*SILIA*‘Silia? You know I love you the most, right?’Draven asked me, his face unclear of any emotions. I couldn’t determine if it was sarcasm that I detected in his voice or if he genuinely was wondering about this.‘I don’t know anymore,’ I said feeling frustrated and sad inside.‘But what about you do you still love me?’ He asked and feeling my heart thud at his question I didn’t need to think about it. The answer was clear from the way my whole body reacted for him.‘You do love me don’t you?’ he laughed in a mocking manner, ‘Too bad I don’t believe you. You are just a cheap slut like every other woman I have met till now. All you want is the power that I hold and nothing else.’‘That’s not true!’ I shouted at him but before I could stop him, he was already walking away from me. I chased after him stretching out my hand to grasp on to him, to anything that he possessed but before I could do that I slipped and went crashing down.It hurt a lot and groaning I looked ahead in hopes

*DRAVEN*“This is the third time, what is wrong with you today?” Diana asked making Gavin stop for a second as the two stared at me.“What do you mean?”“Where are you lost Draven? I can tell that you are not listening and I for one know well enough how much effort Gavin had put into acquiring these information,” she said sounding pissed at me for not giving enough credit and mind to her boyfriend’s hard work.“It’s nothing,” I tried to brush it off but Silia’s blushing face wouldn’t leave my mind.Just how quickly can a woman’s heart change?“No, I don’t believe its nothing. So what is it?” she asked her curiosity sparked and by the way she was looking at me I knew she must have an inkling of what was going on in my mind.“Quit it,” I snapped not wanting to entertain her. Silia and Alfeo had infuriated me enough and to finally put it off maybe I just needed to get their task done. “And Alfeo told me to let you know that Silia is going to spend the night at his house again today.”Thi

*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*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

*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