Leonard was pleased to see her face had gone pale with a shock. a corner of his mouth jerked up with a smirk. He looked at her hands, she was wearing yellow rubber gloves, saw earphones in her ears, that’s the reason why she didn’t hear him. he pulled them off for her so that she could hear him talk.“Caught a liar, red-handed.”The low husky voice said. He stepped to stand behind her, his body touched her back. Stella knew what he was trying to do. This lustful evil brother of Sam’s, he couldn’t think of anything else apart from taking advantage of a woman!She turned around with angry eyes. It was such a sudden turn, forgot to think that the nose of the thug was waiting around there.Her cheek touched his nose as he expected. He smiled a little, pleased with his instincts of guessing her reaction. He pressed his nose on her blushing cheek, inhale the nice fragrant smell from it, put his hands on the edge of the sink to lock her body in his arms. She froze because he was so close, an
The voice commanded again. Two bodyguards eyed each other. Never saw the boss behaved like a naughty mischievous boy who liked teasing a small pretty girl like this before. They didn’t know where the brutal mafia who was feared by the whole city disappeared at this moment.“Is everything alright?”Mother’s smooth voice rose up behind. Stella quickly turned to her. Her mother’s eyes were fixing on the man that was still holding her hand tightly.“Ah … this is Mr. Leonard, my boss. Mam.”Stella had to introduce him to her mother with no choice. To Stella's surprise, she saw the crazy man stood up and bowed his head to greet her mother politely. Her mother then gave him a friendly smile.“Oh! Hello, nice to meet you. Please let us know if you want anything. Wine, take good care of your boss, will you, sweetheart?” Mother changed her tone back to her kind personality.“Yes, sure, mam.”Stella replied with a forced smile on her face, didn’t want her mother to worry about her. Mother patted
“Hey, Wine? Are you still there? What’s going on?” Sam’s voice asked from the phone.“I’m in trouble right now, Sam. Your brother…” She spoke like she’s running out of breath.“What?! My brother’s there with you?” Sam said with a surprise in his voice.“Yes, and he heard everything you said, and now he knows that we aren’t lovers and he’s going to get crazy and he’s going to kill me.”Stella was rapping, that’s what in her imagination at this moment, the bad crazy mafia out there, he’s going to kill her.“Hey, don’t be silly. My brother won’t kill you, he’s a good man.” Sam said.“What?! A good man? You’ve got to be kidding me, Sammie. Your brother, he’s ev…”She was going to say he was evil and everything she thought he was. But then she stopped the tongue in time.Sam still didn’t know that his brother kissed her and tried to chase her and threaten her like she was his enemy. He was happy when she told him that she’d move to work at the Chicago branch, but the latest news about her
Stella stopped. The voice that she recognized well without the need to turn to look at. Inside she felt tired of her poor fate.What the heck?!Of all the hundreds of restaurants in Chicago, and he happened to be at this one, right here, right now, and right behind! She thought with sick. She pretended not to hear him and continued walking to Bernardo’s table.“Stella!”The aggressive voice called again. She ignored and walked to Bernardo. She stopped in front of him. The Grand Costa mafia gave her a charming smile and extended his hand in front but before she accepted, the tall figure came to stand behind her.She then turned to look, pretending to be surprised a little. Leonard Duncan, all big and powerful in his prime looks. Beside him, there was a beautiful woman with long blonde hair holding his arm.Bernardo lifted his eyebrow when he saw Leonard followed his guest, and stood behind her with no consideration, ill-mannered as usual!“What’s up? Didn’t think I’d see your face here
She tried to push him away again and again. Leonard was amused to see the small and slim figure fight against him. Her face was so grumpy, there was a big fire in her huge dark brown eyes, the fire that wanted to burn him alive! That’s more like it! That was the girl he remembered.“Don’t waste your energy, Stella. Save it for later.”He said. Inside, he was still frustrated about her willingness to have dinner with the Bastard Bernardo. But look at her now, never failed to show that she hated him.Well, he didn’t expect her to like or feel anything for him by the way. She wasn’t that important. He had got more important people to deal with.But since she wasn’t Sam’s girlfriend, so his intention to teach her lessons because she had dared to punch him in the face in the middle of the road in his own city four years ago. That should be re-installed into his Must-Do list, shouldn’t it?She had gone out with Bernardo. And from the information he had gathered from his men, John White had
Stella looked at the colorful face, black and blue and now red with blood. She must have given him some good punches there, which made the cracked brow bleeding. His suit looked priceless, meaning...garbage."Use the cloth there!"She spoke with a hard voice, pointing at the cloth she had thrown in the used-to-be hot water bowl. He still did not let go of her and his strong arm tightened when she tried to move. She stopped punching him. Her fist was red, spoiled with his blood."Do it for me. You caused it."Leonard ordered. She was feeling pitiless for the mafia boss, even she was not a cruel person, but what he just did to her, it made her too suspicious to trust this man. He was a mad dog!Everything about this man was so opposite to Sam, his brother. They were completely different, apart from their looks. That was the only thing indicating that they were related!She wiggled again and was surprised that this time he let her off his ŀȧp. But he still grabbed her arm."Sit here, and
Stella had no choice but walked the battled body of Leonard to a room. He pushed open the door. Inside was massive space, brown colour from light to darker shades and pronounced MALE in every inch of it.A large bed at the centre, a set of the sofa at the foot of the bed. The wall on the left of the door were built-in wardrobes. On the right was a bar, opposite this entrance on the other side, there was another door. At the far left, there were glass sliding doors, could see it was to a balcony.That's all she could notice for now because Stella didn't come in here to observe or look around for pleasure. What she needed to remember was the way out of this room, that was the most important thing to do!"It's getting late, let's take a shower together."The voice ordered. Stella stopped on her track."No chance!"She responded quickly, with her strong gaze to confirm her answer."What No? You don't have any right to say NO to me since you've taken the deal... just follow my orders, and
He felt the heat in his blood at the sight of her sitting on his lap."Leonard! Don't! You look so bad now, don't, please. Take a bath first."She tried to reason him with her calm voice, not letting him know that she was struggling to suck air into her lung because she was so scared of the situation, he was so ready to jump her bones!He stared at her widened eyes, his hands were on her hips, he felt her softness against his tough body, making him yearn for something more."I have a better idea. Hm,..." He murmured in his throat, bent his head to put his mouth on hers. Stella pushed his chest immediately, trying to break away from his embrace and his mouth. Her brain was finding a way to help herself. The fighting courses she had taken should make it easy for her to fight because she wasn't helpless in this case, she was well-trained self-defense.'The thing' that kept poking underneath made her blush. His hot mouth sucking her skin at the base of her neck made her shiver deep to her