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Duke can't believe his ears, she actually said that she wants to spend the night at his place and not the hotel." Are you sure about that?" He asks. " I won't be able to go to sleep knowing that someone might sneak into my room. If I am at your place that's not going to happen, right?" She looks at him. " Of course not." He answers. " I just don't want you to feel threatened by me and my presence."" I just don't want to be at the hotel tonight. "That's enough convincing, he knows that she is sticking to her request. He takes out the key that Bloom gave to one of the securities to give him and he unlocks the car. He lets Melody go in first before getting into the driver's seat and he drives towards the gate. His eyes look for any suspicious shapes in the dark that might be trying to peep at them. The one question that doesn't leave his mind is how the president is aware of a presence like that in the party and still be okay with that.From what he has heard and witnessed, the
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Melody wakes up with the bright light of day shining into her eyes. She shields it away as she stands up to her feet. Her brain feels clogged and it takes a few seconds for her to register that she is in Duke's house and his bedroom. She sighs, glad that she is not shuttering, as she remembers the event of last night. She has the biggest scare of her life, she can still taste the fear on her tongue. She is wearing Duke's shirt, she stands to her feet and goes to the bathroom. She relieves her full bladder and then washes her face. She returns to the room, she is still the only one in the room. She slowly walks to the door and opens it by a crack, she looks around, but no one. She walks down the stairs, the television is showing the news. She peeps and sees Gwen in the kitchen, she is humming a song. Melody rubs her hands over her arms as she walks into the kitchen, Gwen's face bursts into a smile when she sees her. " Oh, ma, good morning. " She bows. " Good morning." Melody
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They hug each other for a long time, just lost in each other. Duke shuts his eyes loosely, but he can feel the tears pushing against his eyelids. He can't help it, he is about to lose her and he is going to regret this for the rest of his life. " Your flight is in two hours. " He tells her. " I would have wanted you to stay longer, but Sunville is not safe for you. "" I understand. " She pulls away. " I am going to take a bath and put my things together. "" Okay. " He reluctantly lets go of her. She turns and leaves the kitchen. Duke sinks back into the chair that he has been sitting on, but he feels like he went sank into the ground. He scrubs at his jaw, feeling a weird kind of anger rising inside of him and he wants to wreck down the place. The backdoor creeks open and Gwen returns to the kitchen. In her hand is the rosemary plant. " Some were growing beside the roses. " She looks at her hand. " Didn't realize that. " He tries to put up a different kind of face, but she c
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Ansel has a big smile on his face and he waves to all of the seated people in the room and forcefully shakes hands with a few. Duke is fuming where he is seated, he hates that Ansel is not kissing the wall as he is being put under arrest. Ansel goes on to sit and even puts his legs on the huge table, his men stand behind him with huge frowns on their faces. " This is Ansel Barrett who just donated fifty million dollars to the military museum." The president goes on. " Such a generous young man. "" And not just that. " Ansel interrupts. " I am ready to donate another fifty million to any ten high schools of your choice. I want high school to be a place of fun for youngsters, I have always hated high school. "" Wait, is this a fucking joke?" Duke looks around. " I thought it was funny, but this man is now with his dick on the table. "Ansel turns like he hasn't noticed Duke the whole time, and is just doing so. "My friend!" He beams. " I didn't think that we would meet so soon, no
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Duke feels his heart sink into his stomach, he doesn't trust his ears to have heard right. " What did you say?" Duke asks. " She is dead. " Bloom says. " Her mum's enemies caught up with her. They are possibly other mafia groups that she was greater than. "" Fuck. " Duke utters, this is more harder to take in than the nonsense that he has just witnessed a few minutes ago. He stands akimbo and just tries to wonder what the poor girl had to go through. She lost her mother and she wasn't even allowed to mourn her and now that has taken her too. " I'm sorry, boss. " Bloom sighs. " It's quite unfortunate. "" I had one thing to do for Eve, this one last thing. " Duke runs his hand through his hair. " Who are the heartless punks that killed her?"" I will need to check deeper for that boss. " Bloom answers. " Would you like me to do that?" Duke has a lot to deal with right now, but he is going to make out time to deal with these people. " Make the research and get back to me. " Duke
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Duke wakes up to his phone loudly ringing beside him. He has never wanted to throw the phone across the room just to ease the anger in him. He sits up and pushes his messy hair away from his face as he reaches for the phone. Whosoever that person is, they should have known better than to call in the wee hours of the morning. He blinks, fully awake when he notices that it's no other than the president himself that is calling him. He sits up and swipes the call, different thoughts go through his head as he does this. Has national security been bridged? It has been weeks since he went to work and he has had this sense of impending doom since Ansel showed up. "Hello, Mr. President. " He gulps air. " General Duke, good morning to you. " The president sounds cheerful for someone who is supposed to be bearing bad news. " Is everything okay, sir?" Duke looks out of the window. " It's so unusual for you to call this early. "" Rest your mind, General. " The president chuckles. " Everyt
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" What?" Duke squints. He is mad on the inside of him. Who is that who has his housekeeper at gunpoint? " You better tell him to hurry. " The girl's voice comes. " Else I am going to blow your brains out. " " Hey, who sent you kid?" Duke angrily asks. " Why don't you come find out?" She taunts. " And be fast, I don't have all the time in the world." " You have got the wrong house, you better leave before I get there. " Duke warns. " If you harm Gwen, I am going to kill you first. ""Not if I kill you first, nin′o."Okay, Duke has had enough. He is not listening to any more of her bullshit. He gets into his car and drives off, he is not going to call anyone, he is going to go down there and teach that child a lesson. Who dares walk into his house? It's like walking into a grizzly bear's resting place and expecting to come out with whole limps. He drives fast and gets to the house in bare minutes, he doesn't bother to park properly. He closes the door and rushes to the front
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Duke can't believe what he has just heard right now, he looks at him like he has gone crazy or something. " But you said that she died. Her school was attacked and she was the only one who was killed. "" Missing. " Bloom corrects. " She was assumed dead because she never returned after the attack, but here she is. "Duke turns to look at the girl, she is giving him a death glare like they have a century-old beef. She walks up to her, having lost all the patience he had earlier on. He grabs the arms of her chair and pulls her onto the seat, close to him. Her eyes widen and her back presses more into the chair. " What the hell are you doing?" She presses her back into the chair even more. "Listen, kid, I know that we have just met a few minutes ago, but I am going to tell you one thing about me. " He tells her. " I am not a patient man, especially not with crazy teens. You better answer my questions before I rip your head off. " She just sits there, blinking at him, not even the
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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
