THREE YEARS AGO.. .After taking a bath for the second time that night and settling down on the couch, scratching his head and then letting out an exasperated sigh, Cullen still looked at Rain with an angry expression like she was speaking gibberish. Well, Rain wouldn’t blame him really, even she can’t believe what I just told him even though she witnessed it for herself.“So you’re telling me,” he massaged his temples, “That a man asked you for your help and you got into his car and did God knows what with him?”“I didn’t do anything with him…I just showed him directions,”With the way he put it, it sounded downright ridiculous!“All I did was show him the directions and because I told him I was going the same way, he offered me a ride and I took it,” Rain explained, “I just can’t remember what he said his actual name was but he did say that he owed me and hoped to repay me or rather, he said he would repay me,” I pursed my lips and looked away from Cullen’s gauging stare, “Then
“They’re not happy with what you’ve been doing, Xander…going around and killing council members in Italy like a fucking madman!” The Don of the Salvatore family, Alexander’s future father in-law said. Andrea sat in the corner, her hands on her lap and her head down. Quiet and docile, just like her father always wanted her to be. Alexander though sat opposite the man, his legs crossed and a bored expression on his face. Sure, he had honored the man’s request and came all the way to the Salvatore mansion just to see him. Alexander also expected that this was going to be the topic of discussion so he prepared himself beforehand, made sure he walked in her with his best expression just so Andrea’s father wouldn’t think he didn’t give a fuck about whatever he had to say. Which was true, but he didn’t need to know that. “I know they’re not happy…it’s why I’m doing it,” Alexander deadpanned while trying really hard to keep the sarcasm out of his tone. “Do you know what your actions are g
“I think it’ll be easier on my father and everyone else if we start making preparations for the wedding,” Andrea said, she was finally meeting Alexander’s eyes and she looked a bit offended, probably because she’s noticed that his attention wasn’t really on her.Alexander discreetly checked the time on his watch and let her words sink in.Marriage.It was something that he had been avoiding and pushing back for so long. Now she was bringing it up again.Alexander wondered why when she herself had always mentioned it but not like she wanted it to happen anytime soon. Why was she in such a hurry now?“What’s the rush, Andrea? I thought you said you wanted to be CEO of Salvatore’s Corp before we get married?” Alexander asked with a raised brow, she avoided his eyes again and started down at her fingers.Ok. Something was definitely up with her.“I just want us to…” she hesitated, “ Finally be together...” she finished in a low breathy sigh. She stood up and closes the distance b
Rain had grown accustomed and more irritated with her daily routine as the days went by.She would wake up early, take a shower which Nurse Anna always had to be there every fucking second just to make sure that she didn’t slip and fall or maybe put way too much water on her almost healed injuries.It had been more that two weeks since Rain woke up after the incident and despite the fact that her entire body was healing nicely, she was still being treated like a patient that required special attention.After taking a shower, she wore comfortable clothes then sat down on the bed waiting for either Nicky or her breakfast to come first.Majority of the time, her breakfast came first and sometimes her brother didn’t even come at all. He would call later on to tell her that he has to work in order to get her out of the Guerriero mansion.He'd never mentioned what work he did and where. Rain never got a straight or proper answer so she stopped asking.Nurse Anna and Vicky who was no l
Rain saw him and knew who he was almost immediately. When she saw mem stationed in front of Alexander’s office, she’s first thought they were the men that followed Enzo and Alexander everywhere but they were all dressed differently and none of them looked familiar. The two men at the entrance of Alexander’s study both had their backs turned to her but only one of them was able to pique her attentionHis silhouette looked so familiar, it brought back the memories of that day when she stared long and hard at his back as he left her on that floor to die, his fingers stained with Elisa’s blood and Rain’s knees soaked in Aldo’s.He didn’t turn around though, Rain couldn’t see his face and even though she couldn’t be sure, she noticed the other man pulling out a gun from his waistband and turning off the safety.“We’re supposed to shoot Alexander Guerriero and not miss, if we go in now, things would be so much more easier for us,” the man’s partner said impatiently, sounding like a child
Rain shivered, she felt warm in his embrace but couldn’t control her body’s reaction.Her eyes were closer shut, she’s didn’t want to open them anymore, she just wanted the reality of the damage she caused to fade away.She didn’t feel better.She thought she would.But she didn’t. Elisa was still dead, she was never going to come back and Rain never get to see that smile or even her permanent scowl again.It was gone. Forever.“What did you say?”There was a certain chill in his tone, so evident and suffocating that even the groaning man on the floor quieted and the groans of Elisa’s murderer became non-existent. He pulled away from her and put a finger beneath her chin just so he could raise her head.Rain opened her teary eyes to look at him just like he wanted, her vision almost completely blurred by the tears in her eyes but she could see the intensity in his liquid brown gaze and it scares her. Because despite the fact that his expression was one of gentleness and he a
“What are you going to do to him?“ Sleep, Rain, I’ll tell you all about it after it is done,”“No!” Rain turned around so she could be face to face with him, but that was a big mistake on her part. The second her gaze landed on his face, her heart beat so fast that she thought it would fly out of her chest.There was this effect seeing his face had on her and as much as she enjoyed it, she wanted it to stop as well because it scared her.The last time she felt this way towards a man, he had almost killed her, he has broken her down into tiny pieces and ruined her for everyone else.“I just need to see, I need to know what you’ll do to him,”That bastard had taken the life of a person she cares so much about and made her relive the pain of losing a parent again.Rain didn’t want to be consumed by the hate she was feeling...even though it was definitely too late for that.Rain had shot the man and didn’t feel even a tiny bit of remorse after. She feared the kind of person she w
The air was stale, the stench of blood and disinfectant filled the air and it was almost suffocating.It smelled like a hospital that had lost control of it’s blessing patients and it made Rain gag once or twice since she walked into the room.The sight was much worse than the stench though.The man was still in his bloodied clothes but they had been cut open from the parts that were shot. Bandages covered his bullet wounds and the rest of the blood had caked on the material and his skin, that was probably where the stench was coming from.The areas around his bandaged wounds were clean but not the same could be said for the rest of him. He seemed to be covered in a mess of his own making, he’d grown quite a stubble since Rain last saw him. His mouth was wide open, like he had something to say but couldn’t will his tongue to move.He looked terrible.Good.Rain took another shaky step forward, almost regretting why she came there in the first place but then again, she was also