Cassandra POV:Ricky filled the ballroom floor with rose petals and pink balloons. There was soo many of them I could barely see the ground. Then there was also this artificial fog covering the floor, giving out the scent of lavender and rose, making the space look magical like inside a fantasy book.In the middle of the hall was a square dining table set for a candlelight dinner. The meal had already been served and Ricky was standing just beside the table, wearing a tuxedo. My heart skipped a beat as our eyes met. He beckoned me to come forward as he pulled a chair for me to sit. Now, I knew from experience that this was no ordinary dinner setting. I dated a lot of men before and some of them did use to do something like this to me. Usually, the night would end with a marriage proposal from the guys. Then I, being the silly insecure complicated woman, would eventually turn down the guys and broke up with them a day after. I was so afraid of being in a serious commitment before, I l
Cassandra POV:A week passed and somehow the heaviness I had about the wedding slowly reduced. Maybe it was because I never saw Ricky killing anyone these past few days and he was never missing after midnight too. I knew several people had died at his hands because of Pedro's matter before, but he had a fairly good reason why he did it. Pedro was obviously damnable for killing women and children. My mind had probably been convinced that what Ricky did to Pedro was justice and my heart had slowly accepted it too.This morning, I received an unexpected text message from Nicola. She congratulated me for the engagement I had during Valentine's Day and informed me that Ricky had asked her personally to custom made a pair of heels for my wedding day. I guessed Ricky must be really serious about the wedding. He also had been asking a few fashion designers to come to the mansion to take my measurements so they could make my wedding dress. I didn't even know what it might look like, Ricky was
Cassandra POV:The next morning, Ricky was the one who woke me up. I was so confused that he was able to be up that early since he must go to sleep late last night. Or was it that he didn't even go to sleep at all? It was still dark outside because the sun didn't even rise yet."Wake up, honey. Get ready now. We need to go to the airport early," he said.I rose from the bed and just stared at him. As far as I remembered, I booked the flight at nine in the morning. It just passed five now. There were like three hours before the flight. So why did we need to get ready now?"Last night... the flight... it's at nine..." I said indistinctly with a drowsy voice."The funeral will start at nine. I called the pilot and he said he could move forward our flight to eight. So as soon as we land, we'll go to attend the funeral directly."I was dumbfounded by his words, I literally gaped at him in disbelief. Ricky had no time to have an argument with me, so he just grabbed my body up and made me st
Riccardo POV:Cassandra looked fuming. I could see her nose flaring and her cheeks reddened. I noticed the movement of her chest getting up and down as if her heart was beating fast right now."Cassie, don't make a scene. Don't disrespect the De Luca family. Now is not the time for you to lose control," I whispered in her ear and she met my eyes, glaring for no reason.I should have known better than anyone else to not let her mingle with Carina. I thought she would handle it well, unlike what happened during Don Luigi's birthday party. Apparently, she was still easily provoked by that Rossi woman. It was a close call, thank goodness Nicola knew how to stop her. If only she was a little late, Cassie might create another trouble for me. Who would want to start a cold war between the Mafia gangs during a funeral? This woman really didn't know how much she had almost given me heart attacks. Her actions were really unpredictable sometimes, it stressed me out if she failed to behave nicely
Cassandra POV:"What?!" Ricky got enraged.Now, I was not really a petty woman and I really didn't like to repeat what Carina had said to me before. But it was not fair because I couldn't retaliate with that bitch this morning since Nicola and Ricky stopped me. I had been keeping this intense dissatisfaction within myself for the entire funeral, only able to glare at Carina from afar. And it was annoying as hell to see her smirking at me all the time as if she knew I couldn't do anything even after she angered me with her vile words.So to make it fair, I told Ricky exactly what that Carina bitch told me and it was really satisfying to see his furious face after he knew the truth."See? You couldn't even hold your anger in. But you force me to hold in my anger this morning? I even started to wonder if you somehow loved Carina too much, you literally never allowed me to retaliate at her," I finally had the chance to criticize Ricky. He was speechless for a moment and just blinked his e
Carina POV:It had been a week since the old Don Luigi was dead. I guessed Nicola would be in a more stable condition by now. I invited her to meet up at a private club for the elite in the city. The place was located on a hill and Ricky didn't even know I was here.Strangely, Nicola accepted my invitation without much hassle. That woman was getting brave now. She realized that she didn't have any bodyguards, yet still agreed to meet me in secret without telling her boyfriend. Leo would be furious if he knows about this. But Nicola probably thought I wouldn't dare to harm her since now Leo was the new Mafia Don of the northeast region.After half an hour of waiting, the little princess of the De Luca family finally showed up. We ordered a few drinks and food and started discussing our business."Why do you want to see me?" Nicola sounded annoyed, yet still had the audacity to eat the food that I ordered."I want access to Coral Island," I said my demand clearly. She scoffed and just s
Cassandra POV:I was lounging in the living room with Ricky, watching television when he suddenly received a phone call from Sergio. We just had lunch about an hour ago."What? Missing? What do you mean missing? Shouldn't our men be following her around?" Ricky said something intriguing on the phone. His expression changed to a stern one as if some trouble had arisen."How about Leo? Was he the one who called you and told you she was missing?" He spoke more.At this point, I had my full focus on Ricky. He mentioned Leo and someone missing which he addressed as female. Now, my investigating skill wasn't that great but I could read easily that the person who was missing right now could be Nicola."Shouldn't our men have their eyes on her? Why would she suddenly be missing? Did they not get the order to give extra protection to Nicola?!" Ricky looked furious and he just confirmed my guess to be true.My heart instantly got a sudden nervousness. Nicola was like a sister to me and hearing
Riccardo POV:I went to grab Cassandra's body before she fell entirely to the ground. The woman had fainted and probably was too shocked to see what was left of Nicola. This was a murder case, someone was responsible for Nicola's death and I had a hunch it was someone from De Luca's side. Maybe some of the late Don Luigi's followers didn't approve of the changing of power, so they attacked Nicola as a warning to Leonardo.But this was really bad because Nicola was in my region and under my responsibility to protect as I had promised Leo before. So, I didn't think Leo would just let it slide so easily even to me. He would blame me and come after me, especially right now. That was why I didn't want Cassie to follow me before because the De Luca gang might have a fight with the Xavier gang."Take her to the car. Guard her and make sure no De Luca come after her," I instructed Dome and he took Cassie to safety.I saw from afar Leo glaring at me and he suddenly stood up and marched to me w