LOGINThat 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
Looking at Lily made me sick. She was eager to answer all my questions excitedly. I hated her so fucking much. She killed my parents because they were brave enough to expose her father for all the awful things he had done.Her father was the two-timing bastard, and my parents suffered for not being an accessory to that. Antonio Russo was his name. Nero told me all about him. He was not a good man. He had apparently driven his wife, Lily, and Luca’s mother to suicide.That was why she didn’t mention her mother in the story. I had learned a long time ago that knowledge was power, and I’d wanted to know everything Nero had to tell me. I was glad I did, because I would use my knowledge of her family to throw her off balance.But before that, I wanted to know everything she had done so that my anger for her would only rise. That would motivate me to kill her because I would. As she said, it was an eye for an eye.I wouldn’t allow her to get away with killing my parents, framing them as a t
At least they kept me in a decent room. It had a fireplace, a comfortable bed, a window, a closet, and a bathroom. There was nothing in that room I could use to attack someone.There were np lamps, no bedside tables, no clothes in the closet, and the fireplace was modern. There was no way I was able to escape or do anything other than be in bed. What was the purpose of that?I would never be able to sleep knowing you planned to turn me into a prostitute. I didn’t want to end up like that, but there was also nothing that could be done. I planned to talk to Lily and hope she had something beating under her chest.When she brought me food that night, she was as alert as ever. She was going to sit down and watch me eat, so I took the opportunity to ask her some questions. I wanted to know what circumstances led her to be the one to contribute to most of my problems.“Why?” I asked.“Excuse me?” She asked as she raised an eyebrow at me. She was sitting comfortably on a chair opposite the b
Ever 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
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
The sun woke me up the next morning. A maid was in Nero’s room, drawing the curtains. She glared at me when I looked at her. She obviously didn’t like me and was terrorizing me. Who even let her in there when I was sleeping? She had no right to wake me up, especially when I had slept late the previ
Lily looked away.“I don’t know, Serena. I have tried calling him, but he’s not answering. Call him. I’m sure he’ll take your call.” She said.“He’ll probably be here later, Lily. He can’t plan all of this and refuse to show up. I can’t believe he bought the hotel. Could it have been for my birthda







