Maxim was gone all night. I didn’t know where he went and he didn’t talk to me either. I tried calling him multiple times and sending numerous texts begging him to come back, but he didn’t.I could see he read my messages, but he didn’t bother to return any of them. To say, I was frustrated was an understatement. I didn’t know what I could do to change anything that had happened. I couldn’t tell him the truth either.It became increasingly clear that I couldn’t stay with him much longer. My time had just ran out and I wasn’t even prepared. That didn’t matter. What mattered was that I had to get out of there before he came back.I had to take the opportunity of him, ignoring me to get as furthest away from him as possible. If I was going to tell him the truth, then I needed to be away from him so that I couldn’t see his face when he finally learned it.I went to study and sat on his desk, as I wrote out a letter. In the letter, I told him everything I wanted to say, but couldn’t say ou
I didn’t know what I was going to tell Maxim because the truth just wasn’t going to cut it. There was no telling, if I told him who I was and my roots, that he wouldn’t just pull out a gun and shoot me in the face.I wasn’t sure I would even blame him if he did. I had lied for so long that my immediate reaction was to lie to him and come up with some excuse. But what could I even say? From his reaction, I could already tell he knew that I wasn’t going to see Sonya all those days.And from the nasty look that Nikita had given me, I knew they had been talking about me even before I walked in. They knew I was hiding something, but they didn’t know how difficult it would be to even tell the truth.I wanted the Earth to just open up and swallow me whole. I was so tired of living a lie and acting like I was someone I wasn’t. I knew Maxim would never love me the way I was and that’s what hurt the most.I really did love him and I wanted nothing more than to be by his side forever, but was th
“She’s hiding something. She has been going somewhere for the past week. I don’t know where she has been going. She has been ditching her bodyguards every single time.”I didn’t want to think the worst, but all sorts of thoughts were running through my mind at the moment. I was imagining the worst possible scenario in my brain, and it was driving me insane. That day, like all the other days, she had disappeared to wherever it was she went. She never even told me she was leaving until I realized she wasn’t in the house. Other times, she lied to me that she was going to see Sonya. Whenever I called Sonya, she would tell me Livia was not with her, and when I called again, she would lie and say that she was with Livia. I saw right through her trying to cover for her friend. My relationship with Livia was starting to have cracks that were impossible to ignore. “Do you want me to have her followed?” Nikita asked. I shook my head. That would be too extreme. Nikita looked at me like I had
Fabio cursed me out every single time I showed up to give him food and water. He told me he would kill me so many times that had grown used to hearing those words coming from his mouth.They were nothing but empty promises because all he wanted to do was get high and be left alone, but I wasn’t going to sit back and watch my brother sink himself in a pit of addiction when there was something I could do about it.Kira, on the other hand, was very skeptical about everything I gave her. She had accused me once of trying to poison her, and I told her that if I wanted to kill her, I would let her out and fight her to the death because I was stronger and more skilled than she ever would be.I didn’t know whether she had experience in fighting, but I knew what my father had taught me, and that was combat ever since I was a little girl. All those skills were permanently ingrained in my memory.I didn’t fight often, but I sure as hell brought my A- game when it came down to it.Those two had b
“I’m good, Salvatore, but I would be happier if all of you disappeared and pretended I don’t exist. But you can’t do that. How are you, Salvatore?” I asked sarcastically.He gave me a nasty look and grabbed my hand, pulling me into a corner. I looked back at Sonya and shot her a look to indicate that I was okay, and she had no reason to worry about me.“You’re causing a scene. People are starting to look at us. Why can’t you just act normal and ask to speak in private?” I asked.He rolled his eyes and started walking to the VIP area. He made himself comfortable in the room. There was still loud music, but it was easier to have a conversation in there than in the main area.“What do you want, Sal?” I asked, using the nickname I had used on him since we were young. Of all my brothers, I had a soft spot for him.His expression softened when I called him that, but he soon fixed it, acting like I was the enemy, and I didn’t deserve any good treatment.“Have you seen Fabio?” He asked me.I
I was in the club with my best friend, and Darko was long gone after our conversation when I thought I saw somebody that I recognized. I thought my eyes had to be playing tricks on me because there was no way that man was around.However, I rubbed my eyes and looked again, and he was still there, just staring at me. My blood ran cold and I thought I was going to die. The feeling of seeing your sibling again after almost ten years was nostalgic.Carlos was not pleasant and Fabio was a sociopath so there’s no way I would have missed him. Both of them had bullied me growing up, they hated women so they hated me by extension.They both loved playing tricks on Allegra and I so they would always make our lives miserable. Of course our father did nothing to stop these things from happening because he enjoyed seeing them hurt us.He only wanted boys and that was no secret, but he was certainly glad that he got girls because he would marry herself and get a big payday.Especially because we w