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Arlo Pov

After giving that guy who had his hands all over Kendall a good beating, I leave. Her face was filled with fear and uneasiness. That made me angry because I would never want to see that expression in her stunning eyes again. She repeatedly asked him to remove his hands from her, but he refused, and she was unable to take them off.

"What the hell, bro? Your dad is going to be pissed if that guy ends up dead." Reed chuckles and shakes his head.

After lighting a cigarette, I take a long drag. "I handled it myself because he would not take his hands off her, and none of you were going to help." With them following me, I say this as I take one last drag from my cigarette, extinguish it, and head to my car.

I arrive back home and head inside. "Why did Tobey just call and say you went crazy, Arlo? You just gave Nicholas Rodriguez's son a severe beating?" My dad yells. I look at him with no emotions in my eyes. "Shit, that's who that scumbag was," I speak. "Arlo, have you gone insane? Why would you do something like that?" My father asks me.

He refused to remove his hands from Kendall, and she repeatedly pleaded with him to do so. What was I supposed to do? I say sitting down on the chair.

"Not only do we now have an adversary, but you also made Kendall a target again by severely beating our enemy's son over her. Since we cannot have enemies, you must now either make her your girl or sever all ties. Despite her good nature, do you believe she is destined for this life?" My father says. Before I speak, I roll my eyes.

"I am not going to make her my girl, father. I will not sever my relationship with her either because we are friends. I am helping her. I am training her so she is ready for if her ex comes for her. So, she will be ready if an enemy comes which I doubt because she is not my girl, and she is not my weakness. Father, I am not you. I am not stupid enough to fall in love." I say and walk away.

I am furious. Who the hell does he think he is dictating to me? In just two weeks, I will be taking over the mafia. How can he think I would cut off ties with a defenseless person?

I storm up the stairs and walk to my room. My mother calls out to me, but I ignore her and slam the door. My mother says, "Arlo," as I close the door. I grab a vase and hurl it against the wall. I shout, "FUCK!"

When the vase hits the wall, it breaks. I am so angry that my blood is boiling, and I am having trouble breathing. A knock on the door causes me to shout, "What?" My mother opens the door at this point.

"Son calms down. When your father instructed you to stop communicating with Kendall, he was merely gauging your response." She says to me. I stare at her in disbelief. He received the response he desired. You are falling in love with this girl." She says I laugh at her.

"Me falling in love. You have a sense of humor. She is merely a girl that I am assisting; I do not love her. She is a friend at best. You have gone completely crazy, Ma. I am not going to fall in love. Just like I told Father, I will say it again. There will never be a weakness in me. You are fathers' weakness; us kids are his weakness. I will never give an enemy that chance to use such weakness on me because I will never have one. Leave now, please; I have to think." I speak. I regret being so impolite, but I am tired of hearing about this. This girl and I have only known each other for a few weeks. Nothing more than friends, and we will always remain that way.

Sitting at my desk, I have set up in my room. Heather, a girl I occasionally sleep with, sends me a message. I smile; she says she needs me, and it is a picture of her naked. I get up and walk out of my room. When I finally made it downstairs, my parents were there. "Do not wait up; I am going out," I say walking out. I climb into my vehicle and drive away. I drive to her house, which takes about ten minutes.

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I walk up to her door and open it. As I enter, I see her emerge from the stairs wearing only a bathrobe.

"Upstairs now," I say as I approach her, take her by the throat, and plant a kiss on her. She groans and melts into me as I do this.

I can already feel how wet she is when I put one of my hands between her legs. I am pleased by this.

"You are already wet for me, you dirty little whore." I say to her.

We did not even make it to her room when I unzipped my pants and pinned her to the floor on the top landing of the stairs. Before slamming myself into her, I take my member out of my pants and put on a condom. As I continue to hammer into her mercilessly, I still have one hand on her throat, and the other is holding one of her legs. She groans with pleasure and screams my name. She somehow manages to flip us over and is now on top of me and bouncing like there is no tomorrow. Her breasts are exposed when her robe is undone, and I can see them in full. She groans even more when I sit up and take one in my mouth, biting it roughly the way she prefers. After I release it, I lay down again and open my eyes, which makes me harder because the face I see is Kendall's rather than Heather's. When I see this, I freeze. I shake that thought, and I cause her to fall back onto the floor, I make her turn over and bend over, and I slam back into her. I release into my condom after a couple more rocky pumps.

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After I finish, I get up off the stairs landing, and I go to the bathroom. I remove the condom and quickly wash my hands. I then splash water on my face, trying to get Kendall's face out of my mind. For some reason, I feel unsatisfied and as though I cheated on her, even though we are not together. As I exit the restroom, I receive a call from Reed.

"Hey man, you have got to come to the warehouse right now. We are under attack." He says.

"On my way." After saying goodbye and hanging up, I dash downstairs and pick up my jacket. And walk to the door.

"You're not staying, Arlo, you always leave after you get what you want." Heather is pouting.

Without replying, I head for my car. I get in, put the car in drive, and speed out of the driveway. I race to the warehouse; after I get there, I see men lying all over. "Fuck," I say. I quickly leave after grabbing my guns. I remove the safety and open fire on anyone who is not one of my men. When I enter, I see Reed shooting at someone behind the wall while someone tries to approach him covertly. I pull the trigger, shooting the man behind Reed. I can see that we are winning the gunfight as it continues. When I raise my gun to shoot another man, it is too late; I drop to the ground as a sharp pain shoots through my stomach.

Kendall's face is the last thing I see before everything turns black. I must have been imagining her stunning sapphire eyes because I know she is not here.