LANA'S POV"Your father seemed terribly angry, Xavier. What do you think he is going to do about this now that we are all invited for dinner?" I asked, getting dressed. My heart was pounding fast against my chest. I felt nervous and hated the thought of being on Mr. Salvatore's bad books. If I could tell him, I could tell him that I meant well for his sons. I was content with two of them in my life and never felt happier than I had ever been since I had the opportunity to live under the same roof with them. "Don't worry, he is not angry with you. You are his daughter-in-law. The only person he is mad at is me." Xavier's voice sounded sad. It was unfair that his father could not even hide the fact that he no longer wanted him in his house. He didn't do anything to him except to follow his dream as a doctor and refuse to follow in his business footsteps. As the only parent alive, he was supposed to support both of his sons and be there for them, regardless of the fact that he could no
LANA’S POV Dax’s words of rejecting his inheritance if Xavier leaves the house, kept replaying in my mind. I could not believe that after being so close to getting my heart transplant, it suddenly seemed impossible for me to achieve. This weighed heavily on my heart that I felt like I could not breathe. Even when Dax took me upstairs to the bedroom, I could not utter a single word. “If my father thinks that I am going to be a coward and choose him to drag me by my nose, he got another thing coming. He can shove his inheritance up his ass,” Dax declared as he took off his clothes. I went and sat at the edge of the bed, unable to lift a finger to take off my clothes as I saw my life flashing right before my eyes. I refused to still tell Dax about the true reason that I agreed to his contract deal. I did not want my life to rest entirely on the palm of his hands. I wanted to get the money according to our deal contract and not because of his pity since we were together. “Father forget
LANA’S POV When we were done with breakfast, it turned out that the two gentlemen had something in mind, and it made me curious as to what. They both came and took my hands into theirs and led me upstairs to the guest room. When we got inside, Xavier locked the door behind us, and I went to sit on the bed with Dax. When I saw both taking off their jackets and shirts, I squirmed. “What’s going on?” I asked, feeling nervous. “Don’t you wish to know how it would feel to have the both of us making love to you?” Dax locked eye contact with me while throwing his shirt away, leaving his broad chest exposed before me. My heart raced, and I felt a shiver down my spine. It intrigued my imagination to know how it would feel to have them making love to me. To feel their hands all over my body and lose myself entirely around them. When I tried to entertain this imagination, I felt a throb between my legs and a sweat formed on my forehead while my lips got dry. I was yearning for them. “If you
XAVIER’S POV When I got inside my car, I quickly slid the key into the ignition and drove away. Luckily, I knew where I was going after I was successfully able to find an apartment before moving out of my father’s house. His mind was made up about getting rid of me, and there was nothing that I could do. And for the first time in years, I felt tears at the corners of my eyes. And as much as I tried to push them away, they just rushed down. “Not this again.” I took out the little gin bottle that I always had in my car and took a sip. What hurt more was the fact that I left without seeing Lana and didn’t know how to tell her that I was already out of the house and never coming back to it again. She hoped that my father and I were going to make up and never come to the conclusion of me moving out, but now things turned out differently, I didn’t know how to tell her. I wanted to get my life straight first before I could be able to tell her. I didn’t want her worrying about me when she w
DAX'S POVI was pacing the clinic corridor up and down, my mind racing and not knowing what to do. It scared me to my core that Lana had to be admitted to the ICU. The very thought of her not making it terrified me. I felt so helpless and didn't know what to do to help her, except to wait for the doctor who was taking care of her. As my mind raced and the walls started to feel thin around me, a call came through in my phone. I quickly reached for it in my pocket and picked it up. "Yes?" "Boss, she's been screaming since morning. What do I do with her?" James asked on the line. I totally forgot that I held Sasha hostage and didn't get back to deal with her after assigning James to keep an eye on her. The situation with Lana couldn't allow me to leave her and take care of business when I didn't even know that she was going to wake up or not. I needed to be here until she woke up. She had to see me when she had gained her consciousness. "Distract her, James, do anything, please. I ca
LANA'S POVI felt a terrible headache as I slowly opened my eyes, groaning with pain as I tried to take in my surroundings. I saw Doctor Miles writing on his pad. He was very oblivious to my sudden gain of consciousness. And when he finally heard me groaning, he turned towards me and tried to help me sit on the bed. "You're finally awake, thank God!" He squealed with joy. "49 hours had been a long time waiting for you to open those eyes.""Doctor Miles, hi," I tried to ignore the fact that I just saw him rejoicing to see me waking up. There was no doubt that he felt like I'd be lost. "You scared us all. How do you feel?" He put down his pad and started to check my vitals. I turned my head to see if Dax or Xavier weren't there. My heart started aching thinking that maybe they didn't even bother to come and were too busy to wait for me to wake up. To make things even worse, Xavier probably wasn't aware of my current situation since his father threw him out of the house. I sighed and
DAX'S POV20 YEARS AGO…Before dawn, Father came into my room and brother's and woke me up. When I flattered my eyes open and saw him, I say up on the bed and looked at him, yawning. “Father, is there anything wrong?” I asked, looking at Carlos sleeping. “You have to listen to me carefully, Miguel,” he pointed a finger at me, whispering. “We are leaving Italy and going to America. And remember, when we get there, don’t ever mention that you are a Russo. That will be as good as asking for death.” I gasped. “Father, why are we leaving?” He sighed. “You’re just a little boy. There are things that you won’t understand.” “Oh,” I said with disappointment. My father didn’t know that I spied on him whenever he was doing businesses with shady people in the living room. I was old enough to realize that he was making money in dangerous ways. I thought that maybe someday he would want my brother and I to follow in his footsteps and do whatever it took to survive, even if it meant illegally m
LANA'S POVAfter Xavier left, I fell asleep again. And when I woke up, Doctor Miles was by my side, taking me off the drip. I looked at the clock on the wall and realized that it was morning. Xavier and Dax did not come back last night or this morning. "Good morning, Lana. How are you feeling?" Doctor Miles looked down at me and smiled. "I feel great, thank you," I smiled back. "Dax is in my office signing your discharge papers," I could have sworn he rolled his eyes at me. I scoffed. "What was that?" "What was what?" He busied himself with his writing pad. "You rolled your eyes at me!" I chuckled."You were so grumpy that neither of the brothers were here and didn't even bother to ask how I was!" He protested. Wait, how did he know I was dating the two of them?"I wasn't grumpy," I defended myself. "Never mind. You're discharged," he declared as he turned off the TV too. I smiled very widely. "Thank God. This place is terrible." Doctor Miles laughed. "I'm glad to see you bac