All Chapters of A contract with the ruthless mafia billionaire : Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

Lia’s POV“Shoot him!!” Adrain’s voice echoed across the room like a storm, his eyes raging with fury. “Shoot Kade Valen or I will put a bullet through your fucking skull!!”I swallowed hard, my chest rising and falling in heavy gasps. I couldn’t do it… No matter how much I told myself I hated Kade, I just couldn’t kill him. He was right there, still pointing the gun at Adrian while his eyes silently begged me to make the choice I already knew I couldn’t.“Don’t think about it too much, Shoot him! Adrian screamed, his jaw tightened in rage. I froze, unable to move an inch, my mind screaming to do something.Kade’s lips curved into a sly smirk, his voice cutting through the tension like a knife. “Look at him, Lia. Pathetic. Hiding behind a woman like the coward he is.” His fingers tightened on the trigger, “he wants you to do his dirty work because he knows I won’t let him walk out of here alive.”“Don’t listen to him, darling.” Adrain hissed, his breath hot against my ear. “Kade Val

Lia’s POVThe door burst open with a loud creak, Damon and several of Kade’s men flooding in with their guts raised. The shootout had ended but the chaos hadn’t.“Boss!” Damon barked, rushing to Kade’s side. His men surrounded us within seconds, securing the room to make sure no one dared to enter. “We need to get him to his safe house. Now.”Before I knew it, hands grabbed me, lifting me roughly to my feet as others lifted Kade’s unconscious body off the floor. I tried to fight against their grip, but they dragged me out of the room. My screams for Kade were swallowed by the roar of engines as we were shoved into the blank SUVs. I didn’t even remember getting to the car, all I remembered was the cold weight of Kade’s blood soaking into my dress and the crushing fear that this was the last time I would ever see him.******We reached the safe house in minutes. The sterile smell of antiseptic filled the air with the sharp orders and barks of the doctor who was already waiting to trea

Kade’s POVThe door slammed shut behind her, alongside the echo of her sobs still heard in the hallway. I could still see the devastation in her eyes when I told her to leave.Those words had left my lips like knives, while I just watched them tear her apart bit by bit. And yet, I had said them anyway.Because I had to.If I didn’t, I would have pulled her into my arms, kissed away those tears in her eyes, and told her the truth that I’ve been choking since the moment she pressed that gun to my chest. She was carved deep into me like a wound that would never heal. But men like me don’t get to fall in love. And if I admit it—even to myself—I’ll lose the last shred of ruthless reputation I’ve made for many years now.I closed my eyes, forcing that aching feeling down my chest, locking it where it couldn’t touch me. She’s safer if she hates Kade Valen and sees him as nothing but a monster. She has to be.God knows how badly I wanted to kiss her and tell her how much I owe her for saving

Lia’s POVMy wrists were still bruised from the way he had slammed them above my head. His body pressed against mine with intense heat coming off him like fire, his command ringing in my ears, our eyes still locked on each other.“I’m not your fucking toy, Kade. I’m not your possession.” I said, forcing the words out of my mouth with every fiber of boldness. “You can bark orders all you want but I won’t do it.”“Kade’s jaw tightened, his eyes getting darker as they pierced through me. He pulled back just slightly—just enough to give me the illusion of space. “You think you’re stronger now,” he murmured, voice low and deadly.“Ehhhh, little princess?”He let go of my wrists, one of his hands trailing down my waist, taunting me intentionally. Every nerve in my body screamed to run, and I hated….hated….the way my skin melted under his touch.“Open it,” Kade ordered, his eyes flickering toward the bed, landing on the small black box that I never even noticed earlier. “Put it on.”I lifted

Lia’s POVScreams, shouts, and the metallic echo of bullets collide with steel, filling every corner of the room until my ears ring. “Kade…” I barely completed my words before his hand gripped my wrist.Dragging me down the corridor as shatters of wood rained from bullets chewing through every corner of the wall.“Stay down!” He barked, shoving me forward just as another gunshot shattered the windows behind us. Dantes’s men were everywhere now—storming the safe house in relentless numbers.Blood sprayed the walls in an instant as one of Kade’s men took a bullet straight through the neck, collapsing onto the floor with a strangled gurgle. Another was hit instantly in the chest, his scream cut short as he fell face-first onto the floor.I stumbled over his body, my shoes almost slipping across the pool of blood on the floor. Every cry of agony and lifeless bodies hitting the ground, a merciless realization that Kade’s army was now being cut down, man by man. Nothing more could stop Dan