Chapter 1

Chapter 1

Kelly

There's a moment between impact and realisation that you're about to hit the ground a wise person once said that; when you fall down you are in free fall, you don't realise that gravity is going to pull you down and the minute gravity pulls you down that's when you can feel the impact and pain of the events that had just transpired and falling down isn't falling down if you don't feel pain . Is the realisation that you're hurt and it's accepting that you're in pain and you had no control over what had just happened.

There's also a point during that free fall or during your body being suspended into midair that you and you're about to hit the floor and everything that you've been through including; The good The bad The ugly all the trials and tribulations , we're in preparation for moments of impact but the impact that you are never prepared for us the one that you never see it's the one that you never see it coming to its like you are going about your day normally or trying to do something that is kind and then out of the blue out of nowhere something bad happens.

Being in a foreign country and going to the hospital was never the blind I've worked around the world before and I've always been careful not to get hurt and this is the first time that I've gotten hurt question is why did I get home because I do realise that I'm in pain and I do realise that my body isn't its usual self which means that everything went black and blank when I hit the floor after impact.

The moment you try to wake up and pull yourself towards yourself is the hardest moment because you have to somehow fight to come back to the land of the living. It feels like everything is black until you are woken up. I wasn't working up I woke up by myself and took in my surroundings my eyes were closed but I knew without a doubt that I was in the hospital I had to keep my heart rate the same in case if there was something that just didn't add up about what happened when that accident happened because the last thing I remember was fetching breakfast after a very wonderful night with my new boyfriend and then nothing.

I guess I should start from the beginning.

I use to be reported for W******p magazine what does an entertainment magazine to be exact and my job entails travelling around the world I didn't get hectic until I got together with my now ex-boyfriend who wants me back and I still haven't given him an answer actually left them hanging he's been calling me and calling me and asking me to pick up my calls and texting me non stop but I just blue tick him and I just sent his calls straight to voicemail.

Before I get ahead of myself here's what happened my ex-boyfriend decided that it was okay to get me a job and make me believe that I worked out for the job and position is given the position was a really great position it allowed me to travel the world and cover dance festivals if not music festivals I'm actually heading to one towards the end of the year but that's a story for another day.

His father owned the company that had lots of publications under the umbrella of the parent company that his father also founded. I was working for a different magazine when I was headhunted. It was a productive 5-year years and the job lasted as long as my relationship with the guy that I thought I loved it turns out that he was not only cheating with my best friend he made sure that I wasn't there when he decided to be deceitful and be unfaithful so I came back home from a trip that I didn't want to tell me more about because I I had done something with my best friend that I didn't want to tell anybody that we both thought each other that we wouldn't tell anybody what we had done. Dante, who's actually part of a Mafia gang, is a friend of mine and he had my boyfriend followed. It was on the day that I came back home early that I verified what he was saying to me all day long that he was cheating on me with my best friend.

After kicking me out of the place that I called home for a decade I was fooled into believing that I owned half of the house and he owned out of the house but to my surprise I didn't know anything was okay because I always have backups for my backups I had a house back home. I then went to my friend's Hotel just to gather myself and be in the right frame of mind before I could go home and cry about what my parents wanted me to do but I didn't listen. I decided to follow my heart and look where I ended up … hurt me again. I also couldn't drive home in the state that I was in on my way upstairs while wiping my tears slammed into what could possibly be the most gorgeous man that I've ever laid eyes on who was just too perfect, Aiden Storm .

At first I didn't recognise it and at first I didn't realise how hard I had fallen for someone you know it sounds too cliché but I don't believe in love at first sight I believe in love at first connection and you know you're in love when you look into the eyes of someone and you instantly feel at home you don't feel like you have to put up with front or fight them that's what I felt when I met him just calm and safe. Little did I know that our paths will cross again on the same night after my ex-boyfriend who is a rock star proposed to my best friend and it was a surprise proposal party that my other friend who had been friends with for a long time organised for me because he heard that I was getting engaged and the rock star that I was married to let everybody to believe that he was going to ask for my hand in marriage but that didn't happen instead of my best friend for her hand in marriage and she accepted I told him that he picked the wrong person and at the first sign of adversity she will walk ,he told me he made his choice and he was happy with it. As predicted she walked at the first sign of adversity and by the time he wanted me back after rejecting me I had fallen in love with Aiden who had proved by word and deed that he wanted to make me part of his world no matter how different we were .

There's a point before you wake up from whatever injury he incurred or whatever audio you've been through and you remember everything that happened to you up to the point where your life flashes before your eyes.

The worst thing I heard was voices and the voices were very mellow and soft but they were also deep it was relaxing to hear calming voices, but the minute I slowly opened my eyes I can see that the hospital room numbers and wasn't a normal hospital room that is according to me because I have never gotten hurt while travelling as I said and the more I try to figure things out the more it's harder to just make peace with the fact that I'm in hospital and I need to find out how I'm ended up in this specific hospital.

" Carlo, she's waking up . "

I open my eyes slowly and close them again. It couldn't be that guy, it cannot be the same guy who abducted me a couple of years back when Dante was in trouble and I was caught in the crossfire. Could it be?

My whole body was in pain and not in a good way there's good source of pain and then there's unbearable pain that I cannot explain when you wake up from a back it's like having warm hands and all the sudden going into freezing cold weather without gloves and your hands freezing all over again and when your body all that parts of your hands thaws out and gets warmer it feels as if it's painful and it's gonna take a while to heal but eventually you will heal from feeling .

I took a deep breath and tried to speak.

" Perelli ?

" Cara ."

" Must you always be so sweet even though you're doing the most sinister things. "

He opened glass bottle that had water inside and he poured some in a glass and give it to me, he put the straw in mouth and looked at me with a worried expression

" Sip sweetheart. "

I did what I was told and I looked at the doctor with an angry face I couldn't muster up the courage to just give him a really angry look but I was in pain and I couldn't get full-on angry while being more pain so I went to again and I looked at the doctor and then I looked at Carlo. He then spoke to his brother. Who looked like he just walked out of a Greek mythology book and time travelled to be my doctor and nurse me back to health .

" Brent she's in pain . "

" I will get her what she needs. You do realise that travelling with her from where you guys travelled with her took a toll. "

"We are in our territory now so I suggest you just do what you're told and don't make Michelangelo mad again because as much as we all want to be with Cleopatra you know that she's off-limits and Dante didn't think so so he is teaching him a lesson."

I looked at Carlo

" The Dark Knight did not learn his lesson the first time because I think that he is still going for what he did. He didn't mean to do what he did, don't act like you're so innocent. "

I heard the door open and close.

" Stop blowing my cover and you do know that I'm innocent. It's just that I'm acting on orders and you are fun to hang out with. I'm just not sure about your choice of men because you're going out with; Dante . "

" I guess I have a thing for bad boys but just so we're clear what we had we had it's not going to happen again you messed up and if memory serves me correct you are busy but is still fine I still like being friends with you and I still like the relationship we have going on so what did Dante do this time ?"

" Oh my dear Kelly , Dante saved you. He has never done that for any girl that he has dated. The only person he is willing to risk his life for is you and his daughter. "

I took a deep breath and spoke;

" That little girl didn't do anything to you so if you have a bone to pick with his father rather pick the bone with me with the dad wishes of course what you guys are doing but you leave her out of this because she doesn't deserve to have an abnormal life she deserves to have a normal life where she is loved and cared for and doesn't have to worry about a world filled with territory wars and guns and everything else in between I'm a civilian okay stop judging my choice of friends."

" I'm not judging your choice of friends you've been out for the past 5 days and there have been times when I felt like I was losing you and you weren't coming back do you know how that feels and I don't just stay over in a medical facility for someone that I don't care about I do care about you even though we've got a past it belongs there but we broke up as friends which is less than I can say for your ex. "

" You wanted me back but I said no and I think it's for the better but you are telling me what you think I should hear and you're not telling me what I know I should here so I'm going to follow my journalist hat for now and ask you ; who the hell did you pay and who are you working with? "

" You'll find out soon enough but she's a friend of Michelangelo. "

" Nikki? "

" Oh you're smart ."

" But she couldn't have done this alone, she must have done it with somebody else. The question is who and why are they working together with your boss? "

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