Riccardo POV:"I'm part of the Mafia. At least that's what normal people called us. But I'm not just a normal member," I cut her off before her insanity kicked in. She was losing her right mind again.I put down the small towel that I used to dry my hair on the office desk in front of me. Then I went to approach Cassie. Her body slowly moved backwards and eventually lay flat on the bed because she was trying hard to avoid me. I just sat beside her and grabbed her up again, making her sit properly facing me."Listen to me. You don't have to stress me over with your words. I'm going to explain it to you even without you asking. So, don't snap again. Just calm down. I don't want to hear you yelling. It's hurting my ears and giving me headaches," I coerced her hard and she quiet down almost instantly.I told Cassie everything about the history of my family and also the underworld I lived in.Basically, the country where we lived right now was divided into five regions. Each region was led
Cassandra POV: Ricky left the bedroom after he gave me a long berating speech. He slammed the door behind him and that made me gasp with my body jolted in shock. My crying stopped immediately and I just sat on the bed motionlessly. My eyes stared at the floor as my mind just thought about what I should do next. Should I just go to sleep right now? But Ricky was in a bad mood and if I just let us continue being in this situation, tomorrow would be a long day for me. I didn't want to walk on eggshells inside this house. That would be such an agonizing thing for me to bear especially now that I didn't have any other place to stay apart from here. Ricky was right. I did love him. Yet, knowing who he really was tonight just felt like a pang in my heart. I couldn't accept that he was part of the crime world. Even worse, he was the king of the underworld. How could I end up having a boyfriend with such a dangerous identity? This was just not making any sense to me. My mind was still think
Cassandra POV:Ricky puffed some smoke out of his mouth and looked down again, staring at his cigar in between his fingers. He just let the ashes from the cigar fall to the floor. No lights were on in that ballroom, yet I still could see him clearly because the gleam from outside shone through the uncurtained windows.I went to sit beside him carefully. He looked a bit confused by my action but he commented nothing and didn't even avoid me. Slowly, my arms circled his waist and gave him a loose hug. Still, he remained reserved and so I deliberately tilted my head to his left shoulder. Maybe his heart would melt a bit if I did this."Did you come down here because you're afraid to sleep alone?" He joshed.It was uncanny how he could be so mad at me a moment ago and now he was able to make a joke instead. Sometimes, I felt like Ricky had very unstable kind of emotions. One second he could be so calm and another second he might lose his temper. I couldn't read him most of the time, so th
Cassandra POV:"Take it," he slightly raised his voice and gave me a little glare. I knew right away that he meant it as an order and not a request.My hand trembled a bit as I took the gun from his palm and I pouted while holding the gun grip with two hands. Ricky pointed his hand to the front, telling me silently to look forward. I did and I stretched out my hands getting ready to fire to where he pointed. I guessed he noticed my hands were shaking uncontrollably and he suddenly just chuckled at me."Why are you laughing? Get this done fast. I don't want to touch this thing any longer," I grumbled at him."Okay... okay..." he said while helping me be in position."One... two... three. Shoot!" His voice got louder towards the end."Wait. Shoot on three or when you say shoot?" I was confused by his instruction.The man sighed and took the gun from my hand. He then just shot towards his aim randomly three times."I'm here! I'm here! Please don't shoot! I'm here!" Someone came out from
Cassandra POV:The whole ghastly atmosphere in this mansion just suffocated me, I felt like I needed to get some fresh air. I really needed to get away from this place for a while. Maybe I should find someone to talk to about all these things that bothered my mind since last night. But who could I meet? My friends? They won't understand what I was going through right now. Besides, I might put them in danger if they knew what I got myself into.Thinking of that, I suddenly realized that I could no longer meet my close friends as often as I used to. They might be a target of Ricky's enemies if I appeared close to them. They might get kidnapped and be used to threaten me, just like how I could be kidnapped and be used to threaten Ricky. Gosh, my life had really become complicated now. Everything seemed to turn upside down right after last night's incident.Yet there must be someone out there who I could talk to. A friend that I could trust and that friend should already know about the ex
Cassandra POV:Dome chuckled at my question and I guessed I knew what he was about to say. It seemed like that incident was something humorous to him. I was sure it must be something unpleasant to my ears, but I wanted to listen to it anyway."Answer me! Who told you to laugh?" I intimidated him a bit.Dome certainly won't dare to defy me. Even Ricky had to suck it up with my annoying behaviours sometimes, so this one bodyguard surely had no choice but to just endure me."Because you couldn't shut up. I'm sorry... I didn't mean to be rude... That's just what the reason was..." Dome replied while snorting, trying to hinder his laughter from coming out again. I instantly shot him a glare through the rearview mirror. He coughed discreetly before he continued his words."Mr Xavier had a very low tolerance to disobedience, ma'am. But you... you're so stubborn sometimes, you kept messing up with his head. You're shouting at him and being so noisy, he wouldn't be able to think straight that
Cassandra POV:I waited until they were done doing whatever kind of inspection and security checkup they needed to do on Nicola. It took about five minutes before Dome finally opened the car door for me. Actually, I didn't even know why the passenger doors of my car suddenly couldn't be opened from the inside. It seemed like Ricky had changed the lock just like he did to my apartment door lock before.I only could open it if Dome unlocked the door from the driver's seat or someone from outside opened it for me. This was very frustrating, they were treating me like I was a kid that needed child protection. I was a fully grown adult for God's sake. I could see now how scrupulous Ricky was to make sure I didn't try running away from him."Finally..." Nicola approached me and gave me a friendly hug."Let's go and have lunch inside. Just leave these two annoying men outside," I said while glaring at Dome and Marco. They just scoffed because they knew I was just kidding. Nicola chuckled at
Cassandra POV:"Yeah... my ex-boyfriend Ricky from seven years ago during college. It's the same man. He's my boss now and we're getting back together," I said calmly.Tina gasped hard and instantly covered her mouth with her hand. On the other hand, Nicola smirked a little with a meaningful smile plastered on her face."You should thank me then!" Tina slapped the side of my arm suddenly. I looked at her in confusion, didn't understand what she meant by saying that. Why should I thank her?"If it wasn't because of the prank call that we made at the nightclub when you were celebrating getting a job at RX Corp, you wouldn't get back with Ricky!" Tina added, giving credit to herself as if what she did to me before was such a good thing.As far as I remembered, she made it worse actually. If the prank call to Ricky was never made, he wouldn't have come to the nightclub and taken me home to his place. We wouldn't have made love that night which then led to me having an awkward encounter wi