Jacopo and I were enveloped by awkward silence on the way to the elevator and then down to the underground parking lot.We slowly made our way to his car, our recent interaction freshly playing in my mind over and over again.He was going to touch me, and I wanted him to. The sudden need had confused me to the point that I was starting to get a headache.Jacopo reached the car before I did and opened the passenger door for me. He waited until I hopped into the car and settled down before he closed the door and walked around the front of the car to make it to the driver's side.The mere sight of him holding my bag was oddly warming. It felt as if we were actually husband and wife, and not a couple of people who were forced into this marriage.He hopped into the car before he reached backward to drop my bag on the back seat.Neither of us said a word to each other as Jacopo fired up the engine and started driving out of the building, taking off into the open road for the long ride he pr
Jacopo Nicolo....I never knew my heart had the ability to beat this fast. Ezabella's hand fit in mine perfectly, our fingers locked and intertwined as if they were made to fit each other.It amazed me how the smallest form of touching could be so intimate.I am no stranger to physical touch. Before I had made the mistake of making an alliance with the Williamsons, I had my fair share of physical touch. Heck, I was known for it, even though it was nothing to be proud of.The presence of a woman or closeness never seemed to faze me as much as Ezabella had. I would never have imagined that my bandaged heart would beat so far at the mere action of holding her hand.Did she feel the same way?Was it even possible for her to feel this way towards me?I looked down at our intertwined fingers, wanting nothing more than to take the damn leather glove off so I could feel her on my skin. But I wouldn't dare. Never.It was bad enough that I'd crossed the line that I had drawn between us,
Ezabella Viper...The drive back to the apartment was filled with a comfortable silence. My right hand was tingling the entire time, missing the feel of Jacopo's hand around it.Even after we joined the busy traffic and driving for over an hour, I couldn't get his closeness out of my head. It felt unnaturally intoxicating. Heck, it was addictive.I wanted to reach out for his hand the second he hopped into the car.Was this how it felt like? Wanting to be with someone so much that your mind forces you to think about them every second, even when they are sitting right next to you?I was staring at him for too long that I was afraid he would look at me and think I was weird. So, I used the books as a distraction and read the rest of the drive home. By the time we arrived at the apartment, I was just a few pages away from finishing the book. Jacopo parked the car in his spot before the two of us made our way to the elevator. Jacopo didn't even let me put up an argument with my bag
Jacopo and I sat in silence, devouring the spicy wings he ordered. We didn't realize that we were hungry until the food arrived.We sat on the couch, eating every single wing like it was the first meal we had for the day.My mind was jumping from one thought to the next. I was thinking about what we read about the women of the O.G. motorcycle club. It felt like I was intruding on the women, reading about their personal lives. I felt horrible, especially knowing what each of those women went through.Their leader, Red, had the most horrible life, abused and violated by those who should have protected her. But once she found a way to escape, she never went back, gathering women who had lived a painful past just like her and making them a one big family. She built the motorcycle club from the ground up, making a name for herself in her world and protecting women who came to her for protection. She tore up those who meant her and her girls harm, and she built herself up with her own two h
Jacopo and I sat tense. The dark expression on his face worried me, his two different colored eyes planted on the door of the elevator, his gaze far away."What the heck does she want?" He snapped, and I had to stop myself from jumping away from his sudden outburst.Yes. It is definitely his ex-wife. Who else could it be then that he is this angry at the mere mention of her name?"She says she has some matters to discuss with you. You are going to pay her a visit..." The man started, but Jacopo was not having any of it."Like heck, I will." Jacopo snapped, immediately taking the phone off of his ear and hung up on the call.A short silence fell in the apartment, but it was quickly broken by the ring of his phone again.Jacopo looked down at the screen of his phone, and he looked like he was about to blow up.I placed the dish on the couch and stood up, pacing around in front of me as he answered the call again."Tell that woman that if she ever thinks about have me summoned like a do
The night could not go any slower. I could barely sleep with all the questions that were storming through my head, thinking about everything that had happened since morning.The sweetness that was Jacopo, the intensity of the small intimacy we shared, the deepness of the confession he made, and the curiosity that was brought up by the phone call he received... every single thing was making me lose sleep over it.I ended up taking a long hot shower and finished the book I started earlier in the day.I laid around in bed, rolling from side to side until the relentless sleep finally clamined me.I'd sent the alarm on my phone in case I ended up sleeping in, and it managed to wake me up at six.I turned off the alarm and rose from the bed. Despite not getting much sleep last night, I was more than ready to tackle the day like any other.I slowly limped towards the bathroom, washed up, and made my way to the living room.I ran into Jacopo in the open kitchen, standing behind the counter,
Jacopo Nicolo..."Have you found anything yet?" I asked Miles, our tech guy.There were a few things on my mind when I decided to give Miles a call this early. One, I wanted to know if he found out who was responsible for sending a video of my wife's torture to the group chat of the women of the web. I'd promised her that I would find a way to let her know who did it, and Miles was the easiest and quickest way to get the information I needed. The second reason why I called Miles was to give him another assignment, one separate from the web, and it had all to do with what happened the previous night and the odd phone call I received from a man."Of course, I did." Miles replied, sounding almost offended that I had to even ask him that question."It didn't even take me long. I was just waiting for the right time to let you know." He added."And when is the right time?" I asked, annoyance dripping from my voice."I'll let you know once I have you and the rest of the gang gathered up.
I stayed in my office for the rest of the time until Eza came and got me. My mind was doing cartwheels, trying to figure out the pieces of the puzzle I was missing, trying to piece them all together to get the bigger picture. But no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't figure out how and why all of it was connected.I couldn't figure out why she would want to do that to Ezabella, why she would send that video to the group chat knowing well enough that it would break my wife.Just why?Another thing I couldn't figure out was the stupid connection between Alex Fimbar and Elizabeth Williamson. I don't recall any relationship between the Fimabrs and the Williamsons at all. Other than the fact that they are some of the most influential families on the web, they never seemed to stand out together. They never had marriage alliances or business covers together like most of the other families do, which was why the connection came as a surprise, as something I didn't expect at all.No matte
"Helena, hi..." Ella finally spoke into the phone, and it was obvious from her voice that she did not expect Helena to answer the phone."Hi." Helena chuckled at how awkward Ella sounded."How have you been?" Ella asked."I've been better. But honestly, I'm fine. More than fine, actually. I feel like I'm finally finding my footing again, you know, getting back on my feet. I feel like I can finally breathe again." Helena replied.Her enthusiastic voice and manner rubbed me the wrong way, and it was obvious that the other ladies were feeling the same way as well."The last time I saw you was at the Fimbar Mansion, and you really didn't want to look at us anymore, let alone speak to us. What changed?" Ella slowly asked, trying her best not to upset Helena."Well... I was a bit mean back then, weren't I?" Helena chuckled. "I was just a hit under pressure...""Under pressure from what?' Cilvia spoke up, and we looked at her. The three of us had agreed that if by some miracle the phone is
Ezabella Viper...I woke up the next morning feeling refreshed, and it was not because I had the bed sleep ever of because I had the long sleep my body craved. No. It was because of what Jacopo did the previous night, and how he stepped into the shower knowing it was something his body didn't want him to do.This man was constantly putting his body in the line for me, and I don't know what more proof I could possibly need to know just how much he loves me.First it was running into a burning building for me, and then it was choosing to save me first, and then it was stepping in front of a bullet for me the previous night, and then on the same night, it was stepping under the warm water knowing he would have a bad reaction to it because of his horrible experience.It felt like I truly don't deserve the amount of love he has for me, like I haven't given him enough as much as he has given me.Waking up next to him after we had a scary night and then an amazing moment in the shower f
Jacopo Nicolo..."What are you doing, Jacopo?" Eza asked as she watched me push my shoes off my feet and then lean down to take my socks off."I just told you..." I softly replied. "I don't want to stay away. I can't stay away."Once the socks were off, I pushed myself to my feet.I shrugged the suit jacket off my back before dropping it to the floor."Jacopo?" Eza whispered, realizing what I wanted to do.I carried on to unbutton my shirt no matter how hard the shaking of my hands tried to sabotage me. To succeed in taking my shirt off before I carried on to my suit pants.Once I was done peeling my clothes off, I looked towards Eza and the steam that was coming out of the shower from the hot shower.The second I started stepping closer to the shower, Eza reached for the shower nob to turn it towards the colder side."Don't, Eza." I called out, stopping her from turning the water off and then on to cold.I stood just outside of the shower, just out of the reach of the hot water.
Ezabella Viper..."So, you decide to create a club of your own?" Cilvia asked, her back hunches and her elbows pressed against her knees as she attentively listened to the three women speak one at a time about their stories.I didn't even realize when it happened, but we were all suddenly talking to each other about our lives, sharing moments that we usually would not share with strangers."Yes." Red replied. "It was the only logical next step. We were able to find a fee working bikes from the last house we escaped from, and on the road, we were able to learn more and grow as a team. We got to take revenge and acquire more wealth from those men, which led us to get ourselves a small club house in a small town. People started hearing about us, and women and little girls started coming to us for help. Some needed help getting rid of people who were troubling them while others needed a place to stay. And so it all started. A small club grew bigger and bigger until we had to move to
Jacopo Nicolo...I sat in the passanger sit of Victor's car, while Elijah and Dante followed us in Elijah's car. My heart refused to settle down, my head still filled with the image of that red dot on my wife's forehead.There goes my heart again, almost beating out of my chest with fear, fear that I could have lost her.My hands refused to stop shaking, itching for a trigger to squeeze, my nose desperate for the scent of the blood of whoever tried to kill my wife right in front of me despite my own blood already attacking my nostrils.I had to tuck my hands into my pockets to stop them from visibly shaking."Heard you stepped in front of a bullet." Victor commented. "Pretty brave of you." "Not now, Victor." I mumbled.I couldn't deal with the voice in my head, let alone get nagged by my father-in-law."I am trying to thank you for saving Bella's life." He said, forcing my eyes towards him."It's the bare minimum. I am her husband. That's what I'm supposed to do. I'm supposed to
Jacopo was sitting in the sitting room the ladies of the web and I were chatting in earlier while the members of the web were having their meeting. I had calmed him enough to forget about his gun, and someone had suggested that we moved to the sitting room until a thorough search has been made around the area to make sure that there were no more shooters so it would be safe enough for the rest of us to leave.The only people left in the villa besides Jacopo and I were Ella and Elijah, Connor and Cane, the three women of the Motorcycle club, and Cilvia and Dante, along with my father, who was apartment in one of the bathrooms while everything was happening and only came the join the chaos while Jacopo and I were in each other's arms.I was sitting right next to Jacopo, his right arms around me while his left was balled into a fist as if he was trying to stop himself from reaching for him gun again."Dante?" My father called out. "Did thay have anything to do with this,""We are standi
Ezabella Viper...Most of the conversations after Piper Fimbar left were smooth. I tried to stay engaged in the conversation, but my mind kept going back to the conversation Ella and Cilvia had with Piper. I kept dissecting every single word she had said, every reaction she made to the mention of the Fimbar blood line, and I tried to piece everything together.But why Helena?Why was she trying to keep Helena away? Piper never liked Helena to begin with, and it was not like she hid it to anyone. So shouldn't she be the first to send Helena out of the house the second her son died?I was pulled out of my train of thoughts when the door was pushed in, and the men started pouring in."So, brunch tomorrow?" One of the ladies said before the men came closer.I wasn't aware that we were discussing brunch to begin with."Of course. I will look for a nice place and let you ladies know." Ella replied.I looked towards the door, waiting for Jacopo to come. But he didn't. It took him a whil
Dante ended in meeting by adding a little more detail in the Elizabeth case."We will be initiating our attack two weeks from now once everything on our side is settled. If we need extra man power, then please expect some of your own people to be chosen to join the attack. That will be all for today." A stillness went around the room at the people of the web glanced at each other. They didn't like how he just said some of their own people might be ordered to join the attack, but I didn't like how he had extended the time of our attack by a week and a half. Unless ge is only saying this because he truly believes that there is someone in here who had truly betrayed the web and would relay this massage to Elizabeth so they would get distracted by the length of time the preparation for the attack would take.Seeing as Elijah didn't seem surprised by that announcement, I just assumed he too knows about this, and so does Victor.The men started leaving the office once Dante announced that
Jacopo Nicolo...I was amongst the last members of the web to enter the office. Dante had already taken his place behind the large desk, his arms crossed and his face covered with hard lines as he nodded his head towards the one man standing by the door so he would close it.Harvey had taken his usual spot standing behind Dante, and Elijah had taken a seat by the window, his eyes more focused in A.J Fimbar than the three women of the club. I guessed his wife gave him an assignment as mine did."Well, now that everyone is here, shall we begin?" Dante said, looking around and stopping for a few seconds to allow anyone to speak their minds first before he started the meeting. Here is the thing. Dante usually gives the people of the web time to speak their minds first before him, but he is well known for killing anyone who dared to raise a single point before he does. So, everyone usually remains quiet and waits for him to start the meeting."Alright then." He started. "As a lot of