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The Billionaire Mafia's Rejected Wife 78. FIGHT THE ENEMY
I WOKE UP in the middle of the night with the feeling of the soft sheets covering my body. My hands roamed beside me on the bed and noticed there was an empty space. I looked up to try to look for Callan in the middle of the darkened room. But I did not see him.My heart started hammering inside my chest, I looked through our clothes on the floor and it was still there. But there were no traces of Callan. I pulled the sheets and wrapped my body with them.I carefully walked toward the bathroom but then right on the balcony, I saw a silhouette.“You’re awake,” I mumbled as I went to Callan. He was smoking a cigarette.“Just couldn’t sleep,” Callan replied to me as he looked at the scenery in front of us. Judging from the city lights, I guess it has just passed midnight since the city lit up with lights from establishments.Callan wasn’t wearing anything other than a towel wrapped around his waist. “What troubles you?” I asked, my voice soft and gentle. I leaned onto the metal railing.
The Billionaire Mafia's Rejected Wife 79. HIT THE TARGET
WE ALREADY CHECKED out from the hotel before the sun could even rise up in the east. Callan made a phone call to have someone who can drive us to a firing range in the next town.When I asked whether the drive would be long, Callan told me that I could sleep on his shoulders so that I could get more sleep.Right, he was smirking when he said that to me. Truly insinuating about something we did all night that made us awake for hours way more than the time we had actually slept.I jokingly hit his rib and he just laughed.Who would have thought that the man that I once had known as arrogant and reserved, would be acting like this with me? There’s no denying anymore. We are actually madly in love.I wonder, if there were no chaos outside our lives would become this close and stronger?The same car that brought us here at the hotel yesterday arrived outside of the hotel with Aakil walking to us to get our luggage and secure it inside the trunk of the car.With a few greetings, I got in th
The Billionaire Mafia's Rejected Wife 80. THE START OF WAR
THE DAYS PASSED by and it was not easy at all. Each day I had to wake up early and train the whole day. I will first hit the gym which is luckily just at the back of this building where we had been staying.I also made it a routine to cook for Callan and his men on some days when we haven’t ordered groceries from outside. Aakil and his brother would help me as well as Alec.Oh, he joined the team on the second day of our stay. Saying he still had to pack and bid goodbye to his parents—Aunt Yna hesitate for him to join the mission. But Alec was determined, saying he had something to prove to himself. This mission was what he needed to unleash his full potential.But he joked one time, saying I needed somebody who could protect me as we execute the mission. I countered his joke with the truth: “I have a husband who would die for me.”I said that out of full devotion to Callan because I would do the same for him.Alec just shrugged his head and mumbled. “Still, I had to be there.”I smil
The Billionaire Mafia's Rejected Wife 81. THE CATO CLAN
THE FLIGHT TO ITALY was successfully rebooked. But we had to pay extra for it. Callan used his credit card for the transaction, luckily, it went through. I thought there were still gonna be problems along the way but we boarded the plane. All ten of us. The men Callan picked blended in with the crowd. We had to sit away from each other to avoid getting attention.Aakil sat beside Elis and Alec. Silence filled the plane as we settled on our seats and strapped the seatbelts on our bodies. Everything seemed to be in a rush. Like how a week already passed by and we were just focused in our own bubble after a week of training. But despite of things moving way too fast, I was sure that we had prepared for this. If not too much preparation, at least we had enough to carry us through.Callan proposed a plan to the team on how we can access the island with fake invitations. Callan pulled some strings. He paid some people in Italy to create false identities.Only him and I shall be granted ac
The Billionaire Mafia's Rejected Wife 82. REVELATION OF TRUTH
CALLAN AND I were fetched by a limousine right across the street from the motel we were renting out. “We’ve arrived, signor e signora,” announced the driver. I grabbed my small purse. Callan quickly got out of the vehicle and opened the door for me. I gave him a sweet smile. From the ones of anyone who would look at us, we were a couple who was madly in love with each other. I wasn’t even kidding. If anyone would see us, all dressed up, they would think that we were just a normal couple heading up for a formal party tonight. We were already wearing our masks. Underneath the flowy long ends of my gown, a small sharp knife was hidden underneath my stockings. We agreed not to carry guns just yet and planned to steal two guns from armed men that we saw once we finally got inside the masquerade party’s venue. And looking at Callan in his black well-fitted tuxedo, I couldn’t help but feel awed. “You look beautiful like the evening,” Callan whispered as he tucked a small strand of
The Billionaire Mafia's Rejected Wife 83. THINGS WON'T BE EASY
I RAN SO FAST that I stumbled on my foot alongside Callan. I could not believe it, or I was trying to fool myself into an illusion that my mother was dead, and whatever I witnessed a few minutes ago was not valid. Be damned my illusions, I’d be freaking damned! Callan guarded me from falling off balance as he reassured me, “Hey, watch out!”As Callan called out my name, I looked to the back and saw a group of henchmen following us with guns in their hands and they started shooting aimlessly.Callan grabbed me by my arms and pushed me towards the side of a wall, rescuing me as I would have endured a severe injury if the bullet pierced through my body.For a brief moment there, my gaze dawned on my husband as he grabbed me tightly in his arms with his sweaty shoulders. Callan threw down a cartel that was blocking the road as he took me up in his arms and my hands hovering over his wide shoulders and our breaths intensified in fear, confusion, and uncertainty of whether we would make
The Billionaire Mafia's Rejected Wife 84. A FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL
I COULD HAVE SWORN THAT I had not been in such a position where I felt such revolting fear in my chest. As the noise of gunshots echoed into the air through my ears, my heart pounded so loudly out of concern for my husband.Callan took down everyone, and he was facing me from his back, a triumphant aura emulating from his powerful stance. I never knew I could feel proud of someone for being violent, but here I am, rooting for the underboss of the Ravij clan as my once-believed-dead mother looks down at him with nothing but anger in her eyes. “This fucking Ravij. How dare you people mess with my husband? If you thought you were allowed to just barge in this place and walk back alive, you are high, oh god, my lord help you! You are highly mistaken!”My wretched mother spoke while staring below her feet to the ground where Callan already executed the henchmen that worked under her command, at least the ones that were guarding them on this island, to our knowledge. But did I just hear
The Billionaire Mafia's Rejected Wife 85. CONFRONTING EMOTIONS
CALLAN TOOK OUT a gun from the car’s shelf and handed it to Aakil.With his determined eyes, he shot five bullets from the broken window. Exactly five bullets I counted as each vibrated against my ears, went straight towards her direction. I could see all of it, each scene that happened as the minutes passed by. The machine gun flew in the air as my mother fell on her face on the ground. But she could still move, we were already so far that any bullets wouldn’t hit her anymore.Even if she was helpless with gunshots on her body, I knew she was not dead.Our car kept going. We finally hit the road. If there were police in this area, it could have been chased. But luckily, this whole area was Cato Clan’s den. No police may wander at this hour. Yet, any time some people might have heard the news that happened on the island the allies of the Cato clan will surely provide backup for retaliation.Aakil breaks that illusion as if he could read my mind, “We are not safe yet. There should be
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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
