80The buzzer nearly deafened me but I didn’t stop running away. I just wished to get out of the mansion through the hidden exit I spotted and get away before they could reach me and lock me up in a room.I ran and ran and ran until I saw exactly what I feared not to, “No… hell no,” I whispered under my breath while pulling up my brakes. I didn't want him here, I didn’t want him to block my way. Armando was here, he stood ahead of me, wrapped in those three-piece all-black suit with hands in his pockets but now, his arms crossed in dominance, his biceps stretched in agony, his face looked like a deadly weapon ready to murder me, he was deadpan but I was not blind to ignore his real intentions. He was inwardly revengeful, all red in wrath and ready to punish its prey. I was on my reverse steps when I felt him plodding towards me, I feared those thick eyebrows today, the same like I feared when I first looked at them, his jaw was suffocating me like I committed a crime to be raped aga

82Armando Anything that I ever wanted was this lady to stay by my side and be safe. How should I make her understand this world did not think the way she thinks? This world of sins was not for someone like her but unfortunately, she was a part of it, she had to be here because she was written for me in the name of love. The day our pages joined together, I vowed to protect her from the devils of the darkness, who loved to suck the soul of an innocent in the name of power and revenge. This wife of mine who was sleeping peacefully in my arms never paid attention to see how much I worry for her. How much I get afraid of losing her every time she would do something stupid thinking that stunt of hers would help me. No! That never helped me. She should’ve considered a thought about what I would feel if she would’ve run away to that bag of shit and gotten under her along with our son. She never cared to think about the consequences. It’d only worsen the situation. But then, my mind repli

84ArmandoI’d been longing for Lana from the moment I left her embrace and went to my wardrobe to pack my essentials for the counterattack, it’s like I left my heart with her and now, I wasn’t able to breathe properly. Within fifteen minutes, my belongings were packed and I left for the airport, not forgetting to give a farewell kiss to my little kitten; Isabella. She awoke by the time I was about to leave the room. I was forced to spend some time with her when she opened her arms for me to pick her up, although I was already running out of time but I couldn’t neglect my daughter or my wife no matter what, they’d always come first.After those moments together, I rushed to the airport. When I sat in my car that waited long for me on the porch, I observed my bodyguards' faces holding a question concerning about my late arrival as it never happened before. I was dangerously punctual before my kids but now, things have changed. I was a family man and I had to mould myself for my loved o

86LanaNo, no, no, no, NO! Claire was going to hurt my family, she was either going to kill Sebastian or Armando or in the worst case; both. No, I wouldn’t let her do this to my family, how easily she could think it’s easy to diminish my realm with her finger’s snap. No, she was forgetting I wasn’t the Lana anymore when we met each other for the first time. I was Misses De Luca now. I would do anything to make sure my family stays safe, I would go to any extent to keep my loved ones protected. And that all means, I would have to move to Puerto Rico in order to save the already fallen clan and control the situation with the best that I have otherwise things would go horribly wrong and our empire would fall on its knees. I could feel it in my chest, something was going down, furiously. I need to save it before it vanishes into nothing. I was staring at the blank screen all the while till I felt my guts shouting at me to wake up from the bubble I tended to be in, I gasped the next mo

88ArmandoI took a deep breath and let my senses go with the flow. I was wheeling my car, off to the destination which could be the last place I would see before closing my eyes forever. I wished to die beside my wife, so that I could watch the love of my life while taking my last breaths in her lap but now I thought it wasn’t written for me that way. She better stay away from all the mess I made in the first place by loving her and then forcing her to love me back. And now, look at us, where do we stand? I never thought that having a family would mend me into such an incapacitated punk. I never considered myself as a frangible prince charming, I had never been one. I was one ruthless man who used to live on the blood of others but since the day I got Lana in my life. My life had changed by taking a 360-degree shift. I was no longer a vampire who sucked blood but a man who craved the sincere touch of his girl but look, where do I stand today? In the mouth of death, because for viole