Axel.It was past nine in the morning, Axel was an early bird, he was always up and running by seven am. He exercises by five am and drinks his coffee by six am, he gets ready for the day before seven am. But two extra hours had passed and nothing had happened. No one wakes him but today, it seemed like something was different.The aura was dark and cold."He hasn't woken up sir." A maid reported to Wesley when she knocked more than once. Axel had rules for everything and for everyone. He had rules that he followed and the one he expected everyone else to follow too.He said whenever the staff needed anything all they need to do is knock once and that was it. He would always answer. But if he doesn't answer in ten to thrity seconds, they should always refer back to Wesley. Being the new maid, she read all the rule books and made sure she didn't miss anything. She had heard rumors of how many workers had died in the house for the little rules that they broke."Okay, you can go back to
Jasmine."Why are you dressing up? The doctor said you should be resting, he specifically asked that you stay home and rest." Brandon pointed out as he was doing his morning body routine. Jasmine blurted out a laugh as he walked up to her. She was over the sink, brushing. She had a mirror over the sink. She saw her fiancée and laughterHe had a white lotion all over his face and even on his eyelashes, and his beards. "Why are you laughing? What's funny?" Brandon asked his fiancée who was busy trying to avoid her bursting into laughter."Your face! You looked like a ghost!" She laughed again for the second time. He gave her a stern look and she swallowed her laughter immediately."You barely know anything do you? You should know that this is what I use to keep this face all pretty for you, you dare not insult my skincare routine you forest liver!" He said out loud sarcastically. He was so serious. All Jasmine could do was laugh out loud."Relax!" She cleared her throat and raised her h
Axel The sight of how she choked on the harmless question made him chuck. He cleared his throat and laid back. He watched how nervous she became and how she barely held eye contact. He smiled underneath his stuffed face."I am so sorry." She managed to let out. He read how she was. Unexpected and dumbstruck. He saw how she wiped her mouth clean and how she cleaned the table."It's alright, I understand. I didn’t mean to take you by shock." Axel replied to her. He saw how shy she was. She cleaned the table successfully."I am sorry, I didn't expect the question." She added as she pushed the cocoa aside."Uh- I think I should go on to the important questions. What triggers your anger?" Jasmine tried to change the topic and move on. She tried to bring out her pen and paper.Axel decided to play along. "Maybe it's how she will get herself back together." He thought to himself as he cleared his throat."You do know it's hard to open up, how do you deal with clients that are that way?" Axe
Chapter 18Jasmine."Do you remember your first kiss?" She heard the question for the second time. Why was he asking so intentionally?Why did he care "Uh, no I have never had that before. You have asked this so many times." She had discomfort in her eyes as they walked along, she hoped it was just a random question. She didn't want to feel any more uncomfortable.She knew she had to be respectful to his wishes."But you have a fiance? Don't you?" He asked another question. Jasmine was uncomfortable but she tried to reply in a warm.tone."Maybe this is how to get through his wall." She thought and replied."Yeah but we haven't kissed before." Jasmine replied without a shaky smile. "Okay" He said as he pulled her closer to him. He titled his head and their lips met, he gave her teases more intense than the story she told. She closed her eyes and enjoyed how their tongues met and parted. The sound she heard was pleasing."He kissed me, he is kissing me." Jasmine tried to remind hers
Axel.Axel saw as she left abruptly. She didn't take a turn to look at him. Certainly he wasn't going to run after her. He wasn't going to run after some human. More less someone who needed his help. He scoffed at the silly, sorry and childish behaviour that she showed.Axel turned and walked into his house. His mind wasn't clouded, he just was sure not to think about anything. He shook his head and cleared his mind He took his steps one after the other. All he knew was he wiped her first kiss and he replaced it immediately.He wiped his lips and smiled. Axel walked with his arms behind his back.He didn't have any reason to say a word or call his psychologist. He was sure not to have a reason to see her againHe entered his office and sat down comfortably. He had some unfinished business with his clients and the shipping of some goods."Wesley! Come here now." He growled as he hung the landline. He was ready to work and make sure his employees all had their head in the game.He kep
AxelAxel had already given Wesley the documents and details of all the debtors including those that tried to play him.Axel decided to dedicate these moments to them and them alone. He had nothing else to worry about or to even take off.He was expectant of something, her call. Even if he knew he had canceled the upper call. At least her anger or a plea. He wanted her to beg or even whine about his actions but nothing happened.It infuriated him but he ignored it. He stood up and took a trip to hell.The sound and the noises of the prisoners all gave him a rush. He loved how he suffered. It calmed his nerves. He walked in sequence and he passed each room. He didn't take a look at the prisoners or those that were being tortured.He walked without a thought that could disturb him. He got to his office and sat down."Humans!" He growled and banged the table. All he could do was picture the people that showed their human nature.He knew he left without informing his assistant. "He doesn
Jasmine. "You better fix up." He growled and let go of her. Her blood pressure shut to the roof. She felt her panic attack coming up all over again. She sighed as she watched him leave.She held herself as she stood up. Being a psychologist she understood he might be going through some trauma or something that he doesn't want to talk about.She tried to look back at the time when all these started. She remembered it was when she started having lapses. The moments she started to lose her memory. The days when she wouldn't remember things."Have I been forgetting some things?" She asked herself as she paced in the room. Brandon was in the kitchen. She wasn't entirely scared, she was scared but not scared enough to call the cops or to even try and make a scene.She saw him as a client, someone who if she tried to understand she would. She sighed and took out her notepad. She wrote down all she had concluded that he was probably jealous.She had been going out to a particular client's h
AlexYou helped her? Wesley who came in with a file said as they walked into the board room. It was the D day, he was about to sell a private hotel to a buyer. He made sure they prepared their reasons and they were sure they would buy it.Axel loved being professional in all his ways, even the smallest details and the smallest ways."Yeah, they were having issues." Axel said as he sat down, he arrived an hour early for the meeting. He sat down at the table. A table wide enough to contain eight different people. But today, it was just four. He could have easily arranged for a small meeting at a restaurant but it was past 8pm and he loved late night meetings. He had always done his meetings at night.The round big circle table, with a room with glass walls where he stood, he watched the city with one stare.He hasn't given Wesley a reply, Wesley placed the necessary documents at the assigned places and stood too.Axel turned and looked at him. "Yes, I helped her. She needed help and I
Axel. "Why don't you come down here and let's talk?" Axel asked as he stood up and held his bat once again.'I will finish this mother , even if it's the last thing I do. He knew Jasmine would be fine and okay, but the rage that he had in him was so much that he needed more time and to deal with him properly.'"When you always disappeared with her. That is wrong, that is totally wrong." Joe said and Axel got bored. He closed his eyes and appeared where Joe was.Joe's eyes widened. His men left in seconds. He tried to grab something to defend himself with but there was nothing close or nearby."Hey, stay away. Back off." He screamed like a five year old. Axel scoffed and hit him with the bat, he glared his eyes at Joe who was being an asshole. "Oh" He coughed out blood and landed on the floor. The wires all got tangled on his hands and legs. Axel barely did anything."We will meet in hell and you will suffer more!" He threatened and hit him again with the bat, he did that over and ove
Jasmine. "Hey love, we are going somewhere." Joe said as his men came to assist Jasmine who seemed liveless already, she had gone through different ordeals, from being raped to being tortured all because of some little mafia deal. She was in the middle of the men. She raised her eyes that were heavy and tired. Her back was arched and curved. She didn't know how to react or what to do. Her body had marks and stretches, the torture all ended the night before but they still hurt."Dress her up nicely, she has somewhere to be and don't touch or take care of her wounds." Joe ordered. Jasmine raised her head and looked at Joe, her breathing was paced and she was naked still. She took one step after the other as she went on being assisted by two ladies.They wore her dress, she squinted and moved and made noises but she was too weak to sound or to even talk. They gave a free gown, so it wouldn't hurt her. They all read her and had pity looks. They shook their heads and they were still gent
Axel. Two days after."You are already leaving? I thought you said you would leave by Friday, today is still Wednesday, why the rush?" Wesley who was unprepared and unready for Axel and his ways of disappearing. He rolled his eyes and folded his hands."You aren't my wife, you are my second in command and I don't like popping in and living and you know that!" Axel added as he adjusted his shirt and looked at his watch."Yes, but you are my concern, I know you can trust me with the hotels and the clubs and the bakeries and all that but the goons and the fights, I can only fight in my demon mode. But this is huge!" Wesley explained in detail but Axel did nothing but laugh hysterically."You have done this before so what's the problem?" Axel found it rather funny and unexpected. Wesley isn't like this, he is never like this but for some reason he wants to be like that. Axel, who was in his office, sat down and looked at him. His files were packed and some clothes."It's quite differen
Jasmine. The following morning. "Hi, it's so nice to meet you." 'Is that okay to say to him?' It had been a long while since she went on a date, an official one. It was time that she moved on from Axel, Her fiancée and everything else that was left. 'A new beginning, I need that. I should maybe cut my hair and dye it white. You know it would be a good thing.' She tried to convince herself as she tried on different gowns that she wore. From the pink polka dots gown that stayed in her wardrobe for ages, to the brown gown that seemed to be outdated. A pile of clothes that she checked and rated all stood there like a mountain. 'This is hard' She said internally, as she sighed and held the clothes up. "Why is it hard?" She asked herself again this time Jasmine voiced out. She paced over and over, with different thoughts, she was excited to her guts, she wanted a new thing and it landed right in front of her. What more could she ask for? She rolled her eyes and threw herself on t
Jasmine. Axel had left after they had a steamy goodbye session, Jasmine was left alone with her thoughts and she was by herself. She opened her eyes and rolled them, she squinted. She had no idea how long she had slept for or how long he had been there. No idea of the next thing to do. Naked on her bed, she rubbed her legs and shook her head, Jasmine yawned as though she had ran miles and miles.She was in her bed, wrapped up. She remembered how steamy the session was and how she loved it. He went on and on and she couldn't take enough of it. Jasmine may have pushed him away but a side of her wanted him still He took her to the shower and ran a bath for her, it was so relieving for her. She loved it, she barely remembered but it was something. 'It was the last huh?' She asked as she tucked her hair and sighed. "Why is that?" She suddenly felt empty after all that she had done and been through. "Even him, he has left me with no one!" She added as she itched her hair hard. She seemed
Axel. "Ignore it, we will talk about it when I am sober but for now let me dwell in whatever thought that this is. Okay?" She added as she nodded."Are you sure?" He asked her with his eyes, he tried to see her thoughts which he did. "Yes, I am sure." She said with a smile as she nodded, a fake smile was on her face too and he saw her. "Okay, hug me then" He told her as he stood up, he held her hands still, he didn't take it off. "Okay, no problem!" She replied as she pulled him closer and hugged him tightly.'I want more than this' He thought to himself as he rubbed her soft back, he loved how soft the singlet was and how it felt. She raised her head and looked at him. "It wouldn't be a bad thing to taste you right now. Or would it?" She asked Axel as she touched his elbows, she reached up to his hair. "Do you want a spicy time?" He asked her for something that he wanted regardless. "Why not?" She replied in calm down as she trailed her hands on his chest. A brown long sleeve
Jasmine "Uh" She groaned as she rolled over on the bed, the alcohol did some numbers on her. "Is it morning already?" She questioned herself with the blanket over her head stuck in the blanket. "It's morning." She said as she stood up and went over to the kitchen, she dragged her entire body along as she walked down. She sighed and owned her fridge."Ahh" She screamed, her head was ringing severally. She heard dings and loud noises too. "Uh" She sounded again and moved to the fridge. "Oh it's empty." She said as she closed the fridge. The fridge was stocked to the brim but for some reason she was blind to see that. "An orange juice?" She went back to check the fridge, her walking step was confusing and twisted, she wasn't drunk anymore that it felt like she was regardless. "Coffee will shake me right up. Do I even work anymore?" She asked herself as sh1e leaned on the counter. She looked around and saw her house was indeed empty. "I am all alone aren't I?" She asked as she sni
JasmineNever in a million years would have thought that she would be betrayed by her best friend or even her so-called fiancée."They have kids? And no one told me!" She told the old lady who was beside her. Jasmine had walked to the praying center in the hospital."Wait, wait tell me the whole story all over again!" The old lady who held her hands asked her to speak."I have a fiancée and we have been dating for the past six years, from high school and I had a best friend who suddenly left, her name is Eunice. No one told me what happened or what did. And then now she came back into my life. She said she had some business and that stuff. I accepted her back without any problems and guess what I found that they have been having sex with each other!" She said an exclamation and she spoke. The pain and disappointment as she explained."My fiancée would hit me and beat me up because he was overly jealous and now? This is what he does? Cheat and act almighty? I am pissed and hurt and all
Jasmine. "Okay, as long as he is home safe!" She pleaded with him as he listened. He growled and shook his head. Axel walked a few inches and leaned on the wall. "Come and release him. He will be taken to my torture room, prepare the hot iron and meet me there." He said and he looked at her.'I gulped as I saw him. It's not like I knew him personally on any level but a part of me feared him more than I should. I gulped hard and looked at him.' "What?" He asked me as he leaned still, he had a cigarette in his hand, she didn't realize that he had that in his hands. "Nothing."She replied in a coarse tone, she had her eyes on Brandon. She may have wanted him to get hurt and to see him in pain but this was way too much for her to bear. 'God, let Brandon survive this, this is to much' She sighed and looked down"Okay, I wouldn't want you to see me burning his dipstick or would you?" He asked her with a smile, he seemed to have a care in the world about how she felt, he had his anger on