Drakes POV
Call me paranoid but I couldn’t fall asleep that night. I felt so relieved after making love to my wife, but I couldn’t force myself to fall asleep. I just pulled her into my arms and cuddled her to sleep. I played with her hair, pecking her forehead softly, whispering nice words to her, promising my undying love and devotion.
She snuggled closer to me as she fell asleep on my shoulder with a smile on her face. She looked so beautiful, so peaceful, it was so hard to understand why anyone would want to hurt such a beautiful soul. She would never do anything to hurt anyone, she puts other people’s feelings ahead of hers. It hurts me to know that she would have married my brother if I didn’t show up when I did.
Everything that has happened since I stepped back into this city has been leading me right to this point. I am certain that this is where I want to be, and I am prepared to do everything possible to keep her safe. Looking at her vulnerability as she slept made me feel so furious.
I can’t believe that Riley is threatening to screw my woman if he gets an opportunity to get it done, I’m sure that he would do it without second thoughts. It’s so fucking annoying to know that my brother is ready to go to war with me because of a woman. I hate to think of what I would do to him if he dares to touch my woman. The day he tries anything funny with Mia is the day he ceases to be my brother.
I’ll Fucking Kill Him!
I swear it!
I waited for Mia to fall deeply asleep, and when she did, I ticked her in like a baby, I put soft pillows around her to keep her warm and comfy, then I sneaked out of the room with my laptop and hers. I don’t even know why I feel the urge to go through her laptop, I don’t know what I’m expecting to find but I needed to clear my head of this doubt, I need to be sure that her relationship with Riley was just as simple as I’m being made to believe by our parents.
It is funny how I just had a standoff with the most dangerous drug lord in this city, yet the only thing I’m concerned about is my relationship with Mia and the bond that existed between her and my stupid brother. I’m not that bordered about Austin Foster, he is a Bratva Captain and I am the Mafia Godfather. If it comes down to it, I’m ready to take him down at any given time. His case is so easy because it involves violence, and I, Drake Osborne, I love violence. I enjoy taking down my competitors and showing them who’s boss. I just need a few more days to know exactly what is going on here. It seems like Austin Foster had planted his seed deep within my family and our company.
I need to uproot every seed of greed and fear that he has planted, I need to know how far he has gone in trying to take over my company. I know the steps to take to destroy this guy for good, but I can’t do that until I’m sure that he has nothing on me or my family. I need to make sure that he can never come back to betray my family and I.
His case only requires me to investigate deeper and then plan carefully, putting everyone into consideration. It is so easy to put that fool in his place, but that is not what is bothering me right now.
It’s Riley…
My stupid, selfish brother!
Riley wasn’t kidding when he said he was going to get her back, he sounded very confident when he said he was going to fuck his wife. I know I should not be bothered by his words but unfortunately, I am. You can call me a lovesick puppy, but the fact remains that I love Mia, and I want to make sure that she is safe at all times. She is mine now, she has always been mine. Our union is not by chance, it is fate.
I’ll be damned if I let another man to lay a finger on my woman!
I switched on her laptop, ready to snoop around her private chats with my brother. I trust my wife, but I need to know if any promises were made. I need to know if she ever professed her undying love to him as she did with me. She has a password to unlock her laptop, and I tried different names and words that I thought she could use as her password. But none seems to work. Then I decided to try something crazy, I imputed my brother’s favorite game, rainbow, and boom, it worked.
Just like that!
Riley had been so obsessed with the rainbow games when we were growing up. He used the word Rainbow as a password for all his devices. He was so obsessed with that word, I wonder why she chose that word as her password, It hurt me to see that she had been so close to him when they were together. That is the only way she could find out about his fondness for that game. Or maybe she found out about it from Casey, and she decided to use it just to make her happy.
Whatever the case may be, the fact remains that she had loved him more than he loved her, and now I can’t help being jealous of her love for Riley. There is a part of me that still feels that she would leave me someday and return to him. I know he never had the chance to screw her as he wanted, he never touched her, not even once. But that doesn’t change the fact that he is her first love, and first love is always hard to forget.
What if she leaves me?
What if he screws my wife?
What would I do if everyone turns against me, how on earth would I be able to live without her?
I’ve become so attached to her that life without her seems impossible. I’m going to have to find a way to keep her close to me so Riley would never get a chance to be alone with her. I searched through her laptop, but I couldn’t find anything in there that could be of help to me. This laptop is practically empty, there are no files, no records, and certainly no documents.
I know that Mia is a workaholic and I expected her laptop to be filled with documents and files from work, but this laptop looks like it has just been scrubbed clean. The scrubbing was not done by a professional, it looks like whoever wiped the memory of the computer was in a hurry. He/she did such a messy job. I could see some files that they forgot to delete. If I get a professional in here, I’m sure he would restore back some of the files. Who knows, this could be the big break that I’ve been searching for, but why was it scrubbed, why on earth would Mia delete everything from her laptop.
“Could she be hiding something from me, what could that be?” I thought within me. I would be so pissed if I ever find out that her father has been doing business with Austin Foster. My father trusts him implicitly, he would never forgive them if he finds out that they were using us all this while. I don’t know what I’ll do if I find out that Mia knows about it as well. I hate being lied to, it hurts so much. It even hurts even more when you find out that the person lying to you is someone you love and trust. It doesn’t just make you sad, it kills every love and trust that you ever felt for that person.
I don’t want that with Mia, I don’t want to have any reason to distrust her. Why would she hide things from me, what on earth could she be hiding, is it so and that she doesn’t want me to see it?
I guess she doesn’t know that I am the only one that can save her and her family from the likes of Austin Foster and his thugs. I wanted to go up to that room and wake her immediately, but that would be rude, besides I’m not sure if my assumptions are correct. Waking her up would mean that I’ve already concluded already. I don’t want to create that impression, I can’t cause another issue between us, not when we are finally getting along with each other.
“Get here as soon as possible, and bring a tech expert with you. I need you to…”
“Drake…
Drake….
Where are you?” Mia called out from the top of the stairs, sounding tired. I heard her footsteps coming down and I quickly put the laptop away, before going up to meet her. I was close to the stairs, but I had second thoughts and I decided to get the laptop and clear the air immediately. If I want to earn her trust, if I want her to make me her confidante, the least I could do is, to be honest, and open with her as well.
“You are up so quick, does that mean that I didn’t do my job well?” I asked her teasingly. She responded with one of her cute smiles as she stood on her tiptoes and placed a kiss on my lips.
“I felt cold and I reached out for you, but you weren’t on the bed. Why are you working so late?” she asked me, wrapping her hands around my neck, and snuggling closer to me. I pecked her forehead, holding her at arm’s length. Then I showed her the laptop, hoping to get a reaction from her. And I did, she was so shocked as she took it from me and looked up at me,
“What the hell are you doing with Riley’s laptop?” she asked me.