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TRAPPED BY THE MAFIA Part B: Chap 53
Mariana’s PovA gasp.A groan.A wince.A strained grunt.I don’t know which comes first when my eyes flutter open. I find myself in a surprising position: curled up on a cold, roughly plastered floor, in a dimly lit room, the sound of dripping water echoing off the concrete walls. When my head pounds with a dull ache, I am quick to sit up, a pained wince leaving me, panic coursing through my veins.I’m afraid, I really am.I want to fight for a way to escape, I really do.And yet, I’m unable to do anything. I’m exhausted, mentally drained.Alejandro’s dead and I caused it. Me. He died trying to love me. . .I move my limbs and attempt a crawl, but I somehow collide with something—something that rattles softly.Chains.Is there someone else in here?I squint my tired eyes in an attempt to get a better look at whatever is hanging from chains. Suddenly, a single flicker is heard, a faint yellowish-ray illuminating the room.The room barely escapes the cloud of darkness encasing it, but
Last Updated : 2024-12-06TRAPPED BY THE MAFIA Part B: Chap 54
Mariana’s Pov“Why are you doing this to me?” My voice cracks, the weight of exhaustion and despair laced through every word. The room feels suffocating, the air heavy with an unspoken menace. My hands tremble as they rest on the table between us, my gaze locked onto his with a desperation I can’t suppress.Radimr cocks his head, his expression maddeningly calm. “What?” he asks, as if the question is absurd.“Why me?” I press, my voice rising with raw emotion. “From the moment you met me, you’ve put me down, messed with me, hurt me. . .why?” My breaths come out shallow, my chest tightening with the weight of every memory he’s etched into my mind.A cold smile tugs at his lips, one devoid of any humanity. “Because you’re the type of woman I hate,” he spits, his tone sharp and cutting. His gaze narrows, dissecting me. “You’re the type who brings men to their knees, the intense type, the type that confuses powerful men like me and bends us to your will! I needed to tame you, to conquer
Last Updated : 2024-12-06TRAPPED BY THE MAFIA Part B: Chap 55
Mariana’s PovThe realization dawns on me, that no one is coming to save me, that no one can help me out of this even if they wanted to. I am alone, in this place, and the world doesn’t know what I’m going through. The feeling is eating me up and swallowing me whole. I thought I had it all figured out, that I could achieve. I messed up, I slipped up for a split second and opened myself up to someone else.Alejandro.Now he’s dead.And now, I’m suffering all alone.I’m all taped up, my injuries properly cared for, wrapped in bandages. It surprises me and unnerves me at the same time.“I’d like to ask a question.”That was my choice. I traded my treatment for curiosity, and yet here I am, under the care of a nurse.The nurse finishes, moving quickly and quietly, not daring to meet my eyes. I barely notice her leave. I don’t want to think about her, or how I’m still here, trapped in this place with no way out.The door opens, and two men enter. One gestures for me to follow, his face un
Last Updated : 2024-12-06TRAPPED BY THE MAFIA Part B: Chap 56
Mariana’s PovOne month later.I’m sitting under the care of a nurse once again. It’s a pain I've become accustomed to. Enduring five months of torture will do that to even the strongest of soldiers.Get drugged, get beaten, get tortured. . .I’ve held on to whatever last string of hope I had until this moment, enduring the unending torture, begging for death to come and take me to wherever it has taken Alejandro. Still, here I am, with multiple broken ribs, maybe even internal bleeding, but alive.It’s laughable, the irony of life.For some odd reason, this nurse is holding my eyes, not looking away. There’s pity in her eyes, and there’s a subtle familiarity there.I open my mouth to speak, to ask her why she’s looking at me. But she beats me to it.“If you look out the window tonight, you’ll rediscover the beauty of the sunset, my green.”The words fall through her lips through smooth whispers, drawing a gasp from my throat. I blink and blink again, my throat coming dry. I blink agai
Last Updated : 2024-12-13TRAPPED BY THE MAFIA Part B: Chap 57
Mariana’s PovThe world comes back to me in fragments. There is a throbbing pain in my side, the distant hum of the air conditioner, another throbbing pain in my head, and the weight of something warm pressing against me. My ribs scream in protest as I try to shift, but I freeze when I feel it.A slick, wet trail glides along my neck, slow, cautious. A shiver of disgust shoots down my spine as realization dawns. His tongue.“Get off me,” I rasp. My voice is weak but the venom laced with it is unmistakable. He doesn’t stop. The weight on the bed shifts as his hand brushes against my arm. His mouth moves closer to my ear. My stomach churns. And then adrenaline kicks in. I twist, pain slicing through my torso like a hot blade. My ribs feel like they’re on fire, and I can barely breathe, but I use what strength I have to push at his chest.“Stop!” I manage, gritting my teeth as I shove him with everything left in me.He chuckles, low and mocking, like he’s enjoying this. “Relax, Mariana
Last Updated : 2024-12-13TRAPPED BY THE MAFIA Part B: Chap 58
Mariana’s Pov Doors slam open and I am carried inside. Frantic hands roam, tearing my clothes apart, wincing, cursing. I don’t know what’s going on. I’m simply breathing hard and fast, inhaling and exhaling erratic breaths through my mouth.“Pulse!” A voice screams, the tone commanding. “Fifty two! Fuck!” I hear another voice, frustrated, enraged. “Fuck they’ll have our heads if something happens to her.”The commanding voice booms again. “Stop fucking whining and check her blood preesure!”Something wraps around my arm and squeezes painfully hard. I wince, shifting. Then it’s no longer squeezing. I hear a grumble. “She’s holding up but this doesn’t look good! We need to drip her up and pray to God that nothing happens to her!”I feel it. A needle piercing through me. I can only manage a small cry. My mouth opens, throat dry, but I manage to whisper, “Alejandro. . .” It’s barely a sound, more a breath, but it escapes me again. “Alejandro. . .”“What?” The commanding voice snaps, s
Last Updated : 2024-12-13TRAPPED BY THE MAFIA Part B: Chap 59
Alejandro’s PovHow did it come to this?A time when there’s a distance between us. A distance of pain, of disbelief, of self torture and self loathe.Five months. Five fucking months. And in that time, our choices put us in the depths of suffering and pain. I have suffered, suffered at the verge of death. But now that I see her, my Mariana, my green, now that I see her stagger into the living room, her arms wrapped around her protectively, I realize my suffering holds no water compared to hers.The air feels like it’s been sucked from the room as I watch her. I almost convince myself that she’s not the one, that it cannot be her.But it’s her—Mariana. In the flesh.Fuck. . .What the fuck did Radimr do to my woman?She’s thinner, almost skeletal, her skin pale, her face gaunt, but it’s her. . .The same mismatched eyes that used to dance with fire now stare at me, wide and unblinking, like she’s seeing a ghost. Her lips part as if to speak, but no sound comes out, just a tremor of bre
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Alejandro’s PovThe space still echo with the sound of her sobs and whimpers. It’s so loud and so taunting. I hold her closer, hug her tighter, hold myself back from falling apart as well.She fights to get out of my embrace, but I hold her tighter. I don’t want to leave her alone.Her sobs louden, tearing through the silence, echoing over and over and over. It’s deafening, relentless, like they’re reverberating inside my chest, shaking the fragile hold I have on myself. And I can’t tell if she’s crying from the physical pain, or because she’s relieved, or because she hates me, yet I hold her tighter, my arms like steel bands around her trembling frame, and bury my face in her hair. I look back to see if her parents are still standing behind us. They’re not. They’ve given us the much needed privacy.“Please,” I whisper, though I don’t even know what I’m asking for. For her to stop crying? For her to keep holding on? For the pain clawing at us both to somehow end? She squirms in m
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Mariana’s PovOne word.Fuckers.No, let’s make it two words.Misogynistic fuckers.They’ve kept me in here for hours, scrutinizing me, digging into my soul in their fruitless attempt at finding the truth of what truly happened to my husband.Alejandro too is seated here as a high ranking made man and a member of this family. Surprisingly, my father, mother and brother are here too. Not inside the parliament room, but they’re right outside the door, waiting for when the chaos escalates so they can stand in for me.It warms my heart.“Let’s go through it again,” one of the elders says, “what did you say happen to your husband? Tell us that story again, in detail.”“I. . .” I open my mouth to speak but Alejandro’s thick, aggravated voice resounds, cutting me short. “I believe she has told that story more times than we all can count.”“Yes, we know that,” another elder says, his russian accent thick. “But we need to hear it again.”“Why?” Alejandro asks, “why are you poking a woman wh
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Alejandro’s PovDon’t sleep tonight.I’ve thought about those words in every way possible, imagined every possible scenario that’ll make Mariana ask me to stay awake tonight, and yet, I’ve found none.Or maybe I haven’t thought about it as deeply as I should.I wanted to hold her, to ask her more, but the presence of her husband made that impossible. And now, hours have ticked by, and I’m still unable to get my answers.Wait—is tonight the night? Is her plan unfolding tonight?Truth is, I don’t even know what her plan is, but I strongly suspect it has everything to do with ending Radimr. So, if she’s asked me to stay awake tonight, it might mean she needs me close.I pull open my room’s door and step out into the hallway. The manor is too quiet. Everyone is asleep, and those who aren’t are standing guard outside of the house.My stomach twists with a warning that chaos is brewing tonight, but I push it aside and start walking. I make a turn towards the stairs and start moving up the s
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Mariana’s PovTime flies when happiness fills your days.It’s been two months since I gave birth to my Angel. Two months since my heart swelled with love so pure and overwhelming, I thought I might drown in it.I love my son.I love him for coming into my life and unraveling a part of me I never knew existed. For being my light in the darkness.But most of all, I love him for arriving exactly when I needed him—as though sent by the universe itself to give me a way out.Because today, after weeks of persuasion, my husband has finally done what I’ve been waiting for. He has presented my son to the elders of his family, naming him as his successor should anything happen to him.It’s tradition, a ritual of power. To the outside world, it’s a declaration of legacy. To me, it’s the final piece of the puzzle.I know Angel is too young to be entangled in this messy, bloody business, but I had to secure his place in this world before setting my plans into motion.Plans that have been months in
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Alejandro’s PovThis is the happiest I’ve ever been in my life. For the first time, it feels like I have a complete family—no, I know I have a complete family.In the last three months, the universe has granted me a gift I never expected: uninterrupted time with the woman I love and the child she carries. Our son. Every morning, I wake up beside her, wrapped in the warmth of her presence. I feel my son’s first kick as the sun rises, and his tiny, eager movements as the night falls. I’ve stayed awake with them, laughed with them, cried with them, fallen sick with them, and loved them. I’ve been a father and a lover in every way that matters.Why? Because Radimr’s travels somehow stretched from days into weeks, and weeks into months.“Something else has come up, and I’ll need to stay another week. . .” That’s been his excuse for three months.On the phone, Mariana plays the part of the concerned wife. She sighs and murmurs her disappointment, as though his absence truly pains her. But
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Mariana’s PovWhen my eyes open, I’m met with the most beautiful sight I’ve seen in days. Alejandro, sleeping peacefully, his lashes fluttering, arms still wrapped around me.Wow!How did we fall asleep?I lean in and smack a kiss on his lips, causing him to stir a bit, groaning, his arms tightening firmer around me. I kiss him again, this time longer.It doesn’t take seconds before his mouth parts, his lips fusing with mine. I moan just as a groan vibrates throughout his body.His eyes flutter open, just a tiny slit, the lazy gaze holding mine. It’s like realization dawns on him and he retrieves his lips from mine in a swift motion. “Mariana. . .” He whispers groggily.“Make love to me,” I declare.His brows pull into a furrow, lips formed into a pout. “I. . .” He starts and I cut him off.“Please,” I hush, my lips ghosting over his.His resolve falters. And he’s staring at me with adoration as well as restraint.Then there’s the feral desire burning in his eyes. In mine too. The ris
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Mariana’s PovTime seems to slow down when things aren’t really going your way.Maybe I pushed too hard, too far the other night. Far enough that Alejandro has been completely ignoring me for days now. Far enough that Radimr has become ware of me, always staring at me with suspicious eyes. Far enough that the maids in this house seem to avoid me as often as they can.To simply put, I’ve been living an isolated life for the past seven days.Just me, and my heavy fucking stomach. It’s dreadful just as much as it is comforting.I’m pulled out of the daze when a towering figure stands in front of me and wraps his hand around me. “Don’t look so sad, I’m just going to be away for just a few weeks, my love,” Radimr whispers as he hugs me. I thin my lips into a smile. “I’ll miss you.”His smile is radiant when he replies, “I’ll miss you too. Please don’t over work yourself. . .or get to upset while I’m gone. I wouldn’t want anything to happen to my son.” Stupid fucker.I scoff. “I’m a big g
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Mariana’s Pov“Look at that,” Alejandro says, his voice low, the smirk on his lips sharp enough to cut. “How easy it is to lure you out here and break your heart into a million pieces.”The words land like a blow. He doesn’t even try to soften them. And I know exactly what he means. When he came into my room, kneeling by my bed, whispering the words I had been desperate to hear for months, he knew. He knew I was awake, knew I’d hear every word and cling to the hope they offered.It wasn’t an accident. He said them to draw me here. To break me just as much as I’ve broken him.Petty bastard.But it’s not the cruelty of his intention that stings the most—it’s how he chose to do it. By humiliating me in front of someone else. Bringing her into a room that should have been our sanctuary, our safe haven.My lips tremble as I force out the question. “What is that supposed to mean?”Alejandro steps forward, his movements slow and deliberate, his smirk twisting with mockery. “What are you doin
