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It feels so unreal and scary as Duke listens to the scariest discussion of his life. The Grand Lord is given they a long but "summarized" explanation of how they are going to sell women and children into prostitution, slavery, and other barbaric things. The way the Lords all add to the conversation, like human beings have somehow turned into a commodity and how they blab about the profits that are going to be getting from this, he can't believe it. His eyes are on Eve and even though she keeps giving him silent signs not to look at him as it's going to pull attention to them, he can't stop. She blinks more than normal, but his judgemental eyes won't leave her face and since she can't take it anymore, she decides to use other measures. "Duke, is it?" She nods at him. " What's the problem? Why are you looking at me?"The Grand Lord has gone off the call and they are just discussing within themselves now and they all turn to him. Duke shrugs that he doesn't have any problem with he
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Duke is leaning against his car when Bloom steps out of his BMW with a box in his hands. Duke has a cigarette hanging between his lips and his hands are deep in his pockets. There is a bit of cold and the cigar is keeping him warm. Bloom slightly frowns with disapproval when he sees the cigar in his boss' mouth. Duke leans off the car and takes the boxes from Bloom. " Do you have everything that I asked for?" Duke looks at the lid of the box, not wanting to go through the trouble of checking. " Yes. " Bloom nods. He is looking at the cigarette, but he doesn't know what words to use. "What?" Duke shrugs. " Did someone call to ask me to come back to base?""No. " Bloom quickly dismisses that. " I have been lying to them, just like you have been asking me to. "" Good. " Duke snorts with laughter. " I don't want more Renee's walking in here. " Bloom runs his hands through his hair, Duke can tell that there is more to this. " What then?" He asks, his face serious. "Sir, it's the
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"Why aren't you guys saying anything?!" Lord William looks around at Mister Jimmy and Lord Eve at the table with anger in his eyes. " Maybe because we thought this guy was gone. " Eve shrugs. " Why did he suddenly attack you?"" Gone?!" Lord William scoffs. " He attacked Jimmy with a gun and almost got coffee boy here. "Duke doesn't even flinch at the insult that has been thrown at his face. At this point, it's safe to say that he has become immune to mild jabs like this one. " I don't need to remind you that it wasn't the faceless man who attacked me. " Mister Jimmy points out. " We know that the faceless man is a deadly assassin and he never misses. "" The attacker missed. " Duke adds even though he wasn't included in the conversation. " So now what?" Lord William asks. " You guys are not going to sit there like I didn't tell you I got black roses from that freak. " Mister Jimmy and Eve exchange glances but Lord Willam sees it and he is not pleased at all. " What's this?" H
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Duke is watching Eve sip from a cup of coffee as she sits at her office table and looks out of the window. His hands are folded as he watches her, he is waiting for her to say something. " Did you hear what I said?" He is getting impatient. She can't just stay there and ignore him for minutes. " Why the hell am I finding out that you are married to Jimmy's last daughter?" She wonders. He chuckles and looks away. She turns to him but she is not smiling, she is not happy. " When were you going to tell me?" She asks him. " I didn't realize that I was supposed to tell you that. " He says. " Aren't you friends with her grandfather?"She drops the coffee and walks to the window. " How did he even allow you to marry his daughter?" She glances at him. " I know that you are rich and all, but you don't own shit here. "" Mister Futterman is a very materialistic man. " Duke nods in agreement. " It wasn't easy, I'm going to tell you that. "" Then how did you do it? Did you give him seve
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Melody can't believe what she has heard just now. Her jaw is hanging in the air and she feels a kind of heat engulf her. Maybe she didn't hear him right, maybe it was all in her head. " You want me to come home?" She asks. " Yes." He affirms. " I miss my wife and I want to hold her in my arms again. "Melody looks down at her lap. She feels like she is a teenager again, but this time around, she has a guy who wants her. " You really want that?" She is almost close to tears. " I mean if it wants you to want. " He says. " If it's not going to interfere with your work in any way. "At this point, she doesn't care about her modeling anymore. Yes, she has started making waves, people now point at her in the streets and whisper to each other, but she wants Duke more than that right now. She doesn't know maybe she is going to become the next Campbell, but she has to go back to her husband. She can come back when they have come to a settlement. " I'm going to come back. " She says.
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Going back home they are laughing all over each other. It's exactly like the first time that they met and it's just so beautiful. She is holding on to his free hand and her head is against his shoulder. He doesn't mind, he still manages to drive fine even in that position. " So are you going to tell me how your trip was?" He turns to her. She is surprised that he asked, she wasn't even going to bring it up at all. " You really want to hear about it?" She asks. "Why not?" He shrugs. " I want to hear about all the fun you had. "She laughs, it's a happy kind of laughter. " Italy was fun and very beautiful. " She tells him. " I loved working too, I was surprisingly good as a model."" I mean, of course. " He says. " You are beautiful and you have a great body. "She smiles, his compliments are like those that they had during their good times and she likes the fact that it's slowly coming back. "Hey, I am sorry that I didn't give us a chance to properly discuss this. " She says.
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Duke looks down at his fingers like he is the biggest criminal in the world right now. Eve keeps making him feel guilty about things and he hates her for it so much. " Why didn't you show up with the girl, Duke? She pressed again. " She just came back from a trip, Eve, give her a break. " He sighs. " She is tired and just setting her into the middle of this drama just like that can take a toll on her mental health. "Eve is looking at him like all that has come out of his mouth is absolute nonsense. " That's what you have to say?" She shakes her head. " You kept me waiting, Duke!"" She needed to rest. "" You should have picked up the damn phone and called me! " She yells. " I run a fucking mafia, you think I don't have things to do?"" Melody just needs rest. " He insists. " It's not like I backed out or anything. "" It sounds like you backed out to me because why else would you not come?" She scoffs. " You have seen her and then you've thrown the plans away. "" Her name is Me
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Melody puts the eggplant in her hand and feels it against her finger as if it's going to be the best way to decide if it's good enough. She puts it in her basket and then she turns around, Jim is behind her. He takes an eggplant and puts it in his basket as he smiles at her. It's a little bit weird because for five minutes straight he has been behind her and has picked the exact thing she has touched too. " You like cooking with eggplants?" She smiles back at him. " I haven't had it in my life, but I am sure that my wife is going to figure something out with it. " He shrugs. She grabs some strawberries and he does the exact same thing. If not for the fact that Duke spoke to him a few minutes ago, she would have concluded that he is a kind of stalker or something. Maybe she is just being wrong, maybe he just happens to have an identical shopping list, and maybe this isn't all weird at all. " It's nice of you to offer to drop me off at home. " She turns back to him. " Not many pe
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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
