MasukWithin an hour of launching the website and my clothing brand, 80% of my clothes sold out. Emily and I squealed in joy and hugged each other. It was our combined effort that made us make masterpieces.People were praising the clothes. They were a combination of business and casual. Emily brought her amazing casual clothing expertise, and I brought my formal clothing expertise.We merged ideas and came up with a line of unique office wear that was fun and fashionable. It made people feel confident, and the clothes could also be worn to a semi-casual occasion.It had been more of a success than we imagined. Maybe it was all the publicity from the trial with Viktor. All I knew was that all that publicity wouldn’t have helped if Emily and I hadn’t made amazing clothes.The moment felt surreal. I had always dreamt of seeing people wear my clothes on the runway. I wasn’t there yet, but I wouldn’t stop until I achieved my dreams.Emily and I popped champagne together and celebrated our wins
Nero and I hadn’t spoken since he revealed what he did to Dante. I had remained silent and allowed him to walk out and disappear for the rest of the night. I hadn’t seen him the next morning, and it was the afternoon.I was busy making calls to my publicist and the event planner for the day my fashion line would drop, so I was busy. That didn’t mean I didn’t think about Nero every second of it.I wasn’t mad at him for what he had done because all he had known all his life was violence, but at the same time, I felt sorry for Dante. I wondered how he was doing. I’d tried calling him, but his line was out of service.Of course, he had changed his number. Nero did that every few weeks as well.The other people on my mind were Tally and Lily. Tally was obviously hiding something, judging by how defensive she was, and she claimed Lily was hiding something too. I wanted to dismiss these claims as false, but I couldn’t deny how weird she was acting as well.She was always reasonable and under
When everyone left, and I was alone with Nero in our room, I decided to ask him about Dante. I didn’t want all these thoughts to cloud us while we were together. Of late, we hadn’t gotten enough alone time.Between his quest for vengeance for me and me starting my fashion line, there was little to no time together. But we made it work.“What’s on your mind?” He asked as soon as he got a good look at me.He casually began stripping. I could have sworn he was getting stronger by the day. He smirked when he saw the way I was looking at him.He approached me and put his hands around my waist. He pulled me closer and tucked a strand of my hair behind my ear. My body immediately relaxed under his touch. I closed my eyes to relish the feeling.“Nothing is on my mind,” I said as I put my head against his chest.“I can tell when something is bothering you. Is this about Lily?”“She told me something that’s been on my mind,” I whispered as I gently pulled away. “You mentioned you dealt with Dan
I left Lily’s room feeling guilty and hurt at the same time. I knew it was about her feelings, but her words cut through me like a sharp knife. I felt bad about the things she’d said to me, but I knew we were still friends.I numbly walked to my room, wondering what she was on about when it came to Dante. I knew Nero had punished him, but I never asked about why he was punished. I was mad at him at the time for how careless he had been in protecting me.I made a mental note to talk to Nero about it.As I was coming down the stairs, I heard someone talking on the phone in Nero’s second living room. Something compelled me to peek inside. I knew it was nosy to do that, but I couldn’t help myself.To my surprise, there was no one in the living room. I was about to leave when I saw Tally on the balcony in the living room. She was holding a phone against her ear, and she looked stressed. She was listening to the person on the other end of the call.You could tell she didn’t like whatever s
Immediately after the meeting was over, I went to find Lily. I had a feeling she was fuming because she was once again ostracized, like she wasn’t part of the family. I knew she wanted to belong, and we made her feel like she wasn’t part of us.But the truth of the matter was that she was my, Luca, and Nero’s family, but not Nico and Enzo's. They didn’t trust people they didn’t know personally.“Lily?” I called out to her when I knocked on her bedroom door.A few seconds later, Dominic opened the door and pressed his lips into a thin line. He looked angry and confused, and I could tell he didn’t want to talk to me or anyone else. One look at me, and he stormed off.I went in after him and found Lily on the balcony. She was smoking a joint. She loved those every now and then. It reminded me of the first time Nico and I ever met and had a conversation in my apartment.We’d smoked a joint Lily left at my place at the time.“Lily?” I called out to her. I was scared to speak to her because
Enzo looked around the room and signaled something to Nico, who nodded once and looked right at Dominic.“Take your girl to freshen up. The grown-ups need to talk.” He said casually.I was about to argue, but Nero shook his head at me. At the end of the day, Nico was our leader, and we had to follow his footsteps. He was older, wiser, and he had all our best interests at heart.Lily looked offended, and I reached over and squeezed her hand to reassure her that she still meant the world to me. She stormed off looking as angry as ever. As soon as she was gone, I turned to Nico.“What the fuck?!” I asked him.“Listen to me, princess. You know I adore you, but I don’t know Lily, and I think we have told her enough. I don’t know her, and I refuse to trust someone I wouldn’t trust my life with. I would trust my life with you and every one of you, but I wouldn’t do the same with your best friend.”He made sure to glance at Tally to make sure she knew he trusted her with his life, even though
“I would like to talk to you without this man looming over us,” Lorenzo said without addressing Nico.Nico laughed, like he wanted to rile Lorenzo up. It was working based on the angry vein protruding from his forehead. It was almost funny to see how little it took for Lorenzo to get angry.“You wi
We spent the next day in each other’s arms, having endless sex and laughing. We barely came out of the bedroom. The only time we came out was when Nero was making me lunch and dinner.He set up a cute little dinner in the garden with flowers that he picked out himself and served me like I was a pri
“You’re making the right decision by refusing to see Serena. We need your fiancé to give her father’s men. The Russians will be angry after we steal their shipments because it will fracture the relationship between them and the Colombians.”Not seeing Serena was hard, especially after we had sex. T
“You reek of sex, Nero,” Nico said to me as soon as I walked into the conference room of our legitimate company.There were other Capos in suits filling the seats. We were there to strategize on how to proceed with a small gang called La Croce di Ferro, which meant The Iron Cross in English.“Fuck







