Mag-log inFrom the moment I got out of the hospital, I kept moving. I didn’t have the luxury of stopping. I had a little money, I was scared, and I was in a country whose language I didn’t speak.I was surrounded by enemies everywhere. I didn’t know who would see me and report back to Viktor. It was his turf after all. I kept my head low and walked really fast. It was snowing hard, and getting dark.Luckily for me, Carlos had taught me how to pickpocket. He told me that if I ever found myself in such a situation, the best way to make quick cash was to steal. It wasn’t my best moment, but I was going to do anything to survive.I entered a pub that was very far from the hospital and ordered a vodka, like I assumed any Russian person would. The whole place buzzed with people speaking a language I didn’t understand.I took advantage of the drunk people who saw me as harmless and picked pockets. That, coupled with the money I had stolen from the nurse, was able to afford me one night at a motel and
She was gone. Serena was gone, and I didn’t know where I would find her. The fear I felt in my chest was cutting through me, and I was bleeding from the inside out. I wondered what was happening to her.I always knew she meant the world to me, but not having her by my side threatened to turn me insane. I was on a carnage. I killed everyone Viktor had interacted with in the past few days who didn’t give me answers.Lily was a ghost. She was not a real person. There were no bank records, no employment records, no property, and no flight information. If you had told someone that she existed, they would have told you that you were referring to a fictitious person.Luca was uncovering the tracks she had hidden, but we didn’t have time to meet in the U.S. I knew the moment Luca mentioned that Lily and Viktor were working together that there was a chance they were going to Russia.New York was my turf, and the whole of the U.S was crawling with Italian mafia allies. He knew he wouldn’t collu
“What the fuck do you mean you can’t find my fucking wife?” I asked angrily. I could barely calm down. I was hunting down Viktor like a dog, and her so-called best friend was out there. Either of them could take her.What was the point of having bodyguards if they didn’t protect the woman I wanted to marry? If she could easily slip out of their sight, they were useless if she was attacked.Her phone pinged that she was still in the dressing room of the boutique she was in, which I knew was not the case. I already had a tracker inside her, which she had agreed to the minute I slipped the engagement ring on her finger.There were a lot of factors to consider before you married a mafia boss. One of them was safety. There were enemies in every corner and crevice of my life. I had to put forth the right measures to ensure her safety.I tracked her and saw that she was heading to an abandoned industrial area on the outskirts of New York. I cursed, wondering why she would slip her security de
Lily didn’t take her eyes off me. No matter how much I tried to distract her, she wouldn’t listen to me. She’d told me to shut up more times than I could count and even threatened to sew my mouth shut.Too bad I had a big mouth that I couldn’t keep quiet. Plus, I knew it was probably the last time I would talk to her and get some closure. The next time I saw her, there would be nothing left to say.And I wouldn’t remain on that bed, waiting for Lily and Viktor to take me to hell. Within the hour, I was prepared to risk it all and escape. I didn’t almost die for nothing.“Why did you kill the same people who raised you?” I asked. “They may not have been your blood, but they took care of you.”“They didn’t do it willingly. They tried to take the money my father gave them and run when he died. They didn’t know that I was my father’s daughter. I was trained to fight, blackmail, and kill for as long as I knew what that was.”“My father left my godfather all the leverage needed to make sure
I woke up in a hospital bed, but I couldn’t quite open my eyes because they were heavy. I knew I was in a hospital based on the scent of sterilization. I hated the smell of hospitals.They always reminded me of bad moments. Even though I couldn’t see anything, I could still hear people speaking. The voices sounded far away, and they weren’t very clear, but they were clear enough for me to make out what the people were saying.“Why would she do something like this? It feels like she wanted to die. I can’t believe she cut herself. Is she fucking crazy? Where the fuck were you anyway? You were supposed to make sure nothing happened to her.”“It all happened too fast. She struck when I least expected it. Plus, I think she did this on purpose so that she would be able to get out of the house and maximize her chances of escaping.”I heard the man who hadn’t been speaking before the woman snicker. “You think she would do something like that? She risked her life. If you had gotten in here t
That night, I was as miserable as ever. It was only a few hours left until I was supposed to be brutalized by Lily, Viktor, and their friends. I tried to open the window and see if I could run, but it was sealed shut.And even if it wasn’t, it was a long way down, and I would likely break something if I jumped. Not to mention Lily made sure I had no warm clothes. I wouldn’t get far outside before I died of hypothermia.I was in a silk red dress that Lily had given to me after she watched me shower to make sure I didn’t do anything dumb like drowning myself in the shower. Her words, not mine.As I would kill myself before I killed her. She was the one who deserved to die, and that’s what I believed. I didn’t believe I was the one who was supposed to die. I believed she was the one who was supposed to die.But she gave me a few ideas. I had a few hours to plan how I was going to make sure I escaped from the clutches of Viktor.As the hours passed, I started to lose hope. No one came to
My party was in all the gossip blogs when I woke up. That was a reason I loathed high society. Gossip was the norm to the point that you couldn’t sneeze without anyone putting it on Instagram, blogging it, or tweeting it.They were calling it the party of the year. Unfortunately, I didn’t feel as p
“The woman is no longer in the picture,” I told her.She looked behind and motioned for the bodyguards to leave. They walked out and stationed themselves where they would protect her from the outside. I already had a lot of men. I didn’t understand why she had to bring her own security.But she was
It was my birthday. When I woke up, there was a note on my bedside table from Nero. He told me happy birthday and left me flowers and a box. It looked small enough to hold jewelry, and I immediately opened it.There were limited-edition pieces there. I didn’t even want to know the price of some. Al
I was aware that Serena’s brother didn’t like me. I didn’t mind that he didn’t like me because my brothers didn’t like Serena either. They told me she was a distraction and that she was making me do things I never would have done.If I had a penny for every single time Nico told me that he was goin







