~ LUCA VITIELLO ~ After I had left the mansion, I went to the SK brothers bar where Tessy had messaged me for the location of our meeting. Seeing her would make her stop pestering me right? Although I had warned her several times, I assumed she was too familiar with me and thought my threats weren't effective. She must trust our childhood bond too much to be careless. Sincerely, hooking up with Tessy was the last thing I thought of. I went to the booth, it was a VIP booth reserved for the both of us. "Yeah, my love,” she whispered upon my arrival, her chest resting perfectly on the edge of the table so that one could see her cleavage. "Tessy! I am not your love!” I said sternly but she smiled regardless, not even afraid. "Oh come on, you remembered what my dad would say when we were little. We had been good together.” "You know… his words don't hold water, it doesn't matter what he said, we are adults now so how about you stop this delusion, hmm?" I could see her demeano
~ LUCA VITIELLO ~ Sprawled freely on the bed was Mia, exhausted. I guess it was from all the earlier emotions. I had made her cry but that’s not what was provoking, it's the fact that I don't understand why I suddenly care, why it bothered me that she constantly cries whenever she's around me. Earlier today, what I said was not something far fetched, it was something she knows well enough. I walked quietly to the bed, sat beside her; closely, wanting to caress those soft delicate lips that were slightly opened, a portal through which she exhales and inhales and now I wish I was the air. My hands unconsciously touched her lips, rubbing it gently. Her lips were full and red like she had a makeover and decided to bless her bed with her beauty. My hands then extended from her lips to her jaw then to her neck until a slight turn of her head jolted me back, my body trembled from the slight act. What’s wrong with me? Suddenly, I shifted back, the distance was like her body was on
~ MIA ANTHONY ~ "Would you like some tea instead?" Miss Beth, the kitchen head, asked. She had asked almost similar questions for the fifth time, recommending some food I could eat after saying I had no appetite for what they prepared. "No Miss Bethany, how about orange juice instead?" I replied after sitting in the dinning for about three minutes just thinking of what my body wanted and even after that, I didn't see any food that enticed me now except the orange juice that I could manage. "Would just orange juice be enough?” I nodded positively as I watched her leave the kitchen from the periphery of my vision. This morning, I woke up feeling dizzy with a slight headache, took a shower and thought it was just a mere ache but it increased after I was done dressing. Not only that, but I felt nauseous at the slight smell of the food being prepared. "Madam, are you okay?" Edwin asked as he opened the passenger door so I could enter. "Yes." It was a half truth though, I felt a lit
~ MIA ANTHONY ~"How do you feel?” Luca asked, his hands wrapped tenderly over mine as he spoke. My lips were left hanging.He has held my hands several times when we made love, he had spoken to me but now I don't know— it was different, but then something in me noticed. His demeanor, the way his eyes looked at me as he spoke, they weren't the same. He was truly concerned.Whoa! I never knew Luca could feel emotions like this."Do you feel concerned for me or you just haven't been around sick people in a while?"My question made him swiftly looked me up, even I was shocked too.I shook my head before he responded as if to unsay what I just said."I’m sorry, I’m not just used to you asking how I feel and all sorts of compassionate questions.”"You are sick, who wouldn't be worried?”"I'm not dead Luca. I'm very much alive, just a slight headache, body pain and lack of appetite but I would be fine with some rest.”"Appetite? You haven't eaten?”“I have eaten.” I lied.Right now, I don'
~ MIA ANTHONY ~ I have been on bed rest for the past two days and Luca has been at home. If there was one thing I enjoyed these past days, was seeing him work. It was a sight I rarely see. How his fingers were fluid on the laptop, his stance posture and focus and the steady movement of his eyes across his screen. But I guess Luca was just someone one can admire from afar, he's unpredictable and seems like a loveless being but, I sure will miss this moments — The mansions, the princess treatments from his staff, the free rides to school, the delicious magnanimous foods and the soft plush mattress, but I can't choose them over my peace. I’m getting insane being stuck up indoors, monitored and conserved. Today, I’m getting dressed for school after endless calls from Diane and Marvel which I ignored with the excuse of: I can't talk, I’m sick. Diane especially must have been worried and told marvel about my illness after not seeing me back at the classroom. I wondered how sh
~LUCA VITIELLO ~I sat in my office, sipping on a glass of wine. My gaze lingered at the map of Moscow on the wall, my mind was racing with the recent losses my organization had suffered."Someone is stealing from us," I muttered, my voice low. Menacing. "I want to know who did it, I fucking want to know!" My hand made a swift contact with the desk, hard. Frustration was eating at me at the unyielding reports of the investigation.This was not the first time. Ryan's call woke me up this morning that the underground has been cleared of the remaining items in it.Ryan and Damien stood before me, hands clasped behind their backs. "We've reviewed the security footage. The preparator seems to always be one step ahead,” Damien said.My eyes narrowed. "I want to find out who this person is and I’m doing it myself, I don't care what it takes.”Partially pissed that my team couldn't be more careful at their assigned task. I took my phone to make a phone call."We’re leaving!” Prepare the heli
“STRIP!” His deep baritone voice thundered as I snuggled to the edge of the bed. "uh?" I asked, like I didn't hear clearly. My eyes staring at everything, including the ceiling except him. "I would be a fool to repeat myself." However, he was already a fool for making that kind of order. I was quite hesitant, besides, I've never done something like this before. I left the side of the bed and stood before him, with my heart pounding so loud as if singing to a rhythm, I began to take off my clothes. I wanted to be brave for my father, my brother and family because this was what I had signed up for. With his deep gaze boring into my skin, I felt ashamed, used— like a commodity. But you are! My brain reminded me. This wasn't how I had imagined my life to turn out. I took my clothes off, bit by bit. I tried hiding those tears that were threatening to fall. I can't be weak in this situation, at least, not now. I took everything off me but when what remained of me was my tho
~ MIA ANTHONY~ “Let me introduce myself…” "My name is Mia Anthony, the first child of Mr Hodor and Maria Anthony and I am twenty two years old...." “I love you already,” Mrs Douglas squealed excitedly, “Please Mia, come help me in here,” she said. I just got a coffee job downtown not too far from my house, though I got this job through Madam Anita; a very close friend of Mrs Douglas and my father's co-worker. “Hello Mia, I got a job downtown for you; it's a coffee shop managed by my friend and she would need a little hand to assist, hope you wouldn't mind?” Madam Anita had asked me one afternoon when I came back from school, I didn't even think much because I needed money, especially while I was in my final year in college. "Yes Mrs Anita,” I responded immediately and the next day, hopefully, I didn't have lectures so I went with madam Anita to the friend's shop and surprisingly, that was my best coffee spot. I never knew the owner was a close friend of madam Anita. "Doug
~LUCA VITIELLO ~I sat in my office, sipping on a glass of wine. My gaze lingered at the map of Moscow on the wall, my mind was racing with the recent losses my organization had suffered."Someone is stealing from us," I muttered, my voice low. Menacing. "I want to know who did it, I fucking want to know!" My hand made a swift contact with the desk, hard. Frustration was eating at me at the unyielding reports of the investigation.This was not the first time. Ryan's call woke me up this morning that the underground has been cleared of the remaining items in it.Ryan and Damien stood before me, hands clasped behind their backs. "We've reviewed the security footage. The preparator seems to always be one step ahead,” Damien said.My eyes narrowed. "I want to find out who this person is and I’m doing it myself, I don't care what it takes.”Partially pissed that my team couldn't be more careful at their assigned task. I took my phone to make a phone call."We’re leaving!” Prepare the heli
~ MIA ANTHONY ~ I have been on bed rest for the past two days and Luca has been at home. If there was one thing I enjoyed these past days, was seeing him work. It was a sight I rarely see. How his fingers were fluid on the laptop, his stance posture and focus and the steady movement of his eyes across his screen. But I guess Luca was just someone one can admire from afar, he's unpredictable and seems like a loveless being but, I sure will miss this moments — The mansions, the princess treatments from his staff, the free rides to school, the delicious magnanimous foods and the soft plush mattress, but I can't choose them over my peace. I’m getting insane being stuck up indoors, monitored and conserved. Today, I’m getting dressed for school after endless calls from Diane and Marvel which I ignored with the excuse of: I can't talk, I’m sick. Diane especially must have been worried and told marvel about my illness after not seeing me back at the classroom. I wondered how sh
~ MIA ANTHONY ~"How do you feel?” Luca asked, his hands wrapped tenderly over mine as he spoke. My lips were left hanging.He has held my hands several times when we made love, he had spoken to me but now I don't know— it was different, but then something in me noticed. His demeanor, the way his eyes looked at me as he spoke, they weren't the same. He was truly concerned.Whoa! I never knew Luca could feel emotions like this."Do you feel concerned for me or you just haven't been around sick people in a while?"My question made him swiftly looked me up, even I was shocked too.I shook my head before he responded as if to unsay what I just said."I’m sorry, I’m not just used to you asking how I feel and all sorts of compassionate questions.”"You are sick, who wouldn't be worried?”"I'm not dead Luca. I'm very much alive, just a slight headache, body pain and lack of appetite but I would be fine with some rest.”"Appetite? You haven't eaten?”“I have eaten.” I lied.Right now, I don'
~ MIA ANTHONY ~ "Would you like some tea instead?" Miss Beth, the kitchen head, asked. She had asked almost similar questions for the fifth time, recommending some food I could eat after saying I had no appetite for what they prepared. "No Miss Bethany, how about orange juice instead?" I replied after sitting in the dinning for about three minutes just thinking of what my body wanted and even after that, I didn't see any food that enticed me now except the orange juice that I could manage. "Would just orange juice be enough?” I nodded positively as I watched her leave the kitchen from the periphery of my vision. This morning, I woke up feeling dizzy with a slight headache, took a shower and thought it was just a mere ache but it increased after I was done dressing. Not only that, but I felt nauseous at the slight smell of the food being prepared. "Madam, are you okay?" Edwin asked as he opened the passenger door so I could enter. "Yes." It was a half truth though, I felt a lit
~ LUCA VITIELLO ~ Sprawled freely on the bed was Mia, exhausted. I guess it was from all the earlier emotions. I had made her cry but that’s not what was provoking, it's the fact that I don't understand why I suddenly care, why it bothered me that she constantly cries whenever she's around me. Earlier today, what I said was not something far fetched, it was something she knows well enough. I walked quietly to the bed, sat beside her; closely, wanting to caress those soft delicate lips that were slightly opened, a portal through which she exhales and inhales and now I wish I was the air. My hands unconsciously touched her lips, rubbing it gently. Her lips were full and red like she had a makeover and decided to bless her bed with her beauty. My hands then extended from her lips to her jaw then to her neck until a slight turn of her head jolted me back, my body trembled from the slight act. What’s wrong with me? Suddenly, I shifted back, the distance was like her body was on
~ LUCA VITIELLO ~ After I had left the mansion, I went to the SK brothers bar where Tessy had messaged me for the location of our meeting. Seeing her would make her stop pestering me right? Although I had warned her several times, I assumed she was too familiar with me and thought my threats weren't effective. She must trust our childhood bond too much to be careless. Sincerely, hooking up with Tessy was the last thing I thought of. I went to the booth, it was a VIP booth reserved for the both of us. "Yeah, my love,” she whispered upon my arrival, her chest resting perfectly on the edge of the table so that one could see her cleavage. "Tessy! I am not your love!” I said sternly but she smiled regardless, not even afraid. "Oh come on, you remembered what my dad would say when we were little. We had been good together.” "You know… his words don't hold water, it doesn't matter what he said, we are adults now so how about you stop this delusion, hmm?" I could see her demeano
~ MIA ANTHONY~I just had a steamy moment with him, forgetting in those times the reason why I was in his study at first. After that, we had come back to the room to change our clothes but we didn't talk further, that was when it occurred to me that I was angry with him."Luca, can I ask you something?" I asked, smoothening the short gown I wore."Yes, go on.”"How did you convince the Vice chancellor to become my personal tutor?" I asked the question that has been on my mind for a long time but never got the chance."It's easy to convince people with money, so money convinced him.” Now I was wondering, if it was as he just said then the money given to the Vice Chancellor must have been a very huge amount of money."But does he know I'm married to you?”"No, he doesn't.”"Then what did you say to him? He doesn't ask me questions.”"It's because he knows when and what to ask.”"Okay,” I replied, even though I didn't clearly understand. Doesn't the VC have questions reeling in his hea
~ LUCA VITIELLO ~Edwin had just shown me a picture and the he-goat that had the gut to put his hands over what belongs to me? A light chuckle filled the empty room. “Okay” I muttered through the phone before hitting the end call buttonMy hands hovered over the screen, ‘My little Mia.’ displayed boldly at the top of it.“Hello.”“How do you want me to cut the hands over your shoulder? Dangling or amputated?” Without the chance for an explanation, I ended the call, my head laid back on the soft pillow beneath.Today, I came back earlier than usual. Someone had stolen the items which just arrived from Russia, the weapons shipment I spoke about, just weeks after a sneaky note was sent to me. "Watch your back, I would hit where it hurt most,” was sent to me to my office by an unknown name holder; how ridiculous, but I don't feel right knowing my security team were as weak as a worm under the sun. I had sent my minions to investigate, yet no trace, coupled with the idea of someone out
~ MIA ANTHONY ~Edwin's head bowed in acceptance, he wasn't even denying that he snitched on me.The ride to the mansion was quiet, this time, there wasn't even the sound of the passing air. I called Luca several times but he wasn't picking. He's ignoring my calls.Here I was worried that Edwin would always be in the car waiting for a grown up like me to finish lectures, little did I know he had been busy keeping an eye on me."You snitched on me last time right?”"Hm." Was his curt response. Annoying."How much did you tell Luca the last time you snitched?”"Nothing much, I just told him there was this dude that's always staring at you, and that's all. Believe me ma, I had no other option, it's either I do as I was told or I pay dearly for not doing it.”Yes it's not his fault I know, who can dare go against the mighty Luca but I was still angry at him too and the fact there would always be someone to keep an eye on me doesn't sit right with me. When I thought I was free from the con