Chapter 32: Rico and Paris 6
Rico’s P.O.V
“You keep looking around like you’re waiting for your mystery man to suddenly jump out of the shadows.” Keith gave me a smirk as he watched me turn around for the hundredth time.
“I’m not!” I told him immediately. “I’m making sure my bod-uncles, didn’t follow us here! I told them I was going to your house to finish working on my assignment…”
However, now I looked up at the long line of men and women standing in front of me, lining up to enter the club at nine in the evening; my fake ID clutched tightly in my hands because I was scared of someone noticing me or snatching the ID from my hands.
“Well, stop doing that!” Keith finally sighed at my nervousness. “If you keep looking like a deer caught in a headlight, we’d be kicked out in no time. Better yet, we won’t even be all
Chapter 33: First Date Regina’s P.O.V “Here,” Joel placed a box on the stool next to me in the art room. I frowned at his smug expression. “More art supplies?” I don’t think the art room had any more space for art supplies and I already had everything I could have every dreamed of. Why was Draco giving me more boxes of them again? “You know these things can go bad too, right?” I raised my eyebrows at him. “Paint can dry up just as easily and your Capo has gotten me enough to last me two years even if I were to paint on a daily basis! What exactly is he trying to do here? Turn me into Leonardo da Vinci?” “If you would only just…open the goddamn box!” Joel threw up his hands in frustration. Rolling my eyes at his dramatics, I got off my stool to set aside my brushes and clean my hands from the residual paint before I went on to open the box that Joel had delivered to me. Half expecting it
Chapter 34: Playing With Fire Regina’s P.O.VDraco took one look at me and scrunched up his nose wearily. “Joel was right…I definitely regret buying this dress for you.”“So, apparently…men gossip even more than women do.” I narrowed my eyes at him.When I had come out of the room after getting my hair and makeup done and finally put on the dress, Joel had been the first one to scrunch up his nose distastefully, while giving me a thorough lookout from head to toe. I knew what he was gonna say even before he opened his mouth.“I’d never let my daughter wear this.”I had merely rolled my eyes, because let’s face it…when his daughter grows up, he’ll be eating his words right off the floor. If I ever get my hands on that girl, I’ll make sure to let her know just how big of a softie her dad really is.Now, I narrowed my
Chapter 35: Crime and PunishmentRegina’s P.O.V“Put me down!” I screamed at the top of my lungs, not caring that almost everyone in the mansion could hear me. “Put me the fuck down!”But Draco didn’t give a shit about me or my screaming fit as he carried me off to his lair, his hands holding onto me with a vice grip as I hung over his shoulders like a rag doll. Wasn’t this guy injured?“Draco!” I screamed once again. “I said put me the fuck down!”“Not until you’ve learned your lesson.” Was the nonchalant reply as he carried me with ease while his men looked straight ahead with perfect poker faces, as if his boss throwing women over his shoulders and carrying them around the house was no big deal. How often did the fucker do this again?As soon as we reached his room, the guards situated outside immediately opened the doors
Chapter 36: Dishonorable ManDraco’s P.O.VThe sound of my phone buzzing on the side table woke me up from my sleep, making me instantly alert.The clock on the opposite wall read seven thirty and I had no prior appointments this early in the morning. So I reached out to silence the phone before turning to face Gina, who was sleeping soundly right next to me, one of her arms thrown over my waist.Her head was lying partly on my shoulder, but I think even in her subconscious mind, she was aware of my injury, which was why she had still managed to lean away from me.I found myself smiling despite the fact that I wasn’t fully awake yet.Moving her hand away from my waist, I got up from the bed and carefully placed her hand on my pillow, before turning to pick up the phone and enquire who had been calling me.“Gabriele?” I whispered, wiping the sleep from my eyes.Going into
Chapter 37: EavesdroppingRegina’s P.O.VThe sound of birds chirping in the balcony woke me up from a deep sleep.Groaning, I went to bury my face in Draco’s arms, but found his warmth missing from beside me.Groggily, I opened my eyes after some difficulty, rubbing them to get rid of the cloudy vision before I took a look around the otherwise empty room. The clock on the wall read seven fifty three.Draco never woke up this early…I looked around the room to see if there was anything I was missing, only to find that the balcony door was open party to let the cool morning air inside. However, there was still some traces of warmth left on the pillow that my hand was currently lying on, so that means that he hasn’t been up for long.Getting up into a sitting position, I stretched my arms above my head a yawned, rubbing away the last vestiges of sleep from my eyes.It&rsqu
Chapter 38: HomeRegina’s P.O.V“Ivy Jane!” I ran inside the house that I had known for the last ten years to be my home to hug the woman who was no less than a mother figure.“My baby!” Ivy Jane wrapped her arms tightly around me, engulfing me in the familiar scent that I could only term as home.“How have you been? Are you hurt anywhere? Did you get held up against your will? Oh god! Are you finally back for good?”Ivy held my cheeks in her palms while her eyes roamed all over me to search for any forms of injury or possibly any other signs of abuse. She only breathed a sigh of relief when she didn’t find anything.“I’ll tell you everything.” I reassured her. “But first, let me greet everyone else.”So I went around the brothel, going to each and every member in turn and giving them a tight hug, reassuring them and myself
Chapter 39: Paris and Rico Part 7Rico’s P.O.VIt wasn’t easy sneaking away from the main living area, even with everyone seemingly busy chatting with Regina.The two bodyguards might seem like they were unfocused or busy talking, but the moment I had tried to sneak into the house the first time, not only had I been nearly caught only two steps in, but when I had made the excuse of using the washroom, I had been followed around and escorted right to the bathroom, and when I had come out, Alistair had still been waiting outside for me to escort me back to the front.However…“What did you say to the kid?”I stopped mid-step and looked back at the tall man with a frown. “Pardon?”“Don’t play stupid.” He sighed, rubbing at the corner of his eyes. “I know you go to Paris’s school from time to time, and I’ve been noticing you following us around in that red car of yours for quite some time now. You think I let Paris do stuff alone just because he wants to? He’s still a kid and doesn’t have
Chapter 40: ConfrontationRegina’s P.O.V“Sister Regina?” Paris sprang out of his bed instantly, and I noticed the subtle movement where he came slightly in front of Rico, as if in a defensive mode.But I wasn’t exactly seeing reason here. “What…on earth…is going on in here?”“It’s not what it looks like.” Rico stood up as well, this time, coming to stand in front of Paris in a protective stance. “I’m not here for him…not like that.”In that moment, all I could think about was Draco’s warning a few days ago as his words rang loud and clear in my head.“I wouldn’t dare hurt little kids…it’s not my thing. But one of my men has a thing for young ones. He likes them in bed…broken and bloody. And that boy sure is pretty…”Oh, dear god! Has that person been