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79: Unhinged
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The Vengeful Mafia Kings’ Property 80: Tender moment
Rafael’s POVI found her again that afternoon in the west wing near the tall windows that overlooked the garden maze. She was sitting on the windowsill with her knees hugged to her chest and a worn book pressed against her lap bur clearly forgotten. Her little face was tilted toward the light and dark lashes casting shadows on her cheeks and her silence filled the hallway like a quiet melody. I didn’t say anything at first. I just stood there, watching her because this small, thoughtful girl with the same gray eyes as me that made me stop breathing every damn time she looked at me. She noticed me eventually because she always always did. Isabella turned her head slowly and gave me a half smile all shy and guardes like she wasn’t sure if I was the same man who snapped at people for breathing too loud or the man who gave her strawberry ice cream when no one was looking. I didn’t return the smile (I never did) but I stepped closer and held out a small black velvet box. She blinked th
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-04-16The Vengeful Mafia Kings’ Property 1~ a decision
Adriana’s POVThe neon sign outside the club flickered casting a dull red glow on the wet pavement. I stood beneath it, breathing in the thick and smoky air with my arms wrapped around myself as if that would somehow make this easier. But nothing about tonight was easy which is something I have been thinking about for weeks. The bass from the music inside thumped through the walls with that kind of deep pulse that settled in your bones. Or maybe it’s because of what I’m about to do. It is also the kind that made men loosen their ties and women forget they had limits. I know cause I’ve seen it. The kind of music that turned this place into an escape or some sort fantasy for some. Except for me, this wasn’t a fantasy and it has never been for the past six months. It is a place I have to come to so I’ll be able to keep food on the table. This was my last option because there are no other options in the first place. I adjusted my thin jacket, barely feeling the cold anymore. I canno
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-02-27The Vengeful Mafia Kings’ Property 2~ karma
Adriana’s POV The dressing room was suffocating and filled with thick clouds of cheap perfume and sweat with the overhead lights casting harsh glow on the women thattmoved around me with practiced ease. My hands trembled as I adjusted the thin straps of the red lace lingerie the club provided, tugging at the hem as if that would make a difference. It didn’t. Nothing could hide how exposed I felt. "You'll get used to it." a voice said from beside me and I startled at the sound of it. It’s definitely feminine but it’s also husky like she’s been smoking for a while. I turned to see a blonde adjusting her lipstick in the mirror. She was beautiful in a way that made me instantly aware of how out of place I was. Her confidence and the way she owned her barely-there outfit was effortless. Meanwhile, I could barely stand to look at myself in the mirror without cringing seven ways to Sunday. "V said to make sure you’re ready and told me to help you out since today is your first day.” Sh
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-02-27The Vengeful Mafia Kings’ Property 3~ then and now
Rafael’s POVI leaned back in the leather chair my fingers drumming against the armrest as I stared at the screen in front of me. It was the club’s security footage played in real time, every camera feeding into the private VIP suite where I sat. It was a habit I had developed over the years of watching, controlling and ensuring nothing happened in my domain without my knowledge. The last thing I cared about at this stage of my life is how a club I own is going. I have so many of them and this one isn’t even the best I’ve got. I barely spend time here watching this. But tonight was different in every shape and form. I hadn’t expected to see her here. The woman I once loved with every fucking feelings I have been hiding. The same woman I worshipped the literal ground she walks on. The woman who had ripped my heart out and left me to bleed for her own selfish benefit. She never turned back to see how I was faring after she had left. She moved across the stage with hesitant moves, he
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-02-27The Vengeful Mafia Kings’ Property 4~ jealousy
Adriana’s POVThe gunshot still rang in my ears. It was a sharp and deafening sound that didn’t just echo through the club but through my entire body. My knees buckled before I could stop them sending me crashing to the floor in a gracelesd heap. But I barely felt the impact. All I could do was stare. The body lay crumpled and lifeless. Blood seeped across the marble floor all dark and damning and the scent thick in the air. I swallowed hard as bile rise in my throat. He had a family. A wife and kids maybe. Someone who would wait for him to come home tonight. Someone who wouldn’t know that his last moments were spent groping me which he died for. . And Rafael had killed him just like that. Like he didn’t mean anything to the world. My Rafael. Except he wasn’t mine. Not anymore. The boy I once knew and the one who used to whisper my name like it was the most sacred thing in the world, the one who held me like I was something precious and fragile. That Rafael was gone. And in his
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-03-01The Vengeful Mafia Kings’ Property 5~ Luce Mia
Rafael’s POVAdriana knelt in the middle of the room shivering. her once vibrant eyes were now hollow and distant. Her cheeks were streaked with dried tears but there was no emotion left in them. Nothing. She just stared unblinking as the strippers’ hands roamed over me with their touch meant to entice, to seduce and yet none of it mattered. Not to me. Not to her. She was empty. A shell of the girl I once knew. The Adriana I remembered was always full of life and was always wearing that radiant smile., always laughing and always promising me things that never meant a damn thing. But now? Now, she was lifeless and cold, a ghost of the woman she used to be. And it wasn’t hard to guess why. Being married to Marco Marcini did that to a person. I almost pitied her. And the key word here is fucking almost. Then I remembered everything like a scene that wouldn’t leave my head. It keeps replaying time and again. I remembered how she had walked away from me without a second glance. How sh
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-03-02The Vengeful Mafia Kings’ Property 6~ Blindfolded
Adriana’s POV The room felt eerily silent after the strippers left leaving the lingering scent of cheap perfume and sweat clinging to the air like an unwanted memory. My eyes followed them as they strutted out with their hips swaying in exaggerated movements all traces of their earlier hostility (of course towards me) disappearing the moment the guard slipped them their payment. They giggled whilst whispering to each other as they disappeared through the door not sparing me another glance. Just another job for them, another night of easy money. Something I wanted to try but didn’t have the confidence to go through. I, however, couldn’t move from the floor. My body refused to cooperate. I remained kneeling in the middle of the cold floor with my hands clenched so tightly in my lap that my knuckles had turned ghostly white. I wasn’t sure how long I sat there staring down at my trembling fingers but the weight in my chest grew heavier with every passing second. I guess The shock
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-03-04The Vengeful Mafia Kings’ Property 7~ No choice
Adriana’s POVThe guard's grip on my wrist was unforgiving with his fingers digging into my skin as he dragged me forward without a word. He didn’t spare me a glance or acknowledge the way my legs stumbled to keep up with his brutal pace. There was no hesitation and no care just relentless force like I was nothing more than cargo being transported. The hallway blurred past me, my mind racing as I struggled to make sense of why they wouldn’t even let me see where I was being taken. What the hell is Rafael playing at? What kind of game is this? I wasn’t told about any of this. The muffled pulse of the club’s music faded and then we wree swallowed by eerie silence. The further we walked, the more the world I knew disappeared and is replaced by something darker and shadier than I’d expected. Was this not just about revenge? Was I not just an old wound he wanted to reopen for the sake of making me suffer? Because this felt like something else entirely. Then suddenly the dragging stopped
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-03-05
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The Vengeful Mafia Kings’ Property 80: Tender moment
Rafael’s POVI found her again that afternoon in the west wing near the tall windows that overlooked the garden maze. She was sitting on the windowsill with her knees hugged to her chest and a worn book pressed against her lap bur clearly forgotten. Her little face was tilted toward the light and dark lashes casting shadows on her cheeks and her silence filled the hallway like a quiet melody. I didn’t say anything at first. I just stood there, watching her because this small, thoughtful girl with the same gray eyes as me that made me stop breathing every damn time she looked at me. She noticed me eventually because she always always did. Isabella turned her head slowly and gave me a half smile all shy and guardes like she wasn’t sure if I was the same man who snapped at people for breathing too loud or the man who gave her strawberry ice cream when no one was looking. I didn’t return the smile (I never did) but I stepped closer and held out a small black velvet box. She blinked th
The Vengeful Mafia Kings’ Property 79: Unhinged
Rafael’s POVI watched her from the balcony, the late morning sun casting a soft sheen across her skin. She sat in the garden alone, cross legged on the blanket Anna must have brought out for her work eyes closed as though meditating. Her lips were parted slightly,her hair messy from sleep falling in strands around her face like some untamed halo. She looked so delicate that it pissed me off.She was soft again. Softer than I wanted her to be and softer than I could afford to let her be. The tenderness wrapped around her made me clench my jaw. She’d healed far too much and too fast. Not physically but I still caught the slight stiffness in the way she moved sometimes, the flinch she tried to hide when she twisted too sharply but emotionally. The pain I had dealt out had faded from her eyes. She was beginning to breathe freely again. That would not do. She was mine and i want her still broken and stilm needing fixing.I called in the doctor before I could talk myself out of it. I want
The Vengeful Mafia Kings’ Property 78: Hot dinner
Rafael’s POVI knew she was coming before the door evem opened. It was in the way the air shifted. The way something electric rolled across the room making the hairs on my arms rise like a storm was about to hit. And then Adriana appeared.And she was wearing the shortest dress imaginable like it was her personal declaration of war. It was emerald green (a color I told her was made fucking for her) it was bold and sharp and fucking gorgeous. The former Rafael would have been on his knees kissing the floor she was walking on. The way I had worshipped the ground she used to walk on!The fabric clung to every sinful curve of her body dipping over one shoulder and leaving the other bare while intentionally exposing the side without her healing wound like she knew exactly what she was doing. The neckline swept low almost dangerously so while revealing a teasing swell of her breasts that had my gaze caught for far too long. The dress ended mid-thigh and her legs long and glowing under the
The Vengeful Mafia Kings’ Property 77: Sinful smoke
Adriana’s POVI didn’t need a formal request to join Rafael for breakfast anymore. I’ve wallowed in my memories long enough to push them away and decided to take control of my life now. After a week of waking up to Anna’s too sweet smile and Rafael’s clipped orders echoing through the halls like daily gospel, it had become routine and automatic even. Like breathing or blinking or nursing a wound you no longer had the energy to dress. My shoulder duh. This morning, I ignored the fancy dresses Anna had so lovingly arranged on the edge of my bed and the pastel colors and soft silk making my stomach twist. I pulled on a pair of jeans and a plain shirt instead. It was not too tight or too glamorous. Just simple and clean because I was tired of pretending to be something I wasn’t. Tired of sitting at the dining table like some pretty little puppet in designer clothing while Rafael played king and I… I played quiet. Or the prey in this case really. I descended the staircase slowly while
The Vengeful Mafia Kings’ Property 76: Capable Lily
Adriana’s POVFew months ago….The mall smelled like cinnamon rolls and expensive perfume. I was standing behind the counter of a kids’ clothing store folding a stack of tiny pastel sweaters anz trying to ignore the ache in my lower back and the tightness in my chest that hadn’t really gone away since everything fell apart.It had been eight months since the divorce. Eight long, humiliating ans exhausting months. Marco kept everything including the house, car and ven avings. All I walked away with was my daughter and a few suitcases of clothes and even those felt too heavy to carry some days. No alimony. No help. Nothing.I was working two jobs. This was one of them. Part time retail, minimum wage and dealing with rude customers who snapped their fingers when I didn’t fold fast enough or asked if I could iron out the onesies because “they looked wrinkled.” I was surviving and barely. But I was proud of that.I didn’t see her at first. It wasn’t until I straightened up, reaching for th
The Vengeful Mafia Kings’ Property 75: Betrayed
Adriana’s POVOne year ago…The rain had just started when I stepped out of the cab and it was soft and slow like the sky wasn’t sure if it wanted to cry with me or just watch me suffer. My steps were heavy as i walked toward the familiar building, the one I used to visit almost every week when things were still… normal. Back when Marco was still mine. Back when Lily was just the sweet younger girl next door with all big green eyes and soft giggles, showing up with banana bread and claiming Isabella was the cutest thing she'd ever seen. Claiming to be her auntie though we are not blood related. We used to sit in my living room and drink cheap wine while she played with my daughter like she was her own. People always said we looked like sisters. Same eyes. Same shape. Back then, her hair was brunette but she started dyeing it blonde. I thought it was flattering. I thought she admired me. I used to dye my red hair blonde because Marco likes them like rthat. God I was such a fool. I k
The Vengeful Mafia Kings’ Property 74: A fool
Adriana’s POVThe sun hadn’t risen yet and thw ghostly grey still hung over the house like a veil, dulling everything it touched. My body was awake but my mind refused to settle. I couldn’t sleep not deeply and not peacefully as i want to. Not with this strange itch under my skin and this pressure in my chest like something was trying to claw its way out.I moved quietly through the room even though I was alone. There was somerhing about moving around when the world hasn’t completely risen. I didn’t know where i was going or what I was searching for only that something was calling me. Tugging at me and It led me to the closet.The corner I didn’t want to touched from my old apartment. The old, ignored part of the wardrobe where forgotten scarves, broken jewelry, baby clothes and timeworn boxes lived untouched. I hadn’t dared toich them in years but they were brought here by Rafael’s men. I found it beneath a velvet scarf I used to wear in winter. A transparent plastic storage bin wit
The Vengeful Mafia Kings’ Property 73: Caring side
Rafael’s POVThe air in the study was thick with tension and its the kind that clung to your skin and made breathing just a bit harder than usual. My elbows rested on the dark mahogany desk, fingers steepled under my chin as I listened to Anthony’s low casual voice cut through the silence like a blade.“She’s adjusting pretty fast considering everything.” He said, leaning against the wall witj arms crossed like he had no care in the world. “I even caught her humming while helping Isabella with her puzzle.”I didn’t say anything at first. I could feel Nathan’s presence before he spoke which was a colder kind of silence and the type that didn’t invite conversation. He stood by the window, staring out with the same blank look he’d worn since the day Adriana took that bullet for him. A look I once saw as indifferent. Now I realized it was calculation… and maybe guilt. Anthony didn’t seem to notice or didn’t care. He pushed on, adding with a teasing lilt. “Kinda weird, huh? Never thought
The Vengeful Mafia Kings’ Property 72: Longing ache
Adriana’s POVThe morning breeze drifted into my room lifting the edge of the curtain and brushing against my face as if trying to wake me up gently. But I hadn’t been asleep. I’d been tossing in bed for what felt like forever, unable to get comfortable with my thoughts racing and heart pounding even though the house was quiet. It had been like that all night thinking about last evening, the way Rafael had pulled me into his lap like I was some toy he owned and the way his lips had touched my skin so slowly and deliberately like he knew what it would do to me. And the worst part? My body had responded to him like it always did. Like it was betraying me. I didn’t know what to feel anymore. I was tired of myself and tired of feeling. Because he has teased me fucking enough now. Somewhere between trying to close my eyes and giving up, I ended up walking to the balcony dragging the curtain back and stepping out barefoot witj my arms hugging my body because the air still held that early
