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Duke tries to drive to the house as carefully as he can because his mind keeps drifting away every now and then. Why does her grandfather want to see him? Whenever her father asks to see him, he gets anxious, but it doubles whenever it's her grandfather. He gets to the house when it's almost night and then he walks straight to the door. He spends some minutes before the bell gets answered. One of the servant girls is the one who answers the door and she gives him a flat look, even the servants here don't consider him to be anyone. " I'm here to see Mister Futterman. " He says. " Is he in?"She nods and widens the door. He walks in and meets Mister Jimmy reading the newspaper, his eyes glancing through the pages. "Good evening, sir. " He greets. Mister Jimmy drops the newspaper and turns to him. "Duke, what took you so long?" He sighs, but at least his voice is not hostile. " I asked to see you hours ago. "Mister Jimmy gestures to the seats and Duke sits in one of them. "I'm
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Duke wasn't going to give in to this greedy man's request, but right now he is seriously considering it. Meetings with the great five? The very people that he has been seeking to bring down to their knees? Of course, he is going to take the deal, he doesn't care what it's going to cost him. " You need a bodyguard because of the meetings with the great five?" Duke tries not to sound excited. " Yes," Mister Jimmy affirms. " You know, a man like me has so many enemies and it's harder when you can tell your friends from your foes. I need someone to protect me in case something happens. "" Something like the faceless man attacking?" Duke tries his hardest not to smirk. " Exactly. That slippery son of the devil has been, but I have a feeling that he is going to sneak up on us very soon again. "Duke bends his head, pretending to be deep in thought or something. " I need someone I can trust for this job and since you are Melody's husband, this is a win for all of us. " Mister Jimmy tr
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Duke walks casually through the reception with his hands in the pocket of his jacket. Bloom is ahead of him, in a suit like always, and he smiles at the receptionist as they walk to the elevator. She blushes like she has just seen the man of her dreams and she beams at him. Bloom goes to the elevator and holds it while Duke walks in too. When Duke is in, he presses one of the buttons and the door shuts. " Looks like you are popular with the ladies now. " Duke looks up. "Um, no sir, it's just that I have been here for a long time. " Bloom pushes his hair back. " She has just gotten familiar with me because she assisted me a lot when I got here. " Duke makes a face and nods like he knows Bloom might be lying, but he doesn't want to get into the story with him. The elevator stops and Bloom leads him out of the place. This is a five-star hotel and even though Duke is used to such luxury, he can't stop looking. Bloom leads him up to one of the doors at the end of the hall and swipe
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Melody is outside in her hoodie when Duke drives in. He has been living with her for months now since they got married and this is the first time that she looks this odd.Her being outside, in his hoodie, with a cup of tea in her hand and this look on her face. It's both a good and a bad sign since their fight because he can't really tell what is going on in her head so much. He stops out of the car and walks to her, he kisses her face. "Hey, babe. " He kisses her. " How are you doing?"She shrugs, but her left shoulder is kind of stiff, it hasn't healed so much. " What are you doing outside?" He asks her and proceeds to open the door. " Just needed some air. " She says. She walks back into the house and he goes after her. The TV is on, a little too loud, and a half-eaten plate of food is on the table. He works quickly, he refuses the volume of the television and then takes the food back to the kitchen and puts a lid over it. She is sitting, staring blankly at the television,
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He is so relieved, this has been what he has been waiting to hear from her for a long time and he is happy that he has come now. She can't hold back her emotions, she tries to breathe well, but the tears keep coming out of her eyes. "Come on, it's okay. " He can't be mad at her forever, he pulls her and encloses his hands around her. She hugs him back, it has been so long that they can't believe how much they have missed each other. " Will you forgive me?" She sniffs. " That was a very stupid thing that did. "" Please don't say that about yourself, and yes, I have forgiven you. " He wipes her eyes and rubs her cheek. " And I should ask for your forgiveness too. I should have told you about Renee. "" I can't believe that I thought you fucked her. " She looks down. " Maybe I should have trusted you even more. " " And I, you. " He smiles. " Now, let's go inside, don't want to give the neighbors something to gossip about. "Still, in the arms of each other, they waddle their way in
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Duke stops scrubbing and he turns to her, with clear anger in his eyes. Maybe he didn't hear what she said the first time and he had better ask her. He turns off the water, steps out of the shower, and takes a towel which he ties around his waist. Now, he is standing right in front of her and wants to hear her repeat herself, maybe her ears were playing tricks on her. " Melody, what did you say?""Yeah, you heard me right. " She dares him. She isn't even scared, she has the heart of a lion right now. " What did you say?" He asks again, his voice slightly raised than the first time. " I said if you think that you still want to be my grandfather's bodyguard, maybe you don't value me enough. Maybe it's time we go our separate ways. " She tells him. Duke's jaw tightens and he rubs his hand over it, he wants to hit something so bad right now. " You want to leave me?" He painfully asks her. " How could you even say that? We have just been married for a few months. "" Maybe a few m
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Duke pulls up the car in front of Mister Jimmy's house and he looks at it. He doesn't want to go out just yet, he pulls out his phone and dials Melody's number. Like the many times he has been calling, she ends the call before it rings more than twice. She has been back home since she left after their argument and no, she didn't return. She has been picking up her phone too and she hasn't been replying to his texts too. The fact that she has been ignoring him doesn't stop him from sitting back against the seat and constructing another message for her. "Melody, this is not funny anymore. Call me back. "He clicks send and inhales deeply. By some miracle, he is hoping that she is going to reply to him right away, but that's not what happens – nothing happens. He leans back and calls Bloom instead, maybe something serious will take his mind off the fact that he hasn't seen his wife in a few days. Bloom picks up immediately, Duke has been paid to do that. " Good morning boss. " B
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Duke is heading out when one of the servant girls walks up to him. "Um, good morning, sir. " She greets. It sounds strange that she is greeting him because they never did. "Oh, good morning. " Duke gives her a small nod. " Lord Jimmy asked to give this to you. " She holds a check to him. " It's money for you to get appropriate clothes for your new job."Duke is surprised, but he takes the check and he reads through it. It's worth five hundred dollars, it's supposed to be much for the person he is pretending to be. " Wow, this is too much. " She holds his hand over his mouth. " He said you shouldn't ask to see him, that he wants to take a short trip to see an old friend and he has left already. " She says. "Oh. " Duke holds his hand over his forehead, he is still looking at the check. She nods slightly and then turns back to return to the house, she shuts the door in his face. Duke blows out a puff of air from his mouth and he walks back to the house. He stuffs the check in his
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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
