*SILIA*“Are you sure it’s okay that I am here?” I asked feeling thoroughly out of place to be at the one of the biggest banquet halls in the city. The place would be often showed on TV for award functions filled with celebrities and famous personalities. To be standing in such a place among these jewels of society I couldn’t help but feel nervous.“Oh don’t let it bother you that much. This not a very big event. It’s just the fifteenth anniversary of this building that the Calix built under my Dad’s supervision back when he was alive. They have therefore invited us and almost the whole of the gang. The place is filled with mostly our gang members today. It is brimming with normal people if that is what you would want to call them,” Diana assured me and at her words I did feel somehow better.“That does help a little but I still don’t know how I should act. I have never attended a masquerade before,” I whined adjusting my mask that Diana had prepared for me along with the dress and he
*SILIA*“So that’s what got you distracted,” Alfeo murmured next to my ear taking me by surprise. I paced back at the sudden closeness stepping on the cloth of my own dress and just as I was about to fall Alfeo caught hold of me, securing me in his strong arms.“Sorry, I must have scared you,” he said looking in my eyes through his maroon mask with a small apologetic smile. Flicking his gaze to the side he pulled me up and directly into a hug, “But it’s a good thing that this gave us an opportunity of making Draven jealous. He is looking right over at us. You think he recognizes you?”Saying that he turned me around in the hug giving me a perfect view of Draven’s angry eyes glaring at me. It was pathetic how I felt happy at his recognition.“Didn’t I just request you to keep the touching to a minimum?” Diana groaned making me pull away and blushing I apologized.Why? Why was Draven glaring on seeing the two of us together if he didn’t care about me?“Leave the two of them alone, babe.
*SILIA*Grey eyes staring right at me.Am I dreaming?Was I hallucinating?The warmth of his hand on my waist was scorching to a magnitude that I was scared I would burn. This couldn’t be a dream then but how and why was Draven dancing with me?It had happened so suddenly that I couldn’t even understand. One moment Alfeo and I were enacting a bowing scene after finishing our dance and the very next second I was whisked away by the pair of cold eyes that had been drilling holes in my head throughout the dance with Alfeo.The music for the second song was another slow dance and after the first song the second one had motivated more couples to come onto the dance floor making it crowded. It didn’t help my nerves that Draven had swished us away to the other side from where I had been dancing with Alfeo before so I couldn’t even find him.Except for staring into the sly silver eyes of the man I loved I had nothing that I could do.He didn’t look like he was going to explain his actions any
Leaving me hanging there without even giving me a chance to understand what he had meant by it Draven went away. Thanks to his mask we hadn’t garnered any attention except for the people who obviously knew who he was.For example Julia who was glaring at me from the other side of the room. She looked like she was ready to kill me, her eyes narrowed at me through her mask. Even from this distance I could feel her hatred travel with a hint of jealousy. It was the first time I had seen that look on her after having felt that same emotion every time I had seen her with Draven.She looked beautiful today as she always did and I noticed that she had many onlookers staring at her even as she stood there glaring at me. I didn’t know whether she realized this or not but Draven was the one who had approached me.I wasn’t much aware of her presence until now but one thing pierced in my mind that made no sense to me.Why hadn’t she come in to stop Draven? If they were together she would have the
*SILIA*Assembling near the stage I find that Draven is already standing on the edge of it. When he notices our arrival he smiles and then goes to stand in the center. The people yet haven’t noticed the masked man on the stage but one tap on the microphone attached to him sends a thudding sound to echo in the bustling hall, garnering all the attention towards him.The people look annoyed at the sudden disturbance as they do not know yet who he is. Some resume their conversations and some look on with curiosity.“Is he serious? Is he going to do it in front of everyone here?” Diana gasped looking around. “I didn’t know he was going to go all out!”It was unrealistic but seeing him still standing there looking over at us, at me I couldn’t understand what else to make of this.What the fuck am I supposed to feel?Taking his mask off he finally revealed himself making the ones who had been looking at him gasp at the realization that the big bad Don himself had stepped up to announce somet
*SILIA*The first thing I felt coming to consciousness again was a heavy feeling in my chest.My head wasn’t still very clear about what was going on around me but it seemed like my heart hadn’t been able to forget what it had gone through. My eyes burnt and felt tender I had to blink several times before they got adjusted to the light.Staring up at the celling that I had come to greet every night now I felt tears slip out of my eyes again. The memories came crashing back of the haunting night and the gift that Draven had gifted me.‘You deserve this for being so foolish!’A voice taunted me in my head and closing my eyes I accepted it.Turning my face to look to my side I saw that there was nobody in my room and weirdly enough I felt scared at the sight of my usually empty room. I had been perpetually alone all my life finding random companions to help me go through life for some time. I had rarely found anyone permanent that I felt safe with and at home. I had thought Lisa to be th
*SILIA*“Do you really have to do this Silia?” Diana asked following me into the office that I was sure was the last time I was stepping in. She was usually composed whenever she was in public, especially in this building but today she seemed different. The eyes moved after her and at me, who she was following after talking so languidly and informally which was completely unlike the ice queen persona she usually carried.I was worried about her reputation and so silently and in a fast manner I walked over to the elevator to shut us in.When it was finally the two of us alone I sighed, looked over at her and said, “Please don’t make it harder than it already is for me. I don’t want to leave you two as well but I have to. I am sorry Diana but please try and understand me.”My voice quivered at the end as I had still been very weak and exhausted from yesterday. I had barely received any sleep last night and as soon as it was time to go to the office I had decided to submit my application
*DRAVEN*“You are an idiot! How the fuck did you become a Mafia don is beyond my understanding.”Diana thundered at me for the millionth time since yesterday.“I am sorry, I didn’t know this was how it would end up,” I said truly meaning my words. I couldn’t believe what I had done.I had officially fucked up big time!I had hurt her and lost her.This was what I wanted from the beginning. I had wanted her safe and therefore away from me but now that she is leaving I cannot take it.“Why couldn’t you discuss this plan with us once?” Diana asked dejectedly wondering if things could have ended better if that had been the case.“The news came to me very suddenly. I wasn’t aware that some infiltrators were behind the woman who I am in love with,” I confessed remembering how I had listened in on the conversation of a masked man to another.“I had therefore danced with her wanting her to stay close to me so no one would be able to get her but since I would be giving her hope of something bu