CARTER

The cameras were a dead end. There was a 50-50 chance that they would help. I'm not angry by it but I am annoyed. Rossi knew what Lilly did not even though she worked there for three years.

This was gonna be a long shitty month before I get to Rossi. Elijah didn't find anything except for trails that went cold. Rossi, his mafia, no one came in the light since the shoot-out. Three men of his died that day but they're no use. The ones that were injured cannot be found. Rossi was in the hospital but he escaped. Where the fuck was he? It wasn't like him to go hiding. He never hides. He attacks emotionally. He's too stupid for plans. How can he just go into fucking hiding and no one would know? His allies- they didn't even fucking know where he went. It's like he just disappeared into thin air. The tip I had from my guy was a dead end because the guy was killed the next fucking day when I turned up to meet him in the dark alley. If Rossi is hiding, then he has planned all this out or someone else did it for him.

Who?

Lilly sits pinned to the car door as it drives us home. She was shaking with fear, and good, she should be scared. She had brought her long ponytail forward on her shoulder and I can't help but grab it from the base and run my hands down the thick strands gently till the end where I can wrap the ends around my fingers twice. She looks at me, her blue eyes red from crying, tears running down her face. She looked fucking beautiful when she cried. And she looked even more fucking beautiful when I made her cry in fear. I smile and say "You're ready to get back in your cage, Lilly?" She doesn't answer, just looks down at her lap, at her intertwined fingers.

Her soft round shaped face looked perfect from the side. And the way she was sitting there with her head bowed in defeat, she couldn't be more perfect at that moment. Her pain was my turn-on. She lets me do whatever I want, even if it was playing with her hair till we reach home.

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I get out of the car and she does too from my side. I ask her once "You want to do this the easy way or the hard way? The hard way will include me dragging you in your cell with your hair in my grip." Her head is still bowed in defeat and that was my answer. I was kind of waiting to do it the hard way. She quietly follows me with her hands linked together at the front. We get to the cell room and I push the door open for her. She walks in, sobbing. Then I close the cell and lock it. I say "Lilly, come here." She turns around and then walks to the bars. Closing in. I push my hand through and grab her jaw, pulling her face close enough that it's between bars, and pressed a kiss between her brows. She tries so hard not to wince but she's not successful at that. I praise her "Good girl. You listen to your master well." I lift her head so I could meet our eyes "Won't be long till you let your master do anything he wants." I push my other hand in and hold up my palm "Lilly, paw." She breaks into a cry but complies. Putting her tiny fist in my hand. I smile. She was learning how he disciplined. I stroke my fingers behind her ear "Good girl, Lilly. Might get you a treat later. Be good." I pull away and then walked out.

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I get to my corner of the house and spot Elijah pacing back and forth behind the kitchen island. My brow is knit and I take off my coat "What's wrong?" Unbuckling the knife harness from around my thigh. Elijah shakes his head "We're fucked! We are absolutely and royally fucked, Carter!" I threw the knife on the couch and folded my arms on my chest "If you don't tell me what happened, I cannot fucking fix it, Elijah." He stops and looks at me, eyes going crazy with fear "We got hit. Our drug supply going to Thailand got busted by cops." My throat went dry and I close my distance from him and hold him by his collar "What the fuck did you do?" He pulls away "Nothing! I didn't do anything. I was on a date when I get a call that our drug supply got busted. Sinn called." I ask with a brow raised "Sinn as in Thai Mafia?" He nods.

Sinn Choi, the snake of the underground was our biggest buyer when it came to drugs and girls. They helped us, we helped them. It's a relationship that's been going on for years.

Elijah huffs "This is bad. Your father will fucking kill me! He will hand me to Nico and you know how Nico waits for my destruction."

"Who the fuck tipped them off about the deal?"

"I don't fucking know! Sinn called and told me that the drugs didn't reach. I called up my men and they told me they got busted. I came here as soon as I got the call. I saw to it that the goods were already on that fucking ship!"

He holds his head "This is bad. This is fucking bad." I grab his shoulder "Calm down. Let me talk to my father." He scoffs "You fucking kidding me? He will rip my eyes out!" I smirk "I won't let him. Your arms and legs- I can't promise that." He blinks for a second before he hisses "Fuck. You." I snort and take my leave going straight down the corridor and to the main house. Going straight to my father's study where he spent most of his time.

Nico smiled "Ready to hand over that bitch to me?" I ask "He knows?" Nico chuckles darkly "Fuck, yes. Sinn called him before he called your little bitch." I show him the middle finger but he just ignores it like it's child's play and moves away from the door. I say to him before I enter "At least I show love to my little bitch instead of making him into a guard dog that licks his master's boot all day long." And then went inside, not once missing the curses he spewed in Italian.

My father sat in his chair with a dark look. This wasn't good at all. This could get me killed by his hands too. He had a glass of whiskey with ice in his hand as well as a cigarette in his other. He looks at me "You found out?" I shake my head "I just heard it from Elijah."

"Where is he?"

"Why? So you can rip his eyes out?"

"I was thinking of castrating him."

I snort "Elijah would die than let you cut his balls off. His balls are his pride." My father smirks at that "Does each of his balls costs 6 million dollars that we lost?"

"Not that expensive."

My father gently nods "We lost 12 million dollars in two days, Carter. Those were Giovanni's drugs on that ship. He's lost half of his creation in two days" I shrug "The man created the drug. I'm sure he can make more." My father shakes his head "The ingredient he needs is rare, hard to come across. He has no more left. There's only one seller in this country that can sell him that ingredient but it isn't cheap."

"What's the ingredient?"

"Giovanni doesn't tell anyone. He pays the seller extra to only do business with him and keep his mouth shut. The seller obeys."

I said nonchalantly "Help him." My father looks at me and waits for me to continue "Help Giovanni, give him the money he needs for that ingredient and make him your bitch as well as his son. Have the leverage on him." My father repeats "You want me to trap my ally into a fucking leverage?"

"You never liked Giovanni. You only had him as your ally because he was too smart for those drugs. They're stronger than Rohypnol. Effects faster that any rape drugs you've seen. Make Giovanni your bitch. Take over the drugs. Get stronger." Filling my father's head with greed was a thing I liked. Since he's getting old, he's becoming greedy. Greed attracts disaster, and disasters leads to shit that will be taken away from him before he could snap his fingers. I needed to see my father's downfall before I die. Has been my wish since I was thirteen.

Then I pluck out the pin of the grenade and lay it on his lap "Think about it. Having another mafia to control, owning all those drugs in your name, you will be more powerful than Sinn soon." He stays quiet, thinking it all over. I take that as my leave but before I could even open the door, he says "Russo has been after me to convince you into selling that girl. He's willing to pay whatever we want. I want to say yes, but she's yours. You get the final decision." My grip on the knob tightens "She's not for sale."

"You want me to tell that to him when he asks me about it again?"

"No, tell him that if he tries to talk to you about her again, I will castrate him in front of all the females that currently reside in his mansion like Barbie dolls." Then I'm off. Storming off to the cell to see her again.

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She sits in the corner, arms wrapped around herself. Her eyes closed, her head laid back. But the sound of my footsteps wakes her up. She had gone paler since I'd taken her. The red on her cheeks slowly disappeared. She waits for me to say something or do something. She always waits.

I say with a cold bottle of water in my grip "You look parched." She stays quiet "Are you not going to bark for me, Lilly?" I sigh "You know, he's still lusting after you." I watch her swallow, watch her throat working to swallow her spit "W-who?" I tell her calmly "Russo." I open the cell and her breath catches in her throat but I calmly walk and crouch down "Russo is still lusting for you even after I beat him up bad that day. He keeps me calling me, went as far as to giving me anything I want." I grab her jaw, putting my thumb on her artery to feel how fast it pulses "You have him lusting after you, must've done something right, hmm?" I twist the bottle cap open and move the bottle close to her lips. She tries to grab the bottle but I pull it away "Dogs don't have hands to hold, Lilly. They just put their paw on their owner's hands." She swallows her pride and holds my wrists with her hands, pulling the bottle to her lips and silently begging me to tilt the bottle up so she can drink. I happily do it. Smiling when her eyes are on me as she drinks it.

I lie "You know that there is something that Russo has that I want badly. You could be a good trade for me to have that thing." She keeps drinking "I don't know what Russo will do to you after he has you but I've heard that he likes fucking his new females until their pretty cunts are torn and need stitches. And if the girl is a virgin like you then, may god help you, he will fuck you till you're so far teared up that you can't be fixed. He'd dispose of you then." She takes in the last sip and I wipe the stray drop on her bottom lip. Her blue eyes turn glossy, ready to spill those beautiful tears for me as she goes onto her knees and pulls my hand, wrapping my fingers around her neck. I knew Russo left a terrifying memory for her that day and that is what made her act so submissive.

She says again "I wanna stay with you, please." I grip her neck and she gasps. I lean closer and hover my lips on hers. I hate kissing but the satisfaction I get by having my lips close to hers was unexplainable. "Why do you want to stay with me? You hate me, remember?" She tries so hard to stay in place, let me have my way with her so I would change my mind if she satisfies me enough. Little did she know that I wasn't letting her go.
Lilly shakes her head, holding back a sob "No? You don't hate me?" She shakes her head again "Prove it." And to my surprise, she presses her mouth to my bottom lip. Just press it, not kissing. She leans back but I tell her "Still not convinced." She presses her lips properly this time, giving me a peck. I smile "Nope."
She cries "Anything." She begs this time, she'll do anything to stay. I nod "I'll think about it." I make a show of getting up but she pulls me close and wraps her arms around my neck, kissing me properly this time. I don't dare move my lips, I let her think that I'm not fazed by this action at all. Let her think that I am not convinced at all.
She cries and pulls back, begging me with her eyes.

I chuckle as I put my hand on her cheek and she leans her face into it. Anything to satisfy me. I wonder if she's daring enough to give up her virginity to me. But that play was for another time. I got my beautiful tears and my night was made. I flick the tip of her nose "Good night, Lilly. Sweet nightmares." And leave the cell, going back to my corner of the house.

I have officially broken Lilly Hastings. She will do whatever I ask now.

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