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Melody wants to get up and leave, but the room is turning around her. She has attempted to set a foot on the ground, but she falls and has to find her way back to the bed. She grabs the glass and blinks at it. She can see some white undissolved particles in the glass. It slips from her hand and crashes to the floor. She sees dancing images in front of her and hears the walls laughing at her. She grabs a handful of her hair and pulls it, maybe it's going to clear her head, but it doesn't work. "Jace.." she calls him. Her voice isn't hers at all. It's hoarse, it's slow, and not like that of a human, what's happening to her?She hears her phone ringing and she turns to it. She sees it through her terribly blurry eyes, but she can't even reach for it. " Jace..."She blinks and then the dancing letters start to settle together, it's Duke, he is calling her back. "Jace..." Her voice is croaky with tears. She can't pick up the phone and Duke is calling. She hears it rings, she doesn
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Beep. Beep. Beep. That's all that is coming from Melody's hospital room as she lays very still on the bed. Bloom has his chin in his hand as he looks down at his body. Of course, the doctor won't let him in, but he is here. She is sleeping peacefully, and that's a relief, but he can't stop thinking about what happened. Who was that and what the hell did he do to her? She almost died, and the doctors won't tell him anything, but he knows that she would have died if he hadn't brought her to the hospital. She tightens her eyes, stirs, and blinks open. She sighs like she is just getting up from a long sleep and her eyes fall on Bloom. He drops his hand from his chin and walks closer to her. "Hey, Melody, you are okay. " He breathes in relief. " How are you feeling?""Mike?" She squints. " What happened to me?"He stops, wanting to correct her for calling him the wrong name, but then he remembers. He forgot that Duke calls him Mike and that's what she knows him as. His head was I'm
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Even if Bloom wants to answer Duke's question, he can barely breathe from his throat as Duke is literally strangling him. " I can't answer you right now, boss. " Bloom manages to say. " I can't breathe, sir. "Duke contemplates if to let him go immediately or not, but he lets him go. Bloom falls to one of his knees and clutches his chest as he coughs violently, gasping for air. " You had better start talking if you don't want my arm against your throat again," he warns him. " I tried to protect her, boss. I did. " Bloom explains. " I was only being careful so as not to get her suspicious of me. "" If those are the answers you think you have for me, you had better be joking!"" She has this old friend, a man named Jace. " Bloom quickly adds to save his life " He invited her over to his house and he drugged her. "" What?" Duke squints. " I got there in time and took her away, he may have had intentions to rape her. "Duke groans and grabs him by his shoulder and pins him against
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They are in front of the door for a long minute, just staring at each other. Duke is imagining what it would feel like to pull out a gun and fire it at this man's head, at close range. The delight to watch his brain splatter from his head and cover the fine wooden floor, Duke has never wanted to kill someone more badly. "Hello. " The man takes a step closer and looks into Duke's eyes. " Are you okay? I have been trying to get your attention for a while now. "Duke blinks, coming back to reality. He tries to force a smile, but it's hard, knowing what this man did to Melody. " You must be, Duke?" The man grins. " I'm Jace."He offers him a handshake, but Duke just stares at his hand, he doesn't take it. He is not trying to be mean to Jace, he just can't take his hand. He feels a hand on his shoulder, it's Melody. "Hey, Jace!"She sounds excited and happy to see him. She gets in front of Duke and takes Jace's hand as she pulls him into the house. He is grinning, looking around
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Jace groans, but he doesn't move his head off the table. The pain is excruciating and he thinks that if he tries to move, it's going to be more than this. "Hello, hello. " A cheerful voice says with laughter. He lets out a painful winch as his head is lifted off the table, the stranger is holding him by his hair. The table is cracked where his face made contact with it and it's covered in drops of blood. Jace sniffs and feels his forehead, he can feel the warm thickness of blood against his finger. " Who are you?" He shivers. " What's this about?'Hardly has he gotten the words out of his mouth when a force pushes his face against the table again. The table shatters and the glass falls to the ground loudly. He is in so much pain that he can't even open his eyes. His head is aching like a hammer has been used on it. " You have got a lot of nerve to even think of asking questions. " The stranger clicks his tongue. "I'm sorry. " He mutters. He doesn't want to get hurt anymore ag
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Melody chokes on her drink and Duke quickly grabs her glass of water. She is still coughing as she tries to get the water down her throat as Duke rubs her hands. Everyone is watching them, with more contempt than admiration, but at least they don't say what they feel. After she has drunk the way, she looks at her grandfather, her eyes squinting. " What did you say, Papa? You want to give him a job?" She asks. " I was talking to him, not you, Melody. " He raises his nose in disapproval. All eyes fall on Duke again. " What do you say, Duke?" He nods at him. " Do you want the job or not?"" The reason why he traveled was to get a job. " She speaks on his behalf. " We don't need your help, we don't. "" You traveled to find a job and how did that go for you?" Her father asks. " Not as I expected. " Duke rubs the back of his neck. " Exactly what I thought. " Her mother raises her shoulders like this was something she was forthcoming about. " So tell me, Duke, you can't be complet
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Duke is sitting down on top of Mister Jimmy's roof with his legs dangling off the ground as he drinks from a can of energy drink, he is trying to take a break. Melody's mother, who has nothing else to do, than wander around the house. When she is coming back from her little stroll, she meets Duke dangling his legs from the rooftop. She is startled and she hurries over to where she can get a clearer picture of him. "Kid, what do you think you are doing?!" She yells in the most unfriendly voice. "Hi, Mrs. Futterman, I am just taking a break. " He smiles and waves at her, she doesn't smile back. " Are you trying to kill yourself?! Get away from there!!" She orders. He laughs, but he doesn't move an inch. It's amusing to him that she hates him so much yet she cares so much to bother about his safety. "Do you hear me, Duke?!" She shields her eyes and squints. "I do, I will be going back to work soon, you don't have to worry about me." He assures her. She murmurs something under he
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Duke can't believe what he has heard, he is so shocked that he can't even move. The door knob is still in his hand, half open, but he knows that they can't hear him. He can't believe that Melody's grandfather was the instigator of that horrible thing that happened to his granddaughter. So that's just how much they hate him and want to get rid of him? To the extent that he didn't mind that Melody could get hurt? He is such a cancer that if losing him would mean losing a limb, they are ready to make that sacrifice. He can't believe that he thought this was Jace's idea from the very beginning and to think that he made him suffer for it too?".... Look, we are going to think of something else. I know this didn't work, but it could work another way. " Her grandfather says. " I am not that desperate anymore, since she is happy, I am happy too and I don't want to be the cause of her pain. " Jace refuses. " That's bold of you to think that she is happy with that pauper, he doesn't even
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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
