Nessa Sims
~•~I pushed his hand and got away from his grip.“Are you out of your mind?” I blurted. “What is wrong with you?” At that point, I didn’t care if he was Vito or not. He was clearly harassing me.His men had already started beating the innocent man I was dancing with. I was confused because they didn’t have any reason to create a scene because of me.“Who are you speaking to this way?” He barked at me.“I thought you only wanted me to work for you? How does my personal life concern you? And how did you even find me? Are you watching me?” I asked him a ton of questions.“Stop interrogating me and come with me.” He dragged me by the hand and walked towards the door.The whole place was already chaotic and everyone stopped to watch because they all feared him and didn’t have the guts to keep on partying with him in the building.“Leave my friend alone.” Ellie stepped in and tried to loosen me from his grip.“Let go, this is none of your business.” He pushed her away from me.Was he okay? It was her business too. With strength I never knew I possessed, I ripped my hand away. He could treat me however he wanted but Ellie was off-limits.“Didn’t you do your complete homework on me? That’s my best friend you’re talking to.” I scowled at him.I’m pretty sure he knew who she was but he just felt he could do anything he wanted because of his power and money.He rubbed his forehead as he stared down at me, his breathing labored for reasons unknown to me. He sighed. “Let’s go to the car and talk.” His voice was calm this time like he was pleading with me.Ellie held me tight but I slowly removed my arm from her grip. “I’ll be back.” I told her, knowing he was only going to create another scene if I didn’t go with him. She was reluctant but she allowed me to.We got the car and as usual, there were three black cars. We got into the middle one.“Start explaining.” I didn’t give him the chance to speak first.“Explaining what?”“Why did you come here and do what you did?”“You work for me, right? I came to get you.”Came to get me? This man was out of his mind. Was that how he treated all the people who worked for him?“Get me to where?” Surprised, I started laughing because I thought it was a joke.“What’s amusing you?” He sounded serious this time. “You didn’t want to risk your identity right? So you’ll move in with me.”He was definitely out of his mind if he thought I would just drop whatever was going on in my life and move in with him. I didn’t even know anything about him aside from the fact that he was a rich mafia boss.“You must be joking. You think I would just drop everything and listen to whatever you say?”“Yes, you would. I know your secret.”I clenched my teeth, holding back my words as I gave him the dirtiest scowl I could muster. I had forgotten about that for a second. His lips curved up in a small smile when he saw that he had won.“So what happens to my family and my friend, I just have to leave them?”“You can choose to bring your son if you wish.” He signaled his driver to start the car. He blew his horn to alert the car in front to start moving.“Why are you driving? I’m still in the car.”“Does it look like I’m blind?” He moved closer to me. “I said I came to pick you up and I’m taking you home right now.”“Home?”“Did I stutter? We’ll go pick up your son later.”“You didn’t even let me say goodbye to my friend, she’ll be worried sick.”“You can text her later.”Was he being serious? I was literally being kidnapped.He didn’t care about my opinion. We just kept on moving until we got to a gate which automatically opened as the cars got close to it.We came down from the car and I was greeted with a modern mansion with all glass buildings and a perfectly manicured lawn. It’s surrounded by palm trees and a beautiful fountain in the center. It exuded wealth, power, and a hint of danger just like the man beside me.He punched in a password and the doors swung open. If I thought the exterior of the house was good, the interior was to die for. It looked like a royal mansion with different famous paintings in the open space. The stairs leading upstairs were made of marble and the luxurious furniture in the other part of the sitting room complemented the white painting of the house.“Take her to her room.” Vito’s voice snapped me out of my thoughts.He instructed one of his men to show me to my room and left before I could even say anything.On our way upstairs, my gaze was focused on the beautiful mansion I had just stepped into. This job wouldn’t be that bad, I thought to myself.“This is your room.” He pointed to a door right after we came up the first stairs. “If you need anything, just call the phone in the room.”“Thanks.” I muttered and walked to the giant wooden door.I opened the door, the room was as magnificent as all the other parts of the house I had seen. It had a king-sized bed and also had a nice view. I could see the beautifully curated gardens from the room.I remembered nobody else knew I was there and quickly snapped back to reality. I brought out my phone from my purse to text Ellie but I saw lots of calls from her that I missed because my phone was on silent.I quickly called her and she picked up after the first ring. She must have been worried sick.“Where are you, girl?” She sounded so worried. I would be too if I were in her shoes because I promised I was going to come back and never did.“It’s a long story. He took me to his house.”“What do you mean?”“He said since I wanted to be anonymous, I had to stay at his house so I would be safe.” I sighed. I knew I couldn’t win against him. If I ran away, he’d just find me again.“Is that a good thing? So what about your life here? And Liam?”“I’m still confused, he said I could pick up Liam later.” I collapsed into the bed, it felt like marshmallows. It was so comfortable.“Okay girl, we will figure whatever this is later in the morning, you should get some rest now. I’m fully convinced this man is secretly in love with you.” She teased me.“Don’t start please.” A smile crossed my face.“Yeah right, he just wants to protect you when you didn’t ask him for protection.”“He only needs my skills.”“Okay babes, goodnight and stay calm.” She blew me a kiss from the phone.“Goodnight, I love you.” I ended the call.What would I do without Ellie? She was the most supportive person in my life. I couldn’t even imagine how I would live my life without her, so I decided I was going to tell Vito that the plan of me moving in with him couldn’t work in the morning.I needed to freshen up so I went to the shower, then I figured I didn’t have any clothes. There were bathrobes and towels in the bathroom so I made do with that.After I was done showering, I called with the telephone they left for me in the room and requested for clothes.“We can’t provide that tonight, the boss says we’ll get you new clothes tomorrow.” I heard a manly voice respond to me from the other side of the line and abruptly ended the call.So they didn’t think it through when they were kidnapping me. I slumped on the bed and didn’t know when I slept off. The next thing I saw when I opened my eyes was Vito standing in my room and staring at me. How long has he been here and what was he doing here?Nessa Sims~•~“We need to talk.” Vito’s voice cut through the quiet room.He was already dressed in his usual tux. Why was he dressed up so early in the morning? “Good morning to you too.” I pushed my blankets to the side and sat up, realizing I was not going to be getting any privacy in this house. “Yeah, we need to talk.” “One of my drivers will drive you so you can go pick up your son and get whatever you need from your apartment.” He walked towards the window and pulled the drapes to the side. “Is that all you want to talk about?”“Yeah, for now.”“Well, I can’t stay here. I have a whole life, you just can’t disrupt it out of the blues.” I tried my best to stay confident while saying it even if I was a little bit scared of what his reply would be. After thinking about it, I realized it was ridiculous. I had a son, a family, a team. What would I tell them about my absence? It didn’t make any sense for me to stay at his place.“We’ve talked about this and we’re not having this
Nessa Sims~•~I walked to the door to see one of the men standing. “Boss wants you back at the house right now.” He said to me with a sense of urgency. “But I haven’t gotten the clothes yet or picked up important things from my house.” I protested. “That’s not a problem and it can be arranged later, we have to leave now.” He said as he began walking to the car. “Why does he want me back at the house?” “Don’t ask questions, you’ll see when we get there.” He replied. I looked back to see my mum staring at me from the window. I didn’t even get a chance to say goodbye to Liam. I just waved them goodbye and gave them an “I’ll call you later” sign. I entered the car and he drove off straight to the house. As the car sped away, I felt a mix of fear and curiosity. "What could be so urgent?" I thought to myself.The car came to a stop at the front of the mansion. I could see like five different cars that weren’t there when we had left earlier in the morning. I wondered what could be hap
Vito Giancana ~•~After the meeting ended with the board members, everyone else left apart from Nessa and Damon. I sat back to look at some paperwork from my hotel. I was going over the new trainee's list while Damon was trying to talk to Nessa. Damon has always been the social one while I was reserved. I didn’t want anyone to think they had easy access to me, so I only spoke to someone new when it was necessary. Vincent and Luca didn’t really like the idea of having a woman work with us. They still believed women were weak and during their prime when they worked with my father, women weren’t allowed to get involved with the mafia. I wasn’t okay with the fact that she was going to be working for us, but she needed to. “I’m Vito’s best friend. I hope he has been nice to you?” I heard Damon ask Nessa. “Of course, I’ve been nice to her,” I answered even if he wasn’t asking me the question. Although I wasn’t the nicest person, I never treated her badly, I just tried to create a prof
Nessa Sims~•~It wasn’t even more than two hours before I heard a knock on my door after I had left Vito’s room. I could hear Vito calling out my name accompanied by several knocks on the door. “Open up, Nessa.” I could tell from his voice he was very angry and if I didn’t open up fast he would probably transfer the anger to me. I got up from my bed within seconds and unlocked the door. He pushed the door and entered inside immediately with Damon right behind him. Confused, I asked. “What’s going on?” I could see the burning anger on his face which was impossible not to notice. “You need to get to work right now. The Farina family has attacked again, they’ve repeated what they did earlier.” Damon answered because Vito was silent and pacing around the room. “What did the Farina family do?” “They hacked into our bank account and transferred a large sum of our business money.” Vito answered, his voice filled with rage. “Damn,” I mumbled, my words failing me. “So what do you want
Vito Giancana ~•~There was an awkward silence after I had realized what I had done. I stepped out of the computer room leaving Damon and Nessa behind. I swore to myself to resist all my sexual fantasies towards Nessa but I was caught up in the moment and before I could realize it, my lips were on her lips. It was a steamy kiss I didn’t want to end. Her soft lips against mine was something I had been hoping for ever since I set my eyes on her. However, kissing her was just a spur of the moment even though I genuinely wanted it. I heard Damon’s voice right behind me after I left the room. “What just happened back there?” I could see his disapproving gaze. “I didn’t mean to, I was just excited.” “I hope you know what you’re doing, and remember, people working for you are off limits.” “Yeah, I know.” “Valerie wouldn’t like that either.” Valerie’s name stirred a little bit of guilt. I wasn’t meant to feel guilty because we weren’t together but Damon always brought her up and tried
Nessa Sims~•~The sound of the car horn woke me up the next morning. I looked outside to see Vito and Damon all dressed up and ready to go somewhere that early. I wondered what was so important they had to deprive themselves of their morning sleep. I was about to go back to sleep when I got a text from Ellie saying we should meet up. We hadn’t really seen each other for some time and she missed me. I replied and she told me we were going to a friend's party by noon. I put off my phone and went back to sleep. Some hours later, the intercom in the room rang and woke me up from my sleep again. I answered and it was the cook informing me breakfast was ready. I always looked forward to eating because he made the best meals. I freshened up and went downstairs for breakfast. The smell of the freshly baked waffles floated through the air and my stomach growled in response. I poured myself a glass of orange juice and enjoyed my meal in silence. Just as I was about to take the last bite o
Nessa Sims~•~“What?” That was all that could come out of my mouth when I heard his voice. How did he know I was at a hotel? I thought the random and creepy interfering in my life had stopped when I moved in with him. “Who’s that?” Ellie’s voice interrupted my thoughts. I hung up the phone. “It’s Vito.” I answered, his name tasting like bitter almonds on my tongue. “What does he want?” Her voice was laced with suspicion and concern. “He said I should leave the hotel and go back home right away.” “Why? Is he out of his mind? Why is he trying to control your life?” Ellie’s voice had risen, it was filled with anger and irritation. “I’m as confused as you, only God knows how he knew I was here.” “You need to let him know this stalking has to stop, you’re not his child.” Her words were harsh but true, she reached out to my arms to comfort me. “Trust me, I will whenever I go back.” I assured her. I ignored his instructions and continued partying when my phone rang again. I put
Vito Giancana ~•~I trained a hard look at Nessa when I heard those words come out of her mouth. She knew it wasn’t in her place to tell Valerie about our kiss but she went ahead and did it. Although Valerie knew I was never going to be committed to her, it would still break her heart if I kissed someone else. Especially someone she felt insecure about. She tried her best to defend me and give me the benefit of the doubt, but she couldn’t quite find the right words to do so. I had no idea why she even tried defending me when I already made it clear she had no business with what I do with other women. “Oh, you haven’t told her about the steamy kiss we shared?” As if it wasn’t enough she put my business out there, Nessa still tried to put more fuel to the fire. The disappointment and anger on my face were evident but I held back from doing anything drastic. I was going to deal with Nessa later. “I’ll leave you two now.” After putting me in an uncomfortable situation, she left the