Claimed by the Mafia King

“I like what you did there. You are really brave standing your ground like that. I am really impressed.” Scar was saying as we both walked home.

Since we stayed opposite each other it was impossible to avoid him no matter how much I wanted to do just that.

He had been trying to have a conversation with me ever since we both left the station and I had made known my lack of interest to have said conversation with him.

Yet, he didn’t take the hint to let me be or he just chose not to leave me alone and I was beginning to get really pissed off by this.

“I just hope the police do their job.” I said more to myself than to him.

“Nothing is going to happen to you or your family. It doesn’t matter what the police does or doesn’t do.” He asserted.

I stopped walking and he did too.

“You sound so sure of it.” I muttered. I narrowed my eyes at him folded my hands.

“I am sure. Very sure.”

I scoffed.

“Please I don’t want to start up any rumors and I don’t want people to start running away from me because they saw me with you.” I Inhaled. “And it does matter that the police_ you know what just keep your distance.”

“Since when did Mira start caring about what others thought about her?”

“Since she decided to. I don’t know you and you don’t know me. So let’s keep our distance. Today means nothing. And please don’t talk like you know me.” After saying this I turned around and walked away.

I noticed that he was still walking behind me even as I increased my pace so that he couldn’t catch up with me. But I didn’t bother about this. I had so many things on my mind to let trivialities take over.

I thought about him telling me, “when did Mira start caring about what people thought about her?” and I scoffed. ‘He talked like he fucking knew anything about me!’

I walked ahead, greeting people and crossing roads even though my mind was no longer with me.

I was worried about my family even if I knew that Ken was just after me not them. But he knew my weakness was my family and I did not put it past him, not to try to use them to get to me.

“Mira.” Scar called pushing me off the road all of a sudden.

A car was horning furiously at me.

The man in the drivers sit looked out the window and laid curses on me. As if the curses he laid on me inside the car were not enough_ he still came out of his car to hurl more insults at me.

I watched him but said nothing. I was still being enveloped in Scars arms.

“You can’t even watch were you are going! Small girl like you what do you know that you are thinking about! When you girls prefer to start knowing men at your early age instead of you to focus on your studies! All you people that want to commit suicide you won’t do it alone but prefer to implicate someone else.”

He hissed loudly finally getting back into his car.

“Should he not be grateful that he didn’t hit me instead of shouting.” I mumbled, getting out of Scars grip.

“You walked into his car.” Scar scolded. The look on his face was indecipherable but there was anger in his eyes.

“Whatever.” I replied pulling myself away from him. This time though I let him walk by my side_ just to keep me safe from harm. People would talk but they won’t protect me.

At least he was protecting me.

***

White Lion’s POV

I made sure Mira was safely in her house before going over to the Caravan where I stayed.

Mira had allowed me walk by her side as she went home and I couldn’t be more happy.

I tried not to think about how Ken had hurt her or how she had looked at me like I was a monster.

Thinking about those things would have filled me with rage and my rage was like fire. I couldn’t let Mira see it.

I loved her too much to be angry around her.

I knew that she wasn’t exactly worried about what people will say. She just didn’t want to disappoint her mother and I understood her.

Immediately I entered the empty Caravan I called one of my men and instructed him to look after her while I sneakingly walked to the junction of her street trying my best to stay away from haunting eyes.

Mira’s street was filled with a lot of gossips. Most of them had something to say about everything and at any time of the day.

That woman who sold the Caravan to me looked to be the leader of them all.

I had never come across a more Lackadaisical set of people in my life before. The only person that stood out Amongst them was Mira’s mum and Mira.

The woman was as pretty as she was hardworking. She looked just like Mira.

Mira was different too. I would always find her taking her brothers to school or cleaning the house and compound rarely with a frown on her face.

She seemed to love her family so much excluding her Dad who I rarely saw. I didn’t like the man either. He was a cheat and even if some of my men hadn’t caught him in bad places I would still have known. It was obvious.

I found myself falling for Mira over and over again. I just wanted her, to see her to feel her over and over.

She was in my veins and I couldn’t get her out neither did I want to.

You might call it stalking but I could not see her going to buy something and not follow behind.Property © of NôvelDrama.Org.

I would sit in front of my Caravan most times while I waited for her to come home from her brothers school.

I knew she knew that I was stalking her but I couldn’t stop, even though it was a risk to my plans.

She had been discharged from the hospital after two days and she looked like nothing had happened to her.

I was more than grateful for her loss of memory but that didn’t mean that I didn’t want to kill Ogaga.

I still felt the urge to sometimes.

When I was safely at the junction I called for a car and asked to be taken to Sophia’s place; A small duplex in the eastern side of the town.

I needed to speak to her urgently about Ken.

Now that I was in the car I thought back at everything that had happened.

Ken’s instructions had been simple. He was to scare her and I was to act as a savior. No where in our plans had it been said that he was to lead her to his car or to hurt her.

Thinking about it now, I felt so enraged. He had cut her and though Mira didn’t show how upset she was for I had noticed that she rarely showed emotions I knew that she was very upset about everything.

Ken seemed to want to take her and Mira on the other hand seemed very pissed of at him as if they were long time enemies.

I was only grateful to the dpo for taking the initiative to ask Mira if she knew Ken. But her explanation had many hidden lines to it and I was eager. No I was desperate to find out what they were.

What annoyed me most was that it seemed Ken was one step ahead of me. I hit the front sit with my fist, and my driver, one of my men tensed up.

I was going to find out what relationship they had and never would I let him be even three steps behind me.

He had hurt my love and he would pay for it.