LeilaniFive.Four.Three. Two.One.My eyes flew open against the water again, and I could no longer see Tina’s head poking at the edge of the pool. She fell for it. With renewed energy from the oxygen I had conserved inside my chest, I began to hurriedly uncurl the thick ropes around my hands. It was difficult, because I could not see clearly, I was living on borrowed time and limited oxygen and the water pressure pushing me down and smoldering the life out of me was insane.The main knot of the rope had come undone while Tina had been pushing me around, and that was when I knew the universe had given me a chance of escape. Now, I could easily unravel the rest of the knots and free my hands. As quickly as possible, I freed my hands from the rope and it floated away.But my chest was tightening from holding my breath for too long, and I still needed to unstrap the bag from around me so I could swim up out of the pool. The thought of

LeilaniJust like Neil said, nobody held me responsible for Tina’s death. She was a wanted criminal, a murderer, and she was already doomed to death row. So, finding her dead on a distant luxury island when the UAE police and the American police were all after her, was nothing more than a case of self-defense causality. But Tina’s death did not mean the end of our troubles.My troubles.No. She had set off so many traps all over the place, that our honeymoon had been officially cancelled, and we had headed back to Dubai, where Cora had fallen into a critical coma with a fifty-fifty chance of survival. We were told that she was injected with a poisonous substance by an unknown person, which nearly killed her.The poison had been flushed out of her system by the doctors, but the damage done to her body was so great, that they had to induce a coma to keep her alive and conserve her energy. If all goes well, she would come out of the coma on her own, an

“Yeah, I was expecting some packages.” I replied, already moving away from her towards the pretty silver stairs that led up to our bedroom. “I’ll check them when I’m done taking a shower.”“Alright.” She chirped and turned away. I moved up the stairs, smiling to myself. Sara had really decided to come back to us after she had gotten terribly hurt by Tina after that first attack on our house. She had said working for us was more than a job, that she had watched Neil and I grow as a couple… and nothing made her happier than making sure that we're well taken care of.It was so sweet.And I was happy she was here, even though we see her even less now, than before. She had always been elusive and quiet with her activities, to the point where we wouldn’t not bump into her for days, and now she was even more elusive. Because, according to her, newlyweds needed a lot of time to themselves and she did not want to int

AdonisMy contract was almost over. Thank fuck. It was a pain in the ass having to return to this city which held so many fucking unpleasant memories. It was in this fucking city, that I got entangled with my step-brother’s woman in a fucking way that had me trapped and got me all shades of fucked up. In this fucking city, I got entangled with my family again, and they got hurt because of me. Lily nearly died because of me. Again.Three months ago, when Tina sent me to the darkest place of mental misery, I had to leave. That was the last straw I could take before all the cold calm exterior I had layered over the pain would shatter violently. And I did not want anyone to see me shatter. So, I left. I went back to my place in my city and stayed there. I took a leave from work, which they easily gave me because I was way too valuable for them to refuse.There, I wallowed in my pain and darkness. I was plagued by flashbacks of Cora dying over and over again. I cou

She was the mysterious lady in seductive red clothes I had slept with in Las Vegas. The woman I had drunk, explosive sex with in her hotel suite and she dumped me before I even woke up. The first woman I had ever fucked that wanted nothing else to do with me the next day. If I had no confidence, I would have thought she vanished because I was bad in bed. But that was obviously not the case. I never saw her again. That was three months ago. And she had been working here in my absence for close to three months?“Um. You two know each other?” I heard Jade break the heavy silence in the room.“Yes.” I answered distractedly.“No.” She said at the same time, sounding equally distracted.I arched an eyebrow at her. Why would she say she does not know me? She definitely remembered who I was. I glanced at Jade, to see her staring between the both of us with a confused frown on her face. The same expressions were on Tim's and Cole's face