บททั้งหมดของ The Mafia Kings Want their Woman Back: บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 10

Alicia's POV“Let me out!” I screamed at the door, tears coursing down my cheeks. “Please…” I fell to the ground, all hope of leaving this prison slipping away like sand through my fingers.A whimper left my lips at the idea of never leaving here, never seeing the sun again, or my dingy apartment.How did things come down to this?I curled up into a fetal position thinking about the series of strange, surreal events that had overturned my life this week from what it had been before.…Seven Days Ago“Do I really have to do this?” I grumbled to Daya, the only friend I had. She was fixing her makeup and leaning towards the vanity mirror, putting on some eye glitter on her lids expertly. At my words, she turned around and gave me a long glare.“Don’t start with that kind of attitude now, Alicia,” she warned me in her no-nonsense tone. “Besides, you should be happy. I even thought of taking you out on your birthday. You’re no longer a teenager. You’re 22! How much longer are you going to

Alicia's POVI couldn't help the groan that left my lips at the words that Daya said to me.“Daya, not this! I can’t go out with you this time,” I tried to decline her invitation, or rather, pressure to spend another night clubbing. To my luck it was a weekend. But it didn’t change the fact that I wasn’t interested.“Oh, don’t complain about it! It's been a week. Come on, Alicia! You saw how fun the club was, didn't you? I thought you would have gotten a taste for it,” Daya’s golden blonde hair bounced as she curled her strands expertly with the curling iron. “Besides, I’m broken-hearted, Alicia. Jimmy broke up with me yesterday and you didn’t even try to comfort me. Don’t be so horrible to your friend. Aren’t we friends?”‘Against my better judgement,’ I wanted to respond, but chose to only nod. To be fair, though, Jimmy likely found out he wasn’t the only one she was dating and reacted badly to the ‘surprising’ revelation.Knowing her, it wasn't a secret that she tended to shop aroun

Alicia's POVI never counted on being stuck in a tense situation with two devilishly handsome mysterious men in the damn bathroom to occur in my life. Or ever.Acker looked like he just stepped right out of some movie, and I could hardly take my eyes off of him.Wait…I paused in my flustered act over the presence of the man I spent a night with a week ago and realized what he had said.Mikael? Did he mean… the man that was currently pinning me to the wall of the restroom? Was that Mikael? ‘They knew each other,’ I realised.“Acker Madden,” the man I now knew as Mikael, spoke with hints of familiarity in his voice, a smirk on his lips. He was undoubtedly the very image of an Adonis, and I would have swooned if it wasn’t such a strange, difficult situation I was in, stuck between him and a hard place. Literally.If Daya were here, she would FREAK the hell out. “How has it been? I thought you’d stay in London for the summer,” Mikael continued as though I wasn’t there, even though I fe

Alicia's POVThe whole way to work, I trembled, but managed to keep a straight face. My vacant state thankfully hidden behind my glasses, and my typical ‘mousy’ look on like armor, I pushed forward and looked forward to the time I could enter my office and lay my head on the desk.Then I let out a long tired sigh and closed my eyes briefly. This peace was fleeting but I craved it.Just for a few seconds before work started. That would be some goddamned reprieve from all the turbulent emotions I felt.Unfortunately it wasn’t to be so, for as soon as I sat behind my desk, the door suddenly flung open, and a telltale scent of designer perfume filled the air.“Alicia, guess what!” Daya was grinning from ear to ear, not noticing the look of frustration and exasperation on my face. She was so loud. Would I be a bad friend if I told her to pipe down at least a little this morning?I winced as she continued, willfully blind to my state. “I know you went home early last night , so you must ha

Alicia's POVThe entire trip back home, I was beside myself with worry, and I wondered if I was being rational.They hadn’t done anything to warrant me threatening them to leave me alone. At least not yet.But even though I did, even if I refused to go, could I really escape?The reminder of how calm they stood in the face of gunshots made me shiver. They were handsome, yet, but not normal. After what happened with Acker, I didn't think I could leave.On reflex, I found myself pushing the bouquet further into me, only to be pleasantly surprised. The scent of the flowers in the bouquet was like heaven and soon I fought to resist the urge to press my face into it as I walked down the street towards the second bus stop that would take me to my street.‘The flowers were beautiful,’ that much I could admit to myself, and from what I saw of the dress, it was wonderful as well.A feeling pooled in my belly that I didn’t want to admit but I pushed it away.‘This sort of attention wasn't what I