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Duke laughs, it's so funny to him. All he knows, his sister is dead together with his parents. He knows this because he has visited their graves, and besides, he should be able to recognize his own sister. He looks at Bloom's face and the panicked look, or shock, tells him that this is not a joke of some sort. " What the hell are you talking about?" Duke frowns. " She's Eve's kid, not my sister. My sister is dead, have you forgotten?"" I know, I might be wrong, but I swear. " Bloom insists. " Her name is Eddie? Her real name is Eden?"Duke stops at this point, yes both of the names are those of his late sister too, but there are millions of Edens everywhere. " Why did you get this idea?" Duke asks. Bloom was going to say something, but Eden descended the stairs, looking all suspicious. " Hey. " She look from one person to the other?" I thought you wanted to take a bath?" Duke asks. " Well, I could. " She shrugs. " Why do you guys keep yelling my name?"" Uh?" Bloom scratches b
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Duke is in the hospital reception with Eden. He is sitting across from her and she is glaring at him. He is tapping his foot on the ground, he doesn't mind the mean looks that she is giving to him. " Hey. " She calls at him, but he won't look at her. She sits at the edge of her seat so that she is closer to him. " When we get back to your house, I am going to kill you. " She threatens. " And I won't think twice about it, I promise. "" Don't worry, we will be over with this and then you can do whatever you want. " He scoffs. She folds her hands and looks away, she is boiling over with rage. A doctor walks in, he has a file in his hand and he smiles respectfully when he sees Duke. " Good day, General. " He bows as he shakes Duke's hand. " Good morning, doctor. " Duke answers. " Is this her?" The Doctor gestures to Eden. " Let's all go to the office, shall we?"He turns and walks in a direction, Duke nods and gives her a look. She draws a sigh, but she goes after the doctor.
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Duke stays like that for a long time and he is lost in his thoughts. For the first time in a long time, he feels tears in his eyes. It's a heavy mixed feeling, that's what is going through him right now and he can't even stop it. His sister is alive, after all these years, his sister is still alive. " Eve, what the hell is this?" He talks aloud as if she can hear him. What happened? She rescued his sister from the fire? She hid her from the rest of the world?But why didn't she tell him? She watched him scavenge for revenge so savagely and yet she didn't He is glad that he didn't die in that fire, he is glad she didn't have to experience its horror. It's like she has resurrected from her grave again, and he is just grateful that she is alive. After he has recovered from the shock of the news, he finally takes out his phone. " Bloom, meet me at the hospital. " He instructs before he ends the call. He goes to stand outside, leaning against the car as he waits for them to come
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Duke rubs his strained neck, it has been a few days and he is sure that he has given Eden much time to think all through. He walks to her room– she hasn't stepped out of it for some days now. He holds out his hand and knocks on the door, he is very determined to have a long talk with her today. To his surprise, the door opens almost after he has knocked on it. She steps out, looking like she hasn't slept. " Hey, can I come into your room?" He requests. " I mean, it's your house, but no. " She stands. " Let's stay right here."Duke can only stare at her. Sometimes he thinks that it's just sibling rivalry, but it's more than that. It's like they are mortal enemies or something. " I want to talk to you about something. I know there is a lot you want us to talk about too." He says. " That's right because I was going to come to your room." She adds. "Oh."" Look, I am going to let you come in, but don't be touchy." She warns. She opens the door and he enters. She is very tidy, th
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Eve's mansion looks empty– but still well kept. It looks like no one has occupied the place, but someone comes every morning to clean the place and only to leave. Bloom pulls the car to the front of the gate and turns off the engine. They all step out of the car, Duke is beside Eden and Logan leads the way. " Is anyone even here?" Duke asks. " Hold on." Logan walks to the gate. He peers through the gate and then takes out his phone from his pocket. He makes a quick call and a woman comes running to the gate. " Darla!" Eden says in happiness. She rushes to the gate before Duke can stop her. " Eddie!" Darla is equally excited. She quickly opens the gate and they both fall into each other's arms. Duke quietly stands in a corner as he watches, Bloom jingles the keys in his hands. Darla sniffs as she keeps hugging Eden. " Oh, child, your mother would be so happy right now. " She comments. " Thank you, Mister Logan, thank you for bringing her."" Well, that was not much of my
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137... Lord Barrett was young and vibrant and owned one of the biggest Mafia in the world and how could not fall for him?He was dangerous and that was what pulled me to him. I was married to a man almost three times my age and Lord Barrett was just all the fun I needed. My husband died shortly after and I intensified my secret romance. I was leading my husband's mafia too. We had to bring our love affair to an end because he became the Grand Lord. I didn't know about this, until recently. I was a Lord in the brotherhood because of my affluence, but partially because I fucked the Grand Lord too. I found out about the plot against your family from him and I knew I couldn't interfere, but I had to save you guys. I made a plan to quietly pick out your sister, but I had plans for you to fight your way out. Thank heavens you did and escaped. Your sister was the child that I never had and I love her with all of my heart. I made her my heir and taught her how to survive in a world of
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It has been weeks– although it felt like months since he last saw them and he didn't plan on running into Mister Jimmy. Mister Jimmy doesn't recognize him straight away, but as soon as he does, he smiles widely in excitement and calls out Duke's name. " Jesus Christ. " Duke mutters. " How is he here?"" Who's that?" Eden asks. " Bloom, take her somewhere else to eat. " Duke instructs. " Don't return to the hotel until after an hour. ""Okay, boss. "Duke steps out of the car and as soon as he does, Mister Jimmy gives him the biggest hug he has had in a long time. Bloom drives off almost immediately and the tires screech as he makes his way back to the road. " How have you been, son?" Mister Jimmy asks. " It has been such a long time. "" Yes, it has sir, I am sorry that I haven't been checking up on you. " Duke apologize. " A lot has been going on with work. " Duke notices a small lady at a distance, the way she keeps glancing at them, he can't help but get suspicious. Mister J
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Duke almost laughs and that's because he is angry with himself. Sometimes he forgets just what kind of man Mister Jimmy is. Of course, Mister Jimmy has connected with Ansel Barrett, who is very determined to keep on his father's legacy. Of course, Ansel wants to build back the brotherhood and of course, Mister Jimmy has become part of it. He has forgotten that even the president of the country is not safe from Ansel's fan club fever. Duke is so mad that his hands stiffen on the table and if he has a glass in his hand, he would crush it this instant. Mister Jimmy notices the anger on his face and he gives a nervous laugh and waves his secretary away with a stern look. " Why do you look so shocked?" He asks Duke. " I killed Lord Barrett, the grand Lord. " Duke answers. " Why is there another?"Mister Jimmy coughs and pulls closer to Duke. " Son, you don't understand, do you?" He whispers. " The great five have been here for long decades and they will continue to be here. You ki
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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
