XANDER POV“They are expecting their shipment on Tuesday. We got the inside information.”Ciello informed standing in front of the three of us. We were back at the grand hotel after a long night, and I would rather say, whatever Matteo said to the boys was well shitty because they have been like dollop heads all the way back, refusing to talk to anyone about anything and leaving me all alone and bored. “And how did you manage to get it?” Lorenzo was surprisingly calm, considering the fact that Vernero was about to make someone shit bricks was rather puzzling. He directed the question to Ciello who fidgeted for a second, then glanced with his eyes screaming ‘HELP ME’. I thinned my eyes at him trying to figure out what the hell they have been up to the whole night when their job was to keep Leigh-Ari safe, and hidden. Or at least that is how they were all instructed.“Ciello?”“Well…” He mumbled glancing back at me, and this time, I cocked my brow at him. I was damn sure that what he wa
XANDER POVI wanted nothing more than to throw the phone somewhere in the bushes where we were hiding, or capture a motherfucker and claw their skin off from how irritated I was. But I couldn’t, not this time or all of this would go down the drain.But still, what the hell was she thinking? How could she insist on coming here when she knew damn well that it was going to get bloody? Because one way or another, there was going to be some serious shooting and loss of lives. Feds or no feds. I know that rationally, we had to leave the whole operation in the hands of the feds and let them take care of everything, but these polished bastards knew no cap about how the mafia world ran, so I didn’t trust them to capture bloody Russians.But then she… Fuckin’ hell. If something happened to her, I was going to kill someone. Blood cold. I leaned against the tree and willed myself to calm the fuck down. She was Leigh-Ari for goodness sake. No words said by me or angels were going to be enough to
LORENZO POV“Mi dispiace, what the fuck did you say?”My hand paused midair as I was about to take a gulp of my drink. The guy dressed in black stepped further into the room and nodded at both Ava and Val who were nestled on the couch.“Xander got shot, but we managed to seize the Russians. Matteo is in captive as well as Julia. Some of them are dead, and the rest are in the hands of the feds.” He repeated his words for the second.“Xander, how bad is he?”“He got shot in the shoulder, so it’s not fatal.” Ari will sit beside herself if she hears this.“Okay.” I replied shortly and the downed the rest of the whiskey before staring into the raging flames in the fire place. My mind wandered of all the times I have stayed behind while my brother did the dirty work. One thing I knew is that he would rather choke on a dick than to have my hands sullied and soiled. He preferred it when I stayed on the top, dealing with the shit from the civilized side. I never fought him, because I wanted to
LEIGH-ARI POVThe whole charade had been without a flaw. It was almost impossible to just sit down and relax over a glass of Champaign to celebrate the victory because something about it didn’t feel quite right. I hated the feeling that gnawed deep inside me. It was as if the whole thing had been some shitty paranormal story where fairies saved us from all shit. And this was the mafia. It was as real as it ever gets.When arriving in Beverly Hills, I instructed Xander’s men to keep our little trophies in the basement and give them enough water to survive the night. I was drained, too tired to even work on them. So as soon as we hopped off the big cars, I headed straight to the house without glaring back, only to run smack-dab into Laura who made it a deal to engulf me in the biggest hug.“Oh, my gaaah. I have been dying here without you.” Couldn’t she just shut up? Like for a second?I patted her back lightly before withdrawing from her so loving embrace, and that is when everyone got
LEIGH-ARI POV“You are so beautiful.”Someone purred, I don’t know who. Because there were just too many of them fawning all over my body and all of their touches were like a drug that sent my mind into limbo, driving me insane.“So fuckin’ beautiful.” Another one chimed, and I found myself quaking against the bed trying to get a grip of reality. But I couldn’t, not with them all over me like this. The lust laced in their sultry voices as they purred to me softly was enough to make me shiver with pleasure and utmost need. I was in need of love, THEIR love, and all the promises it carried.A hot, wet tongue darted out and licked lazily around my puckered nipple, wrenching weird little cries from my throat, cries I never knew I was capable of making. It was all too good, and in that haze of lust, I tried making them out, because no matter what, they were different in the way they touched me, yet undeniably and agreeably efficient into making me the horniest bitch on earth.“Please…” I mo
XANDER POVWhen dawn broke over the horizon, we were barely done with our MAKE THEM PAY 101 operation. But I tell you, the whole basement was in a nice shade of red, covered completely in blood. I got up from my seat and gave myself a nice stretch, which made my bones crack in all delicious ways. Damn, I have never felt this… enlightened. This enthralled. I cast a glance at Vernero to find him wiping his hands with some cloth he cut off Matteo’s shirt. His face was rock hard, and with blood stains all over those tattoos, he looked like the devil himself, and for a single second, a sizzle of tremor coursed through my entire body. I walked to where Matteo was lying, with his body… short I say, his once-perfect body mauled to perfection. Guys, after God, fear Vernero. I am sure even the devil down in the innermost pits of hell cursed every time he woke up to take a piss. That man, yikes! Even words fail me.I walked to where Matteo was lying, trembling from a different kind of pain,
VERNERO POVOne would have thought that after last night’s charade, I would be feeling better, greater and a little bit consoled after the divulgence. But I tell you, I wasn’t. Not even slightly. I don’t know what had ticked me off the most, finding out that my woman was molested was one thing, but standing in front of Matteo and actually listening as he flaunted it, gloating about how good it felt when he brazenly raped Leigh-Ari while she was chained and helpless, I just… I was beginning to feel like I didn’t do enough on him. It felt like chopping his cock off and hanging it around his neck was not close to enough. After all that, we let Ava give him a shot, one that would make him stay alive for at least some time. I just wasn’t done with him. Not yet. He hadn’t experienced the kind of pain that I WANTED him to experience. And we were still far from the finishing line.“You don’t like your breakfast?” Ari inquired placing a warm hand on top of mine. I glanced at her and felt my w
LAURA POVI DIDN’T KNOW.I swear if I had known what happened, I would have skinned that woman and deep-fried her before she uttered a single word to me.I couldn't even try to put myself into a position of imagining the horrors Leigh went through in the hands of that woman. The whole night, I tossed and turned, trying to imagine, what kind of a vile screwed-up bitch would do such a thing to their only child.Thinking about what she had gone through made my blood boil with great animosity for that woman. And if it so happened that she landed in my hands, I swear I would do more than collateral damage to her.She was a colossal pain in Leigh's ass, and I would gladly destroy her for her, just like how she destroyed my Leigh.For a very long time, I have watched Leigh-Ari struggling, trying to get over the cruelty of this life and it had made of her. From not remembering half of her life to losing the only important person in her life, not even remembering how he looked like, I have alwa