47JASMINE“Well, well, well, Romano…” Enzo drawled, cocking his head to the side, letting out a low chuckle. “You really are a piece of work, aren’t you? Had a bitch this pretty in your bed, and still ran off to fuck another…”He cracked up with manic laughter.“You’re a stupid bastard. She’s got one of the sexiest bodies and faces I’ve seen on a woman. What I wouldn’t have done to go all the way with her those nights she came back to my penthouse. It’s a fucking shame, really.”He scoffed, folding his arms.“If she wants to kill you… Then who the hell am I to deny her what she wants? Saves me the job of having to do it myself. And gives me the satisfaction of watching her murder her own partner. The very partner who set her up to cross me in the fucking first place.”Enzo walked over to me with a smirk on his face, freeing me from the rope, allowing me to stand on my feet…Folding the gun into my hands.My heart pounded against my chest, as I slowly moved my body anti-clockwise to s
44ADRIAN“Let me kill him,” Jasmine stated. “Untie me, Enzo. I want to fucking kill him myself. I want him to fucking suffer for everything he’s put me through… Everything he’s made me fucking endure.”No.No, no, no…Enzo turned to face her, scoffing.“Do you think I was fucking born yesterday? You want me to untie you, so you can fucking kill him? You love the bastard. Why the fuck would you kill him?”I guessed that this was what I deserved…Living a life of sin.Hurting so many people who didn’t deserve to be hurt.Jasmine included.Knowing that Jasmine didn’t love me…Knowing that Jasmine hated me enough to want to kill me…Was enough for me to want to be put six feet under, anyway.Put me out of my fucking misery.I was already a dead man walking.I was nothing without her.I didn’t want to know a life without her.So if she didn’t want me…Then maybe the best thing I could do for her was to allow her to carry this out.Get her own back on me.I’d ruined her life from the minut
“You’re a right little team, the pair of you, aren’t you?” Enzo snarled. “Fucking bastards. You had me fooled. From the very minute I saw her in that pub… Everything was planned to perfection.”He gritted his teeth.“I know everything. About how she looked at pictures of my tattoos to crack the safe code. Everything. So there’s no point bullshitting me in this fucking moment.”“Enzo, I’m sorry,” I breathed. “I had to do what I had to do. In order to guarantee my family’s freedom. I needed that chip. I fucking needed it…”“Well I need it back, motherfucker. Or I’m gonna rape this bitch and make you watch. Make you watch me fuck her pretty little ass, tear it in half like I should have done a long time ago back in my apartment. Why should I spare her any mercy?! Why should I spare her any mercy when she took me for a fucking fool?!”He growled viciously, and I could feel my blood run cold, running out of solutions to get the pair of us out of this situation.What the actual fuck was I
All that my mind was set on in this moment…Was bloody murder.Vengeance.Needing Enzo to suffer for what he’d fucking done to her.Nobody hurt Jasmine and got away with it.No fucking body did.I needed to get her safe.And so the next words rolled out of my mouth, before I had the chance to stop them…Even though I knew I was signing my death warrant.I knew that I would have to die in order to protect her.I promised her that I wouldn’t allow my way of life to get the better of her.And so I was going to uphold that promise.Sacrificing myself…It was a risk worth taking.“What’s the location, motherfucker?” I gritted through clenched teeth, my head searing.39ADRIAN“That's more like it,” Enzo drawled victoriously. “Sweet cooperation. No long-winded talk or bullshit.”My head continued to pound with fury.“Get to the fucking point, Ferrari,” I spewed viciously.He let out another low chuckle.“Come to 15 Albuquerque Crescent. Unarmed, and without men, or she gets it, I promise yo
35ADRIAN“I‘m not playing fucking games,” I gritted. “If you’re lying to me to protect her or something, I promise you, there’s no point in trying. You have no idea who I am, what the fuck I’m capable of.”Chris scoffed.“Are you threatening me? Why the fuck would I lie? She isn’t here, simple as.”He trailed off his sentence, narrowing his eyes.“But I don’t like the way you’re fucking speaking to me. Jasmine is my friend, so if you’ve done anything to hurt her…”“I wouldn’t hurt her, I fucking love her, goddammit!” I roared, banging my fists down on the table.Chris jolted backwards, swallowing down a lump in his throat, as I began sweating profusely.“I checked security cameras… They showed she was coming here tonight…”My voice was hollow, barely above a whisper.Chris wiped his forehead, before letting out a deep breath.“If you’re telling the truth that she was supposed to come here tonight…” he mumbled, “then I think we better check the CCTV. Come with me.”I gave him a feeble
33ADRIANI did my best to sleep, but all I could do was toss and turn.How could I sleep, when the love of my damn life had been ripped away from me?It was no use.I needed closure…And I needed it now.I knew that seeing Jasmine would just kill me again.Batter my black fucking soul.But I had to see her just once…After everything we’d been through.I couldn’t just wallow in self-pity for the rest of my fucking life.I let out an exasperated growl, before getting up on my feet, throwing together a shirt and some trousers, before loading up my laptop, powering on the security system, ready to cross-search Jasmine’s face on the CCTV to search where she’d gone, and where I could find her.I waited for the search results to load, my patience wearing thin, as I tapped my foot down against the floor.The search results began to populate…And it was then that I came to the realization.She’d gone to the Golden Ace tonight.The same place she used to work…The same place I fucking met her