Met again

Chloe gave a passing glance at Nero and then she looked at his back again. 

'Why does he look so familiar?' She thought.

Suddenly she was pulled 4 years backward. Unknown to her, she just went and stood just behind him in a daze.

Nero suddenly turned around, when he felt someone behind him.

He knocked the stack of books she was carrying, making her lose her grip and they fell on the ground.

Chloe was snapped back to reality. She immediately bent down to pick her books.

Nero stood there, watching her picking her books which are spilled near his feet, just like when Daniel slapped her and she fell on his feet.

'Not possible ' he thought.

But then, she slowly rose to her feet and looked up at his face. They both were equally stunned to look at each other.

They stood there as still as stones, not blinking for a second. 

'She changed' that's the first thought that came into his mind.

Her face lost the last remnants of the baby fat she used to carry four years ago. She is now more beautiful than she was then. Her body now has a lean feminine figure, which is sexy as hell. She is a vision to sour eyes. 

Bright watery baby blues looking at him with wide eyes, her face fresh devoid of any makeup. What happened four years ago made her wary of her surroundings, but she is still innocent.

Chloe's breathing picked up and she began to panic. 

He is exactly as she remembered him. Cold and a refined killer. 

Her past came crashing into the forefront of her mind. She slowly took a step away from him and then another. She then began to run away from him in the opposite direction to the library.

Nero looked at her retreating figure with a blank face. He didn't like the fear he saw in her eyes when she was looking at him. He enjoys fear in everyone's eyes. But for some reason, he didn't like it in her eyes.

"Brother" he was snapped back into reality when Mia came and hugged him tightly.

But as usual, he never hugged her back. His arms hanging limply beside him.

Mia pulled back and grinned at him. 

"How are you brother?" She asked with a teasing smile, that resembles their mother's.

"Good" he replied and opened the car door for her to get in.

Mia sighed at her brother's cold attitude, but she got used to it. She too knows what kind of world they live in, so she never troubled him much.

"Can I stay with you for a couple of days?" She asked hopefully.

"No" he replied without hesitation. 

Staying with him is a risk for her. He does not want to expose her to danger. She is better off staying with their parents on their island.

Mia sighed with resignation. She knows he wouldn't agree. But she wanted to try. In that ambush 17 years ago, they killed her elder sister, who is a few years older than mia and younger than Nero.

Since then, Nero never takes risks with the safety of his family. Staying away from him is safe for them. So he never lets Mia stay with him, no matter how many times she asks.

Nero dropped Matteo and Mia in the airfield. It's 2 hours flying time from here by private plane. They have their private runway for their planes on the island.

Uncle Marco and his family along with Aunt Lizzie and her family stay there as well.

There is a huge mansion surrounded by several small villas on the island, to accommodate everyone.

After a few days, Chloe moved into her new apartment, which she rented with her friend Mia.

Even though Mia is not going to move in until after a couple of months, she still paid her share of the rent. Chloe refused to take it, but Mia is adamant.

Most of the furniture and kitchen appliances came with the apartment itself. All she had to do was, pick a room from the two-bedroom apartment, and neatly arrange her clothes in her closet and her things in her room.

She then began to search for a second job. She is working in a cafe, as a waitress in the morning hours. Her shift begins from 7 am to 4 pm.

If she needs to accumulate enough money for the next 6 months, she needs to work two jobs. She was awarded a scholarship, but only 80 percent. 

She has to pay the remaining 20 percent. Then the apartment rent and food. She needs to save money. So she began to search for jobs and found a job with an amazing salary in a pub named Liquid tonic. 

It's an elite pub and all the people who frequently visit that club is celebrities.

Chloe decided to try for that job. She got ready in jeans and a t-shirt and locked her apartment and decided to go give her interview in that pub, as it is a walk-in-interview.

The guy who hires and fires the waitresses and the staff in the pub is Matteo. Nero's second-hand man and his underboss. He screens everyone for their background and decides if he should hire them or not based on if they can be a threat to them and are they capable of doing the job or not.

"Sir, a girl came for the waitress interview" one of the bar attendees, Rian informed Matteo.

"Send her in" Matteo has his own office on the main floor, just beside the staff room.

Chloe is intimidated by the sheer size of the pub. She began to doubt her decision to come for this interview.

But then again, sooner than she liked, the bad guy came back and told her to go straight to the last room on the right.

Chloe walked on shaky legs, looking at the waiting staff who were just getting ready for their shifts.

They are wearing a tight corset and a short skirt with ankle boots. That skirt is not long enough to cover their legs properly. It barely covers their ass. But if they bent over, it's entirely another story.