He smiles. It’s slow, calculating.
"Whatever it is," he murmurs, "if they find out, you know the rules of the famiglia." His eyes darken, his voice almost a whisper. "You. Are. Dead." A shudder of fear runs through me. I flinch. Because I know he’s telling the truth. The moment he takes me back, I am dead. Nobody will save me. I can’t leave Leon. I won’t leave Leon. He needs me. He sees the fear in my eyes. And he likes it. "So you better just tell me why," he says, his voice quieter. "Why did you run away, Ariella?" He leans in slightly, watching me. "Were you scared I was going to hurt you?" His voice is almost teasing, taunting. "Was it fear—after breaking my trust—that made you run away?" I am desperate for a way out. I can see that he wants me to say yes. He wants me to admit I was scared of him. So I do. I nod. Trembling. Avoiding his eyes. He smirks. "Good." He tilts my chin up, forcing me to meet his gaze. "I like your fear." He says licking his lip. Then, he moves. His hands drop. His fingers find his belt. The sharp click of the buckle echoes. Then his zipper. And suddenly—He's taking himself out. His dick is right there in my face. It is hot and angry. Its veins are bulging right there in my face. I don't know what to do. I'm frozen in place. What does he expect me to do? He then starts brushing my hair with his fingers. As he says, "Be a good girl and open up." " Why are you doing this to me?" I ask him, my voice low as I realize what is happening here. "Why don't you give it a little lick and see how it tastes? I remember how much you loved sucking me off. I mean, what are your options, really?" He's saying this as he keeps on brushing my hair softly, tenderly, as if he actually cares about me. But I know that's bullshit. "I'm giving you a choice. Do you want to go back like a traitor or are you going to go back as my whore? You can only have one." I cannot believe this. I just kneel there wondering what I have to do. All of those options sound like eating cement. None of those appeal to me. "So, what is it going to be?" He asks I can't believe we're having this conversation with his dick out and me on my knees. "If I do this, you let me go? It's already humiliating enough that I have to do this. But if I do this, give me your word that you're going to let me go. Just go back to your life and forget about me." He toots. "I don't know about that, but let's see how talented you are at this. If you can get me to come in your mouth, then I'll honour your deal." "Open up," he commands, his dick inches from my face. His "ick is already leaking pre-cum. He moves closer, "Take your tongue out." He orders. I obey, extending my tongue. He begins to fist himself, then uses his hand to smear the pre-cum onto my tongue. "Swallow," he orders. I swallow. "Open up," he repeats. I open my mouth. "Suck the head, just like that...," he instructs. I take him in, just the tip, then more, and more, each time deeper. Both his hands grip my hair, pulling, anchoring him. I look up at him, trapped, forced to watch him. His breath comes in ragged gasps through his nose. There is no gentleness in his eyes, no trace of affection. Only raw lust and rage, swirling together. Before I can react, he thrusts fully into my mouth. It feels like hours have passed. My mouth aches, and my jaw feels locked. He drew it out, savouring every moment. Each time he neared his climax, he pulled back, teasing, prolonging. I didn't know how to process the experience or the unsettling sensations it had stirred within me – feelings I desperately tried to ignore. Now was not the time. Right here, right now, I was literally fighting for my life, for my freedom, and Leon's. That was my sole focus. I didn't even notice he was done with me, because he kept prolonging his orgasm. When he withdrew out, I used this time to try and release my locked jaws. So, I was both shocked and surprised when he released his cum all over my face, my hair. That was a lot of cum. It was in my hair, it was dripping down my face. I was too shocked to do anything but feel his release all over my eyes, my lids, my mouth. I couldn't even open my eyes. I wasn't expecting this, I just kept kneeling there, shocked, with my eyes closed, as his release dripped from my face. After a bit of silence, I started hearing the closing of the zippers, and I knew that he was putting himself back together. Eagerly, I asked, " So, are we done now? Are you going to leave me alone?" The answer I got was a low chuckle as he said, "Not even close. I am never letting you go, Ariella, ever." I felt my anger rising, "What do you mean? You promised me, you told me if I get you, to come, that you were going to let me go. You said you'd never go back on your word." I accused, frustrated. He laughed again as he said, " You should really pay attention, Ariella. I didn't say if I come, I said if I come inside your mouth, I would let you go. And as we both witnessed, I didn't come inside your mouth. So no, I'm not letting you go." his voice a low, predatory. "I... you... You tricked me." He laughed again, a sound that sent shivers down my spine. "You should have hung onto my dick in your mouth a few minutes ago. If you had, you would be as free as a bird right now." Something snapped inside me. The fear, the humiliation, the injustice of his words... "Fuck you, Asher!" I spat, He chuckled a dark, amused sound. "I'll be enjoying doing that to you every day, in every way." I felt the tears welling up, a fresh wave of despair swallowing me. My face was already streaked with the remnants of his cum. I was a broken mess. Then, his voice, devoid of any emotion, cut through my despair. "So, here's what you're going to do. Listen very carefully, Ariella." He paused, the silence stretching with unspoken threats. "I'm going to give you two hours. In these two hours, I want you to quit your job. And then I want you to go back to your crappy little apartment and pack a bag. Take only the essentials. If something looks like crap, leave it...A man will come to your apartment to pick you up and bring you to the airport. See you in two hours." "No, wait!" I cried, frantically wiping the stickiness from my face with my clothes and arms, desperate to see him clearly. "I'm not going back home. I can't go back there," I said, shaking my head violently. I was terrified. He smiled, a slow, predatory curve of his lips, as he stepped towards me. "Do not worry, Ariella. I'm not taking you back to mommy and daddy. I'm going to give you one of my apartments, and you're going to stay there and be my little beautiful little toy." He smiles patting my wet head, "I'm going to give you everything you ever wanted. Jewellery, money, clothes, anything you ever want. And in exchange, you'll stop using your head, you'll stop using your strength. All I want you to do is look pretty and let me fuck you in any and every way." The offer, presented as a gift, was a gilded cage. He wanted to break me and leave me with a hollow, manufactured existence. "That's not what I want!" I shouted. "I already told you, you have two choices—to die or to have a luxurious life where you pay for your sins. Which one is it going to be?" I didn't give him an answer. I didn’t have one. He smiled, a winning smile, as he started walking away. His hand was already on the doorknob when I realized—he didn't know of the most important detail. "Wait!" My voice was shaky, desperate. "I have somebody who depends on me. I can't leave them." He turned back, his gaze sharp and questioning. "What?" He scoffed. "A boyfriend? What are you going to say next? That you're married?" He laughed mockingly as if the thought of me having a boyfriend or a husband was ridiculous. "No," I said, biting my remark. "Then who is it?" His voice snapped, filled with impatience as if I were wasting his time. I stammered. I didn’t want to say it. I didn’t want to tell him. But I knew—I knew he was going to take me, kicking and screaming if I didn't. There was no way out of this. "What?" He snapped. "And don’t you dare try to run away? From now on, you’re being watched. If you try to run, you’ll pay for it. So don’t even think about it. I’m not losing you twice." I swallowed hard. And before I could stop myself before I could rethink..... "I have a son."That caught me off guard. “Afraid for him?” he said “Afraid for him?” I asked quietly.He nodded, that faraway look in his eyes again. “I’m afraid he’ll do something he can’t take back. Something he’ll regret for the rest of his life. Not just regret… something that will end him.”He looked right at me, dead in the eye, like he was begging me to understand. Like he was handing me something dangerous and delicate, and trusting me not to drop it.And I understood one thing clearly, my life was not just out of my hands. It was in danger.My eyes drifted toward the room we’d turned into Leon’s study space. And suddenly, I wasn’t just afraid for myself anymore.I had everything on the line.“Do you think he would do something to Leon?”I asked, my voice trembling. “He can’t do something to Leon. Please, Luca… he can’t. He’s not guilty of anything. If Asher wants to hurt someone, it should be me. I should be the one paying for it. So if he wants to do anything, if someone has to take th
Five Years LaterAsher had left… but not before he made sure I ate every single thing on that plate. Every bite. I was already full, but he wouldn’t let me stop. I had to finish it all. And when the door finally closed behind him, I was already crying, that’s when the sobbing started. Full-on, heaving sobs that racked through my chest until I couldn’t hold anything down.I vomited.Then I just sat there, slumped over the toilet bowl, my arms limp and my cheeks burning, wondering why is my life like this?Why me?It was still so hard to believe that the man I had loved all of my life, the man I had trusted, that this man I thought I was sacrificing everything for, was this man who hated me so much now. It was clear to see in his eyes how much he hated me. All those times that I would hold Leon in my arms and think of the three of us meeting, of him seeing his son, seeing me, the two of us forgiving each other. Him seeing all the sacrifices that I had to make for us, but when I look in
I go back into Dad’s office. Head straight for the safe. I kneel down, press the familiar numbers, and it clicks open.Same passcode. Same stacks.Still there. Not enough for four people. Maybe not even enough for three if we’re being smart.But for one? It’s more than enough.Now comes the hardest part.The body.I need a body in that room. Something to burn, something to leave behind.I need someone dead Or… already dead.My hands are shaking as I leave the house.I do everything I’m not supposed to know how to do. I get the burner phone. I get the wig, the cheap makeup, the cover identity. I make the calls. I ask the questions that you’re not allowed to ask unless you’ve seen too much of the world.And somehow I don’t even know how...I do it. I get what I need.An already cremated female body. Bagged. Heavy. Silent.By the time I return to the house, no one’s there.I carry the gym bag upstairs. Put it under my bed and start putting everything in motion.The escape. The fire. The
Dad continues, determined.“That way, even if they find out our death was staged, by then we’ll be so far gone, it won’t matter. It buys us time.”He’s already shuffling papers, his hands trembling slightly.“We’ll need money,” he mutters, half to himself. “Cash is already withdrawn. Quiet withdrawals. Small amounts. Just enough to go unnoticed. We have money in the safe—it’s enough. More than enough to disappear.”He’s thinking out loud now, unstoppable. A man with a plan. A desperate man, but a determined one.“Once we disappear, we change our names. Our looks. Start over. Jobs that don’t make people curious. Maybe in a place where the Italian Mafia has no reach, where they don’t talk to anyone.”I listen to every word, not interrupting. My heart beats faster.“And your mother and I can get jobs...,” he says.“And me,” I whisper.He glances up, eyes soft. “Yes. You too.”“We can make it work. We can give your child, my grandchild a good life. A real life. I promise you, I can take c
And now my mom was full-on crying, and I was lost as I just stood there. I wasn’t expecting this.“Why?” I asked carefully, slowly. I didn't believe her.“He doesn’t think you can do it. He doesn’t want you to do it. And he’s decided to put all our lives at stake,” she said, wiping her tears. “He’s in his office right now, making a plan, calling in every favour he can to get us out of here.”She wiped at her face again, more roughly this time.“Ariella, we won’t survive. We can’t. We won’t survive. Nobody escapes the Mafia.”She looked me dead in the eye, and something inside me shattered.“Listen to me, Ariella. Go talk to your dad. Nobody escapes the Mafia. Nobody gets away. And our death...it will be hard. It will be bad. We’ll be made an example of. A warning to everyone. Come for all.”She sniffled and tried to gather herself, or at least tried to look like she was gathering herself, as she added, “Think of yourself. Think of your baby.”Another swipe of her nose. Her face was pa
I saw stars, the pleasure taking me with it. He had been giving me a thousand orgasms ever since we started sleeping together, but this was different. And I couldn't explain how different it was, it was just different, and it was the best thing to ever happen.... and to think that it happened this way should make me sick, I should be sick, I should feel sick, but I wasn't. As he came and released inside me, groaning, he finally released his hand from my throat, and while I was still on my high, he started biting me, full-on biting me, that I hissed through the whole thing, and he bit my neck, my collarbones, on the underside of my chin, he just kissed, bit me there and everywhere, and I knew I would be sore tomorrow, all over, I would surely have bite marks.But as he looked back up at me, I pulled him towards me and kissed him. I must be crazy.Asher pulled out of me, and I winced, sucking in a sharp breath. I rolled over to my side, away from him, but the shame stayed with me. I c
"You're right. I used you..." I took a deep breath and closed my eyes. Knowing that he couldn't see me, but I had to do this. "I mean, who... who wouldn't? You are the Don's sun. You're going to be the next heir. You have everything. My family comes from nothing. And I knew that having your attention... however small... was going to do wonders for me. Wonders for my family. Wonders for my father."I force the coldness into my voice as I continue. "You were going to give my father a promotion soon before our wedding, right? You had to. You couldn't be married to a lowly soldier, I know that." I took a deep breath and continued, " I didn't love you as much as you did. I loved what you did to me, what you did for my family. You were handsome, you were generous, but I never loved you. And I'm just... When I thought of our engagement and our wedding, it was just too much, okay? I can't pretend my whole life. I just can't. That's why I decided to tell you the truth. I'm going to get ma
AriellaI stared up at Asher as he hovered above me, and I could see that he meant every word. The only thing is, he didn’t know he was in the dark. He kept talking about the man who was going to marry me, about how he’d make him pay.But I knew once he found out the truth, he wouldn’t be able to kill him.He was talking about his own father.I had an inkling… If I told him, if I said the words out loud, I felt he’d lash out. Maybe even strangle me. Do something he’d regret for the rest of his life. So I didn’t say anything.He got off me and went into the bathroom. The sheets were still warm where he had just been. I pulled them over me, covering my naked self as the sound of the shower came on. I stared at the ceiling, blank, empty, just… thinking.I knew that when Asher walked back out that door, I had to end this. I had to. After the things he said today, after the rage, I saw in his eyes… I couldn’t let him do what he was planning. I couldn’t be a part of it.I had to break his h
AsherMy fingers slid over her clit as I sunk into her in deep controlled strokes over and over again. I wanted my prize, wanted to force it from her quivering body, wanted her to surrender.Her tight walls clamped around my cock as she came under me. I closed my lips over the perfect skin at her throat and bit down, wanting to leave my mark everywhere. For everyone to see She tensed and shuddered even harder. I leaned down. “! Own you,” I said softly then kissed her ear.She glared up at me her eyes blazed with emotions I had summoned. “Now that you know who owns you, who you belong to.....why don’t I fuck you like I wanted to from the moment you decided to defy me?” I said in a low voice.There was a flash of fear in her eyes, but I didn’t give her time to consider my words. She was slick around my cock. I slid all the way out of her and thrust back into her in one hard push. She gasped from the pain this time. I hummed my approval. I soon found a pace that was fast enough to b