arcane

t h i r t y - t h r e e

I had all of you,
Most of you,
Some and now none of you.
Take me back to the night we met

Seven months later...

Seven months.

Seven months since Dane had broken up with me. To say I had changed wasn't an understatement. The girls from Armarni's little ring had helped me build an empire. It took seven months of grief, sadness and anger for me to build this. We were now one of the strongest gangs in the world; if not the strongest. We weren't a mafia, but we were a family. The girls had started working for me and I had payed them a good amount. The older ones finally got into universities, and colleges and bought their own houses. My summer house now only had around 20 girls. The younger girls all shifted into the summer house after the older ones left. A few went back to England, and Columbia and Puerto Rico. I was very happy that they had finally found their feet.

Our cartels, drugs, weapons, money, business everything was running greatly, and without a doubt I was famous now. Of course I had to cover the 'gang' stuff with a normal business. I owned Romero Enterprises. I saw myself on the headlines all the time; youngest female billionaire. I had a few restaurants around too.

All of this in seven months to myself and the girls, and Ricca.

Everyone including my mother said I had shut everyone out, and became cold. I couldn't see it.

I still love Dane, unfortunately. I tried not to but I couldn't. And it had been a long time since I had seen Rosella either. I tried extremely hard to try and stay away from him.

Damien had stayed in New York after I was taken, he said he wanted to be there to protect me.

"Boss you have a meeting at 3 with Mr Shelton about the co owner of Shelton and Co. Is that okay for you?" One of my employees, Khadijah said. She was a very hard working worker, I had utmost respect for her.

She had to manage time for work and being a single mother. I was empathetic, but I didn't let it show. I gave her good pay and also gave her a house and a car.

"That's fine Khadijah. Bring me up a black coffee, no sugar. Please." I said coldly as she hummed in response. Diana had her grades flying high, she had all AP classes now. Mother found a job she loved and Damien took care of the other business while I was taking care of this one.

I missed my father, but I knew he would be proud of me.

My phone started blaring as I saw Willow's name on my screen.

"Hey boo!" She chirped, I could feel her energy from here. She now was in the process of creating her own fashion and makeup line along with Darya and Raeni. Ocean was now studying to be a software developer for Apple.

Life was perfectly imperfect.

"Hello? Are you there? Earth to Dom?" Willow said over the phone.

"Hi yes I'm here. What is it you want?" I mumbled, Khadijah bringing my in my coffee. I smiled a tight-lipped smiled as she left.

"We have a meeting with Violeta the Bulgarian Mafia Dona, about the shipments." She said as it dawned on me.

"Fuck, what time?" I asked, sipping on my coffee, putting her on loud speaker. I flipped through some of the Enterprises papers as she mumbled something.

"Sorry what?" I said. "I didn't hear it, repeat." I took another sip of my coffee, sighing in bliss at the taste.

"In 45 minutes.." She trailed off as the coffee in my mouth spluttered out.