Guard

4 years ago

"He is your bodyguard" Daniel Fernando, a 40-year-old Mexican mob boss introduced Nero to Chloe Johnson.

Nero looked at the 18-year-old girl, with innocent blue eyes pleading him to protect her from Daniel.

But Nero turned his eyes away from her beautiful face. He is here to kill Daniel, the Mexican mob boss. But no one knows who Nero is. 

His father made sure of it. Nero took over the outfit, which now covers the whole of America under his control, 4 years ago. Since then, he is working undercover, infiltrating all of his father's enemies.

20 outfits and 25 people planned to kill his father when he is 12 years old.  He killed 3 grown men with his father's gun out of 15 men who were sent to kill his father and his family that day. Now he is 25.

He killed all of them since he turned 18. Daniel is the last one and the main person who orchestrated everything. He is here to kill Daniel when he gets the chance. Not to protect innocent girls from him. 

He knows everything about Daniel and this girl whom he would marry 1 week later. His wife number 9. All his previous wife's died and Nero is sure Chloe would die too if she marries this man.

So Nero is acting undercover as a made man for hire. That's how Daniel found him and gave him a job to protect his fiance, or more like, stop her from escaping.

Nero will kill Daniel, before or after marriage, it depends on her fate.

Just the right moment and he would kill Daniel, Nero thought.

Chloe was purchased by Daniel from her father, who is a gambling addict. Chloe's father Mark sold her to pay off his debts to Daniel. Daniel took one look at Chloe and he decided to buy her and let his father go.

Now Chloe is stuck here, with a monster who she knows lurks under his white suit.

She looked at Daniel with trepidation. When he introduced a new bodyguard to her, she hoped he would help her to escape from her prison. But one could look from her bodyguard, and she knows he would not help her, she is on her own.

Chloe is desperate and all her tears have dried off since the moment she found out that her father sold her off to the mafia.

She is a very bright student and just graduated from high school. She received a fully paid scholarship from an ivy league college, but instead, her fate dragged her into this hell hole.

When Chloe didn't reply anything to his comment, Daniel became angry.

He slapped her hard on her cheek and she stumbled and fell on Nero's feet.

She looked at Daniel with huge fearful eyes.

"When I tell you something, you should learn to respond. Don't stand there like a rock and Embarrass me in front of everyone" Daniel snapped at Chloe.

"Ok" she whispered obediently.

Daniel became satisfied with her reply.

"Good girl. Don't make me angry too often. I want you to stay beautiful for our wedding night" Daniel leered at Chloe and left from there.

Chloe slowly stood up, all the while looking at her feet. Tears are rolling down her cheeks and her cheek is throbbing with pain.

Nero is cold and distant. He is looking at everything as if he is looking at a play. He didn't help Chloe from the ground either. When she locked herself inside her room and cried till he could hear her evened out breathing, he know she cried herself to sleep. But he still felt nothing.

When you see too many people die at your hands, a part of your mind closes off, which feels emotions like pity, sadness, happiness, etc. And then, you feel nothing.

Nero killed too many people to count for the past 13 years. Daniel will not be the last. But he is their last enemy. He infiltrated everyone and began to kill one at a time. Now it's Daniel's turn.

For the next 5 days, he saw Daniel Parade Chloe in front of his friends and family. Nero can see the lust-filled eyes following Chloe everywhere she went.

She is a silent little thing, this girl. Not a bitch like he is used to. He felt something in his heart when a guy squeezed her butt and she jumped with fright.

All Daniel did was laugh at her reaction. The party continued until the early morning hours. He noticed Chloe trying to dodge hands that were trying to touch her anywhere they could.

When Nero noticed everyone was busy with partying and all the guests were drunk to care about what's going to happen, he decided it's time to orchestrate his plan.

He approached Chloe, who was standing in a corner by herself, like a scared little dove.

"Come" he commanded and she looked at him surprised. This is the first time he is talking to her. She followed him without asking any questions.

He left inside her room and texted his guys.

"It's time" the text read.

They are already outside Daniel's house, surrounding it for his orders. He slipped outside and opened the doors for his men to come inside.

They were all armed and he picked his guns as well.

"Begin" he ordered, and they began to kill their enemies.

Nero noticed Someone trying to enter Chloe's room.

"Shit" he cursed and raced upstairs.

He killed the guy who is trying to unlock her door. All their guns are fixed with silencers. No one would hear the noise of gunshots from outside.

He unlocked Chloe's door and found her room empty. He heard noise from inside the bathroom and he opened it to see her scrubbing her skin raw to wash away those people's touch.

The noise of a door opening alerted Chloe and she turned to see her bodyguard standing there with a gun in one hand and a blank face.

Nero's face is blank, without any emotions. As if he is not looking at a naked beautiful girl in front of his eyes.

He pulled her out of the shower by her elbow and threw a bathrobe at her.

He then pushed her inside the closet.

"Lock it from inside and don't open until I come for you" he instructed her and left before she could say anything.

Nero didn't know why he remembered everyone who touched Chloe. He didn't understand why he killed them either. But he did.

After he is done with Daniel, no one in his villa is alive to tell a soul, what exactly happened there.

His men proceeded to pour gasoline and disabled the fire alarms.

Nero went upstairs for Chloe and found her dressed in jeans and a t-shirt, with comfortable sneakers. He pulled her by her wrist and she followed.

"Don't look anywhere" he warned her and Chloe pointedly looked at his back, which is covered in blood.

That's when she understood what happened here. Her eyes flicker to her left and found dead bodies on the floor.

She shuddered with fear, which he noticed.

"I told you not to look" he muttered.

After that, she didn't look anywhere but at his back.

Nero burned down Daniels's house. He then took Chloe back with him and dropped her near her father's house, and thought that would be the last time he would be seeing her.

But who knows, their fates are intervened and she would become someone important to him.