Part 3

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warnings: cussing, fighting, slight angst

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I cross my arms, “What unfinished business? We’re not gonna finish having sex if that’s what you referring to.” I make my way towards the door and that’s when Harrison walks in and locks the door behind him.

I turn around and Tom is walking towards me at this point, “As much as I would like that, I’m here for something else,” He puffs out smoke again.

I rub my forehead, “What is it? I don’t really feel like looking at your stupid face right now.” He is right in front of me, he inhales and blows smoke to my face.

“Geez darling, you weren’t this aggressive the night we met. Especially when you were down on your knees for me.” He laughs, holding his cigarette with his teeth.

I’m not a fan of him at all, if I could take it all back I would. He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a note, “I just wanted to make sure I had all your friends information correct before I have Harrison contact his family.” He hands it to me and I take it.

It is all of Cesar’s information, where he lives, who his family is. I start choking up and then I look up at Tom, “How are you going to tell his family?”

He puffs out another smoke, “Don’t worry about it, darling. We’ve got that covered.” Harrison snatches the note from me, and slides it in his pocket. I put my hands on my hips, “Is that it? Can I go now? Unlike you, I have important stuff to do.” I start making my way towards the door.

“Not quite,” Tom says. My hand is on the knob, I turn back and look at him “What is it? I don’t have money to give you if that’s what you want.”

Tom and Harrison look at each other and laugh, Harrison answers, “We don’t want your money.”

Tom finishes for him, “You need to come with us.” He puts his cigarette out on a table.

There is a slight moment of a silence until I burst out in laughter, “Me? Go with you? What makes you think I would do that?” I wipe a fake tear.

Tom scoffs, “Alright. Let me put it this way, you’re going to come with us. You’re going to live with us for the rest of your stay here in London.”

I start backing away, “What-what?” All my laughter is gone, Harrison is the one laughing now and responds, “Not so funny anymore is it?”

I want to cry, “I’m not going to live with you.”

Tom steps forward to me and we’re face to face now, “Yes you are [Y/N], it’ll only make the story we tell Cesar’s parents more believable.”

Tears are rolling down my face, “What about- what about my family? What about Alex? What about my classes?”

He takes a hold of my hand, “Don’t worry about that, Cesar’s parents will relay the message to your family that you’re missing. Alex.. well she’ll be here. She’ll just think that you’re missing too.” He kisses my knuckles, and gives me a small chuckle. “Your classes are taken care of. Don’t worry about that.”

I pull my hand away quickly, “You’re so cruel.” Tears are rolling down my face and Tom wipes them while he smiles. He’s happy that he’s getting his way, “Alright then, Haz will take you to your apartment and pack your things. I’ll see you back home darling.”

He walks past you, slightly bumping your shoulder and leaving the classroom.

I start bawling, I can only imagine the pain my family will be put through thinking that I’ve just vanished. And Cesar’s family..well I wish I could just bring him back to them.

Harrison clears his throat, “Well then, with that being said..give me your phone.” I don’t even hesitate, I practically throw it at him. There is no point fighting right now.

He chucks it at the floor and steps on it. He walks past me and towards the door, I take a moment to think about my life.. I should have never went to that fucking club.

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I’ve packed everything I brought to London. Tom didn’t exactly mention how long I would have to stay here. I even packed the dress I wore to the club that night, dry blood and all.

I take my things to the living room and hand them to Haz. He grabs them, “Is that everything?” I look up, “Oh I forgot one of my bags, I’ll meet you downstairs.”

Harrison let’s out a sigh, “Alright then, I’ll be back up in a moment.”

He heads out my door and I quickly run to the counter and pull out a page from a book that’s sitting there.

I find a black marker in my purse and write a quick goodbye, I let Alex know I was okay. To keep going. That everything would be fine.

I kiss it, leaving my lip outlines and slight tinted peach color from my lip tint. I put the paper down and then turn to the door and see Harrison standing there.

He walks towards me and pulls the paper from the counter, “She can’t know anything.” He crumbles the paper in front of my face and shoves it in his pocket.

****. You. Harrison.

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There is an awkward silence between Harrison and I on the car ride home.

Home. Pft.

I was practically being held against my will to leave with a random guy and his best mate. I look down at my hands, and let out a sigh “Will I ever be able to go back home?” I look up at him.

Harrison looks at me, his blue eyes interlock with mine, “I truly don’t know [Y/N]. Its best to just try to make light of this situation.” I chuckle, “Whatever.

As long as you have Netflix I’ll be able to numb my misery.” He smiles, “We do actually. We don’t really watch it though.”

I mean I figured. They’re mobsters, they don’t have time to waste time on Netflix. I start getting curious, “How powerful is Tom?” Harrison looks forward, “More than you know.”

I sigh and tuck my hair behind my ear, “Don’t worry [Y/N], you’ll be safe. We might be taking you but we won’t hurt you.”

I laugh. I mean I guess. I just wanted to be back in LA, smoggy air, traffic, the whole package. But that wasn’t gonna happen anytime soon.

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We pulled up to giant gates about half an hour later, the gates open and we’re parked in front of a Victorian looking home. We are surrounded by so much land, we’re secluded from the city.

The driver opens our door and I step out. We’re parked in front of a huge fountain, and I’m looking up at two huge castle looking doors. I swear his house almost looks like it’s out of a Disney movie.

Harrison opens one of the huge doors and I enter. My feet echo on the marble floor, it’s gorgeous in here. This mansion is truly stunning.

I walk forward and see two stairs opposite to each other leading to the second floor. I walk past them and see two sliding glass doors in front of me, and a huge pool. I’m assuming that is Tom’s backyard. Next to the pool I see almost a mini-mini-mansion.

“What is that?” I point and ask Harrison. He looks and responds “oh, that’s the guest house. Pretty neat. Alright your room is this way.” He starts making his way up the stairs.

“No. I want to stay there.” He stops midway on the right pair of stairs, “Uh, there are like 10 rooms in this mansion and you want to stay in that guest house?” I turn to look at him and cross my arms, “Yes.. I’d rather stay there.” He walks back down with my bags, and sets them down, “I don’t know if Tom will like this.”

I walk towards him and I pick up my bags, “Oh, I don’t really care..” I head towards the glass doors, and slide them open. As I make my way down the stairs to the back of the house, I hear jingling. I make it down to the grass area in the backyard and see a grey pit making its way towards me. It stops right in front of me.

“Hi baby..” I kneel down with my bags in hand, I let the dog smell my hand and it licks my knuckles. The dog seems harmless, “let’s see what your name is.” I start rubbing the dogs head and pick up the collar with one hand, it reads Tessa.

“Oh you’re a girl, well hi Tessa.” I start rubbing her and she puts her two paws on my knees. “I’m sorry your daddy is such an asshole.” I give her a kiss on the nose, pick up my bags and start making my way towards the guest house.

I stop in front of the door, and open it slowly. Wow… it’s gorgeous in here. It’s basically the size of my old apartment, king size bed, a couch.. the TV is an upgrade from my last one. I make my way in and head to the back of the guest house,I  walk into a closet..its huge. I make my way to a different room, and its a bathroom with a huge bathtub. I’m living.

Maybe I could hide here for a couple of months. This all felt really nice until I saw Harrison standing at the door, damn. This could’ve been heaven but I forgot about the fact that I have to deal with him and Tom.

He walks in, takes my bags and moves them to the closet. He comes out and makes his way towards the door, “Tom will come talk to you later. Don’t unpack that, one of the maids will do it for you. Tom will have a cow if you do it yourself.”

Before I could respond, he’s out of my space. I’m almost about to fully embrace this new luxurious lifestyle that has fallen in front of me until I remember.. Cesar is dead.

Alex has no idea what happened to me.

My family. My mom.. I should’ve texted her back when I was at the club that night.

I start to sob, and I throw myself on the king size bed, I see there is a clock hanging from the left side of the room. It is only 2:53 p.m. I’m exhausted.

I turn up to stare at the ceiling, tears streaming down the sides of my face, my tears reaching my ears. I turn to my side and grab one of the pillows and snuggle with it.

I yell into the pillow. I’m so pissed. My thoughts turn to Tom.

I couldn’t believe I had been attracted to such a cold-hearted person.

I can’t believe I did what I did to him. He didn’t deserve me like that, **** that.

**** him. I don’t like him. I fucking despise Tom Holland.

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I run into my mom’s arms. I hug her and smell her hair. She smelled like marshmellows, warm and sweet. I pull away, “I missed you so much mom!” She moves the hair out of my face, “Honey, you don’t know how much I missed you. I want to hear about all your trip.” I start to bawl a bunch of tears in front of her, she is wiping my tears “Honey, what is wrong?” I look at her “This isn’t real..You’re not real…”

I jump up, I woke up suddenly from my dream. I was awoken by my door being opened, thank ****. That dream was breaking my heart even more. I sit up on my bed, and squint my eyes.

I can’t make out the figure standing at my door, it is pitch black in my room. I must of been asleep for a while now.

I look at the clock, its 15 minutes past midnight.

The lights in my room come on, I close my eyes, I let my them adjust to the light and then there he is.

Tom standing at the entrance of my guest house. I think he just got home because he was still wearing his dress pants and shoes, and his white dress shirt was unbuttoned. I roll my eyes, “Leave. I don’t want to see you.”

I plop myself back into the bed.

He laughs, “You’re ordering out of my own guest house? Come on [Y/N], you know it doesn’t work like that.”

He walks towards the bed, he crosses his arms and leans on one of the pillars of the bed, “Get your stuff, I’m not letting you stay in the guest house.” I turn around, I’m laying on my back, “Why can’t I stay here?”

“There are a bunch of my rooms in the mansion. Come on.” He just stared at me, and I stared back. As much as I despised him, he still looked good. I couldn’t deny that he was attractive.

“No. I’m not going. If I have to stay here, then I’m staying in this guest house.” I get up and I’m standing on the left side of the bed, we’re not close to each other. He uncrossed his arms and came around the pillar. We’re about 6 feet away from each other now.

He sighs, “You’ll be safer in the mansion, [Y/N]. I can have-” I roll my eyes and interrupt him, “Bullshit. Have a guard stand at my door at all times, and besides Tessa can stay with me..”

I cross my arms, “I mean she seems harmless but she can keep me company. I’m not giving into you as easily as I did that night at that club.” I start to tear up.

I’m not looking at him til I hear his feet start moving towards me, “ [Y/N], I-”

“Just stop-” I move back, “I opened up to you..I-” He stops, and sighs as I start to cry.

“You called me a *****, Tom..You called me a fucking ***** while I was just trying to help my friends.”

I shrug my shoulders in disgust, “And you have the audacity to come in here and tell me what to do.. just go..just leave me alone.” I look up at him and the first thing I see are his bruised knuckles, he notices and slides his hands into his pockets.

“We found a lead to who the bartender was working for, once we found them I swear to god I’m gonna make up for what they did to-” That was it. I reached my boiling point.

“I DON’T CARE TOM. YOU CAN PLOT REVENGE IF YOU WANT, MY FRIEND IS NEVER COMING BACK!!” I yelled at the top of my lungs, Tom is just watching me.

He is unphased, not that he doesn’t care but he doesn’t know what to say. Tessa jumps on my bed, she had came out of the walk in closet.

“Fine, then fucking mope here and cry.” I go numb as I hear those words. I look up at him and his voice level is escalating, “I’m trying to make your stay here as smooth as possible. But you want to make me out as the bad guy, then go ahead,” he says as he is making his way towards the exit.

I laugh in disbelief, “You are the bad guy, Tom.” I’m clapping after each word. “According to Harrison you’re the most powerful mobster in London. What the **** do you expect.”

His nostrils are flaring, I was starting to tick him off, “FUCK YOU, [Y/N]! I DIDN’T KILL CESAR!” He runs his fingers through his messy curls.

He’s spitting from his built up anger and he points at me, “I hope you feel better, poppet. I’ll make sure to pray for your dead friend.”

He makes his way towards the door, and turns around before he says one last thing, “I didn’t shoot Cesar, I may do bad things but I’m not the bad guy here.” He slams the door.

I stay there, my arms are crossed. I look at Tessa who is wagging her tail, she turns her head like shes curious about what just happened. I pet her, “Your dad is still an asshole.” I pet her for a bit and just reflect.

Yeah.. Tom is only trying to help but I still have the right to feel this way. I can’t just be happy knowing that I have nobody anymore. I wipe my tears and head to the bathroom. I need to relax. I take about an hour in the bath, just sitting and thinking. I’m pruny from being in there so long.

After I finish, I walk into my closet and pull out some sweats, a crop sweater. I’m hungry. You would think there would be a fridge in the guest house but there wasn’t.

I slide on my black Nike slides, and head out the guest house. I make sure to call Tessa outside so she isn’t sitting in there alone. I pass by the pool and I stare at it, staring at my reflection in the clear blue water. I’m a hungry mess.

I enter through the clear sliding doors, and into where I first entered earlier that day. I look to my right and notice an entrance to another room and I head toward it. It seems like this room is the living room, it’s huge.

I’m more hungry than interested in exploring around the living room and I head through another entrance that is east of this room.

Cool, found it. The kitchen is pretty big. There is a counter in the center of the it all, and behind it I spot the fridge.

I don’t bother to turn on the lights, the moonlight from the outside gave the room a dim ambiance. . I make my way towards the fridge, and my hands land on the handles.

As I’m about to open the fridge doors, I hear faint voices heading towards my way, I freak out. I just cussed out the biggest mobster in London and he is gonna catching me snooping through his fridge. I kneel down and hide behind the counter. The voices are getting louder, and I can finally make out what these two voices are saying.

“I don’t know Haz, I didn’t think she was going to be this difficult.”

The voices are close, whoever is talking is on the other side of the counter.

“I know mate but her friend just died, what do you expect?” I’m assuming Haz is replying, I can’t tell if the other voice is Tom.

I’m covering my mouth, I don’t want to risk being heard.

I hear a sigh, ”What if we just kill her? Bury her with her friend.”

My heart drops, and my breathing starts getting louder.

“ Who’s there?” I hear one of them say, I hear a cock of a gun.

I guess this is where I die.

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WOOOWW. You guys, the response I’ve gotten on this series has been amaaaazing. I’m honestly shook. I was telling my best friend how scared how I was to post this but I’m so happy I did. Next part should be out very soon (; leave me questions, theories, your ideas/input, whatever you’d like. Love y’all. -Maria 💛

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