~Adriana’s POV~“How come you always get into a lot of trouble?” Massimo asked as soon as we stepped into the house and I smiled smugly at him before replying with a cocky;“Because I’m so hot… I’m naturally attractive to a lot of things that should put me into trouble.”“You aren’t as hot as you think you are,” He replied jokingly but I didn’t care if it was a joke or not and shook my head vehemently before replying;“I’m so hot… at least hot enough that you had to forcefully keep me here when you could’ve just collected the money I stole from you.” I replied cheekily, laughing when I saw his eyes widen at my utterance.He chuckled, whilst shaking his head and without a word, he strutted into the house without sparing a glance backwards. I sighed, shaking my head dejectedly at the thought of the shopping gone bad.A figure in the distance caught my attention and when I squinted to see who it was, my mood fell when I saw that it was no other person but the treacherous Jamie.She was

~Adriana’s POV~“Oh help!” I jumped awake with a start, glancing around only to discover that I was in my room and not in the dark alleyway that I’d seen myself in only a few minutes ago. I held my chest, panting as I frantically glanced around the dark room due to the nightmare I was having only a few minutes ago. In the dream, boss Louis had been running after me with a large gun and no matter where I tried to hide, he always managed to find me. He had accused me of stealing his money and then running away, and for a moment I almost thought he was referring to the card theft until I realized that Massimo was already dealing with me for that already.It was weird.Sighing as I shook off images of the dream out of my head, I changed out of my sweat drenched clothes into a fresh nightie and was about to go to bed when I began to hear scary sounds coming from the other side of the door. I sat up in fright.“Who’s there?!” I called out, tiptoeing out of bed and standing at a dark cor

~Adriana’s POV~“Ouch!” I cried aloud as I stumbled and fell to the floor limply.My body shook violently from both starvation and weakness and I couldn’t help but think that the weakness was as a result of starvation:Massimo had kept to his words and had locked me in my room since yesterday’s evening. Initially, I had banged at the door, screaming and crying for help, hoping that he would have compassion but after a few minutes of crying and no one came to help, I gave up because it was obvious that he wasn’t willing to.I had tried conserving my energy and channeling it into helping myself out of this situation but after a few hours, the effects of being locked in began to take its toll on me.Half expecting that he would come for me in the morning, I was glad that my misery would soon be over but those thoughts immediately flew out the window when morning came and he didn’t come… no one did.I continued waiting, like that until now and still there was no one by the door.At this

MASSIMO’s POVMy eyes were glued on the documents in front of me as if there was no tomorrow, I was simply just focused on it because it's the most important thing to me right now, anything that happens to it only means one thing and that's “Danger”. Still going through the documents when someone crept inside my sturdy room, it was obvious that I had left it open without locking it."You mustn't act like the thief you are searching for," I mouthed, focusing on my documents without glancing at him. I already knew that the person that entered was Michael even without seeing him."And you mustn't insult me at the slightest Chance you get huh? What I am about to tell you now is gonna shock you brother." He whispered in my ears and I inhaled softly, impatiently waiting for Micheal to drop the bombshell. I have been waiting impatiently to hear the news about the dumb thief for too long that now I was so curious, I was dying with curiosity."The thief got caught huh?" I questioned and he ro

~Adriana’s POV~I stood at the door with my hands slapped against me face in both shock and confusion. I didn’t know how to fully digest the scene barely five feet away from me. Massimo was with a girl. A girl who just happened to be the worst person one could think of; Jamie. I thought he said he had nothing to do with her and that she was nothing but a pest to him.What the hell was happening here then? To worsen the situation, I saw Jamie smirk smugly at me. She winked, made a sexual sound and from the look on her face, it was obvious that she was making fun of me at the moment. I just wanted the floor to open up and swallow me whole but before it did, I wanted to squeeze the living daylights out of her!With Massimo’s dark eyes fixated on mine, he wasted no time jumping down from the bed and then began to walk in my direction.Initially, I had hoped that he was coming to give an explanation about what was actually going on and why he had Jamie in his bed but to my utter shock ,