With debt piling up in Rose's family account and loosing her job abruptly, she's forced to do what she wouldn't do but what happens when her deed brought forth shocking result? "I'll continue to live my life without regret and even if something unexpected comes out, I'll face it courageously without fear" Rose spat confidently on Alpha Max's face and he smirked in mockery. Her words were vivid but her aura and body movement said negative. "Once I touch you, you will remain mine forever. No matter where you run to, I'll come find you - with time" Max challenged her wearing a cold smile. Who could ever challenge the Lord of the Rings? The dangerous and highly feared Alpha Lord in the city. How come she lost it in just one night? One night entangled different people who weren't compatible.
View MoreRose was sitting on the couch with her two hands supporting her chin, she stare blankly at the wall in deep thought. The apartment had just few properties remaining in it, and the most expensive property could be said to be the couch she was sitting on.
She have been living a comfortable life with her parents not until after the death of her father, then the truth started unravelling.Her father was a gambler, a drug addict and was swallowed with loans from different dangerous loan sharks.Some of the debtors who comes to request for their cash at times harass she and her mother through curses or beating. Her father collected loans and owed a lot of people that even if she worked her ass off she wouldn't be able to pay up in ten years to come."$200,000,000,000!" Rose will scream sometimes if she couldn't hold in all the pain.The worst of it all was that her mother was only a cleaner at the hospital while she's a mere marketer in the city super market, their pay isn't even enough to take care of their needs.The troubles were much, since her father's death they haven't slept in peace as one call or the other with strange numbers keep disturbing them. It's three times in a week now that her mother is been brought back from the hospital as a result of collapsing and zoning out during working hours.The hospital director warned to fire her if she continue to act like that, what will she do?As a young lady as she is, she had totally cut education out of her wishlist yet the bills on her tab were cumbersome."He is owing 15 loan companies, 10 strange individuals and have court cases that needs finance to soothe it" Rose was among the unlucky ladies who were not fortunate enough to get good employment, suitor or favors. She is twenty five years old yet she was living like an eighteen years old abandoned child.Aside for her family's bad luck, Rose was a very beautiful lady that is greatly admired in the city and her place of work. She has the height, long black hair, sharp slanted yellow eyes, pointed nose, small cherry colored lips, full brows and perfect figure. She was bountifully endowed with beauty in all ramification.Rose sighed and crossed her arms on the couch where she has been sitting, lot of things were running in her head and she was getting confused on how to place them."I need funds. Is it possible to pay each of these debtors $100 weekly?" She halted changing posture to rubbing of her chin."But my pay is just $500" this made her sigh in disgust relaxing back on the couch.Her mother's pay is $250 monthly even if their salaries are added together, there's no possible remedy to pay this debts.She begin to wonder how this loan came about because as she could remember, her father never bought a house, car or any important thing.Other than renting them a nice one bedroom apartment and furnishing it, there's nothing else he has done.How come about the $200,000,000,000?Even the furnitures are no where to be seen as some of their debtors who visit them go with one or two valuable property, some where sold.Rose remembering she had a lot of marketing to do tomorrow at the office, she sluggishly stand from the couch and drag her feet into her bedroom. Just after she has crashed on her bed, her middle aged mother walked into her room."Rosie" Madam Simeon said with a sad smile on her face, she sat beside Rose on the bed and Rose gradually sit upright."Mum, how are you? Why are you here?" She asked anxiously in concern as her mother was suppose to be resting.Though she feel so bad to watch her mother suffer unfortunately nature left her with no choice. She want her mother to rest so she could support her financially during the week. Everyone's fund is needed in other to elevate the poverty in their family."Rose. I'm so sorry for making you go through all these" as she begins to speak, tears started swelling gradually around her eyelids.Truly nature has made her look older than her age."I don't know if I should curse your father or kill myself and join him there. This is too much for even me, his wife" she said in a high pitched solemn tone through her sniffle whilst Rose stared at her sadly.She couldn't watch her mother cry, she was suppose to do something - something that can change their life forever. But what can she do? She feels useless."No, mother. I'm the one who is a useless daughter" she managed to say in a shaking voice filled with sadness."How?" Her mother questioned shaking her head."It's not your fault, Rose. It's all our fault but the bad luck here is that your father didn't live long enough to atone for his sin, now his sin are giving us restless nights" her mother sobbed in sadness.Her mother softly pat her hand shaking off the tears from her eyes, she can't help but whimper in pain. Life for sure isn't treating her well, even if she wasn't fortunate enough to be born with a golden spoon; how about steel spoon?"Don't worry, my child. I'm your mother, I will sort for some remedies in other to pay my husband's debt" Rose find it hard to say a word as her mother dragged her into a small cuddle, patting her shoulder gently; Rose mumbled and sobbed sadly.When is her story ever going to change?The day that seem like it will never come came to pass and Rose dressed in a hurry to leave the house for work. She dived into the bustling morning New York street strolling to the city super market.Fortunately, the super market wasn't far away from her resident.With happiness written all over her face that she was about to start a new month and hopefully her salary will come in bulk as she isn't planning to slack, she made way to her unit.Just as she was about to open her locker, the voice of her manager called out."Rose!" the manager called with a loud voice and out of shock, Rose turned."Yes ma?" She asked confused wearing an anxious stare."Didn't you get the email?" the manager questioned annoyingly with her eyes rolling all over Rose's body."No ma. I lost my phone some weeks ---" she begins to explain courteously but was cut off."You are fired, Miss. Rose Simeon. The firm no longer need your service" the manager stared at her in disdain as she informed her vividly.The news came crashing in Rose's ears like a one time explosive and for some minutes, she lost her sense of hearing."What did you -- say ma?" She asked in a shaking voice while tears slowly gathered in her sad eyes."Get yourself out of this building, immediately" the manager sneered and left the changing room to her office.She found herself sitting on the ground looking all lifeless and confuse like an orphan who got rejected for the second time.Just when she was about to accept her fate and continue sailing the stormy sea, then this news? What will she do, who will she run to? Where should she start from?Rose was lost in thought not minding where she was and who were around her, she zoned out and if she wasn't medically strong; she would have fainted.And as she came that same morning, she left back home in shame and confusion. Her mind was wandering about in search of any quick solution, she needs money!Pulling open the unlocked door in astonishment, she saw her mother on the couch shaking like a freezing lizard and frantically; she rushed towards her."Mum? Mum!" She called out in fear, anguish and agony."What is going on?!" She squealed in pain.These were all too much for her to take in at the same time."My child, I'm alright" her mother who was still shaking let out a weak smile.She still asked insistently to know what her mother's issue is when a message dropped into her mother's phone."It's your boss" Rose smiled in relief hoping to find favor from her mother's boss but the heart breaking text in front of her eyes rendered her speechless.The atmosphere was over shadowed with intense sadness and silence."What - did - he - say?" her mother asked out of curiosity in a shaking voice."You were fired, mum" Rose informed her plainly without emotion.Her tone was lifeless and her eyes looked as if she was blind, this is the worst situation a young lady should ever find herself.She couldn't even embrace depression because the matters on her plate can never wait for later.She focused her sad gaze on her mother thinking vehemently of what next to do.ROSE POV“Max …”“Mark …” The both of them had stared down the other as they finally led unto a conversation for the first time in more than half a year. The tension in the string of their perceived lingering resentment, that reproached each other’s presence, told so much in the tone they used to address their personas.“Come here ol’ friend. You know retirement’s really taken its toll on you …” Max couldn’t even manage to flinch fast enough and dodge a false jab that a mafia boss in a wheelchair had led to his face.“I heard you saved my life?” Max no longer doubted what we had made him believe. He was well inclined to still hold his drawbacks to be exclusively confirmed from the source.“I heard you weren’t able to figure it out in six months … I mean six months really, former mafia boss Max, really.” Of course, Mark mocked him. Really, I mean it.“I’m a little rusty and a lot busy so … let’s forget about that. Mark, you never told me you’re …” Max made to question his ever keepin
MAX POV Rose had begun a series of reveal that rooted from the last heart-spiking moment that I had experienced during the candle light ceremony some months back in our former city.“Well, you know that the mafia bosses’ wife shot you in the chest and when you woke up, I hugged and told you that everything was alright.” She recollected back to a memory that I could clearly remember as if it were yesterday.“Yes, and I had no doubts, didn’t question anything that you said either.” I recalled back to how she had rushed to hug me after tapping her feet against the floor and for a prolonged period of time. I knew that she had held her two arms against her face, Mark wasn’t there and Zayne held May in his arms as the three of them came to embrace my coming out of the theatre.“Yes, well there was more to the story that none of us wanted to bother you with.” I couldn’t believe it. Something that far back they hadn’t deemed it fit to tell me since then. Even though I didn’t know of the bi
MAX POVIt has been several months since we moved to this city. Rose and I have seen the best of it, although the first several months were hard because I had to heal from the surgery, it still didn’t stop me from making the most my hands especially a I started an online retail business.Rose finally gave birth something two months ago. That’s, if I was to calculate correctly, then the day she took in for Damian was when we came back from date night, high as can be and unto greater heights when I took her entire to a second haven.Of course, she still had to continue going to college but the shared assets from my mafia business that I received as compensation took care of that, and even afforded me enough to start up a new means to broaden my already started business.“Would you stop spacing out, Max?” Rose wouldn’t let me live it down that she got to drive to the grand opening.As a gift for just being who she is to the college’s community and her outstanding first-class degree, she
ROSE POV“Now we call on this year’s valedictorian to give her opening speech.” The vice chancellor had called me out to give a speech that he only told me about the day before.Of course, I didn’t know what to do so I had set myself up to bring up empty noted and wing it on stage.“Good day all of you, humble alumni like myself, able cohort of this humble institution and people who … oh who am I kidding.” I threw the notes to the floor. Most of the guests were surprised by how fast it took me to give up but for someone that had given birth twice, it wasn’t soon enough. Making up words as I went on was hard especially as I tried to piece them through to a structured form that would please the greater share of masses I was meant to lie.“Well the truth is this, VC Gayle, over there, Vice Chancellor Gayle everyone, give him an applaud please. He’s been the best and only VC that has been with me since my first year, and he’s leaving with us, who would figure.” He had actually stood up
MAX POVI wouldn’t tell Rose, but I was the one who encouraged Mark to leave. It hadn’t been the first time that I caught his gazes fixated on her. Earlier, I approached him to inquire more unto the truth that I knew had confronted me. He had told me of his true feelings and that was when I informed him of my plan to move from the city, away from the mafia group with Rose.“He said he’s not going to come back Max.” Rose had been worried about him and I could sense that much but there was little I could do since I was alright with his decision from the onset.I stretched my hand to her chin and climbed it till her disgruntled expression met with my gaze. “It’ll be alright Rose, he’ll be just fine. That much is obvious in how well he handled my business affairs. Besides, I’ll drag him to the christening if I have to.” “I guess you’re right. I don’t know why I was worried in the first place.” She had finally calmed down, although leaving me behind to enter unto the chatter in the main
ROSE POV I couldn’t easily comprehend the threshold of what I had been made aware of, but I could decrypt the greater part of it.Then, I noticed the side-eye that Mark shot at me. This hadn’t even been the first time that I caught on to his glaring attempts, but since we were about to bury our loved ones, I felt we should bury our grievances.The slow steps he had been making in an attempt to leave the ceremony intensified as he finally made his way out.Of course, I adored the way they had been throwing shades off the mystery at hand, but I also didn’t want to have Mark to miss the ceremony and the way he had been earnest in his attempted escape, that has almost become the case.“Mark! Mark! You can’t just leave yet, we haven’t even started the ceremony proper.” I called out to his leaving while taking notice on whether they had started without us.“I’m just going to get some water.” He tried at another flimsy excuse, the last one had been caught up to but he still persisted.“That
MAX POV I couldn’t even fathom the vigour that Rose mustered to speak down on my former clan elders. The tone and words she used to carry her lashing out on them made all that I had since said into some form of pleasantry.“I don’t know what to say Rose, that was …” I had been at a loss for words, the woman I loved just excused the extremities I had been tolerating for so long so effortlessly. “They might be back with another comeback to lift their defaced pride up a little so we better be done by then.” She had still been the same, always as careful as she was fidgety with a gun when she even managed to be that daring to someone.“Max, would you do the honours?” Zayne had finally invited me to do the honours, of which I was ever willing. “Rose, can you accompany me?” I needed rose by my side if I was ever going to say good bye to Jason and her mother forever, at least accept it.I then saw to Mark’s subtle leaving the funeral ground, making glances at Rose in that stead.“Mark
ROSE POV“Max, let’s hear them out first.” I tried to rush into a consensus that would finally cease the storming tides of Max’s raging tempest.He wouldn’t relent in his unjust spouting of bickering as he only manged to scald his clan elders with words that wouldn’t even be professed to an ugly blind date. “This girl has seen the death of her mother. Because of her, your child met his end. As a Mafia boss, haven’t you heard what people are saying about you? Your Alpha Lord title is hanging by a thin pluck of dangling thread and we haven’t even come to how all this is affecting the clan ...” The impetus they unsheathed to spout the gallery of composed backlash at my person was appalling. I calmed myself and chose to regard them with rationale. I wasn’t going to jump at all their defacing and answer to it using the vigour that only my husband was known for. Alas, I wished the same could be employed by Max.“I want to stop you there right there. First of all, I am no longer a mafia b
MAX POVRose had actually taken in and she wouldn’t even tell me of when it had happened. I was beyond jovial and had a million and one question to ask but our gentle march to the ceremony had me literally unable to utter a word.As we walked down the red carpet that had been set up in the scenic funeral setting, my gaze only fixed on her abdomen as I couldn’t even recount to when I pumped a child into her. “You’re here.” Zayne said as he opened the floor to where we were meant to settle for the ceremony.He had gone all out with the preparations for the ceremony so much so that he had even invited the elders from my clan who all wore their judgemental and worst disgruntled frown.“What are they doing here?” I couldn’t stand their presence because of how persistent they had always been in their revolt against Rose’s and my union.“What are you people doing here?” I directed at them with little regard in my tone.“Max, you have to calm down, they’re only here for the candle light cere
Welcome to GoodNovel world of fiction. If you like this novel, or you are an idealist hoping to explore a perfect world, and also want to become an original novel author online to increase income, you can join our family to read or create various types of books, such as romance novel, epic reading, werewolf novel, fantasy novel, history novel and so on. If you are a reader, high quality novels can be selected here. If you are an author, you can obtain more inspiration from others to create more brilliant works, what's more, your works on our platform will catch more attention and win more admiration from readers.
Comments