Stella's POV... I felt like the walls of the room which I was in vibrating due to loud noise. Feeling like my head was being hammered, I raised my head from the pillow while my ear drums hit with the distant screaming. I looked around in the room, it was the same old Max Stokes room containing his cologne.  Uh, wait! I quickly gave a hurried look to my wrists and ankles as the memories of myself being tied in the chair flashed in my mind. My heart throbbed loudly and eyes blurred with tears. The slow burning recollection from that day came back bit by bit.  He was there, sitting with his sister while her man asked me questions and gave me shock waves. I wondered if he would stand up and free me from that chair, shower punches over the face of that guy and take me away with him. He instead chose to be a silent spectator while I was being tortured! He... Did nothing.  I scu

 No one's POV   " Huh!" Stella gasped.  She had not expected to get caught by him, it will make him feel pathetic. She immediately turned her back against him and wiped her cheeks off with the back of her palm. Max made sure she was made comfortable everyday after that evil day. He was the only one why she had to endure painful events, but Stella cannot stop respecting his efforts.  Even if he gave her the pain, he made sure her further life was filled with pleasure and joy. "Stella!!" she felt him walk behind her.  She cannot see his face but very well sense him getting worried and twisting his lips nervously. "Hey, you're crying?" Turning her around to face him, he swept the tears away that fell from her eyes.  Max accumulated her in his arms like his prized possession and sighed. He doesn't have to ask her, her eyes told every

 She was short of words. Nelson, her official boyfriend eyed her with disappointed eyes. He caressed her breast with his fingers inhaling near her lips as he curiously said, "I hope you remember this is all nothing but a plan. You don't love him, do you?" There was authority in his tone, a demand that conveyed he was an annoyed boyfriend.  Well, which boyfriend would not be annoyed when he knows his girl slept and spent intimate moments with an enemy!  Nelson breathed deeply, staring at her intensely. He waited for her answer but came none. Her rigidness showed how much she was affected by her real boyfriend's appearance. Not only that, he also burst her little bubble of fake happiness which was nothing but a freaking part of a blood game.  Stella should not but she did feel pathetic when his fingers fondled with her breast quite roughly. She inwardly mourned as she felt it was wrong. Her brea

  No one's POV  Stella settled on the couch. Her appetite was dead. The vague and unclear idea toward her feelings made Stella tired. She was suddenly engulfed by laziness that did not let her do anything as she planned.  Moreover, the new realization of her love toward Max disturbed her thinking. She closed her eyes trying to meditate a little alas, the unusual noise coming from the bedroom thrilled her, "Who... Who is there?" She murmured under her breaths. Her body turned alert against the noise coming from her room as she rose on her legs.  Megan could not be the one, that was for sure. That was not even Nelson. That guy would never do such a thing at such a point. Stella arched her back taking deep scared breaths. She was not in the sense of mind where she could defend herself. Even though she was the daughter of a Mafia King, she was a normal woman who hardly knew how to fig

 A cool breeze rolled over. The orangish sun was ready to set as the birds prepared to fly back to their nests. There was no disturbing echo in the air but the quiet air filling the atmosphere.    Max and Stella walked together side by side holding each other's hands, their faces held small smiles. While his grin expressed happiness, Stella's strangely curled lips spoke a different yet agonising story. It could be seen that her face held no emotion hey she forced herself to smile— only for him.      Max desired if the time could stop right there and then. Having her by his side with the amazing view in the front of the setting sun, he felt on top of the world. He found himself being transported into another world. A world with zero percent evil and terror free lands that offered only and only joy.