The loud beeping of the heart monitor in the room was what made the enraged young man, standing at the foot of the bed, stare at his coma-induced stepbrother to believe that he was still alive.
Donovan Castillo. Standing tall at 6ft 9, a billionaire tycoon at the young age of twenty-seven. He was able to achieve greater heights in business all around the world than men his age couldn't do at the age of twenty, when he took over the family business till now. He's the son of the famous business tycoon, Angelo Castillo. A fifth generational tycoon, whose wealth spread across all over the world. But after Donovan took over the business, the business took on much more advancement and earned him more respect and acknowledgment across the globe. At first, there were rumors that the Castillo family were involved in the underground mafia business, so that could explain the massive wealth they had. Also, their relationship with a few other mafia gangs arose the said rumors. But no one was bold enough to back up the claim that Donovan is the head of the jade dragon mafia. With his duties as the first son of the family, his father has put him through ruthless training to prepare him not just for the family business, but for the inheritance as the capo of the Jade dragons. Hence, that could explain his cold personality, but the only person who had seen his soft side and knew him more was his stepbrother, Ares. The two Castillo brothers, though they weren't born to the same mother, as a result of their father's promiscuous lifestyle. Yet, the love and affection they had was stronger than the bond between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. Donovan's mother, who was a regular stripper knocked up by his father, abandoned him at the cruel hands of his father, unlike Ares, whose mother is his father's wife, who despised the fact that Angelo had to accept him as the first son, regardless of his impure bloodline. The family crisis in the Castillo family was so alarming, that at first Donovan had to refrain from thinking about the fact that Ares’ mother, might have been the one who injured her son, and tried to pin the blame on him. But at the same time, Donovan knew that his father had a lot of enemies that had tried repeatedly to bring him down. But whereas, Ares wasn't interested in having anything to do with the Mafia lifestyle, one would say that he's weak, but nobody was brave enough to hurt him because of Donovan. Everyone was scared of bearing his wrath, but looking at Ares right now. Donovan was already imagining the numerous ways he would torture the stupid person, that was brave enough to do this to Ares. Rage! He saw red, with his fists tightly clenched together. Donovan had to start counting to calm himself down, from acting out, especially not with Ares here. A remedy his doctor has taught him when he feels like his control is slipping. A knock on the door brought him back to life, to see Marco, his second in command, walk up to him holding an iPad for him to watch the video playing. "Boss, you need to see this,"Marco said, before pressing on the video. It was the CCTV footage of the arena where Ares had an accident, but before Marco showed him that. He played another video where they saw Ares and a woman come out of his restaurant. Ares with a woman? Donovan's brow was raised in interest. He has never seen Ares with the same woman, especially the part where she's coming out of the restaurant with him. He didn't need anyone to tell him that it was a date. His brother was never someone that would hide things from him, but for the fact that he did that, he sure has his own reason. But him being secretive right now was the problem why he's lying in a vegetative state. "Who is she?" Donovan asked with authority. Had it not been for Marco, his assistant was the longest to have worked with him. Any normal person will have a heart attack just looking at him. He doesn't smile. He looks like a grim reaper. Though, a handsome grim reaper that has girls flocking around him. "My men are still working on that, but judging from the videos combined here. I think that Ares is in a relationship with her." Marco said, looking at Donovan, who scoffed at his words. It was too good to be true. The Castillo brothers don't love. Especially Donovan, although Ares was the party mogul and loud type. It was really stupid and unbelievable to say that he suddenly fell in love. "And you didn't tell me about it?" Donovan snapped at him. "I'm sorry, Don." Marco apologized with his head bowed. " I had no idea, from my guess, he kept this a secret from everyone, including you too. So, he was careful enough not to let me or my men get the hang of what was happening." Donovan raked his hand through his hair frustratingly. Before yanking Marco close to him by his collar with his eyes staring hard at him, without any feelings showing there. "I don't care to know who she is or whatever it is that they had ongoing. Bring her to me, Marco. Alive!" He ordered, before pushing him away, while Marco didn't question his authority. He knew that he was serious, especially when it had something to do with his brother. He doesn't joke about it, only God will save that young lady if she doesn't give an accountable explanation about what happened to Ares, when she's here. "What are we going to do about the madam?" Marco said, referring to Ares' mother. "She's been demanding to know where you took him." Ares' mother, Nora, had been making a scene about seeing her son, but there was nothing that could be helped about the situation when nobody knew where Donovan took Ares, except him. Including, the big boss doesn't have the right to question Donovan, when he has made up his mind. The only reason why Nora was still breathing is because of Ares and their younger sister. "Let her grieve in peace, nobody gets to know about this place, is that understood?" Donovan told him, before taking one last look at Ares before leaving the room. He had the best doctors and nurses that were taking care of him, though all of them signed an NDA with him. So, he wasn't bothered about any of them snitching on him to his father or his stepmother. All he was worried about was this mysterious lover Ares didn't tell him about. He was almost out of his car, when he received a message from Candy, his personal escort. Fuck! He needed a release and knew the perfect person to help him, ease the anger off him."Valerie!"The young lady zoned back to reality from where she stood behind the counter, to stare at the angry face of her manager pointing accusing fingers at her."What's wrong with you today? Everyone has been complaining about you working like a snail, and it's bad for my business. I shouldn't have employed you in the first place, you youngsters are so lazy!" Jonathan threw words at her as if she was his wife, who was no different from him. The odd couple are in a toxic marriage, and it's not a secret to everyone in the restaurant that he's the cause of it.Not only was he accusing her of making business unsteady and slow today, the stench of his teeth made her shift back so as not to feel his spit on her face. He always spits whenever he talks. Just staring at him throwing insults at her made Valerie realize just how unlucky and pathetic her life was.The image of seeing that gun in the bag of her twin sister still lived rent-free in her head. She was worried because she didn't
"Miss.Blackfield, I think it's time to consider the fact that Chad needs to withdraw from school. His condition is getting much worse. Today he hit his classmate with a rock when he was just trying to be friendly. It's so annoying that we have to put up with convincing the parents not to press charges, but the school board of directors are looking into the matter, but for the time being. He should be at home."Valerie sat beside a sleeping Chad in the hospital ward, while going over his teacher's words. Chad was autistic and the impact of that was nothing to write home about in the school and everyone around him, because he was an oversensitive child.But Valerie knew that the teacher talking about Chad being violent wasn't his fault. His classmate must have tipped him off, he doesn't get violent that easily. Chad could never hurt a fly to talk more of hitting his classmate.She didn't think twice about the teacher's words anymore, because it wasn't just at school. The world was a mes
The following morning, Valerie had woken up and prepared Chadrick's favorite meal, which was scrambled eggs, oatmeal and milk for breakfast. She was still conflicted about the way she was going to tell him that he wouldn't be going to school in the meantime.Whereas, her mind was playing every scenario of how she was going to fully concentrate on work, and trying to keep up with checking up on Chad at their neighbor's place.Mrs Gemma was a sweet lady that didn't treat Chad like the others do, which was why Chad had no problem staying there, since it was just her, and her husband, who treated Chad like his son too. He has been a loving fatherly figure in Chad's life for years. It's sad how unfortunate good things rarely happen to good people.The couple didn't have children of their own, and neither were they planning on adopting. She prayed that a miracle would happen to Mrs. Gemma soon, because she truly is a sweet soul."Breakfast's ready, Chad!" She yelled from the kitchen, for C
"That will be all for your schedule today, Mr. Castillo?" Donovan heard his secretary, Destiny say, as he was done checking his phone while waiting for the doctor's medical report on Ares' today. The doctor and nurse that were in charge of him, would always send over a message if he didn't come over to see Ares every morning.But there was no message on his phone, other than that of Candy's stupid, unapologetic ass, demanding that he introduce her to his family and make their relationship official. He was annoyed. The only reason why she's still alive and breathing was that she gives a good head, and out of all the women that he had ever been entangled with, she's the one who knew and understood her place.But now she's tripping, which made him know that it's time he did something about her ass.He looked up to see his secretary's eyes fixed on him, one that he wasn't blind to see what she wanted from him. Women and their unending greed for money and fame. It hasn't been a month sin
"You should have taken me straight home, Donovan. What were you thinking?" Angelo yelled at Donovan for taking him to a hospital, when he should have done what was necessary by taking him home. But rather, he was stuck here at an expensive private hospital, without any idea of what was going on outside.Thankfully, the bullet wound didn't rupture any vital organs or arteries, seeing as he still had the mouth to shout at Donovan, who ignored him and was on call to settle the media team that was going frenzy with the attack at the company.Angelo sat up on the bed, not caring that the stitch might open up. It was going to take more than just a gunshot to bring him down. "What are you doing?" Donovan questioned his father, when he saw him going for his clothes. "What does it look like I'm doing?" Angelo sassed back at his son, before putting on his jacket while Donovan sighed at his action. Clearly, he could see that it hurt his father's reputation, for being publicly embarrassed both
Thankfully, Jonathan wasn't in a bad mood today, seeing as Valerie was granted an early leave today just so that she could talk with the town's sheriff, Jolene's father. It was late in the evening when she stopped at the station. With a knock at the door of the sheriff's office, Valerie met with the face of Scott Harris, her fatherly figure. "Valerie darling, how have you been?" Scott sat up to receive Valerie with a hug, it's been a while since she came to the family house, now that she's here seeing him, she. She had been feeling bad for ghosting him and his wife, Aurora, for months. "I'm good, Mr.Harris. It's been a while." Valerie said shyly. "Yeah, thanks to you forgetting about us, but I'm good. Aurora has been asking about you for a while, you know how she is."Scott said while pulling out a seat for her. "How's Chad, by the way?" Valerie watched him sit down, "Chad is doing fine." She kept it simple, she didn't want people to take pity on her. It was depressing, that anyone
"She should be awake by now.""The boss? He should have been back by now?"B..boss?"It doesn't matter, I will set up the pace for what's about to happen, wake the girl up!"Voices?Valerie heard voices, one that didn't seem familiar as she groaned tiredly, her eyes felt heavy and the light that was flashed right at her face, made it impossible for her to fully open her eyes.Her body felt like a train ran over her. Her hands? She couldn't feel her hands, neither did she feel her feet too. She didn't understand what was going on, until she heard the voice more loudly and close to where she was."She's awake, Sir."Sir?Her face ceased in confusion, who is sir?It was at that moment, as she struggled to open her eyes and to raise her heavy hands up, did the event of what happened in her house flashed across her face, and her eyes snapped open to land on the red angry ones that belonged to an unfamiliar face."W..where am I?" She asked, scared of her life, as the man in front of her let
Valerie was paralyzed for some seconds. She had expected some disgusting old looking man to be the head of such a vile association that trafficked girls, and forced them into prostitution. But no! She was dead wrong. Standing in front of her with his hand in the pocket of his pants, was a man, a gorgeous man. He was tall, almost 6 ft 9 by the looks of it. He appeared much older than the innocent looking young lady, who couldn't look away from him. His sophisticated, dark exterior, made him appear superior to every other ordinary person. Jolene found Marco cute, but this man here, clearly God took his time creating him. She was jealous, so jealous of his thick eyebrows and long lashes, was it even possible that he had all that when he was not a female? His dark, tousled hair hung down his shoulders, it was such a contrast to his icy blue eyes. Hence, he looked more of a supermodel, than actually a thug It was really hard for her to believe that he was part of something so… sinful.