~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
~TOM~I stood near the bed and watched Bella struggle to regain her consciousness as I buttoned my shirt. I knew the consequences of what happened might backfire since she didn't consent to sleeping with me. What made it worse was that I spiked her drink. I wanted her so bad that I couldn't handle the thought of her rejection and decided to spike her drink so that I would be able to slide inside her.But now that things had gotten thus far, I decided to let it off my mind and try to patch things up with her when she woke up.When I was done dressing up, I went to my room and made a call to my father to find out how long it was going to take for Bella's father to be brought to our location.Andrea Albero was the only person who was going to give me leverage over Bella. She loved her father, and if she had to keep him alive by agreeing to be with me, then that she was going to do."Father.""Son, how are things over there? Are you both safe?""Everything's going well so far, Father.
~ISABELLA~I was sleeping when I was woken up by a door slamming closed outside. I gasped as I woke up, my pillow drenched with tears and sweat as I sat up on the bed. I felt a horrible headache as the events of earlier flooded my memory. I hated Tom, for sure, and was never going to forgive him after what he did and put me through. My heart was broken, and nothing was ever going to mend what he had done to me. I felt violated and dirty after what he did to me.I wanted to escape and make sure that he never had a chance to abduct me again.I dressed up, and just as I was about to sit down on the bed to have a moment to think, I heard screams from the hallway, and the voice sounded very familiar.I remembered that Tom told me that he would bring my father over because I was being difficult to him, and my heart started racing as I rushed to the door. I tried to open it but realized that it was locked. "Tom, open this door!" I screamed as I banged on the door, crying.I kept bangin
~ANTONIO~"I have a new lead on the Conti brothers," August reported as he sat down on the chair in front of me in the office. I groaned as I looked at him. "I want you to find Tom. I don't care about the Conti assholes!" I snapped as I banged my hands on the table. I was angry, and it didn't help that August wasn't fully focused on finding Tom and Isabella. I was going out of my mind thinking of the number of weeks that had gone by without me seeing her. The three weeks felt like years, and I couldn't bear it anymore. I had to find her."Yes, I get that. But we are working on it. You know that they both disappeared into thin air. His father is also missing, including Isabella's father." "You need to get more people and get them to leave no stone unturned until they find my wife," I seethed. August sighed as he stood up from the chair and looked down at me. "You know that I am doing everything I can to find her. But you also seem to forget that she and Tom were once involved, a
~ISABELLA~"Don't worry, my love. You and I are going to be happy together. No one is ever going to come between us again," Tom whispered behind me in the shower. I closed my eyes and braced myself for what was going to happen.I hoped that my father was going to do what was right and lead Antonio to where we were before Tom moved us again. I was tired and didn't want to have him inside me, but I had no choice if I wanted to convince him that I was into him as well. "What's going to be my new name?" I asked, trying to distract myself from what he was doing or trying to do to me."Whatever name you choose will be yours, love," he said as he nibbled on my neck. He knew that it was my weak spot, and even though I was trying so hard not to be turned on by it, he grabbed my boobs and squeezed them while he kissed my neck. "What if I want to keep my name?"Tom suddenly stopped what he was doing, grabbed my neck, and tilted my head so that I would look at him. "What do you think Antoni