MAX POVI had been staring for minutes. Zayne had finally brought in the folder containing the information concerning Rose and Jason. I was hesitant to open it up mostly because I didn’t want the folder to say that Rose had got pregnant after aborting my baby, and Jason wasn’t mine. Well, I guess I wouldn’t find out by just looking at the folder. The first thing I saw when in opened up the folder, was Rose’s picture. I was attracted to this woman, there was no doubt about that. I saw that she had moved to Florida three years ago, where she had given birth to Jason. That’s it! It all adds up. Three years was around the same time, I asked Rose to abort the baby. That was why she moved away, so I won't realize. Further down in the report it showed that her mother was terminally ill.Rose was really going through a lot, and I felt pity for her, Thus woman was making me feel things I never felt. Attraction, pity, patience. No one had ever made me speechless, but she and Jason had. The
ROSE POVMy mind kept wondering why Max wanted Jason, after all this time. He had been the one to say that he didn’t want Jason, and even paid a huge sum to me, to get rid of him. Now after all these years, he had the effrontery to come to me and say that he wanted a space in his life. As I had told him, over my dead body, would I allow him to take Jason away from me.“Mummy, why’re you crying?” Jason pulled at my dress, and I snapped out of my thoughts, and frowned. Truly, when I touched my face, it was wet with tears, and I quickly swiped my hands across my face. “Oh baby, mummy is fine.” I carried him and placed on my lap “I just didn’t wear my glasses and my eyes were beginning to hurt, that’s why.” I lied. He scurried of my laps, running into the house, and I watched him go. He really was a perfect replica of Max, but that didn’t matter. He ran back and he stretched his hands out to me, holding my glasses. This made me smile and I picked him up again, collected my glasses and
MAX POVI got home that day, my blood boiling. Rose was seriously asking for more than she could take on. It wasn’t like I had wanted to her to get an abortion because I didn’t want to take responsibility for him, as I had stated earlier. If only Rose knew why I had opted for that option. Jason had really got my heart from the first time I met him, and I just couldn’t let that kid go. I felt really tired and worn out, due to everything that had happened today. While I was used to keeping late nights, I didn’t know why I was exceptionally tired today. As a man with many enemies and a billion dollar empire worth of coke and oil, I had many enemies and I couldn’t just go to bed any time I wanted to. A knock came through the door, interrupting my train of thoughts. “Come in.” I said.A man came through the door. He was the one I had put in charge of the investigation concerning the missing kids. “Boss, there had been some illegal activities downtown, and I suspected that the traffick
ROSE POVMax hadn't shown up at my house for a couple of days and I couldn't be happier. After the wild, very wild sex we had the other day, I would do anything to avoid him. To get my mind off Max and his presence, I decided I finally had enough courage to go see my mum. Jason was really happy about seeing his grandmother. I had make her favorite porridge and put in a flask. As I arrived at the hospital, my phone rang. “Hey May. " I said into the phone. “Hey. Where are you? I'm outside your door, and there's no one here." I slapped my palm against my forehead. I had forgotten to inform May that I was coming to the hospital. “I'm so sorry, May. I forgot to tell you I wanted to come see mum today. I'm at the hospital right now. You could come if you want." I offered. “Nah, it's fine. You need time alone with her. I actually need to get back to work. I'll stop by some other time." I ended the call as I walked towards the nurse's desk. “Good afternoon. I'm here to see Sarah
MAX POV“You’re mine.”As I said those words, I could feel the stupid heart of mine do that thing where it started beating faster for no damned reason. Apparently, it seemed like I was the only one feeling that way, because just when I thought I had successfully conveyed how I felt to Rose, she pulled away from me, and once again, did something that was punishable to a slow and painful death by my rules. She slapped me. Hard.Again. I was trying really hard not to grab her by the throat and make her beg for her life. I could feel myself twitch as I squeezed my palm as hard as possible, so my hand won’t react before my brain. “Stay away from me. Stay away from my baby and I. You never really wanted us in the first place, so why now? You lied to me Max!” She was crying and I had no idea why. Women were so darn complicated. That was why I tried staying away from all of them. “You really need to stop slapping me. Rose, can you just be rational for once? I know that I messed up befo
MAX POVHe looked me in the eye, as he stood up from the floor. Zayne moved to restrain him, but I stopped him. I wanted to see what this guy had up his sleeve. Surely, he would slip up and expose himself in some way. I watched him as he walked closer to me and I didn’t move a muscle. “You think you’re so powerful? You think you’re untouchable?” He laughed “She’s will kill you, one day. She’s is going to make you pay. Just wait. This is just the beginning of it all. She’s going to take away everything you love, the same way you took hers away.” The certainty in his voice caught me amongst other things. Who was she? And what the hell had I done to her? Sure I had killed a lot of people, and I obviously hadn’t kept track record of it all. Could this be a revengeful person? “Who’s ‘she’?” I asked him.All he did was smirk, and move backward from me. He backed up against the wall and my sixth sense told me to be alert, so I stood up from the chair, and threw it across the room. “Sh
ROSE POV“Ben is a very wonderful guy. You’re just being mean.” I told May.I was happy that today was May’s day off work and she had called me out so we could hang out. Since Jason left for school, I had been bored to death and her call had come in at the best time. “Rose, don’t talk to me about guys. Speaking of, what about Jason’s dad? Have you tried getting in contact with him?” I realized that I hadn’t let her in on what had been going on. “Yeah, I ran into him, one day at the mall. Actually, Jason got lost, and I was going crazy trying to look for him. Apparently, Max had him and that’s when I saw him. I don’t know how he found out that Jason was his son, but, a few days after, he comes knocking saying he wants Jason. At first, I thought he was just joking, but these days, he shows up at my door, asking for him, saying that has his reasons. He looks very desperate.”“Have you asked him what those reasons are?” “No.” I took a sip of my drink. “I haven’t been bothered to, beca
MAX POVAlpha Damien had been in my office all day, along with his Beta and of course, Zayne. We had been looking at maps, to see how Gray wolves had got into our territories without being spotted. I had made sure that at every point on the borders, there had been guards, to monitor every movement. Even so, we looked at a possible list of enemies. Thankfully, we had been able to narrow it down to females.The confusing thing was, I had never had any encounter with women that would warrant this, so I wondered how this whole thing came back to me. A knock on my door interrupted our conversation. Jerry, the guard I had sent to watch Jason and Rose, came in. “Boss, I have something to report. The boy was kidnapped today, while playing at the park." My ears found it hard to believe it. My son… “What? Then why the fuck are you back here?" I turned to Zayne “Gather the men, now!" “Boss, I got there just in time. I was able to get him back to his mother." Jerry explained.I felt as if c
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