Chapter 10
A low squeak involuntarily went out of Aliza's throat as she wasn't able to believe what her aunt spoke. Fredrick slipped in his bathroom. From the sudden fall he suffered a shock which landed him in a paralytic stroke. His jaw and lips went twisted to the side. With the irreversible damage undergone by his throat his vocal cords suffered the brunt of a major damage. He wouldn't be able to speak for the rest of his life. Small injuries were sustained by his hands and legs too. The damage was beyond repair and the doctor advised he needed a complete bed rest for next two months if he wishes to be self dependent till his death. Stella had recommended Aliza to take care of him but Fredrick immediately denied. There was a horror in his eyes no sooner he heard Aliza's name. Stella was dumb struck at her brother's sudden transformation. The marriage was out of the question but what got her more annoyed was Fredrick's denial for Aliza's assistance. She argued with her brother that Aliza was his fiancée. Even when Fredrick was in no health to get married Stella wanted to pursue Aliza's marriage with her brother. Fredrick prohibited his sister blatantly for the marriage under any circumstances this time. His ego was falling on the way to tell her the truth. He did not fall but was brutally battered by Aliza's boss to no reprisal. On the other side, Stella was astonished at the sudden change of behavior in her brother. Nevertheless she wasn't ready to accept her defeat. She was determined to torture the young blameless orphaned girl. ****** After Charla left, Charles called Aliza. On the second ring she lifted the call. "Good Evening sir." Aliza greeted Charles immediately but he ignored her and ordered a professional. "Next time you plan to go out, you will inform me in advance. You are a girl in your prime age and thus a best target to all the antisocial groups. You stay in my estate and thus screening you from untoward incidents is my responsibility. Because this is the first time I am just leaving you with a warning but I see you break my orders next time, you will vacate my employee quarter immediately. Is that clear Aliza?" Charles raised his voice deflecting his executive power. "Ye..yes sir." Aliza replied timidly and immediately the call went disconnected without an acknowledgement. What was that? Was it such a big blunder to go out without informing him? Little did Aliza know her boss was terribly worried about her till he saw her in the taxi that reached the estate? The next morning, Aliza wanted to go and visit Fredrick after her working hours. Her aunt wouldn't approve of her leaving her fiancé to his fate. Though Aliza had no attachment for Fredrick except hatred for the suffering she endured because of him she feared the evil eye of her aunt. This time Aliza was cautious not to make the hackles rise of her boss. When her working hours were over she wanted to inform Charles that she would go to the hospital to meet Fredrick and return home late but Charles had something else planned for her. Like every day Aliza walked to her boss's room with a cup of coffee. He looked at the mug and then at her in question. "I want a new drawing. Everyday a smiley? I'm bored of it." Aliza did not know if she had the permission to laugh or just maintain her usual nonplussed nature when she heard her boss throw tantrums about the design on the coffee like a three year old kid. She tried her best to arrest her chuckles but the extension of her lips was something impossible to control. "Okay sir tomorrow I will make a different outline." She somehow managed to speak to him neutral. As she was about to leave Charles stopped her. "Aliza, yesterday I called to inform you that this evening we are taking a flight to Sydney. I have a business opening to be held there by the end of this month. Remember I had a business meet a month ago with Mr Rutherford?" Aliza gave a curious nod. "Yes, that deal is settled." Charles triumphed with pride in his eyes. "That is spectacular sir." Aliza complimented with happiness and Charles nodded. "So we will be leaving for Sydney concerning work by this evening in one of my private jets." Charles confirmed in glee. Aliza did not know what to say to her boss. It was a part of work she had agreed while signing the agreement with Richmond Industries but what about Fredrick? How was she going to answer her aunt? She anxiously plays with her fingers looking towards the floor. "Ms Stelwart maintaining eye contact with your boss when he is speaking to you is one of the professional key points and most essential that you have to learn. I have been very liberal with you for not terminating you on the ground." He admonished her firm with reflection of irate in his orbs." Aliza immediately lifted her optics to Charles. "I'm sorry sir, I will not do it again. My fiancée slipped in the washroom yesterday and suffered a paralytic stroke from the shock of the fall. He is admitted in Greenland hospital. If I do not go and see him, my aunt will be very angry at me. I thought of visiting him today after work but now...." Aliza left her sentence unfinished fearing her boss's reaction. To the relief of Aliza Charles simply shrugged. "That's no problem Ms Stelwert, we will go and visit your uncle on our way to reach the airport. You can leave now to go home. You may require some time for packing. Isn't it?" He intentionally stressed on the word 'uncle' to address Fredrick leaving a clue to Aliza on how much older he is than her to have thought of the wedding. Charles was probably unaware Aliza had no perks on thinking about such sensitive matters. Since the age of six when she lost her parents she was a deprived orphan even for basic necessities and had only been offered a second class treatment. Aliza felt pressured by Charles meeting her family. She would feel very embarrassed and probably risk her job if her aunt didn't behave respectfully to her boss. Charles had sent his driver Ethan to pick her. Aliza was enthusiastic and at the same time a bit anxious for her first flight in her life. This was the first time she was moving out of the country since her birth and that too in a flight. Aliza was born in a middle class family. Her father is a carpenter and mothers a nurse. Aliza was the only child of her parents. After they passed away the little property Aliza inherited from her parents along with her responsibility was handed over to her uncle. Luckily she had bought a good number of official dresses to wear just yesterday. Thanking her boss for letting her go home she immediately packed all new and best official wear for her trip to Sydney. By evening she was completely ready with her suitcase. Five minutes after she was picked from her quarter, the car stopped in front of her boss's magnificent bungalow. Only minutes later Charles walked out of his mansion checking the time on his Rolex. Aliza let her jaw hang open peering at her handsome boss. Charles looked charming, extremely attractive even in a simple gray cotton t-shirt and black pants. He was dressed casual yet powered extremely extortionate. His admirably gelled hair was trimmed and combed flawless to suit the thick panes of his high cheekbones with not a strand extended or cut short. He had a rich look with light shadows covering his cheeks accentuating his maleness. Charles had a unique mark of idealism that could make any teenage girl go lip smacking and tongue tied. A servant was walking two feet away from him holding a suitcase. As soon as he sat on the other side of Aliza the engine went to life. Aliza bit her lip to arrest the sexual tension in her. She was going to travel with her boss in the same plane and she had no idea about the flight travel. Will there be toilets inside? How long would the journey be? What would her aunt and Fredrick say when they come to know about her travel. Will Stella be okay with her travel and understand her work responsibilities? Charles did not spare Stella another look after a nod when she wished him a good evening. He was busy typing something on his phone. On the way to the airport, they stopped at a flower shop and Charles got a bouquet of fresh Lillis along with a basket of fruits packed for Fredrick by his bodyguard. Such a generous boss she had got. Aliza thought about Charles' praise when he denied her to spend money. Their next stop was at Greenland hospital where Fredrick was admitted. Stella was helping Fredrick to sit for the evening diet when she saw Aliza approach the room. Her eyes immediately went to live embers seeing Aliza. "You bitch he is your fiancée and has been admitted in the hospital since yesterday, is this the time you come to visit him? Are you a guest here that you come with a basket of fruits and flowers? She pointed to the offerings in revulsion and raised her hand on Aliza. Aliza closed her eyes bracing herself to receive the sting but the slap never reached her cheek. Instead when she opened her eyes she saw her boss stopping the hand of Stella from approaching her. Aliza's eyes went wide with surprise. She lifted her orbs to her aunt that were fuming red in wild shoguns staring at her. "Aliza, go out for a second and close the door behind you. I need to speak to your aunt for a second." Charles calmly instructed Aliza. Little did he know the girl who he had protected fighting hammer and tongs will one day.....Chapter 11Having no guts to counter her boss Aliza went outside the room with frightful steps. After he confirms the door is locked, Charles tightens his lips, staring down at Stella. "How could you bring down your heart to slap such an unsullied girl? Charles spat the words in disgust. Before Stella could appropriate the meaning of the words, her head pulled to a side followed by a sharp sting on her cheek. Stella went into shock, still with her eyes wide staring up at Charles's unexpected action. "Did you just beat me? How dare you raise your hand against a woman?" Stella yelled with tears welling her eyes.Charles ignored the chitter-chatter of Stella. "Didn't you warn your sister about my words at the office?" Charles asked Fredrick in a perilously low tone with his eyes fuming to flames. Fredrick gulped heavily and tried to word out but he was already a retired dumb senior citizen. "I'm speaking here." Stella shrieked with her hand banging against the bed of her brother to catch
Chapter 12Charles did not stop Aliza from crying. Sometimes silence has more eloquence than speech. He simply stood there in mute and held her to his chest for he did not know how long. After Aliza emptied her tears completely, he covered her in a blanket with no words. Yet on the night Aliza felt a gratification she had never felt before.The next day started off with usual meetings and work. Charles did not raise the topic of yesterday and neither did Aliza because both of them wanted to avoid the black truths of their unfortunate lives. He is a mafia don and she is a homeless orphaned teenager.It is often said that opposites attract. Slowly Aliza began to achieve her solace in the arms of her boss, an irony but the truth which was difficult to absorb even for her. He was giving her the protection, love and care she was long deprived of since the age of six. On the contrary Charles was an underworld leader. He had done the most sinful, brutest crimes in the world. Was it pitifu
Chapter 13As Aliza was about to enter inside her quarter, Charles stopped her holding her hand. "Liza" he called her softly. Titillations crawled her nerves at the adorable address. It was the name with which her father and mother used to call her. Emotions rushed on her like a whirlwind accompanied with wetness in her eyes. Aliza turned back gulping a quaver in her throat.Charles held her face tenderly in his hands, bent his head and attached his lips to her. Aliza pulled her rims together in tightness and crumbled her dress in tight fists. Charles might have noticed her discomfort. He chuckled softly, pulling his head away and observing her. "Relax my love, open your lips for me." He called in a tone that was heard more like a melody. "Sir?" Aliza asked Charles in surprise with trembling lips.He grazed the soft lips of her with the pad of his thumb. "Liza, do you think we are still walking in the balloon of professional relationship?" He shook his head to her with an extension of
Chapter 14Two days later on the beautiful night Charles took Aliza to dinner in one the best fancy restaurants in the city that he owned and proposed to her with a beautiful diamond ring. Aliza was bolted out of the blue. Her life turned into a fairy tale with the advent of Charles Rodriguez and she couldn't ask God more, staring at the beautiful piece of jewelry. With tearing eyes Aliza accepted the proposal of Charles and felt her to be one of the luckiest girls in the world.That night Aliza did not sleep in her quarter. She slept beside Charles in his bedroom. Moans released repeatedly as Charles smooched her with fervency. He tilted her head for a better axis and deepened the kiss exploring every corner of her mouth. Slowly she followed his movements and their kiss became more intense, filled with desire and passion. Crawling down his hands Charles explored every sensual curve of Aliza with his vociferous arms. His hands traced her buttocks circling them followed with a squeeze.
Chapter 15Aliza played with her fingers looking down at the floor in anxiousness as Charles walked towards her in slow tormenting steps. "I'm not a gay as you think. I'm as much attracted to you as you are to me if that is the doubt you have." Aliza looked at Charles bolted out of blue. How did he know her inner feelings? Charles ignored Aliza's facial expressions and answered the unasked question of her. "You blurted everything to me yesterday night in the intoxication."Walking to his dressing mirror, he pulled out a cigarette from the pack and lit it. Puffing out the smoke facing the window he explains to Aliza everything about the veracity of his emotions locked up so long in his kernel. "I never abused women and sex but I had my physical desires." He cleared his throat in an unspoken guilt. "I am not a virgin." Charles declared blinking his eyes to clear the shade of dampness. He never felt so vulnerable towards any woman till date except his mother and sister. But Aliza was an
Chapter 16Three months laterIt was six in the morning during the peak winters of California. The sun hadn't yet arrived in the east and the sky was still dark. The office of Richmond Industries was completely empty. Because of the extreme winter the office hours have been reduced from morning ten to evening five instead of nine to six. Every one of the staff was raining praises to the kind hearted CEO a week ago when the change of timing was announced. It was very much before the working time. Pulling her long coat more together Aliza sprinted towards the entrance of the stylish superstructure. The security at the entrance greeted her with a salute. "Mam, Good Morning! So early?" The forty year old Buffy bodyguard Samuel greeted and asked Aliza with curiosity. "It is the year end time Samuel, some last bit of errands are still left over to run." Aliza replied to him in a clipped tone.Samuel nods to Aliza with a pleasant smile. Nobody doubted her in the office. She had been worki
Chapter 17The temperature in California had dropped to a record low this year and the clothes Aliza was putting on did little justice to her trembles accompanied with the heavy downpour. She had forgotten her long coat in her quarter while re-reaching the office in a hurry. A sleek black Lamborghini Urus rushed through the gateway but Aliza stood rooted to her feet. It was a do or die situation to her.Aliza felt humiliation and shame for her helplessness. Guarding her last ounce of courage she yelled to the passenger window at the back of the car. "Sir I am not disloyal, I did not commit the breach." The car shifted its path and went away from beside her at full speed splashing the muddy flashes of water on her already wet dress.The next moment a white van stops a few feet away from beside her and two men in blue walk towards her. "You're under arrest Miss Aliza Stelwart for committing breach of contract in divulging secret information about The Richmond Industries to foreign firm
Chapter 18Charles immediately looked up as he heard the bullet sound. One of his bodyguards fired a man who tried to aim a bullet at him. The lucky rogue escaped the shot to his heart but his leg fell injured. He ran to a white Skoda parked just two feet away which sped in a record speed as soon as he sat in it. But justice always wins in the end, one of Charles's security already recorded the vehicle number.Looking at the corpse of Aliza, Charles turned out like a lifeless soul. He felt numb gazing down at her with zero emotions but tears ran out of his eyes like a never ending rain. He simply got up from beside her and stared around blank at the people who were gazing at him with concern. The head security understood that his boss was unmanageable and tried to help him to the car to drop him at his parents house but Charles stopped him."Where are you taking me? My Aliza is lying there injured. She needs to be taken care of. I cannot just leave her and go to work." Charles pointe