Two Days Later
ROSALINE
Today is my birthday and although I have experienced the most terrible days of my life these past few days, I was willing to make my birthday better than the past few days.
I looked at myself in the mirror. I think I looked pretty but I almost could not feel it. Russo had made me feel like I was the most beautiful woman, he had made me feel like I had the loveliest features but now I know that all of that was just an act.
I had my hair let down my shoulders in wavy curls and I was wearing a black dress.
"It's pretty, I guess" I mumbled and my phone beeped with a message.
I moved away from the mirror and grabbed my phone off the bed. Rick was the one who had sent the message. Since I wasn't going to be spending my birthday with Russo, I might as well just spend it with my friends like every other year.
"I am here to pick you up" his text read and I sighed softly.
I had told him I would meet up with him. I didn't want him coming here because of Russo. In fact, I was making my plans to move out of this place already.
"Alright. Give me a minute" I texted back simply and dropped the phone into my purse.
I got into my heels and looked into the mirror again.
"Be happy today. Be truly happy." I whispered to myself and walked out of the room.
Walking down the stairs, I could not help but feel like something was wrong. I felt my heart beating for no reason but as I got to the living room, I knew why.
"Rick!" I gasped his name as I saw Rick on his knees, tied down while Russo was seated on a sofa with a gun in his hand. He twirled the gun in his hands lazily and raised his gaze to look at me.
"Russo El Massimo" I called his name with a grit in my tone.
"What do you think you are doing?!" I raised my voice, not thinking about whatever consequences could come from it.
"Putting an end to this stupidity?" Russo's voice was calm.
"Ah fuck" he cursed.
"I thought if I let you be, you'd come to your senses about this but it's evident that you are only getting pulled deeper into the web of lies you threw your own self into. I was going to have your friend kidnapped but he was already on his way here so I just let him drive in on his own."
"Mr. Massimo, let my friend go this instant" I clenched my fists, trying to ensure my voice didn't shake.
Instead, Russo pointed the gun to Rick's head.
"It would take me a second to kill him and I would do so very unapologetically. As always, you can pick. The gun or the knives..."
I looked at a man who had a knives set on standby.
"However, you can stop that though by telling me every fucking thing that happened." Russo added.
"I will have none of this!" I tried to maintain my stance but Russo cocked the gun and I felt my heart skip several heartbeats as Rick gasped my name.
"Rosaline..."
"If you utter her name once more in front of me, I will kill you." Russo threatened.
"You would not do it! You won't kill Rick because if you kill him, you have no one else to threaten me with!" I said back.
"Smart but you have two more friends, don't you? I could have them escort your darling male best friend to the afterlife. Honestly, that would actually be fucking better. I kill him and have you tell the truth using... What's her name? Melinda, right?"
"Russo El Massimo! I won't let this slide! I will have the authorities..." I stopped in the middle of my words, knowing that the idea of reporting Russo was stupid.
"You have three seconds, Cara" Russo got up on his feet, the look on his face turning stern.
"Three" he pointed the gun at Rick once more.
"Two"
"Fine!" I let out in a loud voice, shutting my eyes tightly.
"I will tell you everything!" I cried out. I could not let Rick be killed because I wanted to keep this information away from this monster of a man.
"Good decision"
"But let him go" I said.
"I will, but after I get enough information" his gun was still pointed at Rick.
I looked at him, my breath turning ragged. I pulled my phone out of my purse. I unlocked the private collection and played the video clip.
"There you go" I threw my phone at him and he seamlessly caught it with his free hand.
"Manners" he remarked before watching the video clip.
I watched the expression on his face as he watched it and at the end, Russo threw his head back and laughed. It was a maniacal type of laugh.
"Caramia" he called my name and started approaching me, letting his hand down and ignoring Rick totally.
Rick attempted to get up on his feet and probably escape with struggles but a shot a few inches above his head sent him back to his knees instantly.
"Russo!" I gasped out but Russo was completely unshaken.
My heart was beating and hammering in fear for Rick's life.
"This is the reason you fucking stayed away from me? Me threatening your father was enough reason for you to stay away from me?" He growled.
"I know... I know everything! I know this video clip was from three days before my parents died! I know what you did... I know you killed them!!" I raised my voice at him and then looked at Rick.
"Have Rick out of here" I whispered. I didn't want Rick finding all of these out.
"Get the bastard out." Russo ordered and the guy with the knives pulled Rick out. I let out a sigh of relief at the exit of Rick but my relief didn't last long.
"Because of this trashy clip, you stayed away from me, Caramia. What the fuck was it about this video that you could not fucking confront me about? This was the reason you thought I would kill you? You thought I would kill you from watching this fucking video!"
"Don't act like you want me! I know that too!" I decided to let everything out.
"I know you are with me only because you don't want me to go for the position of CEO!" I yelled.
Russo stared at me in seeming surprise for a few seconds and then he chuckled and took two steps away from me.
"Well, contrary to what you have been told, Caramia Massimo. This video clip wasn't three days from the family's death. It was three months and yes, that was me and yeah, I said what I said but I didn't make my threat into a reality." He said.
"You want me to believe that?" I asked, keeping my head up high even though I was now praying hard inside of me for him to debunk all of these, for all of these to be lies that I had allowed myself to sink into.
"So you'd rather believe a stranger? Nice choice."
"Your father got me angry on that day. He killed my birth mother, I mean, she was pretty much useless to me but still, if I ever wanted her dead, I would have done the killing myself. He killed her and I was furious. Of course, I threatened to eliminate everyone but I let the issue slide. My mother wasn't that important too and she probably should have been long dead before then, I was just mad he killed my biological family without asking me first."
I was shocked and my sharp brows arched and my eyes blinked. Russo's birth mother? My father killed her? That was why Russo threatened my father in that clip? Was that the truth?
"And me coming closer to you because of the position of CEO? Tell me exactly what seemed fake to you, Caramia? The hard-ons? The sex? The climax? I would love to know which of them seemed like a fucking act!" He moved closer to me again, so close that I could feel him and could breathe in his cologne.
"Yes, you have the chances of becoming the CEO and if you want to become the CEO, oh fuck, please take that position away from me. It's the most stressful thing ever. I make more money selling drugs and guns than I make from that running that position! And did you even stop to read that clause properly? Because it still states that even if you become the CEO, I still retain the power as chairman of the company."
"I..." I tried to find words to say but I couldn't find the right words.
I had been deceived by Mr. McAllister??
"You could have just fucking told me about this! And this simple explanation that cost nothing more than two fucking minutes would have solved it! But hell no! You decided to let some bastard pull you away from me! You believed that I could hurt and kill you! Tell me how many times have you caught me attempting to get you killed? I almost can't believe you believed these over me. You should have called it when you were told that I had plans to kill you because that...That was fucking hilarious and ridiculous, Caramia!"
"Russo, I..."
"Who was it?" Russo demanded to know.
"Mr. McAlister" I whispered the name.
"That little bastard" Russo gritted and took a step away from me.
"Well, I am fucking done here. You already said we were done so off you go, to your darling Rick and your friends to celebrate your beautiful birthday." He was about to turn away from me.
"Russo" I grabbed his arm quickly.
"I... I don't even know what to say. I... I was stupid, I was scared, I was... I felt betrayed." I closed the small gap he had created between us.
Moving my hands to his shoulders, I pulled him down a bit more and kissed him on the lips. Fuck! I missed him so much! I had been so stupid! I should have just told him about everything. Russo was... He was everything. How could I have let myself be brainwashed.
My lips moved with his as I kissed him slowly and gently but he wasn't reciprocating the kiss. He wasn't kissing me back and it made the tears roll out of my eyes. He was so mad at me.
Licking his lips, I broke the kiss and brushed my lips against his.
"I am sorry" I whispered and moved a hand into his hair. I ran my fingers through his hair and looked into his eyes.
"I missed you so much, daddy" I whispered, meaning every word. I really missed him.
"Fuck" he groaned, breaking our eye contact.
"I missed you too... So damn much. I missed you, Sunshine" his hand grabbed my hair and jerked my face closer to his.
He kissed me and I kissed him back needily. Our tongues met almost instantly as we kissed with raving hunger.
Heavens, I missed this. I missed this feeling. I missed this vulnerable and sweet feeling. I missed letting my body want him without trying to restrain myself.
He effortlessly dominated the kiss, his other hand now roaming my body and groping me. I moaned into the kiss as his hands moved all over my body. Feeling his hard on press into my body was the best thing ever. The evidence of how much he wanted me. I had missed that big cock spreading my pussy and my mouth.
He broke the kiss with a groan and pulled me back by my hair.
"You are going to get punished for a ton of things, Sunshine. You have been on the naughty list for too long but first? I need to fuck that distrust out of your fucking holes"