Chapter 22 The Consequence
Quisito was soo angry that she could see the veins in his temple throb along with the muscles in his clenched fists. The moment he reached her, he wrenched her phone from her trembling hands and smashed it into pieces by throwing it to the adjacent wall.
Kate gasped in fear and jolted at his reaction but even before she recovered from that shock, he reached over and tore the device from her ear.
“FUK OFF PLACEBO” he roared into the earpiece before dropping it on the floor and crushing it beneath his shoes.
Her eyes were fixated on both the discarded items on the floor, too terrified to even look at him.
“WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?” he yelled, jerking her closer by squeezing her elbows in a harsh grip.
She whimpered in pain as a tear rolled down her cheek, her glittering green pearls struggling to maintain eye contact with the furious monster.
“I like to see you growing claws but do you know what you did today...doll? YOU DEFIED THE FIRST RULE OF THE MAFIA FAMILY”. His eyes bore holes into her and more tears glided across her cheeks.
Kate tried to pry out of his grip which was now giving her bruises but his hold on her remained unyielding, just like his burning gaze.
All of a sudden, Chris’s eyes flashed in her mind and a flicker of fight sparkled in her erratically beating heart.
“Placebo is your enemy n-not ours...” she said but the sound of her statement lost its strength towards the end.
He let out a chuckle but it was a dark one, devoid of any humor. “Placebo is one of my many enemies but he is your father’s archenemy” he paused so that she could process it and continued “He has been trying to take down your father’s business for years and has even tried to kill him once; but now he is targeting you. He is a liar and a scumbag who will stoop to any level to get what he wants. It is a miracle that he didn’t try to kill you or kidnap you”
Kate was shell shocked for the first time in her life because if Quisito was telling the truth, then she had narrowly escaped death as a result of making a deal with the real devil. Her father had countless enemies and she had no clue who they were because her father never spoke business with her.
Guilt and shame filled her veins.
“I-I...didn’t know” she whispered quietly like an apology, but it did nothing to melt his rage.
“I don’t care if you knew or not because this time...you went too far. You even entered my room and took my things without my permission”
His choice of words was becoming very heavy for her frightened heart. But it was what he said next made her heart drop in the pit of her stomach.
“Children are punished when they make a mistake and today, you need to be taught a lesson so that you won’t repeat it again”. Kate bit the inside of her lower lip and shook her head from side to side, trying to beg for mercy with her teary eyes.
She was scared for her life because she had done the most horrendous thing one can do while being part of the mafia – Make a deal with the enemy. It was the unbreakable, the first and the most important rule in the kingdom.
“I need you to clean this mess and be ready for your punishment” he ordered in a deep voice after abruptly letting go of her and nodding at the scattered pieces on the floor.
He then walked out of her room while yanking off the black tie around his neck. He was done for the day and decided to cancel all his plans for the night because she had to face punishment.
A few moments ago...
Quisito never bailed on a charity event and it was a known fact. He knew how cruel poverty can be and so he did everything to ensure that the places under his control did not have even a single hungry child.
When he drove out of the mansion, he was plunged right into traffic because it was a weekend and all the roads were jam packed. But he was already an hour early and had nothing to worry about. To kill time, he called his cyber team to provide him with the camera footages of the insides of the mansion during, before and after the attack happened in order to probe into the thing that happened in the morning.
At first, he thought that may be one of his own men had turned against him but he got the shock of his life when he saw Kate escaping into the open road through the back side. He immediately asked for the information on the incoming and outgoing calls but there wasn’t anything suspicious. But then he received the information that 20 minutes before the attack, Kate had sent text messages to a number. His nostrils flared and he gripped the phone tighter when he saw the name of the owner of the number on the screen – Placebo.
His blood pressure shot from zero to hundred within seconds and he decided to abandon the charity drive and return to the mansion. Due to the heavy traffic, he couldn’t open the door and so he opened the roof of the car and escaped through the gap. On the way, he informed one of his men to take care of the deserted car and made a run for the mansion because it wasn’t that far.
By the moment he reached the house, he looked like a caveman because he was out of breath and his hair was disheveled. He climbed the stairs and took two steps at a time and reached the second floor where her room was located.
While passing by his room, he noticed that the door was slightly ajar. Calming his racing pulse with a few deep breaths, he subtly grabbed the knob to her room and peeked inside.
He expected her to be fast asleep, probably in the same position he saw her last time. But that was not what awaited him on the other side.
His blood boiled at the sight – she was taking pictures of his shipment information and sending it to someone, and based on the information he received earlier, he could only guess who it was. When he squinted his eyes, he noticed something black with a blinking green light on her ear – An earpiece!
All of this was enough to whip a tornado of fury inside his chest. He had always been patient with her but that night, she was going to see him at his worst.
Present...
Kate swept the mess off the floor and dumped it in the wastebin just like he demanded but the entire time her stomach was in a knot because she was dreading his punishment. She wanted to take out the gun from her nightstand and shoot herself for her stupidity.
She prayed to God to help her while wrapping herself into a cocoon using her blanket and laying on top of her bed, nervously anticipating his arrival.
After a few minutes Quisito emerged in his night suit and locked the door behind him. He turned off all the lights so that only moonlight illuminated the room.
Her heart thumped loudly as he approached her petite form with hefty footsteps.
“GET UP!” he rasped and she hesitantly obeyed, climbing out of the mattress to the other side, so that the bed came between them.
She would even hold up air as a shield against him.
“Now get over here and...Strip” another one of his commands rang in the air and she had to blink twice to make sure that she hadn’t heard him wrong.
Strip? Why would he want her to strip?
What kind of punishment was that?
Her breath hitched in her throat but she wasn’t going to give up easily. She was scared, not paralyzed.
“No, I won’t do it. I’m not your slave!” she snapped, sticking her face in the air.
His features tightened as he reared forward. “Alright that’s enough...COME HERE...”
He expected her to stay there itself, but the moment he reached within an armlength distance of her, she sprinted forward, jumped on the bed and landed on the other side like an acrobat.
He was shocked! But quickly he shook it off and followed her path, only to lose her again.
“Stop it Kate, I’m warning you. This will not end well” he growled but she paid no heed to his threats, and continued to run around like a rabbit, missing his grip by inches. After a chase of about two minutes, he caught her by the elbow and turned her towards him.
Both of them were panting heavily, but Quisito was furious – The minx made him chase her!
He captured both her hands behind her in one of his palms, making her chest to arch forward. Using the thumb and index finger of his free hand he pinched one of her nipples, earning a moan of protest from her.
“That’s for making me chase you” he muttered and let her go and immediately she brought one of her hands up to sooth the stinging ache on her nipple.
It hurt...!
But it would be a lie to say that her body wasn’t even a little aroused after his touch.