Chapter 26: Gabriele’s POVHearing her talk was like medicine to my broken soul. She told me about her grandparents and how much they had impacted her. She told me about her childhood and how she had defended herself against Bullies.I found myself smiling at her stories and wanting to hear even more. It was late in the night before we decided to call it a night and retired to bed.I had never had such a peaceful sleep in a long time. But all of that peace washed away as a sharp disturbing scream woke me up the next morning.“Gabriele, did you hear that?” Arianna whispered beside me.“Stay here,” I ordered as I jumped out of bed and ran out of the room.My guards were already repositioning themselves toward the sound and my heart went to my throat as adrenaline pumped faster into my veins.“What’s happening?” I asked them as I got closer. “Where did that noise come from?”Basilio appeared between them and handed me a gun. “It’s from the women’s quarters. We are heading there right now
Chapter 27: Arianna’s POVI ran my hand through my hair for the tenth time as I continued pacing the room. I wanted to go out to know what was happening. My body itched for me to move out of the large room and check what was going on but I couldn’t bring myself to do it.Each time I thought about it, I was reminded of the day I got kidnapped at that party.Gabriele had asked me to stay in his room and wait till he came to get me and that was what I was going to do… until it got much worst.The scream filled the entire house again making me jump out of my skin. This time, the noise was getting closer. It seemed whoever was screaming their lungs out was coming to me.What could be happening?Was the house under attack?I stopped pacing as a light bulb lit up in my head. If Gabriele’s household was under attack, it could serve as a perfect distraction for me to run away.“Yes!” I let out as my adrenaline started building.All I had to do was check the surroundings and decide how dangerou
Chapter 28: Arianna’s POV “Eleana what are you talking about?” I asked confusion washing over me. We were on good terms as long as I knew. Yet she stared at me with an emotion I couldn’t read. “Haven’t you done enough?” she whispered with spite lacing her voice. I turned to Sofia and she shrugged as well. We were both in the same state. “Eleana, I don’t understand. Did I do something?” I asked. “You did everything! Everything!” she cried out pulling her hair. “Argh!” she hit the bedside lamp and it shattered on the ground. I jumped backward trying to escape the shards. “Eleana!” Sofia shrieked as a sharp piece of the lamp missed her by mere inches. Her eyes turned red and they flashed the flames of the anger she could no longer contain. “Sara was right! We were fine on our own! Gabriele gave us everything we wanted but when you came…” she flashed me her teeth and I felt a piece of my soul retreat in fear. “You came and changed everything! Now Sara has gone and killed herself!”
Chapter 29: Gabriele’s POV“Has everything been put in place?” I asked as we made our way to the reception where Demyan was waiting.“Yes, we got a little delay due to Sara’s situation but we have covered up everything now,” he said.“Good,” I replied.We took the stairs at the same pace and descended the room. Demyan was clothed in his usual white long dress shirt as I remembered him wearing ever since I was a child and he visited more often.“Remember, engage him for as long as possible. I need to read every device on him,” Basilio whispered as we made our way to the man I had sworn to kill on sight whenever we crossed paths.“I know,” I gritted through clenched teeth.Basilio had gotten our tech guys to develop a sort of card reader that could read every device on a person’s body as long as they were near them and they stayed there for a long period.He got up from the seat as soon as he saw me and started coming towards me with stretched hands. “Gabriele, my nephew!” he said with
Chapter 30: Arianna’s POV“I can’t assure you that there won’t be guns but I will be there with you. I won’t leave you for one second,” he said.My heart was racing and I found it hard to breathe. It felt like he was asking me to sacrifice my life. I was going to die.He was with me the last time and look what happened. I still got kidnapped.What was the assurance that it wouldn’t happen again and maybe this time I wouldn’t even be lucky?I felt his arms around me as my legs grew weak. There was an emotion I couldn’t place a finger on in his eyes.“If you don’t want to go, you don’t have to. But I don’t want to leave you here instead,” he whispered as he stared into my eyes.I felt an invisible force weave itself around us. It brought my soul closer to his and all he said were like the words from a divine being.“It isn’t safe for you to stay in here alone at the moment. Nadia and Eleana are not mentally stable because of what happened to Sara. I don’t want them to harm you in any wa
Chapter 31: Gabriele’s POV“But I don’t see myself as your enemy Arianna. We are friends, are we not?” he asked and I closed my eyes as I tried hard to calm my racing mind.Gabriele was sick in the head!I could scream at him to leave me the hell alone. He wasn’t my friend and should never even consider himself as one. He was a killer, a kidnapper, and a human trafficker. I couldn’t be friends with him. Never!Yet I couldn’t say all of these out loud. I was trying to find a way to infiltrate and escape not a way to get eliminated. The fact that he had promised not to rape me didn’t mean he would hesitate to kill me.I pasted a smile on my face and looked at him. “Maybe we are… but I want us to get closer.” I drawled.He leaned into the chair and folded his arms across his chest to stare at me. There was an emotion dancing in his eyes and I couldn’t tell what it was but I was certain it was vicious and dangerous. He was probably thinking of how many bullets he would need to kill me or
Chapter 32: Gabriele's PoV"I hope whatever it is... is good news for your own safety," I hissed as I walked into my office.Basilio was sitting with a smug face. He had his hands sprawled across the couch like he owned the place.Of course, the news had to be good for him to be this cocky so early in the morning.Yet I refused to make him believe I was no longer angry with him for disturbing my time with Arianna. I scoffed and walked past him to my chair."It is good news alright," He said with laughter coating his voice."Then let's hear it!"He left the couch and came to the seat across the table right opposite me."Why do you always get so cranky when I pull you away from Arianna and then at the end, you will say you don't care about her? Huh?""She is just one of my women..." He said mimicking me —horribly."But your eyes tell a different story. One word from her and it will be searching the world!""You don't act like this around your other women, hope you are aware of this?" B
Chapter 33: Arianna's POV"Are you serious?" My eyes expanded as the news replayed in my head.When I helped out with his documents, I wanted him to make me his secretary maybe in the house or something. I never in a million years thought he would be stupid enough to give me access to the outside world!Oh my God!I was squirming inside at the amazing news and my face brightened up as my body couldn't contain the excitement."Thank you so much. I promise to do my job diligently!" I squeaked.Gabriele and Basilio exchanged looks as of there was something I said that was wrong.Did I scream out my plans to escape? Did I say he was stupid?I wondered as my eyes moved between the two of them.Then it struck me. What if this wasn't what I was thinking? What if I would have to execute the job in the dungeon never to see his home office door talk more of the outside world?"What kind of job is this?" I asked swallowing my excitement.Gabriele moved from his seat and walked around the table t