CHAPTER 3

Zella dropped her body on the sofa in the apartment's living room. Breathless, Zella closes her eyes as if she has only been working at Cristopher's mansion for one day. Zella felt so tired. Whether she had to search and carry out this mission for a week or a month, Zella couldn't predict what would happen to her between the two brothers.

Zella's phone rang again. She quickly opened her eyes and picked up the call from her leader, Audrey.

"Hello, sis."

Zella answered in informal language for now. Audrey was calling from another number, which meant they could talk casually without hiding their identities using the secret code.

"Are you back?"

"Yeah, I just returned to the apartment about thirty minutes ago. What's up, sis?"

"I wanted to ask you out for a drink."

Zella raised one eyebrow; she was confused about why Audrey suddenly wanted to ask her for a drink tonight.

"Did something happen in your household?" Zella got straight to the point about what she was thinking.

"Maybe I'll be waiting for you at the usual place. Come quickly!"

"Okay."

Zella turned off her phone and stood up; she walked quickly to her room, turning into the walk-in closet to her left. All the clothes were more precisely dominated by the color black and various types of leather jackets that she thought were all the same.

Zella quickly stripped off her body, removing Kenneth's shirt. One thing you might think is that Zella wanted to realize that she didn't do anything weird with Kenneth! She didn't sell her body the first day they met. Even though Zella's lust drive was higher, almost making her feel frustrated but still Zella's fortress of self-defense was stronger.

Zella closed the door to her apartment, got into her black Rubicon, pressed the accelerator, and slammed the steering wheel, quickly driving the four-wheeled iron frame vehicle at high speed.

"Mikequel... Kenneth, you are two people with very different natures." Zella mentioned the names of the two people who suddenly came to her mind.

"How am I supposed to get information from these two?"

****

Zella entered a club that was familiar to her and her colleagues. She came looking for Audrey among the crowd that filled the room, the sound of loud music being natural for the club-loving Zella.

"Looks like I got the wrong costume." Zella found her colleagues in their sexy outfits.

"You're wrong! You should be able to tell the difference between a club costume and a street kid costume." Diandra laughed sarcastically at Zella, who was wearing torn jeans on the knees. A boxy shirt with the buttons undone revealed a white t-shirt underneath.

"Arghhh sister! You," Zella immediately sat down and grabbed Diandra's glass- and gulped down a glass of contaminated whiskey with ice cubes shaped like crystal balls.

"Happy birthday to you."

The bartender brought a 27-year-old cake with candles. Zella was shocked, barely believing she was getting a surprise birthday celebration. The music in the club also changed to a happy birthday song, which had been remixed into cooler music.

Zella didn't have time to make a wish. Because she was too embarrassed, she blew out the candles and sat back down with an expressionless face.

"What is that?" Zella looked at the three people in front of her in turn.

"Today is your BIRTHDAY!" Layla blew the trumpet again but was prevented by Audrey.

"What happened to you." Audrey went straight to the point, seeing the look on Zella's face.

"I don't know what happened to me; why don't you tell me Kenneth's face." Zella raised her head.

"I told you via email, but you didn't open it," Lyla answered Zella again.

"Is Kenneth your ex-boyfriend?" Diandra narrowed her eyes.

"I almost slept with him, and he stole my first kiss," Zella answered Diandra again. What happened was that she got laughter from the three women who she thought would hear her seriously.

"Ohh shit, my tears are falling." Audrey laughed and held her stomach. Diandra still didn't stop laughing until Audrey pinched her stomach.

"Isn't it good for you... You guys know each other. "Layla replied with a small pat on Zella's back.

"Shit! I'm having a hard time because Kenneth keeps interrupting my concentration." Zella was again made dizzy by what happened.

"Wasn't the original goal to win Kenneth's heart," Diandra replied to Zella's words.

"Yeah, that was my initial goal, but now that I think about it, Kenneth could... Be a stumbling block to me finding information about Mike."

"No, I'm not. If you can think it through, it could be Kenneth who will help you get Mike." Audrey said with a serious look.

*****

Kenneth went down the stairs to the ground floor. Arriving at the end of the stairs, he saw Mike, who was below. Kenneth rarely spoke to Mike, but he wanted to do so tonight.

"Mike." Kenneth stopped Mike, who was walking in the opposite direction of him.

Mike turned his body to face Kenneth; Mike's eyes stared coldly at the gray eyeballs that also released a cold stare at him.

"I want to talk." Kenneth passed Mike and motioned Mike to follow him.

Mike didn't answer but put his hands in his jeans pockets and walked after Kenneth, who always wore a shirt and a black vest with a slight stripe pattern.

"What's up." Mike opened the conversation- when they arrived at the open-air pavilion at the back of the mansion.

"You have a relationship with the new maid?" Kenneth turned his body around and put one left hand in the pocket of his cloth pants.

"Which maid do you mean?" Mike squinted his eyes at Kenneth with a smirk.

"Don't play dumb!" Kenneth knew Mike was playing with him.

"Aaaaa, Zella, she's my girlfriend." Mike deliberately turned up the heat on Kenneth.

"Asshole!" Kenneth burned with emotion and hit Mike blindly in the face.

Mike just silently accepted Kenneth's punch without intending to retaliate. Kenneth was satisfied and got up from his body, which was currently lying on the grass with the taste of rust saliva coming from the blood due to the wound he received on the corner of his lip. Mike immediately sat up and spat in a random direction; he wiped the corner of his lips, looking at the blood on his thumb, and sucked it without feeling any disgust at all.

"You like it? You shouldn't have to overdo it like a cheap guy." Mike snapped back at Kenneth for what the man had done.

"You're going to kill her too!" Kenneth put his hands around Mike's neck, squeezing Mike's neck with a firm grip.

"Maybe, if I get bored... But what if I just dumped my former self on you," Mike said, casually breaking free from Kenneth's grip.

"Maybe that day will be the last time you see the world." Kenneth took Mike's words seriously.

"Really? I want to leave with my clothes on and my lips smiling." Mike responded to Kenneth's words with a loud laugh.

"Who do you think cleaned your name all this time if not me!!! Who's been tidying up all the psycho stuff you've been doing if it wasn't me, damn it! I won't let you touch mine." Kenneth walked away from the pavilion with his breath racing in his chest, making him barely able to control his emotions.

"Show me that Zella is yours!!! If she chooses me anyway, you have no right to her." Mike shouted, trying to stop Kenneth, but Kenneth didn't respond.

"Fuck!" Mike hit the wall in front of him; his right knuckles were all injured, but Mike didn't feel any pain or sting at all. Instead, he laughed like crazy until he lay down and rolled on the grass's surface.

"Yours?" Mike repeated Kenneth's words to his brother.

Kenneth was a rival to Mike, who had to live with him for twenty-seven years. He couldn't live alone because if he were a psychopath, Mike would come in and ruin everything. Mike is not interested in the maid, but from today on, he is interested in Zella.

Mike wants to make Zella his own to destroy Kenneth - and make him the best instrument of death for Kenneth.

****

Kenneth was in his reading room. Reading glasses framed his face with a firm jaw; Kenneth's eyes read stanza after stanza of a guideline Bible book to stay sane during all the strange things that happened to his family.

Why did Kenneth say that? Because he was the only human who was insane and trying to heal.

Mike first appeared to have a psychopathic streak when he was in junior high school. At that time, Mike stabbed a classmate using a sharpened pencil, and the victim died. Mike was even detained in a juvenile prison that only held Mike for a week. After that, Mike was taken to a psychiatrist to do a series of treatments; unfortunately, instead of increasing, Mike's body was out of control.

Kenneth, on the other hand, was calm. It is so calm that Kenneth's way of playing has never been smelled; Mike has a psychopathic soul, but Kenneth has another side. He kills people not directly in the vein; still, Kenneth likes slow torture that makes his victims scream until they die slowly. Kenneth also did not kill just anyone, only certain people who had made him thirsty for the smell of blood that touched the soles of loafers.

"God forgive my sin." Kenneth closed the Bible and put it in its proper place.

He stood from his chair and walked to the large mirror before him. A series of photos of Mike's victims were arranged abstractly on the glass in front of him; all the murders Mike committed were always cleared of accusations because Kenneth did it.

"26 victims already. Will he make Zella the 27th victim, just like his current age?" Kenneth spoke in his heart and was unwilling to let Zella die because of Mike's strange thirst.

*****

Zella was in the shooting room. It was two o'clock, but Zella didn't drop the handgun in her hand for a second. The sound of gunfire continued until the target board in front of her eyes was no longer in shape.

"Damn it!" Zella cursed when she saw that her stock of bullets had run out.

She removed her earplugs and stared at the target board approaching her. All the shots were on target; she was a trained sniper who was equally good at shooting targets from far away.

"Happy birthday!" Zella said happy birthday to herself.

He couldn't sleep; maybe he would become a dead chicken-like servant because he had no energy.

Zella's phone rang. She looked at her cell phone, but no one was calling. After realizing she had two phones, Zella immediately looked at the ugly phone she was using to disguise herself.

"Hello."

"Zella, where are you?"

"No need to know! My work starts in five hours!" Zella had already guessed who the caller was; who else but Kenneth?

"I need you in my bed."

"Just hire a hooker. Why is it so hard!" Zella wanted to press the phone's off button.

"I'll wait for you in room 399 of the Artemide Hotel's suit room."

That was the last thing Kenneth said before the end of the conversation. Zella turned off Kenneth's phone; Zella needed to know whether she should come or not to meet Kenneth.

Finally, after a long thought, Zella ventured to meet Kenneth at the hotel, and the man told her that Zella had previously given a message that she would come. The man immediately reacted with a short message. Okay

Zella followed the hotel maid, who directed her to the swimming pool. And instead, to the room 399 that Kenneth was referring to.

"Please, Miss, Mr. Kenneth is waiting at the pool."

Zella entered the room, which revealed a large swimming pool. Zella continued to walk and watched the water ripples that continued to sound because Kenneth was swimming. Still unaware of Zella's existence.

"You've come." Kenneth pulled over and ran his hand through his hair.

"Is the water really cold?" Instead of answering, Zella asked Kenneth another question.

"No, the water is normal; want to join, heh," said Kenneth, who tried to test Zella.

"Hmm." Zella removed her leather jacket and removed all the clothes on her body, leaving only two thin cloths that protected the area.

Without saying much. Zella jumped into the pool and joined Kenneth, who only smiled with a smirk.

"I thought you weren't coming." Kenneth continued to watch Zella, who was swimming backstroke

"You think I came because of you?" Zella raised one eyebrow at Kenneth.

"Then what for?" Kenneth asked again why Zella came here.

Zella stopped swimming and approached Kenneth at the pool's edge. Zella's hand slipped on Kenneth's nape, and she brutally kissed Kenneth's lips.

Kenneth also did not let go of Zella, and they kissed each other brutally.