The earth stopped spinning. The wind stopped blowing. The stars dimmed themselves. The moon hid behind the clouds. They all were afraid of Renata’s wrath. She was staring at Vicktor with an open mouth. Her angry eyes were devoid of every emotion. For the first time in her life, she was stunned. She was frozen in her body.Suddenly her eyes started drooping. A white noise started screaming in her brain. Everything before her eyes turned white static. She could see nothing, hear nothing. She felt someone grabbing her and shaking her, patting her cheeks.When she finally opened her eyes, half of her body was on the ground and Severino had her enclosed in his arms. “Fanasi! Fanasi! Talk to me. Are you okay? What did you do to her?” he shouted at Michelangelo.“S…e…v!!” her voice trembled. She tried standing up, but her knees gave in. There was no strength in her body. Tears were streaming down her face. “Take… me home! Take me… home!” she pleaded.Severino shot an angry look at Vicktor an
Severino stopped the car and opened the door for Renata. She still didn’t move. He opened her seatbelt and carried her inside the building. “Where were you guys? No one was replying to their comms or phones. Wait! What happened to her? Ren? Ren? I saw you guys going inside but never saw you coming out. What happened?” suddenly everyone started raining questions at Severino. Without replying to anyone, he went inside Renata’s apartment and laid her down in her bed. She again lost her shoes. This time even her clothes as she was in the pyjamas Michelangelo put her in. The moment he turned to look at everyone he grabbed Sameeksha by her shoulder and shouted, “is it true? Tell me, is it true?” Sameeksha understood what he was asking about. She lowered her head and while biting her lower lips simply nodded. Severino closed his eyes and sighed. “How? What? What are we going to do?” he asked. “Is that why she is crying?” asked Sameeksha. “Yes, she is in shock,” replied Severino. “We all
“What the hell is he talking about?” snapped Sameeksha at Renata.“Is that important right now? Vicktor brought an outsider into our hiding place. Should we all not address that?” asked Renata.“No!” shouted Hazel. “What does he mean that you are going to prison?”“That was always the plan, Haze. Samiul and I made that plan. If the Heeler goes behind bars, then only SMS will go behind bars. I have everything with me. I know what everyone has done, and I have the financial statement for everything. I have the odal file, and the financial statement of SMS, thanks to you guys. All I need is my father’s personal book. I know he keeps it with my mom because no one will suspect an odal,” said Renata.“Why? Why do you have to do that? You can give everything to the police, to Prestige, she will take care of everything,” said Ambrosia.“Prestige? Detective prestige? She too works for you guys?” Michelangelo was shocked, again. How far her operation was spread? And how did she do it without an
Renata kept sobbing for minutes. She felt so good in Michelangelo’s arms. She didn’t want to get out of that warm embrace. He didn’t ask her to stop crying, he just held her close to himself.“I don’t know what to do. I don’t know what to do. What should I do, Michel?” Renata kept sobbing.“First, sit down!” he made her sit back down on the bed and knelt before her. “Now talk to me!”“Do you want this kid?” she asked.“Ren! Are you kidding me? Of course, I want this kid. He or she will be mine. You are mine. I want my family,” said Michelangelo.“He-he,” scoffed Renata and somehow laughed. “Family? There will be no family. Our child will be born in prison. You can take him/her after that. You have to take care of them but don’t make them an angry moron like you.”“Why are you talking like this? Why does anyone have to go to jail? The Heeler is dead. Let her be dead, why bring her back?” asked Michelangelo.“I have to repent for what I did. I killed so many people in cold blood, just b
Finally, Renata bowed down before her emotions. She stopped hating herself for betraying Samiul. She stopped hating herself for falling for Michelangelo. She stopped hating herself for loving Michelangelo. She stopped hating herself for having sex with him. Now she was ready to start a family with him. She was pregnant. She was PREGNANT! She let that sink in. Michelangelo tightened his embrace and kissed her on her head. “Thank you for forgiving me.” She pushed him away and said, “who said anything about forgiving? I have not forgiven you yet.” She again pulled him close to herself in a hug. “Okay, I will wait! But I think you will forgive me after you hear what I have to say. I have a plan. I can get you Tikhon,” said Michelangelo. “I will hear it later. Let me be here for a while,” said Renata and rested her head on his shoulder. He too sighed with relief and kept caressing her back. “Let’s go,” said Michelangelo after they hugged each other to their heart’s content. “Are you o
Tikhon had been searching for Afanasiia like a hungry lion, but she was nowhere to be found. She had been making her moves and he could do nothing. First, she made Masayuki shut down all the money to him and then she asked Leonide to shut down the guns. No matter how much he pressurized them they didn’t budge. Tikhon was getting angrier and angrier. His fear was slowly fading. No one was afraid of him. All were afraid of the Heeler. He had to buy guns from other parties. His own SMS was not ready to give him anything. And now she had made another move. She took a page out of his book and kidnapped families of other Cosca. Why didn’t he do that sooner? He tried to kidnap Kazumi, but she saved her and now Masayuki was on her side. If only he could save others from her, three Cosca would work in his favour. But how was this possible? If he could not find his own daughter, how was it possible to find the kidnapped people? In olden times, all would have come to him for help. They would h
Renata had to work fast. Even though she knew the abductees were safe in her place she didn’t want to give Tikhon a chance to rescue them. Well, no one knew where she was except her team and now Michelangelo. His plan was on point. On the day of the coronation, he would smuggle everyone inside the hall and then they could attack Tikhon as the security around him would be minimal. All eyes would be on Michelangelo that day, but Renata’s eyes would be on Tikhon. She knew her mother would be there, and he might use her. But Tikhon loved Aurora the most in his life, maybe he might not put her in harm’s way. The only person she was concerned about was, Yekaterina, her half-sister. She sent her people to keep an eye on her, but Yekaterina was surrounded by Tikhon’s people. It would be difficult to get her out. Her people had scheduled the meeting with Octavius, Zhaohui and Vikentiy. The meeting was fixed in a public place. A big table was reserved at a famous restaurant, and everyone was s
Renata’s plan to irk them was working. Her plan to teach everyone a lesson was working.“You bastard! You daughter of an odal. You dare do this to us,” snapped all three at her and stood up. Vikentiy raised his gun at her.Renata lowered her eyes and took a deep sigh. She then raised her head to look at him and with fire in her eyes stood up. She walked up to him and put her head on the barrel of his gun.“Do it! Let’s see how much courage you have,” taunted Renata. “If you kill me, my people might give you your kids back.”“Ren!” shouted Hazel and a few of Renata’s team members stood up in shock.Renata raised her finger to shut her up. Everyone sat back down. Looking at her fierce eyes Vikentiy backed down. He lowered his gun and went down to his knees. “Please, not my daughter. She did nothing to you. Please let her go! She is just a kid.”Renata grabbed a chuck of his hair and yanked it hard, making him look at her. She lowered her face to look directly into his eyes and snapped,