로그인Ever since I whispered to Viktor that we would see if his plans went ahead, he didn’t take his eyes off me. He probably thought I was planning an escape, and he was getting ahead of it. I would give him credit for his effort.And he was right. While I believed Nero would find me, I had to prepare myself for anything. I wanted to try to escape on my own. I would die trying. Everything Viktor was planning for me was so much worse than death.I contemplated speaking to Lily, but ultimately decided against it. I didn’t want to address her when Viktor was present. I wanted to make sure she didn’t care about me even a little bit. She would regret ever meeting me if I detected even the tiniest soft spot she may have had for me.If I found out she felt sorry for me, even just a little, I would manipulate her and make her drop her guard. She would be my ticket out of the situation I was in. That was the least she owed me since she was the one who tricked me into it in the first place.My head
When I came to, I was tied up, and I felt like my head was being split in two. I tried to open my eyes, but they felt heavy. When I finally managed to open them, I couldn’t see properly because my vision was very blurry.My senses slowly started to come together, and I realized I was tied up and in the air. We were on a plane, and I was cuffed to a seat. Viktor and Lily were speaking in Russian and laughing like long-lost friends.I didn’t even know she could speak Russian. How much more did I not know about her?“Sleeping beauty is awake,” Viktor said with a smile.I opened my mouth to give him a smart reply when I felt unimaginable pain in my jaw. I swirled my tongue around my mouth to figure out where the pain was coming from. I screamed in horror when I realized one of my molars was missing.Lily laughed in response.“I only took you out the other day because I wanted to know if Nero had a tracker on you. That’s why I threw away your phone and lost your bodyguards. I wanted to kno
I lied to Nero so I could meet Lily. I said I wanted to go shopping to take my mind off things, and I convinced the attendant to help me sneak out the back. I took a train from there and then hired a car to take me to where we were meeting.It was in an abandoned factory on the outskirts of New York. I knew I should have been wary of the location with all the accusations surrounding Lily, but part of me believed I could trust her.I trusted that it was a misunderstanding and she was being framed. There was no way she had been a good actress for almost twenty years. Her family moved to New York when she was barely a teenager, and we had been inseparable since.There was no way she was that young and scheming with her parents. Someone had to have erased her parents from the system or something like that to make sure the frame job was perfect.I should have told Nero that I was meeting with her, but I knew no one would believe me when I said she had been framed. He had already decided sh
As Luca looked for information regarding Lily, I was spiraling. She had disappeared after I left her car. Dominic couldn’t get in touch with her, and she had lost Nero’s guards. She was seemingly very good at doing that, considering Nero’s guards were very good, and she had lost them twice.Nero wasn’t happy. He made sure to punish all of them. I didn’t ask what he did to all those bodyguards because I was scared he would say he murdered them, and I didn’t know how to feel about that.No one knew where she was. I tried to get in touch with her parents, and even went by to their house, hoping I would find Lily there. But they weren’t answering any of my calls, and their family home was empty.The house was listed for sale. It made Lily look worse, and I couldn’t comprehend anything that was taking place. It felt like my soul was being ripped from my body. I raked my brain for signs that Lily was never the person she claimed she was, but I couldn’t find any.She hated Lorenzo because sh
In the car with Nero, I wondered if I had made the right decision in leaving Lily alone. Maybe I should have gotten in the car with her and followed her wherever she was going. The fear that she was never going to speak to me again was greater than ever.“Don’t worry about her. I’m sure she’ll get home safe. I left her some bodyguards so she wouldn’t get into any trouble.”“I’m afraid our friendship is as good as done. I can’t pinpoint when everything started going wrong. I don’t know why things are like this.”Nero was driving, which meant he couldn’t hold me in his arms and reassure me that everything would make sense soon.“This is hard for you, I know. But she’s the one who threw your phone out of the window of her car and made sure the two of you had no bodyguards protecting you. Do you believe me now when I say something’s off?”“Nero—”“She went to the same places Dominic went. She must have been really good at hiding because Dom didn’t realize it. She was in all the places he
I told myself that I was overreacting. There is no way a girl I had known for years would do anything to me. But she was asking me to go with her wherever she wanted to prove I wasn’t mad at her.I should have said no, but the urge not to burn any bridges was high. I kept telling myself that Lily was my best friend and whatever Nero and Tally thought of her didn’t matter to me. I could go out with her as usual, and everything would be okay.“Okay. I’ll go out with you, but you have to stay with me until late to make sure I’m done with the work I was supposed to do. I can’t fall behind, especially with all I’m planning.”She squealed in joy and started dragging me out. I yelled out for someone to get Emily some water and followed her out. She had driven her own car there. While we were leaving, I told Nero I was leaving and demanded that I bring bodyguards.He warned me not to go anywhere with Lily, but I didn’t listen. Until he proved my best friend was suspicious, she was innocent in
I watched as my fiancé approached Viktor and flirted with him. I rolled my eyes and went outside to wait for her. I wasn’t going to wait for her to do what she wanted to do while staring at both of them.I was going to lecture her about Viktor. He was my enemy and was probably plotting how he was g
Benji found a car immediately. We were in a car yard that didn’t seem to be run by anyone. That made a lot of sense, considering Dante was the one who opened it to let us in. Maybe he owned it. Either way, I didn’t think to ask. He chose a sleek BMW sitting in the parking area. It was in perfect
“I know it's a tough pill to swallow, but it’s the truth. Someone has been watching you for the past three days. That’s when these devices were activated.” I couldn’t believe it. My hands were shaking, and I was wishing I was in a nightmare and I would wake up and discover my life was dull once aga
Someone knocked on my penthouse, and I wondered who it could be. Lily was in Italy visiting family, so there was no one else to come and visit me. However, I opened the door, and Dominic was standing there.“What are you doing here?” I looked around trying to see if Nero was around, but he wasn’t.







