Devil's Snare by Sruthionyx (top 100 books to read .txt) 📕

Although Rafael was in his meeting, he couldn't concentrate on what the guy before him was saying; he looked like a lion king character. Silas asked, “Capo, do you think we should go with this deal? He said he'd give us 50 percent.”

The paperweight was rotating in Rafael's hands as he sat there, unable to focus on what was going on, his mind was wandering to the cute little siren that he had just held a short time ago. As a parasite invades the host, his vixen is causing his mind to become infested with her thoughts. When she attempted to escape him, she was so feisty, the thought made him smile like a madman.

"Capo", Silas' voice brought him back to reality. "Yes! I need 65 percent to be in the deal, or the deal is off Mr. Woodrow", he said with conviction. The other party, without much of a choice, acceded to Rafael's requests.

His forehead wrinkled as he looked at the caller ID when he heard his phone ring. “How are you baby?” was the voice heard from the other side. The sound was like sandpaper rubbing on the windowsill. “What do you want Sadie?” he inquired, unwilling to engage with her in conversation.

"Why are you so angry, Rafael? We're getting married anyways, don't you want to talk to your soon-to-be lovely wife?" she asked.

“Sadie don’t ruin my mood. I would've shot you through my phone if I wasn't in a good mood, forgot about the last time?” said Rafael angry.

Laughing, Sadie said, “Aww!! That wild side of you makes me want to go crazy.” Even though Rafael was furious, Sadie didn't care. “Your lovely father called and said he would make an official wedding announcement; he thinks we should let the other bitches know you're mine and I love you.” Sadie excitedly said.

Rafael hung up the phone, angry at his sperm donor for setting him up with a whore. He will deal with it later, but right now he has to worry about his little vixen.

He looked at Silas, “you are moving in with me Silas, this is final and no room for discussion” he told him. Silas knows how his boss is. Now that he found that girl, he was looking for he cannot let her slip away again.

Silas agreed without having much of a choice. “Pack only necessary things and inform your babysitter,” he told the last sentence with a smile on his face. To Silas, it’s a rare thing to see his boss smiling.

Meanwhile, Alzea and Blake reached their room. Alzea was silent throughout the ride, but Blake didn’t ask her as she knows things weren’t going how they are supposed to go. Blake figured she wasn’t going to ask as she knows Alzea thinks she is troubling Blake.

As Alzea got to her room, she didn't know what to do. Sighing, she undid her dress and walked in front of the mirror. Two red handprints were visible on her bottom, like two angry Chihuahuas glaring out of it. It burned her bottom really bad, so she applied soothing cream and decided to rest for the night. While she thought she would sort out this issue later, the devil already set his eyes on his soul.

In the morning Cavallo Mansion:

The house was alive early in the morning, maids were running everywhere to meet the needs of the Cavallo brothers, the brothers had a very picky routine and would stick to it without missing a beat. Rafael on the other hand was super excited about the girl with the brown eyes again.

He was in his gym bench pressing with ease like it was something common to him as breathing. Both the brothers took their physical fitness very seriously and they looked God-like in every single outfit they chose.

Victor walked in while Rafa was just about done, picked up his equipment, and started working out. “I heard you asked Silas to move in with us?” said Victor.

Rafael looked at Vic and said, “yes. It would be easier to handle business meetings and conduct operations if he is with us, like physically with us”, he tried to reason not to give his brother any chance to suspect.

“Hmm!! Is that the reason? I heard you are after someone these days”, this made Rafa stop his bench-pressing. He put his equipment down, looked at Vic, and asked, “what are you talking about?”

“Oh! Nothing, a little someone told me that you are actively pursuing someone”, this made Rafa and someone else on the outside stop in their tracks.

“Nothing like that Vic, it’s just a phase I guess,” he didn’t want anyone to know what he was doing with Alzea.

“You should realize something Rafa, love is far from us, I got lucky with Maya. If you are in love with this girl, it will take a lot for you to protect her from our enemies, they say kill the queen to kill the king, that is true in our world. So, this is not child’s play, you need to marry Sadie in order for our plan to succeed. There should be no room for errors” said Victor trying to convince Rafael without sounding condescending.  “Besides what about the woman in your dreams? you cannot run on two things brother, this girl and the girl in your dreams? you need to marry Sadie, we have been trying to kill Vittorio for years now and this is the right opportunity, besides you are free to be whomever you want even after you are married to Sadie, this is just a namesake marriage”, said Vic trying to convince his brother.

Victor was right and Rafael knows that. “All right brother, call that motherfucker and ask him to announce my wedding with Sadie to the media”, he said walking out of the gym.