2. A Cunning Plan

“I have checked it, Mister Garcia….”

“Check it again! It’s your job! Do you want me to teach you how?” Alfonso yelled into his cellphone held in his right hand. He was calling his lawyer.

“But the testament is undoubtedly legal. It had been registered by Mister Adalfo’s notary. Everything is in accordance with regulation, there is nothing else that we can sue –“

“Search for more! Anything that can be a flaw! If you can’t use the legal way, use other way!”

“But, Mister Garcia, I can’t go against the law –“

“AAARGH!” Alfonso roared in such a wrath, and slammed his own cellphone onto the ceramic floor, leaving it shattered in pieces.

The sturdy figure standing more than one point eight metres in height threw himself on a leather sofa behind him. The Hispanic face looked as if it was being shadowed by darkness; the flame in his grayish blue eyes was burning with intensity.

Not even once did he admit defeat to anyone, especially a petite young lady who was nobody such as Siena Mori!

A beautiful and sensual figure wearing an electric blue mini dress came closer, taking a seat beside Alfonso. She tossed her back-length blonde hair to her back. The wide-eyed woman wrapped her hands around his shoulder in an intimate way.

“Honey Bear, please stop being angry all the time…. That is the third cellphone you smash in only one month,” the woman whispered near Alfonso’s ear. She had a strong British accent in her voice.

“I might end up being insane because of that old man and that girl, Gloria…!” Alfonso growled. His pair of eyes stared fiercely at the front without focus.

The woman named Gloria Stevens caressed Alfonso’s cheek, making him turn around to face her. “It’s impossible you are going to lose to that girl, Honey Bear! She is just a twenty four year old girl, with no power or influence. While you? You are the great Alfonso Garcia, feared by all media….”

“But I’m not fighting against a media now! I can’t even do anything to this ‘out of nowhere’ girl…!” Alfonso snapped in a rage.

Gloria’s lips curved up into a playful smile. It was her daily routine to deal with her man who always got mad easily, and she knew exactly how to tame Alfonso.

“Do you know that Siena Mori was once a journalist, more precisely, a columnist?”

“Of course I know. She was once a columnist at Angels Daily. But ever since she inherited all Adalfo’s possessions, she immediately resigned from her job. Huh!” Alfonso huffed.

“Sure thing! Why on earth will she work her ass off, when she already gets everything from Adalfo? All the properties and the wealth that are supposed to be mine!” Alfonso cursed in a loud voice.

“Honey Bear….”

Gloria wrapped her hands around Alfonso’s neck. If only he could refuse, Alfonso would prefer not to be called by that silly name, making him look ridiculous.

But it was a sign of love given by his woman. Only God knew why she was so fond of the animal, bear.

“Just because Siena Mori no longer works as a columnist, it doesn’t mean that she doesn’t leave any trace of her work in media. From the television news I saw yesterday, it was said that she had worked two years for Angels Daily. And before she got into her career, she went to California State University in Los Angeles. There must be something you can find. A writing, thesis, column, anything, that you can use to threaten her, Honey Bear…,” Gloria uttered her idea.

Alfonso’s eyes widened as he stared the beautiful fair-skinned woman, whose face reminded him of the Hollywood actress, Margot Robbie. “And what’s your point?”

“Well…, find something that you’re good at, Honey Bear…. You’re a media critic; you’re the person who above all others know how to bring down someone via a media. That girl, Siena Mori…, it’s impossible that she had not made any mistake in the past. Ah, every journalist must have at least one…. It’s your job. Dig into her past, and threaten her with her mistake. That way, like it or not, she will have no choice but to hand over every possession of the old man Adalfo back to you, his true and only heir…,” Gloria stated with a smile of triumphant on her face.

Alfonso’s gloomy face suddenly started to shine a glow. His curled lips began to curve up into a smile. He grabbed his woman’s waist into his embrace.

“Gloria, that’s the most brilliant idea ever! You’re truly a wonderful and smart woman…!” he praised in a soft, whispering voice near Gloria’s ear.

“Ah, Honey Bear…. Haven’t I told you that I prefer you calling my romantic name?” Gloria whined seductively.

Alfonso smiled in amusement. Although Gloria might be a little bit ridiculous in giving a romantic name, but that was no longer a big deal, as long as she was smart enough to suggest him a brilliant idea.

That was the reason why Gloria was the woman who stayed the longest as his lover, compared to all his ex-lovers. He never had a passion for monotonous and tiresome woman.

“Cutie Pie…,” Alfonso called his woman.

He started to press his lips on his woman’s bare neck, continuing to kiss her in the same place until a moan of pleasure escaped the woman’s lips.

“Oh, Honey Bear…,” Gloria sighed, grabbed Alfonso’s body closer impatiently, and pulled him down so that his body lay on top of hers on the sofa.

“Can I ask for a prize for suggesting you that idea?” Gloria’s beautiful eyes blinked seductively, her fingers started to play on Alfonso’s shirt buttons.

Alfonso’s lips now curved up in a naughty smile. “Of course, Cutie Pie…. As many times as you wish, as long as you can balance my great desire…,” Alfonso whispered softly, while his fingers were busy exploring his woman’s beautiful figure.

Gloria chuckled. Her laugh soon began to shift into moan and groan full of pleasure.

The leather sofa in the luxurious apartment living room was a silent witness of burning passion between the lovers tonight, as well as the beginning of their cunning plan to trap Siena.