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"No. " Duke says in a voice that he hardly recognizes as his own. He is still being held down and he is still motionlessly watching her. She falls to her knees with her hands around her throat, but she is not yet dead. The Grand Lord, being the cold-hearted devil that he is, did not slice through her throat all through. She is still alive as life slips out of her, a bit at a time. " What, you think I would kill her with a cut?" He gives off a sinister laugh. " That would be too easy and we aren't men of ease. "Duke is looking at her, begging her with his eyes to hold on to dear life. It looks like he is experiencing his family's death all over again and he hates it because he has kept that memory in a part of him that he has frozen. " I told you, you are not going to win. " The Grand Lord reminds him. " And now I am going to kill everyone that you know and even have the smallest of love for."He watches Eve struggle and all he can imagine is how the exact same thing will be d
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Duke steps out and for the first time in excruciating hours, he feels the air around him. He inhales very deeply, taking in as much as the scent of freedom and fulfillment. " Duke!"He has hardly turned around when he sees Melody coming towards him, her grandfather is by her side. She suddenly stops and her eyes lower and is still holding the head of the Grand Lord and its dripping blood. She looks like she wants to throw up and pass out at the same time, he feels a jab in his heart. " Don't go anywhere close to him. " Mister Jimmy warns. " We don't know who this man is. " " My Dad. " She heaves. " Where is my father?"Duke's mind goes back to Mister Joseph's body and Joe suddenly he had just died, how he was alive one second and not the next. He looks at the ground. " Just don't go in there. " He says. " Everything will be fine. ""What do you mean?" Her voice quivers. " Where is my father?"Duke can't bear telling her that her father is dead, he doesn't want to hear her she
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" Good morning, Dunville, we come with terrible news this morning. " Duke takes a sharp breath as he drinks from his coffee cup. "... A Mafia and a cult clashed yesterday and this resulted in the death of scores of people. The leaders have been identified as Mister Joseph Futterman and Senator Fernando Munoz. " "Mister Munoz is Mexican and has roots deep in crime, he has been identified as the leader of a cult/mafia group called The great five..."Duke stands up and walks to the balcony, he doesn't want to listen to the news anymore. Duke didn't return to his house after all that happened. He instructed Bloom to clear the place and return back to his real residence. He has been in a five-star hotel in Dunville and he is going to remain here till Eve and Mister Joseph are buried. He likes the beautiful serene sight on the balcony from his room, it's unlike what his life has been like in the past few months. He is back to being the rich and influential man that he is, but he has
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Duke doesn't touch his face or react in any way. Mister Jimmy is looking at him with eyes dead of emotions. " He touched the general, seize him!"They are charging at him when Duke raises his hand and stops them from doing anything. Mister Jimmy is not fazed at all and he is looking at Duke with all of the pain of the world. " How dare you come here? After all that you have done?!" He spits. "I'm sorry, Lord Jimmy. " Duke bends his head. He is wrong, he is going to admit that. " Lord?" Mister Jimmy frowns. " Don't call me Lord, not after you personally brought down the brotherhood. "Duke looks down, the way one would when being scolded by an adult. " It wasn't my intention, sir. " He says. " I was a man desperate for vengeance. " " And at whose cost?" He yells. " My daughter is beyond shattered after losing her father. "Duke shuts his eyes as if he is flinching, the thought that Melody is passing through some form of pain is too much for him. " Journalists have been trooping
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Mister Jimmy gives him a confused look, but Duke keeps his eyes on Duke. " It's the least I can do for your family and he is still my father-in-law, at least for now. "Mister Jimmy looks flabbergasted like he is really convinced that Duke is joking right now. " You don't have to. " He says to him. " We are capable of doing this ourselves. "" Please, let me. " Duke begs. " I mean, I just want to help."Mister Jimmy wants to say no, but he is being so curious about something. They have just found out that Duke is not who he portrayed himself to be, but they are yet to find out just how rich he is. " How much are you willing to support us with?" Mister Jimmy asks. " How much is needed?"" Joseph is my only child and I want to go all out for him. It's going to cause me a few million..."" Will ten million be enough?"Mister Jimmy's eyes almost roll out of their sockets as he widens them in surprise. Is Duke offering to pay ten million dollars? For a burial? Is he trying to pull a
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"What?"Duke almost chokes on the water that he has been drinking. How is it that Melody has gone from wanting to kill him and now she is being totally calm? " I said I am sorry for how I spoke to you and I want you to attend my father's funeral. " She repeats. He sets the water down and looks at the screen of the phone, just to make sure that his ears are not deceiving him. " Is everything alright, Melody?" He asks. " Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. Why?"" You just went from threatening my life to inviting me to attend your father's funeral."" Yeah, I got time to think. " She quickly says. " We are still married after all." Duke squints, the farther this conversation goes, the weirder he finds it. " Okay, Melody. " He sighs, not wanting to push her further. " And I'm sorry for what happened to your father." " Yeah, yeah. " She answers. " See you, then."The phone beeps, and she has ended the call. For someone who has forgiven him, she didn't even say goodbye. He throws the phone to
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The whole place is quiet, it's a very embarrassing situation, especially for Duke. He thought nothing of it when Mister Jimmy called him and asked him to prepare a speech for today. He didn't hesitate to say yes because he feels like he owes the family, after everything that he caused them. To hear that Mister Jimmy actually took the opportunity from someone else just reminds Duke of how much of a terrible person the old Mister Futterman is. "I'm sorry, I didn't know that I was supposed to prepare a speech." Duke apologizes. " You can still take it, I mean it's on all our behalf."" Of course, he should!" Bella yells. " He worked tirelessly on the speech and you are going to take it away from him like that?!"" Oh, Bella, it's okay. " Barlow laughs, it's embarrassing. " I'm sure that the General would do a better job.""Oh no, please Barlow, do me the honors. " Duke bows modestly. " Yes, we might not have soldiers following us all around, but at least we aren't killers." Bella sp
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The raw pain in her eyes, it's killing Duke over and over again. He wants to reach out and pull her into a hug, but he knows that she is going to fight him off. Seeing her heart broken is bad, but he didn't want to lie to her, no. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. " He sighs. " I didn't mean to hurt you."" I thought that I found someone who would love me for who I was. " She cries. " Not after my grandfather connections or anything and I thought it was you."" I love you, I swear, I do." He wishes he could prove it. " No, you don't. " She shakes her head. " You used me." " That's not the entirety of it. " He begs her, but she is already leaving. He holds her wrist and won't let go of it, he wants her to hear what he has to say first. She is wiping her tears and wants to walk away, but Duke has to tell her the truth. " Can you please, listen to me?" He begs. " I know that you hate me, but listen."" What?" She wails in frustration, it was not his intention to hurt her this much. " I
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Tonya is finally going to go home. After a few months of hiding away in an orphanage, she is finally going back home to her family. Duke being too busy with the new government, won't be able to take her home. Eden is given this task and she is the best option given that Tonya is closest to her. So with a huge number of military escorts, they are on their way to Padre island. Eden is sitting beside Tonya in the private plane. Tonya is asleep beside her and she has her head on Eden's lap. Eden gently strokes her head as she keeps her eyes on the white clouds. She has recovered over the week, but she never attended Ansel's burial. The plane has a limited number of passengers, but it's full. She and Tonya are the only civilians here and Eden feels safe. None of the soldiers here are corrupt, all the corrupt ones have been sacked and it was like a cleansing for the whole army. The pilot soon announces that the plane is getting ready to land, and they have come to their destinat
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Mister Jimmy looks scared, but he manages to keep himself composed. Eden still has the gun pressed on his head. " That's a very complicated question, do you want to sit down?" He offers. "No." She grunts. " Get talking."He glances over to his son's wife who is totally horrified. "I'm going to call the police!" She screams as if Eden is supposed to scare off the police. " Yeah, you do that." Eden scoffs. " Your father-in-law is supposed to be in jail anyway." " Miss Eden, if you can just tell me what this is about." He begs. " We don't have to settle it this way." " You heard my question, start to answer!" She fires at him, she is losing her patience little by little. "Okay, okay, okay." He gulps down the air. He looks at his son's wife and gives her a nod. She reluctantly goes up the stairs and they are left alone. She lowers the gun and he breathes out in relief. " I'm not dropping this for too long if you don't start talking." He nods and adjusts his seat. " Miss Eden
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Now that he has sent the gun in her hand he knows that she isn't joking. His hands are raised in surrender as he backs away into his seat, the one he was sitting on. Eden has managed to cut the tape around her hands and now she is the one with the gun. " You know that the other guy is just outside, right?" He reminds her. " I could whistle right now and you are done for."" Go ahead, do it." She dares, poking the gun against his forehead. " If I don't blow your fucking brains out." He laughs, he behaves so much like Ansel that it kind of creeps her out. Eden has her eyes on him and her ears opened to listen whenever someone walks in. Felix's eyes are boring through her, he is like reading through what is going through her mind. " I get it now." He sounds defeated. " You are a lot smarter than we thought."Eden tilts her head, it's now her turn to smile at him. " It took you a while to get it right, didn't you?" She mocks. " I see what's going on here." He nods. " Your brother
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Eden is on the ground, her eyes are shut and she has no consciousness of what has happened to her. The one who has hit her looks up as Ansel stares at him. " I'm sorry, boss." He apologizes. " She was going to cause trouble for us."The other one appears from the front door, he looks at his partner. " It's a good thing you got her when you did, Nate." He nods at him. He who she just entered now is Felix. He has worked for Ansel for a long time and even with his father before. He is close to Ansel and unlike the rest, he has a way to get Ansel to listen to him. " Felix, you got him up to it?" Ansel turns to him, not very happy. " I told you I was going to handle it."" I'm sorry, but you could have taken care of her if you wanted a long time ago." Felix looks down at her. " The fact that she is still alive is enough to tell that you needed a push."He looks at Nate, who looks as if Ansel is going to kill him for what he has done. " Tie her up with duct tape." He instructs. " The
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**BREAKING NEWS**** The whole country is in a state of confusion as much evidence has been released against the president and some members of the government and top military. He has been forced to resign and the vice president has just been sworn in.**** Many arrests have been made to link some top businessmen that have been in dubious dealings with the president. **Eden is watching the news from her bed. She takes the remote and turns the volume even higher, she wants to hear all she can. Duke wasn't kidding when she told him that there will be a cleansing. It has been just a few days later and it has come to pass just as he had promised her. She sits in her bed, biting her nails as she tries to concentrate on the images on the screen and what they are saying. ** The new president, as an act of transparency, has released the names of those arrested.**Eden holds her breath as the names appear on the screen. The military officers first, there are a whole lot of them, including
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Eden can't believe that this is about to happen. It feels like she has just heard that the rapture is about to come. " When was this decided?" She asks Logan. " I don't know. " He answers truthfully. " Duke just told me what I have told you and that's all I know."Her heart is going crazy. Yes, she wants for the evil among Mafia to end, but she doesn't want Ansel to go down with them. " I have to tell Ansel." She says to herself. " I can't let him fall with the rest."She is already walking away when Logan catches her hand and stops her. "I'm sorry, I can't let you do that." He apologizes. " So you expect me to stand still and watch Ansel get destroyed?" She is agitated. " Let go of me!" She is pulling attention towards them and he has no choice but to pull her to a secret part of the building. She shrugs him off violently. "Listen to me, you have to listen to me." He implores her. " We both should be grateful that Duke saved us from getting caught in the net. Telling Ansel
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He was going to be here tonight, she knew and had prepared for that. He has been ignoring her all these weeks, but she hasn't done anything to get his attention. She didn't come here with the intent to get to speak to him, no she came for the meeting and she was going to leave afterward. Now he has entered the room with a lady she has never seen, and she is trying her best to keep cool with it. It would have been better if that was just it, but that lady was having her hands all over him and she started to find it hard to breathe. She didn't take herself to be a very hard kind of person, who gets jealous easily, but here it is. She struggles not to let her jealousy show as he walks to the table. He has a blank look on his face and acts as if Eden is not in her seat. The lady on the other hand seems to be so drilled that she can't stop smiling, it's like this is the best thing that has ever happened to her, this was the sole reason for her existence and coming into this world.
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After a long drive, Duke returns home. It's kind of a relief because he is living alone, without those soldiers around to scare him anymore and it comes in quite handy now that he has his own tiny family. He steps out of the car with the crunchies and walks to the house. " Hello, I'm home." He announces loudly. Melody appears from the kitchen with a spatula in her hand and an exhausted look on her face. " Oh God, your back." She wipes sweat from her eyebrow. " Didn't know you would be back so quickly."" I had luck on my side, I found it." He lifts it up for her to see and her face lights up in delight. They walk towards each other and he gives it to her as she places a kiss on the side of his cheek. That was a tease, she kisses him on his lips and he giggles, he is delighted. " I would go out and scavenge for other crunchies if you would kiss me again." She laughs, he is funny when he wants to be. "Oh, I won't do that to my husband." She shakes her head. " But here is anot
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Eden hasn't been confused like this in a long time. Ansel hasn't called her since he asked her to leave his house and also she has been too scared to try to call him too. That doesn't mean that hasn't been thinking about what happened in his house, the confrontation, and how she blurted out that she loves him. She might have imagined it, but it's possible that he got kind of scared about what she said because then he refused to speak to her again. Ansel might be madly crazy, but she didn't lie. It might have been just sex and fooling around for him, but she fell for him a long time ago. That's why has ignored every sign that proved to be a red flag in him. She is still hoping that he is going to give up his bad side. She doesn't want to think of him ending up like the bad guys in movies, she hates it. This had led her to some kind of depression and that's why she is still in her room when it's almost midday. She hasn't gone out of her room and she has canceled all meetings tha
