Bella's POV.
I was so stunned at the sight of the man who I hated the most arriving for me. How could he show up in front of me after insulting me earlier? But now was not my situation to fight with him because I was drugged by this molester, George Bacardi.
I watched my husband beating the hell out of that molester, George. And he made sure to smash his face to make him unattractive, full of wounds and blood. My jaws dropped off in horror as I noticed the ruthlessness in Caspar's eyes. Even in the dim-lighted club's room, I could see his tensed burrows and angry facial expressions.
For a minute, I got distracted by the people's murmuring and I looked at the crowd outside. They were gossiping among themselves and were eager to stop the fight but had no courage to confront Billionaire Caspar Mcadam himself. No one even dared to click photos or record videos because they were scared of getting sued by Caspar's broadcasting director.
Me being left with no option, stepped forward and grabbed Caspar's raised arm. He turned back at me and with furrowed eyebrows he commanded, "Remove your hand."
"So that you end up killing him?" I scowled, but he kept insisting, so I twisted his arm and pulled him back.
Everyone present there looked at me in shock. They weren't expecting me to pull such a stunt. Caspar tried to get free and angrily groaned, "Stop fucking with me. I have to kill this bastard for touching you."
"Stop overreacting like you care for me!"
I replied and pressed Caspar against the wall. I was not a fragile woman who would give up in front of him. I was trained in self-defense, so I managed to stop Caspar and asked the molester, George, to leave immediately.
When he was gone, I loosened my grip on Caspar's arm. He quickly got free and angrily growled at me," Why did you stop me?"
I remained quiet because I was tired of giving the same answer. I stopped him because I didn't want him to become a murderer. Seeing my arrogant personality, he grabbed my wrist and dragged me out of the club's room. I followed him out without struggling. People there were too horrified to look at us. When we were finally out, he left my wrist and coldly ordered," Get inside."
"I came here with my–"
"Don't even think of lying to me. I know you took a cab," Caspar replied, stopping me in the middle of my sentence.
I felt the shiver of embarrassment in my body and quietly got inside the car's back seat, but Caspar pulled me out and forced me to sit in front. He then gets himself inside and starts the car.
When we were out of the club's parking lot, he accelerated at speed. I could feel the tension build, I could also hear his hard breathing and heavily pounding heart. My mind went blank, and he increased his speed to a maximum. I looked at him in tension and thought about whether he was planning on killing us both in a car accident.
"W-Why are you behaving like this?" I managed to ask after reaching my limits.
"How could you allow another man to touch you? I saw him kissing you with his dirty lips. Gosh, I'm going crazy!" He growled, turning the steering wheel continuously as he accelerated the speed.
At that moment, I realized how psychopathic Caspar Mcadam was. He first rejected my feelings, and now he was pretending to get jealous because of another man touching me. Oh, his audacious act makes me overwhelmed with rage.
A sarcastic smile pulled over my lips and I replied,"I thought you would stop caring about my affairs with men from now onwards. You already rejected my confession and have a lover~
"Why are you worried about me? I could have handled him alone–"
"My mother asked me to take care of you otherwise I wouldn't have bothered coming to save you," he said indifferently, interrupting me in the middle.
I was speechless and angry at him. He was lying through his feelings. We didn't talk much after that as I fell asleep in the car. When I opened my eyes, I was already in my bed. Beside Caspar, he was sleeping peacefully.
I got up and laughed at my state. And before sleeping I remembered to kick Caspar out of bed.
***
The next day...
I arrived at the office as usual, but today I was escorted by Erick since Caspar left early today. When I walked inside, Alexia and other female employees gave me curious stares. Obviously, their stares made me uncomfortable, but I still continued walking when I heard Erick's voice. I looked back and saw him running towards me with my purse in his hand.
"My beautiful sister-in-law, you forgot your purse," he said in a flirtatious tone while gasping for breath.
His childish behavior made me chuckle as I gently patted his back, asking him to take a long, deep breath before speaking. I then took my purse from him and headed towards the elevator.
"Wait, I'll come with you. I'm curious to see how your office is," Erick said, and followed him inside the elevator.
We talked about other stuff on our way to my office. When the elevator's door opened, Caspar was standing there. He was probably waiting for the elevator's door to open. His face frowned upon my sight.
I excused myself and let him talk with Erick. When they were done, Erick followed me inside my office.
As soon as Erick arrived inside, he found himself on a couch beside my desk. Relaxing on the couch in a very casual way, he carelessly asked, "Did you two get in a fight? I just saw my brother making an angry face at you."
"Yes, we did because he keeps poking his nose into my personal matters."
"He's an annoying bastard. Even if you ask him to mind his own business, he will still lurk around your business. And when you ask he gives very lame excuses!" Erick cursed, which made me laugh.
Soon after a few hours, Erick left because he was getting calls from his manager. Erick was shooting his new movie which is scheduled for release next month. So he was quite busy wrapping up shooting scenes.
I tried to read some documents and sign them, but soon I got bored because I had never done office work before. I never managed my father's official business because he had assistant managers for it. I was forced to train with his bodyguards instead of learning business management.
"Ahh, I'm feeling terribly bored. What happened to me?" I mumbled annoyingly and buried my face in my folded arms. I tried to get some sleep, but I was distracted by the voices outside.
I got up and was about to open my office door to scold them when I heard them taking my name. I stopped and brought my ear close to the door and tried to hear their words carefully.
"What do you think Mr Erick was doing in Mrs Bella Mcadam's office? He stayed for three hours inside and then came out adjusting his shirt," I heard them talking.
I clenched my fists, how lowly they made such shameless assumptions of my relationship with Erick.
"Don't know, but I think the Boss's wife is a complete flirt. She couldn't get enough of our Boss, so she decided to seduce his younger brother."
I heard a familiar voice. I immediately opened my door and saw Alexia with two female employees outside.
My anger burst out of my head and I walked towards Alexia in rage. Grabbing her by her ponytail, I brought her close to my face.
"There's nothing going between me and Erick. And call me flirt again. I'll cut your tongue and feed it to the street dogs," I coldly whispered near her, indirectly letting her know how bad I could be if she continued getting on my nerves.
I loosened my grip on her ponytail and pushed her back. Before entering the office, I glanced at the other two employees.
Hours went by, but Caspar didn't call me. I was mentally prepared for today's lecture. I thought Caspar would call me after hearing what I did to his precious Alexia.
Weird! I looked at the time and walked out of my office when Alex met me inside the elevator.
"The boss will be late tonight because he went to a meeting in another city. He asked me to escort you," Alex informed me.
"What? When did he leave for the meeting?"
"In the morning he was basically absent from his work today," he answered.
I punched the wall of the elevator in frustration. Caspar didn't call me before because he was not present at the company today. He will surely shout and humiliate me tomorrow after hearing Alexia's complaint.
Feeling depressed, I slowly walked out of the elevator and waited outside the company for a cab. Confused by this, Alex asked," Madam, why are you standing here? The car is parked there."
"I don't want to go home. I was invited by my online friend to his birthday party. I'll be back before midnight,"I said when I got inside the cab I called for.
Alex watched me leaving with a gloomy face. I'm sure he was going to report this to Caspar, but I don't care because he's in another city. And I lied to Alex to get rid of him. I was actually going to meet with my assassination guild members. They left the message of a secret meeting in my purse which I didn't even notice earlier. I was surprised when I first decoded the secret message. It said they were in New York waiting for me.
"God, it's tough managing different jobs," I sighed and relaxed my head at the back of the seat.
After twenty minutes, I arrived at the VIP club which was mentioned in the secret message. I paid the cab's driver and walked inside after looking around. I was a bit concerned about the spies installed by the Mcadam family on me. But there was no one who I could be suspicious of. Maybe the Mcadam family trusts me. Otherwise, I don't see a reason for them to leave me free without a spy on me.
I took the keys from the manager and headed upstairs to the mentioned room number. As soon as I unlocked the room's door with my keys, I heard the quick movements from inside.
"It's Ishabella of Midnight Shadow Code," I informed them before going inside. That was my guild's name, which was exclusively named by my father himself.
"We greet you, Boss," the people inside bowed down in respect.
I got inside and closed the door. I asked them to get seated and I myself sat down. I looked at them, although they had masks on, but I could still figure out their identities by their voices and eyes.
"Why is Lucas not among you?" I asked after finding out Lucas was missing. My guild was made up of ten members, but only nine were present.
"Lucas was killed by the order of chairman Austin Dior."
"What?" I reacted shockingly after hearing this news.
"Chairman Austin Dior found out about your relationship with Lucas. He was very angry and gave Lucas the most miserable death–"
"Father did that? I thought he gave no fuck about my relationship with men. Should I be careful from now onwards?" I chuckled, stopping Victor in the middle.
Victor was my second-closest man after Lucas. Qualified for assassination without leaving evidence, Victor was a tall and athletic man who was addicted to cocaine.
Clearing his throat, Victor awkwardly replied, "Boss, I think it was Mr Caspar Mcadam's deed. He threatened the chairman that he would kill any man around him."
"Oh that madman!" I punched the table in frustration and crushed the wine glass in my other hand.
The pieces of glass pierced through my skin and my members panicked at the sight of my bleeding hand. Victor and Maria rushed towards me. Kneeling down. Maria started taking out the pieces of glass from my palm while Victor wiped off my bleeding blood with his handkerchief.
The other seven guys — Michael, John, Karlos, Paul, Isaac, Martin, Lucifer — were standing behind me and were worried while Maria completed bandaging my hand with Victor's handkerchief. Maria was the only woman in my guild after me. My father thought that women couldn't bear the pain of torture after getting caught by enemies. He thought having women in the assassination guild would risk the safety of the guild.
Michael, Victor, John, and Karlos were the assassins who took orders from me and took my father for the assassination of someone. Lucas was also included in this group, but unfortunately, he is no longer. Paul, Isaac and Martin were snipers. They were good at aiming at their targets and killing them with one bullet. While Lucifer and Maria are like my shadow; they carried out every single disgusting action behind me, and they're ruthless assassins with no heart of mercy. If they're in New York, they must have already killed George Bacardi who tried to assault me.
"Boss, Maria killed George Bacardi. I tried to stop her but–"
"I can't believe you actually tried to stop her. I can imagine both of you murdering that poor man," I laughed at Martin's obvious lie.
My assumptions are never wrong. I know every single action of my members. I asked everyone to sit in their respective seats and started discussing the situation in the underworld. Victor informed me about Caspar's movements in the underworld as Mafia Boss Xavier Hill. Xavier had occupied new areas after killing off his enemies and, with the support of (International Security Corp) ISC's chief, Xavier managed to escape the charges of murder.
"Alright. Thank you guys for reporting everything to me. I'll be careful while staying on Mcadam's estate," I replied, and asked Victor to come and sit beside me on the sofa.
"Order yourself drinks and food. I'll pay for it," I said, and the members got busy with their orders except Victor.
He sat down on the sofa and leaned forward to my face. His red hair lingered over his forehead while his light blue eyes dilated. My eyes stared at his red lips, the lips I used to kiss a lot in my early days of being unmarried. I brought my face close to him, but I was not excited like I used to be. I felt guilty and depressed suddenly. Seeing me distracted, Victor said, " If you are tired, leave everything to me. I'll make sure to pleasure you with my body."
Victor started kissing underneath my neck and ears. His hands caressed my breasts and inner thighs. He tried everything to get me turned on, but I was not feeling it. I was thinking about Caspar... My head was full of him.
Suddenly, my phone vibrated and I saw Caspar calling me. With electrifying speed, I grabbed the phone and answered," What do you want?"