"Hands behind your head, Miss Yrote!" I immediately raised both my hands to my head like I was instructed and waited for one of them to come to me and cuff me up.As I was being dragged out of the room, my eyes met Nina's. She was also put in cuffs. I knew she would be charged for harbouring a fugitive. I immediately felt horrible. I shouldn't have come to her. I can't believe Omar really sent people after me to get me arrested for things I didn't do. And I thought this was the mission that would put me on a higher rank. All it's done is fuck me up, get me involved with Leo and now I had to try and prove that I indeed was following Omar's order when I tried to kill him.The woman who had put cuffs on me stopped tugging me forward. She had stopped because two of her fellow officers were having a whispered argument. I wasn't listening to what they were saying because my thoughts were full but I was forced to listen when I heard Leo's name from them.I looked in the direction of the m
I sat back on the only sofa in the room where Mae was kept after she was brought back to me. I lifted a tumbler to my lips, it was partly filled with whiskey. As I sipped continuously from it, I kept my eyes on Mae. She should be awake and conscious anytime soon. She squirmed and turned in the bed before sitting up. I watched her hold her head for some seconds before looking around to see where she was. Her eyes met mine when she looked in my direction. I smiled. It was humorous to catch the look on her face. It was a look that exposed how terrified she was to see me sitting in the room when she woke up."How bad is the headache? I'll ask someone to bring you some pills." I knew what she was injected with by my men before being brought here could cause a headache so I asked her."I'm sure you're happy now. You've found me and brought me back. What do you want from me?" She seemed very angry to see me. I couldn't explain why that would be the case. I thought she would be thankful that
"I know what you're doing, you are trying to threaten me into accepting to kill for you but it won't work." I'm not going to do what he wants no matter what. It was bad enough that Omar used me and now wanted me to take the fall for the outcome of his orders and now, Leo..."But that isn't what I'm doing," Leo replied and placed his hands against my face, brushing my right cheekbone. I didn't want him touching me like that so I pushed his hand away but he gripped my jaw tight and made me look up at him. "You want to die so bad don't you?" He asked me after, a malicious smile painting his lips.What? Was he going to kill me now after delaying it for so long? Has he finally decided to take me out? I know I had asked him to kill me as I would rather take that than kill for him but now that he was willing to do it, I wasn't sure I wanted to die yet.I still owed Nina, my friend, an apology for putting her in a case like my own. I had to make it up to her, somehow, later. I also had to fi
"Oh Miss Yrote, you trust too much." I heard him. "What do you mean?" I became eager to know what prompted him to say what he just did. I also wanted to know why he laughed over what I told him about Nina."You were with the police when my men came for you, weren't you?" He asked and I immediately got the grip of what he was trying to say."I can't believe you trust the system like you trusted Omar." He shook his head."Just like I brought you here, I can do the same with your friend, Nina. All I need to do is make a simple phone call and she will be here by tomorrow morning. It's that easy."I found it hard to breathe as he uttered every word assertively. I lost my confidence when I realized that he actually could get Nina's despite her being with the police.How could I forget? I had seen some politicians at his auction that day I was on stage to be bid over. Leo was one powerful bastard. How did I get myself involved with him? If I could get away from Leo again, I swear I would kil
While I was still pacing around, the door handle turned and a woman walked in with a tray in hand. It was the same woman from the last time I was in this room. It was the maid bringing my meal. She paused when she saw that it was me she was about to serve. I could read the thoughts of her mind through her expression. She was sad to see me again, in this same room, not coming to help her but rather back without a choice.Normally in a situation like this, I would feel ashamed but I wasn't. No, I wasn't ashamed, I was just hurt, and angry too. I was hurt that I had told her I would get help for her and the other girls but came back to possibly be one of them. And then, I was angry. I was angry at Omar. I was angry at Leo. I was angry at my fucked up self."I told you it was impossible to escape," she dropped the dish tray on the bed and came to me with a smile."I'm sorry," I felt the need to apologize."Don't do that. I knew your plan to leave here wouldn't be successful but I decided
Morning.I cuddled on the thick duvet as I turned in bed. My body felt so weak after yesterday and I can't tell it's cause; If it's because of the way Leo's men handled me while bringing me to him or if it's what I was injected with that yesterday.I looked at the bedside table and saw the food tray that the maid had brought. I had kept it there before laying to sleep on the bed.Opening and closing my eyes weakly, I heard a knock on the door so I sat up and prayed that it wasn't Leo. I didn't want to see his annoying face first thing after I woke up.The knock remained consistent and I knew it couldn't be Leo, he wouldn't knock that respectfully on my door for that long. He didn't even knock when he returned for his ring yesterday.I got out of bed and headed to the door to see who it was. Peeping through the door's eyehole, I saw that it was the maid from yesterday so I opened the door."Heyy, I haven't eaten yesterday's meal, don't bring me another," I said to her as soon as the do
Mae hid behind me the moment she got a chance, "I already agreed to do what you want, didn't I? I've accepted to work with you, don't do this to me." She pleaded.I sighed inaudibly. I didn't expect her to beg yet, I didn't expect her to beg so soon. I wanted to let her know the rules she had to follow if she worked for me so I invited her to have breakfast with me. When the maid I sent to her returned with her message of not being hungry, it added to my already altered mood and so I decided to take her to where we kept men who wanted to be a part of the Vance empire. I thought she would at least fight for herself but she didn't, she was begging and I didn't want that weakness from her.When I decided to use her to kill Lade, it was because of the way she fought for her freedom and the freedom of the other girls at the auction I held but today, she was acting weak all of a sudden.I looked at her cowering behind me for a second before taking her out of the room with me. It just occur
With the four split spikes of the fork a few inches away from my right eye I snorted in disbelief of what she wanted to do. She didn't aim for my torso, she didn't aim for either of my fingers displayed for her on the table, she didn't aim for any other place but my eyes. It was a good decision by her though. At least, now I know she was calculative of her actions but she is still slow at it. The fork was a weapon but it wasn't a knife after all. She knew stabbing me with the fork anywhere else wouldn't do much damage so she went for my right eye. I was still holding her wrist to stop her from plunging my eye out but she started to struggle against my hold, attempting to get the fork to where she planned to put it.I twisted her wrist and made her lose the fork to the ground. She cried out in pain when I did that so I let go of her hand but she picked up the table knife next to her dish. Now, she had a weapon.She swung the knife my way multiple times but each time I edged backward
I laughed when I saw the gun in his hand but he didn't laugh along. I groaned and went to lean in the same position he was leaning against when I joined him here."I thought of the possibility of you doing this, but then I shoved it to the back of my mind. I told myself Omar wouldn't do that shit. But here you are, doing that shit.""If you won't help me. I'll help myself. I know you won't kill me. If you wanted to, you'd have all these while. So that leaves me no choice. I have to kill you to save myself.""You're in flames for killing the little girl, and you want to kill me too? You still enjoy playing with fire, don't you Omar?""..." He didn't say anything after me. He just held the gun tighter and licked his trembling lips."Alright, enough of this shit. Sixty seconds, you've got sixty seconds to kill me or I'm leaving. I want to be at the hospital when Mae wakes up." I told him and took off my suit jacket."If I don't pull the trigger in sixty seconds, will you kill me?" He swa
Who the hell looks this beautiful in a sick bed? I sat by Mae's hospital bed and watched her sleep on. The doctor she lost a lot of blood but she should wake soon; that was what I was waiting for.My phone vibrated in my hands. I looked and saw that it was Pete calling so I left to answer it. I was expecting that call of his. He had told me that he found some gadgets and equipment being used by those FIA agents so he took them with him and was going to check through them.****Three weeks later.I was driving to the hospital to check on Mae. She had woken up but hadn't fully recovered. The doctor in charge of her treatment said she would need some more time to be on her feet and active again."Omar," I called over the phone after picking up my ringing phone."You must have learned the full story behind the FIA agents being at that building that day." He sounded dull.I hissed and wanted to end the call. I was in no mood to speak about that, at least not now that I was on my way to se
I had gone back to assure the other kids that they would be okay. I felt the need to, especially after one of them watched her sister get shot. Thankfully, Rhea was there to stop them from witnessing me shoot the man who did it.I went on one knee to be able to talk to the sister of the dead girl. She wasn't saying anything so I took out my handkerchief and wiped the blood of her sister off her face.I got up from my kneeling position and turned around to meet Mae standing halfway to the car and watching me. I wanted to smile at her but my cheeks felt too heavy to be lifted into a smile at the moment.I helped Rhea and the kids into a car before planning to join Mae in the car. I turned around to start in the car's direction and saw a red dot traced at her. It was at the back of her head and then it retraced to her heart.My heart skipped a beat."Mae!" I called out to her and began running to her but she turned around. The moment she did, she got shot.I stopped running. I was just a
I got out of the car and headed to where Rhea was. I know Leo asked me to remain in the car but I don't know how he was thinking that was possible when he drove me here."Rhea?" I called to make sure it was her before getting too close.She turned to me and with a reflex action, pulled out her gun. I raised my hands in the air."The fuck are you doing here?" She asked when she put down her gun."Leo brought me.""Mr Vance brought you? Really? For what?" She couldn't believe me."I was driving with him when he suddenly turned around and drove us here. I figured either you or Pete called him. So what happened?""Thx asshole in there, he just..." Rhea sighed and ran her fingers through her hair."He killed one of them.""One of them? Them?""Mae, just go back to the car." She advised."Come on, tell me what happened?""The asshole was supposed to sell the kids to us but he said he won't do it if sir Vance wasn't here. We've been trying to talk him out of it but the mother-fucker just pull
Night.Mae and I had spent the day with the kids. I toured her around the place. She had asked about Rhea and I explained how she had to take back one of the kids to their parents since it was now safe to do so.I just tucked one of the kids to sleep and saw her standing and staring at a fishbowl, in thought."Do you want to slam my head into the bowl?" I asked her, trying to get what she was thinking about."Your head wouldn't fit in it," she turned to me and sighed."I'm going home, back to Nina. She must be worried. I don't even have a phone for her to reach me and know where the fuck I am."She started to walk away so I followed."Is that what you were thinking about?" I knew it couldn't be, yet I asked. She had to have been thinking of something deeper."You know it's crazy how much you and Lade know about me and I didn't even know what my father was till you told me." She finally voiced her thoughts."It's not your fault." She had to know it wasn't."Do you know who you are?" She
I sat in the car with Leo, still in my nightgown. He keeps doing shit like this and wonder why I hate him much. I probably shouldn't have fucked him last night; probably gave him the impression that I've forgiven everything that he's done to and with me.When the therapist handling me at my dad's orphanage told the women in charge there that I was crazy beyond her help, they should have believed her. Leo took us to what looked like a factory. He came down from his car and was about to get the door for me but I didn't let him."Thank you, gentleman," I sarcastically told him and got a chuckle from him.He started towards the entrance of the building so I followed. We got to one of the main entrances there and it had a fingerprint sensor.Leo put all five of his right fingers over the sensor and it turned green, allowing us access."What is this place?" I asked him when we walked in and there was barely any light to see with."Where your friend's daughter became my friend." His reply h
He just kissed me. My eyes rounded in surprise at how gentle his kiss was. And then the realization hit me. He was looking into my eyes to prepare me for a kiss and I, fuck, I stupidly stared back like it was a fucking staring contest.His kiss was light and harmless. For someone who let hickeys all over me when he ate me out, I couldn't believe he could kiss so softly.I wanted him to do it again. Maybe I could be sure that he did it and it all wasn't just in my head.As if he heard me, he brought his lips to mine again and kissed me ever so softly. I closed my eyes this time to let it sink in. I thought it would be just a simple kiss but Leo grabbed my waist to pull me closer to himself and set my body on fire in the process.I found myself running my fingers through his hair, messing it up while he kissed me more deeply. I wanted more. I wanted more than just his kiss. I don't know what was driving my body to crave his touch. Maybe the fact that I haven't fucked anyone in three yea
Three weeks later.I've been indoors since I arrived at Nina's and no one had come for me. It felt unusual to acknowledge that I was free from Leo now and he wasn't coming to get me, or the least, sending someone after me.All I've done is lay around in bed and wait for someone to barge in again, sent by Leo but that hasn't happened. I was starting to feel miserable at the fact that Nina has been letting me stay and all I've been doing is eating and sleeping. Maybe I should go out and get a job somewhere or something, now I was convinced Leo set me free.Later.Nina came home excited. I had to find out why so I asked. I asked why she was that excited and she told me about her office party. She told me how they were featuring big personalities from City A and beyond.She told me she was allowed to bring a plus one but didn't have any other person to bring. It would be her ex-husband but they were no longer together. And it would be me but I haven't gone out in a long time...unless I de
Four days now and there was nothing about Lade on the news yet. Beats me that no one knew he was dead yet. Did they even know he was missing? Leo hasn't been around a lot since that day. The most I've seen of him is his walking out the tall doors at the entrance of the mansion.I've been wanting to talk to him about when I could finally leave. Now that Lade was dead, I didn't have to be here anymore.I went up to Leo's favorite place in the mansion, the balcony with the view. It was night and the city looked beautiful as hell from where I stood.Soon, I would be out of here and back to my old life...a life I'm not sure I have anymore. Nina might never trust me again and the FIA may not be so willing to take me back."Perfect, I have more than one beauty to behold by coming up here." Leo crept up behind me, giving me a little jump scare but I made sure not to show it."You're here, finally," I smiled, happy to see him without Pete or some other assistant around him telling him when th