"I'm not in the Mafia." 'Yet', Ryan added in his mind.Landon looked at him for some seconds before pulling out a bandage. Ryan could swear Landon was deliberately being rough with applying the treatment with the way Landon kept on rolling his eyes on him each time their eyes met."When did you find out about the gun?" "This evening," London said."You searched through my room without a warrant?" Deliberately, Landon tightened the bandage more than necessary. Ryan groaned. "Man, it hurts.""Serves you right for lying about seeing a girl.""Did I lie?" Landon rolled his eyes again. "I saw a gun sticking out from your pocket before you left. Enough warrant to search your room. And, I knew you were not visiting any girl with a gun unless you ran mad."Ryan cleared his throat. "Thanks for the treatment." He walked out of the bathroom and went toward his room but Landon drag

"What?""That girl," Landon lowered his voice, "she's waiting for me to accompany her to her mother as promised.""Just go. If you don't like her—""I don't like her," Landon said sharply. He stormed inside. He came back some seconds later, already wearing one of the clothes they bought at the boutique yesterday. Really, Landon doesn't like the girl? What if he likes her? He got changed in less than a minute."I'll be back soon. Don't even think about going out of here," Landon warned."If I go out what will you do?""I'm sure you won't go out." With that, Landon hurried outside.Now, the house was quiet. The match had ended, a pasta advertisement was playing on the television.Ryan shut his eyes and thought about last night.One thing was sure, someone had made an artificial piece of that painting. And, the only way he could figure out who did it was to get who sold the piece of a

Stephanie bit on her lower lip. She typed a message. She deleted it. Shs typed another one. Shs deleted it again.There were a lot of questions she wanted to ask Ryan. Is he okay? Why has he not been answering her calls for the past few days, precisely, since the incident where Anderson accused him of raping her? She had sent a lot of messages too, asking to meet him. She even sent one asking him to tell her the address of his house if that was where it would be convenient for them to meet, but so far, Ryan has never replied to those messages.He's never answered her calls.He's never replied to her messages.What the hell is happening?"Babe, are you okay?" She heard a familiar hoarse voice beside her. Even without looking, she knew it was Anderson.She glanced at him and smiled anyway. "I'm fine," she muttered.His head drew closer to her and she knew he was going to ki

 After Ryan left the courtroom, the only question that seemed to be on everyone's lips was "what the hell just happened?"Stephanie's mother stood up, her hands and legs trembling as she walked to the disoriented judge in the front."My Lord, this is an act of tampering with justice!" The lawyer who seemed like he had just woken up from a deep slumber shouted.The judge managed to go back to his seat, trying as much as possible not to fall on his face.He thought it was perfectly covered. He had made sure every information about what his son did was destroyed years ago. All the people that knew about the incident are long dead. Other than himself and his son, he could swear that no one knows about what happened. No one knows about Blake.Just how did Ryan find out? If Ryan... If that guy could find out about something as covered as that, that means... A bead of sweat formed on his forehead. If Ryan

Landon applied the last piece of plaster on Ryan's bandage and stood up properly. "I'm done," he said."Thanks," Ryan muttered."Are you sure you don't want to go to the hospital?" "I didn't lose a lot of blood, why should I tie myself to some boring bed and allow some doctors to keep making a fuss over something as little as this?" Landon wanted to tell Ryan that he did lose a lot of blood, some other person would have fallen into unconsciousness if they encountered that same accident that Ryan encountered but Landon closed his mouth. Very tight. All his life, he's never met someone as stubborn as Ryan and if Ryan says no to hospital, then it's no.Besides, the last thing he wanted to do to Ryan was to force him to go to the hospital. He was pretty sure the guy has a lot of stuff going on in his head right now."Alright," Landon said. "Since you already used a pain re