Chapter 5

 In a large spacious meeting room, all were seated with an anxious expression on their faces, excluding tanya, who had a calm look on her face.

   Her slender fair hand tapped on the glass table rhythmically as she waited for the so-called devil. She was running out of patience as she wondered what was keeping him late.

  "When did the idiot devil say he's going to be here?" As soon as tanya asked, the door opened, and a man dressed in a black tailored suit entered the room with his assistant following behind him, keeping at least five steps away from him.

   Alexander entered the room nonchalantly and sat at the head table. As soon as he sat, his eyes glanced at every single person who sat in the room. Soon, his deep voice sounded. "Who said the word devil?" He asked.

      Lydia and moses both felt their heart skip countless beats as they glanced at tanya. The other share holders also glanced at tanya pitifully as they all said the word 'RIP' in their hearts.

   "You all know I don't like repeating myself." Alexander said once again, which made everyone break out in cold sweat. 

  "Master, please don't be annoyed. We were just talking about how big of an idiot I am." Moses said and chuckled nervously, trying to suppress the suffocating atmosphere, but instead, it seemed as if the oxygen had seized more, making it harc for everyone to breathe.

   Seeing this, lydia quickly interjected. "Master, I was actually the one who said the word. I was calling myself an idiot for not coming earlier as it is a pleasure to wait for you." 

     Alexander chuckled darkly as his gaze landed on Lydia's face. "Do you think I'm a fool? I can clearly remember the voice I heard sounds nothing like yours. But, since you dared to lie to me with that fifty mouth of yours, I'll just silence you here, then I'll proceed to finding the one who called me an idiot. 

    Then, Alexander stretched his hand out a little, and josh placed a little pocket knife on his palm.

     Alexander then stood up, walked over to where Lydia was sitting, standing tall over her. He then placed the knife right on the artery in her neck. 

        Everyone in the room held their breaths as they imagined what would happen next.

  Soon, a voice sounded right beside Alexander. "I dare you to kill her right here and see if you won't regret it." 

   Hearing that familiar voice, Alexander turned around, only to see a girl dressed in a big black hoodie that covered her entire face. 

   He never noticed someone sitting there until she spook up.

  His lips curled into a small smirk as he turned to look at her directly, but the hoodie was still covering her face. "And what if I kill her? What will you do? After all, you are just a blind and helpless girl who can only vent out her anger by crying." Alexander said as he crouched down to her level.

   Tanya also smirked as the word 'blind' re-echoed in her head. "Hmm, what will I do? I'll do this." 

  With that, a loud and crisp sound of a slap resounded in the already silent room.

     Everything then stilled in the room. No one moved an inch, and no one dared to breathe too loud. Everyone gaze just fell on tanya, who just dared to slap the devil right across the face.

     Alexander, whose face was still facing sideways due to the force tanya hit him with, suddenly chuckled. 

     "You dared to hit me?" He said in a bone- chillingly voice as he turned to look at tanya.

  "Yes, I did. And that's what you got for calling me blind." Tanya said and again raised her hand and slapped him hard again right in the place she slapped him before.

     Everyone all had their hearts in their mouth, including josh. 'Wow, this girl is tired of life that she is personally seeking death.' Josh thought in his mind. 

       Alexander, whose lips were already bleeding, turned to look at tanya again, his eyes staring down at her as if he wanted to burn her alive. If the gaze could kill, tanya would have died countless times already.

  "Do you have a death wish?" Alexander asked in an extremely low voice, which only tanya heard.

   "No, I don't. The other slap was what you get for placing the knife on her neck." Tanya said.

  Just as she said that, Alexander grabbed her by the neck, and his hold was firm as he almost choked her. His sudden hold caused Tanya's hoodie to fall off her face, revealing her extraordinary fair skin. 

      The moment their eyes met, it felt as if the world frozen. 

   It suddenly felt as if she was blind all over again. The familiar feeling of being blind again made her feel a pang of pain in her heart. 

   Soon again, those eyes, those eyes stared down at her asif wanting to swallow her whole. 

  "You really have a death wish." Hearing that deep voice of his, tanya came back to her senses. 

  But before she could say a word, Alexander suddenly leaned in closer to her and kissed or on the lips, maybe not really a kiss, more like biting her hard on the lip.