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

Alzea had been having a terrible day at work. The kid was cranky, on edge, and off the ramps. She couldn’t control the naughty kid at all, so she decided to take him out for a walk. Working as a nanny for a rich family has its advantages, including not having to drive as the parents assigned her and the child a chauffeur. After placing him in the stroller, she walked out of the house by grabbing the keys while on the phone with the driver and requested that he bring them to the park.

In no time, she reached the park. The park is beautiful with a path of stones and chips, with trees on either side of the path, it was peaceful, the kid stopped fussing a while ago and started to observe people around him with his curious hazel eyes. Soon, it became dusty, so Alzea wore a scarf. All you could see were her eyes.

While they were playing in the park, Rafael and Victor were in their office dealing with their daily business. After Adrian’s betrayal, both brothers were racking their minds to determine if there were any other moles in their businesses. That is when the door opened, and Maya walked in.

As the woman approached Victor, she kissed his cheek and sat next to him. Rafael tensed, but he never wavered in his expression. He sat there with his stone-cold expression. While they discussed their mafia business, Rafael’s mind wandered somewhere. “Rafa,” Victor called out. The man did not reply. “Rafa,” he repeated.

“Huh?” he asked this time. Victor, said, “Where are you lost?”, “Nothing, I was thinking about something, what were you talking about?”

“He asked if there were any other moles in the group,” Maya added.

Rafa said looking at Victor, “I am not sure, but I’ll come up with a plan, and when I find out, he is going to have the most painful death”. Vic nodded in agreement, they decided not to dwell on it more. They will eventually find out, the thought of punishing someone excited them, Victor and Maya headed out for lunch while Rafael headed home. But he just couldn’t stand the feeling of being suffocated in his house, so he went for a walk in the park, surprising himself.

There was nothing he hated more than people and interacting with them outside of his interests. In particular, he hated parks, people chirping, and children playing, it irked him for some reason, but surprisingly this park didn’t feel so bad.

Rafael spotted a fountain close by, he stalked over and stood near the fountain; He lifted his leg and stood on the edge of the fountain with his one leg on the ground, feeling like he was the king.  He observed his, surroundings. He likes to do what he does best, which is observation. After all, observation is an assassin’s most needed quality. Rafael looked around, the park is crowded, some people were playing, some were reading, and some were walking their dogs. To him, those people looked like a bunch of cattle grazing in an open field, "Damn!! I am getting creative, this is some cartoon shit I pictured in my mind", he thought to himself chuckling. "This is why I don't come to parks. It puts me in a different mood, who wants to feel better when I can be cranky and kill some people?".

When he had enough air, he decided to leave, and that’s when he heard a giggle. A giggle that sounded like a melody. Unknowingly, his steps took him in the direction of the sound, there he saw a woman who was twirling a child and dancing with him. The woman was so happy twirling, it made her hair which is so long and probably reached below her behind. Her hair was flowing with the wind, and that scene made him want to sniff those smooth hairs, he wondered how it will look braided on her bare ass while he is railing her from behind.

He couldn’t see her face as her scarf covered it, but he could hear her, he loved the sound of her giggles, it was like a long-lost melody to him. Both the kid and she seemed the happiest people on earth.

She was laughing, and both were twirling around and suddenly the girl stopped dancing and bent to the level of the kid. The kid asked her something, and the girl nodded kissing his cheek, for some reason he wished it was him in the place of that little kid. She placed him in the stroller and started pushing the stroller toward Rafael. His heartbeat was faster, but he didn’t know why.

Alzea passed him by without as much sparing a glance at him, walked over with the kid, and bought ice cream for him. The kid was making a fuss, but the girl didn’t seem to bother. She was calm and feeding him with no anger or irritation in her actions.

Rafael loved seeing her like that; he stood and wondered what would’ve happened if he had a wife and a kid; he laughed loudly at the thought. He knows about his family, they would find someone of their liking and marry him to her, that is how it had always been, love is a far-fetched word from him.

He is sure that whomever he marries, he will have no relationship with her. It would be a pure business deal or a marriage to produce heirs. She can fuck whomever she wants, and he will do the same. There will be no obligation to remain monogamous or faithful to his woman. He knows how this works, he saw this for generations in his family. Love is a very rare term in the mafioso families, it will only lead to destruction. He had seen some love stories before, and he didn’t like the ending.

He forgot he was in the middle of people when he laughed loudly. Listening to the sound, the girl looked at him. In that second his world stopped. He saw her eyes, those eyes that have been in his mind for years. For a brief second, the world stopped spinning, it was her and her only. “Could this be her?”, he thought to himself. How can it be? he had never seen them before. He stood there looking at her not noticing anything else.