Thorns of Roses

Ugly world

Song for this Chapter:

It’s You-Sezairi

CHAPTER 63

BLAZE

A lot has happened and shift between me and Corinne for the past month we’ve been married.

I wasn’t that surprise when I figured out that we can be comfortable and click with each other, because I have to make sure that we are.

I was living the dream, with her.

A dream that I wished, I won’t get to wake up.

I wish I can make her feel loved even if I had no right to say those words to her because of what I did.

I hope behind my looks, my touch and my kisses, I can make her feel my love for her. That I will do anything to protect and love her in any way one can’t imagine.

I am the next heir of La Cosa Nostra, but I will give up everything for that girl to make sure she gets to live the life she deserves.

For days, I often see him happy and smiling which I rarely saw before when we were not married. I have often seen her carefree and happy in what she does every day, like she's free. But she's far from being free. Because I'm still here, serving as her cage in a world that I can't let her go alone. This world, especially she is involved with my family and the Lewis family, they will eat her alive and leave nothing, and that's why I'm here to make sure that doesn't happen. The moment I fell in love with Corinne Angeline Lewis, was the moment I promised myself that I would love her forever. When I saw her beautiful and sad eyes, I promised myself that I would do everything to give that shine back in those eyes.

That is my purpose here. Even if she saw me as the Devil or the monster in her life.

As soon I am done on our football practice, I hurriedly drove back to the Penthouse because Corinne's event was at seven o'clock in the evening and I only had an hour left.

First, I went to the flower shop to buy flowers. A bouquet of roses to be specific.

After I went to the shop, I hurried home to the Penthouse and when I arrived, I noticed that the suit I was going to wear to the event was ready, which I'm sure Corinne had arranged before she left earlier. I quickly took a shower and got dressed to get to the event earlier. When I left the room, someone rang the doorbell at the front door of the Penthouse, as far as I know we are not expecting any guests tonight because of the event.

I had my pistol ready on hand and the other is the roses. I open the door to see someone I didn’t expect to see here in our house, much less tonight.

“Blaze?” She said and she hugs me like I am hers.

It’s Hannah Evans.

The little devil who had me on her whip.

I can’t even say another word as she hugs me tighter “Blaze, I missed you.” She cupped my face and I removed it instantly. her smile falls quickly.

“Don’t f*****g touch me.”

You see, Hannah Evans has some serious mental problems that I know anyone didn’t diagnosed her still. I think she has these hallucinations or whatsoever that what we have is something passed beyond my feelings for Corinne. And for me, her issue is my greatest weapon, I can use that weakness of hers for making her believe that I love her more to contain her from her madness and spilled all the secret she’s keeping for herself.

“What do you mean don’t touch you, Blaze? Are you f*****g having a time of your life being married with that b***h!” There she goes..

Before, when I know what’s running on her mind, I have to make her believe that I hate Corinne for almost killing me and having my Father marry me off to her.

That’s how I play with Hannah Evans for a while now.

Once when he disappeared, I wished that my Father would have just ended everything with her. Like the death of Gianne Montgomery. In that way, I hope I don't have any more difficulties now and all I have to understand is who is the person behind Hannah and Corinne's Father, Marcus. Now, she is one more to add to prolong the freedom that Corinne needs. This world is ugly, unfortunately Corinne only sees Marcus Lewis on how a monster works. But there are many people around her who are very jealous of her and want her to disappear from this world. Just like me. You see, when someone knows your capacity as a person, and they start to see you as a huge threat to their existence. It's either them, or they're sanity. And often with this person who is greedy for power they choose themselves more than their own thinking. Most of what I saw and interacted with, lost their self, lost their own sanity.

"You accepted the house and the money my Father gave you just to get away from me?" I start. I looked at the time and Corinne's event will start in 15 minutes, I need to calm Hannah down and make her believe that everything will be fine with us.

She walks closer to me, just having her hands on my face makes me want to vomit blood “Baby, I am just scared of my life,” Lies, you are a f*****g gold digger and wanted money, money and money. And I know she’s not in love with me, she just sees me as a f*****g trust fund to sustain her ambitious life, “—you know how powerful your father is. I am scared that if I don’t accept it, he will just have me kill and my family killed.” There go the crocodile tears roll on her eyes.

I didn’t answer her, she leaned closer to my face and kiss me slowly, and noticed the bouquet of roses on my hand, and the pistol on the other. "What is that in your hand for me, Blaze? Have you fallen in love with her and enjoyed the short moment when I walked away for both of us? Huh, is that it?" She pressed. "Are you going to use me that Pistol and have me quiet forever or those roses that are really meant for me and no one else?"

Off course, the pistol is yours and have your brains scattered all over the place but no, this place is mine and Corinne’s. I can’t have anyone else here.

Another kiss “Forgive me if I run away from you to Alaska. You know I have to.”

“Are you being true to me?” It’s starts of my mind games with this lunatic.

“Above anyone else surrounding you right now, I am the only one who is true to you, Baby.” She smiled evily.

“What do you mean?”

“Does your pretty little wife tell you that Diesel once plotted an assassination against you with Marcus Lewis?” She starts.

I scoffed “No one can do that to me, Hannah.”

“Off course they are. The moment you took her under your wing that night, is the night she figures out that Diesel and her Father is plotting an assignation to you. Because Marcus knows that his favorite daughter, Carina will be marrying the second in line next to you in Cosa Nostra. So, he had to do anything to make sure Carina is in top of being the queen and not Corinne. And, Diesel on the other hand, just being ambitious and greedy for money and power.” She tsked and walks on my home like she owns it. The clinking of her heels made me want to strangle her hard. “—and your pretty little wife is in love with your cousin who despite that him betray you, she kept it from you up until now.”

“I don’t believe you.” My voice breaks.

She stops “So, you are in love with her?”

She walks and slapped me real hard “You f*****g cheated on me with her!!”

She’s being hysterical right now.

She fished her phone out of her bag and plays a recorder “Still didn’t believe me?”

The recording plays Corinne and Marcus confrontation that night. I stilled, but I am trying my best not to show any emotion. I am trained that way.

"I told you, I'm the only one on your side and the only one you can trust in the world, Blaze. You need me. You don't need her, you don't need a woman who married you but her loyalty lies with another man." She kissed me again, trying to make my mouth open and ready for her.

But she has everything I may need. She answered the question for me with her recordings. I am broken for the second time that once again she chose to protect Diesel above anyone else.

So, I kissed her, trying to erase the sweetness of her core on her mouth and the sour taste of her lies that she kept feeding me.