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♛15.Torture and wars

Soraya

My heels click against the wooden flooring of Rafael's warehouse. He's walking by side and Axel's following behind us. His men bow their heads respectfully as we pass them.

While I'm physically here, my mind has taken me back to this morning. Sleeping with him was a mistake. But God, did it feel good. It's like I'm an addict who's had their first fix after years of steying clean, which also means I'm already craving my next dose.

Bad Ray! Bad!... but I've never been the one to obey the rules anyways.

All I can think about is the feel of his lips on my skin, his tongue lapping on my clit, his cock thrusting deep into my... Focus!

I banish the immages my overactive immagination has summoned. I like to blame it on the smutty books in my library.

So back to the problem at hand. Luis should have died 10 years ago along with his father. The Navarros are a pest. This is the kind of situation that occurs when you don't tie loose ends. And now, the Cortez Cartel and the Chen Triad have joined the fucker.

"Raya!" Dante greets, pulling me into a hug so tight that he slightly lifts me off the ground.

"It's nice seeing you too, Baby Cheeks"I say, ruffling his caramel hair as he sets me back down.

"I thought we've agreed a long time ago that I've grown out of that nickname." He sighs.

"Nope. That's not gonna happen, you'll be old and grey and I'll still call you that." I tease. "Where is Adira?"

Last night I asked her to join Dante's team so they can cover up the incident. She's in charge of my PR, knowing who and when to bribe so the story can be spun like we want. This is why the attack was presented by the media as a robbery attempt. The actual number of robbers and any details about a crossfire, being intentionally left out by the police officer who offered the interview.

"She's just left. She said her wife called. Their daughter was rushed to the hospital for an emergency appendectomy. She tried to reach you, but you were obviously busy blowing people up." Dante informs me.

Adira and Liana got married last year. Emerie, their daughter, is 4. While Liana is her biological mother, Adira loves the little munchkin as if it were her own. Since I've got no siblings but I consider Addie a sister, Em's like a niece to me. I will have to visit her tonight, to make sure everythings ok.

To hell with dates with hot Russians. Sokolov can wait, my niece needs me.

"Adira?" Rafael asks.

"Blonde hair, blue eyes, she's in a lot of the pictures back at my penthouse..." he throws me a glance. "Oh yeah, I did notice you looking at them." the fact that he seemed to want to shred the ones with Apolo to pieces didn't go unnoticed either.

"She's head of my PR team and my second in command." I continue.

"Right." he says."How's our prisoner, brother?"

"He's dead" I whip my head towards him but before I can ask he offers "He took a cyanide pill before we could stop him. Luckily I always like to adopt prisoners in pairs, so that they won't be feeling lonely in their cells." he jokes. "This one didn't get to pull the same trick on us. He's a colombian."

"That's good. Take us to him." Rafael demands.

Dante leads us to a small room in the basement. I take a deep breath, repressing a shiver that begins to form at the base of my neck. There used to be a time when I didn't dread dark cells beneath the ground.