Rushing to call back her friend after her cell phone rang when she was with Lucian talking about Leona and when he was about to answer her question, and the most important one for her. “Adele, hi, how are you? Sorry, sorry, I haven’t called you, there are many things to do here than-” April said, but she was cut off by Adele immediately. “April!” April didn’t say anything, so she just waited for her friend to say whatever she needed. April thought that Adele was about to yell at her, claiming the reason why she hadn't called her, or asking her to meet up. So April had to suck it up and learn her lesson. “Adele, are you okay?” April insisted when she realized her friend wasn’t going to say anything. Yet.“April, I called you because there’s someone who’s looking for you.”Many people came to her mind, even Leona and Adel. Her breath stopped. Maybe Leona and Adel had known the truth, maybe they already knew that she was not Madeline but April, the real April. “Who’s looking for me
After a couple of hours talking about the same person who had come to penetrate in Lucian’s ordinary life, Manuel could understand many things despite mockering him just when Lucian started talking. Now Manuel seemed to have adopted a more respectful posture towards her friend. Manuel had always been there for him since they met at college when they were too innocent to think that good money and a good life could come right after they finished their studies as successful lawyers. But life didn’t delay so much until the first punch was thrown right into their faces the moment Manuel lost her mother due to complications with her illness that could’ve been avoided by just paying for the surgery she needed at the right time, then his friend Lucian was there for him to understand him, to make him see that there was life ahead and he needed to be happy and success in life if he wanted his mother to be proud of him. But then, the moment that Manuel was going to say those words to his friend
April was playing with her son when two light knocks on the door called her attention. “I’m coming,” the little boy said. To say that he felt secure and loved there, with no one who wanted to hurt him was an understatement. In front of the boy the image of Lucian appeared. Lucian immediately smiled at the boy.“Oh, Mr. Lucian, you’re here to see my mother?” “Mmm, yes, I’m here to talk to your mother. Is she available?” “Mom! Mommy! Mr. Lucian wants to talk to her. But what Mateo hadn’t noticed was that April was behind him since she heard it was Lucian who came to visit her. And April always knew how to show her respects. “I’m here, my love, I’m here to also listen to Mr. Sadharthe.”“Would you live us alone, little boy? In your room there’s something you might like and if you don’t, we can go to change it for something you really want. Oh, also tell one of the ladies in the kitchen that I say I want them to prepare something for you, choose whatever you want and they’ll prepare
The doors of the mansion Blue House opened. And as soon as the men were inside and the doors closed, Lucian’s men made sure that no one had followed them, from the stairs the smartest man, one of the smartest in the country when it came to those businesses.“The great Lucian Sadharthe,” said one of the Arabian men with a strange accent, “Son of Hades.”Lucian Sadharthe, Son of Hades, smiled down the stairs.Lucian smiled. It was good to know that they knew his nickname by heart, it was good to know that in the underworld he was called by that name and never by his name. It was good to know that he was the son of death.“A pleasure to have you here! But please, why don't we step into my office? I think there's a lot to talk about.” The three men who had arrived smiled at each other. It seemed like a good idea, it all seemed to be that the Son of Hades came across as a calm person. A person who feared nothing, and how could they expect him to fear anything if he was the son of death hi
With a false smile, Leona continued on her way to the suit someone had hired to have a moment alone with Leona. Wiggling her hips from side to side, showing off her perfect figure, Leona continued down the elevator until she found the suit where the most important man she had ever met was waiting for her. She knocked on the door while looking around, there was no one around to witness that scene where she was going to meet an important man in the lower business. Immediately the door was opened. In front of Leona was that elderly man who smiled at her in a flirtatious way. Leona smiled too and then she took off her sunglasses so the man could see that it was indeed Leona. For the last 30 days Leona had been in touch with dangerous people. When she started seeing that no matter how much she worked in the company to make it successful, nothing was helping it to bring her the amount of money and power she needed to be noticed among others. Leona wanted to let the world see that she was
D.E.A POLICE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICEPOLICE KALEB SAAVEDRA’’S OFFICE “Everything has been quiet, don't you think, Kaleb?” Rose asked, sitting down in front of Kaleb's desk as she prepared her coffee. It'd been days since something important had arisen. No matter how much Rose, Kaleb, and the entire team worked to find answers, they just found that whatever mafia was behind it, they were expanding themselves faster and with new methods and goods to infect people. “Yes, I think so, and the truth is that I don't like it, I don't like this quietness. I feel that they are planning something,” Kaleb said with his eyes lost in the documents of the information he had gathered during that time. “Drugs, arms, more drugs that they sell as medications, empty shares… I don't know!” Kaleb drew a hand to his face and sighed frustrated. Rose smiled before drinking her cup of coffee. “And this is the officer Kaleb who I know pretty well.”Kaleb smiled back and asked, “Why do you say so, Rose?”“M
With her head down, Madeline couldn’t stop crying. Her son was next to her, trying to understand the reason why his mother was crying like that. Of course the little boy was there to offer his little shoulder for his mother to cry. Mateo was shocked, he’d never seen his mother going like that since they arrived at that house. Everything was only happiness between his mother and him. The last time Mateo saw her like that was when she couldn’t gather the amount of money required to pay the rent for the current month of the little space that April and her son called ‘home’. Mateo had even seen his mother overstressed and exhausted, but he’d never seen her like that since they arrived at that big palace that was like a dream for the little one. “Mom, I’m here, why are you crying? Mr. Lucian scolded you because you didn’t work well? I can help you, mommy, I can help and I’ll tell Mr. Lucian that he doesn’t scold you so much because now you’re crying. Maybe he’s going to understand me. He
THREE MONTHS LATERDying of jealousy, wanting to set the damn world on fire, wanting to kill the first person who stood in front of her, Leona arrived at her house. The servants looked at her as if she was the mere devil, no one wanted to get into her way, it was clear Leona was mad as hell, nothing could be more important than whatever made her go as angry as that. Even if no one could see it, it was clear her dark brown eyes were on fire, even her body was trembling.When she reached the living room, she found the toys of her little son on the coffee table together with a couple of glasses of wine. Leona didn’t think twice and took the glasses of wine and then threw them on the wall in front of her, then she did the same with the toys of her son as she screamed all her frustration. Leona was going crazy, the fucking word was against her and this time it seemed to be winning. She didn’t know how all that happened, she didn’t know why, Lucian was always a free man, someone who took a
ONE YEAR LATER A year was gone in a way so different from what everyone involved knew. So much had happened and to narrate them all was to narrate how life had gone in one year. After Leona was captured by the DEA, several powerful drug trafficking networks also fell. Lucian was taken to the hospital the same way Adel was, there was time to talk about so many things that April still couldn't believe that life had turned out that way. Rose and Levi took the case forward, after Lucian recovered from the beating and the two broken ribs that Leona's men had caused by beating him so badly, he was able to testify along with April, the woman he loved so much. He also accepted his guilt and cooperated with the police in every way he could. Levi and Rose knew what their job was, they also had to proceed with Lucian and April because they too had made many mistakes. Adel also talked about the bad things Leona did. While she was in the hospital as well, outside the police were moving to make he
April started crying in desperation. Her heart had never hurt like that. It was her son who was in the power of that woman. Her son was all she had. “Please, please, Leona, please, don’t you dare to do anything bad to my son. Please, I’m begging you. He’s not guilty! Your problem is with me! Leave him alone!” April begged with a broken voice. Rose and Levi knew the worst was coming, so they rushed to call the police. It was the end. “If you want to see your son alive and say goodbye to your eternal love, come to this address, alone! I swear if you don’t come alone, I’ll kill your fucking bastard!” After saying so, Leona hung up. April yelled, pleaded, but Leona’s voice was no longer heard on the other line. Levi and Rose called the police. They were ready to attack and now they could clearly see that what they had fought for, what they had invested so many hours, so much effort, so many thoughts, was right in front of their eyes. One of the biggest drug trafficking networks was go
When Lucian learned he wasn’t going to any mansion as the three men had said to make him get into the van, it was too late. The darkness of the highway, the mystery of the place and everything as a whole made him realize that they were not going to the house of any mafia boss, but to the outskirts of the city. It was too late. He had no way to run. He couldn’t. His heart started pumping faster. He tried to get off the van, but two men grabbed him immediately, they started fighting with him, they punched him, kicked him, insulted him… But Lucian still fought. Many things ran through her head, but it was always April the protagonist. He didn’t want her to go through more pain. “Leave me alone, you fucking bastards!” Lucian said, trying to punch the men, but he was out of energy that he couldn’t do so much. The pain had dried out his energy. “You won’t go anywhere! Our lady was clear with her instructions. You will regret what you did to her!” One of the men said. Lucian kept fighting,
April was completely heartbroken that her logic didn’t work. No matter how loud her heart kept shouting at her that what Levi was doing with her wasn’t okay, she didn’t have the strength to push him away, she just stayed there, where she was feeling the coldest kiss she’d ever felt. April had no soul, no more love to give, no more hope to keep, no more happiness to hold. Lucian had taken everything with him. Lucian wasn’t any different, he was like any other man ready to stab the heart of a woman who’d just learned to love someone like him. Perhaps, that was the reason why she couldn’t do anything and didn’t want to. If allowing Levi to do that was going to bring her back a little bit of hope, she was willing to be his slave. But what April didn’t know was that she wasn’t the only one who had been betrayed or who was feeling the coldness of absence. In the depths of his coldness and darkness he’d rose; he had no hope, no love to offer, he had nothing aside from chests full of gold c
NEW ZEALANDThrowing the suitcases in the car trunk, Adel forced his sons to get into the car. Neither Mateo nor Lucas understood what was happening there. Suddenly, Lucas’ father changed his mood when he saw a mark on his friend’s back head. Lucas didn’t understand anything. His father was asking questions to Mateo, not many times Lucas had seen him like that, the last time something like that happened was when Adel was still with Leona, Lucas’ mother. They always fought, he always saw them arguing, the servants were there to try to cover up things but Lucas was always more intelligent than anyone to know that his parents didn’t enjoy each other’s company. Maybe that was one of the reasons Lucas never felt sad when Adel told him that Leona and him weren’t going to live together anymore. And now they were in that car, listening to the conversation Adel was having with the airline.Lucas and Mateo looked at each other. “Three tickets to California, United States! I don’t care if the
As Madeline descended to the first floor of the hotel, still with tears in her eyes and her spirits on the floor, her path was blocked by someone's feminine figure. Madeline looked up and realized that the woman looking down at her with a smile of triumph was the same woman who had taken everything from her.“Madeline! Or should I say… April?”April changed her posture and her gaze. She hated Leona, she hated her with all her might. She had caused her the worst pain, but April wasn't the same innocent and naive girl Adel and Leona knew, and Leona was going to be the first one to see it. April didn’t know why but it was always because of Leona that she couldn’t be happy. She didn’t owe anything to anyone, but life treated her as she would. What a small world was that where Leona was the real meaning of her downfall! But Madeline no longer feared her. Years had gone by saving those hard feelings she felt towards her, and now it was time to let her see her fury. She was going to rip o
Bloody tears ran down her cheeks. The same words kept hitting his head. She couldn't believe she was too stupid again to have believed in a man. She even gave herself to a man after she swore she wouldn't do it again. She thought Lucian was different, one of a kind, someone who wouldn't hurt her ever again, someone she thought would arrive to heal her wounds and make her stronger. Madeline, her name was never Madeline, she was just April, the innocent girl whom everyone mocked her all along. She believed every single word Lucian said. There was nothing he said she wouldn't have believed. And now she was there, hating Lucian when she also loved him. What a small world was this where she had to meet Leona's half-brother and fall in love with him. Damn it! She shouldn't have done it! She shouldn't have fallen for him! If April thought there could be a little bit of happiness for her, she was damn wrong!Madeline arrived at the same hotel where she'd stayed for the last 15 days and, with
NEW ZEALAND Time did not pass in vain, the days, the afternoons, the nights that went by in the same way but leaving behind something more than routine. In the midst of a battle was how April and all that came with her could not help but live. Nothing good had left her being a good woman, a dedicated woman who loved her husband so much, maybe that was what she thought when the deception came, but not too late when she had her baby in her arms she realized that every suffering and tear had been worth it. Then Lucian came along and gave her a new lease on life. And with that life also came the love she never thought she would feel for a man again. Lucian had meant everything for a moment. Even the opportunity he’d given Mateo to grow away from the battlefield his own mother had against his own father. Time didn’t pass in vain and Mateo knew it very well. Three months hadn't gone in vane for anyone. And when Lucian and April agreed that the best thing to do was to put her son in safe
SCOTLAND, THE UNITED KINGDOM ARKANAS CASINO The next morning came as if nothing had happened when the truth was that everything and more had happened. Everything around her felt different, it was like she’d woken up with Lucian’s cologne in her body, it was like his skin still burned against hers, the warmness of that morning brought a special fire with it. Whatever it was, it had to stop. That wasn’t the deal, but who was the first one to give in? She only had one thing in mind, it had to stop, she needed to stop breathing in his cologne, and stop hearing her own sounds that had filled the darkness of that night where she didn’t have control of herself. Stuffed in a red long dress, Madeline continued her way to the casino where she was supposed to see Lucian since she’d asked about him and they had informed her that Lucian had gone to an important meeting and he couldn’t wait for her anymore. It seemed like it wasn’t going to be really difficult to go on with their lives as they u