"You'll train with Pete tomorrow, to get better in combat since you have better shooting aim now. If he gives me feedback on your training well, you can ask me whatever you want and I won't touch you again unless you ask me to, is that good?" Leo asked and I just stared at him blankly.I almost scoffed.‘Unless I ask him to’? Why would I want him? "Okay." I just answered. I don't like how transparent I was with him just now but I knew I had to be. I just wanted him to tell me all I wanted to know about my father.I want to know how he knew him, why he knew my father, and if he knew me. He called me Mary, he must know a lot more about me than I knew about myself.I thought I knew all about him; he was this conscienceless, ruthless man who loved to smile whenever he was causing pain to others but I don't think I know about him yet. Leo is more than I know. Who is Leo?I can't remember anything more than my life after I fled from that orphanage and I hate it. It makes me wonder if I woul
Pete huffed with a broad smile when he seized the man by the neck and made him land on the floor. I rolled my eyes. He's almost like his boss. He finds fun in putting people down, physically or otherwise.How am I even supposed to learn from that? He wasn't even being practical. He didn't let the man make any actual move before seizing him and slamming him to the fucking ground. "Did you get that?" He asked me but no words left my lips. I was distracted by the man he put to the ground trying to get back up."Did you get that?" He asked, bringing my attention back to him."No," I replied honestly and saw his face get drier with unhidden irritation."Watch again," He told me while waiting for the man to get himself back. When the man stood, he whispered some words to him before snapping his fingers at me."He's going to point a gun at me, watch how I seize it from him."I couldn't help but wonder about the magic Pete was planning to pull as the man was at a good distance away while point
I was just returning from a meeting when I saw the man Pete let me know he was going to be training Mae with. He was exiting the empty hall area at the rear of the mansion.I assumed Pete was done with Mae for the day and went towards the hall. I walked in and neither of them noticed my presence, they were busy.I decided to make my way up the stairs to get a better view of what they were doing but I kept on stopping through the stairs to watch Mae counter most of Pete's moves against her.I was just getting to the top of the stairs when she gave Pete a kick against the head. That must hurt. My hands in my pockets, I watch them go on. Pete wanted to throw her off balance by lifting her and putting her behind him but she landed on her foot. I smiled, happy she didn't hit the ground but then that ended in me sucking my lower lip in between my teeth.Fuck, I would want to have a fixed fight with her if she fought back like this always. She looked up to the ceiling, making me wonder what
Mae had no idea how much that man loved her since he adopted her; he loved her more than his own son.When I was still a young little boy, I would feel so happy when he caressed my hair and called me a good kid but when I grew older, my mother let me know who my father was.It was then I understood why she was always having hushed-up conversations with him whenever he came to my mother's room in the maids' flat.I remember I had asked her if he knew I was his son and she said he did. He raped my mother and got her pregnant, then he ordered her to get rid of it but she didn't.She took a break from working at the mansion ‘to take care of her sick mother,’ then a year later, she came back with me.Daniel Yrote didn't know about me till I became old enough to walk and then one day, he took me to the doctor's. He got me chocolate on our way back to the mansion and when I returned, I found out that my mother had been looking for me, worried that I probably fell into a pit after she checked
The next day.I stood at the top of the stairs I was about to use. I just got a text from Pete, he had gone to the venue of the party to see that things were in order before I got there.I was still standing there when I heard the sound of heels kissing the tiled floor. I looked towards where the sound was coming from and saw Mae.Fuck. She was dressed in a black, flowing silky dress that had a deep v-cut neckline, exposing the peak of her cleavage above her breasts to a little below the middle of them too. As she approached me, I only got a close-up view of an angel dressed in black, swaying her hips as she took every step. Her makeup has been done and her bruises are now nonexistent. I can't always tell if she's trying to seduce me when she walks like that or if she's just used to walking like a goddamn model. She shouldn't be here, I know, she shouldn't be in a place like this, with an asshole like myself, she should be on a runway or something...but yet, I've chosen to trap her
At the venue of the party.The car Leo and I are in slows down as it gets closer to a decorated entrance. I kept my eyes out the window while we drove here quietly but I knew Leo's eyes didn't stop staring at me.I knew I should be annoyed with the way he's eyes had been salaciously fixed on me but I wasn't. It thrilled me actually. I was expecting that Leo would make me dress like one of his whores; I was expecting he would want me scantily cladded but earlier this morning, Anita knocked on my door and handed the dress I was to wear to me.I tested it with a long face but that changed into a smile when I saw how good the gown looked on me. I felt elegant. I haven't dressed like this since God knows when.Sometime later, a crew of makeup artists were in my room fixing up my face. When I walked out of my room later and met Leo at the top of the stairs, I assumed he would compliment how I looked but he didn't.This man held me so close and I, for some reason, got stupidly excited to be
Leo walked down the aisle leading away from his company into a car, his many protection squad standing side by side to salute him as he passed by.He got into the car and laid his head on the head rest with a sigh, he was tired, and needed sleep, he knew but resting wasn't an option for the past three days, there had been a lot to take care of.The car drove to the Vance mansion and the door was opened by the driver with a bow. Leo got down, pride within him as he walked into his mansion, his solely owned mansion. He was a proud man, an arrogant one at that but he knew he had the right to be; he worked day and night to have all he had and it didn't matter to him, the dreadful things he had to get involved in to make his money.He was on his way to his home office to have a look at some things before finally taking a rest tonight when his assistant hurried to meet up with him."Sir?" She called but didn't get any response so she hurried to him. She couldn't meet up as he had already en
"Don't let me ask again, what is your name?""I'm not supposed to say. I'm just here to satisfy..." She felt his hand around her throat and it cut her words short. She was going to repeat those words she was told to say when he came in and hoped it worked but he wasn't joking around."What is your name?" He showed her how serious he was now."Mae..." She slapped on his hands as he still held her by the throat."Mae who?" He asked again."I can't breathe..." She held on to his hand to try and get it away from her neck but it was impossible."Mae Yrote." She told him, hoping he would let go of her but he didn't."Who sent you?" He questioned on, he could tell she was honest with her name, she seemed to be an amateur at her game.Mae thought saying her name would save her from his tight grasp on her neck but when he didn't let go and asked another question, she knew she had to fight back, she had to recall how she was taught to defend herself.Seizing his hand with both of hers, she pulle