Chapter 40: ConfrontationRegina’s P.O.V“Sister Regina?” Paris sprang out of his bed instantly, and I noticed the subtle movement where he came slightly in front of Rico, as if in a defensive mode.But I wasn’t exactly seeing reason here. “What…on earth…is going on in here?”“It’s not what it looks like.” Rico stood up as well, this time, coming to stand in front of Paris in a protective stance. “I’m not here for him…not like that.”In that moment, all I could think about was Draco’s warning a few days ago as his words rang loud and clear in my head.“I wouldn’t dare hurt little kids…it’s not my thing. But one of my men has a thing for young ones. He likes them in bed…broken and bloody. And that boy sure is pretty…”Oh, dear god! Has that person been
Chapter 41: Bonding over the KidsRegina’s P.O.V “What’s with the long face?” Joel asked as he came around the kitchen counter to take a seat opposite to me.The entire mansion was already dark and quiet and I could hear the crickets chirping from miles away, along with the barks of a few dogs on the empty streets outside the mansion. Most of the guards stationed inside the house were already fast asleep since it was around two in the morning, but the patrol guards outside were very much awake.I had thought that I was the only person awake at this instant, but turns out, Joel was still performing his babysitting duties.Grabbing another glass from the cabinet, I passed it over to him, along with the entire fancy glass jug filled with whisky that I had found right towards the back of the wine cabinet. The smell alone told me that it was
Chapter 42: Initiating the PlanRegina’s P.O.V I ran up to the room that I shared with Draco, trying my best to keep my footfalls as silent as possible.I kept checking over my shoulder to see if any of the CCTV were pointed in my direction. It was a hassle when I would have to stop to avoid the cameras or dodge to avoid a guard. Thankfully, I only saw one guy on the first floor and he was merely going back into his room across the hallway from me.Taking the opportunity, I went inside my room and instantly started searching for the device that I had kept hidden under the mattress. After finding it right where I had left it, I took it out and once again stuck it at the back of my earlobe, so that even if I get caught loitering around the house, no one would be able to take the device from me.Closing the door as silently as possible…I set out
Chapter 43: The Promise of the ButterflyRegina’s P.O.VIt was almost five in the afternoon and I was about ready to give up on my parents.Seriously? I was sixteen! Who on earth needed to be picked up from high school by their parents at this age? Not to mention that my boyfriend was the hottest guy in the soccer team! He’d dump me the instant he found out I was being picked up by my mom!And to top it all off, my mom was about one and a half hour late! The entire area was totally deserted and the school gates were about to be closed any time now. The only comfort I had in standing all alone on this deserted street was the fact that the teachers and the guard was still inside. But if my mom was another ten minutes late, then everyone will be gone and I’d be taking the bus home, no matter how much I had to listen to their lecture later on.No way was I waiting for her if this place gets an-
Chapter 44: Orchard of MinesDraco’s P.O.VA car was waiting for me at the airport as soon as I landed in Detroit.The moment I sat down inside the car, I turned towards Gabriele, pinning him with a stare. “How long have you known about this?”“Since the day you went back in a hurry.” He swallowed, looking down at his lap.He hadn't said much the entire flight, especially since I got the news and had to leave everything immediately so I could attend to this matter. But now I have to find out that he had known all along?“Is this why you kept insisting on the marriage proposal?” I ask him seriously, because I didn’t know to what extent he had hidden the truth from me. “Why chose deceit when you could’ve just told me the truth?”“It wasn’t just something I could share easily.” Gabriele said now. “It wasn’t my secret to tell.”I took a deep breath to calm myself. My mind had stopped working the moment I had received Donatello’s call this afternoon.I had been waiting to hear back from Ri
So this note is for those who might find it a little weird that a girl might become obsessed with a man on a whim and want it so badly to the point of going to such great lengths as to harming herself to get what she wants. If you think this is purely fictional and doesn't happen...it totally does. And it was something that had happened with me...just not to that extreme. Why am I sharing this? Well, because it was something that kinda inspired the previous chapter. When I was in high school, 11th grade, we had a lot of new students from different schools. It's normal here in India as kids often change schools after 10th grade. That was when this one guy, lets call him Ben, transferred schools and came to be in the same class as me. I literally had no idea he existed because I wasn't friends with him or with any of his group members. However, I had no idea that he had noticed me and...maybe started to obsess over me? Later that month, he joined the same physics tuition classes that
Chapter 45: FarfallaRegina’s P.O.V“You look like you saw a ghost.”Was the first thing that Joel told me when he saw me walk into the kitchen the next morning.“And got hit by a bus.” I headed straight for the coffee machine, making myself a large mug full of espresso to keep me awake because I barely had a wink of sleep last night.“And got trampled on by an elephant.”“Ohhh…daddy’s using mean words!”I was about to give Joel a piece of my mind with that last comment, even though he was being way more polite than normal, but as soon as I heard that cute…adorable little baby voice, all the anger I had towards Joel, disappeared in an instant.For the first time since walking into the room, I narrowed my eyes at Joel and really looked at his face and saw that he was smiling from ear to ear like a big ol’ fool. Not smirking…but actually smiling.And that’s what prompted me to look behind him and I thanked every god I knew for not cursing Joel outright because that cute, innocent girl
Chapter 46: The PromiseDraco’s P.O.VI stood outside the cabin door, my hands fisted by my sides as I tried to steady my heartbeat.Never in my life had I thought that I’d ever be in a situation where I would be forced to do something that I had never had any intention of doing.For over ten years…I had searched for the woman, who had been the light in my life; who had literally saved my life by giving me her lucky pendant. And today, not only did I need that pendant; I needed that woman beside me as well.But as my luck would have it…I didn’t have either by my side. Neither my farfalla…nor her pendant.Taking a deep breath, I raised my hand and knocked on the door three times to let the person inside know that I was going in, before I opened the door a crack. The woman sleeping on the hospital bed didn’t see me at first. Her face was turned in the opposite direction and there were several tubes stuck to her body. Her left wrist was bandaged up tightly and it looked like she had just
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Bonus Story: Rico and Paris 10A Night to Remember:Rico watched Paris turn into the alleyway after his shift at work. He had been waiting in his car that was parked a block away from the station, so that no one got suspicious of him.That boy again! Rico frowned as he saw Paris say goodbye to a friend of his, that had followed him to join the NYPD right after graduating college.If he wasn’t wrong…the boy had been Paris’s friend in school as well. It made Rico frown even harder. Why was that boy following Paris around even now?“Hey.” Paris greeted him as soon as he entered the car. “Have you been waiting long?”“Five minutes.” Rico’s voice was curt, and he instantly regretted the slip up.“What’s up with you? You sound grumpy.” Paris raised his eyebrows at his boyfriend. “Was it something about work?”“No.” Rico shook his head. “It’s nothing,”He drove away from the alleyway, heading towards their apartment. It was fairly new and they had moved in together only a few days ago. Offic
Epilogue: FutureRegina’s P.O.V5 years later…I felt his hands creep up my spine to cup my bare breasts under the covers.“Hmmmm…” I moaned languidly, my mind not fully awake yet.His fingers pinched my nipple, not harshly, but enough that the last vestiges of sleep were fleeting from my mind already.And then his hand travelled down my body to cup my womanhood, his fingers parting my lower lips to slide a finger inside of me.I was wide awake the next instant, just as I felt his erection against my buttcheeks.“Draco…” I groaned, complaining. “We went to bed at four in the morning!”“It’s very rare that we get days to ourselves…” he whispered, his warm breath fanning my ear. “Let’s make the most of it…”His fingers move in and out of me at a rapid pace, making me feel aroused once again as heat pooled between my legs. We’ve had quite a few rounds last night…but it looks like I’m not getting a break this morning either…not that I was complaining…The downside of having kids is not ge
Chapter 98: A Second ChanceRegina’s P.O.V“Alistair!”The sound of the gunshot reverberated through my brain, making me freeze on the spot.The world seemed to be holding its breath as the sounds faded from all around us.The sound of my own heartbeat felt like a Lambeg drum. The noise filling my ears until everything else seemed to fade away.And then…instead of Alistair…I saw Gabriele drop to the floor.It was an eerily dreadful sight. How he fell to his knees first, his hands dropping to his side as the gun fell out of it. And as he fell…Gabriele’s right eye exploded in a spray of blood and brain matter.Blood gushed out of his hollow eye, running down his cheek and dripping down from his chin as the eyeball lay in splatters on the ground, only a few feet away from me.And then he fell on the floor face first, and I covered my mouth as bile rose to my throat at the sight of the broken skull at the back of his head.Alistair turned to face me, urging me to turn around as well, but
Chapter 97: The Final TakedownRegina’s P.O.V “Harmona…”Draco’s voice was a whisper. And even though he didn’t show it on his face, I knew he was scared.It was evident in the slight tremble in his voice; the way he clutched me to his side with all his strength. He was worried about our daughter.This wasn’t how I had planned to introduced Harmona ti Draco. This wasn’t how a father’s first meeting with his daughter was supposed to be like.But right at that moment, a thought came to my mind…and it twisted my gut in horror.“Juliana…” I whispered.She was in charge of guarding my daughter…there was no way that she could’ve let Harmona go so easily…unless…No…they killed her! They…I failed her…I failed the woman I swore to protect…Gabriele and Enzo stepped into the living room from the hallway, Harmona still in their grasp.“Ah! Leonardo.” Gabriel’s sly smirk was filled with malice. “I think I should properly introduce the two of you.”My heart almost burst out of my chest as I saw
Chapter 96: BattlefieldRegina’s P.O.V “What the…”I lifted one leg and dug my heels into Antonio’s shoe, making him yelp and jump back.Taking advantage of the situation, I lifted the vase and turning around, brought it down on his head.The cracking sound of the glass vase as it shattered into a million pieces, gave me intense satisfaction as Antonio cried in pain, falling onto the ground at my feet.He had let go of the gun, letting it drop to the floor as he clutched his head in his hands, blood gushing out of the cut that had resulted from the hard glass connecting with his empty head.I picked up the gun and slammed the butt onto the side of his head. Just before his eyes rolled back into his head, I made eye contact with the fucker, watching with satisfaction as his eyes widened in horror.His body fell limply to the side, but I knew he wasn’t dead. The Vincenzo fuckers were too stubborn to die from a simple glass vase to the head. But if he had permanent brain damage, that wo
Chapter 95: The Real PlanRegina’s P.O.V“What is the meaning of this?”Someone shouted, their voice enraged.But all I could hear was the static in my ears as blood gushed through my body, adrenaline kicking in as Antonio’s words suddenly became clearer.‘You’re nothing more than a pawn in this game! You’re Leonardo’s trash and as soon as we’ve gotten rid of him, you’ll become useless!’‘In two days, you’ll know exactly where you belong! At my feet!’Suddenly, the words that I had discarded off as a spoilt brat having a tantrum, came back to haunt me in full force.Antonio had been giving me hints because he knew exactly what his father had planned to do. And I hadn't paid any heed to him because I hadn't believed he would actually provide me with anything valuable.Turns out, the useless prick had been more useful that I had given him credit for.But now…it was too late.My heart trashed against my ribcage wildly as I tried to think about every possible scenario in which I could get
Chapter 94: A Party from HellRegina’s P.O.VTwo days had passes by as if they had been two centuries.We were constantly being watched, me, Juliana and Harmona.Enzo had fixed times for me to play with my own daughter and Juliana had to wait in another room until we were done spending time with each other.I don’t know what Gabriele had told him or what kind of proof he may have about me, but whatever it was, it was bad enough that Enzo was losing his trust in me.A trust that I had needed years to build.And I needed him to trust me now more than ever. With the most influential leaders of the mob finally assembling under one roof, I needed to be at the epicenter of it all to know what was going on.If I continued to be locked up like this, in Antonio’s room, then there was very little chance that I would be able to warn them at all.I was dressed in a red dress once again, just like the first day I met Draco and revenge against those who had made my life a living hell, had officiall
Chapter 93: TrappedRegina’s P.O.VI set out for my room almost immediately, my steps hurried as I made my way up the stairs.Suddenly, in the course of a few minutes, the entire game seemed to have been flipped on its end.Gabriele? Joining hands with Enzo? Why had I not seen that coming?The moment Draco told me that Rosanna was locked up in his office, with Gustav guarding her so that she cannot answer Gabriele’s phone calls. That should’ve made me think of every possible angle! Damnit!It was happening again! Draco was clouding my judgment yet again and this time at such a crucial moment.Gabriele was going to figure out that something was wrong right away, especially when he had been the one to send Rosanna those pictures of me and Harmona. He must have wanted Rosanna to confirm that it was indeed Draco’s child.And now that he knows Draco has an heir, he’s desperate to get Draco out of the way as soon as possible.And what better an opportunity than the man who was vying for the