My Billionaire Mafia Queen: Battle Of Love

Ivanna Pov's

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"Congratulations once again" My best friend, Sia, congratulated me on the award of the CEO of the Year that I received today. I smiled and hugged her, before hopping off the car. After bidding her goodbye I look at my cup. Another success but I had no one to celebrate it.

"I wish you were here, Stefan. I would have shown you what I'm capable of" I thought and turned to go towards my home while searching for my mobile in my purse. After struggling for a while, I finally found it and looked towards the door, only to find my ex standing there.

"Stefan" I halted my steps which were going towards him. He was standing at the door of my house with a big smile on his face, waiting for me.

"No... You're not here... It's my imagination" I shook my head, trying to get into reality. It's not the first time that I've imagined him. There is not a day when I don't think about him. Many times, I woke up after seeing him in my dreams. Many times, I imagine him like this in front of me and I'm sure this is also one of those fantasies where I dream of him waiting for me at the door to wish me for taking a step to achieve my dreams.

"He is not here, Ivanna" I muttered to myself and closed my eyes, knowing he will go when I open my eyes. Tears welled up in my eyes but I didn't let them fall... I know he is just my imagination and I hate it... I hate that I still love him despite what he did to me.

I took a deep breath and opened my eyes and it grew wider seeing him standing close to me. My heartbeat rose with the thought of him present in reality.

"Ivanna" I felt like my whole world stopped when he called me, giving me proof that he is not a dream. Tears fell from my eyes which I was holding. He was about to wipe my tears but I moved back.

"St---Stefan" He nodded his head. Even he had tears in his eyes with a smile. My heart was screaming at me to hug him but my brain was reminding me of the damage he did to me.

"Wh--What are yo--you doing here?" I cursed myself for stuttering in front of him... He hates when I stutter but it's not in my hand. I stutter whenever I feel nervous or upset.

"I'm here for you" My heart skipped a beat upon hearing him.

"You're three years late, Stefan" I muttered without thinking much. I wiped my tears and crossed him. I don't want to stay near him because I know if I did then I would end up broken down in front of him. I insert the password to open my door.

"I'm sorry" My hands stopped and again unwanted tears fell from my eyes.

"I'm sorry for everything, Shine" I closed my eyes and took a deep breath to calm myself, and pressed the enter button to open the door.

"I know there is no forgiveness for what I did but I love you, Ivanna" His words were enough to melt the ice around my heart but I controlled my emotion and listened to my mind which was telling me to push him away.

"But I don't love you" I muttered and wiped my tears before turning towards him.

"I told you, Stefan. You're three years late. I don't want your sorry and neither do I need your love anymore" I entered and closed the door at his face before he would have said something. I sat on the floor, broke into tears. I always imagine him but I never thought that it would break me again to see him in front of my eyes. It felt like all my wounds were freshened up after seeing him in front of me.

"You broke me, Stefan... You broke me"

"I'm sorry, Ivanna. Please at least give me a chance to explain myself. Please. I know you still love me like I do. Please open the door. Please" I heard him yelling from outside the door. I called my security guard to ask Stefan to get out of my place.

After a minute, I heard him fighting with the security guard to let him stay. Many times he even called me but neither I listened to him nor the security guard.

"Fine... I'm leaving right now but I will be back, Ivanna. I will be back to win your heart again." he yelled. Everything went silent after a few minutes, telling me that he was gone. I don't know till when I was crying, sitting on the floor thinking about him and his apology. I always wanted to hear sorry from him for what he did to me but still, it didn't heal the wounds he gave me. I wiped my tears and stood up from the ground. My eyes went to the clock. It was two at night. I sighed and went towards the kitchen to have a vodka to calm the battle of my heart and mind but to my dismay, my fridge was empty. For the first time, I realised why my mom called me careless.

"I badly needed to drink something before I went insane thinking about Stefan," I muttered to myself before picking up the car key from the table. I went outside to purchase a beer.

I started the car and drove towards the shop from where I always purchased bottles of beer and vodka. Somewhere I know, I drink to forget him. I drink to get over the pain he gave me.

"The girl who used to stay inebriated in his love, now needs a bottle of beer to get out of the intoxication of his love." I laughed and a tear rolled from my eyes.

"You ruined me Stefan" I screamed as more tears were falling from my eyes making my vision blur. I wiped my tears to see clearly, only to see a person walking in the middle of the road. I tried to apply the brake but damage was done. My car slightly hit him, making him fall to the ground.

"Spiderman" I squeezed my eyebrow hearing something like this instead of a scream of pain. I hopped down from the car to check on the man who is the eighth wonder of the world. I mean seriously who yelled Spiderman when they got hit?

"What the fuck I did" I growled at myself, finding him laying on his stomach on the ground. I sat on the ground and turned him towards me. His eyes were closed and there was a slight injury on his head.

"Don't tell me, I killed someone in pain of losing my love" I muttered in panic and then I heard his voice.

"You did." I took a relieved breath when he opened his eyes and I heard his voice.

"You killed me," he muttered. By seeing him, I can bet he is drunk.

"What? You're alive Mr," I growled. At first, he came in front of my car and now he is accusing me of killing him.

"No... You killed me. I know I'm in heaven"

"You're alive" I rolled my eyes.

"Wait... Let me check" he mumbled and pinched himself then hissed. I sighed seeing the antique piece in front of my eyes.

"Wow... you're right. I'm alive" He laughed like he won the lottery.

"Listen, I'm not in a good mood, nor do I have strength to handle an idiot like you. Since you're fine...I'm going" I was about to stand when he held my hand and then kissed my left cheek, pulling me closer to him and his one kiss was enough to calm the battle of my heart and mind and to raise the strange feeling.

Ivanna Pov's

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I was startled by his one kiss on my cheek. It was like his one kiss ignited the spark all over my body and my heart was beating at high speed, giving me proof that it was alive. I looked at him dumb-headed while he was smiling like an idiot.

"Thank you, Spiderman, for handling me," he chuckled. I wanted to snap at him for calling me Spiderman but his smile is so beautiful... It didn't let me scold him for kissing me without my permission. I turned my head in another direction.

"Argh... It's hurting" I look back at him when he hissed in pain, only to find a minor injury on his forehead.

"Ohh god... It's bleeding" I cursed myself for not focusing on driving. If I would then he wouldn't have got injured.

"It's hurting" He mumbled.

"I-- I had first aid in my car. Wait" I muttered and stood up to take out the first aid. He was staring at me during the whole process. I was applying the antiseptic on his forehead when a tear rolled from his eyes.

"I'm So--Sorry" I stuttered, feeling bad. I should have been careful. What happened next was enough to shock me. All of a sudden, He hugged me and hid his face in my neck, widening my eyes.

"Wh--What are yo---You doing?" I asked. Somewhere, I was surprised at the way my heart and brain were reacting around him. I should be furious and shout at him for hugging me but here I'm asking the stupid questions from him like I can't see. Don't know why I was feeling like I'm connected to him.

"What are you doing, Ivanna? Push him" I frowned at myself after a while for not using my mind. I'm letting a drunk stranger hug me in the middle of the road, everyone says right I'm dull-witted. I frowned and was about to push him, that's when I heard him sobbing.

"Are you okay?" I asked nervously, not able to understand what I should do.

"Why did she reject me? why?" He shrieked, crying in my arms. Tears rolled from my eyes, feeling his pain. I hugged him back to calm him down.

"She rejected me for someone else... she rejected me" He sobbed, hiding his face in my neck, not wanting to show his tears to me but at the same time, wanting to let out his pain. The pain of losing someone. The pain from which I'm so familiar.

"How can you think, I can love a person like you? I was just using you like a whore you're. you only tell me where would I get a girl who is ready to spread her legs for me whenever I want to fulfil my lust" Tears rolled from my eyes remembering Stefan's words. We both were letting out our pain, crying in each other's arms.

Two strangers who met for a few seconds were crying in each other's arms in the middle of the road. Maybe because we don't know each other, it becomes easy for us to let out our inner pain.

I don't know how long we were crying, hugging each other like that. I look at our position after I calm down. I was on his lap and my legs were encircled around his waist while we hid our faces in each other's necks. I didn't even realise how we ended up in this position. it was understandable that he was drunk but what had happened to me, why I didn't realise before hugging the stranger.

Maybe we both were intoxicated by the pain of love. I came out of my thoughts when he parted away from me and wiped my tears with his thumb. I was staring at him without saying a word while his eyes were roaming all around my face.

"What is your name?" He asked. I didn't reply and stood up from his lap.

"I'm not obliged to answer you" I muttered hesitating. I cried with him but that doesn't mean I gave him right over me. It happens heedlessly.

"Thank you" I looked at him abruptly.

"Thank you for being there with me when I had no one to be by my side" he mumbled and tried to stand up but again fell on the ground with a groan.

"What happened?" I asked anxiously. At first, I thought his leg slipped as he was drunk but then my eyes went to his left leg injury from which blood was oozing out.

"Ohh god" I lifted his pants a little, only to find a deep cut.

"Does it happen because of me?" I asked. He didn't say anything and pointed towards a stone beside him. I put 2×2 together. when my car hit him, he must have fallen on a stone. As a result, there was a deep cut on his left leg.

"I'm sorry" I apologised and temporarily bandaged his injury.

"I did a temporary bandage but who knows how deep the cut is. Let me take you to the doctor."

"No, thanks. I'm fine"

"I can see that" I scoffed and extended my hand towards him.

"Hold my hand" He looked at my hand and then at me.

"Think wisely because if I hold your hand then I'm not going to leave it easily" I rolled my eyes at his cheesy line while he laughed and held my hand. I helped him to stand with my support and made him sit in the front seat. The whole time, his eyes were on me like he was observing my every move and strangely, I didn't feel awkward. I sat in the driving seat and drove towards a nearby hospital.

"Why are you looking at me?" I finally asked him.

"Don't know why but you look familiar to me?" I shook my head negatively.

"But we never saw each other before" He didn't reply and turned his face in another direction. I had a roller-coaster day. In the morning I received the award of best CEO then I had an encounter with my ex, Stefan and that encounter was enough to freshen my wounds. I was trying to overcome everything when I met this stranger who claimed to know me. Don't know what else is waiting for me.

I sighed and tried to focus on the road. That's when I felt his hand on my cheeks. I glare at him angrily.

"I let you touch me before that doesn't mean I give you the right to touch me whenever you want" I snarled and pushed his hand.

"I was just trying to clean the spot of tears from your face" He mumbled. I look at myself in the side mirror. my whole makeup was ruined because of crying continuously. I tightened my lips realising he was right.

"You can park the car at the side and wash your face," He suggested and then smirked.

"I don't want people to get afraid of you, spiderman"

"Don't call me Spiderman" I growled and parked the car at the side to wash my face.

"Stop passing that cocky smile" I growled and hopped down from the car. He passed me his handkerchief when I sat back in the driving seat after washing my face. I was about to deny it but he didn't give me a chance and wiped my face with his own hand. Okay, I didn't expect that gesture from this grumpy gentleman.

"Now people at the hospital are safe," he muttered. I scrunched my eyebrow, not understanding what he meant.

"If you wouldn't have washed your face then anyone in the hospital might have had a heart attack after seeing you." I parted my lips in shock after hearing him.

"Then why didn't you get a heart attack? It would have been great if you had died." I scoffed.

"Because I'm not afraid of anyone. I'm brave, spiderman."

"Brave" I laughed sarcastically.

"Relax, now you're not looking like a witch" he smirked.

"That was mean" I frowned, gawking at him shockingly. He laughed when I smacked his arms.

"I'm helping you and here you're making fun of me instead of thanking me"

"You're helping me because you're the reason because of whom I got injured otherwise you would have never helped a drunk man" He mocked. I opened my mouth to say something in my defence but no word came out of my mouth as he was right. At 3.00 am, I would never take a risk to go near a drunk man who was roaming in the middle of the road.

"halfwit" I muttered under my breath and started driving. I looked at him annoyingly when he started laughing like a maniac.

"What? Why are you laughing?" I growled.

"I'm halfwit and you're insane. What kind of strangers met in the middle of the night in the middle of the road" He laughed.

"Ohh god... With whom I stuck" I muttered frustratingly and increased the speed of the car to reach the hospital and get rid of this person as soon as possible.

"Shoot... I took the wrong way" I groaned frustratingly realising I took the wrong way because of talking to this idiot. My eyes shot up when I tried to apply a break but it didn't work.

"What the fuck?" I yelled.

"What happened?" He looked at me.

"Breaks are not working" We both look at each other with terrifying looks and then at the road.

"Aah!" We both screamed together, seeing death in front of us, ready to greet us.

Ivanna Pov's

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I again tried to apply a break but the result was the same. I took the car towards the long and empty road. Thankfully, as I thought there was no car on the road but still, the brakes are not working which is enough to tremble my soul.

"Ohh god... I don't want to die like this... it can't be the end of my life" A tear rolled from my eyes because of fear and only one person came into my mind.

"I still love you, Stefan. I love you despite everything that happened between us. I forgive you for what you did. I forgive you my love" I thought and held the pendant which he gifted me with my left hand. I was lost in my world. That's when I felt a hand on my left cheek. I look at the stranger who wiped my tears, making me realise his presence. What kind of feeling is this? I'm stuck between my past and this stranger who unintentionally acts as a cure for my pain.

I again turned my head towards the road and took a deep breath to calm myself. Crying is not a solution.

"We can deal with this. All we have to think calmly" I muttered and looked at his side when he didn't respond to me, only to find him staring at me.

"You again started staring at me. Can't you use your mind and think of something to get out of this situation." I yelled.

"Here we are dying but all you have to do is flirt." I groaned and tightly held the steering wheel because of anger.

"It all happened because of you, neither I thought of dropping you at the hospital nor would this have happened." I was blubbering whatever came into my mind without thinking because of the anxiety while he was listening to all my nonsense silently.

"In my worst situation also, I never thought of ending my life because I loved it. I don't want to die. I wanted to do so many things for my parents. I wanted to give them all the luxuries of this world. I wanted to give them a world tour. Ohh god," More tears fall from my eyes, remembering them.

"I wanted to leave my life with someone who loves me at my worst. I wanted someone to kiss me with love, like... like there was no tomorrow. I wanted to have a honeymoon in Paris with him. I wanted to show my ex that I deserve all the happiness and love in my life. I wanted to tell him that there is someone who loves me unconditionally. I didn't want to die with a stranger but with my soulmate" I uttered all my dream wishes in front of the stranger. As only he was present with me near death.

I turned my head and looked at his side. He smiled and took my left hand from which I was holding a pendant to his hand.

"I didn't expect to die with a stranger but it's fun" he chuckled.

"What?"

"Yeah, at least I'm not dying alone" He laughed. Before I would have snapped him, he attached his lips to my lips, widening my eyes. With his right hand, he held the steering wheel so that we wouldn't lose the car's balance. He was kissing me as I said like there was no tomorrow. He was kissing me with so much love. wait... Love? what the fuck I'm thinking? We just met a few hours ago. I pushed him away and slapped hard on his cheeks.

"I didn't know, I was that bad kisser" He muttered, rubbing his hand on his cheek.

"I told you to stay within limits" I yelled and was about to hit him again when he leaned down and removed the beer bottle from under the breaker, widening my eyes.

"I was trying to tell you for so long about this but you didn't let me. In the end, I have no option other than kiss you to shut your mouth" He muttered. I applied the brake and took the bottle from his hand.

"You" I was about to hit his head with that bottle but stopped after seeing his head injury. I throw that bottle out of the window, glaring at him angrily.

"What is the need of taking this bottle with you?" I yelled at the top of my lungs. He kept both his hands on his ear.

"Why are you yelling like a lunatic?"

"Take a deep breath, Ivanna. Killing someone is a crime" I mumbled to myself.

"Ivanna" He chuckled before whispering my name, widening my eyes.

"Fuck you, girl" I cursed myself realising I uttered my name loudly in front of this lunatic. He tightened his lips after seeing my reaction. I smacked his arms.

"Ouch... Why are you hitting me?" He hissed, rubbing his forearm.

"How dare you kiss me?" I growled at him.

"I told you the reason. Moreover, I just fulfilled your wish. You wanted someone to kiss you with love" He muttered.

"But that doesn't mean I'm desperate for that kiss and what do you mean by love?" I shrieked.

"didn't you feel it?" he asked. I opened my mouth to deny but then closed it, realising I felt the love in that kiss.

"I tried my best." He muttered moving his hand in his hair.

"I imagined my girl when I was kissing you. so that you feel the love" His words directly pierce my heart. Don't know why I felt terrible after knowing that he imagined someone else while kissing me. It hurts...

"What happened, why are you giving me expressions like my words hurt you?" He asked. I didn't reply and turned my head in the other direction.

"Are you mad at me for kissing you or you're mad because I imagine someone else in you?" he asked another question, putting me in a dilemma.

"Off--course because y---you kissed m---me" I stuttered, lying to him. After all, he shouldn't get to know what I felt. I don't want him to think of me as a random woman who falls for a man just because he kissed her. It all happened in books. In reality, physical touch never helps to find your soulmate but your heart does.

"Okay," He replied with a smirk which was enough for me to know he didn't buy my lie. I frowned at myself for being a terrible actor.

"Because of you and your stupid bottle, I had a mini heart attack. Don't know what I was thinking before helping a lunatic, asshole, halfwit, donkey, monkey, grasshopper" I was about to curse him more when he kept his hand on my mouth, increasing my heart beat but this time, I didn't let him do of his will and bite on his hand.

"Aah," He hissed and removed his hand.

"Calling me halfwit but have you seen your action?" He growled and then pointed towards the back side of the car. I turned my head to look at the backseat and then down where he was pointing, only to find my box of empty beer bottles on the ground. It must have fallen from the back seat.

"It was not my bottle" he snarled. I closed my eyes, realising I was cursing him for no reason. It was my mistake. I kept the box of empty beer bottles on the back seat of my car to throw them on the way but I forgot because of the workload.

"Don't you have to say something?" I opened my eyes upon hearing him and found him crossing his hands around his chest. I passed him a clumsy smile and nodded my head negatively then nodded in yes when he raised his one eyebrow.

"Then use your mouth my lady" He muttered with a smirk. I'm sure he is enjoying this so much. He wanted me to apologise to him but I'm not going to give him this pleasure. I tightened my lips before looking at him, only to find his eyes on me.

"We should go to the hospital, my man" I muttered and sat straight. He rolled his eyes.

"Yeah hospital" He muttered. We both burst into laughter at our stupidity. I look at the men who unknowingly give me a reason to smile even when my life is full of sadness.

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