KAYLAMy entire body felt heavy as I opened my eyes. I’ve been sore for a few days because of the hard floors I had been forced to sleep on and I could feel the impending sickness looming over my head.Wait…I sat up straight, looking around my environment. I was back home.I didn’t remember how I got home. The past week was so blurry, it felt like it never happened but the aching of my body and the pounding in my head said otherwise.The last thing I remembered was the interrogation room. I could still feel the anger in my blood when I thought of it.I also hated that I was getting knocked out more often than I liked, and I was getting to places without knowing how I got there.First thing I needed was some aspirin and a glass of water, so I climbed down the old bed in the bedroom and went in search of the bottle of aspirin in the bathroom cupboards.I took the drugs and took a good look at the apartment for the first time since I woke up. The apartment was a run down one, better tha
KAYLAI took a deep breath before pushing the door to the dressing room open. I had checked the time, and I had been gone for twelve days so I knew I would be getting a lot of questions.I had gone to see Leila who had become worse because of worry, and I hated myself for being the cause of a setback in her treatment. She claimed she would have come searching for me herself if she wasn’t so sick.“KayKay” Ivory exclaimed with wide eyes and ran towards me to pull me into a hug “Where have you been girl?”“We searched everywhere for you. We couldn’t reach you so we had to go to your mom in the hospital, but we shouldn’t have because she didn’t know you were missing” Diamond added.Leila hadn’t told me that they came looking for me. I was touched by the amount of worry I could see in their eyes. Except Miro and now, Leila, nobody had been worried about me.“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to disappear on you guys. Something urgent came up” I lied. I couldn’t tell them the truth.“The errand you
RICARDO“Boss, you called for me?” Enzo asked, stepping into my bedroom. “Did something go wrong with the deal?”I scoffed “Do I only call you when something is off?” I asked him with surprise on my face as he took a seat.Enzo shrugged with a light chuckle “Not really. I was pulling your legs. What’s up?”“I need you to go and get Kayla from the club. She closes around 3 am so pick her up and bring her here” I instructed, ignoring the frown on his face and the way he clenched his fists immediately.“First, I am not a babysitter and second, why are you picking her up? I thought you were going to stay away?”“First I am your boss, and you would do whatever I tell you to do and second, we already decided that she isn’t a spy so I see no need why I have to stay away from her”“You are infatuated with her and I don’t know why. Sure, she has red hair but what else is special about her? There are other women you can have!” Enzo exclaimed, throwing his hands in the air.“If you don’t get her
KAYLAI was done for the day but I couldn’t remember how I managed to go through the entire night because I was fucking worried and a little bit terrified.Ever since I got that message from Ricardo, my mind had been a mess, and I was sure my clients also felt it with how distracted I was the entire night.I rubbed my face, not caring if I would mess up my makeup since I was done for the night as I stumbled into the dancing room. I grabbed a glass from the table by the door and filled it with water.I took a sip of water, but it did nothing to help my dried throat. I wondered why he wanted to see me. Did he find something else that solidified their suspicions? I shook the thought out of my head. I didn’t think it was that.I also wasn’t ready to face him after the way I had lashed out the last time we had been in a room together. What if that was the reason he wanted to see me? I knew he was the type of man who didn’t tolerate disrespect from anyone no matter who they were.The dressi
KAYLAMy hand flew to my chest. His sudden appearance had startled me, almost forcing a scream from my lips.“You scared me” I whispered, eyeing him with annoyance.“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to but I called your name a few times, but you didn’t respond” he answered.I slowly nodded my head. I didn’t realize I had been so into my thoughts. “I was thinking about something”“Are you okay? You look a little pale” He reached out his hand to touch me but I took a step back, making him drop the hand.“I’m fine” I whispered. I wanted to tell him he was the reason I was so pale but I kept quiet. It would do no good.“Why did you call me here? Are you going to accuse me of something else this time or make me kill someone?” I asked sarcastically.I looked behind him hoping to see Enzo but there was no one else in the room. It was just the two of us.“Are you still bitter about that?”“Are you seriously asking me if I am still bitter about being kidnapped, locked up for days and almost forced to
KAYLAI stiffened against his lips. The action was sudden. Too fast that I couldn’t stop myself. My resistance, however, did not last as my body melted into the kiss. Ricardo’s lips were rough against mine and I could feel sparks as his hand tightened around my waist. He was my first kiss.Maybe that was why it felt right like this was meant to be, like I had been keeping it just for him. I closed my eyes and melted into the kiss. My hands reached out and I gripped the suit jacket tightly as I pulled him closer.I hated and loved the way my body hummed in delight as our tongues danced together while I moaned against his mouth. The warmth that radiated from him made me want to pull him closer.Ricardo pulled away and planted open-mouth kisses down the side of my neck and my fingers buried themselves into his hair.“You feel right, Red. Like you were met to be mine” he murmured against my skin and I jerked back, with my eyes wide in horror.My senses came back, and my heart was poundin
KAYLA “What the fuck is wrong with you, Kayla? How can you be late on this day of all days?" My best friend, Miro, scolded me as soon as I arrived at the office. “The universe is against me, Ro,” I whined. “I slept early yesterday, but I still managed to wake up late." Today was the briefing for our new assignment, and though my presence wasn’t needed since they never give me any assignments, my co-workers would never miss an opportunity to poke and complain about my lack of work ethics, which wasn’t true. My life was a trail of bad decisions and bad luck. My mother had died during childbirth after demanding that they save her baby instead when they told her the choice had to be made. That decision was the beginning of the hell that is now my reality. My father, Jonathan Monroe, has never looked at me with an ounce of love since I was born. To him, I should have been the dead one instead of Mom, and he wasn’t shy about being vocal about his opinion. I’ve tried so hard to get him
RICARDOMy mood turned sour with every pathetic moan of pain that escaped the battered lowlife tied to the chair in front of me. I hated the dimly lit room we used to torture those who went against me much more than the people who made me come here.Couple both hatred, and that’s enough anger to make me want to use the plier in my hands to pluck out his tongue so he could stop making my ears bleed with his tears. My underboss, Enzo, had only plucked out his fingers, and he was crying like a bitch’.“I’m sorry, boss. I didn’t mean to …” The fool cried out, digging his grave further. Another thing I hated more than torture rooms and idiots were liars and manipulators.“I would pluck out your tongue even though it would ruin my very expensive suit if I heard any more lies from you, Mathias. You didn’t mean to steal my drugs?”Mathias clamped his mouth shut. He knew better than to say another word.“Come on, Mathias. I hate to play a game of cat and mouse. Where did you keep the tonnes of