What'd you think about Mallory and Malakai's love story?? What'd you think about Malakai's personality? Leave your comments and I kinda rushed this episode so please forgive me if you find any grammatical errors and don't fail to point them out😊😊😊 Thanks for reading ❤️❤️❤️
JOJO'S POV Getting used to life in a foreign country and a foreign tongue grows on you faster than you expect ‘specially when the locals are nice and welcoming. My case is not and I feel like I stepped into a sixteenth-century documentary on slavers and the horrors of slavery. Albert, who's Madame Silva’s driver, formed a bond with me after he learned I didn't like working in the poppy fields. None of us liked breaking our backs under the harsh sun to pluck up drugs that'd end up destroying people's lives but I was the only one stupid enough to be vocal about it and that earned me a designated spot at the whipping ground. Albert found me after the first whipping and cleaned up my back and rubbed some healing cream on it. He came back the next night and the next until I found myself waiting up for him after each whipping session. They call The Estate A Casa Do Ouro which makes no sense to me because the Mansion is surrounded by over fifty acres of poppy flowers, growing exotically
JOJO'S POV After dumping my broken feelings on Katrina, we enter the bonding phase, talking about our lives before A Casa Do Ouro for the remainder of the bath and it turns out that Katrina's parents sold her to A Casa Do Ouro for money to pay for her younger sister's illness. Katrina insists the trade was with her consent but I highly doubt that. I think her parents tricked her into getting sold and I think she knows it. Rifling through the closet, Katrina takes out a black gown that covers me up, neck to foot and I nod my approval. “Are you sure this is what you want to wear?” Katrina cocks an unsure gaze at the attire, her despair at the material is mildly entertaining but I'm not budging. “Yes, Kat. This is what I'll wear.” “But it's too old for you and I wanted to dress you up like a princess,” Katrina mumbles her protests with a cute crumbled expression. “Nah, nope you can't sway me on this, I'm wearing the black widow gown.” I grab it from her hands and dump the heap o
JOJO'S POV The first man to reach us, their leader looks at Katrina and me with confusion etched on his face. “Why are you just standing there? Kill that bitch!” The kid screams from the ground. He tries to get up but falls on his face for a lack of balance. “The Madame said not to touch her.” Their leader says with a hateful gaze on me. One of the men tries to grab Katrina, pushing past me and I block his path, my fingers sliding into the waistband of his jeans to pull out a revolver and I aim it at the men. “Step back,” I order and everyone freezes. Except for the guy who's still moaning and rolling on the ground with a broken arm. Such a crybaby. I kick him backward for good measure and the animosity in the leader's eyes flares so I kick the kid again and again for my pleasure. Their leader takes a step forward. I cock the gun and point it at the kid on the floor. Whoever this kid is, he's obviously calling the shots around here. The leader steps back until they're at
JEREMY'S POV We gather in the insanely cramped space that is Mallory's room and I feel her eyes poking lasers into the back of my head. She's not happy with my presence and neither am I. Without a doubt, I believe that if she hadn't tipped the fucking police, Josephine would be here amongst us. Amongst them, at least. Any problems I have with Josephine are between her and I and no one has the right to interfere. I yell the words at the brick-headed Mallory and she yells back that anything that concerns Jo is also a concern of hers. She didn't travel across the Pacific to watch her best friend fall apart over an arrogant prick with no heart and do nothing about it. Kendrick, who'd been glaring lasers into Mallory's head also comes to her support. They're all sisters, she says and they live to support each other because that’s the only way they can thrive. I laugh at their bullshit talk, mocking them with my reply. If they were such a tight-knit support group, why'd they leave Jos
FIFTY-FOUR JEREMY'S POV I swing my fist to his jaw and he dodges my attack with a surprised, “Whoa!” I glare at my stupid body that's working too slow for my rage-infused brain and I want to take my frustration out on something. Something like the man beside me. “What’d you want…” I slur and clear my throat to throw him a glare. Why is my tongue so heavy in my mouth? “Save your anger for someone who deserves it, young Vongov. I have something you need to hear.” I move to stand but my knees are jelly at this point. What the fuck, how's that possible??? “Oh, it is possible.” He answers my unspoken question with a sip of his bourbon, hiding a sly smirk. “You– What did you do to me?!” I snarl at him because at this point that's the only thing I can do. Glare, Snarl, Growl, and Act Surprised. Fuck. “We needed to tranquilize the beast before I could have a proper conversation with you.” He settles back on the stool and crosses his legs like a businessman in a Forbes intervie
Jeremy's POV I stare after the old Chevrolet as it hurtles past me coughing up smoke from its exhaust, I question the believability of everything I just heard. It can't be possible. I trudge mindlessly into another bar, that asshole detective forgot to return my Vodka. The thief. I buy another bottle of Vodka and drink straight from the bottle this time around. No more glasses bullshit. My phone buzzes in my pocket and a piece of paper falls as I try to grip the phone from my pockets with my still lethargic hands. I shrug at the piece of paper and ignore it but a passerby picks it up for me. “Here, you dropped this.” “Thank you, kind stranger,” I answer in Russian as I collect the paper and the man looks at me strangely before walking off. I pull out my phone to see fourteen missed calls from Junnev and Malakai. I dial the group chat and they both answer at the same time. “What's up?” I growl into the phone. “We found her location.” “Where's she?” “She is in Guerrero's
JOJO'S POV I feel the trepidation take over my limbs as I force one foot in front of the other. I'm going home! Aunt Sher— Fuck it, Mom and Dad are here. For me!!! Someone found me!!! Mallory you genius! you did it!!! We did it!!! I fist-bump the air as Madame Silva closes the door behind her but what if they didn't come to take me home? What if they only came to negotiate my ransom and get back to the owners of this shit place? Fear constricts my lungs as other possibilities roll into my gut, settling like a weight with an impossible shake-off, What if they aren't my parents? What if it's all a ploy by Madame Silva to get me out of my room and down those stairs? What if I go down those stairs and I'm forced to become a human lab rat for testing every batch of coke they produce? I suddenly feel like Madame Silva's words were only knives in my sides, she was only mocking my desire for freedom. Anxiety and worry encase my mind and with Katrina gone, it only fuels the turmoi
JOJO'S POV “You agreed that we would settle this later.” Aunt Sherry grits out to the woman behind her. The woman settles elegantly on one of the cushions like a debutante with years in the pageantry industry. Her gaze zeros in on me for a brief moment and I release a sharp breath as to how much of Jeremy Vongov I see in her. They both have the same black eyes, inky black hair, the same shape of the jawline and their lips carry the exact arch and curve. I fall into a trance the more I stare at her until the weight of her stare falls on me and a cold feeling skitters up and settles on my chest. “Come here, girl.” I look at Uncle Will and Aunt Sherry and they nod their heads that it'll be alright. The woman looks to be in her late thirties but the more I go closer to her, the more the skin of her face changes before my eyes. One side of her face is normal and smooth with lesser wrinkles while the other side of face is more stretched out from years of extensive skin grafting and m