~ISABELLA~I got up at 4 a.m. and took a bath because I wanted to be out of the house before Antonio came back.I wanted to go to Sarah's place and spend the day there because I couldn't imagine myself seeing Antonio's face after he shot Peter in front of me like he was some chicken."Where are you going at this time, miss?"I gasped when I heard his voice as I walked out of my room. I rolled my eyes as I wondered if he ever slept."Fuck, Kyle. Shouldn't you be sleeping?" I asked him, irritated."I woke up when you did," he answered as he looked at me wearing a whole suit."Gosh," I muttered. "You can stay behind if you want, Kyle. I don't need you to come with me anyway. If it weren't for you, Peter would be alive," I sneered as I closed the door and headed toward the stairs.He walked behind and didn't say a word. When I stopped, he did, and when I continued walking, he did.I groaned when I realized that I couldn't avoid him. If he wanted to tag along, then I didn't have a problem,
~ISABELLA~ Antonio and I didn't say a word to each other in the car to the house. I was busy pouting while he was tapping on his phone and probably satisfied with himself that he dictated my life in a snap of his finger. I was beyond angry and couldn't believe his nerve to fetch me from Sarah's apartment. But when I looked out of the window, I realized that the car wasn't exactly going to his house. We were taking a different route, and my heart skipped a beat. I didn't trust him with my life anymore. If he had the guts to kill Peter in front of me, then he wouldn't hesitate to do the same to me. "Antonio, where are we going?" I asked as I turned to him with a horrified look plastered on my face. My heart was beating fast. The memory of him shooting Peter was still fresh in my mind, and I saw it every time I closed my eyes. "Here I was thinking that you were going to ignore me all the way to our destination, Bella. Don't worry, we will be there soon," he replied with a smile.
~ISABELLA~ “Bella, where are you?” Sarah asked on the phone when I went to call her from the bathroom at the back of the restaurant. “My marriage celebration, can you believe it?” I chuckled as I took another sip from the glass of wine in my hand. “Oh my goodness, I can’t believe that Antonio picked you up from here just to take you to celebrate your marriage. Is he there with you?” “He’s crazy, Sarah. Can you believe that he threatened to kill the next man that I go out with? I am even thinking of running away. I am sure he won’t even find me,” I replied as I struggled to balance myself against the bathroom wall. “Please don’t do anything you will regret. I have to go now. My shift is about to start.” “No, Sarah? Please don’t go. I don’t want to go back there!” I pleaded with her. “Call me when you’re home. I love you so much,” Sarah answered before she hung up the call on me. “Ugh,” I groaned as I slipped my cell phone back into my pocket. I went to the sink, placed the glas
~ISABELLA~In the morning, when I woke up, I found Antonio next to me. I looked up under the sheets and realized that I was naked. I gasped in shock as I quickly got off the bed and went to the bathroom to wrap a towel around me.After wrapping the towel around me, I went back to the bedroom and threw a pillow on Antonio to wake him up. He groaned when it hit him and flattered his eyes open."Bella, are you okay?" He asked as he sat up on the bed, yawning."Please get out," I said as I folded my arms on my chest.Antonio chuckled softly. "Come on, we both had a good night, and you asked for it. Why am I being thrown out?" He asked."Because you took advantage again. I was drunk," I scoffed while avoiding eye contact with him.He sighed as he got off the bed and stood in front of me, staring at me while he was naked and his dick demanding my attention.I felt hot for a second as I unfolded my arms and gasped. My throat and lips instantly felt dry, and I gulped. "You should get dressed."
~ANTONIO~ “You must do everything you can to find her, August. And when you do, I want you to bring Tom alive to me,” I said on the phone on my way to Tom’s father. Because of what happened yesterday when he broke inside the house with his men, I had to fire another security team for their negligence and inability to keep intruders out of the house when I had strictly warned them about the people I was at war with. “I will do that. What about the Conti brothers? We still haven’t dealt with them. If they find out that you’re after Tom because he kidnapped Bella, they will use that opportunity to strike. We have to be on guard on both sides.” “We will deal with the Conti when we get into it. Right now, I need us to find my wife. If Tom does anything to her, I will skin him alive.” I hung up the call as I pulled outside Tom’s father’s house. The old guy lived alone without any guards or whatever. He was old and defeated after the Conti brothers took everything from him. When
~ISABELLA~ “You can’t make me want you when I don’t anymore, Tom. Just let me go, and you and I won’t ever have to talk about this again. Trust me, you don’t want Antonio coming for you,” I scolded as he led me inside a room with my hands tied behind my back. When we got inside, he pulled my waist and landed me on his chest. “Don’t you remember how happy we were before your father took you to his club?” I breathed as I looked down at his lips, a memory of them on mine evading my mind, and my heart skipped a beat. “You can’t tell me that you ignored me for five months because you didn’t want me to work at the club. Not only did you ignore me, but you called me a hoe in front of your friends!” I snapped. “You didn’t expect me to watch my girl work for my enemy, did you? You and I know very well how notorious he is. He also stole from my father!” He shot back. I shook my head. “Isn’t it wonderful that your unexplainable grudge on Antonio cost you in having me in your life? He
~ANTONIO~“That stupid old man fooled me. We have to do something, August. I can’t let him and that excuse of a sperm keep my wife from me,” I paced up and down my home office, drinking the last drop of whiskey from the bottle.“What happened when you went to his place?” August asked as he poured me a glass of whiskey. “He had cameras in his office and made sure that I couldn’t do anything to him because of that. I know that he knows where I could find his monkey and my wife. So, we need to make a plan to find her before it’s too late.”August sighed as he put the whiskey bottle down on the table, took a sip from his glass, and turned to me. “You are drunk and angry right now. If we are to go against a man such as Rob Creed, we need a proper plan and heavy backup.”“Heavy backup?!” I growled as I looked at him. “We need a heavy backup for a man who got defeated and humiliated by the Conti brothers?!” I snapped. “You must be joking,” I scoffed. “I am serious, Antonio. If we go again
~ISABELLA~When Tom was done making the call to have my father brought to our location, I was taken to a room and locked up inside because I wouldn't stop shouting and fighting him for what he was doing.It felt like hours when I was locked up inside, and I didn't even know how to feel or what to do. My mind was all over the place. At the back of my mind, I realized how horribly things have gone my way, and I wished that they could have gone differently.I kept thinking about Antonio, wondering to myself if he had any plan to get me back before Tom ended my life. "Are you ready to behave?" Tom asked outside the room. "I brought you food," he said as he walked inside with a tray in his hand and a bottle of water.That's when I realized how hungry and thirsty I was."You have to let me go," I sighed as he closed the door behind him and walked toward me, placing the tray and bottle of water on the table next to the bed."Why do you want to act like you, and I never wanted this? You don