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
DAX'S POV"Let me go, Dax!" Sasha shouted as I came inside the room, she was locked in. It was in my old apartment that my father's company was still paying the rent for. And it was the only place where no one was going to suspect she was kept in. But that was no problem because no one reported her as missing. I turned to James and gave him the money that was due to him for staying and watching over Sasha. I imagined how exhausting it must have been for him to tolerate her day and night for 5 days when I could not come. He deserved the bonus I added to the initial money that we agreed on. "I hope she didn't cause you too much distress," I stretched my hand and offered him a handshake. "It was nothing that I can't handle," he sounded confident as he stretched his hand and gave me a handshake."That's perfect. I can't imagine what you could have been through if she complained and shouted at you all day," I tried to lighten up the mood with the James dude."You're a coward, Dax! A Cow
LANA'S I was in one of those dreams again, running to save my life. I didn't know what I was running away from, but I knew that it had to do with saving my life. But the more I ran, the more my feet started to slow me down, and I felt like I was running on the same spot. When I looked down on my feet and saw that I wasn't getting anywhere, I screamed my lungs out and woke up panting on the bed. "Lana, is it another bad dream?" Dax asked next to me. He was so perfect. He'd always reminded that they were all just dreams and then made me lie down on his chest. I nodded. "I don't even know what I'm running away from." Yet, I knew. The thought of being so close to losing my life in less than three months never left my mind. I kept thinking of that day when my heart gave up on me, and death came for me. It was an inevitable fate. "It's just a dream, and you're stressing a lot these days. Are you okay? Is it about Charles Leonard?" He asked. "Maybe. I don't know," a tear slipped from my
XAVIER'S POVAfter Lana left, I paced up and down the room. I had put Lana's and my brother's life in danger. He could have killed all of us today because of me. It was a waking call that I never thought I'd get in front of my family. If it wasn't for the fact that he saw Lana and somehow thought he recognized her as someone else, he would have pressed pulled gun trigger. "We need to do something before Costa comes back for revenge," Dax said behind me. "What are we going to do?" I turned and looked at him. "She could have died because of me." "If only you didn't act so irrational at that bar, nobody could have been in danger to die today!" Dax snapped at me as if I didn't know that. "Don't you think I know that?! This is going to hunt me for as long as I'm with her! I don't want her to not be safe around me..." I exhaled and dragged a chair from the table to sit down. "We agreed that there won't be no more bloodshed, Xavier. I don't want to lose you too," he took a chair and sat
LANA'S POV"Why did you let him back here?!" I snapped at Dax as he came towards me. "He wanted to talk to you, baby. He loves -" "He killed a man and thought that he could get away with it!" I said after cutting him off. "We all do things we are not proud of when we are angry, Lana. What he did was a terrible mistake," Dax reached me and looked down at me. "What do you think could have happened if Costa shot him? Or any of us?!" I was on the verge of crying. "But he didn't, okay? We just have to be grateful that nothing happened that could have happened." Dax was right. I knew that he was right. But I was shaken by the fact that Costa knew me and sent Xavier to tell me how he knew me. I should have listened to him, but that was going to reveal to them that I was not who I claimed to be to them. Besides, Amalah James was in my past, and it didn't feel right to confront anything from my past. I sighed and sat down on the edge of the bed. "I just wish that this was a perfect day.
LANA'S POVWhen we got home, Dax picked me off my feet and took me to the bedroom. I was giggling as I watched them strip naked for me. I got off the bed and took off my clothes as well. When they got to the bed with me, Xavier's lips were already on mine. Dax was between my legs, muffing me. I was on cloud 9 and wanted them to fuck me already. They both knew how to make me wet even after fucking a while ago. I couldn't believe that it was possible to feel the way I did when Dax started fucking me and Xavier sucked on my breasts. I completely lost it and creamed myself all over Dax."You feel so good, Lana." Dax groaned as he released inside me. "You are ours, Lana. Say it," Xavier said as he flipped me and started to fuck me from the back. I was on a perfect arch as he gave me deep thrusts. "I am all yours, Dax and Xavier." I moaned. I was a happy girl by the time I reached my second release, and Xavier followed as well. I slept between them and dozed off to sleep. ***The next
XAVIER'S POVWhen we got home, Lana was the first one to hop out of the car. She was angry and I could not blame her. I was supposed to tell her about Costa, but I thought that she needed to find out herself if she wasn't undercover. it was so stupid of me to even doubt her. I have known her since college to think that she'd be a spy for Costa. I was supposed to keep her away from that man because he was nothing but bad news. I wasn’t supposed to just let her meet someone like that who had the capability to kill everyone in that restaurant just to escape with Lana. I felt so ashamed of myself and didn’t deserve Lana’s forgiveness."What is wrong with you?" Dax looked at me when we were in the living room. "What do you mean?" "You should have told her before allowing her to meet that good-for-nothing criminal!" And so, he was angry with me too. "We were there to ensure that nothing bad could happen to her, weren't we?" "You should have told her, Xavier! She's leaving us right now