"Okay, so apart from keeping me company, what else did he ask you to do for me?" "Run all your errands, prepare your meal, make sure you're comfortable and lack nothing. I work and answer to you...and you alone at least for now. So you decide what you want me to do for you." "Hmm, he didn't by chance ask you to make sure I don't run away?" She paused briefly before replying truthfully. "Yes, that too." "So, asides all you've mentioned, what else can you do?" "I can keep you entertained with news, jokes, history....." "History of certain people?" "I believe so." Alessia replied. "I'd like a little historical breakdown of your Boss." I blurted out. "He asked you to tell me everything I need to know, didn't he?" "Yes, he did." Alessia replied, still standing. "Good, now tell me about him. Everything, no matter how little." She stiffened. "I...... don't you think it's better you find out from him." "Alessia, If I wanted to find out from him, I wouldn't be asking you, would I?"
There were other guards lined in the trees. I saw heads popping through other trees every once in a while. "Is this what you do all day. Stand here?" I asked swatting mosquitoes away and rubbing my arms. It was getting a bit chilly and buggy in the shade that I looked back at the warm, bug-free house with longing. Standing in front of the porch was Alessia, straight face with phone in placed on her ear, obviously answering a call. "Oh, no." Hugh exclaimed and pointed at a head that popped out about thirty feet away. "Sometimes I get to stand over there too." In my head, I was trying run a math division. The approximate size of the property divided by the thirty feet that separated each guard would equal the number of big men with guns that I had to worry about and then I remembered that my math skills were barely amazing. "How many of you are there?" "There’s just one of me, Ugo." He told me, wiggling his eyebrows. "But if you mean other guards, I don’t know. It varies from
HOLLIS After having a private meeting with Don Pedro about his various investments and some of the ways he could consider managing them better. I stood to see him and his daughter off, but he announced that he was meant to be at another important meeting and pleaded that I see that Elsa got home in one piece. The man had pulled me hurriedly to see him off and when I got back to the table, I met a fuming Elsa, with my cellphone placed on the table. I had left with Don Pedro hurriedly that I forgot to tuck it back into my pocket. "You have a fiancee?" She asked before I could settle into the opposite seat. "What?" I asked ignoring the anger splashed across her face. "Some chick called and said you're her fiancee" Elsa replied. I picked up my phone and checked through the call log. A call from Alessia, I sighed when I started fixing the puzzle. Ugo must have gotten pissed and made an announcement that is going to rock her world and mine in a not-so-good way. "Damn, what did
UGO Hollis turned his bare back to me. The strong back was crisscrossed with scars. Old scars, faded to nearly his sikin tone with age. What the hell had happened to him. There was a tattoo on his upper arm that I spotted as he started to turn back to face me, but I couldn’t quite make out what it was. Then, well, then there was the whole front of him to see. I knew he was strongly built, but I don’t think I was fully prepared for just how well built he was under that black suit of his. This was my first ever time to have a slow, up-close and careful look at his body. Taking it all in. He had a lean build, but his six-pack brick steel body was some thing that could make any woman cry for joy. And the best part of it, his Adonis belt, the one and only feature I see in a man and I'll desire to eat ice cream off his body. That deeply-etched V that disappears into the waistband of his pants, that was the kind of thing that graced the covers of men’s fitness magazines. I didn’t want to
I looked at the ring continuously. The words I wanted to say all got stuck somewhere in my throat. "I'll definitely kill you." I whispered more to myself but his sharp sense of hearing picked up my words. "Perhaps you might consider getting married to me, get the papers signed before you hope for my death, baby. At least then you’d be entitled to everything I owe. It's worth a thought right?" He asked making such an annoying sarcastic sound with his voice. "I don’t want anything from you," I hissed, wrapping my arms around myself tightly. "An inexpensive wife to be. How unexpected," he said, lying down on the big sized bed, making sure to maintain his side. "Good night, baby." He turned off his bedside lamp. "I'm never having sex with you, Hollis." "Never say never." He replied with such a calm voice that I wondered if he understood what I said. "You'll give me my space and privacy. Don't meddle. I don't want to be uncomfortable here." I waited for a reply but I got non
"This whole thing is a mess, Maxine. I don't think I want this." He shrugged. "Your words aren't laced with certainty. You're still thinking. So......" "Hollis fucking gave me a ring!" I let out with quivering lips, bringing out the gorgeous beauty from the pocket of my pants. Maxine stared at the ring, refusing to touch it even when I pushed it towards him. "He gave you that ring?" I nodded. "Wow! That belongs to my family." He appeared speechless for a while. "Maybe he wants everything to look more convincing." He finally said. "That can be the only reason." "Don't say that." I told him and he nodded. "We should get back to training." Maxine, a man of few words said and this time, I nodded, becoming the speechless one among us. We spent hours practicing together, focusing on assault and defense techniques that pushed my limits and expanded my repertoire of moves. Maxine's instructions were precise and demanding, 'free your mind, channel all that feeling into each move.'
"Which one, Reina?" Alessia held up two skyblue dresses for me to wear for my first day with the Genovese family. I thought about Maxine's offer the other day and I came to the conclusion that there was no difference with his promises and that of Hollis. But something inside of me just wanted to do this one good for a kind gentle man, a kind-looking dangerous mafia-man rather. Before now, I wouldn't have cared about what I would wear, but now, I did. "What do you think, Alessia?" I asked. She looked up from the dress she was holding, "The long-sleeved one is lovely, screams royalty. This other one is edgy. Not everybody can pull it off. But if you do, then it would state not just class, but fierceness and power." "Hmmm, I'm forced to think you are talented in every aspect of life." I looked at the second dress. "Let's style the shit out of that dress." "Happily ma'am." Alessia replied excitedly, like she was eager to put her styling talents to work. I had no doubt we wou
"Are you ready?" Rocco knocked gently on the bedroom door and waited for an answer We were now out of the walk-in closet and Alessia was applying finishing touches to my hair. "Almost." She replied and we heard Rocco's retracing steps. When I was sure we were quite done, I signaled for Alessia to open the door. The moment I stepped outside the door, I was met with three pairs of eyes staring at me, each more beautiful than the last until they fell on Hollis, whose gorgeous eyes were glued to my legs. His gaze lingered a little before wandering up the rest of my body meeting mine. His lips were turned in a frown, but his eyes were filled with lust. "Good morning," I threw a greeting meant for the men in the room. "Good morning U," Maxine replied. Rocco gave a bow and Hollis kept staring dumbfounded or something. "Am I late?" I asked as kindly and brightly as possible. "No, just thinking you’re so beautiful this morning," Hollis complimented trying to take my hand, he br