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Penulis: Diana Abi
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Damon’s POV

I stared at the back of the girl’s head as she unlocked the door to her apartment unit with trembling fingers, her shoulders heaving up and down in quick succession as she breathed heavily.

I couldn’t believe what was happening. So she stole my money, and kept it in her house? After all I had done for her? Why?

I couldn’t just connect the dots. It was baffling…

She had copied out the lock combination for the account into a flash drive and taken it to her house.

But for what reason? That was what I couldn’t figure out.

What would she do with that amount of money? How did she know about the money in the first place?

We’d been standing here for about ten minutes now, while she tried to unlock the door, and I was starting to get pissed, and confused because it looked very much like she was just stalling.

“What do you think you’re doing?” Jacob bit out just before I could lose my mind, standing in front of me and glaring at her.

It was just him, Jessica, and me up here, and I’d
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  • Vended to Don Damon   Too much to handle

    Damon’s POVI dodged to the left just in time, as someone swung a Swiss blade at me, the same that was lodged in Jacob’s chest, and whirling around, I quickly whipped out my knife from my waist holster and went at the bastard, swinging fast and sharp.He had a full-face mask on his face, so I couldn’t tell who he was, but he seemed pretty fast on his feet, like a fucking assassin.We exchanged a few punches, going hard at each other, trying to survive, and just as I thought this battle was getting too tough for me, the sight of Jacob lying in his pool of blood behind me weakened me further, the bastard nicked me in the face.My fucking face? My most treasured body part?Growling in rage, I increased my speed, swinging faster than I’d started, and before he knew what he was in for, I’d slashed him three good times, very swiftly. In critical places. The back of his wrist. His neck. His lower abdomen. Deep slashes.He staggered backward just then, the knife falling out of his hand, his e

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  • Vended to Don Damon   Let me go

    Damon’s POVI sat on the hood of my car, my inner shirt soaked with Jacob’s blood, the phone lodged between my ear and shoulder, my palms pressed into the metal.So many emotions coursed through me right now. Rage. Pain. Anxiety. Confusion. Regret.And Iris wasn’t helping matters.Where the fuck had that question sprung from? Her mouth, obviously, but I mean, how did she find out about the death of her godmother?And why would she think I killed her?But I wasn’t in the mood to explain shit to her. My best friend was in a fucking ambulance right now, on his way to the hospital.And the first responders had said something about his condition looking bad, almost hopeless.Fuck.“Damon!” Her voice snapped me out of my thoughts, and back into reality, and I was forced to whip my gaze back up, my jaw ticking. “Did you hear me?” She asked apprehension in her tone.“I heard you alright, Iris,” I replied between clenched teeth.“Okay…So?”“The woman is dead, right? Who cares if I killed her o

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  • Vended to Don Damon   Save me

    Iris’s POVI stared at the phone long after the call between Damon and I ended, tears blurring my vision. I couldn’t understand how things had escalated so quickly. He’d asked me to leave if I wanted to.Wasn’t he going to stop me like he usually did? Wasn’t he going to try to beg me? Was he pissed? I mean, he hadn’t admitted to or denied killing Mimi Teresa, but he sounded like he’d done it, so why would he be angry?And if he’d killed her, why would he?I’d tried to make him understand that violence wasn’t always the way forward, and he shouldn’t have killed Mimi Teresa, even if she mistreated me when I was still with her, but he’d picked offense instead, asking me to leave if I wanted to.I couldn’t deny the fact that I was torn beyond explanation when he’d readily agreed to me leaving… more broken than when I’d learned he killed Aunt Mimi, or thought so…If he knew he was going to discard me so easily when he was done with me, why capture me in the first place? Why make me fall

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  • Vended to Don Damon   A rival

    Damon’s POVI drove to the hospital like a madman, weaving through the crazy traffic and not minding who I bumped into.Jacob couldn’t be dead. No.Why would Luca apologize to me like that?I didn’t even wait to hear his reason for saying he was sorry before I jumped into the car and sped away, suspecting it had to do with Jacob.I needed to let these people know that they must do whatever they had to do to keep Jacob alive, or else I’d burn down the goddamn hospital. Or fucking bring my doctor over.Jacob had to live.About twenty minutes later, I zoomed into the premises of the hospital Jacob had been taken to and carelessly parked the car, I dashed into the hospital.“Hey, excuse me,” I said to the nurse at the reception, “Jacob Eloha, where is he?”She seemed quite starstruck by my features, but quickly recovering, she looked through the desktop in front of her.“He’s at the trauma center, two right, and the corridor on the left.”I quickly dashed off in that direction, and just a

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  • Vended to Don Damon   Broken

    Damon’s POVI sat on the high stool at the bar, cradling my head in my hands, staring into the glass of whiskey that stared right back at me. My vision was kind of blurry.I was wasted, completely so. If there was any other word for something other than stupidly wasted, then that was it.I guess this was the only way I could grieve my best friend who now lay dead in a morgue. Drinking myself into a stupor and thinking about how everything could have been different.I hadn’t even gotten a chance to tell him how sorry I was, nor did I get a chance to say goodbye. He’d just left me all alone, with the snap of a finger.I’ve never felt more lonely. Not when I was taken away from my mother as a kid. Not when I was rejected by her. But now.Now that Iris had left me, and my best friend too. I was all alone. And for some goddamn reason, it broke me. I was supposed to be tougher than this, wasn’t I? I mean, I used to be.But ever since Iris came into my life, I’d been an emotional wreck. And

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  • Vended to Don Damon   Call me Anna

    Damon’s POVI sat in my car, my hands trembling on the steering wheel.I think I was having a panic attack right now, but I couldn’t even afford to.How could everything be going wrong all at once?Apparently, Marianna had been on the phone with Iris when she heard her screams in the background, and some scuffle, and then the signal had gone bad.This had happened after I’d asked Iris to leave.What the fuck was going on? Who was doing this? Who was this enemy? A coward, yeah, but whoever it was, they knew where to pinch to make me mad… they knew the right nerves to step on, to make me lose my shit.“Listen, I want you to go with Marcus,” I started, turning to Luca who sat in the passenger seat, completely still. He seemed to be in shock too, and he wasn’t handling it very well. It wasn’t like I was, either.I’d called him right after I’d gotten off the phone with Marianna because I had things to tell him. I felt like I would get no other chance to tell him all of that if I left in se

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  • Vended to Don Damon   Trapped

    Damon’s POV“Alright, officer,” I replied, glaring up at her, and not missing the slight annoyance that flashed across her eyes. “What can I do for you? If you don’t mind getting to the point, I have somewhere to be.”“Oh,” she crooned, leaning down and placing her arms on my window. “Is that why you were speeding so fast?”I shrugged, looking away from her exposed cleavage that she pushed in my face. “I’m glad we’re on the same page,” came my reply, curt and cold.She scoffed, cocking a brow. “Really?”When I said nothing, she shrugged equally. “Well, speeding is against the traffic rules, Mr. Vyon. I’m sure you know that.”I nodded absentmindedly, tapping my foot against the floorboard as I patiently waited for the truck to cross. Strangely, it was taking forever. And my head was fucking splitting hard like there was a hammer being rammed against it.“So,” she continued, reaching behind her and pulling out a small notepad from her pants pocket, while I watched her cautiously from th

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  • 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

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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

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