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The Billionaire Mafia's Rejected Wife 38. HINTS OF SOMETHING
I WAS SHOCKED to see Aunt Yna so early in the morning. I was about to say something and step outside of our room when I realized that I only had my robe on and then nothing underneath. “Good morning, Aunt Yna,” I mumbled just moments after she told me that there was something I must know about. “Did you sleep well? Did you already have your rooms booked after the wedding reception? I’m sorry I couldn’t get back to you last night I didn’t realize I already had too many drinks. I would have checked if the other guest also had a good sleep and were, accommodated—” “Esmé, dear,” Aunt Yna stopped me from talking. She nodded and touched my hand “We had our own room on the ground floor, complete with great amenities so much that my husband is still sleeping as we talk.” “Oh,” I said smiling. “Good to hear that.” “Anyway… I am here to have a talk with you.” I nodded, my forehead forming a thin line. My head was still throbbing with a headache. It was kind of difficult to decide what I sh
The Billionaire Mafia's Rejected Wife 39. WHAT HIS ACTIONS MEAN
CALLAN LOOKED OVER me by his shoulder while I was still in awe hearing him say that we will be flying with a private jet today. “I mean… I haven’t packed anything yet for that Hawaii trip. The new wardrobe that you gave me was at the mansion. Maybe we should head there first and gather a few things?” There was a noticeable hesitation in my voice. I did not mean to tell Callan what to do. I knew where I should stand with the way this dynamic is gonna work. He kept looking at me. And instead of feeling annoyed by my sudden outburst of hysteria, Callan looked somewhat amused. “Have you ever heard of having a vacation to release stress?” I tilted my head as I sat on a chair, shoulders slumped. “Well, I do. Might as well just enjoy myself in a foreign country with only just a robe on and that little white dress,” I said, my words left my mouth with a slur looking at the set of clothes that were a mess on the side. “You’re stressing out instead of distressing for a vacation.” “I can’t af
The Billionaire Mafia's Rejected Wife 40. AWED BY HIS GESTURES
AFTER HEARING Callan’s words just seconds ago, here I am looking at his impressive preparation for our honeymoon trip. The proof? These suitcases were in front of me. Three huge luggage just for me? And he was sure that everything that I might need was packed in there? Whoa… this man, really. Talk about confusion. He sounded really cold yet caring earlier. Like he cares about me but not enough for him to acknowledge he has grown feelings for a technically homeless woman. I cleared my throat, enough of having thoughts that always push me off the edge. Realizing Callan left the suite and here I was alone inside, I inhaled deeply. You can’t really have everything in the world. At least, Callan’s family took me in when I had nowhere to go. This was what my parents would have wanted too. Maybe that’s why I never tried escaping. Slowly, I checked the luggage and looked through the clothes that were packed inside. Several pairs of casual clothes greeted me. There was also lingerie. Many
The Billionaire Mafia's Rejected Wife 41. A NEED FOR A KISS?
A FEW MOMENTS after Callan made a call on his phone, there were room attendants who knocked and immediately went to gather our suitcases. Callan has two pairs of black luggage while I have three silver luggage.The male room attendants, who I was sure were some of the staffs here in the resort, loaded our luggage to the cart and bowed at us.“We hope you had a great stay with your wife at the resort, sir,” one of them said.“Thank you for having us,” Callan said with his stern voice.I was standing beside him and I gave the resort staff a wide smile. “It was an amazing experience. And the food at our wedding reception was notably delicious. I also enjoyed the bar near the beach!” I said, getting too serious in giving my feedback when Callan softly touched my waist.I stopped mid-sentence but didn’t make it obvious and just kept a straight face. I kept smiling at them as I grabbed Callan’s wrist. “Thank you so much,” I said once again.“It’s a pleasure, Mr. and Mrs. Chevalier,”“My wif
The Billionaire Mafia's Rejected Wife 42. A NEW EXPERIENCE
I SLAPPED CALLAN’S chest and squinted my eyes, tracing any hints of distress from his eyes but he was indeed amused. Did he just fool me into kissing him? “You can’t get enough of me, wife. Don’t ever think too much. We just got married.” After saying that, Callan returned to his phone. This time he positioned it to his ears after pressing onto someone’s number. “Yes, we are now heading to the private airport. I can meet Mr. Dicken by evening. Yes, have that setup, Mila,” then he ended the call and dialed another number. “Aakil? Where is father? Did you accompany him earlier? Did he close the deal with the real estate mogul? Good. Yes, he shouldn’t bother with that. I’ll deal with our transactions abroad. Just keep the barracks in place. Our men have to be deployed next week at Mr. Baris’ groundbreaking event. What did the consigliere say about that? The underboss has the say in where his mean must be, Capo Baris is as important as the other captains. They bring in more than just t
The Billionaire Mafia's Rejected Wife 43. ANOTHER SIDE OF HIM
IN THE MIDDLE of the flight, I put on pajamas and got ready to lay on the single bed on the back part of the jet. There were not much of turbulences that happened for the past hours. I had spent most time looking through my new phone.When I opened my social media accounts, there were hundreds of messages and notifications. I looked through it but did not open it one by one. Mostly those were just messages from old classmates back in college who had heard the news about my parents’ death and the fire that burnt our house to ashes.I looked through familiar names—some of the few people with whom I had gotten close over the years but drifted apart from each other when they successfully got on a cruise while I remained stuck in our city after graduating from college.There were three of them… all women. But I understand if they had so much going on in their lives abroad that they didn’t know what was going on with me during the past months. This was one of the notable lessons I had learn
The Billionaire Mafia's Rejected Wife 44. WHAT LIES DO YOU HIDE
AS CALLAN LOOKED AWAY, I put on my jeans back and looked down. My cheeks were flushed with shame and shock. I made sure there was no one in the vicinity. I just needed to get off my clothes so water wouldn’t drip on the tiled floor.I cleared my thoughts and then looked at the surroundings once again. Callan stood with his back turned at me from a close distance. Before he pointed at the nearest door. I assume it was a room. “That’s our room for tonight. I asked for a double bed. We’ll have the penthouse by morning.”I nodded. Callan walked towards the doors and swiped a card then the door unlocked. Without saying anything I rushed towards the room and stepped inside.The room looked elegant despite the simple interior with white and grey accents and gold carvings on a few pieces of furniture positioned inside.There was also a large television a small kitchen on the side and a bathroom on the left. True enough there were indeed two beds beside each other. Each one has a bedside table
The Billionaire Mafia's Rejected Wife 45. PART OF THE TRUTH
IT WAS NOT enough to squirm and urge Callan to pull away from his grip on my wrist. Even not enough to glare at him for him to let go and allow me to walk away from the room.I don’t know if he was worried about what I just heard or if he just felt he was in the authority to demand what I shall do from now on the fact that I am under his wing.“In case you wanna hear more about what I said earlier—”“Will you really tell me the truth, Callan? Do you think it would be that easy to just accept everything you’ll say just because you’re caught off guard?” I bombarded him with questions, one after another. “I get it, Callan. You love someone else. You had me cover up her presence that once graced your life to present yourself better in front of your family. Yet you made it sound like I was so desperate for you. You told me you’re just fulfilling your duties. You did not tell me I have a better use for you and you need me as much as I needed you. I spent the entire time feeling guilty! If y
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The Billionaire Mafia's Rejected Wife EPILOGUE
Growing up, I have had a sense of good and bad in the world. I learned that people make choices and sometimes they make bad actions, which makes other people label them bad. Yet, there’s more to people being and choosing to do bad things. I had never seen people do the most brutal bad things until I saw men barge into our house and fired bullets at my father’s already dead body. And my mother—which wounded my soul to the point of not even knowing if I could ever get back on my feet once again, only to discover that I have been betrayed by my own mother. She’s already dead. For real this time. I have not forgiven her, but I have learned to move forward. But the sudden turn of events of my life allowed me to grow in ways I wouldn’t have imagined and led me to the arms of the man that I could trust, fight, and grow old with. And today’s our 5th wedding anniversary. Even if we had to go through hell and fight for our lives, it led us to this paradise that I wouldn’t trade for anyth
The Billionaire Mafia's Rejected Wife 95. BUILD A FAMILY
TWO MONTHS after staying in our new house in Chicago, I have grown much closer to my husband. Our routine was basically waking up and preparing meals for us both. On some days, he’ll be joining me in the chicken, and on other days, he’ll still be there but will be doing work on his laptop. Callan had been hands-on in collecting real estate properties in our area as part of the expansion project of Chevalier Holdings. I love staring at Callan as he gets lost in his work, conducting meetings with his colleagues. While I cook in the kitchen and prepare snacks for him. Then I would get lost in doing my own tasks as well. On these days, I have seen Callan in every mundane moment that I could think of and I have loved him more. The way we lay in each other’s arms around evening after all our tasks are accomplished it certainly felt like home. Ever since I lost my family, I have learned that life must go on even if you feel like the world has just collapsed on your shoulders. A significan
The Billionaire Mafia's Rejected Wife 94. STARTING A NEW
I COULDN’T believe that a day like this would still arrive in our lives. I was standing in the middle of the airport with people roaming around. While Callan had just paid our travel tax and was smiling widely raising our first-class plane tickets up in the air. He looked better than he did weeks ago, I must say. He could smile now. Joke things with me. His face has more color time, and the dark circles under his eyes start to fade away. As for me, I still wake up in the middle of the night from nightmares of the chaos we experienced. I remember there were nights when I dreamed of the people I killed. That night when I shot Aldo Cato. Things haven’t been easy for us to return to living our normal lives. We had been deeply affected by the loss, battle, and exhaustion that we had gone through just to sort out the mess in the mafia world, at least in our lives that involved dealing with the Cato clan and resolving things regarding the order and structure in the ravij organization. We
The Billionaire Mafia's Rejected Wife 93. WHAT'S LEFT OF THE TRUTH
“Esmé you wanted to know why I did this? I wanted my daddy to prioritize me. I should have been the heir to the ravij organization! I was his eldest daughter! It wasn’t fair!”As she said that, Callan took a shot from the revolver she got from me, the shot left a dent on her chest as she looked upward towards me muttering soft voices leaving a faint fake smile on her face as if she was grateful.I then hugged Callan, replaced my face on started crying Callan patted my head and he tried to calm me down, “It is over, my wife. It is over.”Immediately afterward, someone spoke from the black boxes in the room, “What a great show this was. It is certainly not over. Definitely not. Please move upstairs.”Callan shouted, “Bastard, I will kill you for killing my men and for hurting me and I will break your limbs for hurting Don Thoron.”Callan laughed, “Whoa, well, you should be very careful what to say next. Move upstairs. I am right here waiting.’“It must be a trap. Husband, let us go bac
The Billionaire Mafia's Rejected Wife 92. WORSE THAN TORTURE
FURIOUS, I RAISED my face upright in the eyes of the man who was holding a sniper on the 3rd floor looking at us, and then one by one other men from other floors looked below from the balconies of that building and some started shooting from the windows. We covered ourselves and I aimed precisely, even though many of my bullets were not hitting the target, I managed to take down quite a few from the sight. The abandoned building was a 12 storey high and there were soldiers of the Cato clan inside and outside. The men that spotted us first were the ones on the balcony. As instructed, twenty of our men started running to the gate to enter the building. As they were running, one fell down and got shot. Another soldier tried to lift him up on his back but ended up getting shot as well. The others ran for their lives and got inside. As they went inside, they took down all the men of the Cato Clan on the first floor and started walking upstairs. I could only hear bullet after bullet, no
The Billionaire Mafia's Rejected Wife 91. PLEDGE TO THE RAVIJ
MAYBE IT IS true that when love finds you, the fear of losing it is greater than the risk of dying itself just so you can fight for the person you love.Is rescuing someone worth it? I do not know about anyone but for Callan, I will do everything.“Hey, Esmé. We are ready. It is only logical if you lead this mission in the absence of the underboss.”I cleared my throat and thought of the words he just said.I looked around; I don’t think whoever leads the troop will matter at this point. We are all marching towards a similar purpose.But if I were to judge the situation, Aakil should be the one to lead instead in the absence of my husband. Or maybe Capo Mariano.“Hmm… maybe Capo Mariano could be the leader. Or Aakil?”Aakil cleared his throat and then spoke, “The consigliere mentioned your courage and we saw it too. That gave us determination. This is what the organization needs. I cannot take Callan’s place. I am not a descendant of Ravij's head. They won’t accept me as their leader
The Billionaire Mafia's Rejected Wife 90. STRENGTH OF A BEAUFORTE
CALLAN DID NOT SEND any updates and I was left without any notice. I woke up to an empty space beside me on the bed. With everything that happened for the past days and after learning that Don Thoron had been captured by the Cato clan and had been tortured by the men in their camp in town, I knew Callan was deeply affected by it. I saw it in his eyes before he left.The unwatchable footage sent to us was brutal. But Uncle Mariano said that Don Thoron particularly said not to risk the remaining troops to save him because Callan still has to be protected when he returns.If nothing is heard about him for three days straight, Callan shall immediately become the new mafia boss of the ravij family.Callan didn’t say anything, but he balled his fists and he was greeting his teeth. No one could talk to him other than me.Their mafia boss had been captured, tutored, and maybe already dead at this point.Preventing the urge to cry from the sinking feeling in my stomach, I got up in bed and gra
The Billionaire Mafia's Rejected Wife 89. DEATHS AND BETRAYAL
CALLAN'S POVI arrived at the hideout of the Cato Clan in my hometown… the silence was deafening.In the middle of the night, I moved in silence as well.I brought a gun with me and started looking through the surroundings.I saw a group of Cato’s men, feeling so complacent as they roamed around their camp—an abandoned building with almost no lights to light up the place. That was an advantage for me.I already hid my car with weapons somewhere nearby. As I stepped out of the darkness, I was welcomed by a group of henchmen who were carrying knives in their hands.One of the men tried to enrage me and said, “Look the dead man’s son is here.” I drew my gun and shot his head and they all went alarmed and hid behind the walls and barriers and I hid behind a stack of broken tires nearby.There is a room up ahead that they are guarding. That was their hideout. I remember when Arinya brought me to their hideout not knowing I was the first son of the ravij family. Her twin brother treated me
The Billionaire Mafia's Rejected Wife 88. AVENGE THEM
CALLAN'S POVMY MIND COULD only think of the darkest things that could happen as time passes by. I have no other means to unleash feelings of ease and lightness, I only hope Don Thoron, my father, was still breathing.Whoever that person was that dared to smash my father with a baseball bat, I don’t care if she’s a woman. If she’s as evil as the men that we come across in the organization she deserved the violence she was causing to others. And Aquila, the last time I saw him was at the bar when I broke things off with Arinya. They were stepping into the situation. The news was Aldo Cato died after all with the mission that we did.Esmé did well in shooting him multiple times, just like I told her. I will make sure that whoever was orchestrating actions from the Cato clan does not live to tell the tale. The lion of the ravij family that was once sleeping inside has now risen up and it will now obliterate all creatures that cross the path of his might. “We have to leave if we want t
