“Lade's father killed your father,” Leo's words rang in my ears. The fucker fucking said that and just went back into his room after peaking my curiosity.Brushing some hanging hair away from my forehead, I started back towards my room and thought I caught sight of Rhea walking out of the mansion through the entryway.I hurried down the stairs to meet her but I couldn't see her anywhere. It was like she disappeared. Or was avoiding me, probably hiding from me? I sighed and went back up to my room after I looked around and didn't see her.****Morning.A knock woke me up, something that has become usual since I was brought here, to Leo's mansion. I opened the door to meet Anita the maid, she had two clothes bags in her hands, holding them up by their respective hangers."Good morning," she greeted and got me to stop my guess of why the fuck she came Knocking with clothes. "Sir Vance wants you to pick one of these," she completed."Why?" I asked like there was a chance she would know wh
As I strode my way down the hallway, Leo's eyes glued at me and though I wanted to feel pretty, I couldn't push away the thoughts that he was looking at the dress and not me.I stopped when I got to him. He looked at me from head to toe and just when I thought he would compliment me, he said nothing like last time. He just started down the stairs and I followed behind. Was Anita sure this was the dress he said he liked?"Where are we going?" I asked when a man held the door to one of the cars waiting for him."Get in the car," was his response.I did like what he just ordered. I got into the car through the other side. Another man there was kind enough to hold the car for me."Can I ask where we're going now?" I asked in a lower voice when the car started on the road outside the mansion. Leo sighed before turning his neck to me."We're going to meet Lade at a bar, we'll fix a price for you and speed up the plan." He sounded angry but somehow his voice was still calm. "Will I be sold
Some time passed with Pete receiving and making some calls while I sipped repeatedly from the glass of Martini I had ordered. I was told not to get drunk so I had to survive on sips because this was my second glass and I didn't want to get DRUNK.Pete looked restless making all those calls. He was making me badly want to know what was in the goddamn suitcase. At one point, when he turned around and didn't have his eyes on me, I was tempted to pick up the suitcase and try unlocking it so I could see for myself what had him so pissed and distressed all at once.If he was this disturbed by whatever he saw in the suitcase, then I hope Leo was too. He at least deserves that for keeping me distressed too since the night he ate me out and kept acting like none of that shit happened. And even went on to fuck Bee or whatever he called her that day. But he didn't fuck her, I didn't meet her there when I barged into his room that day. Whatever. He can fuck whoever he wanted to. I would return h
I chuckled without clear humor when Lade wrote me a cheque. "When have I even taken a goddamn cheque from you?" I had to ask him."I want her," gave me a serious look which I only ignored and decided to pour myself a drink."And you can have her," I let the taste of the whiskey settle in after I took a gulp of it."One week from now, fifty million in cash and she's yours. If shit goes past this week, I'll sell her to the next person that is willing to buy her."I stared back at him with a smile as his own stare gradually turned into a glare. I would laugh at how angry I was making him if I didn't have other things messing with the little good mood I woke up with today."If you fucking sell her...""Don't make a threat, I'll gladly sell her to someone else before the end of the night. Don't make me angry." I cut him midway through his words, irritated by his audacity.He let his glare last for a while more before seizing the cheque back and squeezing it to show me that he was angry, aft
I listened to the recorder play the message intended for Leo and my breathing became louder from the terror of it. I had thought the mutilated hands in the suitcase were horrifying enough till the recorder started to play and my assumption that they were a young girl's hand proved right.I had guessed it was a girl's hand because the nails were painted and though the nail polish on it was starting to peel, I couldn't help but imagine the owner of the hands forgetting how to put nail polish on after being put in the situation she must have been.And then whoever sent that message Leo was listening to just mentioned how he was going to keep chopping off some other girls' hands because of Leo and Lade. My blood started to boil and tears welled up in my eyes as I stared at him and watched him listen to the message to the very end.I noticed someone approaching where Leo sat from behind with a pen in hand...no, not a pen, a fucking syringe. A part of me became alert for the looming danger
Days later.I stood in Pete's room with my hands in my pocket as I watched him lay there unconscious.He had been like that for the past few days but the senior doctor said he would wake up today. And just while thinking of his waking up, he opened his eyes and met me in his room. A dry smile painted my lips to see him finally awake. "Raise your right arm and wave your fingers," I told him and got a confused look on his face but he still did it, it was my order after all.I heaved a sigh of relief to see that he could move his arm. "Do the same to your left," I instructed again and watched him do it successfully. Another smile graced my lips but it was brief. "Don't fucking do this again," I warned angrily."I had to," he quickly understood what I was talking about. "You didn't seem to know he was coming to you...""I did. I was waiting for him to get close enough before you gave yourself to him. Do you realize that if I hadn't brought you back quick enough, you could have been paral
"Give me the gun," Pete commanded like he was Leo and I'd readily obey."So you can shoot me with it?" I raised a brow when I asked that. Leo was going to sell me off to Lade today, he had already informed me so the only thing in my head since then has been the fact that Lade could kill me the moment I become his. And he might do it in front of Leo, who might not stop him.I was hoping Leo had the slightest interest in me by now, then maybe I could beg him to add another option to what I had to do to leave here. I would choose that other option and change my mind on accepting to kill Lade to gain my freedom back. It's only obvious to me now that Leo is just a naturally lewd man, and hence all the things he has done to and with me, including making me choke on his incredibly big dick. Aside from the little pleasure he got from making me do the dirty things he likes, he probably has nothing more importance with me.Maybe he's obsessed with my father but not me. He has grown colder arou
Leo dragged me into the mansion and his chamber and then he lodged me against the wall. Crowding in on me, he fixed his eyes on my face like he was trying to steal my soul through my eyes.I got cowed by his eyes pretty quick and looked away but he held my chin to bring my eyes back to his."..." He opened his mouth to speak after but no words came, so he just moved back away from me, allowing me some breathing space."Give it to me," he came back in front of me after a minute and spread his palm. I didn't need to be told what he was asking for. Without hesitation, I placed the gun in his hand and let him take it."Where did you get it from?" He asked the second I gave the gun to him."Pete...he gave the gun to me...he gave it to me the day we sat either Lade at that bar," I swallowed. Forced to look in Leo's eyes, I thought they hid something I couldn't describe because he seemed to be angry at me but his eyes didn't reflect that anger."And you didn't think to return it?""..." I di
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