I fell in love with the mafia devil

chapter 7:cruising with Cruise

Ashley's pov:

I was watching season 2 of Good Girls in my so called bedroom, when I heard a knock on my so called door.

When the person entered, I was flabbergasted. The same guy who I saw that night in the club making out with Lea was here, in my room, in this mansion, unharmed, which only meant one thing. He is working for Ace or even worse, he is working with Ace.
I wanted to say something, but words could not get out of my mouth.

"Hey. I'm Cruise", he let out a hand. He was waiting for a handshake. But I was shaking, literally. I couldn't stop thinking my best friend's make out lover is here. When I came out of my thoughts. I realized that he just said his name is Cruise. The same Cruise who covered my mouth that night in the club and took me inside that room full of guns and drugs, the same Cruise who was fucking my buddy, the same Cruise who took me to that warehouse, that same Cruise.
I got scared, and stepped backwards instead of shaking his hand. How can I shake the hand that has brought me trauma over the last few days.

"Listen ma'am, Ace has asked me to take you shopping. I don't want to seem like a narcissist, but if you try to escape while going to the mall, you will end up dead",he said.
*Ace? Ever since I've been here, I've heard people address him by his surname or boss. Cruise must be really close to him*, I thought to myself.

I followed him to the car, and while following him around, I got to see a much more clearer view of the house from the outside. Bruno Mars has nothing compared to this. The trip to the mall was filled with awkward silence until Cruise decided to break the tension.
"Your friend, Lea, asks about you all the time", he stated.
"You still hang around with her?",I asked.
"Of course. You know, she always talks about you. Don't worry, she doesn't know you are kidnapped. She thinks that you left the club and went away for sometime and you couldn't talk to her about it as you knew that she would disagree, so when she was in the bathroom making out with me, you saw the perfect chance to escape reality. I could not tell her the truth, especially because I'm the one behind this whole saga",he clarified.
"Why are you still with her? How do you feel lying to her? How do you feel lying to yourself?" I was angry. How dare this Cruise guy lie to my friend.
He couldn't answer my question and silence came back from nowhere until we reached the mall.
"Please don't try anything stupid Ms Rowsen. There are people here and I'm sure you wouldn't like it if innocent people died because of your stupidity",Cruise said as we were getting out of the car.
"Number one Cruisy, I'm not stupid and number two, I won't do anything", I clearly said, annoyed as fuck.
The mall was beautiful and elegant.
Wait! Hold up! The name of the mall was 'Leone's Quad'. Am I crazy or am I crazyyyyyy?.

That's when it clicked, 'Leone's Empire', Ace Leone. It all clicked.
I remember watching the news on my TV which I miss so much that the Leone's Empire has risen from the ground. That club belonged to Ace. No wonder he didn't seem bothered when I told him that people will be looking for me. That's because he knew that the last place I was seen at, was his club, which means that everyone who worked there, worked for him. Oh my gosh! Now there's a complete zero chance of me being found. I cannot even escape from this mall now, not after finding out who the owner is. It must be surrounded by his men. I cannot risk my life. No way.

We made our way inside the mall. And everything simply exquisite. Ace really did out-do himself on this one.

The interior of the mall:

After four hours of fitting and moving from shop to shop looking for accessories, we finally headed to our car, heading straight home.

Our trip back to the house was so much better than our trip to the mall earlier.
Cruise turned on some soothing music and I actually jammed to it. How can one have such great taste in music, especially him out of all people?

After a while, I decided to break the tension. And make up some conversation. I can't help it. Silence kills me.
"So the club,... it belongs to Ace?"
"No princess, it belongs to me", he replied sarcastically and laughed at what he just said. I just sat there watching him drown in his stupidity.
"No, it actually belongs to Ace's parents", he then responded, with a serious face. He must have noticed that I didn't laugh at his previous joke, hence he got so serious and furious.
Silence began to overwhelm the car, and all there was to hear, was just music.

We reached the house after a short while, and before Cruise can reach his bedroom, I ran up to him. I took out my hand and showed a handshake gesture. He looked confused, as always🙄.

"Earlier this morning, you wanted a handshake, but I didn't budge because I thought you were a bitch. But i realise now that a man who waited for woman to go through fitting and complaining about which makeup to buy and blah blah blah, is worthy of shaking hands with me", I stated.
"Owww", he said cutely, as he placed his hand in mine for a handshake.
"OMG! I just handshaked the mighty, wonderful, and beautiful actress in the world. I'm about to faint. I'm I dreaming?",he said teasingly as he pretended to faint. We both laughed at his silly, dramatic and girly accent.
"You are not so bad Ms Rowsen, I'm thinking of shooting you straight into your head instead of stabbing you, so that you don't have to bare a painful and long death",he said.
I stood there shocked and I immediately stopped laughing due to what he just said. Tears started to form in my eyes.
"No....no no no. I was just joking. I'm bad at making jokes. I'm sor...."he wanted to clarify more, but I couldn't help but interrupt him as a laugh erupted from my mouth.
"You should go look at yourself while saying that bro. Owww you felt bad huh?", I said, struggling to say anything more as more and more laughter erupted from my mouth.
After I finished laughing, I realized that he just stood there silently, looking at me genuinely like I'm some type of a precious gem.

"Goodnight Cruisy",I said teasingly.
"Don't call me Cruisy",he replied with a groan.
"Cruisy"
"Don't call me...".
"Cruisyyyyy"
"Arghh forget it",he said, in a defeated tone.

I just laughed when I saw him head towards his room.

"And by the way Cruisy, I still think you are a bitch", I said.

He turned to look back at me and turned again to continue his journey towards his room. I smirked at his reaction and prepared myself to carry all these heavy bags to my room upstairs.

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