She felt the cold nuzzle of the gun against her forehead, she closed her eyes tightly and prepared for the worst.
This was definitely not how she expected her second day in a foreign country to turn out."One wrong move..." She felt his hot breath on her face, his baritone voice sent shivers down her spine.She didn't want to open her eyes because she couldn't meet his gaze again."...and I'll blow up that pretty face of yours."Then the nuzzle went lower and lower till it was pressed against her neck and something warm hovered over her lips."We wouldn't want that now, would we?"She blew out a shaky breath and opened her eyes to look at the man who towered over her small frame. Menacing eyes met hers and his thumb rested on her lips.Dark brown eyes stared back at her."What's your answer going to be?"She couldn't stand on her own two feet, how was she to reply?" Yes... I'll do it!"As she fought back tears, she couldn't help but think about all that led her up to this moment...TWO DAYS EARLIER...Blood…She could almost taste it, it was calling her… telling her to bleed. Make yourself bleed!Rain splashes water on her face, she stares at her reflection in the mirror. Her eyes were bloodshot, her hands that held the bathroom sink trembled , .Fear, fear….the words kept repeating in her head, she wanted to forget because those memories brought back fear, reminded her of what would’ve been or what might still be.There was an open pocket knife right next to the silver faucet, the sound of running water seemed to add to her frustrations, clouding her mind even more.She turns it of, the voices stop, the ringing in her ears disappears.She exhales slowly, looking at the person in the mirror doing the exact same thing. She grabs the pocket knife and puts it into the right pocket of her jean jacket where she had also kept her phone.She wasn’t sure how much longer the people outside the bathroom could wait, they had had been knocking for so long and she was pretty sure they were about to break down the door in anger.“Almost done!” Rain yelled out. She picked up the contents of her purse that had spilled into the sink and dried them with a paper towel. She did not bother to check her reflection one last time before she left.She couldn’t bear to see what she had become, what her last had made her become despite the fact that she fought so hard against it, against being broken.She exited the airport bathroom. As she opened the door, she saw a short lady standing there with a dissatisfied expression and her hands on her waist. sShe was desperately looking for who to pour her frustrations on.“Is there a problem Miss? Why are you blocking my way?”The lady scoffs, Rain found it funny how the woman had to raise her head to look at her. Rain was talker than most women, which made her stand out in a lot of places.Her 5ft8inches height was intimidating to most men but not all of them…Rain shook her head, clearing the thoughts if that man out of her head.“I have been knocking for close to ten minutes and yet here you are saying such rubbish, shouldn’t you be like… apologizing?” the lady’s voice was squeaky, as small as her voice… Rain mused.“Is that the reason why you’re standing in front of me looking like a fucking sippy cup for toddlers?” she stared at the woman waiting for a reply. The woman gasped in outrage, her face now red with anger. Rain noticed how the woman’s fists clenched tightly.How nice if a story it would be, to beat up a short lady in front of an airport bathroom.“You rude bitch!” The woman said through gritted teeth. Rain chuckles “I’ve been called worse, trust me”The woman stomps her feet on the ground and then closes her eyes. Rain raises a brow, waiting to see what the woman would do next, her hands crossed over her chest.The woman breaths in deeply and exhales “Anyways… I do not have time for the likes of you!”Rain stares for a few seconds and then scoffs.“How fucking boring” she leaves the woman standing with her mouth agape.Rain sighs in disappointment as she makes her way to the entrance of the airport, she drags her luggage behind her grudgingly tempted to just throw it in the trash but then again she was in a foreign land and she was not ready to walk around her brother’s house naked.A taxi stops in front of her and with a frustrated groan she enters the taxi.“Good afternoon miss!” The man had a thick French accent, she almost did not understand what he was saying. “Where will you be heading today?”Rain sighs, it wasn’t supposed to be like this.She hands over the address clumsy scribbled on a small piece of paper she had torn out of he post it note book. The driver gives it one look and then nods, he laughs like he had just hit the jackpot.“yes, yes I know the place miss” then he starts the engine. Rain could only see the back of the man’s head but she could see how excited he was, which meant two things, either he is a serial killer or the place her brother lives is really far from the airport and she would have to pay the man a ton of money.She honestly hoped it was the latter or else her brother would really suffer in her hands. He had practically begged her to come. sShe had a panic attack in the bathroom reminding her if just how foolish her decision to enter a country which she had never been before was.“So, is this your first time here?” the driver tried to make small talk, Rain groaned, she didn’t want to come off as rude considering the fact that the driver looked a bit elderly but in all honesty she was not in the mood to speak.“Is it that obvious?” She didn’t mean for her tone to come out so snarky, she seemed to have caught the driver off guard probably leaving him to wonder what exactly he did wrong that made her sound so upset and angry.“Well…” the driver clears his throat, their eyes meet in the rearview mirror before Rain looks away.“…I’ve picked up a lot of tourists from the airport before and you don’t look or dress like one but with the way you’re trying so hard not to look outside the windows and see the scenery, it is very obvious that this is your fist time here… um… miss” he sounded nervous, like he was afraid she would get upset by his words again.Rain shrugs “Huh…I guess I gave myself away then” she says, she then forces herself to look out the window. Even though she didn’t want to. Her brother had told her countless time that it was a beautiful country and that he would’ve like if she moved in with him and blah blah.He had said she would fall in love with the country the second she sees it, so she has been avoiding trying to see it.“You will love it here miss, as long as you stay in the right places, Italy is one of the best countries in the world!” the driver says.“Is that why you left your country to drive taxis in Italy?”The driver nods excited. “There is so much fun in my job miss, I would not trade it for anything!”How nice, he gets to have fun everyday driving a taxi.“Must be nice” Rain mumbles under her breath and looks out the window, he said stay in the right places which means that the country is not all that butterflies and rainbows.Rain dailed her brother’s number for the third time in the hour since she had left the airport, he still was not answering which got her pissed…has he forgotten that he was supposed to pick her up from the airport or at least be at home when she arrives?Rain sighs. The journey was taking way too long and she was getting tired if sitting in the taxi for too long, she had already spent twelve hours on the plane, she wasn’t sure her ass could handle it anymore.“How long till we reach our destination?” Rain asks the drive , they had both been in silence for the last hour so hearing her voice startled the driver.“Uh…in about an hour, we will arrive there miss”“An hour?!” Rain groaned and tried not to vent on the driver.“Fuck me…” she cursed under her breath.The receptionist kept staring, it took him a while to figure out that he was still staring. His eyes widened and he cleared his throat awkwardly. “W…what can I help you with, Miss?” He said, his voice sounded gravely, like he wasn’t used to speaking or something like that.Rain was drenched from head to toe, she was beginning to feel the cold despite how much warmer the reception was. It was beginning to affect her mood as well but she tried her best to make sure it didn’t, she did not want to be rude to the young receptionist she had only just met. He looked to be at least twenty years old or maybe younger so it was safe to say that she was slightly older than him.“House number 108,” the polite smile still on her lips, “I need the directions to 108 please”The young man looked momentarily dazed and his gaze was directed at her lips rather than her eyes, she was used to such stares. Her mother had always told her that she had unique features, the type that would captivate any ma
“If I’m barking up the wrong tree then why do you look so fucking nervous?” Nicholas looked up at the man that had a menacing grin and towered over him like a giant, Nicholas was on his knees but his gaze was firm as he looked at the man. He was bald, he had dark green eyes that looked like being angry was it’s natural shape, he had a small scar running down from his top to bottom lip, his fists were clenched tightly and he looked like he could explode from anger at any given moment. “I didn’t steal anything from you, we’re business partners, I benefit from you just as much as you do from me so tell me Vlad, why in the world would I steal from you when I know the dangers that come with it?"Vlad’s anger seemed to get worse the more Nicholas spoke. Rain stood by the bedroom door, the empty gun clutched tightly in her fists that were beginning to shake out of fear for her brother’s life. Nicholas’ brown curls stick to face due to the sweat he was drenched in, his red and widened in
First thing she could register in her mind was the dull ache at the back of her head that was slowly getting worse the more she regained her consciousness. Then, there was the scent of roses in the air, the scent was so strong that it felt like she was sitting in a field where roses grew and she was trapped there. Everything was still dark and Rain couldn’t move her body but she could feel the pain and she could feel the hotness on her skin. Was she being taken to an oven? Why was it so hot? As her mind wandered through the endless possibilities of where exactly she was and why she felt the way she did, the memories of what happened before she passed out came rushing back to her and her eyes snapped open. “F*ck!” she exclaimed. It was so bright! She couldn’t see anything! She closed her eyes again and raised her hands up so she could run her eyes that were suddenly in pain from the exposure to light. Her hands wouldn’t budge, they were right behind her and they wouldn’t move,
To say Rain was shocked or stunned by Alexander’s words would be an understatement. What was comforting was that she wasn’t the only one shocked by the man’s words. Both Romeo and Vlad voiced out their shocks and protests in Italian but Alexander didn’t act like he heard anything. His eyes were still on Rain, his cocked up eyebrow and silence made Rain realize that he wasn’t planning on repeating himself because everyone had heard him clearly. Nicholas was looking at his sister with widened eyes and then he looked back at Alexander like he was a mad man. “Xander—” “I wasn’t talking to you, Nicholas,” his voice dropped dangerously and his eyes narrowed. He suddenly turned his now impatient gaze back to Rain after successfully shutting Nicholas up. Rain fiddled with her fingers and tried her best to meet his gaze but who was she kidding? She was scared shitless and she wasn’t sure why and how she got into this position and why a man as dangerous as Alexander would suggest such a
“I am so sorry,” Nicholas held his sister’s hand but his eyes couldn’t meet hers. Rain wasn’t sure if it was because he was exhausted or just ashamed. Her eyes took in his features, she hadn’t seen him in five good years and she had a feeling that after everything that had happened, this was probably the last time in a long time she would see her brother again. “What’s done is done,” Rain replied, although she was mad at her brother for always making bad decisions, he was the only family she had and despite being scared shitless of what would come next, she was relieved that she didn’t have to deal with the haunting image of her brother lying lifeless on the ground. “You have to pay him back as soon as possible Nicky! This people are dangerous…I don’t know why you even got involved with them in the first place!” "When you get back to your place if you can, my bank cards are there...I have saved up a lot but I don't know if it'll cover much but just empty the accounts and start pay
“I’m guessing you haven’t had breakfast yet,” he said sounding like he wasn’t the cause of it “How terrible of a host I’ve been,” He gave her a small smile and then stood up from his seat and walked towards the door. Rain got up as well, it would be weird if she were the only person left in his study. “Let’s head to the kitchen and see if we can get some food in your stomach,” Rain was hesitant but she followed him either ways. Something about the man and the way he was acting unnerved her, maybe it was because she expected to be man handled or held at gun point every step of the way but instead he was being nice or rather, he was acting nice. Rain knew better than to fall for that façade of his. From the moment she first set eyes on him, she knew he was dangerous and she’d be damned if she let her guard down just because of the most sexiest smile she had ever seen. The man was tall, she thought as she admired his back view. His ass looked good in those pants as well. If it were
Rain couldn’t sleep a wink after Aldo left her in the cabin. When she’d first heard the word cabin, she half expected it to be a building deep inside of the woods but it was not. She saw what the outside of the mansion looked like for the first time and it just as magnificent as the interior, the building was ages old but didn’t lose its beauty, it was practically alive, an art…a piece of amazing architecture that she was sure had lasted decades if not longer. “It has been the Guerriero family home for as long as I can remember, generations were born here and great men were raised in this house,” Aldo had said along the way. He wasn’t nearly as quiet as she had expected him to be instead he acted like he knew her…he was the only person that seems normal in the mansion. There was acres and acres of land spread out in front and back of the mansion and it made Rain wonder if she even had a chance to escape. She didn’t really give him a reply. They passed by a few menacing looking men
There was no way for Rain to tell what time it was but she knew that the time the door was finally opened next was very early in the morning. She half expected it to be Aldo and another part of her that she wished was wrong expected it to be Alexander. It was neither of them.It was a woman she had never seen before, she was petite, had a head full of grey hair, she looked to be in her late fifties or maybe early sixties but she looked energetic and she had a natural scowl on her lips like she was angry at Rain, or maybe the world?. She was dressed in a flower patterned dress but Rain could bet her ass that there was nothing flowery about the woman, judging from her expression.She walked into the cabin, dragging two bags behind her. One was hers, the one she had left and didn’t bother to unpack and the second was one she couldn’t recognize but it was bigger than her own luggage. Rain stood up as quickly as she could, already on high alert as she knew the woman was approaching h