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Claiming His Queen Chapter 30
AUTHOR'S POV.It was at three the next day that Adler had thrown on a black hoodie and was making his way to the garage to pull out the most ordinary car in the manor when he found Priest, Rune, and Kyra training in a ring.They each had their hands wrapped, attacking and defending, and as usual, Rune had all of his attention on Kyra, provoking her to draw blood from him.Rune had his special kind of madness.As he passed them, they all stopped; Priest walked up to the rope, resting against it with his arms out of the strings as he scrutinised Adler."Black hoodie and joggers, let me guess," he raised a brow, "A raid?"Adler stopped turning to find their eyes on him. Rune, mischievously smiling behind Kyra, told Adler he already knew what was happening.To Priest, he ordered, "Forget about bringing Lily back today; I'll take care of it.""Of course you will," Rune crooned, winking at his boss, and seeing the glare, he quickly turned around.Priest climbed out of the ring, jumping dow
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But could he cause chaos right here? In front of her? She loved this job so much that she'd instead turn down a higher-paying one to stick to what he considered the most stressful job._Rather stay two weeks without a raid than do this._Her company reached forward and wiped a tear from her lash to which, in response, she gave him her infamous smile, except this time it was genuine.Adler's finger slowly trailed away from the gun; her sad smile was genuine, so this dude wasn't a threat; he felt relieved; there would be no rough handling in front of her.But now, instead of rage, hot jealousy engulfed him, watching them hold hands.Fine, call him insecure, but it was hard for nobody else to notice what had drawn him to her. But what had drawn him to her? What made him see the halo above her head? It seemed brighter every damn time they tried to taint her name.Her eyes fell on him, and she squinted, looking unsure at first, even arranging her glasses, and seeing he had been caught alr
Claiming His Queen Chapter 32
_"So this girl, if you find her..." His one-night stand peered into his face as he stared up at the ceiling, tangled in another strange sheet of a brown-haired, blue-eyed girl, "𝒊𝒇 you eventually find her; what next?"What next?He felt her hand on the tattoo on his chest, tracing the L in the LILY. Reflex kicked in, and he snatched her wrist, pushing it back at her side, "Don't go wandering," he muttered, dropping his feet down and going to the bathroom.Ended up on another bed. He ended up saying her name and touching her hair in his dreams.All this, but it wasn't her.Just another girl.With her features."Whoever she is, Don, She'll be terrified of you; anyone would be." He turned towards the girl; although he couldn't fully make her out in the dimness of the room, he could make out her frame pulling back.And he answered, "She's not just anyone."***Then it had been him hoping, but right now, staring at her scrunching her nose at the log book, oblivious to the senior citizens
Claiming His Queen Chapter 33
[SALVATORE]If he had to be honest, he was avoiding Lily as much as he could, and it seemed she had noticed, for she also gave him his space.Salvatore ran his hand over the bandage Adler had made him wrap around his ankle. He sighed; the Boss was going out of his way to make his lie genuine.That he had been limping around Lily for three days straight was proof of it. Most of the times he met her, she was being brought back from work by Rune, for Adler had been so busy he was rarely at the manor.One could even say everything had returned to normal, Boss Domenico seemed to have forgotten about Lily, and Eva only came out in the evenings; there was no more confrontation.But today, he stood up from the bed, putting on his crucifix and running his fingers through his hair; he was ready to see her again. His apologies were in a brown wrapper, a result of spending hours in the Library.If she forgave him, she might be sharing his private spot again. He slipped his cell phone into his poc
Claiming His Queen Chapter 34
AUTHOR'S POV [ADLER]Climbing down the car, his first action was to raise his head, scanning the house, precisely her room window.It was a habit he couldn't do without, wanting to find out if she was home, even though he knew he couldn't tell by just looking at the always wide-opened glass.With the back of his palm, he wiped the blood rolling down the side of his head. He needed a hot shower; he smelled of rubber and burning flesh.What could he say? His day had gone rough.He slammed the door shut and went to the booth; pulling out a black bag, he moved straight into the house. And standing at the entrance, he couldn't shake off the feeling that something was wrong.The last time he had this feeling, his world had gone through a significant change, and not the good kind. It had been a turning point in his life, a moment that shattered his sense of security and innocence. As he stepped into the dimly lit hallway, memories of that fateful day resurfaced, and a shiver ran down his spi
Claiming His Queen Chapter 35
The idea of waiting when one was in danger had to hold one of the most thorough fears. The terror seemed to be eating me from inside, my breath wavered, and each time I tried to whisper prayers, I busted into tears.Sitting with my arms around my knee, my chin pressed against it, my eyes wide open in the darkness, waiting and hoping for something, anything.I could hear Salvatores phone continuously ringing in the car, and I prayed in my head for it to just stay silent.When the sound of another car stopped close to mine, I covered my mouth with my palm. To make matters worse, the stench of the boot was getting to me; it smelled of blood and rotting pieces of flesh."Shit," I heard my pursuer curse, I knew his head was poked into the opened window of the car, but his footsteps couldn't be heard again. I blinked in the car, was he gone? Was he not?It's been more than twenty minutes being in the place, and my clothes were drenched from the sweat, and each sound I heard against the car,
Claiming His Queen Chapter 36
AUTHOR'S POV [ADLER]He felt her fear, her trembling, but it didn't surpass his when he called repeatedly, and nobody picked.It didn't surpass his when he had let Kyra find Salvatore while he and Rune searched for her, tracking Salvatores landline while struggling not to cause a major accident on the road as he drove past red lights and incoming trucks.The terror he felt when he came to the sight of the car, in the middle of nowhere, shut with no one in it, the urge to yell into the air, was so evident. Had they gotten her? Was she dead?Until he heard the silent sniffle coming from the car trunk, knocking against the windows, hoping to listen to it again, hoping it wasn't his hallucinations playing tricks on him.Now that he held her in his arms, breathing in her scent, it was hard to explain the feelings. They seemed to cascade out from him; when he thought he could explain one out, it became stronger.Only her mattered right now, this human, wetting his shirt with her tears, her
Claiming His Queen Chapter 37
[ADLER]Nothing gave him a thrill like hunting alone, and that the hunt had a reason was just satisfactory, like the reason for the stench filling the car he rolled into the Bratva's domain.Although the rage hadn't yet subsided, especially when the thought that if he was a few more minutes late, something would have happened to her had his hands tightened around the steering wheel harder than was needed.It was her voice, filtering from the speaker, that had him temporarily paralyzed, unable to move for seconds, but then like everything that had to do with her, the next minute, had him jumping into the car on a highway to either hell or her.He reached her, yet the anxiety of what might have occurred continued to strike him unexpectedly.He stopped the car, in the den he was in, there were fewer men in the compound than he had hoped there would be; surprised and on alert, he stepped out of the car, looking up and around him, seeing the figures in the dark, he smiled _Thought so_He
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