A love triangle between A mafia who is a lover from her past and her new boss who is her present lover.. Hailey, a twenty five year old lady who sets out on a quest to find herself but falls in love with Andre who poses to be a nice person just to get her love, hidding the fact that he is an Obsessive ex-drug addict and a Mafia. The truth about his true self begins to unravel when they got engaged, He became obsessed and Abuses Hailey even when she tries to help him. Hailey plans to run away from the city after she lost her child and almost her own life. With the help of Greg Andre's friend she was able to flee from Andre and moves to New-York. There she started anew working as personal assistant for Colton, A widower and the CEO of a big legal firm in New- York city. Opposite attracts when a cold and mean Colton falls in love with Hailey. She also found love in the eyes of Colton's daughter Abbie. Who became mute after witnessing her mother's death but with Hailey in their lives Abbie learns to speak again unveiling the truth behind her mum's death. When things seems to have started to fall in place, Hailey's past came back to hunt her and this time He has sworn to never let anyone have her nor Hailey finding peace.
View MoreWe just had one of our biggest fights, twice since the week began. I sat by the poolside as usual and waited for his outrage to be settled with my bruised face, an injury I had suffered earlier during one of our fights when he raised his filthy hands and hit me so hard on the face for the hundredth time. I wonder what’s wrong with me? Even after all these I still love him irrevocably and unconditionally.
As I sat there in the cold weather, thinking my whole life with Andre through, I was taken aback by the day we met and we became lovers.A year ago, I had just moved to Phoenix, Arizona in the united states to start anew after my dad was buried, it was just me and my mum. She worked as a police officer in New Mexico and I’m certain about how engaged she is with her job, it helps her forget her worries and be happy while myself, on the other hand, I had just finished college but since I couldn’t get a job in my state coupled with my fathers sudden passing I decided to change environment and start my life over again in a new city where no one knows me.At first, I applied for a job as a waitress in one of the biggest restaurants in Arizona, fortunately, I got the job and in a week time I moved there and I was given a house with a roommate by the restaurant management. My working there was going so competently that by the end of the day I go home with so many tips from the customers. My roommate said it’s because I’m hot but don’t care to know as long as they keep it coming. Moving to Phoenix hasn’t been so easy for me . I miss my Home Town, I miss my Friends and My mum, sometimes I feel like running back there but…. Doing that wouldn’t solve my problems would It? So I still search right deep inside my heart and find a reason to keep striving and working as much as I could. The day I met Andre was just like every other day, he had come to have lunch with three of his comrades and I had just completed my shift and was about to leave, I remember I was busy reaching into my purse for something when I someone knelt before me, right in semblance, he never minded if people watched when he held my hand his exact words were “ Oh my darling, how your beauty has cast a spell on me, I want to be yours my Dove and yours alone. Please make me the happiest man on the face of the earth and give this fool of a man a chance to get to know you.” He sounded cheesy but How he humbled himself and paid no attention to the people around us and admired me. It’s as if he knows what a woman likes to hear. Right there and then he asked for my contact information, someone I haven’t met for once In my life kneeling before me, his blue eyes were like that of the ocean, his smiles could light up a room. Oh, there’s no way I could resist such a god in human form. While his friends watched and laughed at the show he had put up I was ashamed so I took his phone which he was holding in his hand and typed in my digits then I left in a rush.It feels to me that I was about to witness a romantic side of Phoenix, Arizona. That night he gave me a call and we spoke for a while and I waited to hear him ask me out but instead, he ended the call midway. The next day, I met a car outside of my apartment, I came out and was about to leave but he gets out of the car looking all spiffy with a rose in his hand.“ Hey, Hailey!” he shined a cute smile as he walks up to me.
“ hi, what are you doing here and how do you find out where I stay?”“ here for you, He offered me the rose. How I get to know about where you stay isn’t the case here, I have come personally to take you to work today so please permit me, my queen.” He held my hand and looked into my eyes. I couldn’t say no to those beautiful eyes of his so I consented to his offer.His eyes lights up immediately and he rushed to the car and opened the door for me while I get into the front seat of the car, he then hastens around the car and got in. he drove so carefully till we got to the restaurant that day, he has always picked me up during my shifts and take me home afterwards. My co-workers especially my roommate couldn’t believe that I am dating the most popular guy sound phoenix. I heard he came from a family of businessmen and drug dealers, they are well known and feared in the whole of phoenix but the way he had humbled himself he never cared about his status when it comes to me and that was what I love about him.But it gets to a certain point when you know someone or you think you know someone and sees their nature but truly they only show us what they want us to see. My mum seems to be that way too, she never for once showed me her weaknesses or act weak around me. My dad was the one mostly at home to take care of me while my mum was at work and it made my relationship with my mom less strong and I was more closer to my dad he was my best friend and when he passed away, I couldn’t bare staying in our house because everything around, they reminded me of him and I know, my mom tried so hard to come close to me but I wouldn’t let her. I realized that this was the major reason I had left New Mexico and came to Phoenix, AZ to avoid my past and get away from everything.Back Then, with my dad by my side I felt untouchable , I never felt the need to find myself s boyfriend I was focused on achieving my dreams and even when I did have one during my college years, I never let them come between my dad and I. But his death shattered me into pieces and finally this day after such a long time of long time of sadness in my dark world it seems like I have began finding myself all over again Because I believed that Andre was a god sent, sent to me to heal my wounded heart and amend my broken parts, so I thought.On the May 7th, was my father’s birthday and I took a day off from my work just to celebrate my dad's birthday alone and relive my memories with him. I started by reading our favorite story “Alice and the wonderland”. He enjoyed reading the story to me as a child and weirdly most nights as an adult . I prepared his favorite, our favorite dish, Italian pasta I could hear his voice in my head saying “ Estupendo!”, to be honest neither of us knows what that word meant up till date and we would crack a joke about how bad we were at speaking Italian. I couldn’t control my tears even if I wanted to. I missed him so very much especially today being his birthday. I took a little break going to the mall to get some lavender scented candles. There was such as long line at the mall I ended up returning a bit later. When I came back home, I continued from where I had stopped and since it was already sunset I lit the scented candles and finish up the decoration on the cake. I went and took a bath then put on my special yellow dress. Dad loves to see me on them and of course it was decent , too decent if I may say. I came back to the living room, “Oh Gosh!” I exclaimed, I had forgotten to get my dad’s favorite record track at mall, I had thought of playing his favorite songs on his special day. I patted my head and thought of what to do next, I checked the time It was already past 9pm, there was no possible I could go to a record store that night. Just when I had thought all hope was lost I heard a knock at the door, I was hesitant at first thinking whom it could be. I said to myself if it was my roommate whom I specifically begged to not come home that very night, I even gave her some money to book a hotel room just for the night and now she has infracted our deal. I had gone to open the door with the motive of scolding the pee out of Rosalie. Though she was the only close friend I made since I came to Phoenix but I was ready to severe my friendship at the moment with her for this but when I opened the door Andre was standing right outside my door.Hailey's POV"What was all that bullshit you did out there?" Colton asked as he banged his hand so hard on the table, it nearly gave me a heart attack.I jumped. " I'm sorry. If it wasn't urgent then..."" Then what? Who do you think you are to barge into my office and create such chaos?" He walked up to me and grabbed my arm." Nobody. I'm a nobody." I said quietly and he let go of me as if he saw through me and then took a few steps back to his desk." What do you want?" He asked as he slowly placed the bottled water back on his table." To save my mother, I need $40,000 for her surgery."He scoffed " That's a huge sum of money, and why do you think I'd give you such an amount?" He asked sitting on the chair behind the desk." I don't know. I guess I don't have a lot of options on my table. I'm just playing all my cards and thats why I came to you."" I can give you forty grand but what do I get in return." He asked stroking his chin." Whatever you want?" I said without hesitation
Hailey's POVWhile I struggled with him, I kept screaming "Help!" hoping the cops would hear my voice and come to my aid.He forcefully dragged me to his office desk and began to strip my pants with his right hand while his left hand clenched my hair and pinned my face on the table.I struggled with him but he overpowered me and stripped my pants off.Just when he was about to force himself onto me, the door was kicked open with a cop at the entrance holding a gun at him." Step away from the lady." He instructed him.Immediately he let go of my hair and pulled assy from me.I heaved a sigh of relief and slumped into the chair behind me.The officer walked over and put a cuff on his wrists." Ma'am, are you okay?" The officer asked and I nodded gently, while I tried to control my emotions.I could feel my hands trembling as I arranged my hair.Suddenly, I recalled that Sam was still held by Roger's men, I hurried out of the office in search of her."Sam!" I called out." Amanda" I he
" you little birdy, think you could fly because you can flap your wings huh? " I hear Mr. Rogers's voice and then the sound of a smack." Oh gosh! I'm so sorry Sam, This is all my fault." I cried within." you should first of all look at your reflection in the mirror before you look in a woman's direction, you fat ugly bastard!" I could hear Sam throwing shades at him." Slap! You have a big mouth bitch!" Mr. Rogers hits her again. " Umm, excuse me? " I wave at the man standing by the door." what?" He retorts rudely." Please I need to use the bathroom for a minute." I requested." I can't let you go, the boss isn't here yet. So you have to hold it." " I wish I could but I have to go!" I stand up from my chair pretending to be pressed by urine." Okay, three minutes. Don't take longer than that." He says pointing towards the boss's bathroom." Okay. Thank you so much! I quickly Stumble into the bathroom and lock the door from the inside. Phew! I heave a sigh with my back against the
" A threesome... With the both of you, he flashes at me and Sam as we turn and gaze at one another. It's going to be fun, besides it's Friday, so, we will take it to the club and finally to a nice hotel, just the three of us. Once we are done the money is yours, it's not a big deal." He mutter.I feel disgusted merely gazing at him, his dirty yellowish teeth, with crusts on the corners of his mouth. Fat as hell and hideous, I don't think I can even stand staying in one room with just him in it.What gave him the impetus to look at us and think of nothing else but to have sex with us simply because we are women, poor, weak, and desperate girls.These types of people are the reason girls have deemed slots in society because they know when a girl is desperately in need of assistance and what do they do? They present such a tempting offer in front of her but with a constraint that requires her to sell herself, her respect to getting what she needs. At the end of the day,
We are here, eventually, my heart won't stop scampering throughout the entire trip. Sam and I make our way into the building which seems like a warehouse of the sort, there are some packaged goods in cartons stacked on the floor by the corner and some men standing and having a chit chat while some are busy arranging and repackaging the unknown goods in the cartons.It didn't look anything like what I had imagined on my way here, at least there isn't a group of varmints puffing smokes while counting stacks of cash, rather the men here seem to be more engrossed with what they are doing and everything seems legal to me." Hey! Excuse me, Sam waves at one of the men standing across the hall as he slowly takes a few steps closer to us with his brows furrow." Yeah? " the man motioned tilting his neck backward in a manner that his chin notches at Sam while he munches on his gum." Pardon me, please where can we find Mr. Roger?"" Oh! Do you mean the boss? Follow me, he says
" Y-yes?" I stammer." Ma'am you only have three days to get the money for the surgery or else... She pauses and sighs. We might not be able to save her." She states.My room was always filled with the echoes of honking car horns and distinct noises of new york city, suddenly in those brief seconds as I hold the phone in my left ear and listening to the doctor without a word. The only thing that encompass my room is an eerie lull which sent a cold shiver and skepticism running down gently in my spine.Could this be a malediction in my fate, why does despair often knocks at my door each time there is a ray of hope and happiness in my life?" Amanda! Amanda! " suddenly I could hear Sam's voice calling out to me as I slowly wipe my tears and look up, our gaze meets." Amanda, I am so sorry for saying all those nasty things to you, I-i don't know what came over me. She turns and places her hand on my shoulder. I just want you to know that you are a part of my streng
" You still haven't told me where we are going, Amanda?" Sam inquires of me.I hear her, however, I seize to answer her and decide to avoid making eye contact with her as the driver continues to our destination." Why aren't you answering any of my questions, will you talk to me?" She rebels.I can sense her gaping at me furiously but I chose to linger on staying mute, she crinkle her arms and frown her face.The taxi Pulls over by the corner after a twenty minutes ride from the coffee shop.I jump out of the car while Sam comes out after me, I keep my hand in my purse and pay off the driver and he zooms out immediately." what are we doing here, why did you bring me here Amanda?" She yells as her face turns crimson." I am so sorry but I have to step in and help you do what you are supposed to, a few days back. So come with me, let's go." I drag her by the arm as we proceed into the cemetery.With the help of Mrs. Torres, I was able to find o
Why do I feel like something is wrong, I could sense that I've missed something trying to understand Sam, is there something she isn't telling me? I could sense something fishy but I can't seem to wrap my hands around it.We got to the shop and I resume my duty immediately, During my entire shift I try talking to Sam, however, she continues to avoid me on each attempt I make, using the term " there is no relation in business." Whenever I come to talk to have a word with her.I understand, perhaps I meddle in other people's matters but she isn't just anyone to me, she is my best friend and a sister to me, and I believe sisters don't keep their pain from one another.I know she is hiding her feelings, something must have happened to her to make her keep faking her smile and harboring so much anger in her heart." An idea! Perhaps I should speak to Mrs.Torres, she must know something." I ponder as I take the empty plates and cup of coffee I recently served a c
It's been a month, a beautiful stress-free month of working with Sam at her coffee and pastry shop. I enjoy every single bit of my time serving and giving all my attention to the customer's needs, I don't think there is a part of my job I didn't like Though it paid a little, however, the fact that I can earn a dollar at the end of the day means so much to me. In barely a month now I have saved up enough cash to buy a new window phone for myself, at least now I will be proficient to browse the internet and socialize via social media, and of course with my fake identity and a picture of some celebrity or nature on my wall.I try to keep everything about me clandestine and it seems to be working perfectly, Eventually, my life is turning out to be stress-free with some happy mode activated, though, sometimes Sam can be a little uptight and inflexible when it comes to the subject of how to make some changes with the coffee shop, however, I understand what she is doing, making an eff
Where Love lies (A Mafia's obsession and CEO's ❤) is a mafia novel by Chantal Perez with a theme of a love triangle. After Hailey marries Andre, a mafia and obsessive ex-drug addict, he starts abusing her. When she loses her child, she runs away and starts working in New York as Colton's personal assistant, a widower, and CEO of a huge legal firm. Soon, they start falling for each other and it seems like everything is slowly getting better. However, that's exactly when Hailey's past comes back to haunt her. Read the novel to learn what happens next.
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