MAX POVZayne left and I pulled my gun out of the drawer. “Are the men ready yet?" I asked, when I heard my door open, thinking it was Zayne. “Mr Wolf, have some cake." I was so shocked to see Jason running towards me with a plate of cake in his hands.This made me smile and my eyes immediately saw my gun laying on the table. I snatched it inside my drawer and shut it. “Thank you, Jason." I took the plate from him and picked him up, to sit on my lap. “Boss, it's ready." Zayne poked his head in. “Uh Jason, I have some work to do. Can you go stay with your mum?" He nodded and came down, running away with half my cake. I shook my head and laughed when I watched him go, and so did Zayne.“Stop smiling around. Let's go." I told him gruffly. The cleanup had started, and I looked around for Rose, but couldn't find her. She was probably with Jason. I also didn't see Maxine, so I just figured she was with them. I'm glad all of them were getting along.“Boss, your car's ready." One of m
MAX POVYou know the saying, ‘Good things never last", well I should have known that happy moment was just the calm before the storm that was about to hit me.My door burst open the next morning, and the first thing I did was grab my gun, and point it towards the door. Of course, I should have expected it was only Zayne that could have the guts to come in without knocking. As I got up from bed, something dragged my hand down, and I looked to see Rose, snuggling my hand. “Zayne, what the hell is your problem?" I had to whisper at him “Do you want to die?" He raised his hands in surrender, and only brought them down when I lowered my gun. Rose looked so dreamy, and I didn't want to leave her, but the look of Zayne's face told me a story I knew I wouldn't be happy to hear, but needed to hear. I was able to slowly drag my hand from beneath her, and lay her head back down from the table. Zayne opened his mouth to speak, but I silenced him, dragging him by the collar, out of the room.Of
MAX POVBefore Maxine left, I made sure to find out what her friend's name was. The more I thought about it, the more it was finally coming back to me.Her face, her blonde ponytails I had always dragged, when she came around. She always tried to play with me, but I was too rough, so she just stayed away from me.“Her name was Bella… Bella Walker." Maxine was such a great person and I gave her a hard kiss on the forehead, as I walked out of my office, leaving her there. “Bella Walker, get me everything on her, before the end of the day." I told Zayne, as he walked beside me.“Okay, boss.. I got information on Sanders, Boss. It doesn't look good." I stopped walking and turned around to look at him, holding a file in his hand. Bad news.“Talk to me." “That accident was just a cover up. Autopsy shows signs of physical abuse, there were marks on his wrists and ankles. He was tied up, chained, tortured."“Tortured for information. Whoever did this knows Sanders was working for me." "Th
ROSE POVWe left the hospital, finally. Actually, Jason and Max held hands and skipped together, while leaving me to walk behind them. Today's visit was easier, mainly because Max was here to hold Jason's hand, while he got the shit, but also because Jason wanted to prove to him that he wasn't a baby. Even though a few tears had escaped, I was proud of how well he held on. “Can we get ice cream, Mr Wolf?" Max looked at me and I could see the hesitation in his eyes.I was about to tell him no, when he looked away and bent down to pick Jason up. “Of course, we can! You can even try out all the flavors you want!" Of course, Jason cheered at that. Before I could object to it, they entered the car and slammed it shut. I'm very sure they had forgotten I was here, since they were all buddied up.At least, it wasn't going to be hard telling Jason his new best friend was actually his dad.“Well, no one asked me how I feel about that." I said, as soon as I got in the car.“There's no point.
MAX POVI felt my heart rate pick up. This time, not because Rose was around me, but beacaue I watched my son choke beside me and I was too shocked to do anything. Rose was already in full panic mode before my brain finally registered what was going on. Before this, I didn't know what it felt like to feel sorry to to feel concerned for someone, but watching my little boy choke because I had offered him every flavour of ice cream, without remembering his allergies to strawberries, which were also mine, was what got me mad. It just proved to show how irresponsible I was. My whole resolve fell, and I basically lost my confidence as a responsible father, while I watched Rose fret and practically go crazy about him.On the drive home, I didn't know hat to say to her. I didn't know how to explain to her that I had acted childishly and irresponsibly and I almost killed our child.As Jason sat in the car, peeping out I'd The window, I just stared at him. If anything had happened to him
MAX POVAnger…that's all I've been feeling for the past few days. Everywhere I turned, there just seemed to be some kind of obstacle facing me and it annoyed me to no end.The Elders had been sending me all sorts of messages concerning my relationship with Rose. They had blatantly refused to accept her as their Luna and to be honest, that's the least of my problems.I was their King, and if they didn't want to lose their heads, they were going to have to listen to me and do as I said. I was also nowhere close to finding out who the goddamn mole was. It seemed like the person was invisible but i didn't want to believe that. No one had ever been able to outsmart me before, so this won't be the start of that.As if the gods were in my favor, Zayne came into the office, this time, with a smile on his face. “Boss, I got the information." He dropped a manila envelope on my table and looked so giddy.Well, it had to be good if he was this excited. I brought the papers out of the folder and
ROSE POVIt bothered me. The whole being with Max thing, bothered me. I stared in the mirror at my reflection, and the hickeys that Max had given me.I couldn't go around looking like this, so I've been walking around with a scarf for days. Honestly, I felt very happy when Max was sad that I wasn't pregnant.I was surprised, in the very least. Max wanting a baby, was the last thing I expected, no wonder he's been so nice. So we decided to start trying for one.Being a family of four won't be so bad, after all. Relatively, things have been okay and call between the both of us. Staying with him and being close to him, has let me see another side of him, that I naturally won't have seen had we been living apart. Max had to be strict, because he had a business to run and he needed to get things done, but he was still very nice to his employees. The way he was with Jason and how he was trying to make up for everything that had happened in the past was giving me more confidence to give h
ROSE POVIt's been days, two days actually since I spoke to Max or even saw him. Since I found out about what he actually did for a living that day in his office, he had gone MIA. I had asked Zayne where he was but he changed the topic. It had given me time to think about everything though. I couldn't blame Max for what had happened. His father had brought into this kind of lifestyle and he had taken over and gone along with it just so that he could make his father proud. So far he has been doing well for himself. Max was really dedicated to his work and made sure everything was going well. I had never seen an instance or heard anyone complain of ill treatment from him.What I thought about him before I came into the house wasn't what I was thinking now. I had blamed him and hated him for asking for Jason to be aborted. He hadn't even bothered to know if it was a boy or girl.When he came demanding for Jason after I came back, I hated him even more. He wanted to take the only perso
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