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 POVThe moment Max showed me the picture of my mum and my heart dropped. I couldn't believe my eyes. I was shocked to my bones, but I had to gather myself, so I could get to my mum before Max harmed her. Quickly, I quickly grabbed Jason, who had been mindlessly watching TV on the couch, and dragged him outside. At that moment, a cab was passing, fortunately, and I hailed him. If Max did anything to my mother, I would never forgive Max. I had to leave my mother, whose health declined in that time, because of him.“Mummy, where are we going?" Jason asked me. “We're going to see Mr. Wolf." I remembered the name he gave to Max the other time.“Yay! Mr. Wolf!" He threw his hands in the air, really happy. I didn't like how Max had grown on Jason. It was funny how I still remembered Max's address from the last time I came here, which was three years ago when he had asked me to get rid of my baby. As soon as the car stopped moving, I paid the driver and got down. When I knocked on
MAX POVAs I went through the reports for the shipments that I had shipped in, a couple of things weren't adding up. “Zayne." I called. I didn't bother shouting, because I knew Zayne was always around, somehow. When he came into the office, I threw the papers before him. " What's going on, Zayne? Two carts are missing. I'm very sure they didn't just disappear into thin air, now did they?" “No boss." “Good, so get to looking for them, if you don't want to die." He bowed and walked out of the room.Things hadn't been going well recently. Several of my shipments had been missing, my men were being killed like flies everyday, my family were being threatened, and I had been called to war by an unknown enemy.Just then, a knock came through my door, and that girl that had claimed to be the new cool, came through the door. She carried a tray, and I watched her intently as she walked closer to me.As she tried to drop it on the table, I stopped her. “Don't even think about it. What is
MAX POVZayne and I had planned to lure the mole. Well, not before my sixth sense kept nagging at me, to check my door. As I walked towards my door, I heard some movements and then feet running away.I quickly opened my door to follow the person, but there was no one there. I made sure to search around, but the floor was deserted, left for Zayne and I. Someone had been listening in on our conversation.I looked back at Zayne who seemed to have heard the footsteps as well, and had followed me out of the office. “He really has some balls, I must admit." Well, this was going to be fun. I made Zayne find a way to spread the word, that another shipment of twenty cargos of meth were coming in tomorrow. He was to make sure that it didn't look deliberate. He was also to say that the Boss was really expecting this shipments, because he cost him a lot of money. Let's see if the fish would take the bait. Zayne got to work almost immediately, because minutes after he left, Mark came into m
ROSE POVEver since I got back from Max's house, I hadn't been able to think straight. I understood that he was trying to look out for us, but as I had said, I would be very miserable if I stayed with him. Even though Max thought he was ready for a family, I didn't see it. He barely had time for himself, always busy, so when would he have time to take care of Jason? I didn't even want to think of my relationship with him, cause that was more complicated than rocket science. Jason needed someone who would be present for him, and right now, I wasn't sure Max was stable enough for that. Someone knocked on my door, and I dropped the laundry I was folding. As I opened the door, I saw Max and Zayne standing in the doorway with two other men.Normally, I would have slammed the door in his face, but this time, Max was bleeding. Badly. “What the… Max! What happened? Come inside!." I moved out of the way so they could take him inside. Thankfully, I had just put Jason to sleep, so I coul
ROSE POVWe have been staying with Max for four days now. I still haven't said a word to him, because I didn't know what to say to him. The tension between us was so obvious, but no one else wanted to say anything about it. He had tried speaking to me, but I hadn't given him ears. I hadn't been feeling too well either. I felt nauseous, and really tired all day, so I spent most of my time in my room, resting. Jason, on the other hand, was having the time of his life. He had spent every time he had with Max, basically being a nuisance to Zayne and I. Max had bought him over with all the toys a child would want in his lifetime. It annoyed me to no end that they were getting along, but I couldn't exactly do anything about it. I would just seem like the witch if I took Jason away from Max. Ever since I'd been here, Max's men have been treating me well. They address me as ‘Madam' because the first time one of them had called me by my name, Max held his neck until he was almost blue.
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