Keirah's heartbeat rate has raised too high, that I can hear it. Her body temperature raised. Almost burning off my skin where I am holding her hands. Sweat is dripping on each pole of her skin. Breathing heavily through her nostrils. Her chest is rising higher and higher every time. All the signs of a dying person in pain are visible for me to see. I was late. I shouldn't have hesitated. I can't stop blaming myself as I watch her. I hold on to her too tight. Her legs struggle for balance. She cannot hold anything anymore. Her eyes are traveling with speed. Then my phone rings again, and I thank God, jumping out and letting go of her hand to call for help. I am shaking as I search from one angle to another through my torn pieces of clothes scattered around for my phone. I need James to rush here and help Keirah. “AAAAAGHHH AAAAGHHH” Keirah makes a painfully loud noise. And I turn to watch her as she screams so loud in pain. Unfortunately, she loses movement after the last noise
At Casablanca Regency Hotel... For the first time in my life today. I kissed and made love to a woman. I had my first true kiss. I walk around the room, lost in thought, watching Keirah sound asleep. Yes, I had my first kiss. With the girl, I am a hundred percent sure was a virgin. Was she? I question myself more. Studying her? With my lack of experience in the matter, I don't know anymore. I haven't let myself kiss someone and have raw sex with them without feeling nauseated. This is weird and kind of something I didn't imagine happening. I have visited so many doctors on the matter and they all could not identify what was wrong with me. This is impossible. I walk out of my penthouse to the elevator and down to the ground floor at first paces to 'Aika'. Aika is my tattoo artist and the only girl who has gotten close enough to touch my skin. The only room apart from my penthouse and bar where I can completely feel safe, be vulnerable, and be able to clear my mind. She has done
“Keirah...the biomedical engineer ran away just after you left the warehouse. And my two boys and babies who were chasing after her. Where found dead. Someone killed them brutally .” I study my uncle's facial expression and see that he has doubts. He is not sure I have her. And he is scared. The style of killing his men and dog went through wasn't my signature style. He met his match. Then why is he here? “We searched everywhere, and nothing was alerting until we came to Casablanca inside your private elevators. You have gotten into trouble taking the cams off today. “It was all planned by you. You are the person behind her disappearance. Isn't that right Bullet?” My uncle speaks, looking directly into my eyes with a daring look. “I did not shut down the camera. A crazy woman who tried to kill me. Shot the camera down yesterday. you can check up with James on the recordings from yesterday.” I raise my eyes at him. With a cynical facial expression. “We have men searching everywhe
“We should let her go,” James speaks to me with fear in his voice. “What?! Why the change of mind? What happened? You were excited about her yesterday.” “I don't see a bright light on this anymore. The look on your uncle's face right now. The visit from your uncle and what went down now. I see deadly challenges coming on our way. “You are already getting beyond your uncle's nerves. I could tell by his expression. He knows you very well. That act you put up, anyone could read it. I promise you if he finds her with you. We will be done for before we take a step outside this place.” “I won't let him find out. Why do you keep jinxing the situation? Are you tempting fate with me?” “I have found out. Someone else will find out. I do not know of any deep secrets in our world. I don't think it's okay for you to continue getting involved with her. “Whatever situation we are in. I am scared we are making it worse for her.” “Is it okay if she dies in my uncle's warehouse? You asked me the
I jump off the sofa, my mind already running weird with the imagination of what my uncle must be doing to Keirah as punishment for trying to escape him. And the secrets he would have found hidden on my laptop. When I stand up, I see the laptop on the bed. And I sigh in relief. Before walking to the laptop, Keirah's scent hits me. My uncle hasn't found her. I breathe in more... She is still in the room. I breathe in her scent, which calms my nerves, and I smile before turning back to look for her. Closing my eyes to allow my nose to find her. The strong scent hits me, and I know where she is hiding. Then I open my eyes to Keirah hiding behind a corner by the door. The door she woke me up with. She was trying to force it open. As our eyes meet. The fear I see when I look into her eyes. I feel broken. Is she still traumatized by what happened yesterday? I thought everything had turned out okay after we made love. She is so angry and scared as she looks me deep in the eyes. By the l
THIRD PERSON'S POV Luciano's father was in Luciano's shadow, following him around the house. Even while alone with his mother, his father stood aside, supervising everything they did. Luciano had no time for himself. He could barely speak to his mother alone. He had tried to speak to her very few times. When they tried and succeeded, his father would punish him by forcing him to do the unthinkable. Like his first kill when he was five years old, and more kills until five years ago. It was almost his eighteenth birthday. When Luciano got wind of his father wanting to leave his reign with him, the life he was living already suffocated him. And with the news of the crowning of a Mafia heir coming soon. Luciano got up the courage and told his father off beforehand. He would not take over and become a Mafia boss. All his life Luciano had failed to convince his father to do anything he ever wanted and always did what his father wanted him to do. But years after his mother's wrongful
My uncle pulls himself onto a dusty sofa and sits down facing me. “No, I won't kill them. You are going to choose to get who among them gets killed first. You should have listened when I told you there was no way out.…” He pulls out a cigar and lights it up before he continues speaking. “Wake her up now...” He commands. “And when she is up… you decide who will die first if it's her or the other two?” I have never come face to face with this side of my uncle's threatening side. Just a little scaring me off now and then, but he never looked like that. I know I was out of my mind when I pushed things with Keirah. I craved to save her with all my being. Every inch of me is shouting, save her! Save her from what my uncle planned for her. Save her from the pain. Save her to save the world. He was my father's brother. What did I expect? He was leading the Solan Empire. If I was the bullet, he was the top gun. I am screwed because today I took it too far and lost his favor. “Zio, pl
THIRD PERSON’S POV Three days later…… The troubling loud sound from the sky travels around. A chopper tows through the tow line of clouds above the forest heading toward the mountains. It towers above tall trees over a green landscape, then over waterfalls, the rapidly flowing water. Luciano walks out on the front seat of the passenger, straddling himself from the downdraft. After he gets off the helicopter, he walks into a car, then stops, and rides a train before he gets into another chopper. The chopper flows through the water, shaking as it passes into a dark, dense cage and then into an opening where the chopper lands. The helicopter sits on the edge of the cliff overlooking the narrow river. A river flows through a thick forest. Luciano walks out of the helicopter and crutches to the edge of the water. Wind whistling. Mist covers a mountainous green landscape. The sun is going down from the heavy sky. He washes his hands at the shallow end of the river and scans the sur