Taken By The Mafia Lord

Arianna realized she fucked up at the last minute. There had been the signs and even warnings from Ashley, Rose, and Chelsea, but Cassie had deceived her by her goodwill. No, she let herself get deceived by Cassie's pretense. No one was to blame but herself.

"W-what -?!" Arianna was not able to speak properly with that chord wrung around her neck because she was beginning to suffocate.

"You don't know how much I've been waiting for this moment," Cassie sneered, a sadistic smile at the corner of her lips as she grabbed the end of the garrote and tightened the chord to cause more bodily harm.

Arianna turned purple as she struggled for air. She could feel a bunch of pain and her breathing was deep and fast. Arianna saw her life flash before her life and a bitter smile crossed her lips, in the end, she died miserably.

Cassie went on, relishing satisfaction from Arianna's pain squeezed face as she tried to gasp for breath, "Honestly, I liked you at first. I really liked you...." She laughed bitterly, "But you should have just stopped being a flirt,"

Arianna wanted to say something in her defense but all she did was claw at the chords tight around her throat. The situation was beginning to look helpless - and painful. Her lungs were on fire and her head was pounding like someone was hitting it with a bat. Arianna knew at this rate she would black out and die - that was Cassie's endpoint.

She went on, "He said nothing was going on between the both of you but I could sense his stares on you and he was distracted even when he was with me,"

"Well, that sounds like a you and your boyfriend's problem," Arianna would have sassed back if she wasn't trying so hard not to knock on death's door.

"And then that incident happened," Cassie spoke through gritted teeth, a new wave of anger settling over her, "He thought I wasn't there, but I saw everything. The way he threw himself at you and wanted to have you, none of you noticed me stepping into the room. I saw everything even before Big Joe came in!"

So the bitch witnessed her trying to get raped by her boyfriend and did nothing? Arianna wished this was a fair fight because she wanted to land two or three blows on her face and teach her a lesson she would never forget in a hurry.

"I don't blame you for that anyway..." Cassie laughed pathetically, "It was not your fault; you didn't ask to be raped. However, I love Kenith too much to lose him and you are a threat to my happiness. He should have killed you alongside your husband but he wanted you alive to punish you dearly... Unfortunately, I can't let that happen. I can't risk that chance! I've been with him all these years, I won't be cast aside!"

"Bitch please, have your pathetic boyfriend to yourself, I have better suitors!" Arianna would have said at this point if she had the opportunity. It wasn't her fault she was insecure.

"You are a good person, Arianna..." Cassie's gaze suddenly melted and Arianna would have been deceived by that look in the past if she didn't know now that she was a psycho, "But I'm sorry, you have to go!" Her gaze switched back to severe as she tightened the chord.

Unfortunately, Arianna didn't want to die as well, at least, not in the hands of this bitch. She won't go down without a fight. So she at once grabbed the chord from tightening around her neck while holding her breath.

Cassie noticed her resistance and added more force to her grip and Arianna found out the longer she held her breath, the longer she felt like she was going to explode. She would die at this rate.

So with the remaining strength inside of her, Arianna dashed back with all of her might with no specific plan in mind and because Cassie was choking her from behind, she wasn't able to see where they were going.

Something must have tripped her because Cassie fell, bringing the both of them down, the garrote loosened from her neck and Arianna was able to take a mouthful of breath.

No one was more grateful at that moment for oxygen than Arianna because she greedily took in as many as possible into her lungs. But that was a mere deviation because Cassie recovered immediately and tried to grab her to continue from where she stopped, Arianna elbowed her in the face.

A painful groan came from Cassie as Arianna hurried up to her feet, she had to get out of here. But even as she stood, Arianna felt light-headed and wasn't as fast as she wanted to be.

Cassie grabbed her by the leg and tripped her, she landed on the ground with her side and expelled a sharp breath. That hurt like hell.

Before Arianna could recover this time, Cassie already climbed over her body and straddled her. She tightened the garrote that hung limply around her neck.

Arianna's eyes grew wild because unlike the last time where Cassie was killing her slowly, she didn't hold back this time. It was obvious that Cassie didn't want a repeat of what happened where she nearly escaped and wanted her dead this time.

She kicked severely, struggling for life but Cassie had this demented look and was stronger than usual. Hot tears fell down Arianna's face, she didn't want to die now and especially not like this.

Arianna knew the moment her mind began to wander that she was in danger of moving to the great beyond. So she put up her last fight and it was in the process of striving, that her hand mistakenly touched something.

It was wooden and crafted with a long tip, then it hit Arianna, her hairpin. Because she loved antique collections, Chelsea had gotten her an oriental classic Jade bamboo hairpin for her hair but the makeup artist had rejected it saying it doesn't go with the style Big Joe wanted for her.

Thanks to that, the hairpin was long forgotten until now and Arianna didn't think twice about picking it up and rammed it right into Cassie's neck.