren't even tinted of the car. If they were looking for me, they would've been able to see I wasn't in that car. "The three of you better listen to me and listen to me carefu
FARRAH "Is something going on here that I should know about?" Damian looks accusingly at me in Dr. Sanchez's office. "I've been calling Abe with no luck." Abe is the other bodyguard who's currently on shift. "I think that was my husband's uncle on the way to my room." I gulp, my heart rate skyrocketing. "I'm not sure, but with everything going on with my husband right now, I think he might be trying to hurt me." Hurt is a mild word, but Dr. Sanchez is in the room, and she already looks freaked out. I don't want to worry her any more than she already is. "And you were planning to do what exactly?" Damian wants to know. "I need to get out of here." "Against my advice!" Dr. Sanchez looks at me like I'm crazy. "What if you need blood? You do realize how serious your condition is, right? You are not just risking the lives of the babies, but yours, too." "I'm a sitting duck in the hospital." I shake my head at her. "And if someone kills me, there will be no babies or me anyway. Trus
ALESSANDRO Edward Whittle looks like I'm going to jump him any minute. But like I told him, I'm not here for him. He deserves to go to trial for what he's done, to be torn apart by the public and sentenced. Killing him would be a mercy he doesn't deserve. The asshole starts crying after I don't give him any attention, and I look at him in utter disgust. Those girls in that container were crying, too. I wonder how many girls he's smuggled in containers over the years. What has happened to those girls, were they still alive? Edward Whittle should get life in prison and become the bitch of a thousand men. And even that punishment won't be enough. He follows me around like a little puppy when it's dinner time. The dude jumps at the tiniest noise. That's what you get when you play on the wrong side of the law, and you don't think of the consequences. The inmates seem to know who I am and avoid me, so I get my food that looks like someone puked on it in peace, with my entourage of o
FARRAH "You can't leave the hospital." Phoebe drags both her hands through her hair. "We have to come up with something else. Plus, I think you're being paranoid." I don't know how to explain it to her. All I know is that my gut is never wrong, and I can feel that impending gloom. Nobody is hurting my babies, I would kill them first. Even if I have to do it kicking and bleeding. "I'm not paranoid." I sigh. I wish Alessandro would let me in on his damn plans and stop leaving me blindsided. "Call in one of the bodyguards." Phoebe looks at me skeptically, but do as I ask. The guy is well-built and looks like he belongs on a magazine cover and not outside my hospital room. He nods his head at me. "Mrs. Moretti." I'm still not used to being called that, but I do like the ring to it. "Do you know where Thomas is?" I ask. There's no way he just dropped off the face of the earth. "No ma'am. Thomas just gave us strict instructions that the door should be guarded at all times and that