"And where are we going to take her?" asked someone's voice, in the distance.I felt like they were voices floating through my head, amidst the darkness that sucked me in like a black hole in space; an inevitable torture."Look at her, she is a tenderness when she sleeps," said another voice."He's already in love Dax, we lost him.""What? She looked like an angry Chihuahua," Dax mocked, as I felt the skin on my face being touched, but I didn't have the strength to open my eyes and push him away."Max.""Come here, Dax, I'm going to tell you something," the voice of the aforementioned one trailed off and a whimper was heard after, at the same time as a thud."What the hell, Max? Is this your way of talking? Fuck, you knocked the wind out of me," Dax groaned in pain, and a thud sounded again, but this time the groan was from the gray-haired man."You hit like a woman," his brother mocked."You were saved because I was weak, or I would have broken your ribs," snorted the younger one, li

Max jerked his hand away after the woman entered the bathroom without warning, however, my concern increased when she named my fiancé and that she was looking for me."Let it go and keep Maddox from seeing her like that. She'll kill you if she finds out you hurt her," he warned the woman, pointing to my wound, "It's time to go.""Yes sir. I'll go with Dax, keep an eye on Lev," the stranger informed before she left the room as if she had never been there before and I looked at Max."Where's Lev?" I questioned worriedly. If he was with Dax, I was worried for his life."She's in the next room, where Dax is guarding her. Dangerous for her, don't you think?" he said as he wiped his hands as if nothing was happening; I was haunted by how quietly they did things.It was frightening and my fiancé was about to arrive in the room.What was I supposed to tell him?"The truth," I heard a distant voice in my head as that of my best friend, who was all for seeking support from him from the beginnin

After taking an energizing shower, trying to regain the strength I had lost, I arranged my clothes in the room after leaving Max in the bathroom.I had to convince Draven to stay away from the room so he could meet with Maddox and settle the deal he had made, in order to protect the safety of the ones I loved.Draven had to be happy, but without me. From the moment I woke up the next day in that penthouse, I no longer belonged to myself; that life I thought I was happy in was gone.I had no choice if I wanted to avoid having funerals of my loved ones, my parents and my siblings; my grandparents, my friends and Draven. I had enough to do with having to go back to New York to help Francesca's parents have her funeral, why they surely couldn't; they lived my friend's whole life scared for her safety and they were right.The consequences of not knowing how to control herself were her death."What are you thinking?" asked Draven entering the room, as I dried my hair, "Is everything okay?"

Lev kept the cell phone she had been given in her purse, to disguise the fact that she hadn't just spoken to a dangerous man and had the obligatory task of getting her best friend's boyfriend out so her new illegal husband could come in; all to avoid hurting Draven.She took a deep breath and walked away towards the exit, where in minutes the car would arrive that would bring Dax with more men to guard him while he himself checked on his wife's condition."I want a sniper on the roof for security and the others, watch the hospital exits," the man ordered, as soon as he got out of the car to meet Amalia's best friend, "Sweet and tender Lev, nice to see you again," he greeted her, while stroking her hair with amusement.The woman simply glared at him, since he was the one who hung her like a sacrificial animal in that hotel in Las Vegas."Don't look at me like that, I'm not as bad as I look," he fixed his suit, feeling the change in temperature, "Fortunately I'm here for my wife, not to