Taken By The Mafia Lord

Elijah knew something was wrong the moment Adele picked up that call and her expression changed. Yeah, you got it right. Both of them were currently friends with benefits.

The proposal had come right after that stunt with Cindy. Elijah wasn't ready to commit to another relationship, not after Arianna, - not that he has given up on her anyway and Adele doesn't know that nor would she come to know. But then, whenever he needed someone to take off his frustration and scratch his sexual itch, she was the one for the job.

Of course, the rules of their relationship were simple, no feelings attached and Adele agreed to it without a second thought. Just because they were sleeping together doesn't mean that she would show him preferential treatment in their working place - okay, maybe, a little preferential treatment. But the point is, their sexual relationship wasn't going to affect their work.

Hence, since that incident, they have been together and sex had never been so fun. But to Elijah, Adele was merely a distraction, a tool for the satisfaction of his sexual urges, and a means of revenge, because, at the end of the day, his heart was with Arianna - even though she hurt him.

Since Arianna was sleeping with Marcel, it wasn't a crime he too was sleeping with Adele, right? Arianna hurt him too deeply that this was the only way that he could retaliate. Moreover, Adele was Marcel's cousin and it gave Elijah a twisted sense of satisfaction knowing that Marcel would be enraged when he finally finds out that the nemesis he had been searching for, was sleeping with his cousin. He was so smart, he thought.

"What is it?" Elijah groaned in disappointment as Adele rolled out of his bed, searching and picking up her clothes from the various directions they had tossed them hours ago in their haste to have hot, passionate sex. He missed the warmth of her soft body already. Mind you, this was his lust talking.

"You should get up," Adele told him, forcing her hips into her pants, "Something happened."

At the mention of that, Elijah got up without a second time. With his identity at stake here, he couldn't joke around with a single piece of information. That was the only reason he had let Cindy go easily after she almost raped him. Adele promised him that she would punish her and place a restraining order on her as well. Her people would make sure Cindy doesn't even get five feet close to him.

Because he didn't want any attention on him, Elijah simply let it go and made Adele think that he was a magnanimous person which he wasn't. Everything he has ever done was for a purpose and a reward. You could almost say that he was a master of manipulation.

As the last of his siblings, the others inculcated all of their knowledge in him and with little to do, he found his version of fun. He liked Arianna from the start because she intrigued him and swore to make her his wife. Elijah saw all the qualities he needed in a wife in her and wanted her. Falling in love with her was the cherry on top until Marcel decided to ruin it all.

So he planned to disgrace Elijah and get Arianna back as well. It was equivalent to killing two birds with one stone and the plan had seemed feasible at that time. Infiltrating your enemy's camp, operating right under his nose for a long time and in the end, stealing his captive was a great insult to a gang leader. Marcel would be disgraced, and it would show his incapability, that had been Elijah's plan until one thing went wrong.

Arianna fell for him.

Elijah couldn't understand why she would do that till death. For sure, he took time, however, Elijah never expected that it would last this long too, things just get complicated! However, the signs were there, couldn't she have waited for him? Couldn't Arianna hold on? Or had he read her wrong?

Moreover, of all people she could like, why was it, Marcel? Hasn't she heard of Marcel's father, Daniel, his reputation and relationship with women? Why would she subject herself to such fate? Like father, like son, was she so blinded by love that she couldn't see the connection? She would never be happy with Marcel, just like the way Marcel's mother was never happy with his father.

Also, this was the man who ruined Aunt Natalie. Elijah didn't know the full story but he guessed she and Daniel had history, however, it didn't work out to the point she had to run for her life and up to date, lives in hiding. No, he would not allow Arianna to have such a fate. He would get her out of there by all means and not even Adele would be able to change his mind about that - no matter how much he enjoyed having sex with her.

"What happened?" Elijah asked, putting on his innocent facade. It was no longer a matter of putting on the mask physically as the phantom ghost anymore, these days, he put on so many masks he was beginning to have an identity crisis.

Adele hesitated, and he understood instinctively that this was another secret she kept from him. It wasn't a matter of trusting him or not, as the second in command, there were a lot of secrets she had to carry for Marcel.

"There's something I haven't told you and it's related to our work," Adele told him.

"I'm all ears," Elijah said, expecting Adele to spill more secrets about Marcel that he could use against him when the time comes. But to his greatest surprise, Adele began to tell him about Marcel and Arianna, and their great love, blah blah. It was a surprise he didn't throw up.

"In one word, Marcel wants us to pull an all-nighter. We have to come up with a plan for him, find something, anything strong enough to be used against his father or even Clara. The wedding must not be held tomorrow."

Well, bless his holy soul because Elijah was all in for the wedding happening.