I sighed, "I never got over them, I never got comfort, never got closure, I was carrying this invincible pain that no one could see. I started things up, got a scholarship to go to college, got multiple jobs, graduated well, and got a good job. I loved my job; I was so good at it. It made me think less about my sad life and focus more on building the company. And that's what I did. Until I lost it, I started slipping into depression again, Kathy could see it all over me. And to top it all up, the day I lost my job was my parents death anniversary, so it was a lot. I went to their graves after I got my resignation letter, and I cried my heart out; I cursed them, and I cried that I missed them. I was alone in this world, and nothing made sense to me anymore; I didn't even see the use of living because what was I living for? I gave myself more than enough time to grieve. When I was done crying, I went to the club that day, and that was when I met you..", I slowly slipped into th
LAURA**I threw away what seemed to be the remains of the 7th cigarette I had lit today."That was your mistake, not mine".Those words Luther said to me still echoed in my head. I have been a fool all my life. All I've ever done was beg for love from someone who never wanted me.I knew it, I knew he did but I couldn't bring myself to believing it, now it was all clear, very very clear.Luther's father had given Ivy the position of the Cowper's father heiress whether or not she decides to stay with him, she was now officially part of the family; a family that I played on role in building from scratch.A one night stand just walked in and stole everything from me.I cursed and poured myself another glass of alcohol.Obsession is a cruel thing, it truly is."Rough night?", my mother asked coming behind me.I rolled my eyes, I am not ready for any of this, at all."If you're here to convince me that I shouldn't give up on Danger then please leave", I said calmly.She was part of the fa
IVY * * Laura was sitting in Luther's office when I walked in, I sighed, here we go again. She turned to me and smiled, "Hello, Ivy," she said in a tone I'd never heard her use. I looked at Luther; he looked back at me; we had the same look on our faces; What the fuck?? "Uhm... Hello", I said. "You look pale; pregnancy is a bitch, huh?" she asked again. I looked at Luther again, "Uhhh... yeah". "What's going on?", I asked. "Laura said she wanted to see you", Luther said finding it hard to believe himself. He had a gun on his table, so I'm guessing he doesn't trust her to be genuine and he's ready if she tries anything funny. "See me?", I asked. The last time we spoke, I said a lot of things to her that I do low-key regret, so I know she has nothing good to tell me. "Well, we never actually got to know each other well, and all, so I thought we could do some girly stuff while at it, maybe go shopping or something. " Luther laughed. Yeah, girly stuff like st
"You know this would have been a lot better if Ben wasn't hawking around us", Laura groaned."So you can kill Ivy and hide her dead body and let Don kill me? No way", he stated.She rolled her eyes, "Anyway, how do you like this Chanel bag?" she asked, handing me this ginger-colored bag.It fit my hair color perfectly."It's beautiful", I stated.Oh, and it's also $10,000. Yeah, I'll pass."Good let's add this to the cart and head home", she said.I paused, "Let's be for real here; what are you playing at? Why are you doing all this? The last time we spoke, you looked like you were going to kill me, and now, all of a sudden, you want to be nice to me?"."Exactly; the last time we spoke, things went ba,d, okay? And you're going to be my boss soon, God knows the things you could do to me, I'm trying to not let you think about all of that ", she said."You're still obsessed with Luther; how could you just be okay with it all of a sudden?"It's a silly crush; I'll get over it with time; a
Someone had been ringing the doorbell for a long time now, and no one answered it, so I went to check it out myself. It was a delivery guy. "Hi", I said. "Good day, ma'am; we're to deliver this to an Ivy Cowper?". My cheeks flared, he didn't just call me that, did he? "That will be me", I said. "Okay, it came in from Mr. Luther Cowper; please sign this here", he said, handing me a pen. Luther? Why is Luther sending me something when he can just get it here himself? I signed it anyway and took the box from him, thanked him, and went back inside. I dropped the box on the couch. What if it wasn't from Luther? What if it was from Laura and it was a bomb or something?? No, Laura wouldn't go that far to kill me, at least not yet. Or so I think. I opened the box and paused in surprise. It was a dress, a green dress, a very, very pretty green dress. I have no idea how he knew he knew my favorite color, but this was so pretty, and it had a pair of silver heels to match it. The
IVY * * I smiled. No I was blushing!! "A helicopter?", I asked smiling. "Yeahh, you scared of height?", he asked. No it's just... I... I've never been in one before ". "Good, there's a first time for everything ", he said. "I... I'm sorry what is going on?", I asked nervous as fuck. "Where's going on a date on a Helicopter, what else?". "Why?", I asked calmly. He shrugged. "We should get to know each other better, right?" I nodded slowly... right. "Good", he stretched out his hands. I took it and he walked me to the helicopter. It was so loud when we get closer. He gave Ben and sign and he responded and then left. He helped me up and we got in. "Wait are you the one flying this?", I yelled because I could barely hear my voice. ,He nodded. Okay I shouldn't be worried?? I mean should I? "Do you even know how to fly it?", I asked genuinely worried.He chuckled."Yes Ivy", he said strapping a belt on me and him."Now just sit back and relax", he said.Relax? hell no
Ivy **This was the Luther I met that night at the party, and the best part is that he's not drunk, there are no people around to say it's pretence, it's just the two of us so I know this is real."Living in an orphanage was kinda a bit fun if we're being honest. I had like 99 other siblings. We got to share everything together, from food to clothes and all.But then as time went on the people I was close to got adopted and for some reason, I was never picked"."They're all crazy not to pick you , I'd literally pick you in a room filled with kids, literally ", he said munching down on his pork chops.I smiled a little, he's been saying things to make me smile a lot tonight.Like he is so sweet and caring.I could never imagine him being like this to me, I've pinched myself like three times already and it's actually real."Okay so I want to ask, what was your relationship with Laura before I got into the picture? be honest".He shrugged, "Wasn't anything serious ", he said."With the
"So I heard you Went on a date with Danger last weekend", Laura stated. I could swear she's been wanting to talk about it the very moment she saw me. "Yeah", I said moving over to the other side of the boutique so she wouldn't talk about it again. But she followed. "Helicopter date huh?, that's cute", she chirped in again. "Yeah it was ". "I mean it's cute but I would never became like, I'm supper scared of heights", she said again. Bitch I don't care. "Oh ... okay" "Yeah, so did you have fun?". "Yeah I did", I said picking a by green lacy dress that looked so gorgeous. "Oh Danger doesn't like that color, I wore it one time and he said I looked like a twig", she said laughing. "Oh really? because that's kinda the color of the dress I wore to the date last week, which he got for me ", I stated. Laura looked shocked, she tried to maintain composure. "Oh... oh wow", she tried not to scoff, "That's, that's so surprising, I could have sworn he called me a twig when I wore som
LAURA *I barged into my mom's room unexpectedly and there was this guy giving her heads under the sheets.He got out immediately."Get the fuck out!", I yelled."Oh c'mon Laura, can't this wait", she so caught up in the moment "Luther is dropping Mafia!", I announced."Huh?"."Man get out!", I yelled again.The dude got his ass up and went into the living room.I turned back to her, "Mom I need to kill Ivy El Fuego, I need to, I'm so tired of this bitch!"."What does she have to do with all of this? I thought she was out of the picture?"."He's changing because of her. She can't be with a serial killer and put her life in danger, he wants to drop everything to be with her"."But that's bad, that's terrible I mean we could die. He's what's protecting us, we're under the protection of The Cowper family, and if there is no Cowper family Cartel there is no us", she panicked."Exactly!".She sat up and rubbed her temples."I have to talk to him, we have to talk to him, he's going to loo
Why is my life so fucken complicated. A year ago, I was this weird as girl working my ass out for a days meal at my office, being as weird as usual.. Today, I'm standing in the white house for the president's birthday. You heard me right well. Martins took me to the white house to celebrate the president's birthday. Yes, in Washington, we took a private jet to Washington.When I asked him why he did it, he said something about connection and power and influence and some other things I really didn't hear because I was still in shock.I never ever expected to be seated in the same room with the president of the united state. Everything went so fuzzy and fast and before I knew it, it was all over and we were heading back home. We didn't stay back for socialization and all because I told him I was having social anxiety."Did you enjoy yourself?", he asked."I... I don't even know", I said still caught up In the moment."Well, there's plenty from where that came from", he said We start
"Luther", I said."No ivy, you can't stop me from liking you, or being attracted to you. You can stop me from being with you or being around you but you can't control my emotions and you can't control I make with my emotions because of you"."What if everything goes wrong, what if everything goes wrong, how am I supposed to live with the thought of ruining your life your family, everything".He held my hands gently and looked me deep in the eyes."I've never lost a battle Ivy, and not especially if it's one that has to do with you", he said.I swallowed hard, "What if... what if I don't want to love back, what if I'm not attracted to you, don't you think all this is a waste?", I said trying to convince him not to.He shrugged, "Are you not attracted to me?".I opened my mouth to speak but words... words refuse to obey me.Attracted? I am Way Beyond attracted."I don't know", I whispered."You said that things will be different if I wasn't a killer, and I can't go back to the past an
IVY**I asked Luther if he was in Miami and he said he already went back to LA, so I asked if he could come back and he said he would, because I wanted to see him.Ever since I had that conversation with Laura in my office I've been shaking, visibly shaking. Laura looked so scared when she was talking. Like other times she'd threaten me but this time around she was literally begging me to talk To Luther and I don't even know what to think.He walked into the lounge we agreed on, he was a share holder in it so he just booked the entire place for us.He looked so dreamy when he walked in.It's so painful and sad that you want someone but you can't just have the person. He smiled brightly when he saw me, I wish I could return it but I couldn't. Not with what was happening."Hi", he said soon as he approached me."Hi", I replied trying to act normal."You look... gorgeous... as always", he compliment.I gave a small smile."You said you wanted to see me... that it was urgent?", he aske
IVY**I was in my office today having a meeting when Laura barged in and boy did she look pissed."Laura what is it?", I asked standing up because she looked like she was about to make trouble."I want to talk to you privately", she stated."Can we have this conversation later, I'm in a meeting", I said."Now!""Laura, I'm sorry but-""Don't let me fucken repeat myself".I sighed and rubbed my temples. What the fuck is going on.I left LA to here to be at peace and away from all this drama and of course it has followed me down here.I excused my staffs and they left."What last did you see Danger?".Oh my gosh this again?"Laura don't tell me you made me end a meeting to talk about -""When last did you see Danger?", I raged."The night you dragged me to that club"."Don't fucken lie to me Ivy"."I'm dead serious, I don't even know where he is or anything about it"."When last did you talk to him?"."Last week, when he helped me find my family.. it's... it's a long story and -"."Iv
LAURA **Something was up with Luther and I knew it. He's been in Miami for the past two months, I know he hasn't been seeing Ivy because I've been stalking them, but there was something he was up to.First of all, I spoke with Ben the other time and we randomly talked about the deal we sealed with the Italians mobs and he was very confused about it. He said there was no deal with them that they were people that came to meet Ivy and that there was no drug exchanged, but Luther did give me my cut so it didn't make sense.When I asked him why he's been here, he said work stuff, but Ben also mentioned that Luther hasn't done anything work related since he got back from London. He's been clean and the only deal he's been sealing was legit money works which was very unusual.I decided to go and see him myself and confirm what the fuck."Danger we need to talk", I said soon as I got to his house.He was in the living room with his designer testing out new coats."What's up?"."What game a
"Why didn't she just tell you she was kidnapped and still alive?", I asked."Girl, I don't know, I asked her a lot of times and she never gave me an answer. So yeah after two months her cover got blown and Amber came to rescue me and found out everything his father was involved in... it was sickening, very very sickening. My best friend Sam, she's a Lawyer, she decides to take the case up .... a lot of lawyer's had tried and they all got mysterious killed by your dad"."My father was worse than Luther", I exclaimed."He is the worse man to exist, don't you dare compare him to Luther"."So... she does, she gets kidnapped by your father's best friend who is also deeply involved in the case. He also kidnaps my twin sister, we get them. Ready to leave. We're in the ship, Mayfair. The one that you know my childhood trauma's and all, and my sister is decorated with bombs that are ready to explode, we can't save her, we have to run, we say our goodbyes, and we run out, the ship explodes, sh
" I am found alive on the shore, people find me, I reunite with my dad and we become very low-key, he says he's quitting Mafia, but of course the consequences will follow, he has no protection anymore and his enemies are after us, me in particular. He sends me to new york to get a degree, I go to Harvard, get two degrees and was going for my masters when he calls me back home and I meet a wedding dress and a wedding card, my wedding card. A wedding was planned for me to marry Amber, I fucken freaked out"."Wait, your marriage with my brother was not consensual? you too look so in love", I said because it was so unreal, they act like all this cute IG couples."It wasn't, I refused and my dad said he enemies were coming for me, he didn't want to loose me and the only person that can protect me was another dangerous Mafia Don. Of course, one fire to another. I swear I didn't want to but he begged me to "."What if it ended up being an old twig with a pot belly?", I asked because she took
I took a moment to take everything in. "So my dad ... our dad just got sentenced to death? meaning he's a criminal...was a criminal... our mother committed suicide because she couldn't handle being with my dad... You use to do his dirty jobs for him which means you were somehow involved in this... You're telling me I should get myself involved in this kind of dysfunctional family", I asked. "You don't have to at all honestly, you don't, but just let it be known that you have a family that has been looking for you for years. And trust me this is... the greatest thing that has happened to us in a very very long time, so we're so happy that you're alive, we really are", Amber said. I sat back and relaxed. I think there's something attracting me to toxicity, and I see where it's coming from, my family! this is my bloodline. "Soo... are you in anyway currently involved in the Mafia?", I asked. "No, we're all cleaned, drop all that shit a long time ago" Aaron said. "So you can actua