Alphonso's switch

Chapter 7

Alcantara Walters

I am now convinced that the people in this mansion are either psychopaths or non-humans, I mean how the hell was this man able to keep a straight face and tell me that I was going to fall in love with him after a month?

What kind of challenge was that?

“Can you even listen to yourself right now? How the hell is this a plan?”

I watched the sly smug on his face disappear when he realized that I wasn’t going to buy his shit.

“You do not understand it?”

I nod affirmatively.

“You are giving me two options and both of them entail that I stay here in your crazy mansion for more than a day? Hell 31 days, what do you want me to understand?”

He releases his grip on me and I step further away from him so he doesn’t touch or grab me anymore.

“I can’t stay here, I feel uneasy, as much as I don’t have a life out there, I sure as hell know that I don’t belong here either!”

He looks unfazed by my pleas and responds.

“Since you can’t listen to me, I think I will have to show you instead.”

I scoff. “Show me what exactly?”

He looks into my eyes with an expressionless face. “Why you will stick to my terms and stay here for a month”

He puts his hand into his side pocket and for a second, I thought he was going to bring out a gun but instead, he brought out a titanium-looking whistle which he blows.

In five minutes, a black horse comes running towards him and I gush.

Why the hell did that look hot for a second?

He takes off his Tuxedo and tosses it to one of the guards, then I watch as he folds his sleeves, I immediately notice a drawing of a dreagon tatoo on his arm and for some reason I couldn’t take my eyes off it. I bearly even notice when he straightens the horse.

It’s the horse’s neighing that brings me back to my senses and I ask.

“What are you doing?”

“We are going for a little ride”

He climbs on the horse and stretches his hand towards me.

I struggled to take it as I wondered how I was going to climb on a horse in this dress.

“Tara, give me your hand?” he instructs with a commanding voice.

I drop a sigh and give him my hand.

In one pull, he lifts me and gets me on the horse, so easily that I start to wonder how strong this man was.

As he grabs the reins and tells me to do the same, I feel his breath on my neck but try very much to ignore it and act normal, we start riding until we get to a one-story building which was called the Red House.

As we come down from the horse, I hear a gunshot which makes me freeze for a second.

I find myself holding on to him as I have never heard a gunshot this close.

He gives me a reassuring look which I oddly find comforting.

“Don’t worry Tara, nothing and no one can ever harm you as long as you are by my side.”

I tried to act like whatever he had just said to me didn’t have any effect on me.

So, I ask a question in a diversion.

“Why are we here though?”

He doesn’t answer and takes me inside instead.

 Fear grips me and I find myself clutching onto his hand tightly.

When we get to a hallway, I begin to hear groans of males crying in pain and begging for their lives, Alphonso smiles at me encouragingly like this is the most normal thing on earth.

“My mother doesn’t like to be disturbed, but it doesn’t mean we can’t at least take a sneak peek”

The guard stationed by the door opens it and what I see shocks me to my bone.

Three males were kneeling, all bloodied and beaten up, and to add to the humiliation they were all butt naked and tied up as Sovrano stands before them holding a freaking matchet!

She then yells to the men.

“Okay Chickens, whose cock am I cutting off first?”

I almost scream in horror on hearing that as Alphonso uses his hand to cover my lips and pulls me to himself tightly, in a hugging position.

His lips find my ears and he whispers.

“You are quavering like crazy, Tara.”

Dread grips me to the core as I just stare at nothing, sniffing Alphonso’s soft wood smelling cologne from his shirt, too shocked to talk.

“This is just the tip of the iceberg; I wonder what my mother would have done to you if she found out that you wanted to escape and break the heart of her one and only son.”

My legs could no longer stand still as intense fear consumed me, his hand cupping my lips so tightly I couldn’t move my mouth.

“You are lucky that I like you, my initial plan was to reject you and get you killed, I wasn’t going to blink an eye on that one. For sure”

I whimpered as my eyes widened in terror at this statement.

What is this psychopath saying? I thought he was being nice to me at the garden a few minutes ago.

Before I knew what was happening, he used his free hand and began sliding it to my neck.

“You have heard enough for the day Tara, now sleep so I can carry you to bed”

I have no idea what he did, but I immediately felt drowsy. I struggled to keep my eyes open but I simply couldn’t and slowly I lost consciousness immediately.

I heard a faint voice say something like.

“I will have you and you will be mine, all mine.”

What the hell has the universe set me up for?