JACKIE I visited the tavern because I just wanted to clear my head. Since I left Keith’s mansion, I hadn’t heard from him, and it didn’t seem like he was going to come back to the Institute any time soon. I couldn’t stop imagining scenarios in my head where Keith was having sex with Mia, and it made me very hateful and spiteful.Of course, I would still ensure that Mia gets out of the way permanently, and being that she already turned down the easiest way out, she had now left me with no choice but to treat her exactly how I had been treating the other women around Keith, but I would have to be very strategic about it because it was obvious that Keith cared more about this one, and he was overly protective of her.I had had to resist the strong temptation of driving all the way back to Keith’s mansion. That would be more humiliating. So, instead, I had gone to the tavern to waste away the tormenting evening.When I got there, I allowed myself to waste some dollars on the whores danci
MIAI watched Keith drive out of the mansion from the window at the end of the hallway, and my excitement grew, as well as my nervousness.“This is it, Mia,” I said to myself. “In a few hours, I will be free,” I added.Then I went back to the room and waited. I would have to wait for another twenty-four hours, but I could handle that.When I heard a knock on my door, I knew that it was Cain because I was now accustomed to how Cain knocked and how Tessa knocked. I rose from the bed and went to the door. This was my one and only chance, and I would need to make the best of it, starting from my response to Cain.I opened the door slowly.“Good morning, Cain,” I greeted solemnly.Cain was less stiff in his facial reaction, and I knew that it was simply because Keith had left. He didn’t say how long he was going to be away for when he made that phone conversation, but one thing was certain; he wouldn’t be here when his stable workers would come to the mansion.And to think that I almost re
KEITHWhen I finished talking to my stable head on the phone, I noticed then that one of my horses was neighing in an unusual way.A lot of people didn’t know that I reared a few horses, but that was a part of my life that I kept private, even to other Mafias. The only people who knew were those who lived in my mansion, and Saint, and Jackie.After I walked out of the home where my mum was murdered coldly in front of me and never turned back, I got a job with a rancher to watch over his horses, and that was when I fell in love with horses. He was Mexican. He hadn’t wanted to give me the job initially, because he felt I was underaged, and he didn’t want the state government to penalize him for hiring an underage worker for hard labor, but somehow, I had been able to convince him. He had been further surprised when the horses took an instant liking to me. I had also been surprised.Unfortunately, I only got to work for him for a few months before he decided to relocate back to Mexico, a
MIAI stayed holed up in the room with so much fear lodged in my chest.They were plotting against me.They would do something to hurt me, and I realized that Jackie’s absence did not mean that I was going to get any moment of peace.There was a knock on the door, jolting me back to reality and making me scared.“Who is it?” I asked with trembling lips.“Cain,” Cain responded.I swallowed and rubbed my palms together. Before now, I would have felt some kind of safety, knowing that it was Cain, but that feeling was gone. He was their leader in this mansion, so he definitely would be at the helm of things, and at the forefront of their plans.“Open the door, Mia, please,” Cain pleaded from outside the door.I breathed in and out and tried to calm my racing nerves. Even if I was scared, it wouldn’t be advisable to let them know that I was. One of the edges that I realized Jackie had over me was that she knew that I was scared of her, and she used that to her advantage. I decided that I
JACKIEI walked to the labor house in search of Saint, but I was surprised by what I saw.Most of the young lads were not just being idle, they were also sniffing hard drugs. I stood there, my mouth agape in shock, and I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.“What the fuck is going on here?” I barked at them.They jerked in shock, and began to scurry into hiding.“Come here!” I beckoned to one of them who was too afraid to run away like the others.He walked towards me shakily. He had already quickly dropped the wrap of hard drug he was sniffing along with the others, and it was obvious that he was scared to his bones. It made me wonder why he was doing it in the first place.“Good…hello…Miss Jackie,” he stuttered through a greeting.His eyes were becoming red, and his brows twitched; the effect of the drug that he was taking.I rarely ever came here. As a matter of fact, I didn’t even remember if I had ever really come here or not. Saint and I weren’t always cool, and since this was hi
MIAI couldn’t stop thinking about those pictures and files. There had to be an explanation to it, but unfortunately, Keith was unwilling to give me that explanation.“He is hiding something,” I said to myself as I walked from one side of the room to another. “Something is going on that I am not aware of,” I added.Since he bought me from the sex house at such an outrageous amount of money, I had been wondering why. He was a stranger that I hadn’t set my eyes on, and even though the only reason men buy women from the sex house was for them to become their sex slave, so far, that hadn’t happened.Now, it dawned on me that I wasn’t a stranger to Keith.He knew me before he bought me from the sex house. How did he even know that I was going to be there at that time? Thinking about it now, I realized that it was pre-planned. Everything was planned, and I was the naive fool in all of it.He knew my mum and stepdad as well. He had everything about them documented, so what was happening that