Adriana’s POV“He’s like that sometimes,” Patrick said softly to me, drawing my attention away from the door that I had so longingly been staring at. I blinked at him in surprise, wondering who he was talking about but when I noticed that he was also looking in the direction of the door, I sighed.“You don’t have to create excuses for him, for God’s sake, he nearly beat you to death!” I yelled exasperatedly, shocked that he would even try to defend Massimo at a time like this.It is because of their overly loyal attitude to him that usually makes him do whatever he wanted with them and it was bad.“I know that he nearly beat me to death,” Patrick mumbled under his breath, “and I also know that he would’ve done that if you hadn’t walked in when you did.” He added, making me sigh. I watched him tend to his injuries like someone at war would, and again, I felt sympathy as I stared at him. Just as I was about to talk Patrick into really standing up for himself sometimes, he said; “this t

Adriana’s POVI walked into the fancy-looking restaurant with a false smile plastered across my face and a small chocolate box in my hands as a gift for Caden.It had been quite sunny outside and so I had decided to shield my eyes with dark sunshades, but even now that I was inside this beautiful enclosed space, I still didn’t bother to take them off.“Adriana? Is that you?” I heard someone call out to me suddenly, making me halt in my tracks.As soon as I turned in the direction of the voice, my breath hitched in my throat when I came face to face with Caden, the person I had come here to see in the first place.At first, when Caden and I had decided to meet up today, I had been anxious and scared, and then I trembled; but now, after getting to meet him face to face inside this extremely small space, the only thing I could feel now was regret… and shame.“Why had I decided to meet with this guy in the first place, even after everything he’s done in the past?” I thought to myself but

Adriana’s POVI arrived home to meet Massimo leaning by the doorframe by the threshold with the fiercest look I’ve ever seen on a person on his face. My heart picked up an inhumane speed at the prospect of being confronted by him but then I mustered the most courageous look I could think of to prevent myself from being seen as guilty even before being charged.As soon as he saw me coming over, he leaned away from the door to come stand in my way. I gulped.“Good evening,” I greeted l, avoiding his gaze but he snickered. He didn’t even greet back.“Where are you coming from?” He growled at me and even though I was itching to tell him about my ordeals today, I kept my mouth shut.There was no way I would tell Massimo that I had gone to see Caden or that the latter had even tried to rape me in the process. I knew that it was my fault that Caden had tried to sleep with me because I had been the one who had agreed to meet with him, but at this point, I wasn’t sure I wanted someone to rub

Adriana’s POVI woke up to the unmistakable sound of my door opening. In fear, I glanced around the partially dark room but then as soon as I saw that the intruder was Massimo, I hissed.A part of my mind had thought that it was Caden and that I was in great danger but now that I had seen who it was, especially after catching a glimpse of the single red rose in his hands, the adrenaline that had been pumping through my veins seized.Thank God, I am not in danger!“Anna, hi. I didn’t mean to wake you up.” He said softly, coming to sit by the side of my bed but I ignored his presence. The last thing I wanted right now was to be in the same room with him but then knowing the kind of person that he was, he wouldn’t Keene until he had been given a chance to say exactly what had brought him here in the first place.“I’m sorry,” he blurted after a few minutes of awkward silence, and even though I had been waiting for him to say that for the past few hours, I still didn’t feel excited.I gue

Adriana’s POV“Gina, please can I see you privately?” I heard Massimo say softly to Gina. In my entire life, this was the first time I would see him this polite to her and I didn’t know whether to be angry or sad at the prospect of him being this kind because he was about to give her terrible news.“Where’s Michael?” She asked instead, ignoring Massimo’s failed attempt at trying to calm her but I couldn’t bring myself to tell her the truth.If there was anyone here with enough balls to tell Gina about what had just happened then it was Massimo and not me because there was no way I would break a news such as that to a girl just like me; I shuddered.“Where is Michael?!” She asked again, screaming this time, and in fear, I rushed to her.“He’s in the hospital!” Massimo exclaimed.Fine, that wasn’t a lie; Michael was in the hospital, even though it was a hospital’s morgue, but a hospital all the same.“What happened to him?” She cried, grabbing both of my hands as she fell to the floor.