LOGINSeeing my girl after almost two weeks in Russia was amazing. I was going crazy just imagining something happening to her while I was gone. Viktor had tried everything to get close to her and failed.Fortunately, Carlos was perfect for the job of protecting her. He knew I would have killed him if something had happened to Serena on his watch.She was there to pick me up at the airport, and when she saw me, she jumped on me like she couldn’t be happier to see me.“I’ve missed you,” she said as she buried her face in my neck. I held her in my arms and chuckled. When I finally put her down, I put my hand on her cheek and kissed her hard.She kissed me back harder, even biting my lips in the process. She was just as excited to see me as I was to see her. Things were finally working out, and it made me feel so much better. Having Serena by my side was nothing but a bonus.“How was Russia?” She asked as she helped me put my bags in the trunk of the car she used to come for me. Even though I
To say Viktor was mad was an understatement, and he punished me by releasing headlines in the media saying I was a bad person and that I’m a homewrecker. He also released headlines calling me ungrateful for not helping my uncle.It wasn’t lost on me or on anyone else that my uncle was completely broke. After his political position was removed, his company suffered a great loss, and he went bankrupt. Nico punished him for what he had done, and I couldn’t have been happier.People were calling me a bad niece since I was a millionaire and I had connections with the DeLuca family. Viktor was making sure people were talking shit about me online to distract from his situation.There was a time I cared about what people thought, but I no longer do. They didn’t know shit about my life. They didn’t know that my uncle was a bad person and that he had helped me, so he would keep him close enough to inspect what I was doing.Well, I was grateful for everything that he had done for me. I couldn’t
Luca was a force to be reckoned with. Not only did he follow through with his plans to make Viktor pay, but he also almost bankrupted the man. He hacked into the Orlov oil company and revealed their trade secrets.The company lost billions in a day, and some investors pulled out of investing in the company. Things weren’t going well for him. Luca managed to do it in the comfort of his own room at the Nero room, and he wasn’t caught.The trade secrets were removed from the internet, but Luca kept putting them back on the internet. He did all that and even managed to reveal documents showing how the company bribed people to obtain certain pipeline contracts.Because all that information was highly publicized, they were being investigated by the government. They had also evaded some taxes, and that was all exposed. No matter how hard they tried to scrub the information from the internet, Luca wouldn’t let them.He was better than Nico told me he was. He was definitely ten times better th
“Hasn’t he tormented me enough? Does he enjoy bringing nothing but misery to my life?” Lily asked, and I immediately understood the implications of what had happened.I had managed to convince her to stop looking for him because she would never find him. I had told her that revenge was as fleeting as she had told me it was. However, the hand would just awaken all those feelings all over again.And she would be back to stalking him and cursing him out because he deserved it. He was a bastard who deserved to suffer for what he had put her through. But she also needed to realize that she would never win when it came to him.He had the resources and apparently the time to stalk people and torment them. But knowing him, he just had people at his beck and call, doing what needed to be done to torment women.If only he had gone after the DeLuca brothers as much as he had gone after me. He would have known Nico had information on how to steal his weapons, cocaine, and the women he and the Car
Emily assured me she would hold down the shop while I went to check on Lily. What was someone’s hand doing in her apartment? It made little sense to me.“Your friend is not my responsibility, you are,” Carlos said as he opened the door for me. Not only was he my bodyguard, but he was also my chauffeur.He was supposed to drive me wherever I wanted to go, and yet, he was complaining about taking me to Lily’s apartment to check on her because it wasn’t on the schedule I gave him. He also didn’t want to inspect the severed hand she found in her apartment.“I am your responsibility, and you will go where I want you to go. I don’t know why you’re acting like your services are free. Nero is either paying you in cash or he’s giving you something in return.”He muttered a few things in Latin that I didn’t understand because I couldn’t speak the language. He didn’t say anything to my face, though. He was really quiet the entire ride, but there was tension in the car.“I can see why you and Ner
“I didn’t think you would want to work with me after what people are saying about me online. They are calling me a criminal and someone who deserves to be locked up.” I said to Emily.She was at my design shop at the agreed time. She was ready to design clothes, but I wasn’t sure I wanted to design anymore. People were calling me all sorts of things online. Some were even saying I was an embarrassment to the fashion industry.Others alleged I was a homewrecker since Nero was engaged to someone else before he announced to the world in a newspaper that I was his fiancée and his future wife. He made sure all the major blogs published articles with his name next to mine.What he didn’t know was that women were usually on the receiving ends of scandals since the dawn of history. If a man was caught cheating, the woman usually suffered the consequences while the man was said to have had a moment of weakness.Or he was said to have been seduced by a whore or a slutty woman who didn’t have an
On a normal occasion, I would think those words were degrading—that I was being reduced to nothing but what my body offered. But this was Nero, and we were in the bedroom. The way he said it felt more like a compliment rather than anything else.“Your nipples are hard. I know you’re soaked. I can s
The next morning, I got ready to go to work like everything was normal. I was a junior editor at a fashion magazine. I loved giving people fashion tips, and I had my own column in the magazine.I needed to work to earn a living.As for the contract, I hadn't decided that I was going to sign it. It
Nero made me sit near him while we spoke. I hesitated for a while to answer his question, deciding what to do in the moment. Then I gathered all the courage I needed in the moment.“I read it,” I said as I looked away.“Something you didn’t like? The hard limits are negotiable as stated in the cont
“Let’s get one thing straight. If you let me, I will erase every single man that you have ever been with. I’ll give you pleasure so good that I will have you begging for it.”“Nero—”“I’ll help you tow the line between pain and pleasure. I’ll make you squirt and cum until you can’t have enough and







