I wish I knew you were an actress
I fell in love with your impression
'Cause now I'm staring down a barrel
You got my life in your hands now
You wanna hit me with an arrow
Six seconds 'til it's man down

CARTER

My world shatters in a minute.
Lillian Castello. Not Lilly Hastings.

Everything turns.
Everything changes.
Everyone betrays.

I was betrayed by my own heart.

Her eyes never leave mine as she waits patiently, smirking, waiting for Elijah. He takes off his jacket and holds it for, spread. She puts her arms in and he pushes the jacket up to her shoulders. It's his jacket which is a little loose on her. She buttons it up and ties her hair up in a ponytail.

I can't process any of it when I say, "Lilly, what's going on?" She says, "What do you think is going on?" Her brow raised. She wipes the blood on the corner of her lip and says to Elijah, "I will fuck you up for this." Elijah doesn't make eye contact at all. None of them do. I could feel the fear in the room. They were afraid of her. She takes out a pack of cigarettes from the pocket of the jacket, pulls a cigarette out, holds it between her lips, and lights it up, taking her time. Taking a long drag or two and then exhaled the smoke at the ceiling with her neck craned up.

She was playing with my anxiety and she was damn good at it.

She looks at me and says, "Looks like you've seen a ghost, Carter Romano." I say, "Lilly, what the hell is going on?" She corrects me instead of answering, "It's Lillian. I will appreciate it if you say my name the correct way and I won't kill you sooner." I gulp, "Lilly-" she hisses a warning at me, "Ba careful, Romano. I'm not the one tied to the chair." She takes another drag and drops the cigarette into the puddle of water, letting the water put it out.

She walks near me and bents a little to touch the collar of my shirt, "Have I ever told you how fucking sexy you look tied up? Maybe I'll fuck you right now. Definitely would fulfill my fantasy." When her fingers touch my cheek, I whip my head the other way, wanting away from her touch as much as possible. Suddenly, she grips my neck, her fingers pressing on tight enough to get me to choke, she smiles as she sees me struggling, and dares me to show my weakness at how much this hurts. But I don't. I stay quiet no matter how much my head feels light and I'm losing my grasp on reality. When my eyes roll, she lets my neck go. I inhale a large amount of air and cough it out.

She says, "I need privacy." They don't even look up at her as they turn and walk out, leaving us alone. Even Elijah walked out without a thought.

She says, "You're not gonna speak to me, baby?" She pouts, "I thought you loved me. I thought you wanted me." She shows me her wedding ring, "That's why you married me, right?" I yell, "Let me go!" She shushes me, "Shh, voice low, baby. You don't want the world to know how good I make you feel, do you?" Then she says, "Maybe they should know." She comes closer and pulls open my shirt, the buttons flying all over the place.

She trails her hands down my chest, "That chest- it will always be my weakness." She leans to bite my collarbone and I hiss. But she takes her time, kissing my chest, nibbling at my collarbone, rubbing her tongue up and down the middle.
She backs away with a smile. My pain makes her happy.
I speak with venom laced in my words, "Who the fuck are you?" She pulls my face up, hovering her lips over mine, "Wouldn't you like to know?" Her breathing gets deeper and her chest heaves, "Fuck me- this is a bad turn-on." I pull away from her touch and not once does it faze her. She shrugs and stands up straight, "I just told you who I am. I'm Rossi's daughter. The only heir to the Castello Mafia. Your wife and your enemy." She smiles and flicks the tip of my nose with her finger, "It's okay. You can praise me for how good I am at acting and betraying you. I like praises."

I ask, letting myself be vulnerable because I need answers, "Was it all a lie?" She shrugs, "Except for one." Then she leans and presses her lips to my ear, "I never lied about being a virgin though. Thanks for taking it for me and making it memorable. Shame that I have to kill you, though I would love you as my little fuck toy."

She leans down to try and pin a kiss on my neck but I say, "Stay away from me." She pouts, "Why? I thought you liked my kisses." I hissed "That was before I knew who you were." She raises her brow "Oh?" She leans closer, "Who am I then?" I struggled even though I knew I couldn't escape. My hands were tied behind the chair and my ankles were tied to the leg of the chair. I was so fucking angry that my breaths were getting heavy. I was betrayed by the one I loved. Everything was a lie.

My Lilly is a lie.

I growl, "My enemy." She bit her thumb between her teeth with a smile and tilts her head, "Why does it sound so hot when you say it?" She touches my cheek with the back of her fingers, going down the side of my neck where I have bruised badly that I jerk away, "You don't get to touch me," but she chuckles and gets on her knees. Her hand was on my thighs and she looks up at me. I stare her down. Suddenly she steals a kiss before I even have the time to react, "What are you gonna do about it?" She steals another kiss when I'm about to say something. She enjoys my frustrations and those kisses are like salt to my fucking wounds.

She pecks my bottom lip, stealing another kiss, and I grunt, "Stop that!" She chuckles, trailing her hands from my thighs to my stomach, watching how I react. I was still sensitive to her touch, weak, and pathetic to it. My jaw sets and I suck in a breath. My voice came out with a growl "I should've killed you instead of falling in love with you." She laughs and climbs up on my lap and straddles me. I lean back to create distance between her and me, not wanting any part of her to make me weak again. She wraps her arms around my neck and says with confidence, "You could never finish me. You told me I was your weakness." Her fingers grab my hair hard and she pulls on it, pulling my head back and running her tongue from the base of my neck, and over my Adam's apple, pressing her lips to my chin, "I will always be your weakness."

When she tries to kiss me, I pull away with a grunt. I don't want her touching me and I sure as fuck don't want her kissing me. She says, "There was a time you wouldn't let me go while we kissed because you were greedy, and now you don't wanna kiss me anymore?" I stay quiet. I don't wanna talk either. The more I talk, the more vulnerable I become. This was all too fast for me.

The betrayal hurt like a motherfucking bitch.

She runs her nails down my chest and tilts her head, "There's something I always liked about you. You're tolerance to pain- I always found it sexy but I never tested the limit to it." Her eyes spark with fire and pure evil, "Can I?" Before I can even say anything, she's off my lap and a knife is stabbed in my thigh, I clench my teeth and cry out the pain. Feeling the burn of the knife mixed with the pain of my flesh being torn. I feel the knife deep in my thigh muscles and I heave, trying to control the pain, trying to hold in a scream.

(ℙ𝕝𝕒𝕪 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕤𝕠𝕟𝕘)

My breath comes out shaky and as I look into her cold blue eyes, they're smiling. They're mocking and provoking. They're like icy death. Abruptly, she pulls the knife out. I cry, throwing my head back, "Fuck off!" She chuckles, calm and smooth, "You think you have the upper hand here, darling?" I clench my jaw, holding in the cry for my pain.
She says, "You're in a chair, Carter. Vulnerable and betrayed. Poor baby." She trails her fingertip down my cheek, "How does it feel... to be betrayed by the girl you love?"

I hate everything about her at this moment. The way she talks and the way she touches me- I hate it so much because I'm weak. I'm weak, vulnerable, and pathetic. Betrayed by the woman I love. Betrayed by my best friend. I just wanna die.

She says, "I can't kill you." I didn't know I said my thought aloud. I was too out of it because of the fucking pain. I say, trying to form words, "Why not? Just shoot me. Finish me... here and now. You got what you wanted. You betrayed me for some kind of revenge that I do not understand. Finish me here and now, Lilly." She chuckles, "I can't. Not because I don't want to, but because I want you to suffer. I want you to go back to your mafia, make money, and climb up the mountain so I can push you off to your death. I want that Carter Romano. I want to watch you suffer. I want to watch you fall. And then, when you've had enough, I want you to beg me to shoot you in the head." She makes a finger gun with her hand and points her pointer finger between my brows, "I have special bullets for you. Carved with my name. And I want it here. Right in your skull."

She straddled my thigh that was not stabbed, held my face, and said, "I'm gonna let you go now. You're gonna work hard and become strong so this game I have for us will be fair."

"What game?"

"A simple game of cat and mouse. No rules. You can kill as many people as you want and you can betray as many as you want. Two players, you and me. If someone comes after you, I will kill them." She kisses between my brows, on the point where she wanted a bullet inside, "Until then, I want you to remember that tattoo on your back." She gets off and turns around to walk, says, "And that flower is a lily, in case you ever wonder." Something clicks in my head and I yell, "Wait!" She stops but she doesn't turn around. I ask, "That day- Rafael Romano. He knew, didn't he? He knew who you were." She looks at me over her shoulder and even in this darkness I do not miss her smirk, "He knew. You killed him. Made my job easy."

Then she walks and says one last time, "Date inizio alle danze." I translate it under my breath with all the hatred in the world for her, "Let the games begin." And she's out of my sight. Leaving me all alone, and bound to my fucked up fate.

Shit.

It took ten minutes for my life to change.
Ten minutes and I was betrayed by my own heart.

♡ ♡ THE END ♡ ♡

First of all, I wanna thank you y'all for the support. This is my first mafia story and I was so fucking nervous from the start but with all that love and support, I kept pushing away the doubts and kept on going.

Thank you for being patient with me and thank you for asking me when will I publish more chapters. This gave me lots of hope when it comes to writing.

I know y'all are gonna hate me for ending this story right here but I wanna do part two of this story. I wanna do a sequel where they're steamy enemies. And I'm fucking sure y'all love it.

Here's a little sneak peek at what I'm working on for part two and I'll hope you love it too.

Here we go:

After being betrayed by the ones he loves, Carter Romano must do anything and everything to escape his feelings. He must do everything to kill and hate the enemy.

Taking back the mafia and working hard enough to rise to the peak, Carter Romano bows to no one, except for his dearest wife, Lillian Castello. His wife is his enemy. And she enjoys it all a bit too much. Lillian wants to break Carter for what he and his father have done to hers. She wants Carter to rise high and high so she can pull him down to the ground and...

Darling, the game is about to begin.

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I walk inside her office and find her gun right at my feet. She's on her chair, behind her desk, watching me with lust in her eyes and a smirk on her lips. I say, "Your gun is on the floor." She shrugs it off, "Let it be." I scoff, "Careless. I could pick it up and shoot you right now if I wanted to." She stands up from the chair makes her way to the front of her desk and rests her hip upon the edge, "I dare you. And if you're unsuccessful to shoot, I want you on your knees in front of me and I want your mouth between my legs. Deal?"

She smiles wide and god, I hate her so fucking much.

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There it is! I hope you like it and continue to support me in part two as well. I'll let you guys know when I'm gonna be publishing part two so follow me on instagram to stay updated @hopecrazyreader17

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Love, Hope
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