Javier grimaced and waved hurriedly. “No, I can’t. I really shouldn’t! I can feel the liquor burning my guts!”Rowan furrowed his eyebrows. “So you’re willing to compromise for Mr. Schitt’s sake, but not for me? That’s favoritism, Mr. Kersey! How disrespectful!”Bella tried to intervene. “Mr. Kerr, please! He means nothing like that. Mr. Kersey’s just not that good at drinking, so it’d really be best if we…”It did not work. Bella’s attempts at dissuasion and Javier’s evasion could rescue the latter from Rowan’s dogged insistence. In the end, Javier complied under pressure and clinked the edge of his glass against Rowan’s before finishing his drink in one go. Within the span of five minutes, 250ml of wine was gone. They had been drinking nonstop. Wiser drinkers would have known it was time to rest and slow down by this point. Joey, though, was so impatient to knock out Javier that he was hardly going to give the latter any breathing space. “Another one, Mr. Kersey!”Three more gl
Bella would never say yes to Javier’s advances. In fact, her no was so definite, complete, and unnegotiable that she hurried away from Javier’s bedroom in a panic.She hid under the covers in her room. She tossed, she turned, she tried her damnest, but sleep seemed to evade her. All she could remember was how she had felt when he had touched her. There were times when she felt the impulse to act, only to stop herself out of bashfulness and shame. Javier had no problem sleeping, for his part. He was not losing a wink of sleep to impatience or worry—not when he was sure Bella was steadily falling for his unstoppable charm…The next morning, the two of them left simultaneously after having breakfast. Javier watched Bella’s car vanish into the distance, a confident smile hanging on his lips. Her mind would grow more and more restless these days, he was sure. And that restlessness was going to push her into his arms soon…At school, Javier started searching again to nail any suspect be
Having his *ss handed in public made Raiden a very angry man. Who did this student think he was to lay his hand on his lecturer like that? This was an act of disrespect, pure and simple! Of course, Javier had always been that guy. Raiden was hardly an educator in even the most charitable sense of the word! He was just a parvenu at best; a sh*tty parvenu. A teacher teaches and an educator educates, both by spreading knowledge and exhibiting exemplary behavior. And then there was Raiden Foxx, whose only motive was to take advantage of the young women under him. How could that make him a lecturer?Javier rubbed his knuckles to prepare them for Raiden’s face. Raiden clapped the dust of his hands to ready his palm for Javier’s cheek—Suddenly, Megara Galloway strode past the room. Catching the prelude of a fight out of her periphery vision, she frowned and stepped inside. “What is the meaning of this? A lecturer and an undergrad brawling on campus? This isn’t a bar fight! Have some clas
More than two hours later, Javier and Megara finally stopped. It was two hours of paradise to her. The pleasure she had drawn out of the experience was indescribable. They were engaging in some post-sex teasing for a bit when Javier’s phone rang. He picked it up and heard Harley’s panicked voice. “Bro, are you still in Miss Galloway’s office? Get out of there, man! Now! You’ve gone viral!”Javier was confused at first, but once he asked and received an answer, his mood soured. Frustrated, he hung up and told Megara, “Go home. I’ll handle this.”She had overheard the conversation too and was stunned as the reality of it sank in. Megara had believed that their secret was foolproof. She had allowed herself to think that no one would ever find out about whatever was going on between them. And yet, someone had filmed their activity clandestinely and uploaded it for the viewing pleasure of the campus. Everyone in this university knew. Everyone!Megara was mortified. Now that everyone
Zenya could claim that getting fired from her job as student president was at least reasonable. The university had picked this exact moment to run an investigation, and incriminating evidence had cropped up. Except the news of her mother being kicked out of the hospital could not possibly be right. Parrson Group, which was supposed to pay for her mother’s bills, suddenly withdrew all their support for no discernable reason. No, there was no reason. There was no reason because paying the bill had been voluntary on their part too—basically no different from a corporation’s whim to help. There was no law or contract mandating their support, so there was no penalty for withdrawing it either. It was nobody’s business. Zenya was shocked witless. She quickly called her contact in Parrson Group to get an answer. Her call never reached them because they had blacklisted her. Then, her landlord called her. He told her that the price of her rent had just risen, and the terms of renting had
Megara was a good woman. Javier was happy that she could have happiness. However, he was no longer happy after he left Megara’s place because he recalled Raiden. He was disgruntled once he remembered that Raiden had actually dared stab him in the back.Once Herschel came back with an address, Javier drove there right away. Herschel had picked a good spot this time. It was an abandoned crematorium. Since it had only been days after the move, the incinerator and everything else were still available.Javier found Raiden, who was tied on the incinerator stretcher, soon after he entered. The man was scared witless. Fear had taken over his expression, as he had not expected to end up like this just because he had exposed Javier and Megara’s video to vent his resentment.Raiden’s heart lurched in fear, and he could barely speak due to how shaky he was. He knew what a crematorium looked like, as well as the function of the incinerator, so he begged Herschel to let him go in a quivering voic
Javier had never let anyone threaten him simply because he did not like threats. He believed that the same applied to everyone else. That was why he halted and turned to look at Zenya with a chuckle when he heard her threat.“Zenya Turing, do you know that you’re courting death?”Zenya was a little scared, as this was her first time seeing Javier smirk like this. However, she could care less when a wealthy and comfortable future was on the line.Bracing herself, Zenya told Javier, “Cut the crap. Either agree to be with me and let me share your assets, or I’ll publish the video online and expose you and Megara!“Don’t think I don’t know that you secretly sent someone to erase the video. But it’s useless. I saved a copy a long time ago. If you know what’s good for you, you’ll be fine. But if you don’t, I’ll expose and ruin both you and Megara!”These were threats fueled by greed. Zenya was resorting to all kinds of crooked tactics.Javier kept both his hands in his pockets as he lo
In reality, Javier found that death was, many a times, not the scariest thing. What was worse was losing everything.Just like when Zenya woke up the next day and felt like she had become a completely different person. Her pretty face had been ruined, and her voluptuous figure was gone—all because of a fire in the crematorium, where gasoline had been splashed on her before she had been lit ablaze.She had thought that she was going to die, but she had suddenly been freed and the fire had been put out with soil. That was why when she had woken up and seen herself, her skin was festered and her breasts were gone. She looked like a monster.“No, this isn’t me. This absolutely isn’t me. This isn’t me at all!” Zenya wailed, refusing to believe that she looked like this.She ran and flagged cars by the side of the road, but no car dared to stop, as the drivers thought that she was a monster. Finally, a police car stopped and let her in kindly to take her to the hospital.On the way ther