💛 Mine forever 💛
( attra-cted to each other )
Written by Authoress Yesha 📒📒📒
Episode 25
Scarlet’s Pov~~
“Ooooh wow…. Let’s see…..
Scander
scarxander
ScAlex
scarlexander
scarander
Scarlex
Scarlender.
Aren’t these names cute? Don’t you think Scarlet?”
Estelle was showing me an article of Ashton’s birthday p@rty.
Apparently, she also had uploaded a picture of mine and Alex holding each other in our arms on her Instagram.
Currently she is getting numerous likes on all the pictures of the p@rty. As for our picture, a lot of people commented and liked along with sh!pnames, which she is excitedly showing to me.
“Well, I am your no. 1 fan. I totally sh!pyou two and my sh!pname for you guys is AleSca.”
Lorry said giggling.
“I totally agree. They both look cute together. A perfect match, a match made in heaven.” Sera said with dreamy eyes.
“Aww…” Estelle and Taylor cooed together.
I blu-shed and giggled along with them. They were totally discussing about me and Alex the whole while. Estelle and Taylor loved Sera a lot and they were enjoying each other’s company.
Well, even Ray was accompanying us for our girl’s day out. I felt bad for him, he had to tag along with us girls and we were all talking about fashion, food, gossips etc.
His complaint was that how much of a cra-p we talk with each other especially the h0t gossips and relationsh!pstatus of actors.
Currently he is on a call, talking very seriously to someone. I hope everything is fine.
We were just having some refreshment jui-ce in a shopping mall food court and suddenly my phone started ringing.
I quic-kly received the call without noticing the caller id.
“Hello”
“Scarlet….plea-se…help…plea-se…nee-d you.”
“Hey, where are you? What happened?”
“Alex’s old ap@rtment… plea-se help.”
“I’m coming. Calm down I’m coming.”
“Who was it?” Estelle asked me with concern.
“Cherry. I guess she is… in some kind of trouble. I nee-d to go.”
“Wait. Where is she? I’ll come with you.” Taylor asked with a frown.
“She is at Alex’s old ap@rtment. No I’ll go…you guys stay here and I’ll be back in some time.”
“No…Letty I am coming along with you. Now let’s go.”
“Okay fine Lorry. Estelle just be with Sera and inform Ray once when he is done with his call. Yeah?
Sera stay here with Ray and Estelle. We will be back soon.”
Taylor and I left the food court and hailed a cab.
“Umm…I don’t know the address.” I said to myself while thinking how stupid I was. I don’t know many things about him. We haven’t talked much about his past.
“plea-se take us to h0tel Seawood’s.”
Taylor said to the driver and I looked at her questioningly. How come she said …wait she knows where is his old ap@rtment? How?
“How do you know?”
She muttered something un-der her breath which I couldn’t hear and replied,
“Umm…well, resources sweetheart.”
For time being I ignored the weird questioning feeling which I am having towards Taylor.
Right now I nee-d to focus on Cherry. What must have happened to her? She called me for help and why?
She was in a panic mode. Oh god is her baby okay?
So many questions were running on my mind right now. My cellphone started vibr@ting again but it st©pped and it got switched off. Great!
The phone is dead now.
After thirty minutes we reached the h0tel and got inside to the reception. The building was quite tall, royally built for elite people in the society.
We asked for Cherry and the reception lady smiled and helped us with the direction for the elevator.
Taylor pressed for the penthouse floor. Again I looked at her questioningly.
“How you know?” I asked her.
She sighed and was about to reply but I interrupted and said,
“Aah… yes, resources right?”.
She shrugged her shoulders and smiled.
I rolled my eyes and stood quietly with her. The elevator st©pped and we stepped out. I was feeling weird somehow.
We walked throu-gh the hallway and towards the center right side we saw the penthouse door. It was a bit open, hence we pushed the door completely and entered inside to see where Cherry is.
The ap@rtment was quite a spacious one but I st©pped admiring it. I nee-d to focus.
“Cherry where are you?” I called out for her. But she was not in the living room. Taylor checked towards the kitchen area while I moved further into the two spare be-drooms. But it was empty.
I was about to move towards the next room but I heard Taylor skrie-k.
“Scarlet….Aaahhh”
I instantly ran out towards the kitchen but she was not there. I moved towards living room again and I saw her lying on the floor. Her back was facing me and I could see that she was injured.
I moved towards her b©dy and held her head in my l@p while tears started flowing down my cheek.
With a panic stricken voice I called out her name. But she was losing conscious. There was blood on the floor and head was bleeding.
“Taylor. plea-se. Stay with me….Oh god.” I was trying to hold her up. But I was not able to hold her steady.
“Scarlet.”
I turned around to see her standing there with a gun pointed at me. Her eyes were void of any emotions. She was clearly looking like a deranged person.
“Cherry.” I whispered her name in a very low voice. Afraid to move, I stood near to Scarlet’s unconscious b©dy.
My heart was beating so ra-pidly that I might get a heart attack right now. What is wrong with her?
“Look what you’ve done? Look at her.
Look what you’ve made me into. A total mess…. You….
You…. Scarlet is a thief.
You stole everything from me.
Why?”
“What?” I asked her confused and very carefully in a low tone.
She laughed hysterically.
“Oh what a bit-ch…. Being all innocent…..
I said you’re a thief. You took away everything from me…..My peace, my happiness, my love, my Alexander.”
She yelled at me angrily.
“What!” I asked her with sadness. Alexander.
“Yes. I love him and he loved me. Then you c@m£ along and changed everything. You stole him from me. How could you?
You are so ugly. You don’t even have a status. You are a bit-ch who just wants to have his money. Hell, you don’t even have a career for yourself. Look at you….”
“St©p… plea-se Cherry….St©p.” I am hurt with all her words but my friend is injured, I nee-d to save her. Cherry is gone crazy. What am I supposed to do? I nee-d to calm her down.
“Just calm down Cherry and put the gun away. We’ll talk it out.” I stated calmly wiping away my tears. If I yell at her she will lose it and one of us definitely will get injured. I nee-d to stay calm.
“No…. I want you away from him. He is mine. You back off. Go to hell….I don’t know. All I do know is that I love him and I nee-d him.”
She broke down in tears and started rambling out words. All her bottled up emotions were coming out. But she still had the gun pointed at me.
“You don’t know anything.
He was my first love. The only one who loved me, who supported me and made me who I am today but somehow due to the distance created between us made me turn away from him.
I got attra-cted to another man, who I thought was more capable of ma-king me damn happy than Alex.
I know it was a hvge mistake from my end for all the complications. I learnt my lesson. I suffered and endured a lot because everything turned out to be a nightmare for me.
I realized that Alexander is the one for me. He is my savior, my love and my life. I nee-d him and I will not allow anyone, not even you to take him away from me. Even if it means that I have to kill you.”
I g@sped. She was about to pu-ll the trigger but st©pped. She gave a wicked chuckle.
“Aaahh… No. No no no no no. I nee-d a happy ending. I don’t want to be a murderer. So…I give you a chance.”
“What?” I frowned at her.
“Take her.” She commanded while snapping her f!ngersin air. Two heavily built men gr@bb£d my both arms and dragged me out of the penthouse.
I was struggling to get free from their hold but they silenced me by ma-king me sniff a handkerchief.
I started losing my conscious, Alexander was the last word that I uttered and then I sli-pped into darkness.
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At Pearce Industries
Alexander’s Cabin~
” Hmm…”
“Just hold on a sec.” Max said as he was on a call.
“Baxter what is it?”
“Cherry has kidnapped Scarlet!”
“Where are they now?”
“I’m trying to find that from my team. Wait let me check, yeah?”
I nodded in response while pacing from right to left in my cabin.
I shouldn’t have s£nd her out with them. I should have kept her with me, here in the office. Damn that Cherry. Wait a minute.
“Check for Vince’s whereabouts now. I want to know where he is currently and he is up to?”
“Cherry was last seen in your old ap@rtment. h0tel Seawood’s receptionist confirmed it.
The lady said two visitors had come to meet her. It was Scarlet and Taylor as checked from the security c@m£ras. One of my men found Taylor injured and lying on the floor all unconscious. They have taken her to the hospital.”
“$h!t…$h!t….$h!t…$h!t… Baxter I nee-d to know where they took her. Find her plea-se.”
“Got Vince….he is in his ap@rtment. There she is…it’s Cherry.”
Baxter turned his l@pt©p towards me showing a video of them. He had setup hidden c@m£ras in Vince’s ap@rtment.
He checked in his be-droom, kitchen and spare room area throu-gh the c@m£ra but Scarlet is not being seen anywhere. Where the hell did she hide her?
“Look ……they are moving out. I’ll tell one of my men to follow them. We nee-d to get going as well.
Come on lover boy let’s find your girl.”
We quic-kly left and followed Cherry’s car. I called up Ray and told him about the situation.
Ray has alre-ady dropped off Estelle and Sera at my home with my parents. Ashton will be staying at home along with the guards. I want everyone to be safe.
Cherry is really going to pay for all this $h!t that she pu-ll-ed now. I knew there must be some reason why she behaved so nicely with everyone especially ma-king me believe her… throu-gh emotional talk. Nice one though.
She even lied about being pregnant. She was pregnant but lost that unborn baby due to an accident because of Vince while living with him. Well, she continued the role of a pregnant lady to gain my trust and care towards her.
At first I believed her but later on I felt like…she is just pretending all of it though I just kept along with her act just to get a confirmation from Baxter.
I had never really believed her totally, so I did a thorou-gh check about her. Though whatever happened with Antonio is all true and she did suffer a lot with him.
All that tortures of his triggered her behavior into a madness. She is totally gone insane and now she wants me like anything.
“Alex, I don’t get it. Why all this drama? She is well aware of all the things you can do to her for abducting your girl.
I mean… you have all the resources and power to end her life, career etc. Then why would she take so much trouble to do all this $h!t?”
“Maybe it is all for attention. She wants me like anything hence she is proving me what she can do to have me even if it means to take Scarlet away from me.”
“What about this Vince guy. He is not insane like her. I have done a background check and the only thing I’ve got about him is a connection with Italian Mafia and that secret thing.”
“Well, I don’t know about that guy. Maybe his only motive is to get Scarlet. Which I’ll never allow, I can’t believe about that secret thing. Firstly, I want my Scarlet back in my arms.
She is mine and I am actually afraid….afraid of losing her. So damn Baxter, tell your guys to get me details. I am going insane right now.”
“Okay…okay…let me check.” Baxter called up his team and was talking to them while I was getting tensed by every second.
Scarlet, where are you baby. plea-se be safe. I’ll find you. Oh damn man!
I was occu-pied in her thoughts. I feel scared… for the first time in my life I feel so scared that…. I feel like I am going to have a heart attack this instant.
I closed my eyes and suddenly all those moments of us being together flashed in front of me.
Alexander’s Pov~
Flashbacks ..
(Note: While sitting in the car along with Max he thinks about all of the below flashbacks.)
Our First Meeting~~~~
I was heading to my cabin when I saw Maddie standing along with Scarlet….My new Personal as-sistant.
“Sir, she is here.” Mrs. Madeleine informed to me.
“Good morning Miss Reeves. Welcome to Pearce Industries. As a start you can get a coffee for me. All the rules and tasks will be informed to you by Maddie.
Maddie, do show her office and introduce her to what she has to do. And after that you can come to me, i will give you, well your rest of the day tasks.”
I said all these things without looking at her because I was checking an important upd@t£ from one of my client but I got no response from her.
So I looked up at her and said,
“Miss Reeves I didn’t receive an
answer from you.”
“Yes Sir.” She answered me obe-diently. But the instant I looked at her I was mesmerized with her eyes. Those electric blue eyes and her beauty were intriguing me. But I quic-kly averted my eyes off her and said,
“Good. You both may go now.
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Our First Elevator Ride Together~~
It was our first time to ride the elevator together. I asked her to accompany me to one of my h0tel for official purpose.
My pri-vate elevator was having some technical issue and hence it is un-der construction so we are using the other elevator for the time being.
We entered into another elevator and he pressed the ground floor bu-tton.
But the elevator was st©pping in between for other people to enter and the space inside were getting smaller and smaller as a lot of people got in. Now it’s packed and we were unable to move.
The people entering were all managers and clients not the employees as employees used a separate elevators on the other side of the wing.
Suddenly Scarlet got pushed by some idiot and landed onto me and we were in close proximity. She was facing me and I instantly held her in my arms to keep her steady.
I don’t wanted her to get hurt so gently I placed her head over my left shoulder and kind of hvgged her in a protective stance. The moment I held her in my arms I felt a connection. I felt a jo-lt.
I wanted to protect her and hold her like this forever. I could feel her b©dy stiff right now and she was trying to calm her nerves down. Her eyes were closed for a moment as she took several small de-ep breaths.
Finally the elevator st©pped at the ground floor and people walked out of it. She too stepped out of my hold and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear.
And then we both silently walked out of the elevator. But I could still feel that warmth of her b©dy on mine.
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Saying Sorry For the First Time in My Life~~~
I was so mad seeing my ex-lover that all my anger was lashed out on Scarlet that day at office. I troubled her so much with $h!t load of extra work.
She tolerated my bad behavior and had stressed her out.
Later on, it was Ashton who made me realize that I did wrong. It was unfair and she didn’t deserve to be treated like that. She was my best employee.
As soon as I realized my fault, I mentally started preparing about how to apologize to her and called her inside my cabin.
But the problem was…I just…I didn’t know how to say the “Sorry” word to her. That word was foreign to me and I felt too damn difficult. It was just one word.
Yet I couldn’t!
She was sitting in front of me with a pen and a notepad.
I looked up at her and I just…….noticed how beautiful she is.
She was saying something to me at that time but I was not listening instead I just looked at those pretty pair of electric blue eyes and the movement of herl-ips while she spoke.
She looked like a gorgeous model. At that moment I felt something for her, some kind of unknown feelings started to develop inside of me which I couldn’t un-derstand or explain.
“Sir…is it okay to reschedule your today’s meetings?”
“Yeah….” I was in a trance and then she interrupted it by asking something and I just replied to it without knowing what it is!
“I wanted to ask you regarding the meeting of a client which is on Sunday; could you plea-se give me the details for it?”
I was such a d!¢k by ma-king her work on Sunday. I br@ced myself and started explaining to her…
“Scarlet, these past days it’s been $h!t. I know. I…just, it’s been rou-gh for me so the thing is we will reschedule that meeting from Sunday to Thursday so that you have an off on Sunday. Okay?”
“Scarlet, I’m sorry.”
I saw from my peripheral vision that she wh!pped her head up and was staring at me in shock.
Yes because I said sorry to her and that was a first for me.
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Entry of new employee i.e Vince D’Costa.
“Are you going somewhere?” I asked her while eyeing Vince. From the day he had joined I didn’t like him being around her.
“We both were just about to have lunch right now, Sir. It’s alre-ady late.” Vince replied to me politely.
Hell no!
“Scarlet. I nee-d you to accompany me right now for a meeting with the manager of h0tel Bliss project. We will gr-ab lunch for you on the way. Now come on.” I ordered her and left first.
Though she was not required for that meeting but I didn’t want her to be with him. Hence I ordered her to come along with me.
And then that incident~
He pu-ll-ed her closer, held her in his arms and k!$$£d her, that made me go all out like a hulk. I landed a punch on his right cheek and Vince fell on the ground.
She g@sped and was afraid. But I couldn’t contain my anger towards him.
He k!$$£d her. How dare he do that? She is mine. At that moment I felt that jealous feeling so strongly and it confirmed that I got feelings for her. I like her.
It irked me when Vince was with her and I really care about her. She affects me in every way.
I was very much pissed off and raging with a $h!t load of anger.
Vince slowly got up from the floor holding his cheek.
“What the hell do you think you are doing?” I asked him menacingly.
“I…can explain. plea-se.” Vince said while holding his hands in the air.
“You…come with me.” I said to Scarlet while gr-abbing her hand. Then pointed a f!nger at Vince and said,
“You…leave right now. You’re fired. Out…!” I roared at him.
Angrily I dragged her along with me in my cabin.
I immediately closed and locked the door and then pushed her towards the left side of the wall. At first I stood there clenching my fist then when I faced her, I softened a bit.
“Why did u punch him?” She asked in shock in a low voice.
“Why did you k!sshim?” I asked her angrily and took a step closer to her.
“What? I… but…he… “She raised her voice to defend herself but I interrupted.
“Is he your b©yfri£nd? Or…He paid you to be with him?”
I asked this annoyed while being closer to her ears. I was beyond mad.
Instead of replying to me she got angry and instantly sl@pped me across my face.
“How could you say like that?
I am not like other bimbos who are dying to do anything for money. I certainly don’t nee-d to explain to you anything and I don’t wish to work with you anymore.
Goodbye Mr. Pearce.”
Saying she left me in a shocked state.
She left me. She freaking resigned.
That hurt me.
Next day, I missed her pres£nce terribly in my office. Felt empty.
Then Taylor visited to my office to talk about Scarlet.
She told me it was Vince who initiated the k!ssand she doesn’t have any kind of feelings towards him ap@rt from friendsh!p. I misun-derstood her.
Then I remembered our main conversation.
“Also, she still doesn’t know anything regarding us, we being childhood friends and she still thinks this job, which she had been achieved only because of her education and her skills.
Not because I called you up and asked for a favor, so do not tell her all this. It’s a secret between us. Okay?”
“Okay.” I replied to her.
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Back to Pres£nt…
And this secret of ours is still a secret. I haven’t told Dove about me knowing Taylor. Taylor is like a sister to me and she was my p@rtner in crime while we were kids.
My god I hope both are fine, my Dove and Taylor.
I texted Ray and gave him the address of the hospital where Taylor is admitted. I told him to check upon her.
After driving an hour suddenly Baxter slammed on his car br@kes.
“What the hell are you….?
“Shush lover boy.” Max said in a whisper and pointed ahead. I looked towards the direction he has pointed with his f!nger and I saw a humongous Villa.
Vince and Cherry entered the main entrance gate after thorou-gh check up and few formalities performed by the guards stationed outside.
We st©pped our car a bit behind, out of their view so that they don’t get a hint of us following them.
“Damn that’s the lion’s den!” Baxter whispered yet again with wi-de and excited eyes.
“What!” I exclaimed as I have no idea what he is talking about.
“This is the Italian Mafia’s hub in our city. Hell it’s restricted and a very dangerous territory to enter. And I think there will be more people surrounding this area. People such as them…
“He pointed towards his right side; a black SUV was stationed near to the motel.
“Those are our very own FBI guys.”
“$h!t. You mean…”
“Yes indeed. She is un-der their watch. Obviously he wouldn’t hide her in any other place when he has such powerful connection to help him do whatever he wishes to. Now this is all fv¢ked up.
We will have to go back home for now and layout a proper plan to get your girl back.” Baxter said while driving us back home.
“Baxter you better l@yout a proper, safer and fas-ter plan. Ray can also help us out in this and….”
Suddenly I was interrupted by a phone call.
“What the bloody hell is wrong with you?” A familiar voice said over the other end of the call in a thick accent.
Perfect. It’s him.
“Why the hell you care Maximo? What do you want?” I snapped at him.
Maximo Rosario, my Business p@rtner for Italy project…
(Note: I hope you remember our very own Max who had proposed Scarlet but she realized that she has strong feelings for Alexander)
“I do because it’s about Scarlet.” He said in a very serious tone.
“She is my…” He interrupted me.
“She is kidnapped and is now un-der the watchful eyes of the Italian Mafia.
It means she is absolutely in the hands of that son of a b***h- Lucca Donati who happens to run a business of trading innocent girls across the sea for you know what!” He yelled at me in frustration.
I was stunned with his information. I tried to open my mouth and say something to him but no words c@m£ out as I was processing his information in my mind.
“I’m on my way to your place and we will talk about this.” He disconnected the call.
I closed my eyes for a moment to contain my anger. I c@m£ across her beautiful smiling face in my mind and it helped me to calm my nerves.
But when I opened my eyes, I was beyond angry for all the things that is happening in my life. Especially with my Dove and I swear that bastard Vince is going to pay for it. I will kill him that’s for sure.
“Baxter drives fas-ter. We have a guest coming home tonight and also I nee-d a lot of answers from my father.”
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At Pearce’s Residence~
” Where is she?” Mom asked me with concern and fear.
“She is yet to be found but we will get her back Mrs. Pearce. Don’t worry.” Baxter replied to her.
I could see my whole family is worried with this situation. Especially Sera, mom said she was crying the whole time begging to rescue her sister. Somehow Estelle and mom as-sured her that I will bring Scarlet back home safely.
Hearing that she somehow calmed a bit and due to tiredness she fell asleep. Taylor was shifted in our house along with all the nee-ded medical as-sistance.
I didn’t want to take a chance by keeping her in the hospital. The kids are also here along with their nanny. My house is fully protected 24 x 7 by guards. Right now we doubled the security.
After half an hour I, Ashton, Ray, Derek, Baxter and My father- we all settled outside in our patio area for discussion.
Baxter explained the situation to everyone. He then pu-ll-ed out the file which had details on Vince. He handed that file to my father.
Father started going throu-gh all the contents in the file.
But he was cool as an ice. No surprised reactions given at all with the information mentioned in it. While Ashton was curious as to know what it is hence after once father re-ad it, Ashton took from him and started going throu-gh it.
“Well, would you explain this entire thing father?” I asked him calmly to get a clearer picture of all this.
“Hmm… very well….” He sighed.
“What the hell! Vince is your son.”
Ashton yelled in anger while gripping the file. Ray and Derek were shocked and then all pair of eyes was on my father to get an answer to it.
“To be honest yes…in a way he is. But he is not my son.” Father said in a neutral tone.
“plea-se explain father.” Ashton said.
Now we all were curious.
“Well, he is my cousin sister’s son. So he is your brother in that way. Not that I am having another affair or anything like that. Hell I’ll never cheat on my wife, your mother. She is my world.”
“But why then my sources gave me info stating you as his father?” Baxter asked while frowning because his sources give apt and true info.
“Well, Vince’s mother i.e. my sister Rose requested me to hide the identity of her child’s father. She did the biggest mistake of her life by falling in love with a dangerous man.
She never wanted that man to know he has a son, as that will f0rç£ her to let her son follow the footsteps of his father, footsteps which will lead to the dark side of the world. She was afraid. But I couldn’t take care of her and the baby. I was so much involved with my work.
Besides that your mother was busy with Ashton and you both. Hell I never even told your mother about all this because our family can be in danger.
So I had s£nd Rose and Vince away to Mexico. I made all arrangements for them over there and gave Rose new identity, so that man can never get to them.
In every once in a while I received letters from Rose about how Vince has grown up and going to school and she is also has a steady job, life was good. After a couple of months, I got a call from her boss stating that she and her son is missing.
I personally visited there in Mexico and ordered my search team to get into finding them. But I couldn’t get any trace of them. It was like they got vanished.
I knew why! Its that man, he found them that’s the only answer to it.” He sighed and was sad while remembering the past.
“So who is this man?” Ashton asked.
“But I don’t un-derstand why Scarlet is being kidnapped by him? What did she do?” Derek asked confused.
“And why is Vince involved with the Italian Mafia?” Ray asked with a serious expression and I was pissed off with all this.
“Don’t tell me. It is him…isn’t he. His father is….” Baxter voiced out.
“Yes Indeed. You got it right. He is Stefano Santoro.” Father said.
“Who is Stefano Santoro?” Derek asked curiously.
“He is one of the leaders of The Italian Mafia.
Well, there is more….
Actually…I met him after Ashton’s birthday p@rty. I only knew Vince D’costa as our company employee not that he is my sister’s son.
That day he revealed to me his true identity as Vincenzo Santoro- son of Stefano and Rose. We had a talk and I c@m£ to know that Stefano found out about him and he took them both to Italy during when they were in Mexico.
He was very angry at Rose first for not telling about Vince. But eventually he forgave her but unfortunately she was killed by one of Stefano’s enemy.
And then he also said about Scarlet…” father hesitated to continue as he looked at me with concern.
“What about her?” I asked him.
He sighed and said,
“Apparently he too has got strong feelings for her. He said he nee-ds her in his life. I think he is serious about her the same way you are Alex.”
“$h!t. fv¢k.” Derek, Ray and Baxter said in unison.
“So how are we going to get her back?”
Derek asked with concern. Baxter was calling his team to get more info on Stefano and his mafia gang. Dad said he has a file on Stefano and will give Baxter tomorrow to go throu-gh it.
“We nee-d a full on planning and we nee-d to get inside that Villa somehow to get her out from there safely. How…?” Ray said while calculating a strategy in his mind.
But I was so much disturbe-d right now hearing upon dad’s words. Never… That’s never going to happen.
He will not be able to take her away from me. I was so engrossed with my thoughts and suddenly I heard a familiar voice from across the entrance of the patio.
“I have a plan.” He said with a sm-irk.
All heads wh!pped to the direction of the entrance and was stunned to see him of all people standing there along with someone whom we hate to acknowledge at this time of situation but shocked to see with him.
” Maximo Rosario ” I said in a low tone.
” Cherry .” Derek, Ray and Baxter said with a shocked expression.
TBC