LOGINLUCAI had never seen Mia this emotional before.She couldn't even maintain eye contact with me, in the middle of her pouring tears.I understood she had deep feelings regarding the situation, but I also hoped I had done the right thing by bringing her sister to her.“I'll just go for now, okay? If you need anything, you know where to find me. I love you.”She didn't respond, but closed the door on me.I didn't mind it. She had all the rights in the world to process her emotions.When I turned around, Niko was behind me.“You good?” He asked.“Let's get back to work,” I responded, and he nodded.We walked to one of my home offices, and a couple of minutes later, Dimitri brought in Mr Rivers.“Good evening Mr Barone,” he said as soon as he took his seat.I nudged my head in regards to his greeting. Even though I knew I was less friendly than I had been to him in our previous encounter, I didn't do anything to change it.This was time for serious business, and I had to be focused.“Tel
MIA Peach and I walked into the sanctuary to watch Katherina's first training session with the Angels. “Queenie in the building!” Irina announced as we stepped in. “And don't forget the law,” Zee added. We all laughed, as Peach and I drew closer to them. “Hey Kathy. Having fun?” I asked her. “Are you kidding me? This is the best day ever! Wait, last night too with you on that stage. Now I understand why you're called the queen of the night. Everyone is in so much awe of you!” I laughed at her kind words, but an endearing, accepting kind of laughter. “Alright, let's move it! I want to watch you wow me.” She did exactly that. Even the other Angels were quick to give her the flowers she rightfully deserved. When we were done at the sanctuary, we all went to the lake for some dip. “You're smiling a lot,” Peach said to me, as we laid on the loungers at the lake side. “Shouldn't I be? I'm happy,” I confessed. “I can tell. I'm happy too. Everything is so different in the castle
LUCAI finally felt like I had a progressive ass night.After making sure the flowers I had the gardener pick out from our garden were sent to Mia, I returned to my office room.In exactly ten minutes, the door opened, and Niko walked in with Landon Rivers..He took a seat across mine, and gave me an acknowledging nod.“Mr Rivers, I think you're smart enough to know why you're here.” I cleared my throat, and leaned out to have a heart to heart.“You want me to convince the others to let you have your way, don't you?”I smiled, my eyes twinkling. My favourite thing was people who didn't pretend.Why pretend when we can all just be straightforward right?“You are incredibly smart, Mr Rivers. So tell me, what do you say to that? Would you do that for me?”“Mr Barone?”“Talk to me, Mr Rivers,” I gave him an encouraging smile.“Since we both do not like pretense, I'll be very clear with you. I never gave a fuck about Darien. But I earned about five million dollars every year, working for hi
Just when Lev thought the messages would end, one more came in.“Meet us at the bayou on Southsun street now, if you're interested in striking a deal.”Lev played it off cool. He didn't want to look suspicious, so he bidded his time.He waited until Mia was reaching the climax of her song, then pretended he was too pissed off to continue to listen to her sing to another man.“I can't take one more second of this,” he said maliciously to the hearing of Luca, before rising to his feet, and walking away.Luca smiled, pleased with himself that Lev had finally gotten the message.He even turned his head behind briefly to make sure he had left.And when he saw he truly was leaving, his smile widened.Lev waited until it didn't feel like he was being stared at anymore, before he turned.“For you Mia. For you,” he said, before walking out of Pandemonium.He drove straight to the bayou at Southsun, without a care in the world if he was being set up.In his obsession that had turned dangerous, a
The torture room became a mini banquet room, as trays, and more trays of food were brought in for the four lawyers.Different types of meals were placed on the table for them.By the time the meals stopped coming, the entire table was filled up without any space left unoccupied.“What the hell is going on?” Glenn James asked rhetorically.“Obviously, we're being seduced,” Jonah Jaguar replied.“Or bought,” the lawyer guy that was hit with the dart, Bryan McCall, added.“Maybe both,” Landon Rivers mused quietly.“So what are we going to do? Something tells me we don't have any choice. If this guy has documents to prove he's the real owner of Darien's wealth, then maybe we should just let him have it,” Jaguar suggested.“Are you crazy? What about us? Why can't we be the inheritors of this wealth?” Bryan, still not thinking with his brain, argued.“Do you have a death wish or something?” Jaguar fired back at him.“Forgive me for not being a pussy like you.”An argument broke out, that Ri
Mia walked up to the devil, and just fell into his arms.He hugged her dearly, spread kisses all over her face, and then pulled away gently to take a good look at her.“I missed you a lot today,” he said.“Tell me about it,” she groaned, pulling him along to the bed.He laid on his back, and she rested her head on his chest.“What have you been up to?” He asked, stroking her hair.“Mr Wolf made me talk to Katherina.”It took Luca a couple of seconds to remember that Mr Wolf was Dimitri, and Katherina was apparently the name of the girl they brought with them from Gazel.“How is she? Dimitri said she won't talk to anyone. Apparently, she's still in shock.”“Why didn't you tell me you didn't pull the trigger on Darien? That she did?” Mia asked.“I didn't see the point, to be honest. She's not going to take that burden. Either way, he was going to be killed.”“Yeah, I told her she has nothing to worry about. She killed a bad man, and that makes her a hero. She's scared of you, you know?”
MIAThe door closed after the guard that had shown us into the room Lev would be staying at the castle, and I turned to see him seated on the bed, staring at me.“You sure you don't want to go back to your hotel room or your house?” I asked him.“If I go home looking like this, my father will throw
LUCAI didn't go straight to the castle. I had one more stop before I would finally get to my destination.Thankfully, Mia was sensible enough to hold on tightly to me.The road I was driving on was pretty rough. But like diamonds, the destination was worth it.I drove through that road with a spee
MIAThe night had arrived. In an hour, I would finally get to meet Lev's parents. The actual president and first lady of Russia.After my weird encounter with the devil last night, I was truly determined to give this meeting my all.Lev was by all indication the best guy I had met in this so-called
The table was already set when Lev and Mia arrived.“The house is huge,” Mia whispered to Lev as they were led by the servant that welcomed them into the house, towards the dining room.“Why do you think I'd rather live in hotels? It's too big,” he whispered back.She was already laughing before sh







