Chapter 30KYOMI POVThe following day was a mishmash of aching body, confusion, and heartache as the density of my epiphany fully sank in. The third day with only my thoughts to feed from my sanity had finally blurred the edges of the world into soft, smudged black lines. The warm walls of Vincenzo Russo’s lavish mansion closed in on me like they were breathing; alive. If the experts somehow found me in that position, they would declare me legally unstable. I lay curled on top of the bed, not under it where monsters and demons lurked. Covers felt too heavy on my body, too much, with a drizzle of phantom comfort I sure as hell didn’t need. I stared at the white dot on the ceiling wondering just how that freak let it be there, desperately trying to jot everything down to another play of my imagination. A cold, manifestation of my visceral nightmares and hallucinations. I figured that hunger may have exhausted my mind so badly that I was starting to see things that were actually not
Chapter 29 KYOMI POV The door closed behind me with a soft click, and I ceased breathing. I blinked, twice, thrice, my mind folding into itself inside me. Great numbness took hold all over my body, and I sank to the carpeted floor with sticky tears still clinging to my cheeks. My chest felt hollow, a gaping hole expanding wider and deeper in a space where my heart once lay cradled in the cocoon of my ribs. My cheek made contact with the soft carpet, and somehow I hated just how soft it was. A stark contrast to the harshness of my reality. I hated the phantom comfort it seemed to provide, slowly pulling me into the epiphany of my cold situation. A deceitful act of comfort. Everything about this place, every single damn thing including the people who walked around the corridors, were all deceiving lying bastards. Even the damn carpet! My eyes were snapped wide while I stared particularly into nothing. An image of that one perfect bullet hole on my brother’s forehead played on on
Chapter 28 KYOMI POV My whole body trembled as I stared at the picture, my eyes darting everywhere around it. I didn’t want to believe it, it had to be a nightmare. A cruel, ruthless nightmare and I prayed that somebody was going to shake me awake from the bad dream.But it was him. Even in that state of pure shock, there was no denying it. It was my brother, and the severed hand on the floor was his.My knees collided with the cold floor as all the energy left me, a pained sob rocking my body. I folded like crumbled paper against the floor, my lungs opening up for a loud scream.“KYOMI.’ A loud authoritative voice called out from behind me. A few seconds later I was folded up and bundled in warm tight embrace. I crumbled further, my hands seeking for something to hold onto. Vincenzo’s custom cologne filled my senses and I broke harder. He murmured something in Italian against my hair before barking a series of orders I couldn’t quite comprehend. It was all too loud, too damn conf
Chapter 27 KYOMI POVDays went by and Vincenzo and I fell into a little routine. He would wake up in the mornings, do his usual exercises that always had me drooling over his hot body, and then wash up before hiding in his office. Some days he would go out, point a finger at me and command ‘be a good girl,’ then come back in the evening; to eat the food I cooked, and then he would cuddle me and ask me about my day. It was a little cocoon of warmth I found myself wrapped inside, and somehow, in a very twisted, fucked up way, I loved it. Of all the things I came to learn, one of them was that he had been right. I was not cut out to work at the pandemonium. The place brought back dark memories to my brain whenever I thought about it. And I was better off washing off his laundry and cooking him hot meals. He seemed complacent with the little arrangement and honestly, I couldn’t ask for more. I walked into the kitchen on light steps. It was a little in the noon and I figured I could p
Chapter 26VINCENZO POVLater that night in bed, we laid side by side in silence, her back against my chest and my feet curled up behind hers. Her plump ass was pushed to the crevice of my thighs, making my hard cock to be nuzzled between the lush cheeks. It was nothing but serenity that reigned in that room. I had thought happiness meant been chosen as the candidate of the syndicate after slaving my ass off from the moment I was brought up in it; but this… This was bliss. This was everything no money could ever afford and everything doomed souls could ever want.At some point, I tried to ask her about the little encounter with Kara, because I knew it was not girls’ talk. Kara was close to hitting my girl and I just couldn’t wait to hear what all that was about. But she shrugged it off and told me she was never going to tell me. I should have known better than to expect her to rat someone. She was just not wired like that. With a heavy sigh, I rested my head at the back of hers and
Chapter 25KYOMI POVI had no idea how I was still alive, especially after that cluster fuck of trying to play hero and saving ten men from having their fingers severed and openly disobeying a certain somebody who was so convinced that anybody who went against what he said deserved a cruel death. But there I was, my body leaning against the closed doors as I tried to calm my pounding heart in my chest, trying to make sense of what had just happened.. Yes, he was so livid. And one thing I came to realize was that his anger didn’t brew from the fact that his men left their positions to have dinner; although that was a piece of a puzzle, somebody was angry at something else. One, he was mad that I cooked in his absence and was so certain that I did not count him when I prepared the meal, and two; he hated the fact that I knelt in front of everybody else. Yahp. Now calm the fuck down dear heart because my captor was a damn possessive prick who wanted me to belong to him and him only.