Se connecterWhen Bianca spoke about how she still needed to go to the florist the next morning, the Masters exchanged looks. Without looking up, St Just declared casually, as he buttered his toast,“I’ll come with you.”*The family was assembled around the dining table in the spacious dining room, having their breakfast. Beth and Anna had been ticking off the things left to be done before the Big Day.Using their tablets, they were methodically crossing out the things they had already done. Bianca smiled at them lovingly. She would never stop thanking her good fortune for having such wonderful half-sisters. Of course, one part of her wished that their mother, her stepmother, Heather, had also been alive to see this day. But…she sighed and focussed on the conversation with an effort.Beth and Anna, who had also come to stay until the wedding, looked from one to the other, puzzled.“We’ll go with her, Saint,” piped up Anna, who had Cian beside her and was feeding him scrambled eggs.Bianca, looki
When Bianca entered the house after the surprise party thrown by her friends, she was still thinking of the pictures she had seen on her phone. The Pet had gone to great lengths to keep this information from her Master's, unwilling to rock the boat before the wedding.She did not know what exactly she feared, but she wanted this wedding to go on without a hitch.One part of her believed that finding out about Snake’s obsession with her, might cause the Masters to want to postpone the wedding. And that was not something she wanted. After having borne two children out of wedlock, she wanted her third child to be legally born.*It was almost 3 in the morning when the car drove into the basement garage. Barry’s men immediately jumped out and guided her upstairs to the apartment.But when Bianca entered the house, exhausted and pale, she saw that the living room lights were blazing. Gripped by a sudden, uncertain sense of fear, she stopped in the doorway, as the two Masters turned to fa
Later that night, Liam O’Grady walked into the penthouse apartment he shared with his sibling, their wife-to-be and their two children.It was an apartment that they would be shifting out of, soon after the wedding, for the brothers had already bought a small house in the countryside, close to Claude Delano’s Bratva house. The new house that wsa being built by the Masters was supposed to be a surprise wedding gift for the Pet, who had no idea such a plan had been hatched. It was large enough for them and their future children, as the men chuckled, exchanging smiles.The residence was a modest country home nestled among rolling green fields, a short walk from the shimmering waters of a peaceful lake. Built in a simple, traditional style, it had white-painted walls, a sloping roof, and wide windows that let in plenty of sunlight. A wooden porch wrapped around the front, furnished with a few rocking chairs where adults could sit and enjoy the view.The house had eight bedrooms, for the
Snake stepped back into the shadow of the alley he had been standing in, watching Bianca. Waiting for an opportunity.He guessed that Bianca was beginning to feel spooked. The misshapen man dressed in a long coat and wearing sunglasses and a hat chortled silently when he saw how Bianca looked around, nervousness written large on her face.A homeless man who was searching for food in the large dumpster behind him shot him a searching look before the man turned back to rummaging in the bins.Snake had managed to find out where they were headed next, and he followed their car discreetly, his loyal driver keeping a careful distance between them to avoid anyone suspecting them of tailing Bianca’s fleet of cars. Alex Van Dyke was very protective of his little wife and children, and when they went out, he ensured that a handful of bodyguards rode along with them and followed in a car. Since this time, Bianca Cruz was also along; her Masters had also provided the necessary guards for her pro
Bianca had no idea, but she had a real reason to be frightened. Snake had been watching their every move; his attention was entirely focused on Bianca. Somehow, she was the centre of his undisguised hatred. He needed to kill her, he told himself. The fact that Alex Van Dyke and Roxanne had been the reason for his disfigurement was something his obsessed mind had conveniently overlooked. All his hatred was fixated upon Bianca Cruz, who was preparing for her Big Day.Wythe tried to warn him, attempted to put him off.“Look, Snake,” said Aaron Wythe, his lean, once-handsome face tense as he studied the man sitting before him, the face that was destroyed and definitely frightening in its malevolence as Snake raised his single eye to study him.“Forget that Cruz girl. Jana Rudenko won’t be backing you up there. She’s got bigger fish to fry.”The reality was that the Rudenko woman was finding it hard to survive now, because the Delano mob, under the strong leadership of Piers Delano, was go
Bianca was immediately swept up in the things happening around them. Serena Kingston had given birth to a delightful little baby girl, and Bianca had rushed to the hospital to meet her dear friend.The scene at the hospital filled her with love. Bianca was a born mother, and the sight of Serena, who had undergone such pain, such difficulty, at the hands of the people who would have killed her to teach the Delano family a lesson, was still fresh in Bianca’s mind.Serena had been in a coma for days after the brutal attack she had faced.But now, as he lay, looking pale and yet satisfied, her eyes still red rimmed with exhaustion and with the force of having brought a little squabbling infant into the world, she beamed at Bianca.The infant was in a crib beside her mother, and Louis Delano looked completely different from his usual dapper self. A little girl, her face crinkled and pink, with tufts of red hair on her head.“She’s adorable,” sighed Bianca.He was bending over the cradle,
Rudy spun around. A slight creaking sound alerted him. Dusk had fallen, and there was little light in the narrow ley. He stood, listening carefully, tuned to the sound of the night. A creak of a window, long past repair. The sigh of the wind as it shifted down the desolate alley.And…Something was
Lucien Delano paused for a moment and glanced at the once-shiny number that had been printed on the door.Room 302.The room where he had been instructed to enter by the kidnapper.The distorted voice had called to give details about handing over the ransom the previous day.Lucien Delano could sti
The hospital room was dimly lit, bathed in the low hum of machines and the steady, rhythmic beeping of the heart monitor. In the middle of the sterile white room lay Serena Kingston—still, pale, and heartbreakingly fragile. Tubes ran from her nose and arms, machines breathing for her, measuring the
he hospital room was still, quiet except for the soft hum of the machines and the rhythmic beeping of the heart monitor. Pale morning light filtered through the half-drawn blinds, laying stripes of warmth across the woman's motionless form.Serena’s eyelids fluttered once, then again, longer this t







