Taken By The Mafia Lord

364 Stubborn As A Bull

Music Recommendation:- In control – Hillsong Worship.

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Throughout the rest of the day, Arianna was angry for no reason. She was so suffocated and sad inside that she felt the whole world deserved to be miserable with her. Neither did it help matters that she didn’t Marcel after their encounter, nor Winters as well.

Who knows, the both of them were together? Since they were friends, Marcel must have gone to her so she could help me lick his wounds. Now that she has given up on Marcel, Arianna was sure that Winters would be over the moon. With her out of the picture, Winters could freely date Marcel now.

And why was she so bothered about it? Why couldn’t she just stop caring? It was literally none of her business, who Marcel decided to date. It doesn’t concern her anymore...

Thankfully, Victor came up to her, informing her that she needed to learn a few self-defense moves in case she found herself in a bit of a situation tomorrow.

Unfortunately, Victor didn’t know he provided her a platform to vent all of her frustration because whatever teaching he provided to her fell on deaf ears. Unlike the ever mercy Marcel, Victor was quite serious in his lesson and Arianna couldn’t remember the number of times her ass landed on the practicing mat.

It wasn’t until the twentieth fall that Victor realized that Arianna hadn’t been listening to his lessons at all because she never applied any moves he taught her in the training. If anything, it was as if she wanted him to use her like some rag doll.

Hence, when Arianna didn’t rise from the last fall and instead lay on the mat laughing loudly, Victor instinctively knew something was wrong. He had met Marcel on the way out and after his dear cousin told him to teach her basic moves so she doesn’t get herself killed in the mission tomorrow, he stormed out of the place.

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So while Arianna lay there laughing, Victor left to call Mimi knowing that he couldn’t handle this one – it was beyond him. Neither does he want to be on the receiving end of whatever happened to them.

Arianna lay on the ground, exhausted to the bones as her body hurt all over from landing on the ground. Although the mat provided a softer landing, it didn’t mean it was painless. But the pain was all she needed which was why she tried to stand up to her feet and failed woefully.

So she lay on the floor and began to laugh. Arianna turned her face to the side laughing hysterically, how did she end up like this? She had once been a young lady living her life to the fullest? How did she get to this point?

Arianna made her choice, she chose Elijah. She was supposed to be happy! She was supposed to be on top of the world, after all, she chose the love of her life, Elijah, over her short fling, Marcel. So why was she feeling this way instead? Why was she feeling miserable and sad?

Soon, Arianna’s laughter turned into sobs as she couldn’t take it anymore. She could deceive herself and say that she was okay, but deep inside, Arianna knew that she just lost something. No, someone. Someone important.

And that was the scene that greeted Mimi when she came into the training room with Victor. She stopped short at the scene, stunned to see her friend curled up on the floor and crying.

“Arianna!” Mimi’s heart was broken at the sight and hurried over to her friend. She pulled her up from the ground and made her sit up so she was able to wrap her arms around her chest and consoled her.

Even when Arianna went through tough times at the hands of her family, her friend hadn’t cried this badly. Hence, it hurt her that the matters of the heart could hurt her this badly.

“Hey, that’s enough already! To hell with men, you could do without them. The both of us had been content together, what’s the worst that could happen now?!” Mimi tried to comfort her all to no avail.

In the end, Mimi left her to cry all she wanted. Arianna needed to release all that emotions, else she bottled it all up and handled it negatively. Hence, Mimi was with her until she finished crying and just leaned on her arms.

After that, Mimi helped lead her to the bed where she laid down, and even though it was merely late afternoon, Arianna slept as if she was having a good night’s rest. The tiredness and the body ache she suffered during the training finally conquered her body and she slept off with Mimi by her side.

When Arianna woke up, it was late at night but Mimi already got her dinner in bed. She muttered thanks to Mimi and tried to eat as much as she could knowing she had no appetite.

“You can’t keep on living like this. For christ’s sake, Arianna, just tell Marcel you like him,” Mimi said and that was the conversation Arianna dreaded but there was nothing she could do but face it.

“Whether I like him or not, it’s too late for that,” Arianna said.

“What do you mean it’s too -”

Arianna dropped her spoon and pulled the tray away, “I’ve lost my appetite,” and with that, she turned her back to Mimi, and pulled the cover up to her chin.

“Ugh!” Mimi felt like strangling her idiotic friend. What was so hard about going up to the man she liked and telling him she had feelings for him. It was so frustrating because the atmosphere in the base was depressing. Not to mention that D-day was tomorrow, and they can’t operate with low morale.

Knowing that was the end of the discussion, Mimi left the room and shut the door only to bump into Victor.

“Any news?” She asked about the update on Marcel.

“Negative,” Victor sighed, hands on his waist. None of them were happy with what was going on, “What about her?” He referred to Arianna.

“Negative as well. She’s as stubborn as a bull.”

“Same with Marcel. I hate this.” Victor complained.

“Not unless we take matters into our hands,” Mimi said and Victor turned his attention to her.

“What do you have in mind?”