Beauty and the Brute.[COMPLETED]

Chapter 13

"Annabelle come on we are gonna be late" I heard Ronin's voice as I descended the stairs. "I am ready, am ready" I replied. I was walking sideways I couldn't really see where I was going cause I was carrying Jeff "Oh hell no, that thing isn't coming with us" Ronin said and I dropped Jeff on his butt "First, he is not a thing, his name is Jeff, and he is a romantic gesture from you to me, so yes, he is coming." I replied "Am starting to regret the so said Romantic gesture" he said air quoting the word Romantic gesture "the fucking thing sleeps in the bed with us. To be honest, I have been secretly planning is death, that's what he gets for stealing my wife" he signaled to the guy who has been loading our stuff in the car to take Jeff "You know" he walked up to me and leaned close to my ear "I could always through him out in the middle of our flight and have him replaced before we get home, so you think you are coo coo" "its not gonna work anymore after you've told me" I said "Who knows" he shrugged. We said our goodbyes to everyone at home before heading out the door, it was near evening already . "You have an island, why should I be surprised you own a private jet?" I said as we approached the plane. He had his arms around me and of course we were guarded, he said he couldn't risk it. "One I would be flying myself" he replied "Oh my God is there really anything you can't do?! I wonder how you managed to learn all this stuff and still attended school, and you are this young, kinda" I added at the end just to tease him "Well, I have always wanted to be a pilot, until I lost my parents that is, and I have a good memory so I learn fast" he replied me as we made our way into the plane "Can I watch you fly?!" I asked and he nodded "If you don't, then how am I gonna show off my mad flying skills?!" he gave me one of those his sexy smile that shows just how deep his dimples are, by the way, they are really deep, and his eyes, they are so amazing, green eyes has always been my favorite eye color "What are you thinking about?!" he asked "You" I replied "Good thoughts I hope" he smiled at me.

I watched in awe as Ronin flew for hours and said things I didn't understand before we landed on the tropical island. It was surrounded by forest but the center was filled with so much life. On arriving at our supposed getaway house, he showed me to our room,. The doors had motion censor, so they opened as we neared the room. it was the most romantic thing I have ever seen. The room was filled with scented yellow and red candles, there were rose petals everywhere and a giant love made of rose petals was at the center of our bed. The setting was more romantic than that of our first night together. The bed covers was a mixture of red and white. Looking out through the glass door, I could see the final glow of the sunset and it was beautiful. Outside of our room was a square swimming pool, I really need to learn out to swim "Do you like it?!" Ronin asked "Like it?!, I love it, it is so amazing Ronin, its perfect" I replied as I tip toed and he leaned in to breech the rest of the height difference before placing his lips gently on mine at first but it quickly turned to a heated passionate kiss and his arms roamed all over my body. I pressed myself closer to him and after a while, he lifted me off the ground like I weighed nothing, I guessed the bending must have had its impact or he just wanted to carry me to bed like he did then and there.

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We sat in the bath tub together. I had my curls in two buns at the top of my head, Ronin said it made me look cute like a baby. I sat behind him and he sat between my legs, his head resting on my shoulders as we drank champagne and ate chocolate covered strawberries. We sat together in the warm and soothing waters covered in rose petals and filled with bath oils. The room was dimly lit. I had my arms around his neck from behind and I gently rubbed his chest absent mindedly as he told me about himself. "Okay, things you don't know about me" I said to him. "I know everything about you love, from how you ate sand in kindergarten to how you still lick scented markers" he said and chuckled "First of all, I was a kid, am allowed to do crazy things, and in my defense, those markers always smell so good and fruity." I replied and continued as I fed him a strawberry. "Do I even wanna know how you found out all those stuffs about me?!" I asked and he shook his head. "So things you don't know about ME" he emphasized. "Let's see, where to begin, where to begin" he drawled "Okay" he said after a while "I got it. My name is Ronin" he said and I could see him smile as he lifted his eyes to mine and I rolled my eyes at how obvious the last statement was. "Yeah, no kidding" I replied, my voice dripping with so much sarcasm "Shush and listen okay?" he said "My name is Ronin. I am italian" he paused for the dramatic effect of that "No, that isn't possible. I mean, your last name is Spanish, and you speak spanish all the time, how are you-, how could you possible be italian?!" I asked, I was confused "My father is italian. My actual last name is Giordano. So I am Ronin Giordano" he said and I pronounced his full name, I just wanted to hear myself pronounce it. "It sounds weird when I call it, I think I will just stick to Contreras. So if your name is Giordano, where the hell does Contreras come into the picture?!" I asked "Well, after my parents death, and they realized that the killers didn't end my life, I adopted my Spanish mother's maiden name, it was a good cover for me, I just needed to hid from them till I got my revenge and after I did, everyone already knew of me and they knew me as Contreras so I just stuck with it, but if I have to do anything formal or official, I stick with Giordano-Contreras. " he said and I nodded, "Okay, now its clear. So now my husband is Italian, which is so frigging hot, carry on." I replied "I actually had a twin brother, he died when I was five." he said "Aww, sweetie, am sorry" I said stroking his hair and kissing his cheek, temple and neck. "We looked alike so much that the only difference was that I had the birthmark on my cheek." he added "And I love that mark, it makes you so cute and unique. I can't imagine two Ronin's, I just can't" "We would have had our differences growing up I guess. I was supposed to have a sister too, but she died before she was born." Another tragedy. He lost everyone that was important to him except Matilda, so I have been told "I was seven when I parents were killed, my mom was already nine months in, she was gonna give birth any moment, and she was murdered. We were gonna name her Mia, she would have been beautiful, and I would have been the best brother in the world to her" "I am sure you would have" I said and he took my hand that was slowly stroking his chest and kissed it before placing it back. "I speak ten languages" "I already know that" I replied with a smile "The things you do just seems so impossible" I added. "I am masochistic" "I kinda know that too considering the fact that you cut yourself, I would say you need help but it seems you are already getting some" he shrugged "I own a lot of small business. I mean, I am Raptor, but am also secretly the owner of many restaurants clubs, etcetera etcetera." he said while having me switch positions with him and in turn I had my back against his chest with my head on his shoulders, he kissed me passionately. It surprises me the things he could do to my body with just one kiss, one touch, one look. "I love kids, especially when they are still babies and they are cute and cuddly, pudgy and smell so good, I love it when they hold one of my fingers, its just one of the best feelings in the world." "Ronin, can I ask you something?!" I said "Sure love" he gently pulled my hair. He said that my curls mesmerize him, so like a child, he plays with them and pulls them and watch it bounce back in place "What did my dad take from you, was it money?!" It was said that he took a priced possession but each person's story tends to differ from the other. Ronin's body tensed up and stiffened. "I can take it, please, its killing me not to know" I tried to lift my body off him so that I could face him but he pressed me against his chest, wrapped his arms around me and wouldn't let me go. "Money?! I wasn't raise that way princess, if it was money, I wouldn't be as pissed off. It was a diamond necklace, a really expensive one at that, worth tens of millions. My father had it custom made for my mom, it was her favorite gift from my father, not because it was made of diamond or its price, but the occasion on which he gave it to her. It is of sentimental value to me, especially because my mother had it on when she lost her life. But that wasn't the only reason I was after your father, whom I have always respected. He was older than me and he acted with wisdom. Everyone knows that there is no way out of the mafia other than death. He left and that put him on a wanted list, but after marrying you, I couldn't kill my father in-law, it was a pretty good excuse for anyone with a query" he said "I am so sorry, about the necklace about everything " "I got the necklace back, I bought it from the person he sold it to before that idiot could dismantle the piece" "Tell me about how your parents died, everything" I said but he was silent. "I know that it is hard for you to revisit that night but I just want you to share that part of you with me, but that if you want to though" I added at the end just so that he doesn't feel like I am pushing him to do anything. I know that Ronin is someone that gets so attached to something that the loss of that specific thing leaves a mark for life, and just hearing some of his stories made me see a different side of him, made me know what groomed him to what he is now. "Well for starters, I didn't know what my father had going on with the other guys but my parents and I traveled to Italy, my parents wanted to give birth to my sister where I was born. We had been there two weeks prior the due date just so we don't get any surprises if the baby decided to come earlier. My dad wanted to take us all out for dinner when thoses guys stormed into our suite. My father owned the hotel and the suite was full of everything he could possibly need. My mom locked me in a small compartment inside the closet. That was how I survived. I could still see what was going on. My dad fought them.off at first but when my mom was murdered, he fell to the ground beside her, he just stopped fighting. I didn't understand at first, i always saw my father as invincible, I didn't get why he didn't put up a fight anymore, I wanted to scream for him to do something but I knew better. It took me years but I finally got it, he loved my mother more than his own life. Watching the life seep out of her after being stabbed in the belly seventeen times, it was nerve wrecking. He had just lost his queen and a potential baby girl. That was when he died. He was distracted, and one of the eight men used that opportunity to slit his throat". "My God, that is horrible" I turned around to look at him, I tried to fight the tears but a lone tear drop fell from my eyes. I wrapped my arms around his neck "That is horrible Ronin, I can't believe you had to go through that" "I am fine love" he chuckled a little "No, I mean now I get it, I understand, you have every right to be what you are now" I kissed him "Okay, but am not done with my story yet. You see that room I don't let anyone into, that was the original master bedroom. It belonged to my parents and it had a little nursery designed specially for Mia, the unborn baby girl, the room is just as my parent left it, I can't stand anyone going in there, I know am wired wrongly, but its just the things i hold on to that keeps me together. After their deaths, I couldn't sleep, for years I was haunted by that night, that was until the first day you slept next to me, it was the first time in over twenty years that I had a good night sleep without waking up.in the middle of the night from a night mare. Barely two years later, I stumbled upon the bastard that killed my mom, i recognized him from the tattoo on his adam's apple, it was something written in chinese, he was very drunk, made it easier to kill him, considering the fact that I was nine, he underestimated me. I stabbed him. I wanted to stab him the number of times he did my mom and then some but i wasn't that heartless, I have never killed anyone before, of course my father had taught me a thing or too, but I had never actually killed, by the time I reach number three I just decided to leave him in that alley to die of blood loss, but I cant say that for the rest of them cause they all died horrible death. I have to say I enjoyed watching the life slowly wash out of their faces, and just love the sound of their begging, it was music to my ears. After killing that drunk guy, I was blood thirsty. I wanted revenge over everyone of those bastards that killed my parents, and my baby sister. I had always heard of this island from my dad, he wanted to send me there. That particular island is one in which was occupied my a series of masters in differents aspects ranging from martial arts to some ex military officers. I enrolled myself in the academy they created. It was a secret cause what they do there is to train their student to become killers, assassins. It was their I met Bronx, who you know as diablo, his parents sent him there to to groom him to become a proper heir to their mafia empire. He had been their a year earlier than I was. We became close friends immediately and he let me in on some cheat. In that academy was where I chose a knife and dagger to be my weapon. There is so much you can do with it and a death from either of the two can be as painful as you want it to be, unlike guns, which grant you a swift death, a knife does not. I am not known to grant people swift death. They teach people how not to feel pain but to inflict them. I was a fast learner, it only took a few years, two, three, I don't know. When i left, i focused on getting my revenge and pulling my father's mafia empire out of the mud, his people were scattered all over. After their deaths no one stayed. The most dangerous man had just been killed, they were afraid i understood that. When I arrived home after those years things had change, there was no one in the house, they all left, except Matilda, she said she always knew i would come back to her, considering the fact that I just left home, not telling her where i was going. That is why she would always hold a special place in my heart. She was just my nanny but she proved herself to be more than that. " "I am sorry" I didn't know what to say, I didn't know what to do to make him feel better "its not your doing. Now you know about my past, that is everything about me " he shrugged "thank you for sharing that with me" i smiled at him and he smiled back at me, my kids had better inherit that smile and those dimples, i thought to myself "I want a baby girl" he said breaking the silence, it was like he read my mind about babies, I always thought he would have wanted a boy "and can we name her Mia, after my sister?!" he asked "Yes" I replied "Yes we can".

A/n:
The book is starting to sum itself up. There is Ronin's past,

Now lets move ON!!!!!!!

BTW that was me doodling, but i thought it was nice

Once again, i thank all my readers out there.