Filed to story: Bring It On My Mafia Life Novel (Rhea & Lukas)
And now she mentioned it with her mouth, Rhea felt incredibly stupid. Oh God, the uncomfortable feeling in the pit of her belly increased and that was because of her discovery.
If Kenith was Cassie’s boyfriend and she – Rhea – had him put in the dungeon on the count of rape, yet Cassie still didn’t blame her? That only meant she didn’t love the guy and was overly stupid or she was a good pretender and was biding her time to strike back at her.
Rhea chose the latter.
It was as if the scale covering her eyes finally fell and she was able to see the truth in front of her. Cassie had the patience of a panther and the will of a tigress, those two virtues were important assets for a woman out for payback.
They said hell hath no fury for a woman scorned and Rhea could relate with that because she would do everything to avenge Elijah if anything were to him – notwithstanding he wasn’t even righteous. So yeah, she guessed, Cassie would want a chunk of her body notwithstanding her boyfriend was in the wrong for trying to r*pe her.
Rhea didn’t believe Cassie would have a change of heart and stop pursuing after her because she learned from her uncle’s family. When you love someone sometimes, the line between wrong and right becomes blurry and you become a reflection of that person. It’s your loved ones before others – So yeah, Cassie definitely chose Kenith before her.
“No wonder,” Rose said, “I always thought she got off easily on a lot of things here. Not to mention that arrogant look in her eyes as if the rest of us are mere ants in her sight. Who knew she was dating the boss’ right hand man?”
She rolled her eyes, “It’s a good thing you had her boyfriend locked up, now she won’t have …..” Rose trailed off, a sudden emotion in her gaze as if she just realized what Rhea stumbled upon.
“Wow,” Rose whistled low in her throat, “Bitch won’t be pleased by that,” She turned to Rhea questioningly, “How are the both of you able to get along after you had her boyfriend locked up and demoted?”
She added almost immediately, “Not that it’s your fault – you didn’t ask Kenith to behave like an animal. But no matter how much I like you, I’ll be pissed as hell serving you if that were to happen to me,” The woman said truthfully.
That was exactly the problem, Rhea didn’t know how Cassie felt because she never knew in the first place that she and Kenith were an item until now. It was shocking how people could hide their emotions for a long time.
“I don’t like this feeling,” Chelsea said, “What if she harms you?”
“That’s the problem, If Cassie wanted to harm her, I think she should have done it already before Rhea discovered the truth. Certain killers like telling the victims the reason for their death moments before they end them,” Ashley opined.
“Or maybe you guys are taking this too far,” Rhea looked up at them seriously, “Maybe her form of revenge is just a prank or something,” She wanted to believe Cassie was reasonable and not just love struck.
She went on, “Why would Cassie go to the extent of ending my life knowing Big Joe would hunt her down afterward. That plan is suicidal and the Cassie I know values her life so much she was willing to throw you guys under the bus to preserve it.” Rhea pointed out.
There was a small pause as the girls thought over her words and saw she was right. No matter how much Cassie hated Rhea, she would not touch a hair on her for the fear of Big Joe.
“You’re right,” Chelsea nodded her head, “But you have to be careful from now on because there are many ways to end one’s life without going physical,”
“Yes, I would,”
Rhea didn’t need to be told twice because unlike before when she would have accepted death, Elijah was busting her out.
She had to live!
The Tie Trauma
“Sir, everything is as planned,” Samuel said to Lukas who was working on his tie.
Today was D-day – the day when Rhea finally gets married to the love of her life and Lukas couldn’t even understand why he was being so irritated and sarcastic right now.
It was his plan all along and now it was coming to fruition, it annoyed the hell out of him. There was no way that marriage was going to work, especially not with Rhea in the picture.
If Elijah loved Rhea as much as she loved him, then he – Elijah – would definitely disrupt the wedding by busting her out – and that was what Lukas was waiting for. It would be like killing two birds with one stone, not only would he end the marriage between Big Joe and Rhea, he would also have Elijah in his palms. It was a big win-win situation for him.
But the plan was a two-edged sword as well if Elijah doesn’t show up. Not only would he lose sight of Elijah but Rhea would be miserable married to the short leader of the Red Giant gang.
Although Lukas highly doubted that with the revolt brewing thickly in the air. He wondered how the asshole could think of marriage when he hadn’t purged his organization and had many swords pointing at his back. Was the fool that taken by Rhea – the thought of that pissed Lukas off for reasons he couldn’t tell.
Fine, maybe he cared for Rhea more than he admitted but that was only because he didn’t want such a miserable fate for her. He knew men like Big Joe and they could never fully appreciate women like Rhea. They would only break her till she’s just a shadow of herself. He had to save her from such fate and send her far away afterward for a better life.
Lukas could not delude himself into thinking something would happen between him and Rhea. Rhea loves Elijah and he’s going to end the asshole when he gets his hand on him. So yeah, their fate is an ill one. The both of them can’t happen at all.
“That’s good,” Lukas slipped the tie out of his neck and tossed it away. No matter how many times he tries to get over that trauma, it just doesn’t work.
…..
He hadn’t hated wearing ties at first until he made a stupid mistake once and his opponent – who was a woman with a titillating figure – nearly ended his life by asphyxiation.
Years back, when Lukas hasn’t taken over the boss position. He undertook a mission under his father’s instruction and when he had all but forgotten it, they came back for vengeance. And their form of vengeance was sending a female assassin after him.
Lukas was not going to lie, he had been a bit reckless and big-headed then. He had been over highly confident of his abilities and didn’t think anyone could get to him.
It was a wedding ceremony of one of their partners and Lukas attended to represent his father who couldn’t make it. But then, the event got boring pretty soon with the love and adoration showered on the bride and groom.
Maybe it was just jealousy speaking because he knew he couldn’t have a future like that one. His parent’s miserable marriage told him enough.
Lukas had been looking for the nearest exit door when he saw her and then his lower body started thinking instead of his brains. His mood was down already, why couldn’t he have a little fun? He thought. With that magnificent backside and ample boobs, he was going to enjoy every worth of his time.
It was not hard to convince her with his blessed face from his mother and the honey tongue he’s honed over the years. Any girl he wanted, he got them.
Lukas had mistaken her as one of the wedding guests, nothing about her spoke assassin. Moreover, what kind of assassin would track him down to a wedding just to end him? Well, an assassin that wanted to claim the bounty – he had no idea of – on his head.
The wedding was held in the hotel’s hall so it wasn’t that hard to find a room. The funny part was that they had sex, like f*cking amazing sex that lowered his guard completely. Not to mention the alcohol at the party did help to dull his senses.
And it was while she was riding him that she slipped the tie around his neck. At first, Lukas didn’t give it much thought when it was a slight tug thinking she was into the BDSM activity. Lukas wasn’t into such stuff but he could handle the woman being in dominance for a while and a little pain. The feeling was euphoric.
It worked well – a little pain and a little pleasure – until shit went down real quick. Lukas thought she was simply going up the pain gauge – even though he was beginning to suffocate – until he saw the sinister glint in her eyes.
Those were the eyes of a killer.
A hunter.
The alcohol dulled his reflexes that he couldn’t fight her off with all of his strength and his weapons were far from him. He fell right into a trap set by the mother fucker.
Even when he struggled for life, she still rode him hard, getting off on his distress.
Fucking psychopath.
The only thought that crossed Lukas’s mind at that moment was that he was going to die while having sex. That wasn’t even how he imagined his glorious end.
Seconds from leaving this earth, by sheer luck, he touched the pen he used to write down his address for her on the nightstand. To think he wanted her for a second time.
Lukas couldn’t tell the expression on her face; the blissful look of pleasure as she hit her orgasm while strangling him, or the look of horror as Lukas stabbed into her neck with the pointy end of the pen over and over as her blood spilled over him.