MAX POV“Where the hell did Zayne go?!" I couldn’t find my bodyguard and he had been the one I snatched a gun from. “I’m running out of bullets.” Not everyone could have the type of bullets that I needed for my gun and since we went in guns blazing, there was a very high likelihood that I would be a sitting duck when the magazine needed reloading. It turned out that Zayne actually had the gun all the while and even set all this up with the intention of going to the address himself and stirring just as much chaos since he had expected to see me there.Of course my side show was just as entertaining and came off as a shock to even me, but it didn’t mean that I wasn’t bent on getting my target. “We surrender, we surrender!” We finally halted our highly partial gunning down when someone in their forces rose a white flag and Cane from where he had been hiding to give in. He came out with his hands in the air, spread out, signaling their already declared willingness to comply. “Bang!”
MAX POVNone of them would follow after me, maybe they felt what had been brewing inside me from what I had done but unlike me, they wouldn’t sheathe the disgusted feeling and put up a strong farce to hide all that emotion.“Didn’t I just asked for you to come along Zayne, why are you staring?” I tried to instruct all of them to get moving from their standstill positions. “Mark, get rid of it.” They wouldn’t even budge. It was as if they were stuck in a tranced loop that that they would snap out of unless given the right motivation.“Bang!” I finally found the right motivation and it was loaded then shot out of. “I said get on with it!” I shouted to their sluggish alertness. “Max, what happened to you? Why are you?” I knew she was feeling pain to have been seeing me like this, I just hoed that she wouldn’t see through to the flood of tears that I retained in my eyes. She came to face my view as she then wrapped my arms around her waist and used her whole body to cover mine with a h
ROSE POVThat single phrase broke me. I couldn't feel myself anymore and something kept on telling me that there wasn't any need to.Max had now made his intentions clear, he had long intended on breaking the bond we shared but I wouldn't give in. His snares, side eyes, or maybe it was just me making it up in an attempt to grief my loss and his nonchalance to still add his own idea of a divorce, nonetheless, all made me unsure what to think anymore.The hinted shunning, the love he'd rather adorn on his son rather than me. His world was his son and I was just a means to an inevitable end, one that had finally come to said end as my whole world crumbled around me.Our son was dead and the first thing he did was to use that as a means to snap what lingering thread he still had attached to me.His last use of me, as a mother figure to our growing boy was now no more. I knew that he would've been rid of me deep down but this moment, this scenario is just too far."What do you mean Max, ar
MAX POV“Lock the door behind you!” I couldn’t let her be so soon, I was still a wreck loose around her and I felt it so endearing that I didn’t know how to handle it.As I entered the driver’s seat, disregarding the fact that belts existed and switching the gear so fast to drive, I made to address the ‘she’ that would rather be bent on staying my wife even if it were to act as my hostage, against her will to that suggested she would forever be with me no matter what.I couldn’t further my dismissing of her plight to catch her son’s actual killer, mostly because my men at this point dictated how I operate plainly with their glares.Although, it could’ve also been just some pitiful excuse within myself to convince my mind and console it from the grave losses that I had to incur from my unwillingness and with my tongue.“Where is the place, you?!” I also had, the werewolf that seemed to have been their leader’s lackey, dragged into the car with us, unto the middle of the seat, held down
ROSE POVI couldn’t believe what was lauded to my hearing. Even inside a moving car and as I was able to finally get the werewolf to give in and tell us information regarding where we were meant to go, Max could still muster enough to order me out.“Please, Max. Pardon her for my sake. Zayne, you have to beg too, you caused this.” May led out with wails to buttress her plea onto Max as he slowed down the car to allow my pitiful, washed up self out.“I said you should stop her Max, but I didn’t mean in the middle of the road and to such severity.” Even Zayne couldn’t fathom as to Max’s willing to have me out of the car.I had even concluded with a momentary peaked sense of naivety that he was still welcoming of me and only tried to hide what he felt, seeing as we stood in view of his men at the time , which as a mafia lord, he wasn’t meant to show that much.“Screech!” The car’s tyres finally came to a halt, alongside the ones that his men had taken to lead behind us, all led in to a s
MAX POV“You guys sure talk a lot, you know right?” The werewolf said as he finally rose from the dormant role he played in the event that had just been ensued. Atop the emotions that flared in that single moment of my letting Rose out of the car for disregarding my direct instruction, he wouldn’t even give a word and only managed to come out from his maintained, unaverted gaze from the road’s view that seemingly filled his mind’s scape. At least that was how it seemed from the rear-view mirror that I since used to avoid any eye contact with Ashina.Only May now sat and stood guard beside the werewolf but he seemingly now held even more lax since the only person that led enough motive for him to feel threatened was gone. I had my eyes on his movements and they were a lot freer than when she had him hanging out the windowOf course, Zayne still faced a gun towards his groin so that too contributed to his motivation to stay still and not attempt anything.“Is your eye alright to still
MAX POV“Bang!” I had only seven rounds left after I fired the first shot and I emptied what was left unto him until the clack sound came from the gun to remind me that I needed to reload.Although I chose not to because I felt his screams were enough reason to go by that he already had enough. “Ahhh!!!” he screamed with so much vigour in each vocal reverb that at some point I thought he was going to audition for an opera. “Are you ready to tell me or do I shoot the only means you have for you to pleasure yourself.” I had shot and completely immobilized every hinge joint in his elbow and knee, several times over, exempting that of his right hand as the final frontier before we head on to castration.“Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit! Ahhhhh!!!” His blood soaked the streets as it even led into the sewers. All I could do was aim the gun at him and imagine deep within me of what sort of pain he could be going through.The picture of seeing myself so deep in pain that I can’t move all my joint
ROSE POV I entered the back seat of the car as Mark sat in the passenger’s seat and ordered the werewolf at the steering wheel to drive.“What happened to her Mark? Tell me” I tried to pry at what he obviously held struggling emotional urge on whether or not to tell me.“I’ll tell you when we get to where we are meant to see her.” He wouldn’t give in, even after peaking my curiosities to this extent.I wanted to be the one that would get to break the news of her Jason’s death to her, even though I hadn’t even come to terms with it, I could do her the honour of having to be there for her like Kyle wouldn’t even allow me for him.The singular thought of having to explain to someone of her age that her grandson was dead, held me on a knife’s edge.I unintendedly guilt tripped Mark into pointing me towards a direction where he would tell the truth that he continued to persistently keep from me, at least that was what I read from it “What were the things that Jason and his grandmother di
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