*****Leo POV*****When more hours pass without a trace of Niki, I completely lose my sanity. “Hang in there. Niki is the strongest woman I know,” Owen says but I can’t believe anything until I see her. “She is my everything.”“I know and most importantly, Franco and Dion know it too.”“They are monsters, Owen, and Niki is pregnant.”“She will be fine. You have to believe it,” Owen insists and I nod my head. It’s only when Hunter gets intel about the murder of a man he and Nick once hired to build a secret grave Crego and the signals going off from the Crego grave that hope returns to me. We are an hour off but Niki is definitely still alive. Getting that assurance gets me pumped up again. My heart leaps when I see her. The love of my life. She weeps on my arms while I thank heavens for her safety. We all get a reminder of how crazy and mean Nick Davi was when Niki opens the vault. I know that he is dead, but I want to punch him really badly for speaking to my wife like that. We a
Lilly town high. Six years ago*****Nikita POV*****I walk out of the girl’s bathrooms, fuming and ready to tear that Booi pestilent apart. I don’t need any witnesses, Leo is the only one immature and stupid enough to mess with me. The idiot actually thinks I have problems walking out of this place with only my underwear on. I storm out in my undies with both my fists clenched. I ignore the curious stares and whistles as I march to the his selected corner at the cafeteria. His cousin, Owen, is the first to spot me. He flashes me with his charming smile. Besides always hanging around his despicable cousin, he has never really done anything to me, but I feel like slapping that smile all the way to kingdom come. He is a Booi too and our rival empire enemy, after all. “Oh! What do we have here? The Davi princess feels like modelling for us tod…” Leo, the heir of the Booi mafia empire exclaims. I pounce at him before he completes his sentence. I swear that there’s absolutely no one in t
*****Leo POV*****I am Leonard Booi, the lord of the Booi mafia. I rule the north coast and a bit of the south just to piss off the Davi’s. The bastards deserve it and worse for wiping out my family. Besides my cousin, Owen and uncle, Wesley, I have no other blood relatives. Thanks to Nick Davi. This is why at the age twenty-five, I am the mafia lord. I walk out of the shower and look at the clock. I have enough time before the volatile princess’s wedding. This is the event I can’t afford to miss. The whole mafia world will be in attendance. It’s not everyday that you get to use the front door to your enemy’s mansion and even shake his hand. It will also be good to cash up with other monsters like me. Maybe some collaborations, I could even meet someone with balls to take on the Davi’s, because my lesser rival the Siko’s are still leaking their wounds after Nick attacked them five years back. With a towel still wrapped around my waist, I see her. My drop-dead gorgeous solemn enemy,
*****Nikita POV*****The piano is still playing the beautiful tune, the beginning of my new life. I step out of my room with my father on my right and brother on my left. I can tell that they are in no hurry because I literally drag them down the corridor and down the modern victorian spiral stairs while the photographer snaps a multiple photographs of us. Reaching the hall, I can’t help but gasp at the exquisite setup and decorations. Tabitha has really outdone herself with planning my wedding. Besides the breathtaking decorations and flowers, this is the first time our hall is opened like this with windows opened to let the sun and fresh air in. The dull impenetrable walls I designed for my university project are always down, but had to be lifted up today because Tabitha insisted that they were out of place. Looking at the place now, I have to agree that I was very wrong in insisting that they stay down. I am also surprised by the number of guests in attendance. This is the first
*****Leo POV*****“Wake up, you slugabed,” I hear Owen but keep my eyes closed pretending not to hear him. I need just one more hour of sleep but I know the annoying cousin of mine will never just let me be. Maybe I should indeed lock my bedroom door to keep him out. After leaving the Davi estate yesterday, I summoned all my men leaders to find out if none of them were stupid enough to kill Jake. Eighty-five groups of tough, experienced killers with a good sense of self preservation. They would not just freely confess to disobeying my command to stay clear of the Davi’s until we were ready. My advantage is they are all terrified of me even though they should fear Owen more. I can be forgiving if you give me a valid reason for your actions.Owen on the other side does not deal well with stupidity. He is the shoot first ask questions later kind of a guy. That’s why I leave him to keep all of them in check, but this was a matter of life and death. Someone killed the devil’s heir and his
*****Leo POV*****I finally drag myself downstairs to face our despicable uncle. “My favourite nephew,” Wesley beams with stuffed mouth the moment I walk into the sitting room while Owen gives me the ‘I told you so’ look and rolls his eyes at our uncle’s obvious way of sucking up to me. He really can’t stand our Wesley. If it was not for me stopping him every time, we would have buried him a long time ago. I ignore my uncle and kiss Mariah’s cheeks. The grey haired old woman has been in our family for as long as I can remember. She started off as a our family maid but she dotted over Owen and I even before we became orphans. After that she made it her life mission to keep us alive. Her job extended to keeping us out of trouble and from being manipulated by our opportunistic uncle. The fifty-year old basically runs our home and still cares for us like we are still five-year olds. “Blood over matter, that’s the mafia law. Such traitors you two are,” Wesley grumbles while stuffing him
*****Nikita POV*****I wake up the following morning feeling numb and my body heavy like lead. It takes me forever to get dressed. I really hate the colour black. It’s too resembling of my heart and future right now. I am just starring at the mirror when I hear a knock and Father walks in. “It’s time, Angel,” he says with a voice that breaks my heart. To many, he is cold- blooded vengeful monster, but to me, he is family, the only one I have left now.I nod my head and quietly follow him outside where Jake’s coffin is already mounted on a trailer. Over one hundred of our man stood on each side of the trailer, all in black. They all slightly bow their heads to acknowledge us before Hunter, father’s most trusted man an friend, opens the door to the car behind the trailer for us to get in. Knowing him, he has probably scanned the bullet proof vehicle several times to make sure that no bombs are on it. It’s ridiculous I know, but paranoia is part of the mafia’s way of life. I blankly s
*****Nikita POV*****At the mafia cemetery We are heading to our cars when Leo and Daniel approach us. Some people really have a death wish. “Mr and Miss Davi. Condolences for your loss. Jake was a tough and worthy opponent,” Leo says.I glare at him, he really has the nerve!He ignores me and focuses his attention on my father, who is starring at him, not showing any expression. “We are aware of the long enormity between us, but we, the Booi’s and the Siko’s want to categorically distance our involvement in Jake’s assassination. We did not give the order and none of our men have gone rogue,”Leo continues. “We want to pledge our support into investigating and bringing the culprits to account for their actions,” Daniel adds. Father continues looking at them with his creepy poker face while I look at them in disbelief. They have obviously met and discussed this between their two empires. One of them did it, I am certain, but maybe I can use this to avoid mass killings. “Do that