*****Nikita POV*****~~In a monarch country of Leap~~“Where the heck have you been?”Rebecca, Colton and I exchange looks. We were all hit really hard by the old man’s sudden death from a heart attack. Barely a month since his death the young Mr West has pushed everyone to the limit. More than twenty employees have already quit and we are also seriously considering it. Everyone now appreciates just how cool of a boss his old man was. Unfortunately, his son did not inherit any of his good leadership and communication skills. “We went out for lunch, Sir,” Colton responds. “And who the fuck gave you that permission?” Mr West yells. Other employees peep to see who is been shouting at this time. Every single one has had their fair share of his yelling. “We finished our work early and it was lunchtime,”I respond and intentionally leave the Sir part. I will only show respect when earned, boss or not, this man does not deserve any of it. “Your working hours are 8 to 4, that’s when your da
*****Nikita POV*****Hunter and over fifty of our men walk in and fill up the reception area. All in black with leather coats and gloves, mean looking and heavily armed, they claim the space and own it. All the company employees are now out of their offices watching and our stupid boss is literally shaking. I get off my seat and they all simultaneously go down on one knee and bow their heads. Shit! Now I look like a real mafia boss.I walk towards them and stop in front of Hunter with a sinking heart. The fact that they are here kneeling in front of me means that Leo was telling the truth. Father is no more. “Speak.”“Your father was executed yesterday,” Hunter says. I don’t fall apart. The pre- warning Leo gave me and that brief period of recollecting myself was a blessing. The worse thing I can ever do is break down now in front of these men who are now under my command. “Who did it?” My voice is calmer than I feel. I want to scream and tear everything down. Hunter shakes his
*****Nikita POV*****Becca and Colton are still shocked by the splendour that’s now my empire but I would rather it was not. Had my brother been still alive, all this and everything evil that comes with it would be mostly his. In just a year, I have lost my whole family and I don’t know how to emotionally deal with it. I can’t get myself to use my old bedroom because of the horrible last memories I had there before leaving the country. I use a guest bedroom instead and Becca insists on sharing with me. She wants me to grieve and take it all out but I have nothing. I am still not able to sleep though, so I think about my next move….being Kita, permanently. I have thought hard about my next step. Hunter is not impressed that I have decided to dissolve the empire, neither are my men. They don’t seem interested in the lucrative retirement offers I am offering them. “This is our lifestyle, we will be lost without it.” That’s what Hunter tells me. I will let it slide for now, but I have
*****Leo POV*****Seeing Niki a day before in Leap has raised an almost unbearable need deep in my soul. I need to see her, talk to her and hold her in my arms. I knew when I flew to Leap that I would not be able to see her long but I still had to. That brief moment was everything and I hope it felt the same way for her too. Not only that, it was important that she got to recollect herself before her men arrived. Most of them will judge her by how she responded to the news, that’s why I had to break the news to her first before they arrived. The kiss was a bonus prompted by seeing her luscious lips so close to me again. I just couldn’t resist. She did not kiss me back, I must have caught her by surprise but the familiarity left me wanting more, so much more. Our three days of passion in Palmland all came back to me. It’s all I thought about on my flight back. I know that her plane landed an hour after mine. I was disappointed that she did not use her bedroom though. I waited to see
*****Nikita POV*****Colton and Becca are more terrified by the blood oozing from my neck than being amongst the whole tribe of murderers. Them being exposed to all this is what fuels my already raging tamper. Leo had the audacity to show up in Leap, pretending to be caring and then turns around to do this!“Kill them all”I mean every fucken’ word. I came back to bury my father and had no intentions of going against any of them, but they had to push me into this. It was the same with my father. He became the devil because they killed his wife first, his retaliation earned him the nickname, but they made him that way. Well, I am the devil’s daughter and I will be damned if I let them get away with this. “No!”The objection comes from the person I least expected. Our man are confused by contradictory orders and turn to look at me for direction. Hunter is the one who has been giving them orders for a long time because he was Father’s second in command, but they are aware that I am the
*****Leo POV*****Madness is being worried about someone who has just given an order for all of us to be killed. Over three hundred mafia members all on the ground with Davi men holding their guns on our heads. My brain is screaming for me to stop fussing about Niki and come up with a plan to get out of this situation. I blink and shake my head a multiple times but the blood oozing from her neck makes it hard for me to concentrate. What the fuck possessed Luca to do this?My head is still spinning when Hunter objects. That’s a surprise. I would have thought he will be the first to start shooting. Niki is clearly not impressed with whatever the two of them are talking about. I can hear her anger rising but it seems Hunter is not aware. I know her too well. Soon she will be a furious daredevil none of us can manage and it happens. She is actually worse than her devil father when she’s angry and right now she is livid. The Davi men are shocked by her next move, but I am not. Her shootin
*****Niki POV*****~Two days after Nick Davi’s funeral~I toss and turn on my bed but can’t find a comfortable position. My stomach is cramping badly, I am sweating and I have a fever. “Are you okay, Kita?” Becca is really worried about me. It’s already midnight but she has not gotten to her bed because she’s been sitting next to mine and fussing over me. I shake my head and hold on to my cramping stomach. I can’t be in denial anymore, for the first time in my life I am definitely coming down with something. “I thought it would pass but it’s getting worse.”It’s no use pretending to be strong when she can clearly see that I am in pain. I have taken painkillers but it’s getting worse. “What can I do?” my angel on earth asks. I force a smile. I don’t know what I did to deserve such a caring friend. Becca’s gentleness and kindness is so genuine it makes me miss my mother. I never had a chance to get spoilt by her, most of her memories have faded but I am certain that she would have f
*****Leo POV*****I have a cast on my left leg and have to get used to walking with crutches. Riah thinks I deserve worse for spying on Niki for such a long time. She is starting to sound a lot like Owen these days. Just like we expected, Lucas was used to blackmail Luca into killing Niki. The poor kid was terrified by the time Owen picked him up from the police station. His abductors picked him from his university at gunpoint, forced him to call Luca and kept him in the boot of a van. He had no idea where they were taking him. It seems that the plan was interrupted by a random road block by the feds, forcing his abductors to desert the van, leaving him in the boot. It was when the feds searched the van that they discovered him tied up in its boot. This is, of course, what the feds are saying, but they lost my trust a long time ago. Lucas never saw the faces of his abductors. For all I know, the feds could have been the abductors and let him out when they thought Luca had done the jo