Chapter 1

Victor narrates.

I toss and turn in bed, I hate Thursday mornings, people stress me out and there is too much to do, few people are useful and I like to wake up with women.

I grunt as soon as I wake up, I had slept a long time, long enough to realize that I woke up with a huge erection. I run my hand over my face and then sigh.

I end up laughing for a long time. I hear someone knocking on the door.

"Sir, good morning, I hope you are well—," my servant says before I interrupt him with my guttural voice.

"Get to the point, it's not good morning!" I raise my voice a little annoyed.

I can feel him hesitate behind the door, everyone feels threatened when I speak, it is to be expected because I am a powerful man and power is all that matters.

"Your breakfast is ready," his voice shakes a little.

"Bring me one of the new maids now," I demand full of anger.

He clenches his fists.

"At once sir," he withdraws submissively.

I could hear even his heartbeat, I was scared, clearly not prepared for such capacity, I found it always so funny how they trembled at my presence or my voice.

I just wanted to get rid of my erection, I needed a beautiful woman, for with money and beauty anything goes in this grimy world.

I head to the bathroom, took a long shower, and then brush my teeth, the cold water lowers my erection and I finally feel a little less tense.

I can hear the footsteps of young Bernard, the new servant I had decided to take in, I was having a hard time keeping women working for me because they found me irresistible, but to Bernard, I only provoked fear, I had to, after all, I am the alpha.

"Sir—there's only Elizabeth left— and she's not very beautiful, to say the least," Bernard stammers as he clasps his hands together behind the door.

Damn it!

I must hire more female cleaning staff, Elizabeth was the one I always ignored, there wasn't much about her to see, she seemed completely insignificant to me, and she had no elegance, talent, or a scent that made me shudder.

I address a beautiful woman by her smell, it all depends on how well she smells, how striking and carnal her scent is, but Elizabeth's smell didn't even manage to catch me, it only managed to go unnoticed and I went there after so many years that I realized what I never saw.

"I want you to buy feminine products and give them to her, it's a gift for her years of service here," she ordered Bernard.

He leaves immediately, as I get dressed I think very hard about what I just thought up in my perverted mind, she must have used something to block her true scent and that's why I couldn't feel her, I wanted so badly to feel a woman soon, otherwise, my darkest desires would come out and I couldn't imagine being a beast again.

I close my eyes and pace back and forth, then leave my room and end up answering all the messages I hadn't responded to all day before.

It had only been a day after my father's death, and I had no reason to look at my phone, no obligation whatsoever to answer any of the mourning messages because none of that would bring me back to my father.

I had his inheritance long before he died, in my hands, but that didn't matter to me as much as other things, I had to reconsider handling business differently or even doing it my way.

Over the years, my father had gradually gotten rid of all his enemies, only so that I would have no trouble getting all the power he had been willing to hand over to me.

An only son, I am told, the sole heir of Joshua Van Hellfrost, one of the most powerful tycoons in the world.

Stupidity.

Pure stupidity is what it seems to me, so much money and getting to the point of not knowing what to do with it.

Many times I spent it on women, parties, and lots of luxuries, my father didn't care what I did, as long as I didn't make a big fuss, but there was something he had left very implicit in the inheritance paper.

"To have a wife and children,".

When I read it seemed so absurd, I didn't want to have to take care of a brat, let alone have to be responsible for a woman.

I laughed in front of my father's table of lawyers, he had many, the best in the world, he wanted the best in the world and he had had it, I just didn't know if that considered me, the best in this coarse world.

I sighed.

I had to eat, when I headed to the dining room she went unnoticed, by her smell, but not by the sound of her body, she was the last maid I had left, the others had gone crazy for me, I always caused that effect on women, drive them crazy with love, one night of pleasure was enough for them to know what it was really like to be with a man or rather a beast.

She directs a bow toward me, she always seemed so small and insignificant to me.

"Master, good morning, I prepared five different dishes, all with chicken, meat, and salads, I hope you like them," clarified the girl in the white dress.

I bend my head a little to see her, she has good hips, small breasts, and some clean and subtle faces, I don't know why I am not interested, she has beautiful hands, to the eye Elizabeth is beautiful, but she doesn't have a characteristic smell and that makes it seem that she doesn't exist for me.

"Excellent, I hope you don't disappoint me, you are the only one who has managed to be here this long" I speak in a stern tone.

She nods, she's not afraid of me at all, her heart doesn't alter, her face doesn't change, it's as if she's used to it all.

I sit down to eat, I unbutton a little bit of the black vest that goes around my torso covering, and I comb my hair back and prepare myself little by little.

Five plates every morning, in good times, but in bad times up to ten, they ate a lot.

I don't deny it, I love food and even more meat.

***

Elizabeth narrates.

Every morning is a bit similar to what I usually do, I get up from the bed, I arrange it and the other things are tame and common, things that I don't need to describe.

The next thing I do is put on the short white dress that Master Victor asks us to wear daily to perform our duties, each maid has an individual room, all with privacy, but Victor has the keys to each room.

"Elizabeth," I manage to hear her mention as she turns her back to me.

"Yes Mildred—," I reply politely.

"It's strange—, but the master seems more and more attractive to me—," she confessed.

I pursed my lips, I was used to hearing that, it was like an epidemic, they all fell before him, it seemed to me like a relentless virus to which I seemed to be immune, Victor didn't even see me, he used to pass me by when cleaning and continued to where Mildred was, he would flatter her a little and then leave, that was enough to confuse her.

"Master Victor is very attractive all in all, but this is work, you can't sleep with your boss Mildred," I confessed as I crossed my arms.

We were in the kitchen, preparing as many meals as possible to satisfy his dangerous appetite.

I always had a strange feeling he didn't seem human.

"Speaking of which," Mildred's cheeks turned red and she touched her hands in a panic.

I swallowed spittle.

"When was it?!" I asked her upset as I grabbed her by the shoulders, and looked from side to side, not wanting to be overheard.

I was worried since he treated us like cattle, we were his fattening cattle, first, he hired us, he gave us a good salary that served as compensation for all the damages he would cause us later and when we were fat in a figurative sense, he would throw us out, that was how it worked because after they tried it they went crazy with him. I found that very creepy, but I could only ignore it and continue working since my family was poor and I was supporting them with that salary.

"Last night—he came into my room and—I couldn't resist, he's very captivating," she murmured biting her lip.

I shrugged and then looked at the door through which we were to leave to serve the dishes, Master Joshua was patiently waiting for the food to be ready, I could see him as I peeked through the ajar door.

I put a hand to my chin thoughtfully, I thought Mildred and I would endure everything together in here place, for Master Joshua had hired and fired half of Romania in his attempt to keep a grip on his huge mansion, but Victor seemed insatiable.

"You shouldn't have done it—you're going to get fired," I whispered worriedly.

Take his hands.

"I couldn't resist—he's very handsome," she mentioned as she let go of my hands.

The women who were close to him always seemed to be bewitched, it did not seem a normal taste, but they were governed by an abnormal or even over-natural attraction, I was not afraid of that, what I feared was how far that disease could go.

The lack of love causes withdrawal syndrome and is almost the same as post-traumatic stress, women had to go to therapy to get over Victor.

But in my case, I just had to work.

I rolled my eyes and headed out with the cart to serve the food, in the spacious dining room sat Mr. Joshua.

"It looks delicious Elizabeth," he complimented the owner of the house as he observed what I had prepared with Mildred.

"I hope you like it," I smiled faintly.

Joshua had no hair, he had lost it due to the chemos to fight against cancer that had been killing him slowly, he was a powerful man, but cancer had much more power than him. He could still walk on his own, but when he was very exhausted he had to use the wheelchair, he didn't have the same appetite as before and he used to eat more soup than any other food.

"I like it—your food and your work at home will be well rewarded, but not Mildred's, I am aware of her games with Victor, it is not appropriate for my son to have distractions and for women to be manipulated by him, so for her sake, call her, I have to talk to her and I hope this will serve, as always, as an example so you don't fall into the same," he argued a little annoyed.

That comment left me cold, I could expect anything from him, especially when it seemed that he was dying, he was very perceptive and observant.

"As you command sir," I submissively answer as I turn around and enter the kitchen.

In the same place is Mildred drinking some water to quench her thirst.

"Did you like the food?" the girl asked with a tender smile.

I took a deep breath.

"He wants to talk to you about Victor" I was precise, I didn't want to be nice, but she knew that if she was with him, she would be fired.

She was cold, and she was more than sure why master Joshua wanted to talk to her while she was eating, Joshua had that peculiar habit of talking to people about severe things while eating, I always thought that gave a different taste to what he ingested and I wasn't wrong, I was more than sure he felt satisfied with it.

She leaves immediately, I can only hear and see through the crack in the door what Joshua says to her.

"You know many have tried to captivate Victor, but I think no woman is enough for him," he confessed a little upset about that, "but that does not mean that there is not one on earth that can do it, I am more than sure that one day, Victor will fall in love and will not be able to avoid falling in love with someone else, but being honest that someone is not you Mildred, so please pick up your things and leave, I appreciate your services, but if you continue here you will only suffer from heartbreak with Victor—it's not a warning, it's a sure thing," Joshua finished saying.

More than a punishment it seemed like a curse that Victor had.