Cassandra POV:I shook my head, trying to brush away the confusion in my head. What the hell did I want actually?"Come and sleep on the bed again," Ricky's domineering voice instructed me. But my head was just too numb to even process his words.I slowly lay down on the sofa, ignoring his demand. Thank goodness he wasn't trying to force me or anything. He just went into the bedroom again and seconds later came out with a blanket in his hand.Ricky approached me and my body flinched a little when he sat beside me. His hands meticulously spread the blanket over my body covering me until my shoulders."It's cool tonight. If you decided to sleep here, then I'll join you," he said as if he was considerate to keep me company.Ricky moved to sit on a one-seater sofa and he laid his body and his head backwards, sleeping in that position. Was he trying to guard me from leaving? Why did he need to sleep so close to me?An hour passed and I just couldn't seem to sleep at all. My mind was in a m
Cassandra POV:"You sold my apartment?!"The two men looked stunned by my sudden aggression, they turned their faces to look at me in seconds. Sergio followed the direction of my eyes and he noticed that I had seen the sale and purchase agreement paper of my apartment unit on the table. He took it and gave it to Ricky, shutting up his mouth to give Ricky full authority to handle the situation."You're living here now. So, I don't see why you would need that apartment again," Ricky said his reason simply."Really? Who gave you permission to sell it? I told you before that I never intend to live here forever. I wanted to come back to my apartment again. How dare you sell it without asking me first. I mean how the hell did you able to do this anyway? I never sign any documents before. You need my signature if you want to sell it, my name was in the deed.""It's not that hard to fake a signature, Cassie," Ricky replied with a slight chuckle, glancing at Sergio as if making a joke of me. T
Cassandra POV:"Hello," my mother's voice was heard on the other end of the line.I was a bit glad that she didn't change her number yet. But she didn't sound like she knew the call was from me. That was weird because I never changed mine too. So, did that mean my mother deleted my phone number?"Hmm... is this Mrs Moore?" I asked in the hope that she would recognize her daughter's voice. But her reply was heartbreaking to me."Yes, this is Julia Moore. Who is this?"For a moment, I didn't know what to say. I took a deep breath as my ear heard my mother saying hello a few times, probably wondering if the call was cut."Mom... it's me. Cassie...""Who's that?" I heard my father's voice talking in the background."Is it a scam call?" And Christopher's voice came along after that too. He was my younger brother.I guessed my mother covered the phone and I heard some whispering between them. My mother probably told the men of the house that it was a call from me."So, you finally called us
Cassandra POV:Ricky took a moment of silence before he said no to me."But you're a bit greedy now," he added which sounded like a tease."What do you mean by that?" I asked while half laughing. Honestly, I didn't really want to know, but his words just intrigued me."You always waste my money buying stuff you don't need," he said with a meaningful gaze."I never do that!" I bashfully denied it fast."Hah... hah... hah!" He put his forefinger to my mouth, telling me to stop talking."Do you know how many handbags and heels you bought this month? Just this one month, tell me how many?" Ricky playfully berated me while glaring. That made me laugh instantly and I could feel my face getting hot as my cheeks were probably blushing in embarrassment right now. This man was trying to label me as a gold digger indirectly.I knew what he was trying to convey. He might be joking but his words rang the truth too. Ever since I lived with Ricky, I always asked him to buy me stuff like handbags, cl
Riccardo POV:What did she mean by saying that I didn't know anything that happened to her after we broke up before? I literally kept my eyes on her for seven years, sending my men to watch over her in secret. I followed every social media post she made online and even checked on her if she went silent for three days. Certainly, after the breakup, she went a bit astray and befriended some toxic friends and developed toxic habits like going clubbing, dating random men and going on vacations with her peers. But none of it seemed to jeopardize her life and her education in college. She looked fine on the outside. But did something happen to her that I failed to see through during those years?"I kind of lost direction after the breakup... like for a whole semester. My grades went down and I lost my scholarship," Cassie said slowly.Okay, that was new. I never knew that. Maybe something did happen to her and I could sense it was like some kind of hardship she needed to deal with her famil
Cassandra POV:Ricky was such a nuisance. He always got what he wanted whenever he wanted it. Like right now when he wanted me in bed. He got it fairly easy and now I was left lying on the bed tired after he did me for over an hour. I just closed my eyes pretending to be asleep when he called me like five times before I sensed him rising from the bed and going to his office desk at the left end of the bedroom.I slightly opened my eyes and peeked at him who was now checking his phone. He scrolled a bit before his face turned a bit grim. Then he clicked something before putting the phone on his right ear."What do you mean Pedro did it again? How many this time? How long had he been doing it again?" Ricky asked someone on the phone with a stern voice. His eyes glanced to check on me and I closed my eyes tightly again, just letting my ears hear everything."I don't care, Sergio. I warn him before. I'm not like my father. If he wanted to live in my region, then do his business according
Cassandra POV:As usual, an hour after midnight, he checked on me making sure I was asleep. Like always, I managed to fool him. Ricky left the bedroom and I waited about a minute before I slowly opened the bedroom door and peeked outside. I saw him on the first floor leaving the mansion through the front door. It was dark down there and I guessed all the servants should be asleep by now.The front door was closed again after Ricky went out. I didn't take long to run down the stairs and peeked outside again from a window beside the front door. I hid my body behind the curtain. It was not that dark outside because there were a lot of lamp posts there. I knew right? Why would lamp posts be available here? Let me just remind myself again that Ricky's residential area was about ten rugby fields big. It was almost like a small town here. Thankfully, Ricky didn't leave by getting into a vehicle or anything. I won't be able to follow him if he did that.I saw him walk to a stone building, lik
Riccardo POV:I didn't know how long she had been here or if she have seen everything. But her face looked extremely pale and her body was visibly shaking as if she just saw a ghost. Her tears were pouring yet her sobbing was not even heard as if her voice got stuck in her throat."Cassie," I carefully squatted in front of her and tried to grab her shoulder.She flinched hard and shook her head drastically. I didn't even get the chance to touch her yet as she was already on her footing again and ran away leaving everyone. It was even a bit humiliating now because she suddenly screamed at the top of her lung and that sound echoed all across the tunnel."Damn... I don't think she would be able to recover from that," Sergio remarked. He was standing behind me with the rest of my men.I stood again while sighing, crooked my finger and Dome came forward to stand beside me."Get her," I said and Dome nodded obediently. He with a few of my men immediately ran to chase after Cassie who was ob