Matteo POV
“Boss, you need to check this out”, I hear as Leo speak through the earpiece.
“On my way’, I reply ask walk around the corner of the empty abandoned factory where we were supposed to meet Andreas Santana, the heir of the Spanish mafia. They contacted us to meet here and after we swept the place it was empty and they never showed up. I am always aware and anticipating an attack, but I never anticipated what I am about to face.
As I see Leo across the room I approach him while I still hold my gun in case someone appears out of nowhere he is bending down looking at something.
“What is it?”, I ask
“A heart’, he says and I look down to see a human heart wrapped in a piece of fabric. The fabric is now red but you can tell that it used to be white. It has some engraving as well. I scrunch my nose as I smell the irony scent of blood.
“A heart for a heart”, it said on the note resting next to it that Leo is now holding.
“Fucking assholes”, I let out and for the first time in my life I feel fear, this feels weird and I don’t like it, I grab my phone and I start calling Avery but it goes straight to voicemail. Fuck. Answer the phone Avery. I start pacing around and I look at Leo and I can see worry all over his face.
Leo starts calling everyone to get closer and in a matter of seconds I was surrounded by more than thirty of my men.
“I need this place inspected, I want every inch of this place searched, I need to know what the hell is going on, let me know what you find, even if it is a single hair”, I let out and they all nod their heads and instantly they spread into groups and started doing what was asked of them. I never have to repeat twice.
Leo puts his leather gloves on and wraps the heart in the fabric and places it on a small paper bag and carries it to the car as I join my man in the search. I would never ask anything of them that I wasn’t willing to do myself.
“Boss”, Leo calls through the earpiece.
“Yeah?”, I ask
“We got to go boss, you’re needed at the hospital”, Leo says and I don’t even let him finish his sentence, I start running outside and I can feel my heart beating fast. Really fast. Fear is taking over but I know better than let it cloud my mind and judgement.
“It’s Amber”, Leo says and I take a deep breath, I am not going to lie, I feel relieved that it’s not about Avery. My heart is beating so fast that I can honestly say I thought I would be having a heart attack.
“What now?”, I ask not really wanting to deal with some messed up situation she has gotten herself into.
“She’s gone into labour”, Leo says offering me a small smile and I offer him my hand to shake.
“Congratulations papa” I let out as we both get in the SUV and he starts driving us back to New York. I keep trying to call Avery but without any luck. Leo calls my surveillance team and asks them to track Avery, but they are struggling as her phone is off, they start to check city cameras and building cameras to try and pinpoint her location but she is nowhere to be found and for once I feel as if my heart is breaking.
We arrive at the maternity thirty minutes later and Leo sprints through the corridors with me walking in fast pace behind him. This kid is my godchild and I can’t wait to welcome him to this world. He is my nephew after all. My sister can be a pain in the ass, but she is still my little sister and I love her with all my heart.
I open the door to see Amber holding hands to Leo as the doctor passes them a small crying baby. I don’t even know how to explain what I am feeling right now. I walk around and stand next to my sister as she cries and kisses the top of the baby’s head. Leo has a couple of tears falling down and as his eyes meet mine I offer him a smile.
“We have an heir”, I say and Amber looks at me nodding her head. I never thought I would have a son myself so I always thought Amber would be the one providing the Heir, and she didn’t disappoint. My phone starts ringing and I excuse myself answering it in the corridor.
“Boss, We don’t have a location but I think something bad happened”, Riccardo says and I can’t help but throw my phone against the wall smashing it into a thousand little pieces.
“Everything okay?”, Leo asks as he opens the door and finds me sliding to the floor with my back against the wall as I hold my head between my hands. I shake my head.
“Shit”, he whispers and I nod my head, I look at him as he is kneeling now in front of me.
“They took her, I know they did, but I will find her, and I am going to rip everyone’s eyes out because they took her from me”, I let out and Leo nods his head in agreement.
TWO YEARS EARLIERAvery POV“How could you do this to me?” I ask Fred as he sits in front of me, not shedding a tear.“I am not doing anything to you, Avery, and this is why I can’t be with you anymore; everything is about you”, he says, and I shake my head as a tear spills down my cheek.“You cheated on me, Fred, and you are the problem, not me”, I let out as I feel like I can’t breathe while he looks at me unfazed.“I loved you, Fred”, I let out, and he laughed.“I don’t love you. How could I? You’ve let yourself go. You don’t make an effort anymore”, he says, and I can’t help but feel my heart shattering into a thousand pieces, “At least Bella still knows how to please me”, he says, and I slap him across the face. My hand starts burning at the contact
Matteo POV“Happy birthday”, Amber says as she walks into my office without knocking on the door.“How many times do I need to tell you to knock before you come in?”, I ask and she laughs. She walks to me and I push the chair away from the desk as she sits on my lap and wraps her arms around my neck.“Happy birthday sis”, I whisper and she smiles looking at me.“Are we going to celebrate?”, she asks and I shake my head. I can’t be fucked to go out one more night and have one more drunker mistake. I am not going to lie, I enjoy sex very much, but today I just want to stay home and be a normal person, watch a film in bed while I have hot coco and some popcorn.“Come on, it’s my twenty first birthday. You can’t not go”, she says and I take a deep breath.“I am getting old for the kind of parties you throw Amber”, I say and she starts pouti
Avery POVEliana pulls me to the middle of the dance floor after we had some shots and we started dancing around each other. I can’t believe I am doing this. I can’t remember the last time I danced like this. Eliana smiles at the same time I feel two big hands rest on my hips as I get pulled back as someone starts rubbing their junk against my ass.“Keep away from me you creep”, I say stepping away from him and pulling Eliana away towards the corridor where the VIP bathroom is. Eliana keeps asking what is going on and as soon as we get into the bathroom I close the door and lock it. She looks at me a little in shock and I shake my head.“What is going on?”, she asks again and I start pacing around like a maniac. I only really seen people doing this in films and now look at me, pacing like them, as if it would help me with anything.
Matteo POV “You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen”, I tell Avery before I crash my life against her, I can taste the alcohol and her sweet taste mixed with it. I can’t help but hold on to her ass keeping her closer to me while my lips to the dirty work. I feel her arms around my neck as she kisses me as if her life depended on it. I press her body against the wall that is behind her on the corridor for the VIP section and I feel one of her legs wrapping around mine and I take it as a signal to lift her from the floor as she wraps both legs around my waist. Her legs on that position lifts her dress up exposing even more her legs and we only have my jeans and a thin layer of underwear between us right now. Avery moans on my mouth while my tongue plays with hers. I hear someone coughing behind me and I break the kiss to see one of my guys with his arms crossed in front of his chest with his eyes on the
Avery POV This is so out of character for me, but I really can’t even think straight. Matteo smells and tastes amazing and I think that all the alcohol I had to drink made me a little more outgoing, but hey, I am not complaining as Matteo makes me straddle him and he pulls my dress up exposing my ass with my little thong. I like how sexy he makes me feel as I feel him growing underneath me. Between kisses and moans I ask him where he is taking me but honestly I don’t care anymore, I am in heaven and I love how his hands feel touching my body, I can only imagine the damage a man like this can do to my body with his. My eyes roll back in pleasure as he pulls my hair back offering him better access to my neck. I arch my back with the pleasure that his soft lips cause on my body. I can tell he is starting to lose his self control because he pulls my dress down exposing my breasts and the cold air make them harder, as if it
Matteo POV Avery is the most amazing woman I have ever had in my life, and she was the only one I have ever brought home, I usually have them in my office or in their houses, never on mine and I never have the driver take us anywhere. I don’t need them to know how to find me, how to contact me, they are just links to me that I don’t need. Don’t get me wrong. I respect woman, I think they are the most amazing God creation, but I don’t want them chasing around me. I like my freedom, but if Avery wants to find me again, wants to be around me and have some fun in my bed again I am game. I never repeat sex with a woman because they will get clingy, I made that mistake before and lived to tell the tale and I don’t recommend. But Avery is different. Sex with her was perfection, she allowed me to dominate our interaction and she played along, her curves made me realise that top models are not as good. I think I am addicted to
Avery POVI know I am awake, but I don’t want to open my eyes. It feels like I have just fallen asleep, and I am too tired. My entire body is aching, I move my legs, and I touch something. What the hell? I open my eyes, pulling the sheet to cover my breasts as I sit-ups on the bed. I look at my side, and there he is. The most beautiful man I have ever seen. His long dark lashes cover his eyes as he sleeps. He’s resting on his back with the sheet hanging dangerously low on his waist, his left-hand rests on his stomach while his right hand is behind his head. He is breathing deeply in sleep. I can’t help but stare at him for a couple of seconds.I take a deep breath getting out of bed, and recover my clothes from the floor. They are all scattered, and I need them to get out of here. I get dressed quickly, so he doesn’t wake up. I have never done this before, having a one night stand, but I know the rules, you leave as soon as you can, you don&rsqu
Matteo POV“Boss”, I hear Leo say as he enters my bedroom. Does he have a fucking death wish?“Fuck you”, I let out through greeted teeth.“I wish, but come on, you need to get up”, Leo says and I roll my eyes that are covered by my arms. I absolutely hate him. I don’t even know what time it is, but I know its too early. Why is he even awake?“What the fuck are you doing in Here?”, I bark at him as I sit on the edge of the bed. I pass both my hands through my hair and I look up to see Leo standing at the end of the bed holding his iPad, he is looking down at it as if his life depended on it.“What is it? Spit it out”, I say and he clears his throat resting the iPad on his side.“We have a message from the Chinese, they want to meet up, they contacted one of our corner boys”, Leo says and I stand up offering him a smirk.“Finally, took them long enough&
Matteo POV I finish washing changing clothes and having a shower as soon as I came out of the basement, I couldn’t let Pedro live any longer, I made him as miserable as I could, he was tortured every day by my people, and he was starved and abused. They did to him everything he did to Avery and more, he was begging to die, but they knew better than to end his life. That was up to me. His eyes lit up when he saw me walking into his cell. He begged me to kill him faster and for once I agreed with him, a quick kill is what was needed here, he had become a problem in my house, Avery was getting agitated with Jane in the house and Pedro in the basement, so I had to finish him. Baby Jane is officially our daughter from today, All the paperwork was approved and we can finally call her our daughter, Avery is so happy, happier than I have ever seen her. I can’t even believe this is happening, I thought this day would never come
Avery POV Present Day “How does that make you feel?”, Suzanne asks me while I take a deep breath and I play with my wedding ring. I look up at her and shrug my shoulders. I know she is my therapist and she is paid to help me but today I can’t talk to her, my anxiety is creeping in and I know I should tell her about it but I just can’t. I have been trying to tell Matteo about Jane and every time I start the conversation he changes the subject. I know he is not doing it to spite me, because he doesn’t even know about her, and deep down I know I haven’t tried hard enough to tell him ion fear he will say no. Once my hour in the therapy session is done I walk to the waiting room where Eliana is waiting for me, she has been feeling sick today and she looks terrible, she looks like she hasn’t slept one little bit and I have to say I am worried about her.
Matteo POV FOUR DAYS AGO I am sitting in my office with my head between my hands as I take a deep breath after reading the reports of my last weapons sale, the Irish are trying to get us to change the price, and I don’t negotiate with terrorists. They have been attacking some of my guys, they say it is not them, but I know it is. And this will have to end. I hear someone knocking on the door, and I tell them to come in. I have to say I wasn’t expecting Eliana to walk through the door, and she always avoided being around me. She said to Rio that my aura scares her, well good, like that she knows not to fuck up with me. “I am sorry for bothering you, but I need to talk to you”, Eliana says, and I nod my head, pointing at the chair opposite from mine on the other side of the desk. She closes the door behind her, walks towards the chair, and takes a seat. She looks at me, and she smiles.
Avery POV The ceremony was beautiful and baby Rose is the most beautiful baby I have ever seen, she loves her mommy and daddy but she loves mu cuddles and I have to say that I enjoy her company more than I enjoy any adults at the moment, she is a great listener and she is helping me a lot, more than therapy. The way she looks at me melts my heart and I made a decision. I want to volunteer at the Maternity ward in the hospital. There’s a Volunteering program that all you have to do is cuddle babies that are in the NICU while their parents are at work and can’t give them attention. As soon as we got home I told Matteo what I wanted to do and he smiled. I know he is worried about me and he knows that this is the first step for me to get better, I will do something to help someone, it will make me feel better about myself, I will be able to help those children and those parents. Matteo decided that because I will volunteer there he will provide hot food to parents that a
Matteo POV “Where is he and where is Avery?”, I ask and Robyn say he has a house in the Hamptons, she doesn’t know where exactly, y, but I should start there, that gives me something to start looking for Avery. As that information leaves Robyn’s mouth Eliana stands up and pulls a make up wipe and starts wiping her face. Robyn looks at her horrified realising she was played as Eliana walks out of the room after giving me a half hug. Now its the two if us little bird, and you will regret the day you were born. I walk to Robyn that is now begging for her life and I pull her up by her hair and she looks petrified. I bring her to the small table in the end of the room while she screams a kicks and I smack her in the face. This is going to be fast, I throw her on the floor on her knees and I tell her to beg, beg for her life as Avery tried to save hers and my sister’s. She looks at me with wide eyes as I pull my weapon from
Avery POV I open my eyes and I can’t see Matteo next to me. I look around starting to feel my anxiety creeping in as I pull the blanket closer to my body and I hear Matteo moving and walking to me. “Hey, I am here”, I hear his soft voice whisper, I look at him and he looks tired, he looks like he hasn’t slept in days and I feel myself breaking again, I feel my tears spilling down my face as Matteo wraps his arms around me pulling me closer to him. “Everything is okay, I am here, you’re safe”, he whispers and I nod my head. Matteo pulls away saying I should have a bath and I can’t think of anything better right now. Matteo walks to the bathroom opening the taps I can hear the water running and the bath filling up. I put my legs out of the bed and Matteo walks back into the bedroom rushing over to me to help me stand up. As soon as my feet touch the floor Matteo wraps his arms around my waist keeping me stand as my knees give up on me. I am weak and Matteo knows. He wa
Matteo POV "Boss, we got her", Leo says through the phone, and I can't help but smile. They finally found Robyn, it's been two days since we spoke and dealt with her waste of space of a boyfriend, and now she is waiting for me to deal with her ass. I walk down the halls and towards the cells in the basement. She was curious to know where our safe house was, and now she knows because she is here and she will never leave. I don't care who she is to my sister and to Avery. She will die for her betrayal and for Avery being taken away from me. I open the door, and she is in the corner, she looks afraid, she is looking at my men as if they were monsters, but she doesn't know I am the worse of them all, I can become the devil if people cross my way. "Matteo, please help me", she says, and I look around to see Leo and Rio looking at her. Leo looked like he was going to kill her. "Leave", I tell them both, and she looks at them and then at me, and the truth hi
Avery POV I don’t know how long I have been in here, but the torture makes all the day blend together. Every day and hour is the same, I still have the blindfold and I am being fed by tubes, just enough to keep me alive while man after men touches me, they touch my body as if it was their property and not my own body anymore, but none of them actually penetrate me, I don’t know how much longer I can live like this. My body and my personal choice being taken away from me by force. I have been enduring psychological torture since I have arrived here, the constant hands touching me are nothing compared to the psychological torture I am suffering, I have earbuds on playing constant sounds of crying babies keeping me awake and from time to time the sounds stop and I am allowed to sleep for a few minutes and then the torture continues. I am sleep deprived, my head hurts and my body, well I stopped felling my body as a way of disassociating from the constant hands touching
Matteo POV It was all planned out to take Avery from me. Amber told me what happened and I can’t believe I was so stupid. Eliana is still there helping Rio. I can’t believe I fell for this. What was I thinking? They took her and they haven’t made any contact yet. Rio is trying to find any leads he might get on Avery in the meantime I am driving all around the city trying to think where they could have taken her. My phone starts ringing through the car speaker and I answer, it is Leo and I know he is taking care of my baby sister and their child. But I can’t believe this. I can’t even enjoy the birth of my niece when I am this worried about Avery. I know she was training with Leo and Rio, she became good at fighting and shooting but she is still my wife. I should have protected her. And how did the bastards get in the safe house? That place is full of passwords and security. It is an inside job. Amber said it wasn’t Eli