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Chapter 153~ALICIA~It was exactly 20 hours after Desmond made every threat and cooing in the world to diverge my mind and will from this day. À the day I had been waiting for. A day I had been looking forward to like no other, a day I was going to either take one more life to avenge my confiscated Freedom and the mysterious, gruesome death of my parents, or be killed and sent to meet them like a headless chicken in hell.It was exactly 5 P.M., dusk was already staking its claim, and I couldn't help the thrill that coursed through me, trying to gauge my heart out of its cage. Not in fear or apprehension, it was in sheer excitement like the Grim Reaper. I couldn't help the wide beam and adrenaline rush that woke me up this morning like a shadow, like a cloak, and like a second skin. It wasn't because I was so confident in winning and succeeding in my quest, no...It was because I felt a kind of boundless freedom like I had never felt before. A freedom that robbed me of the thoughts of w
Chapter 154~ALICIA~"Are you going to rather fall off the rooftop than fight me? Could it be that you already know that either way would have the same result, dear stepmother?" I taunted wryly, chest heaving harshly as I went hot on Becky's heels, hair, and my long black leather coat that was draped over my black leather jumpsuit with multiple holsters at my hips that housed numerous daggers, knives, bullets, and a pair of guns aside from the one I gripped tightly on my right hand, swayed to the rhythm of the harsh wind that kissed my face, swatting my hair at my face and threatening to sweep my feet off the ground. My eyes narrowed and my lips twitched into a smug smirk as I watched the quivering woman who was on nothing but a pair of crimson red pants, a milk color top with a round neck, hair let down and falling in shriveling waves behind her, feet engulfed in a pair of milk color mildly high heels, drawing to an abrupt halt at my words, standing a few inches away from the edge of
Chapter 155~AlICIA~My eyes broadened as I leaped backward from Becky as she lunged toward me with a speed that left her blurry, my nose flared as I breathed in the vicious lethality that permeated the air, my foot faltered on the floor and she caught me off guard with a sweep kick, sending me crashing to the floor with a loud, painful groan. My limbs grew weak and my head became a jumbled mess as I landed on the back of my head, darkness engulfed my vision and that familiar feeling of shutting down cladded my brain again but my eyes jerked open with a painful yelp at the weight that landed on my middle, my eyes blazed as Becky's face came into view. Dagger poised for a killing thrust to my face, my heartbeat accelerated in desperation, my veins bubbled with dread and an overwhelming surge of adrenaline rush as I growled like a caged mother beast, my hands lunged forward at the last second and I got hold of her wrists, hands trembling vigorously as I pushed back at the same viscous f
Chapter 156~ALICIAL~My ears twitched at the sporadic sounds of gunshots as my eyes gleamed with mischief mixed with pain, bloodied teeth in display as my grin broadened, heels echoing loudly as she ran ahead of me, running zigzag like a fucking animal while I was the hunter, the tables had indeed turned, the predator had become the prey. "It's-its the edge already, Alicia...pl-please... don't do this-" she pleaded, looking like a gruesome Halloween costume, dagger plunged into her left eye, body battered and sliced all over, hands chopped off as she stood there, quivering like a leaf in a hurricane, pleading and pleading, running away from an inevitable doom that was me, who was hot on her heels."Halt!" I growled, Halting her feet that twirled around slowly."Keep running in that direction, Becky." I think I sounded soulless, and I loved every fucking bit of it. Her eyes bulged and she trembled vigorously, feet slowly skittering on the floor, reluctantly twirling around. Her wrecke
THBM EP 157~DOMINIC~I had never been addicted to anything or anyone, so I never knew and expected how notoriously and nefariously painful withdrawal felt. How fucking restless I'd become if I lost a pet, how empty the house would feel, how cold it'd been all along before my little pet came along, how much I had slept and hoped to wake up the next day just to see that pretty little face that housed a small mouth that felt so fucking good around my cock. How much I would skitter down the road of destruction if the day ever came when I'd have to lose my pet, how berserk I'd go. Okay, I had a hunch, fine, it wasn't just a hunch, I felt it, I've had the fear because I knew, I've always known that I had lost the key to the door that led to the world I lived before Alicia came along, that my life would become void and empty without her, that I'd go extra miles to try to get her back, that things would skitter off the wrong edge where my power, my men, my strategies, my brain and techniques
THBM EP 158~DOMINIC~"It's Alicia again, no? I've told you to forget about that bitc-Urgh...Fuck!" Chris's words ended in a throaty groan, muffling into his throat the moment my foot landed on his jaw, sending him flying and crashing onto my table, Cuban, and a bottle of vodka. Dropping my leg that was still hung in midair, I twirled around, glared daggers down at him, then connected my foot that was engulfed in black leather shoes to his groin, causing him to groan louder as he curled up into a ball on the floor, hands clutching hard on his groin as he writhed in pain.Twirling around, I had barely taken my first step to leave the fucker on the floor for calling her a bitch, and yes, she was a fucking bitch for everything that she had done but I was the only one who was permitted to call her that, treat her like one, and kill her like one, and no one else and he knew this. I drew to an abrupt halt at the long fingers that gripped a rigid hold of my ankle. My jaw and fists clenched vi
THBM EP 159~ALICIA~A harsh glow flashed across the darkness of my closed lids followed by a harsh throbbing on my forehead as I tried to unlatch my heavy lids. Slow and steady, I unlatched my lids and my breathing hitched as my eyes came in contact with a phone with long fingers wrapped around it. The sound of another flash echoed in the air, seeping into my bones and flooding my head and body with the images of last night.Shooing the queasy filling that rushed to the forefront of my aching scull, I pushed my weight off the bed with a low groan, wincing as I drew to a sitting position at the winching throb that gnawed at my core.A deep, husky chuckle filtered into my foggy ears, and my movements stilled as I processed the voice that resonated beside me. Yes, that was right, the camera and the fingers...shoot! I thought my head decided to toy with me with the fragment of the last thing I saw before passing out last night, but i was wrong. Whipping my head to the side, my eyes collid
THBM EP 160~ALICIA~"Wake the fuck up, muffin, because fuck yes, it is." He responded rigidly with a subtle hint of mockery. The creepy smirk on his lips dropped as his face took on a deadly edge, eyes looking dead and Frosty as he peered down at me. I wanted to beg him, I wanted to take back the deal, I wanted to yell at him, throw myself at him, take back my words, and do anything just to take back my words even if it meant selling myself to him, even if only as a slave, anything at all to thwart his treacherous intentions that I could see from those dark gray of his eyes but the words wouldn't form, the words just wouldn't leave the tip of my tongue no matter how hard I tried, no matter how hard I tried to ignore his intense, viscous scrutiny, to stomp on the tentacles of apprehension that gripped a blood-chilling hold of my throat, it just wasn't working and all I could do was breath in the harsh suffocating tension and the ominous doom that permeated the air, all I could feel wa
THBM EP 170~DOMINIC~ *******A MONTH LATER*****It's been exactly a month since I lost my consigliere in that unforgettable encounter, thanks to my late twin who is also wandering around right now in his ghost form or probably burning in hell. A month after I let Alicia into the deepest depths of me, no one, not even I, was aware of their existence until my little fireball came. She's also been the reason why I didn't go insane after I lost my best friend. Chris did say he'd visit me in my dream and he did, he did come to me once, only that he was smiling and not being a worrywart as he'd normally do when he was still here with us, and I still couldn't, up till this moment, help the pain that coursed through me, the hard throe he left behind in my heart, they're still as new as the day I last saw him. The day he left forever, the day my consigliere's eyes shut closed forever. Death in the Mafia was inevitable; he knew what he was in for when he became my right-hand man, but he n
THBM EP 169~DOMINIC~"Fuck. You didn't have to do that to my heart and cock, Alicia. fuck." I growled ferally. Arousal dripping from my husky voice, halting her words as i flipped us over effortlessly in a flash, Her back meeting the soft mattress as i hovered over her. A smile grazed her lips But her plumpy pink lips morphed into an erotic loud moan that traveled its way into my head, fusing with my brain and sending signals to my heart that couldn't stop running wild and rampant against my chest as I peppered her face with kisses, taking the time I didn't have and yet, I needed to savor her flavor, her scent and every reaction she made. I needed to embed myself into her skin; I needed to engrave her into my memory, my skin, my cock, my heart, and my sanity. Alicia fucking Donald, The woman who brought down my walls, barged her way into my heart and not only found a spot there but occupied the entire thing and made it listen to her every binding. And I was going to make sure I did t
THBM EP 168~ALICIA~A startled gasp escaped my lips the moment I unlatched my lashes and that was because of the face that hovered over mine in a dimly golden lit room. My heartbeat that skyrocketed skittered to a halt the moment the haze in my eyes dissipated and I could make out the owner of the face that ate up my entire vision.Dominic. Only that, he looked viscously regal, and considering the deep contour between his brows, he was angry as he glared daggers down at me, the deadlines of his piercing glares were like mysterious hypnotizing drums that filtered into my ears, went straight to my marrows and settled on my heart that resumed it's haunting, vigorous rampant marathon against my tender ribcage.Getting hold of myself and fighting the tremors that engulfed my body in violent shivers and the multiple aches that exploded through my body, I tried to draw to a sitting position but my eyes bulged and welled when his hand shot straight to my throat and wrapped his fingers around
THBM EP 167~ALICIA~"B-Boss. I'm sorry...I'm glad you're okay...you made it, and that makes you a powerful mentor I'd want to have in my next life. I wanted it to be you whom I protected with my life...but I was late and so...I had to save her first...I'm sorry...she wanted to meet you...urgh...fuck..." Chris groaned in pain, choking on the enormous amount of blood that splurted out of his mouth, eyes drooping as he fought to keep them open. My blood boiled like molten lava, erupting and rupturing through my veins as I glared viscous daggers at the thick metal that pierced through his guts, compressing him to the wall while a huge wall squashed his lower half to the ground, my consigliere's blood was streaming like a waterfall in front of me and I couldn't save him, all I could do was tremble in rage and pain, a harsh lump of tears knotted in my throat, vigorously constricting my breath as I watched my friend breathing his last."Why did you come back for me, Chris, why?! fucking how
THBM EP 167~DOMINIC~"The exact hell you seeing, dear brother." Desmond growled through his loud snickers. My heartbeat accelerated abnormally in fear, raw fear, not for my life, but for the fact that I might not be able to see the face that kept flashing across my head.No, I needed to go back to her, and there were no signs that Desmond was joking. I wouldn't die in the hands of this wanker, he lured me into his lair to blast us both off, huh? The beeping sounds from the controller in his hands intensified and his sniggers turned more nefarious and sinister as he clutched it closer to his chest.Taking a step to bolt out of the room, his voice rang again, halting me in place."Dream on, Dominic. There are only forty seconds left, and the whole house has been mounted. I knew you would come, but I still wanted to try my luck to see if I could get out of the country before you arrived, blow the house off, and get the Media to fake my death so I could reemerge a few years later, just l
THBM EP 165~DOMINIC~The tyres of my black van screeched to a halt in front of a gigantic white paint house. The same house where I almost lost Alicia yesterday, the same house where the blonde fucker had her take his ugly shaft, the same house where his blood was going to spill today.Sliding my black shades on, I stepped out of the car through the door that was already left open for me. Darting my gaze between my two most trusted men who were currently in black holsted pants, sleek black turtleneck polos that exposed their rippling biceps, and black boots with knives at the tip, Ethan in black shades who's outfit mirrored mine, while Chris held his hair back with a black band around his head. I had checked into a hotel on my way out of the hospital to take a quick shower in an attempt to get rid of Alicia's blood that clung to my skin and reminded me of her pale face, the flames, and the tentacles that held me hostage and turned me helpless and that was eating at my sanity a bit to
THBM EP 164~ALICIA~"Let's go." Nelly uttered frantically, nodding at her; I tucked my hair behind my ears and swallowed hard to keep my wit in place as I waltzed behind her and headed out of that room.Nelly had reembarked with a pair of black leather heels and a matching peach-colored pencil skirt with a small parting at the back, and blouse.It wasn't the best outfit for such shenanigans, but it was the spare she had in her car, and I had to go with it as we made our way out of the hospital room and blended perfectly with the few patients and nurses on board until we got to the parking lot of the hospital."Get in." She Uttered. Pulling the passenger's door open. Nodding curtly, I slid into the passenger seat and let her slam the door close before heading to the driver's seat. Fastening my seatbelt, she got in and did the same before starting the ignition. My heartbeat racing in both apprehension and anticipation. My head was a jumbled mess and a chaotic frenzy as I rested my head
THBM EP 163~ALICIA~The faint beeping sounds of an electrocardiogram machine seeped into the darkness that swallowed me whole a decade ago, sounding like a fractured, distant melody, ripping through the dark fog in my ears as it prowled its way into my head, intensifying by each beep after another. Unlatching my lids, my eyes squirmed and squinted as they came in contact with a white ceiling, and a harsh ache split my head in two at the blinding glow from the elegant chandelier above me. I tried to move my muscles, but it seemed excruciatingly impossible, and all I could do was dart my eyes around the ceiling; the electrocardiogram machine accelerated rampantly as my heartbeat accelerated abnormally.Where was I? I knew I was in a hospital, and the only indication was the sound of the machine that echoed loudly in the luxurious, unfamiliar-looking room. Parting my lips to speak, a scorching ache registered in my throat and channeled its way down to somewhere on my chest, growing itch
THBM EP 162~DOMINIC~I've lived my life on violence and adrenaline. I've always thrived for control and viewed the world through a red lens because crimson was my favorite purging method. Killing was the only way to satiate my demons and drive them back into that dark abyss whenever they resurfaced, and I loved every bit of it all until now.Until I had to watch that fucking crimson gush out of the one person I never wanted to see it from. Until I lost control over my own self and couldn't move and just fucking cried like a kid until I was thrown back into that burning house with my eyes wide open and legs rooted in place as I watched crimson streaming out of my two parents and still couldn't do anything.I've always thought I was heartless until it came to Alicia. There was an unbearable pain exploding somewhere behind my ribcage, eating and gnawing at the organ that pumps my blood in ruthless tugs.The fact that I couldn't save her kept scratching at my sanity in harsh tugs, leaving