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
"Carlos," Leo called the man whom we met tied up when we walked in. Leo was back to his smiling self since he smiled at me earlier in his dining room. He smiled at Carlos but he didn't return the smile. The man seemed to know Leo on a personal level."His family is not here?" I heard Leo ask his men. "His wife and children are outside the country on a holiday trip, but his parents are in one of the rooms here." One of Leo's men responded to his question."Bring them to join us," Leo ordered and his men took action to do as they were told. "Leo," Carlos finally said something since Leo and I walked in."Leave my family out of this." He didn't have an atom of plea in his voice. Maybe he already knew pleading with Leo was useless. Or maybe he is just another proud asshole like Leo himself."Why should I?" Leo laughed heartily after asking. I wonder what the man did to have Leo come for him himself instead of just sending someone to deal with him. What if he was the one who put Leo in a
"Ahhh! Fuck! Fuck!" Carlos screamed louder this time when Leo began chopping his pinky finger. I had looked away at first but was forced to look back at the sight when he started to scream in pain."Leo, please stop," I found myself pleading for Carlos when his pinky finger fell to the floor beside where he was tied up. I don't care what he has done or how Leo wanted to punish him but I didn't think it was good to let his mother watch any or all of it. The poor woman's face was stained with dry tears and her eyes had turned red but Leo didn't seem to give a fuck. He was doing all this with his usual smile on."Come here," I heard Leo and turned to look behind me to see if he was calling for any of his men standing at my back but when I checked, there was no one behind me. It was just me standing in that corner so I panicked that it was me he was actually calling to come to him. Did I just remind him of my presence by pleading for Carlos?Slowly and with calculated steps, I went to hi
Carlos spilled everything Leo came to him for. The location of his goods at that moment, where it was going to be shipped to, and how tight the men guarding it were.Now I understand why the road to his (Carlos) house was empty with lots of private lands. It's probably Lade's estate and Carlos was hiding out in the only house there. He was hiding from Leo yet he was found.I was glad I didn't have to do anything bloody today. Although I was tempted to stab Leo with it, I had returned the knife I was given to the torture box before we left that place. I knew that I couldn't leave the place alive if I had tried to kill Leo. Some of Leo's men were still there with Carlos and his parents, while done were accompanying Leo and I back to wherever the fuck we were going.We got back to Leo's mansion and once we were inside, Leo handed me over to the maid who had helped me the first time I was here and tried to escape Leo."Anita," he called and she ran to him."Help Miss Yrote into something s
I asked Pete to open the door for Anita and Mae when we saw them both through the cameras. The maid came in first and had me displeased because I wanted to see Mae and not her. When Mae walked in slowly behind her, I smiled. She was in a short, pretty dress and she had her eyes scanning my chamber."Step under the light," I wanted to see how the dress was on her with more light. She took a few steps forward and stopped under the bright light next to her. I could now see her well."Perfect," I found myself muttering. I was pleased by the way the dress hugged her body and although it wasn't as exposing as I would have preferred it to be, she looked sexy in it. It made me remember the first time she tried to kill me by posing as the whore brought to spend the night with me. Fuck, I remember she was sexy as hell that day. Anita didn't fix her hair but it was okay the way she(Mae) had it packed. It was held up in a rough bun with some strands falling over her forehead."You can leave now,
"Come sit," Leo smiled at me when he spoke and I knew I couldn't trust that snide smile of his. I would honestly rather stand under the light than go sit with him. I walked to him slowly after remembering his mood early this morning. I rather have him smiling than angry at me. I got to him and he patted the closest empty space for me to join him on the sofa. I couldn't sit that close to him. What if he tried anything, I might not have a strong chance to fight back. I walked to the far end of the sofa he sat in before sitting. He smiled when I did that but I couldn't depict his true reaction to it.I was sitting there wondering why I was brought here when he spoke, "Lade is going to arrive here soon, I want you to be as graceful as you can be. He's willing to pay whatever price I'm willing to sell you to him, that's how much he likes you." Sell me?! What does he mean by ‘sell you to him’? He looked my way again so I kept an uncaring face for him to meet so he continued talking."I ju
"I don't know if I can...""You can. You're sexy and you look innocent but you're not, that's Lade's kind of woman; innocent face, risky to deal with." Leo smiled reassuringly like he didn't just almost dislocate my jaw."I might be sexy but I don't know how to seduce a man. I've tried that with you, did it work?" I asked him as I remembered that night when I was in his room alone with him and he was on top of me. "It did, slightly." He shrugged and my eyes widened at him."You don't really know how sexy you are, do you?" He smirked and rubbed his hands on my thighs. It was then I realized his hands were actually on MY THIGHS.I became uncomfortable and tried to adjust the way I sat but he didn't let me. He grabbed my thighs now to let me know that he knew exactly what he was doing and that his hands weren't on my thighs by mistake. My breathing got hitched and it became hard to breathe."Relax," I heard him. Relax? I couldn't relax, his hands were on my fucking thighs, what is he pl
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