Sold to Diaz Cartel .Chapter 19: It is what it is..During the next weeks, Harley sits on the corner of the studio, managing the music for the younger while she dances. Althea tries to talk to him multiple times, not being used to people not warming up to her sweet personality. She doesn’t understand why the older goes to such lengths as to avoid her entirely during the day, materialising out of thin air once the clock hits 6pm.The cook omits the dancing blonde in exchange of looking at the million drops of water breaking against the glass of the window, silently ignoring Althea when she smiles at him.“Uh, could you...” Althea mumbles in a whisper. Her voice is so low Harley barely hears it. He looks at the blonde standing shyly in front of him, a light blush covering her cheeks and ears as she tries to speak clearly.“What?”“The song. Could you...repeat it?” Althea digs her nails on her palm. Talking to Harley makes her uncomfortable, specially since he ignores her so ferven
Sold to Diaz Cartel .Chapter 20: it is only a matter of time..It takes Harley until almost midnight to finish cleaning the kitchen once more after dinner and organising everything for the next day’s breakfast. He is tired, every muscle in his legs screaming for him to sit down and rest as he slowly walks to his room, ready to jump on his bed. If he goes to sleep immediately he can still catch four hours or so of sleep.“Hey!” Exclaims a voice that turns his sore muscles into stone. “What was the only thing I told you to do, hm?”Diaz is standing behind him, arms crossed over his chest and gloomy expression hardening his, otherwise, youthful features.“Make a four course dinner that includes stake and pork,” Harley whispers keeping his head down.There isn’t many times when Diaz speaks to him other than to give vague orders as to what he wants to eat, which only allows for short interactions between them. Having to stand in here, alone with him in the kitchen, scares Harley the
Sold to Diaz Cartel .Chapter 21: every day worse than the one before.. Alone, Althea seizes the opportunity to walk to the studio which she hopes is still unlocked, after the morning’s events.After what happened with Jana last time, Diaz ordered security to be kept to a minimum in the hallways near the room Althea sleeps in. She gives a silent thank you for the lack of guards as she scurries through the mansion to the studio. When she reaches the door, she takes a small breath before trying the knob.ClickIt opens gently, revealing the spacious place inside. Althea smiles dumbly, turning the light on and only then noticing the jacket folded on the floor.Harley’s.She grabs the jacket and checks the pockets, wishing the cook was unorganised enough to forget the iPod, however, the only thing she finds is a small container shaped like a flower.The cute thing smiles at her in all its glittery colourful plastic. Althea hold the flower tightly, amazed like a little kid. It had bee
Sold to Diaz Cartel .Chapter 22: Althea is a mere doll, owned to obey.. Lucius cries like a child throwing a tantrum. “I even bought a new cologne!”.“How is it my fault my brother’s wife won’t let you fuck her.”“She doesn’t have to! You are of no help! None at all!”. Lucius stomps out of the office, surprising Althea who startles. The raven doesn’t even look at her as he furiously walks away. Althea would think he looks cute, acting like a kid, were it not for the fact that he was asking Diaz permission to force himself on Jana.“Kitten,” Diaz calls from the door. “What are you doing here?”. “Hmm.” Althea hesitates to talk, her mind going wild with the fact that she just got caught eavesdropping.The older comes closer to her and grabs her by the waist, softly pulling her near to leave a peck on her lips.“It’s ok, tell me.”“I need music…for…dancing,” Althea says. “Harley left his iPod in the kitchen and—“.“Ronan is in there,” completes the brunette with a knowing nod. “Her
Sold to Diaz Cartel .Chapter 23: words being thrown into the air. “Hey,” says Clyde not moving. He is holding a cigarette between two fingers and is looking towards the night sky. When Althea stands next to him, he offers the blonde one. “Are you crouching or are you going to make me stand up?”. Clyde asks the standing blonde as she makes no movement to get closer to light her cigarette.“I...can’t sit,” confesses Althea, a flush of embarrassment warms her uncovered body. With Jana turning overprotective again, she only had a chance to grab her thin sweater, a soft piece of fabric barely long enough to cover her ass, before she could make it out without waking anyone up. For once, Althea doesn’t care about her half nudity.By now, everyone has seen everything anyways.“Oh,” replies the older. In all his sweetness, he stands up to light Althea’s cigarette, sitting back down when the silver smoke starts pouring into the night air.“Thanks,” whispers the blonde, taking a deep dr
Sold to Diaz Cartel .Chapter 24 : three simple words to forever destroy me. Couple days pass with Althea unable to move, lying on the bed full of regrets as she is babied by Janina who, all of a sudden, never leaves her side. The older over tends to her every need and sleeps beside her every night, pushing Althea into suffocation. It takes her exactly four days to convince Janina into letting her leave the room and spend the afternoon with Harley, the blonde sheltering herself behind the excuse of needing to hide from Diaz who never misses a day to come wish Althea a good morning and good night.It takes her another four hours of indecision and half whispers to gather enough determination to take a step near the edge of the cliff.“Harley,” starts the blonde. hesitant. “Can I ask about your past?”“No.”“I need to know—““No.”“Harley, please.”“I don’t want to talk about it.”“Tell me about your past.” Althea sits closer to the cook, eyes staring deeply into the other’s. “Tell m
Sold to Diaz Cartel.Chapter 25: Born to be owned.“I know exactly what you are going through because I lived through it, for years. Everyday wishing he would kill me and, when he didn’t, wishing I could just die,” confesses Harley. With a deep sigh he dries some of the leftover tears on his face, his eyes now dry. “I can name a million different kinks, positions and punishments because I have experienced them all. Mister Cartel was an experimental man and I his toy.”“What about suicide?” Althea lets the words out easily, just like she would in any other mundane conversations, as if the words didn’t describe the only escape for a tortured soul.“Four times,” answers Harley with a smirk on the lips. “I obviously failed miserably. I was also punished, each time.” Harley rolls his sleeves up, uncovering a series of multiple scars extending through his arms. The scars on his wrists seem erratic, of different sizes and depths, contrasting with the precise scars littering the rest of h
Sold to Diaz Cartel.Chapter 26: angel’s trap . Full on high, the mania kicks in, driving Althea into taking a terrible chance to move to Diaz’s room. She tells Jana she is scared of Clyde, using the punch to Lucius as an excuse to leave the room.Diaz, of course, is ecstatic when he hears his Kitten is willingly sleeping in his room again, however, a confused Janina is left behind.Althea decides the best way to keep on with her night strolls is by sleeping in a room where Janina isn’t constantly blocking her from leaving. And, since Diaz is a heavy sleeper, leaving the room becomes almost too easy.--But as always, when things start turning better, as one problem is taken care of, a new one arises.--“We are running low on supplies,” says Harley. He still gives Althea two bright coloured pills as always but shows her the almost empty flower. “I haven’t been able to get a new supplier.”“Can’t you just ask your old one?”“Oh yeah, let me call him with my Ouija, see if he took
Sold to Diaz Cartel.Chapter 59: neither life or death .At first, Althea had thought of it as impossible. Soon enough she learnt that everyone knew the Cartel Family had defeated all the other mafias in past, rising to the elite position they enjoy now thanks to the strong loyalty everyone has for their leader. Yet, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. And Althea was the weakest of them all.Surprisingly, collecting information about the weaknesses of the mansion and its security was the easiest part. In the beginning, Althea was overwhelmed by the complexity of the task just to find out that men talk an awful lot when they think the slut sucking them is only there for the drugs.The hardest, and also the most critical detail of the plan was to break the blind trust Diaz had in his inner circle, something he takes so much pride on.Slowly, innocently, Althea carved doubt against Clyde inside Lucius’s mind, poisoning Diaz’s loyal dog for months. Feeding into his obsessiv
Sold to Diaz Cartel.Chapter 58: mix of butterflies and vomit .Janina is about to cry out in pain when it gets swallowed by the shock sent through her whole body as a blade pierces her stomach. The pain that spreads rapidly to every cell in her body forces a gasp out of her."Did it really have to be like this?" says Janina in a forced breath. "Were you really looking for Clyde to kill him like this?"The brunette cries as she is stabbed again and again, the pain no longer giving her a break to think. But even as she fights to live, she is grateful. Because it is her who's dying."You deserve to die for what you did to her; what you did to me! How could you keep her away from me?" Lucius rambles without noticing who is the receiver of his violence. " She will be better without you. I will take care of her like you never did, and I will love her like she deserves. Everything is okay now. With you gone, Jana will finally love me too."With lost eyes and gone mind, Lucius stabs his on
Sold to Diaz Cartel.Chapter 57: did it have to come to this? .Getting to the room had been easy because of the fight mainly concentrating in the middle of the mansion, but getting to the other side where the entrance and the kitchen were, posed a bigger challenge than Althea expected. Which is why the moment the kitchen comes into view, Althea thanks her past self for leaning the mansion's lay out to perfection. All those sleepless nights finally paying off."HOLY FUCK!" Lucius screams. The raven is ready to leave the kitchen, finally sure that Janina isn't there, nor alive or dead, when he is met with a small body. Of course, with a lifetime of training and experience under his belt, the first thing Lucius does is to bring the small knife in his hand to Althea’s throat. "What are you doing here? Where is Diaz? WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING HERE?"Still with a knife to her throat, Althea just looks at Lucius, eyes full of surprise. She wasn't expecting this."Ah, sorry, I guess y
Sold to Diaz Cartel.Chapter 56: commotion, constriction.The pair keeps walking, Althea with a hand set seductively on Diaz’s chest and the burette letting himself be led backwards. They step slow and carefully but never taking their eyes off each other. Even with panic rising inside her, Althea knows she can control the situation as long as she keeps her eyes hooded and lips puckered."You drive me crazy," growls Diaz. His voice is low and raspy, full of arousal."I know." Althea pushes him, forcing the taller to sit on the bed.Althea doesn't know if it is because of her new hair but she has a newfound courage helping her stay calm as she drops to her knees and licks her lips, wetting the pink flesh in preparation. Diaz doesn't miss the signal, immediately relaxing his thighs to let them open wider. The small body in between them moves close to undo the button on the expensive pants, her fingers expertly acting.Seeing Althea on her knees with blonde hair always made Diaz think t
Sold to Diaz Cartel.Chapter 55: the only way out .One step at a time, Althea walks out of the bathroom and into the walk-in wardrobe where she covers herself with one of the thick coats Diaz had brought her a few months ago. The fluffy piece of clothing hangs off her shoulders prettily, falling just under her butt. Once warm again, Althea gathers herself once more, ready to walk to the bed.Except her legs disagree.A moment she is standing and the next she is falling to the floor. There is nothing soft to break her fall as her body refuses to keep fighting gravity, her head bouncing on the hard surface.Her head hurts as much as her body now. There is nothing left in her. No power. No will. No hope. Nothing. She doesn't even care that her coat's zipper has fallen open, letting the harsh wind bite at her skin. Althea knows she has to move but she can't find a reason to do it. There is nothing waiting for her but pain. What does it matter if she hurts there, on the floor or outsid
Sold to Diaz Cartel.Chapter 54: classical, isn't it? .The windows and mirrors are blurred by condensation when Diaz enters the dance room. Althea is in the middle, unaware of the predatory eyes following her body dancing fluidly to a classical piece. The music is morbid and sad, the violin resounding in the whole room with its sorrow, moving the blonde's body from one side to the other. Althea lets the music move and bend her in different directions until she feels like she is a mere doll being controlled by the changing notes echoing in her bones.It is a beautiful and devastating sight. Somehow, the skinny blonde who couldn't even manage to stand on her own is now gliding on the floor, effortlessly. The way she dances makes Diaz want to cry because as Althea moves perfectly to the rhythm of a weeping violin, Diaz can see and feel the blonde dying. The dead ballad keeps on playing as the brunette's eyes fill with tears and his heart shrinks with the fear of losing the only perso
Sold to Diaz Cartel.Chapter 53: hidden innocence .Althea stays hidden under the blankets, scared to face the world but too restless to sleep. Her mind buzzes with guilt and unsaid words mixed with the memories of soft touches and pleasure. She feels disgusting, not because of what she caused but because of the fear of getting caught. She is scared Diaz is coming for her, scared of the brunette knowing, somehow, that it was her who sent the message. The heavy weight of what she has done rests on her body, crushing her soul against the bed, yet, there is a single pebble of relief. At least she got to free Harley. I will bear it so you can be free.Because it doesn’t matter what she does nor how she thinks, Harley can never be saved. He is too enamoured by the hitman and too traumatised by the Cartels. There is no escape when the prisoners don't know they are in a cage.Finally giving up on sleep, Althea hops out of bed. Her feet hit the floor harder than she expects, the iciness c
Sold to Diaz Cartel.Chapter 52: Call me Sunshine? .The memory of the first meeting when they decided the details for the attack comes to his mind, accompanied with an awful thought. He looks at Ronan with pity, almost begging for forgiveness for the words that he is about to say. “Harley knew.”The air turns heavy with those two words. Ronan feels his heart stop beating and his blood start rushing to his ears. Everyone is looking at him, and Diaz has hate in his eyes.“That is nonsense,” whispers Ronan, but he can’t bring himself to sound certain.“He was in the kitchen when we met,” says Diaz through gritted teeth. “He is the only other person who was there.”“Even if he wanted to, he has no way of contacting Fernandez! Come on, guys! He is just a cook.”“Don’t treat me like an idiot.” Diaz’s voice is low and threatening, making even the hitman tremble. “You don’t think I know about that old computer you gave him for Christmas last year?! Huh?!”“Wait, what the fuck! How dare you
Sold to Diaz Cartel.Chapter 51: who is the unfortunate being then ? .Days pass in a blink. The mansion is pure chaos. Everyone runs from one place to the other, rushing to complete the preparations for the fast approaching war. All the men know something big is about to happen. They can feel it in the air, travelling into their anxious bodies and coursing through their veins. Everything is such a haze, nobody notices the sneaky blonde hiding in plain sight, stealthily scurrying in and out of the room behind the kitchen. No one pays attention as she tiptoes delicately nor when she fills her pocket with a bunch of colourful pills.With every trip to the kitchen, the hoodie in the corner of the wardrobe fills up with more pills. Althea thanks her past self for being smart enough to keep secret stashes around Harley’s room. Just in case.With the last of her secret drugs in her underwear, Althea waits until she hears Lucius limp out of the room and lock the door behind him. After loc