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2025-03-27 01:12:24
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Vended to Don Damon Who is she?
Damon’s POVThings were happening faster than I was prepared for, and this rarely happened.To me.My private property was somehow discovered by this new challenge, and he barged into my house with his group of thugs. Arrested me.Threw me behind their stinky, dingy bars. Locked the doors on me and left for their homes.It was unbelievable that all these had happened in less than three hours.Now, I lay with my back on the bare floors of the cell, looking up at the rays of sunlight that filtered in from holes in the iron bar.I hadn’t slept a wink, wondering how I’d let it get to this, and if Iris would do fine without me. I didn’t know how long I’d be in here, as this seemed pretty serious this time.The female officer at the reception almost fell off her seat, dozing, and as she quickly picked her jaw up from the floor, she settled into her seat and looked around to make sure no one had caught that embarrassing sight.Her eyes registered her shock when they collided with mine. She d
Huling Na-update : 2025-03-27Vended to Don Damon Sweetheart
Iris’s POV“Who are you trying to escape from?”Luca wasn’t making this any easier for me, as he kept responding to my questions with questions of his own.Why couldn’t he just respond with a simple yes or no?“Look,” I whispered, “it’s a bit complicated—““What exactly is your deal, Iris?” Luca suddenly asked, causing me to forget my escape plan for a moment.“What?”“Why do you confuse me?” He continued, watching me very carefully. “You look at me with those eyes of yours, confusing me each time I look at you. You give me a lot of mixed signals, it’s draining—““What are you saying?” I interrupted, wondering if the construction of these sentences he was saying to me was right at all. “Mixed signals?”“Yes, Iris, mixed signals. Since the day I saw you at that window, I’ve been seeing you in my dreams, every single day since then. Plus, I’ve been trying to speak to you for ages,” he responded, “get a little familiar, maybe become a friend, but you always run from me. And now I eventua
Huling Na-update : 2025-03-27Vended to Don Damon Family
Damon’s POV“Family.”That was all I said, and it got Aldo Santino just as interested as I’d expected.Why was I even responding to him?For some reason, I felt the need to protect Iris from the claws of the law. The useless law that could do nothing for the weak and helpless.Couldn’t even find her real parents and punish them for leaving her to suffer, whatever their reason may be.“You’re finally talking, so I guess this Miss Paulman is very important to you, Mr. Vyon,” he said, watching me from over the rim of the prescribed glasses he had on.I said nothing in response, and he sat back in his seat, picking up the file in his hand. “So, did you say Miss. Paulman is family to you, Mr. Vyon?”“Yes,” I replied, my jaw clenching. “She’s family.”“Then how can you explain the difference in your last names? Surely, Paulman and Vyon have nothing in common…sound nothing alike, have different meanings, are attributed to different races, so?”“I told you she’s my family. Why do you want to
Huling Na-update : 2025-03-27Vended to Don Damon Surprised
Iris’s POVI whirled around to see him smiling down at me like he’d just discovered a gold mine.Wilson, the same boy who had started getting on my nerves the very same day I joined the academy.“What do you want?” I queried, watching him stagger into the third seat at the table.“To help you of course, my darling,” Wilson replied, grinning sheepishly, “Isn’t that what you seek? Help? I’ll do whatever it is you want, okay?”I opened my mouth to say something but Luca’s voice cut me off. “Look, Iris,” he called, totally ignoring Wilson’s presence at the table, “what about your real parents? Surely, they wouldn’t be—““Hush it! will you?” I whispered fiercely, lowering my eyes and narrowing them at him. “We’re not alone,” I mouthed, but he still didn’t get the hint.“What do you think you’re doing?”“We’re not done discussing the details of your escape—“I banged my palms against the table, bolting to my feet. “Stop the madness, please!” I screamed, trying as hard as possible to pass hi
Huling Na-update : 2025-03-27Vended to Don Damon You can leave
Iris’s POV“Speaking of help?” I repeated, staring at him in surprise.Had he, by chance…“Yeah,” he replied, nodding, “and before that, let’s talk about the help you were asking your boyfriends for. Is it something I can’t do for you? I don’t think there’s anything—““They’re not my boyfriends!” I screamed, interrupting him, “and I wasn’t asking anyone for help,” I added in a calmer voice, “you got it all wrong.”Then I scoffed. “How long were you standing there, anyway?”“Long enough to know you asked that blue-eyed boy for help. Who’s he to you, anyway?”I closed my eyes, feeling a storm rise in my chest. So he knew… Why was he being casual and laid back about it, then?How could I escape this?“Well,” I cleared my throat, sitting up in the chair, “I, uh,—““Save the explanation today, Iris,” Damon interrupted, his tone taking on more seriousness, his jaw clenching. “I’ll let it slide today because like I said, I need your help with something.”I nodded eagerly, feeling the weight
Huling Na-update : 2025-03-27Vended to Don Damon Try surviving on your own
Iris’s POVI ended up on the witness stand a week after I said I wasn’t going to testify for Damon.Turns out incriminating evidence had been found against Damon, regarding his involvement in the slave trade and human trafficking, and he’d been summoned to court.He had left yesterday, not before reminding me that I would show up in court later today and testify for him. Say he was family to me, and I wasn’t bought off like some slave.I had reluctantly agreed, unwilling to get into an argument with him, and silently making up my mind on what I was finally going to do concerning my escape plan.Now I was seated in the back of this SUV, speeding across the highway to the New York high court, with Gary at the wheel.My phone pinged loudly and I clutched it tightly, pressing my palm down hard on the speaker port.The text was from Luca. I’ll be waiting back out when you’re ready, it read, and I squeezed my eyes shut, leaning my head against the headrest.I couldn’t stop trembling, and I
Huling Na-update : 2025-03-28Vended to Don Damon Court case
Iris’s POV“Miss Paulman, can you tell us exactly how you’re related to mafia lord Damon Vyon?”I was trembling inside the witness stand, sweat trickling down my legs in torrents. My tongue felt heavy against the roof of my mouth, an insanely bitter taste eroding my mouth.“I-I” I stammered, unable to coordinate my thoughts enough to speak the truth, and only the truth, like this court demands.I could feel Damon’s eyes on me, watching me and my every movement like a predator and daring me to make a single mistake.I swallowed hard, clenching and unclenching my fists.“You know the only thing that should leave your mouth once you’re in that stand is the truth, right?” The judge asked, raising her brows to her receding hairline.I nodded, squeezing my palms together, and she snapped at me.“Use your words, miss, and get started already. We don’t have all day to spend in court.”“I’ll rephrase my question,” Jacob said, “in case you’re finding it a little hard to understand.”He cleared
Huling Na-update : 2025-03-28Vended to Don Damon Family
Iris’s POVThe consigliere, Damon’s lawyer, announced in a loud and clear voice.“Miss. Mirabel Theresa, please make your way to the stand.”I whirled around to look at him, wide-eyed. What was going on here? Aunt Mimi was the next witness. I didn’t think they would do this… go this far.I whipped my gaze over to Damon as Aunt Mimi stood and made her way to the witness stand, glaring at him so hard and willing him to look my way. But he didn’t…Had he known I would change my statement later on? But it wasn’t like I’d planned to…So he’d prepared Aunt Mimi as a backup plan in case I failed him. Smartass devil.What other tricks did he have up his sleeves?I slowly sank into my seat, watching in a daze as she climbed the witness stand and took the witness oath. Then the question session commenced.“Miss Teresa,” the consigliere started, “how are you related to my clients, Damon Vyon, and Iris Paulman?”“They’re my family, of course.”“A simple answer would do, Miss Theresa. Please refra
Huling Na-update : 2025-03-28
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Vended to Don Damon Epilogue
Damon’s POVThree months earlier“So, you got a new tattoo?”The voice of the therapist pulled me out of my thoughts, and I pulled my gaze away from the window facing the garden, looking down at the still-fresh tattoo on my arm.“Yeah..” I murmured, tracing a finger across the face on the tattoo, lingering around the eyes that stared back at me.“When?” The female therapist asked, and I shrugged, not taking my eyes off the tattoo.“Just a few weeks back, I guess.”“Really? Can I see?”“Sure,” I mumbled, heaving a sigh.She rose to her feet and moved around her desk, coming over to where I sat and leaning forward behind me.“Wow,” she exclaimed quietly, a little amazement in her voice. “That’s a unique face. A pretty one, at that.”“Yeah, I know right?” I replied, the corners of my lips tilting up in a small smile. “It’s a face I keep seeing in my dreams, Andrea.”Andrea, my therapist, stood back then and observed me closely, almost lik
Vended to Don Damon The girl of my dreams
Iris’s POVA year laterI stood at the floor-to-ceiling window on the balcony of the condo, admiring the beautiful night view, my mind a melancholic mess.It had been that way since that night after Damon had fallen off that cliff.And we hadn’t seen him since.There was nowhere we hadn’t looked.But Damon was nowhere to be found.I’d cried and cried for months, but to my greatest despair, that was all I could do.Sometimes I wished Luca hadn’t showed up with Gary when he did, because then I’d have been killed too, and I wouldn’t have to deal with this pain.At least I’d be dead and buried, probably alongside him.It was as I’d seen him falling off that cliff that I knew I was in love with Damon Vyon, my heart falling right out with him.And I never got a chance to tell him how I felt…“What are you thinking about?”I whirled around to see Luca standing at the balcony door, watching me with a sober expression on his face.He too, had not remained the same ever since Damon disappeared
Vended to Don Damon I love you
Iris’s POVThe gun fell out of my trembling hand, clattering to the floor.Did he just ask me to shoot Damon?No, no. I couldn’t.Sighing and pushing his fingers through his hair, Zach bent down and picked up the gun, approaching me menacingly. “Don’t piss me off, pretty girl,” he snapped, his tone laced with derision, as he pressed the gun into my hand again. “Shoot him, I said.”“No!” I screamed now, intentionally throwing the gun far from me, and as it tumbled over the cliff, Zach let out a deep growl and whirling around, he struck me heavily across the cheek.“Fucking bastard!” Damon yelled, struggling viciously to break free of his chains, and tears blurring my vision, I stared down at him, knowing very well that this would end badly.How could we possibly get out of this?What miracle could happen?“Hey you,” Zach snapped his fingers at one of his men, “get me another gun.” They quickly came forward, presenting him with a new gun, and he took it, observing it closely.“Now,” he
Vended to Don Damon Shoot him
Damon’s POVI stared up at the chief coward—Zach, was it?—my vision blurring.Ah. So it was him? The one I’d replaced?This story he recounted.. triggered the memory of a day I’d kept buried and locked up, unconsciously, the pain coming right back and whipping me emotionally.That little boy from back then. I stared at the scar on his chest, remembering how I’d felt seeing him bleed out on the floor that day.“You seem to be getting your fucking memories back, don’t you?” Zach spat, his eyes growing darker than they were already.Of course, that day had been a fucking bloody day. So how could I forget?*****Fifteen years ago“W-what are you doing here?” The man who called himself my father stuttered, staring at me with a fear I’d never seen in his eyes before.We stood facing each other on the rooftop of his new law firm, a stick of cigar in his hand, dark circles underneath his eyes.Had he even been sleeping? Well, how could he sleep, after he sold me off to that maniac of a mafia
Vended to Don Damon Scar
Damon’s POVHe glared at me for a long time, saying nothing, his eyes taking on a distant look. Then rising to his feet, he cleared his throat.“It’s your money, quite alright,” he started, shoving his fingers in his pocket, alongside the flash drive, “but this money is nothing compared to what you stole from me, Damon.”What the heck was he talking about? What exactly would I steal from a stranger like him? Someone I knew nothing about?He stopped pacing for a while, staring down at me. “You might have forgotten,” he scoffed, “seeing how fucking clueless you look right now.”“Look,” I started, frustration climbing into my tone, against my will, “I don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about, or how you got your hands on that. But if it’s the money you want, you can keep it.” “Just let her go,” I added, nodding in Iris’s direction. “She has nothing to do with any of this.”He looked back at her for a moment, then threw his head back in a maniacal laughter, shaking his head.“Who sai
Vended to Don Damon On the cliff
Damon’s POVThe slap of the wind on my face was what woke me up this time. Slowly, I peeled my eyes open, every part of my body aching, my head throbbing painfully.Where was I now?Fuck…Iris..There was no time, and here I was..lying around, letting that weird woman keep putting me down.Looking around, I slowly realized where I was. On a cliff? How come? How did I get here? That weird woman couldn’t have carried me here all alone, right?This was a cliff..had to be. That was one explanation for this much breeze and open space.Grunting, I tried to move around, and I was a bit disappointed to find that I was still bound by wrists and ankles. What was I expecting?I tried to turn around then, and someone’s foot pressed into my back, pushing me back to the ground.“Well, well,” an unfamiliar voice rang out from behind me, cold and rusty, and excited, “look who we have here.”I tried to turn around, to see who had joined us, but the person that had their stinky foot on my back pressed i
Vended to Don Damon Long awaited day
Iris’s POV“Where the fuck have you been?”I was jammed in the backseat of the moving car, between a woman who smelled heavily of putrid blood, and the man who had slapped me earlier, my hands and feet still bound very tightly, the ropes cutting into my flesh.I had no idea where we were headed.“Well,” the woman cleared her throat, “is that how you thank me for making this fucking easy for you?”Sighing, the man leaned back in his seat and pulled the woman into his lap.“Unlock the windows, Dante,” he ordered, twisting his nose upwards, “it smells so fucking rotten in here.”Then he turned his attention to the woman in his lap. “I’m sorry, my beautiful Anna,” he murmured, stroking her hair. “I was just carried away with all that’s happening, you know. Everything’s happening all at once, and I mean, it’s good. Trust me.”She smiled, reaching into her pocket and retrieving a pack of cigarettes. “Okay..” she murmured, “what do you have to say about my performance?”“I’m duly impressed,
Vended to Don Damon A sight to behold
Iris’s POVI’d thought this vile-looking man could be bluffing when he’d insinuated that he had Damon, but from the way his eyes sparkled right now, I feared it wasn’t just an insinuation. He’d meant it.And what was that he said? He wanted me to kill Damon? Why would I do that? Why would he want that? I mean, it was clear now that this man was an enemy of Damon’s, but why would he want me to kill Damon?As I glared up at him, my eyes burning, my heart ramming hard against my chest, I tried to regulate my breathing. Tried to mask the fear that now clouded my senses, making my tongue as heavy as lead.I swallowed hard, wincing from the pain of my hair being pulled right down to the scalp. “You want me to do what?” I demanded, my tone laced with that same fear I tried so hard to mask.Scoffing, he let go of my hair and rose to his feet. “You try to hide it,” he started, “but you seem to be quite distressed by what I’d just said.” He paused, shoving his palms into his pockets and glaring
Vended to Don Damon Real vixen
Zach’s POV“Anna did all of that?”I stood with my back to Dante, staring out the floor-to-ceiling window, the corners of my lips turned up in a satisfactory smile.“Yes, boss,” Dante replied. “We were just on our way to send a message across to Damon Vyon when she called with the information.”Throwing my head back, I let out a small chuckle, clapping my palms dramatically. “She’s a real vixen, isn’t she?” I muttered, shaking my head. “It baffles me, you know, how very alike we seem.”“So,” I continued after a few moments of silence passed, “we have Damon Vyon in our hands right now? Is that truly so?”“Yes, boss,” he replied. “He’s currently at the warehouse we’ve prepared. We await further instructions from you.”“Great,” I murmured, thumbing my beard.I didn’t think it would be so easy to capture Damon Vyon. I’d spent all these years planning, envisioning, dreaming, wishing. Seeing how deadly he was. And now, Anna had pulled it off like it was a fucking walk in the park.I was dul
