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  "Excuse me, officer, this is unjust I demand to know why we are being arrested?!" I had to ask.

  "Well, for starters taking a boat that is not yours is not on your name is called stealing, and second, you were in the middle of the ocean just stationed there that is not allowed unless you are a licensed fisherman or a research scientist for NOAA or ocean planet or something like that you can't do that"

  The officer said.

  I never even thought of that. I guess he was right. He had a point. Now, what though?

  "Are we being arrested then?" I was almost afraid to ask.

  "Well, that depends on Mr. Lyner and if he wishes to press charges in the meantime you will wait in a cell"

  "What?! No please!" I never begged in my entire life, but this was too much. I have never been arrested up until now. They had already taken Earl to a cell somewhere and now me. My entire life depended on Ross it seemed. I always got myself in some sort of trouble that he somehow had to get me out of.

  One police guy took me to a cell. Thank God it was empty.

  "Wait here until someone comes and pays your bail and takes you out," the policeman said.

  But what if Ross didn't take me out? what if he left me here as payback for taking his boat without permission. Will I have a criminal record now because of this? It was all too scary to think about. I waited and waited. What will Ross say? will he even come? I had no idea. I just closed my eyes and prayed for a miracle.

  ROSS POV

  I should leave her ass in jail! how dare she try to leave me? what the hell was she doing in the middle of the ocean at that time and with Earl!! what else could I do to Earl that I hadn't done already?! I was beyond pissed. I didn't know how to control my anger and if I go to jail and see her right away with this anger that I had it was going to be worse. No, I wasn't going to go. I will send Rock and Rhino and meet them at hell land, and if blood was going to be spilled today I rather it be there than at my house.

  EDEN POV

  After about an hour or probably more my cell opened. "Am I free?" was the first thing I asked the police officer, but he said nothing. He led me into the sheriff's office and I almost froze. It wasn't Ross it was Rock and another guy that was equally as huge as Earl. The sheriff waved me inside.

  "You are free to go, Miss Alicante, lucky for you Mr. Lyner is not pressing charges and your bail has been paid."

  "Will I have a criminal record?" I just had to ask.

  "Since no charges were pressed. No, you will not. If I were you I would thank Mr. Lyner for his kindness because if It was me you were stealing such an expensive boat like that from, I will have you sent to jail 20 times over" He said laughing but I didn't take it as a joke at all. This was serious.

  "what about Earl?" I asked. I didn't see him there with me.

  "Worry about yourself young lady," the policeman said.

  "Yeah is best if you worry about yourself you are going to need to worry, keep walking," Rock said grabbing me by my shoulder.

  "Rock you can't leave Earl here it isn't right he didn't do anything wrong."

  "Help you escape isn't wrong? help you steal Ross's boat isn't wrong just shut up until we get to hell's land, I'm not the one you have to explain things too" He said. I made to say more but he gave me a dead look. I kept my mouth closed it was best not to test Rock's patience or any of Ross's gang members. Who knows what they could do?

  We drove about 30 minutes from the prison into a huge private driveway.

  But the sight was unbelievable. The house was unbelievable. This was Hell's land? It looked more like Heaven land.

  

  This house was bigger than his mansion. Why would he call it this? we drove up to the front of the door” get out" Rock said and I did. They were treating me different. I noticed their change in moods. Was I causing them too many problems? I didn't care I was standing up for myself.

  I went inside the huge doors and a beautiful woman was there talking to an older man. They didn't pay me any attention. I waited there for someone to instruct me on what to do and where to go but as I looked around, I was amazed by the house.

  The walls were all white and gold. I felt like I was walking into a castle and not a house. But this wasn't any ordinary house. This was an estate by the looks of it. In the middle was a huge staircase covered by a huge Arabian carpet leading two separate ways in the middle one to the left and one to the right. The west and east wing. A bright huge crystal Chandelier hung in the middle.

  The woman was dressed elegantly as if she was attending a party or an important meeting. The man had a suit on, and he was a handsome older man too.

  I just stood there. Finally, the tough guy that was with Rock came in.

  "Ross is waiting for you, follow me this way" he had a rougher voice than all the others.

  I followed him into the back of the house. The couple that was there the older man and elegant woman didn't spare me a glance. I wonder who they were. Were they part of whatever Ross does? They had to be if they were here and why did it even matter? I was just so nosy.

  We went passed double glass doors to the outside of the estate. A huge fountain was there in the middle. Towards the back, there was a huge rectangle inground swimming pool lots of trees it looked more like a football field. It was huge. We walked towards the pool and their Ross stood with Monique and a few other people. I breathed fast and my heart started beating pretty fast. Why was I here?

  "Boss, here she is," the man said.

  "Thanks, Rhino, babe why don’t you go with Rhino to the restaurant will meet you there," he told Monique French kissing her. How he was able to talk while his tongue was inside her mouth was beyond me.

  "I'll stay here with you baby, " she said kissing him back.

  "It might get ugly," he said.

  "Make it hurt baby teach that brat whose boss," she said. Smiling at me with an evil wicked smile as she said it. Walking past me she almost tried to push me, but I got out of her way. Her copycat friends tried to do the same and one of them made contact with my shoulder. I wasn't going to take this. I ran after her and pushed her as hard as I could.

  "What the fuck!" She shouted.

  "You bitch" she came after me.

  I stood there in place.

  "Rhino!" Ross shouted and the guy named Rhino grabbed her and took her away from me.

  "Ross she fucking pushed Elyse!" Monique shouted angrily.

  "Nobody touches Eden but me," he said.

  "But Ross!" Monique said.

  "I will hear no more of it! She shouldn't be pushing her first I saw everything. Now go to the restaurant or go home" he said.

  Monique stormed off furious.

  "I'll see you at the restaurant!" She shouted running after Rhino and Elyse.

  "Thank you," I said

  He turned his back for a minute. We were alone. The water in the pool was so blue and clean. It was a beautiful night.

  "You ruined my party," he said still giving me his back.

  "Ross you started..." He didn't let me finish.

  "ENOUGH!!!! EDEN ENOUGH! I've Had it with your childish tantrums and puffs like a child! I’m not a child neither are you, you sure as hell act like one though!" He said very angrily. He was turned facing me now.

  "You are having Monique around all the time..."

  "So, fucking what! She's my bitch I fuck her every day! I have fun with her. We talk we get along. She listens to me unlike you! You used to listen to me what is going on with you?"

  "I grew out of your shadow Ross! I have plans I’m going to Switzerland; I’m moving there I’m going to a school there a cooking school there. I got accepted" well, I had one more interview, but the judge lady said that is only for them to get to know me more the hard part was already done.

  "What the fuck are you talking about?" He asked surprised.

  "My professor recommended me for a scholarship to attend a top cooking school in Switzerland and I got accepted," I said.

  "I leave i
n less than two weeks" I smiled.

  But he wasn't. "How the fuck are you getting there? You don’t have a dime to your name and I’m not paying shit for you to go there." He said with fury in his every word.

  I didn't notice that he had a bottle of vodka in his hands he took a sip from it he was clearly drunk. I just noticed it.

  "The flight is paid for by the school so is the hotel I will be staying at everything is taken care of," I said calmly but that didn't sit well with him.

  "YOU!" He came towards me getting closer. "Are not going anywhere do you listen!! You are staying right here with me where you belong!" He took another drink almost drinking the whole bottle.

  "I’m sorry, Ross but my life is no longer your decision to make decisions on. I am very capable of making my own choices and it has been made"

  "What the fuck do you know about choices? About life! You are an immature little brat with no job or no family because they all abandoned you! You only have me and you can't make it on your own you can't even drive a car sorry little girl, but the world out there is too cruel for a baby like you!" he said.

  Wow. I can't believe that's how he really felt. All Monique said was right.

  "Goodbye Ross" I made to leave but he grabbed my arm hard.

  "You are not going anywhere! You have defied me for the last time. ROMA!!!" He yelled.

  Who the heck was Roma? I wish I hadn't pushed him. Running towards us was a huge woman at least 6'2 in height and with muscles like a man even bigger than some men.

  "I don’t hit women Eden, I can't pin you down and choke you for being such an ungrateful little bitch after everything I have done for you...but Roma, on the other hand, is a woman like you she can do things I can't." He said smiling.

  What the hell was he doing?

  "So Eden you think you are so tough to be on your own in this world...fight Roma and win and I'll let you go wherever the fuck you want ill even give you money but remember you have to win," he said with laughter that could be heard all the way to China. Wow, he was evil he was really purely evil.

  Chapter 13.

  ROSS POV

  What happened last night? Where was I? I barely remember anything. I was so drunk and high on something I don't know. My head was pounding.

  As in reading my thoughts, Olivianna gave me something.

  "It will help with your headache," She said. In her thick Italian accent giving me a red drink.

  "Thanks love," I said taking her drink.

  it tastes so bad whatever he hell she gave me.

  "What happened last night?" I asked almost afraid to ask.

  "Well, your horrible father left me here again to fetch your mother because she was having a crisis but frankly I believe it was one of her shenanigans to get him to go to her and he went Ross, he went and left me" she was crying.

  Olivianna was my dad's squeeze. She was his mistress. But she was gorgeous. An Italian woman he met while he was in Italy. She was married to a huge mafia leader, but she fell for my dad and he brought her here. But he was still with mom and she was technically still married to that Italian man. Dad was in danger he knew it. So, he was hiding her here with my men and I to protect her. Dad wanted to make a deal with that man because he was tired of hiding.

  "I have to talk to dad" I tried to get up, but the headache wasn't gone. Not yet.

  "Is not a miracle cure Ross you have to wait at least a couple of more minutes for it to work" I smiled because she was right. I thought I was superman or something and could heal easily. But sadly, that wasn't the case. I had scars that not even a miracle pill would cure.

  I thought back at the night before and slowly remembered what happened.

  "OH NO! EDEN!" shit! I remembered what happened. I had asked Roma to fight Eden or Eden to fight Roma whatever the fuck I did I had to face the consequences. I was so furious at Eden for leaving me again. She got caught by the cops for crying out loud! She ruined my party and she dared talk back to me some bullcrap about going to Switzerland or some crap like that. That wasn't happening. But what had I done? Roma will destroy her. I had to get up.

  "Sit down" Olivianna's soft hands rested on my chest. I can see why dad liked her.

  "I have to go take care of something," I told her. Her soft delicate hand slides off my body as I got up.

  She smiled.

  "You look a lot like your father," she said. In part I did. Although I didn't approve of what dad was doing to mom Olivianna seemed like she really loved him and respected him. She left her home in Italy to come here and be a second-string on dad's guitar as the saying goes. Dad was still with mom he hadn't left her completely. I didn't speak to my parents much, but dad was here to talk to me about something. I had to take care of Eden and see if she was okay before I talked to dad. I was laying on my canopy bed in hell's land mansion. I had named it this because this is where the secret underground lab was at. This is where all my businesses took place where I set up deals and meetings with people who were going to buy my merchandise or distribute it. Everything happened here. I kept business away from my other house. That place was for fun wild parties and rest when done. This was more business matters. I kept the two separated it was best this way.

  I had brought Eden here out of anger because I wanted to teach her a lesson. A couple of my men suggested the Roma idea and I hadn't considered it. Until she pissed me off so bad. If anything happened, it was all Eden's fault and not mine. I had to tell myself that. I rushed to her room. Yes, she had a room here although she had never seen it. Her door was closed. I panicked. I knocked but no one answered so I opened it slightly.

  I walked up to her bed and saw her tied up. Both her hands cuffed to the bed. She was sleeping. Roma walked in

  "Is there a problem boss?" She asked.

  "What happened last night? Did you beat her?" I was almost afraid to ask.

  "No boss, you told me not to. It was just to scare her. She did put up a fight, but I didn't touch her on your order boss"

  Roma said.

  "Then why is she tied up?" I asked.

  "You told us to give her a tranquilizer and tie her up so she wouldn't move or leave when she got up"

  Did I say that? I barely remember anything.

  "Okay well untie her I’ll wait here for her to get up"

  "Yes, boss," she said as she untied her.

  Her delicate arms came down and she laid there sleeping peacefully.

  I had to come up with a better strategy. I had to make her believe that I was on her side. That I approved of this idea of hers while making sure it didn't happen but how?

  I had to have a talk with my advisor. Some things I can figure out on my own and others I can't. This was one I had to make sure I didn't mess up or I will lose her forever if I hadn't already.

  As I was thinking that, she was beginning to move. But her eyes were still closed. I saw her there so peaceful and quiet and didn't see the new talking back to me Eden. I saw the old Eden. The one who never talked back to me. The one who saw me as her hero. The one who I could talk to about anything and everything. We would stay up late at night looking up at the stars. Taking my boat out for a midnight ride on the ocean. My best friend. The Eden I fell in love with. The one who was always by my side and never questioned anything I did. She just agreed and followed. What happened to that girl?

  I needed to talk to someone about this. Of what I could do to get her back. Thankfully Olivianna was a therapist a psychologist before she was the wife of a mafia man. I had to see her. I had to talk to her. I left Eden there and went to find Olivianna.

  The first place I looked at was her room, but she wasn't there. I then made my way outside and she wasn't there either. I asked one of the maids if they had seen her and thankfully one of them saw her entering the spa room. I went to find her and stepped into the spa room.

  There she was laying on a spa bed completely naked. No towel on facing front so her breasts were on full display. I couldn't help but look. I knew that I should
turn around right now! A part of me wanted too but the man part of me told me to stay there. It was stronger sadly. It was wrong on all levels. She was my dad's girlfriend. I had been with plenty of older women before but never with someone my dad dated, and he really liked Olivianna. Now I saw why. She was breathtaking and her body was even better than I had imagined. She slowly moved and I froze. I couldn't take my eyes away. I did try.

  Finally, she opened her eyes. She looked up at me and smiled. I for sure thought that she was going to scream or tell me to get out but no. She just smiled. I smiled back. She slowly got up and didn't bother putting a towel over her body to cover it she didn't reach out to grab clothes either. She motioned me to get closer I did. My legs gave way and I walked closer. This was wrong. I can't betray my father this way. But at the same time, I can't stop myself.

  "I have always had a thing for you. You remind me so much of your dad but a younger more romantic version" she said getting closer to me. I sat down on the bed right next to her so close.

  "You are young and adventurous and..." She kissed me. I returned the kiss. The kiss was passionate and full of lust. She didn't stop neither did I. We just stayed there kissing for a long time.

  She finally pulled away and pulled my head back so that I can see her body better. "Do you like what you see?" She asked me with her thick Italian accent.

  "Do you like what you touch?" She grabbed both of my hands and put them on both of her breasts. My instincts we're to pull away. This was one of the worst things I was about to do. She could someday become my stepmother if my dad divorced my mother and decided to marry her. Yet I couldn't pull away. Maybe she was doing all this to get back at my dad. Maybe she really did feel something for me. Whatever the reason I couldn't stop. I couldn't force myself to stop. She pulled my hands off her body and got up. She sat on top of me. Her full body on full display on top of me. Closer. She kissed me deeper. There was no going back now. One thing will lead to another. My dad will never forgive me neither would Eden if she ever finds out that I slept with my potential stepmother. But she wasn't my stepmother yet and maybe after this, she didn't have to be.