Devil's Deed

The sight casted a huge effect on Nathalie, she did not ever imagine Lucas to turn out to be a jerk. She had always expected that he would be different from her father. A lingering hope was always there in her mind that he would hold onto her and would never do anything wrong to her. 

Her major fear and insecurity regarding relationships and marriage was because of her father. Boris was the utter trash of the family just like every other child of Mr Lancaster. However Nathalie was different from every other person, brought up under the care of her grandfather she turned out to be a fine cunningly gorgeous woman.

Although due to the absence of her mother and the behaviour of her father left a deeply rooted impression on her. She did not ever intend to marry at all but due to the conditions of her grandfather Nathalie had to oblige. 

It brought Lucas home with the intent of just using him as a pawn for her benefit. But gradually after spending months with him around she could not deny the evidently growing attraction towards him. 

As much as Nathalie wanted to remain in the shell of her standoffish personality, but the affection she started to feel was not negligible. But it seemed that Lucas had potentially ruined the whole thing in her kind. And he was now no different from what Boris and Saikus were. 

Nathalie stood there in the door with her limbs shaking and hands shivering. The woman went blank due to the sight in front of her and it put her into a critical situation. One was her maid and the other was her husband in name, it was an embarrassing moment for her to witness the insult. 

'How can you think he likes you?' 

Nathalie ran towards the exit without giving it a second thought, the lady was indeed heartbroken and the particular sight was a disturbing one since she could not bear being treated like shit by him. 

'He is a jerk, just like my father. He is the same, why did I even think a bit highly of him.' 

She rashly wiped off her cheek and made sure that no one could hear her sniffles as she headed outside. Nathalie was distracted and extremely disturbed that why would Lucas do something like that.

The other day he was standing up for him and now he was shamelessly kissing some other woman. It raised the question in her mind whether Lucas had been pretending yesterday or not? What exactly was going on in her mind and with Lucas acting totally different from the beginning?

'How can you even imagine that he likes you? Duh! Can't you clearly see that he is using you? How can you forget why he came here?' 

She reminded herself of their first meeting where Lucas played a poor and desperate guy to snag her attention. 

The guy successfully paved his way into making her present the contract herself. Later on when Nathalie had kept the wedding a secret her grandpa took Lucas in, the old man played along introducing him as the male chef. 

'You should have known that he needed money, that's why he agreed to this marriage. And come on Nat! How can you forget that you were the one to tell him 'no flings' and now you want real emotions?'  

Her steps immediately got dignified as Nathalie walked towards the front lawn, she couldn't let anybody see her at the weakest hour. How could she let anybody narrate how easy she was in that particular moment. 

The lady sniffed and with one last thought about the issue she reached the lawn, the resplendent villa had a wide grassy entrance to represent the grandeur of the Lancaster family.

 'Come on Nat, this is not the time you think about him. You need to focus on today's deal.' 

She was determined to sign the deal with the Petrakis group today. And definitely the deal was a total benefit to her, it wasn't an aid set by Lucas but an actual deal which was supposed to happen a month ago.

The driver opened the door and the lady drove to the Corp while hiding her emotions in the cocoon of her strictness. Nathalie stared outside the window and recalled last night while her anger rose again. 

'He didn't even bother to apologise or to stop me.' 

Grief was audibly shrieking in her eyes as the lady threw back her head and held back the tears. Nathalie was shocked upon herself that how could that man make her feel softness towards him. 

'He didn't want to clear up things, I guess. Fair enough. I was the one who never treated him as my husband but now I want to claim monopoly over him.' 

Her whirlpool of assumptions made things even more difficult that Nathalie crafted out a list of possible conclusions. However as much as she wanted to confront him, Nathalie did not want to spare her easily without any explanation of what he just did. She probably was not in love with him but the woman could not neglect her emotions towards him. Nathalie wanted to keep him now but under her terms and conditions. 

The vehicle reached the Corp and halted in front of a huge glass building, the lady crept out radiating an imposing aura as if she had owned the world! No wonder the old Lancaster wanted to handover his business empire into her responsibility hands rather than those leeches who just wanted to rob him off for luxury. 

Nathalie walked inside wearing a stern expression while a few voices greeted her along the way up to her cabin. Her personal assistant strode in with the schedule and began to narrate it. Whereas Nathalie was distracted and indulged into her own whirlpool of emotions, she had no clue what to do next and the very thought troubled her even more. 

"Mr Petrakis won't be able to join us in today's meeting for personal reasons, but his personal secretary will be visiting us for further details." 

The woman finished her list waiting for Nathalie's response who had been sitting blankly with ankles on the table and fingers interlocked. 

She coughed intentionally to snag her attention and repeated the statement, while this time Nathalie responded with a gesture of her hand. It was not unusual to see her like that but for somr reasons she seemed to be more cold than daily. 

"Okay, bring me coffee and don't let anybody inside for the next one hour." 

The lady nodded and crept out of the room immediately sensing that if she didn't then a scolding would arrive. Nathalie was angry and still could not believe what she saw and that was utterly disturbing for her.

Meanwhile back there in the villa Lucas had rushed towards Nathalie to explain to her why the kissing incident happened. And that he didn't know the woman at all, it was some staff person of Lancaster family who took a liking towards him.

The woman immediately tricked him into a kiss as soon as Lucas was done with toasting the bread, she hoped that he would notice her this time and even if through scolding she would get his attention.  What she didn't expect was Nathalie to appear in the picture, the staff lady was a new recruit and thus was unaware of Lucas' identity as son in law. 

He had lunged towards Nathalie to clear up the things but the lady cunningly cut her wrist to stop Lucas from leaving her. No matter how engrossed he had been in his thoughts, a kind hearted man like him did not feel right to leave her at that moment.

Lucas had to bandage her wrist by attending to the wound and then took her to the hospital which consumed his time. And that's how Nathalie got hours to assume things which had never occured, their already worst relationship was about to undergo another blow.

'I should leave now.' 

Lucas had been sitting outside the ward in the hospital with a worrisome expression, not because he was concerned about the staff but his own wife. As much as he wanted to teach a lesson to that woman who had successfully ruined his relationship, Lucas had to make sure he did not die so later on he could punish her himself. 

'My men can take care of her now. I should leave and focus on Nathalie, she must be angry at me now.' 

The man raked through his hair and sighed helplessly. It was becoming impossible for him to maintain himself because Nathalie Lancaster was the last person he would want to lose.

'Come on! This had to happen when our relationship was finally improving? Fuck!' 

Lucas became angry over the lady and punched the bench while the nurse standing nearby got goosebumps.  

'I have to make it up to Nat, I can't leave her alone for any more time. Assumptions should be tended immediately or they get worse with every passing minute.'

The man rattled out his phone and dialled to his right hand man, the tapping of his foot clearly indicated how impatient he was. After all a huge mess had been created and he had to fix it, Lucas could not afford to ruin things with Nathalie after working so hard to get close to her.

He was well aware how long it took him to plan all the stuff and to let the things slide out of his hands, just because of some random woman's kissing was the utmost bullshit he had ever heard. Nathalie had just started to grow a bit warm towards him but the particular woman ruined everything. 

"Mark! I want you to come at XXX hospital and make sure this woman gets a job somewhere else, preferably in some household with no young men." 

He didn't want others to undergo such trouble thus passed the last demand out of generosity for others. Lucas ended the call and thought for a moment about his next strategy, because Nathalie Lancaster was a hot headed and stubborn woman.  

A wide smirk appeared on his lips as the devilishly handsome man thought of something no less than a devil's deed itself. Lucas Petrakis was ready to take over and claim his woman!

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Strong characters 

Daily updates 

Fast paced plot

No unnecessary drag of plot 

Highly readable narration (although I'm not native speaker) but I assure you it will be readable narration. However the mistakes are more likely my typing errors.

No one will lose their memories (I hate that trope myself) 

Billionaire clan fights 

Loyal friends 

Loving and understanding families

Compromising characters 

Healthy and toxic relationships 

Sprinkle of mind games

Bit of gore and bloodshed

Usage of some gadgets and tech

Dotting husband who is cruel to his enemies 

A strong headed female lead 

She knows what she wants 

He knows how to think from his brain and dick 

A lot of sizzling detailed smut 

And a happy ending 

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