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MAX’s POV“No! No! How can I even muster something so outrageous in my thoughts.” Even though I had relented to seek out Lorenzo’s help, the bastard’s memory alone could have told something else of my true intentions.“I need to have a few drinks, clear my head.” The lingering thoughts of the possibility of her hating me for life left the prospects of her being kidnapped like an open book to the trove of suggestions that I welcomed.“No, I can’t think of such. I would rather she hated me for life that to know that she is in harms way.”I made way to the bar that stood in my office, desolate for many moon because of the sober disregard that my once joyous family had brought unto me.One that was now filled with an ever mourning Luna, a missing Jason, a missing sister and friend and me, about to drown myself in liquor because I know no better.“Boss, this isn’t the time to be out to get a drink. Your son might be ...” Zayne said as he tried to talk some sense into me.He wasn’t wrong
ROSE POVWe all had our guns faced towards the kid ready to shoot as he shook in fear, removing his head phone and placing it on his neck."Please don't kill me!" The kid exclaimed. "I'll do anything."The odourous smell of purely scared sweat flowed like streams of water down his person but ..."Oh no, wait, it was only pea in his pants." I could all but imagine someone raising their head to the view of three people in a door that said person had been persistently, but nonchalantly nonetheless banging on to catch the attention of people that weren't ready to give it the light of day.He handed a package slowly towards us as I came out from my hiding position behind Max to collect the bounty of our fear driven endeavour and claw it fro sweat gripped fingertips and paws that could put out an Olympic torch."I won't tell anyone." He already began to vindicate himself from any future occurrences that involved our being snitched."Do you really think we don't know." He tried to instill f
ZAYNE’S POVI couldn’t even fathom as to what the content of the package held inside it. It was a sight to reason so much about and that much scared me.Rose stood with as much shock as Max read the letter that came forth to be as the forerunner to its unveiling.“What the hell is this.” Max tried to shake the box as he debunked its contents. “how does this” “It’s not meant to be like that and you know it Max.” Rose had been uttering and displaying even more vented heat from her person that it could basically be told from her are. “Give it to me right now.” She had tried to take the package and the letter that accompanied it from Max’s grip, but he wouldn’t relent. They both had been displaying aggressive signs and motives that neither ever believed that they could let out on the other.“Get the package open Max, that’s since you choose to continually ignore my suggestions.” Rose said as she showed some of the aggression that she had been brewing in her person.Rose had hinted to he
ZAYNE’S POVNow I had to go and hurriedly make my way towards the address that Max had specified in his letter.He hadn’t failed to catch me off guard with that single unheard directive.I had to hurriedly rush towards no particular direction that I could tell of. My mind was in shambles and there wasn’t anything that I could fathom at this very point in a concise pattern.The amount of statute in the thoughts I was made to coerce myself to focus on wasn’t only scattered in my level of organization.‘Where the hell are my keys?’ I endlessly searched around the entire environ of the house. I moved from room to room, even so far as going into Rose’s just to find my car key so I could drive to the address.‘The fucking car isn’t even there.’ I learnt after looking through the window in Rose’s red coated room that the car that wasn’t even in the garage.At this point, I had concluded within my person that I would be able to give my life just to allow that I make it in time to save and e
ROSE’S POV“I can’t see. What is this?” I was being held down by restrains in both my hands and legs while being rocked to the continuous motion of the van I had been kept in as it shook to the untarred on the road.I had stormed out on Max giving me orders to carry out some inconsequential nonsense about playing the only role in finding Jason, May and Maxine’s disappearance to be to keep trying their numbers.We had already affirmed that they had been taken by the staff that no one had vetted before employing.What more did he wish to see as a result from me still trying to call them.‘I need to get something from the kitchen and go after him myself.’ I had made my way towards the kitchen not to fulfil any made-up desire to achieve a goal but to get my keys and drive round to look for my Jason, Max’s sister and my friend. This was because my meant to be husband didn’t yet see it fit to pick up a set of car keys and go look for Jason himself instead of sending some glorified errand b
MAX POVI didn't understand what rush made me to find my hurried way out of the house. I wouldn't even check if the content of the letter held any truth about its implied kidnapping of Rose.I should have at least made an effort to look for her and protect her but the thoughts didn't come to my mind as all that veered my decision making that precise point was the sight I had seen inside the package, of course it cleared from my mind because my subconscious didn't want it to be real.My fear ran as wilder and even farther than the point I thought they could go. It was as if my drowning in worry only worsened as I kept reminiscing on the owner of the content of the package."Who could that have belonged to?" I convinced myself of a false fallacy just to keep my body sane, away from the harsh reality of "it" not being my son that ... No I couldn't even think of it.I had hurriedly made my way with the bunch of car keys that I always left in my drawer, towards the address stipulated on the
MAX POVSuddenly, before I could hold down the trigger for the first bullet to be let out, I heard the scruffles from someone in the car that the driver had come down from. It had come from the back seat and since it was a tinted car, I them made to force open the locked door and look through for who made the noise.Behold, the idiot had a family. There was his wife, a baby that seemed to have been born recently and ... "Jason".She had Jason held against the opposite side of the car, far from my reach."Jason, come here. Come to daddy Jason. Daddy misses you Jason. Why arent you ..." I tried to reach out to whom I thought was my son when the police finally came in with their loud cars and dead giveaway signal."Freeze! Put your hands in the air and stay silent. Step away from the vehicle." One of the policeman said as his comrades followed slowly behind his walking towards me."You better not try it Paul. I will have you all killed in an instant." I sounded back my own warning towar
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