Andre didn’t want to keep on insisting as he could tell that she wasn’t going to listen to him right now so he texted Alphonso to come and pick Gabriella and take her back to his estate. They walked out of the plane and when they got back to the ground, Alphonso walked over to them.
“Take her back home and make sure she’s taken care of. I’ll be back later,” Andre told the guard and turned his attention to Gabriella, “We’re not done talking about this.”
She turned away from him and walked along the strip with Alphonso behind her. They got back to the hanger and after he opened the door for her to get in, she stopped.
“Is there a bathroom here? I need to go,” she said.
Alphonso sighed in annoyance and shut the door of the car, “Follow me,” he said and took her to the main flight tower that had a bathroom in it.
“Hurry up,” he said to her and waited by the door as she went in.
Gabriella locked herself inside the bathroom and immediately went to the sink. She opened the faucet over her hands and sprayed some water on her face as she took several deep breaths. She wiped her face and when she turned to her side, she noticed something and it made her smile.
Several minutes had passed since she went into the bathroom and Alphonso was starting to lose his patience. He began to knock on the door so she could come out but she wasn’t responding.
“Miss Gabriella, it’s time for us to leave. Can you open the door and come out? Miss?” He kept knocking but she didn’t respond, causing him to suspect that something was wrong.
He began to hit the door with his shoulder until he broke it open and as he dashed into the restroom, he noticed that the only window in it was broken and Gabriella had escaped through it.
“s**t!” He exclaimed before running out to find her.
Alphonso ran out of the flight tower and made his way back to the plane so he could inform his boss about Gabriella’s escape. He reached the plane and as soon as Andre saw him without Gabriella, he knew that something had happened.
“Where is she?” Andre asked the guard with a mild expression on his face.
“I took her to the bathroom to ease herself and she broke a window and escaped,” Alphonso said in panic, fearing Andre’s anger as he broke the news to him.
“What do you mean she went through the window? There’s nothing but forests and bushes for miles out here and she could be in danger. Gather the men and go and look for her,” Andre roared in anger.
“Yes boss,” Alphonso said and turned around.
“And Alphonso,” Andre called out, causing the guard to turn around, “You’d better hope that nothing happens to her or it will be on your head.”
And with that promise, Alphonso called out all of the other guards around through his walkie so they could all move together to search the forests around for the boss’ prize.
Andre didn’t intend to sit by and do nothing. He wasn’t going to let his only chance for a peaceful coexistence with the King’s Gold slip away from him so easily, so he hurriedly walked over to the hanger and entered one of his cars so he could look for Gabriella as well. He drove out of the airstrip and onto the road, going the opposite direction that his men went so they could cover more ground and increase their chances of finding her.
Meanwhile, Gabriella was running through the bushes around with her long dress in her hands. She was gasping and panting as she strode through the forest, continuously looking over her shoulder to make sure she wasn’t being pursued. She ran as fast as her legs could carry her until she came out the other end of the forest and happened on the endless line of tarred road. She looked ahead of her and all she could see was the road as it stretched over the horizon. Wherever this airstrip was, it wasn’t anywhere close to civilization because there were no cars coming from either direction and she was stuck there; a sitting duck waiting to be found and most likely, slaughtered.
“f**k it,” Gabriella cursed out and with her hands, she ripped the bottom half of her green dress so she could move faster.
She began to walk down the road, hoping desperately that a vehicle would pass by soon. After a few minutes in the scorching heat, Gabriella heard the sound of a car coming up from behind her and a wave of joy overcame her that she began to run towards the car before it even reached her. She waved her arms around, desperately calling out to the driver to stop and help her but the car didn’t seem to be slowing down.
“Please, help me,” she yelled and waved as the car got closer but the driver just drove past her despite her screams.
Gabriella fell to her knees as the car sped past her and had lost all hope of making it out of her predicament but to her greatest surprise and relief, the car that drove past her suddenly came to a stop and a grateful smile came back on her face. She got to her feet and ran over to the vehicle and when she got to the driver’s side, she began to thank him.
“Oh, thank you so much. Please, you have to help me,” she said to the driver who she hadn’t seen yet because the window was rolled all the way up and it was tinted.
The window began to roll down and as soon as it did, the smile on Gabriella’s face completely disappeared when she saw that it was Andreas Cimaro himself inside the car.
“Hello, Miss Rossi. Do you need a lift?” He asked with a smirk on his face.
Without any hesitation, Gabriella took to her heels and ran out of the road and back into the forest, causing Andre to get out of his car and chase after her. As fast as she was running, it wasn’t fast enough to get away from Andre who caught up to her very quickly and tackled her to the ground.
“Get off me, you piece of s**t! Get off me now,” she screamed hysterically, struggling to get free of his hold.
“That’s enough from you, woman. Don’t you know when to give up?” He yelled at her as he struggled to grab her hands so he could pin her down to stop her from fighting him.
“I’ll never give up trying to escape you or my mother. I won’t be a part of your messed up games and I won’t be a prisoner in a world I despise,” she spat.
“Well, that’s too bad because I’m not letting you go anywhere. I will get what I want whether you like it or not, whether you want it or not,” he replied and finally pinned her hands down.
Gabriella grunted and screamed helplessly until she started to simmer out when it became clear to her that there was no way of her situation. She eventually stopped struggling and just stared straight into Andre’s hazel eyes while he also got lost in her ocean blue ones. They were both breathing quite heavily and as Gabriella breathe, her chest was heaving up and down, causing Andre’s eyes to stray over to her chest area. Her cleavage was very much exposed and with every breath she took, her breasts pumped forward, causing Andre to look at them with desire in his gaze.
She noticed him staring but she didn’t do anything to get him to stop. She just lay there quietly, waiting for him to make the next move.
“Don’t you get it?” He asked.
He got his body off hers while still holding her arms and manoeuvred himself to his knees, pulling her up from the ground so her body would be touching his directly. Their faces were so close to each other that they could both feel their breaths colliding as they held each other’s gaze. He trapped her hands behind her back and asserted his control and command over her in that moment. She was at his mercy and there was nothing she could do about it.
“As the Capo of your mafia clan, you can make it become what you want it to be. You can transform what you’ve always seen as a curse into a gift that benefits you and those around you. You can make your prison a paradise that you never want to leave. Why would you not want that?” He asked, trying to understand her motivations.
“Why should I want it? All it’s done is bring me nothing but pain and suffering all my life. I’ve lost people to this life; important people that meant the world to me so forgive me if I don’t want to lose any more,” she said defiantly, with so much emotion that she couldn’t contain.
A tear slowly rolled down her cheek and when Andre saw it, something within him was triggered; something he had never felt as strongly as he felt it now. It was an empathetic desire to protect her, to ease her hurting heart and make her smile again. He could understand the trauma that she must have gone through as a child born into a mafia family, seeing as he was one himself. He didn’t know what her story was but he could tell that it was a sad one and more than anything, he wanted to take her pain away.
Without a second thought, Andre did what he had wanted to do from the first time he set his eyes on her; what he did when he was in her room that morning. He pulled her closer to his body and buried her lips into his as softly and as gently as he could muster but there was nothing gentle about the ferocity of the passion that his kiss carried. He slowly let go of her hands and rather than try to push away from him, Gabriella wrapped her liberated hands around Andre’s waist and drank from the fountain of his lips as well.
Their soft kiss quickly evolved to one more primitive and direct – neither of them could hold it in anymore, hold in the raw animalistic desire they had to rip each other’s clothes off and despite the fact that they were technically enemies, all they wanted was the pleasure of both their flesh.
Andre grabbed her hair forcefully and pulled it backwards, making her mouth more available for him to claim. He buried his tongue in the hollows of her mouth and tasted her insides. His hands trailed down her body until they found the softness of her ass and he grabbed them fully, pulling her further into him. She intensified the kiss by wrapping her hands around his head and pulling him deeper, not giving a damn that they were outdoors on the dirt in the middle of nowhere. She wanted him now and he wanted her as well and by all means, they would have each other.
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Back at the Red Cobras’ estate, from afar, a pair of eyes watched the mansion through high-grade military binoculars. The man behind the gadget was watching the premises, trying to get a fix on the guards around and how they moved so he could come up with a plan on how he would invade the fortress and rescue his Capo’s daughter.
After surveying around, he put away his binoculars and took out his phone. He dialled the device and put it to his ear and another man spoke to him from the other end.
“Percival, have you arrived at the location?”
“Yes, Lancelot. I’m there right now,” the man responded.
“Have you located the target?”
“I haven’t! This house is a lot bigger than I thought it would be and before I can proceed to rescue the target, I need a few more days to prepare,” Percival replied.
“Miss Rossi wants her daughter now. You have one day to get her out. Do you understand?” Lancelot asked.
“One day won’t be enough. Does the boss want me to do this fast or for me to do it right?”
“Fine! Two days…or I’ll get someone else to do the job,” Lancelot said before hanging up.