Curious Cat

Hailey walked towards the room with her unsteady steps, legs aching after being tied to ropes for days.

A lady aligned her steps, by maintaining a straight distance and looked worried after noticing her girl's poor condition.

"You should have agreed with him on the first glance itself." Hailey heard the lady saying, however it wasn't the taunt. It was the care and worry.

"A-as... if you all believed I knew.. That.. I will land here?" Hailey took a sight of the magnificent house, her eyes turning wide.

It was a huge mansion, and she was walking in circles. In the centre was the chandelier, the ones she had witnessed in the movies. It was no less than a four story house, built in a circle and a huge living room in the centre.

Unlike the darkness she went through underground, this place was purely a bliss to her eyes.

"H-He.. lives here?"

"Yes. This is my boss's house." The lady behind her answered.

She helped Hailey in walking and brought her to one of the rooms, the door opened and she entered in a suite.

"I-I..."

"You will live here till you are married to Boss. He has instructed me to keep you here." the tone changed, the lady sounding more authoritative, following the directions given by her boss.

Hailey didn’t react much, except rotating her eyes to ask, "Where is he?"

......

In another room of the mansion

Zayn sat on the sofa, watching a girl doing pole dance as the cigarette remained burnt and intertwined in his fingers. He was covered in his glory of power, nothing in between him and the world. 

The girls continued to pass him the glances to join them, but he smirked and looked on his left. 

"What do you think, why did the girl agree so easily?" 

"Y-You mean Lynn's daughter?" one of his men asked in uncertainty. Until now, the boss is least bothered with the girl. 

He was confident enough to believe the girl would give in to him. As if he was able to read her mind, and convince her stubborn self. 

"Maybe.. because she knows that going against you will not benefit her?" 

"Or maybe.. she has some other plans in her mind." saying this, Zayn took a smoke and blew the air out of his lips. "She is too smart to be convinced so easily." 

"Hah, she won't dare to play games with a man like you." another man commented when he took a sip of the wine from his glass and stared at the girls near the pole. 

Their cleavage was visible, and the guy passed them a seductive smirk. The ladies did not slow down and brought another bottle of wine, pouring his glass by themselves. 

While bending slightly, their eyes moved to watch the noticeable Zayn, who was least concerned by the entertainment going in the room today. 

His mind was preoccupied with the eyes which bewitched him in the morning. 

"Wrong. She doesn't know whom she is facing right now. The fear in her eyes is because of unknown people, not because.. of me." Zayn told his observation. 

The girl is not naive, yet unknown to the danger standing in front of her. All her eyes represent the innocense, which could be ruined the second he uplift his power.

He knows she will test his water, and continue to do so until she witnesses his real animal side.

But will he be harsh? She will see him as the villain of her life, but is he the villain? Or the savior in the disguist of a devil?

A sigh escaped his lips,"She... is.. his daughter.. A lynn...." he whispered underneath his breath. 

But his people were still not convinced. "Boss... but why marriage? We could make her sign the legal documents. Why do you want to change her with you?" 

"I have my reasons." Zayn said, smiling. 

His words confused the four people sitting in the room. All their brows raised, passing each other glances of worries and tensions.

"R-reasons?" They all simultaneously asked each other. 

Zayn didn't say much. He took a sip of the wine from his glass, the smirking turning sinner with each sip. 

No one will ever be able to decode what he planned, why he devoured her and brought her here. Not until.. he opens his game out in public. 

"B-Boss..." Zayn heard his name. "What?" 

"D-do.. you know this girl from before?" he couldn't help but ask, gulping the saliva. After learning and witnessing how less dramatic Zayn was with her, suddenly their blood turned cold. 

Their heart was in their mouth, ready to burst open on his next words. 'She is.. Lynn's daughter..' but how will a man like Zayn know her?

Zayn's brows were striking, the eye contact with the man who felt shivers running down his spine. "I-if.. you.. don't.." 

"Maybe.. yes? Maybe not?" was all Zayn had to say before turning his glance at the space of pole dance. 

The girls continued to display their performance in the hope of attracting the boss's attention and get lucky to serve him in the bed. 

Yet today seemed harder than any other day.

However, one of the men gathered the courage in their veins by bringing the heated topic in the room, which made all of them turn shut. 

"We shouldn't forget that her father.. is Aiken. She has his blood, his line of heir. If we..." However he was cut short when Zayn passed the chiller glance in his direction. 

The man pursed his lips together, gulping the saliva back in his mouth. The leftover words were stuck in the throat, as he realized the gravity of the situation. 

Their boss won't hear bad about the girl...

"I-I... didn't mean to upset you boss. I-I.. was.. just.. passing.. the facts.." 

"Do not rub the facts in my face. I am more aware about them than anyone else." Zayn answered as he laughed back. "The Lynn's blood has done enough damage in our lives." 

"It is just to resolve it now..." was all Zayn said for he Aiken, and then he concluded by saying. 

"The girl will not get married until she knows the truth." Zayn blurred the truth. "The only way to cage her sooner is... to threaten her with the half story." 

"What do you mean, boss?" his man asked, when they heard Zayn ordering them. 

"She is a curious cat. Find her mother.... she will reveal the backstory to her daughter."