EMPIRE OF LIES

ARIEL"I'll work on that." My voice was breezy as I spoke. I didn't...want to kill the pastor. Not the pastor.Saint's eyes ran over me sharply. "Are you sure you can do it? I can send someone instead." "If that someone is Colt, then no. I'm going to do the job." I said. It was permanent. No one had to know that the competitive spirit in me right now was a hundred and one percent. "I understand, Ariel." He placed his hand on my shoulder. "I will let you do the job with him. But-"My heart raced in my chest as I awaited his next words. It hung over me like a death sentence."It depends on how well you do tonight." He completed his words.My brows moved as my lips curved into a smirk."I will not fail you, father." It was a promise.******To many, I was an angel. To others like the people in our empire, I was nothing short of the devil. Beautiful outside, dark inside. It was supposed to make me feel isolated, but it didn't. It couldn't....not when y

DELANO The lights stopped moving, permanently resting on us as one of my arm grabbed the witch's body tightly by her waist.Fvcking demon. There were sounds of little gasps of shock, but nothing more than that. It seemed to me that everyone was too shocked that in a party inviting empires, which was created to build trust, trust was being broken. An assassination of me of all people on my father's property? Her eyes breathed out fire, lying with an hint of deception under it. Her cheek reddened under the bright lights, a beautiful mixture with the golden mask she was putting on. Her red lips curved up in a smirk as she celebrated her big win inside her head. She knew who I was. I knew who she was too. Was her name really Winter or was that the alias name for Saint D'Angelo's daughter, Ariel D'Angelo?"Push it in, Kitten. You haven't stabbed me deep yet." I smirked. Her eyes fell to the knife and flickered up back to me in shock. Blood trickled down th

ARIEL"Ariel. My study. Now." My father said the moment we stopped into the house. With a palpitating heart, I followed him up the stairs. I already knew I was doomed the moment I walked out of the party hall and gave Delano a last crazy look. I already hated him, even without seeing his complete face. I made a mental note to give him a more thorough background check to see if his face would pull up on any of the media or anywhere at all. Just to give me an idea of who he was, an ugly guy hiding under a mask.Even as the door closed behind me after walking into the dark study, thoughts of Delano still folded my head. The way his arm tightened around my waist when I looked into his eyes and stabbed him the knife. I still remember that eyes vividly. He didn't look shock, didn't look mad. He looked impressed..... looked at me like...I was something interesting. Something he'd want to check out. A shudder filled my body instantly. He was a crazy psycho. Hol

ARIELMY EYES FLICKERED TO THE DOOR WHEN I HEARD A KNOCK. It pushed open and I stared at the person."Lila," I muttered underneath my breath as I closed my laptop and threw the towel on my neck on the table."The wedding card has been prepared," She said in a quiet voice and stretched her hand towards me.Red and gold.I hated it. "Date?" I asked boringly without accepting the card from her hand. She quickly opened it to check. "23rd.""Of this month?" I raised my brow, my voice high. It wasn't what I intended but I couldn't even stop it."Yes." "That's like four days." "Yes.""I'm getting married in four days.""Yes.""Say something other than just yes, Lila!" "What do you want me to say, ma?" Lila looked at me with a pointed gaze and I knew it was over.I've never felt this hysterical in my life. I wanted to scream but nothing came out as I fixed my hands into my hair and opened my mouth. I was screaming my lungs out but not a single noise was h

DELANO"YOUR FATHER ASKS YOU TO COME," JAY SAID. "If he needs me, he would call me," I muttered in reply. The old man knew better than to disturb me on a sunny morning. "He's angry."It was enough to make my head snap towards Jay, "Angry?""He seemed to have found out that you were trying to take over the port." He reported."He didn't care to find out before. Now he cares?""He cares because you were the one who pulled the attention of Saint D'Angelo to you?" It was a puzzling question from Jay."But I also brought him something, didn't I?" I asked, my brow moving upwards and Jay sighed, his fingers rubbing on his temples aggressively."Delano, you-""If he wants to see me, he should call me. It's my business I did on the port, not his. He doesn't have the right to interfere." "This is exactly why Saint tried to kill you, because he knows you are just so hard to crack. Only if you try to keep your head calm would you move attention away from you."