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Bloom is one of those people who are stronger than they actually look. After receiving several blows to the head and neck, he is still walking to the elevator. How many times has she tried to help him, but he has always refused? He staggers a bit as he walks to the elevator and the receptionist won't stop looking at them. Eden looks confused and she clears her throat. She pats Bloom's back and laughs. " I told you not to drink too much, didn't I?" She laughs. " See what a mess you have become. "The look from the receptionist softens and she even gives Eden a pitiful smile. Thanks to God that Bloom plays along and they both get to the elevator. She presses the button and the door closes and she heaves, almost melting to the ground. " What's the time?" Bloom runs his hand through his hair. " Almost midnight. " Eden makes a mental calculation. " At least it was the last time I checked. " " Fuck." He sighs. " Are you going to get into trouble with Duke?" She asks. " Don't wor
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Ansel is at the table with over three men and among them is Mister Jimmy Futterman. They are all ex-members of the great five that dispersed with the death of their leader, his father. " Are these the men?" Ansel asks Mister Jimmy. " Yes, Grand Lord. " He bows. " These are men that have been loyal to your father, they have been anticipating the day the brotherhood would rise again like the morning sun."" Hmm. " Ansel is somewhat absent-minded." They are loyal to your father and they have promised to be so with you too." Mister Jimmy assures him. " And what do they have to offer?" Ansel asks. " Pardon?" Mister Jimmy is confused. " Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy. " Ansel turns around in his chair and looks at him with a smile on his face. " You don't think that I am just going to allow just anyone into the brotherhood? I want influential men. "" Grand Lord, I am an accountant. " One of them clears his throat. " What can that do for me?" Ansel asks. " I can grant you access to the fina
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The first thing Ansel does is a smirk, even though he wasn't – not even in his wildest dream– expecting Duke, he still has the humor to laugh. " It's you!" He cleans his hair dry. " I was kind of expecting you. "" Of course you were. "" Not to magically appear in my room like a ghost, but I knew you would come for me. " Ansel says. " Not after what I did to your personal assistant. "" I thought you were dumb, but at least you can read signs. " Duke concludes. " Good for you. "Duke takes out a gun from his pocket and places it on the table. Ansel recognizes the gun, it's his. " Now what kind of idiot keeps his gun under his pillow?" Duke can't help but wonder. " The kind of idiot who expects people to come for him through his tightly shut windows. " Ansel gestures and walks to sit on the bed. Duke stands up and casually strolls to him, his hands by his side. He stands in front of Ansel, his hands folded. " What do you want?" Ansel looks up at him. " Seriously?" Duke scoffs.
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Even Bloom turns around, it's a bomb she has dropped right now. Duke drops the bags in his hands to the ground. His eyes are boring through her. " Excuse me?" He squints. " I can't go back with you. " She runs her hand through her hair. " This is where I am supposed to be, I have to look after my mother's estate." " What the hell are you talking about?" Duke yells. " Get into the fucking plane, I don't have the time for this. "" No, you listen, Duke. " She raises her voice, but she sighs and looks down. " I'm sorry, with everything you have done for me, I know that I seem to be ungrateful, but I just want to do what's best for me."" We talk about all of this back home, at Sunville. " He points to the direction of the plane. " That's our agreement. "" I didn't agree with that. " She sounds pained. " You said that to me, the same way you have been barking orders at me. "Duke stops, he knows that yelling back and forth won't solve this. She is right, maybe he hasn't been treati
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She doesn't like the eyes of the men peeling off her clothes in their heads as she waits to see a cab. They look tired and aged from their office jobs, but her body brightens their eyes for a few minutes. She sees a yellow cab in the distance and she waves for it to stop and thankfully it does. " Yellowstone castle. " She gets into the car. " Lady, no one goes to that side of town." He grunts. " What do you want to go there for?"" Can you just drive, sir?" She asks. He silently steps on the gas and the car starts to move again. She leans back and watches the scenery they drive past. " You don't seem to be around here. " He glances at her through the mirror. " I haven't been here for a while. " She answers. " So what's your connection with Yellowstone?" He asks. " The house there belongs to this Mafia godmother, but she died. "Eden looks out of the window, she pretends like she didn't hear his question and she is hoping that he drops it immediately. " She was very controver
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Duke wasn't expecting Melody. He hasn't seen Melody in months and even though he kind of misses her, it was a good thing because he has the time to focus on other issues. Of course, they are cool. He knows that her modeling has been going on well too and that's enough for him. Why has she come to see him after all of these months? Did Ansel find her and cause trouble for her?" Sir. " Gwen pulls him out of his thoughts. " She has been waiting for you for hours. "Duke nods and starts to walk to the door. He stops and turns to her. " Give us a few minutes alone, okay?" He tells her. She nods, she looks like she would have said something to him, but she bites her lips instead. Duke innocently walks into the house and he sees Melody sitting in the living room. She turns around and he sees her face. The angle at which he sees her from the door makes it impossible for him to see her fully, but he can't tell from her face alone that she has changed. " Duke?" She smiles. Even her sm
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It's hard to tell if Melody heard the whole of their conversation, her face is still straight. " Melody..." Duke is trying to act straight and just drop the bottle, but it falls to the ground and spills on the ground. " Bloom, can you give us a minute?" She requests, her eyes not leaving Duke. "Yes, ma'am. " Bloom keeps his eyes on the ground as he leaves, he has prayers for Duke in his heart. Melody shuts the door of the kitchen and turns to face Duke, he rubs his thumb over his nose. " What were you talking about?" She asks. " What?" He bit his lower lip, he is a very bad liar when he is drunk. " Who did you get pregnant?" She asks. This is a trick question because he would lose either way. " Melody, let's just talk about this tomorrow. Okay?" He says. " You need rest. "" Who, did you get pregnant, Duke?" She hits his shoulder. He looks down at the ground. It's so hard for him to openly cry, but if crying would solve this, he won't hesitate even once. " Melody, I'm sorry
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Ansel is the last person that she was expecting to see, and not at her house of all places. He turns around, he has a cigarette in his hands. " Hello, Eden. " He puffs smoke into the air. " Ansel, what are you doing here?" She asks. Her hands are folded and there is a small frown on her face. " Why haven't you called me?" He tilts his head. He walks finger, standing in front of her face and he exhales the smoke in her face. " My card wasn't for decoration, I was waiting for your call. " He leans to meet up with her height. " You know it isn't nice to make gentlemen like myself wait for a call. "" I have been busy. " She doesn't bat an eyelid. " Sweetheart, don't tell me that your mother is Eve. " He laughs. " Holy shit. "" How is it then that you are related to Duke Dawson Xavier?" He asks. " Eve adopted me. " Eden folds her hands. " It doesn't matter, how did you get into my house?"" That doesn't matter too, sweetheart. " He continues to smoke. " What matters the most is t
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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
