UP FOR SALE AGAIN

Ariana’s pov~

I sat there, my ears ringing to the sound of Mateo’s reaffirming words.

“Welcome to your resale”  

I looked at Igor whose eyes were fixed on me the whole time, never moving, never flinching.

“So Igor, your proposal?, she’s worth 1 billion dollars, how can you topple that value” Mateo started, my chest tightened, I looked frantically at Mateo, my eyes demanding an answer to this intentional sabotage.

  “Ah, but I hear she went and got herself knocked up, with child no?” Igor asked turning to Mateo whose face was fixed on me, a sinister and wicked look glinted in his eye.

“Mateo I demand answers, we had a deal right?” I asked frantically, trying to unbuckle the tightly fitted belt across my body, but it was proving unfruitful.

“Well I'm not feeling like it anymore, you have been very unruly, brazen and disobedient of late, and I don't condone such attitudes baby doll” Mateo said still maintaining eye contact with me.

 I was puzzled, he was selling me off for calling for help and saving him in the mountains?

“You needed help Mateo, you were hurt I went to get help!” I exclaimed, my voice shaky as he hardened at every tone.

“What do you think Igor? "How much is she worth?” Mateo asked, relaxing in his seat.

Igor looked at me and looked back at him.

 “If we take out that thing in her belly, we can even it out, plus damages,  I'll give you 3 million dollars for her” he smiled licking his mouth as his perverse eyes traced the outline of my legs.

“Hmmmmmmm” Mateo murmured.

“I think Ariana here should have a say at her private sale, don't you think?” Mateo retorted, gesturing to me to go on.

“Mateo….” I started.

“Is this your idea of a punishment? You realize I'm pregnant and I'm not faking it?” I asked, frantically looking around the room.

I saw my bodyguard Alfredo come in, his hands clenched in front of him, his gait sturdy, another guard soon joined.

“There it is again, that mouth of yours, you don't know your place and I intend to teach you manners,” he said, getting up and pacing around Igor, who started feeling physically uncomfortable.

“What's this? Are we in class? or are you selling the whore?” Igor asked getting up to face Mateo, Mateo ignored him and moved close to me, he leaned down and grabbed my face in his hand.

“How much do you think you are worth to me Ariana, how much can I sell you for?” Mateo asked as his sinister eyes pierced directly into my soul.

I shook my face free, “You are a horrible human being Mateo, I will be dead in a month if you sell me to Igor” I mentioned.

“but I don't care, anywhere is better than with you!” I exclaimed.

I watched as he clenched his jaw and his eyes squeezed into an inquisitive squint.

“Do you know what I do with disobedient girls?” Mateo asked, “they get shipped to Cuba, and trust me they learn manners,” he said, touching my arm lightly, “ for Life” he added.

“I hate you mateo, I hate everything that you are, I will never belong to you! you can sell me for 2 dollars if you wish! I'm done hiding behind you” I exclaimed loudly, I watched and waited for his reaction, but he stood opposite me, his hands clenched into a fist and his gaze fixed on me.

“Don Mateo the rules of my favour were very clear, we will negotiate the cost of how much you can sell her to me” he said, stepping forward and touching my hair softly, as soon as he did it I saw Mateo’s face change, he was angry.

“Don't touch her until we conclude” he repeated slapping his hand away.

“What is this? I thought we had a clear understanding” Igor asked, he was now equally furious and his guards had drawn arms.

There was a standoff between them for a few minutes before I heard him say 

“Fine,” he said sitting back down in his seat.

“ I want double, two billion dollars, my investment might as well be worth it” he added.

 Igor laughed hysterically and relaxed his face.

“Two billion? That's worth at least two of my casinos in Moscow.” He said before sitting beside Mateo.

“Enough, I would like to get on with the meeting and find clear ground for her transfer of ownership,” Igor said sternly, he gave a sign to his guards to lower their weapons.

“Well, then what's your final price? I'd like to get this along, I have a long meeting ahead of me” Mateo replied and Igor smiled.

“Like I said, we will take out that thing in her belly, plus damages, I'll pay 3 million dollars” Igor declared.

“a lot of people will pay good money to watch you cayenne,” he added.

I put an arm around my belly instinctively, “I don't know what sick games you are playing Mateo! But I don't care anymore, our child’s blood will be on your hands!” I yelled at them, and Mateo was quiet.

“If it's done, then we shake on it and I transfer payment” Igor said in his thick Russian accent.

I watched as Mateo smiled at him and focused his gaze back on me.

“Ariana will be a thorn in your side, she’s a very disobedient girl, you sure you want this?” he asked Igor, he watched my face for a reaction, but I didn't care, I knew he was bluffing and this is some sort of punishment for running off on my own in the mountains.

“Don't worry about that Don Mateo, I have girls who will teach her to hold her tongue, she's nothing but……” 

“I want her to have the baby, you give me the baby and I skim off 2 million dollars of the original price” Mateo interjected.

“Mateo!” I exclaimed, his eyes widened in excitement as his name left my lips.

“No! She will be wasted Goods by then, I don't agree to this” Igor responded 

“ I don't know what kind of sick game you think you are playing here Mateo but I have other things I have to do in Croatia to help you get out undetected, so give me what I'm owed” Igor added, his once calm tone started to turn to anger.

For a long time, Mateo didn't glance at him and he was mute, he kept his focus on me all that time.

“Fine, make the transfer” he finally said, my eyes widened as he gestured to Julius sitting two seats away watching the entire thing play out to receive Igor’s transfer.

“Done!” Julius confirmed, putting his cell phone back into his pocket.

“Well then, she’s yours now,” Mateo said, springing up to shake Igor, I watched as Mateo shook his hand, signing my life away.

He sat back down, Igor grabbed my arm, a smile plastered on his face.

“You belong to me now cayenne” he whispered in my ear and he tried to kiss me, I grabbed his lower lip with my teeth and bit it hard, he tried to pull away but I was enraged, I held on tight until it detached.

“You bitch!” he cried holding his bleeding lip, I spat his bloodied lip on Mateo’s shoe and waited for his reaction.

But he had a sly smile on his face.

Angered by this, Igor slapped me hard across my face and for some unknown reason, this infuriated my psychopathic husband.

“The deal is off, I'm not interested in selling anymore,” he told Igor, Igor brought out his gun, and with one hand still on his bloodied lip he pointed the gun at Mateo and looked around for his guards, for backup, but No one was there.

“I heard about you… they say you are cunning, but I have the cure to your madness, this plane is mine, the pilot the crew everyone! So you better be careful how you choose to approach things from here on!” Igor announced furiously.

“While you were lusting after my wife, I took the liberty to take the plane of your hands, I always have an extra pilot in my security team, if you had stopped at some point to look around you would have seen that your guards had been incapacitated and replaced with mine” Mateo chuckled, got up and readjusted his suit.

Igor looked around frantically waving his gun around as he did.

“What is happening…” he asked, he saw that the bodyguards he came with were lying dead in a corner far off, while he was occupied with me at some point, Mateo’s security had quietly taken them out.

How did I not notice this?

“What are the chances Igor, that you have come to my rescue, right when I needed it” Mateo asked, he watched as Igor’s hand shook.

“how much were you paid to lead me to my death?” Mateo asked as he distracted him and incapacitated him, soon he brought Igor to his knees.

“You have done a very bad thing Igor…you hit my wife” Mateo started, I watched as Julius tossed him a gun.  Igor was quiet and he didn't beg for his life, from Mateo's reaction he didn't expect him to.

“When you get to hell, sit tight and wait…. They will join you soon” I watched as Mateo cocked his gun and shot Igor Point blank in the head.

Igor fell at my feet and the blood seeped out from his scattered brain to the sole of my shoe soaking it.

“Well then that solves the Case of the stolen gold bars!” he joked and gestured to his guards to laugh, which they did.

“You are a monster!” I screamed, I tugged at the buckled belt harder and harder until I finally got free, I quickly jumped out of the way for Igor's blood to pass.

Mateo caught me just in time.

“And you, baby doll, are a beautiful distraction, and I own you, only me”