The Ruthless Mafia King's Posession|18+|

41. Birthday Girl

★JANIE★

With a drawn-out yawn and a fatigued stretch, my eyelids fluttered open. Suddenly, a feeling of excitement clouded my guts and I was contemplating why.

It was after racking my brain for a couple of seconds, that I realized what today entailed.

My birthday.

My fucking 20th birthday!

The rush of excitement jostling through my veins prompted me to pull to a sitting position and I smiled to myself. Picking up the bible from beneath my pillow, I did a quick morning prayer to God, thanking him for making me see this day despite everything that I have been through.

After I was done, my eyes drifted to my clothes and underwear on the ground, and I furrowed my brows, thinking. Until, memories of what transpired between Luciano and me last night, surged to the forefront of my brain.

I found him in my room, then he made me do things to him and he also did things to me. The desire he stirred within was something I had never felt before in my entire life. But then, I shut out those weird thoughts and focused on myself.

I shouldn't feel some kind of way towards Luciano because of some fucking desires. Most especially, I should not forget in a hurry how he stripped me of my heart desire, and dreams and left me for sham, I scolded myself at once.

Everything I did with him yesterday was mainly because I was under pressure, I reminded myself.

Luciano's a psycho. A psycho who I'd have to thread carefully around, which was why I succumbed to his whims last night. No feelings attached. But now, it was all bygones.

Whatever happened last night, stayed that way. Never to occur again!

Since today happened to be my birthday, I look forward to spending it with my newfound family and just being happy.

I at least owe myself one thing. Happiness.

Peeling myself from bed, I avoid, looking at the mirror, just so I wouldn't see Luciano's handprint all over my body and the hickey he left on my neck. I picked up my clothes from the ground and tossed them into the laundry bin, and just as I was doing so, my mind drifted to the gifts Luciano said were behind the chairs.

I let out an exasperated sigh then went over to the chair and looked behind it. Indeed, he wasn't lying.

Eyeing the wrapped gifts suspiciously,  I inhaled deeply and exhaled afterward before deciding that nothing good would come out of his gifts. And perhaps, checking it now would only ruin my day, maybe later at night. So I shrugged, headed into the bathroom, and had a nice warm bath.

Minutes later, I was out and I immediately toweled dried myself, applied some moisturizer then put on something nice. Furthermore, I let my hair down today, did a little makeup, and then stared at my reflection in the mirror.

A small smile crept to the corner of my lips as I took in my appearance. But the moment I noticed the hickey on my neck, I gasped and then proceeded to use foundation to conceal it. If not, it would spike Noel's suspicion about last night and he would throw me interrogative questions.

Satisfied with my appearance, I brightened my face with a little smile and then stepped out of my room. But alas, the corridor was dark.

I thought Mr. Alan and his wife said to be back early this morning. I thought to myself.

Sauntering towards Noel's room to wake him up, I got there only to find it all tidied up, but empty.

"Noel," I called out to him before going ahead to check his bathroom and he wasn't there.