Sweet game
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Valerie.
Bloody rich Alina.
How did he manage to underestimate Tony's daughter like this?
We pulled up in Alina's penthouse. I was amazed and kept on thinking.
How did I team up with this lady? Just like that.
The girl I once thought ruined my relationship
“Please, please. Come on in.” She giggled like a baby. “Feel at home girl.”
The living room was white and marble.
“This is heaven. Totally dope.” I spinned. But not doing too much. After all, I was still a rich girl in my own world ... .no—infact, to others too. I had my own jewelry store.
“Thanks. I'm happy you're here. It gets boring at times.”
“Really? Your family isn't here?”
“I stay alone. Come along.” She gestured ascending the stairs.
“What about your friends? I mean the ones I saw you with at the lounge earlier.”
“Oh. Them?” She stopped and I instinctively stopped too.
“Yeah.”
“Sometimes they're here but the truth is, I'm suspicious Brianna and Dorothy slept with Nathan.”
She continued with her steps.
“Jeez. For real?”
“You see, the people you think love you…. they're all green snakes on the grass.”
I paused thinking about her words. How dare Nathan.
“Come on. Let's go to my room.”
The hallway was aesthetically decorated with artworks and paintings I considered screamed luxury. It pissed me off that Nathan had access to all of this.
Getting to her girly room of pink and white, I sank into her bed laid with pink and white sheets too.
“You really have a taste for—”
“For pink? That's my favorite color.”
“Mhm. Wonderful, see I was thinking, whatever happens, Nathan can't know that I've recovered. I have to keep playing the amnesia card.”
She clapped. “You are one smart ass. You know that would be good in the execution of our plans. You would sabotage him better as soon as we made a plan.”
I smiled and she walked towards the window and gasped. “Oh my God!”
“What?” I was concerned.
“It's Nathan.” She pulled the curtain back down.
“What?!” I stood up, panicking and shocked. “Why's he here? Isn't he supposed to be at the office?” I walked to the window, looking down and a car pulled up in the space.
“Well, who knows.”
“Why is he here?”
“Don't forget I'm his girlfriend and I um, he always comes here whenever he feels like. This place is like a second home to him. He can access the lock too.”
Suddenly, the door opened and he emerged.
“That devil.” We panicked at the same time.
Nathan walked to the other side of the car door.
“What is he doing?” Alina whispered..
“He's obviously opening the door for…..”
He pulled the door open and a lady emerged from the car.
“A woman?!”
Both of us yelled. We froze, then, slowly turned our heads to face ourselves.
“Is ... .this ... .how…. Nathan brings ladies into….your own…goddamn house?” I stuttered, making sure I was clear.
“He tells me they're his sister or cousin. That's what he always says.”
“And you believed him?”
“I don't know. Like I said, he's very good at hiding things. But what if the lady is just a relative?”
We looked down again and watched Nathan's arm on her ass giving her a passionate kiss.
“Relative huh?” I turned to Alina who's disgusted by the scene. They both walked in.
“God. This is crazy. He's coming in now.”
“What do we do?”
“We um, we pretend no one's home. Because obviously he brought her here with the mentality that I'm not around. I always drive my pink car to the company every Monday. Today I didn't. That must have confused him.”
“Okay. But he can't see me here. If he knows about us.”
“Then our plan might be screwed. He doesn't know that both of us are dangerous allies.”
“Hmm. I like that.”
“Let's spy on those little Bratz!” Alina walked to the balcony and I followed.
“Be quiet.” I whispered to her while she nodded. The ledge was narrow and we crouched low, clutching the steel rail. There was a window above. We peeked in. Nathan on top of the lady. They were naked having the hottest s*x of their life.
“Yes babe…ohh…fuck me hard…”
Her moans filled the air.
“Holy mother fucker.” I whispered.
“He always cheats.” She whispered back and we crawled gently away from the balcony back to her room. Alina sits in despair.
“I'm as gobsmacked as you are.” I fell on the bed close to her.
“He used us. He's still using us.”
“We need to spy on him more. Know his motives. I mean what kind of man would cheat on his bloody rich girlfriend working in her father's company and still….”
“Awesome.” She smiled.
“Wait, are you…. smiling?”
“Yes. We can bring him down with that. Nathan may be using me to secure his position at the company.”
“Exactly what he's doing.” I walked to the window to see Nathan and the lady going back.
“They're done.”
“I can't believe he hurt me. Men!” She wailed, laying on the bed and I grabbed her hands.
“Hey. I know how much this hurts and I'm very much hurt too.” I took a deep breath and blinked. No more tears, val.
“But he hurt us and we hurt him back with revenge. I need us to be stronger. Now let's go do something about our plan.”
“Let's start from his office.”
It was night already. Alina made me wear a black hoodie and she did the same. She grabbed her keys and we drove to TonyTowers.
She used her keycard to access the building entrance and we walked in using the elevator till we got to his office, slid another card again and the door opened.
“Well, well, well.” I stepped in, my eyes locking on his picture on the wall.
“So what now?”
“What now? What now, is we search. I know that guy's up to something. It's too obvious. You're his girl, don't you know about any private shelf or something he has?”
“Check his cabinets…. I'll check for any secret hidden compartment.”
I sat on the executive chair and sighed. Randomly decided to open the lowest drawer and there was a green file.
I pulled it and placed it on the table. It was stamped on the front. CONFIDENTIAL. The first page made my eyes bulge out.
“Hey, come see this.”
“What's that?” She stepped forward and leaned.
“Layout Attempt to take over TonyTowers..
Oh my gosh!” She flipped to see the file and we read through.
“Step one, Gain Alina's trust and her father's and take over the company.” Alina gasped.
“Initiate hostile takeover with merger from rival firm.” I continued and we turned, facing each other, shocked.
“I knew it. His loyalty was off. Nathan wants to take over my father's company.”
“Well, that's a good start for our revenge. We know his plan, we sabotage it.” I started by snapping every plan drafted out in the file.
“I can't believe this.”
“ I can't wait to watch him burn. And just in case, Alina, I'm not going to be emotional like you are….. I'm striking hard but slow.”
“Come on. It's not like I'm thinking about forgiving him.” She whined.
“Well, better. Go ahead and check if you'll find something else.”
Some minutes later, we were out of the building back to Alina's car, plotting full revenge mode.
“I put a tracker in Nathan's car earlier.” I confessed.
“Huh?”
“He's at a rooftop lounge.” I swiped through my phone. “What you say, we check out or something?”
Alina smiled. “Rooftop lounge. I have a better plan.” She started the engine and we zoomed off to the location. The moment we got there, faces hidden, we sat down.
“Would you believe, most ladies here are from the company. Over there is a receptionist and two interns.”
“Whoa.” I looked over to the direction she gestured. My eyes bulged out and my heart sank. Nathan. He was kissing and smooching a girl.
“That motherfucker.” She took a deep breath. “I've seen him. Avert your eyes.”
“Don't tell me he still sleeps with office workers.” I stuttered.
“It's possible. He's with Maya. Maya is a junior designer at the company. Barely hired a month ago.”
An idea struck my head. “Hold on…he's seeing a junior in the office and that's your expression? Come on girl. Maya is one of the things we need to destroy him.”
“How?”
“God damnit.” I gritted my teeth. “Listen Alina. Your father owns the company. Which means you could use it to your own advantage. Right now, take pictures of them. You can use this to threaten Nathan's career in the company and Maya too.”
“Oh my gosh. You're a genius!”
“Remember Alina, this is part of our revenge plan. He had to die slowly.”
We both set our phone camera with style as if taking a picture with it but instead, snapped the scene.
“Perfect.” Alina remarked.
“Not perfect yet. Those two could be sleeping with each other. Let's wait before you know it ... .they would take a room. Photos of them in bed would start a war. That's what we need.”
“Exactly. I know how to go about that.”
Nathan held her hands and they disappeared from the spot inside.
“ How do we get that?”
“We can't but I know someone who can.” She smiled mischievously.
“Who?”
Alina stood up and walked over to the young cleaner. They converse together and I noticed him being skeptical while she was pushy. Some minutes later, he left and she came to the table.
“Well, what did you do?”
“Watch and see…”
He came back to the table handing over Alina's phone to her.
“The job is done.”
“Very good. Thank you.” She dug her hand in her bag and gave him a handful of cash.
“Thank you so much ma'am.” He bowed before leaving.
“What was that?” I asked and she shoved the phone to my face. It was Nathan and Maya having too much fun in bed. Just pictures. I smiled and clapped.
“Bravo! Bravo Alina.”
We both laughed.
“Just imagine I put this on the board presentation during a meeting.”
“Extra sweet.” I laughed. Some moments later, we got tired.
“Let's get out of here.” She carried her bag and we walked outside towards her car but a voice stopped us.
“Alina baby!” A very familiar voice.
We both froze and she turned and flinched.
“No matter what you do. Don't turn back. It's Nathan. He can't see you!”
I froze mid step. He can't see me. Not with his girlfriend, Alina and especially not when I'm pretending to have amnesia.
“Hey, babe.” Alina turned and squealed, although there was pain in her voice
Nathan's voice filled the air as he spoke to her.
“Wait…. who's that?”
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