Sold to the Hitman

Book 2: Control

Chapter Five

Jenny

After Sophie and I left the club we headed back to the apartment to pack my stuff, since the apartment came furnished I didn't have to worry about furniture. When I moved to Brooklyn I only had four suitcases so Sophie and I came up with a strategy, we were going to have three piles of clothes: A pile for her: meaning she was going to take some of my clothes that I didn't want but she liked. A pile for charity: clothes that we both didn't want we were going to give it up and a pile for me, which was only one suitcase. After I packed my stuff I handed over the keys to my landlord and went back to the club. When we entered Sophie led us straight downstairs where there was a V.I.P room they had just for this event. The bass coming from the club upstairs pulsed through the walls and took over my heartbeat; I kept thinking how badly I wanted to be upstairs drowning myself in booze to forget all my problems. We came to a stop in front of a bouncer with a clipboard in his hands, he asked me my name and when I responded he handed me a form with a number to pin onto my bikini. Really? Number 13 he just had to choose the unluckiest number in the world to give me. I looked at him and gave him a tight smile and passed around him. As I walked through the door I was greeted with twelve other women seated in what looked like a waiting room. The room was painted a dull grey with one framed picture of the Chicago bridge hanged up in the back, in the corner there were fake plants covered with dust and the floor was covered over with a large white floor mat that look like it hasn't been cleaned in months. Sophie and I took a seat at the very back of the room. There were three doors in the room, the first one is where we came through, the second one is straight ahead and the third one is right in the center of the left wall. I kept thinking about what was behind those two doors.

"You can go and change through that door straight ahead; you can put your coat over your bikini and take it off when you go through that door over there." She pointed at door number two.

"This is where I stop, when you go through there there's an X on a platform you have to stand on, when you stand on the X, the platform will begin to rotate. There's two way mirroring there so you wouldn't be able to see who's on the other side, where there are five cubicles. I know for sure that Richard Galloway is on the other side of one but there are four other tycoons that I don't know of. While you're changing your clothes, I'll fill out the form since I know more about you than you do, once I do, they'll be take the form and use your information to pair you with one of the tycoons, all those men out there are going to have a copy of this form so they'll know more about you. Before those men enter the cubicles they are going to be asked how much there willing to pay and how long do they want their companion for, whoever has the highest bid gets to choose their woman first." I just sat there with my eyes wide open trying to comprehend everything she just said. Basically I'm going to be bided on like a f*****g car.

"Okay. I think I understand."

"Okay good, now go into the bathroom and change quickly you have five minutes before this dig starts.

Richard

The limo pulled up outside the back of the club, I waited inside the limo until I got the OK from my security. When I exited, I was led inside the club along with my security by a bouncer, the man looked to be in his late thirties with prison cut hair and a scar just below is right eye with two tear drops under the left. The large man led us down into the club basement where there was a V.I.P back entrance sign on a door, once we entered I was led straight into a cubicle since Sean already called ahead and told them what I wanted and how much I'm paying for what I wanted, because I didn’t want to spend too much time in this f*****g place. Inside the cubicle there was large two way mirror in front followed by a large red rug on the floor with a loveseat and a table with red wine chilling on top of it. I took a seat on the leather chair while my two security Jonathan and Nate stood by the door, Sean and I always require a team of security with us considering the kind of work we do, every once in a while our rivals send a couple of cocksuckers to try and kill us. Since Sean and I are trained killers we can both fight off some goons, but when they send ten or fifteen guys for us we require some kind of back-up. The door squeaked open and Charlie Walker walked in, and immediately my security stopped him and begun sourcing him.

"Umm.. Mr. Galloway is all this really necessary?" He asked when they were finished and he smoothed out the invisible wrinkles on his jacket. He walked over to the little table and placed his briefcase on it.

"Yes it is. It's all standard procedures." I waved my hands dismissively as I took a sip of the wine. He clicked open the briefcase and kept shuffling around papers until he found the one with my name on it, he flipped though it to make sure all the papers where there and handed it over to me.

"Those are information and pictures of the women we've found for you, you can run through it and choose the women whom you're not interested in seeing tonight and we'll remove their names from the list." He said as he stood by waiting for me to decide. I opened the folder and placed all the profiles side by side on the table, altogether there where fifteen women, the ones with tattoos, piercings and had any kind of criminal record was handed back to Charlie, He looked at me like I wasn’t sure with the women I'd chosen.

"Are you sure man? There are some sexy women that you should've chosen." He asked as he pushed the papers back in my direction.

"Nah, I'm good with the two I've chosen, it's not all about the s*x appeal, she's gotta have brains and beauty my man." I said confirming my decision.

"Now if we're done with this conversation, I'd like to move along, I don’t intend on spending the whole night here." He finally got my message and left. I'd already known whom I wanted, from the moment I saw her picture I knew she was different, that she was going to be a challenge, and I've never turned down a challenge. I only chose the other woman because she had a degree in business and because I needed someone else to distract me from Ms. Styles.

"Nate go and tell Charlie that I've changed my mind, I want to add a next year and another million to the deal." He mumbled yes boss and walked out the door. I knew I was heading for trouble but I couldn’t stay away.

Chapter Six

Jenny

I looked at myself one more time in the mirror, I finally got my smokey eyebrows done on the first try, I sighed in relief as I placed my gel-eyeliner on the counter of the bathroom. My eyes ran up the length of my body checking my attire, I got to admit it... I looked good, even though I felt extremely uncomfortable in this bikini that left little to the imagination; it was what guys go for these days. My then straight hair was curled into perfection by Sophie before we got here. I looked into my eyes, they weren't anything special just a dull blue but once a time they were full of life, that was before everything happened. I sighed as I packed my stuff back into my bag and threw on my coat and walked outside. When I walked back into the room everyone else was gone except for Sophie, Charlie and this really skinny blonde girl who looked like she was nineteen or twenty, made me wonder what kind of mess she got herself into to be in this position, I walked over to Sophie and took the seat right next to her. My head was spinning since I haven't eaten anything since this morning and the alcohol I drank before isn't really helping my situation.

"Jenny right on time, this is Jenny." Charlie said as I took my seat, Jenny and I both mumbled our hello's as Charlie continued.

"You and Jenny were the only two ladies that Mr. Galloway chose, but there is something else, he said that he's adding another million to the previous amount, including another year. Now I know this is kind of short notice, but we're talking about big money here, so what do you say?" He asked. I couldn’t really think straight on an empty stomach so nodded my head.

"Ok great, Jenny you'll go ahead first and Jenny will follow. I'll be back with Mr. Galloway afterwards to get whoever he chooses."

Charlie got up out of his seat and walked outside. I got up out of my seat and hugged Sophie. I don’t know what's going to happen after I exit that room but I just want to get it over with.

"Don’t forget to call me."

"Don’t worry mom, I'll call you when I wake up. I promise." I hugged her one more time before she walked outside.

"Okay Jenny you can do this, just walk in and walk back out. No biggie." God I sucked at pep talking. I pushed open the door and walked inside. My eyes scanned the room; there was a two-sided mirror directly in front of the platform. I walked onto the platform and just stood there. God, what am I supposed to do now? The platform begun to rotate the same time a light above my head switched on. Well at least my question was answered, I just have to stay put like a Barbie on showcase.

"Shit." I hissed at myself, I felt my body shaking; I guess this is the side effects of not eating whole day and drinking like a sailor. The platform stopped after a few minutes, I stepped down from the platform and walked outside. I walked across the hallway as wave of dizziness came over and then everything turned black.

Chapter Seven

Jenny

I slowly opened my eyes and took note of the oversized bed in which I was lying in. The sheets were soft and the pillows were fluffy. As I stared straight ahead, I noticed the beautiful turquoise and white fabric that was draped amongst the four intricately carved cherry wood posts.

"You're awake," the low voice said as he walked through the door.

"Where am I?" I asked in a soft whisper. He walked further into the room and sat down on the edge of the bed. "You’re in my house."

"Shit." I hissed. "What happened to me?” I asked, since my mind was nothing but a ball of blur.

"Well I was about to ask you that same question." He said as he sat on the edge of the bed and leaned over me. I stared into his green eyes, holy mother of all that is amazing he has green eyes!!! He raised his eyebrows at me when I didn’t answer. s**t, what did he say, was it a question? Jeesh Jenny can you not make yourself look like a complete ass?!?

"I..uhh...fell I think, no I fainted...yes that’s what happened, I didn’t eat anything yesterday besides breakfast and I drank a lot because I was nervous for....." Oh My God.

"Holy s**t you're Richard Galloway...wait, what happened to the auction", s**t, he choose me, which means I can pay off everything. He got up from the bed and poured me a glass of water. "Here, take a sip." I lifted my head as he held the glass up to my lips. When he sat back down his face turned serious.

"Well after I saw you I made my decision and Charlie and I came into the room just in time to see you fall to the floor. Jenny I like my women healthy so if not eating and fainting is a thing you like to do you either rid of that habit or I can find someone else." He said in a stern voice. Was he serious?

"God, I'm sorry I didn't have any food in my house and I was frustrated so I forgot to eat." I sat up and swung my leg to the side of the bed, that's when I realized I was wearing only a blue silk robe. He changed my clothes? He saw me naked.

"Where are my clothes?" Is he insane?

"I threw them away because you won't need them anymore, if my mother or anyone who knows me sees you in those things they'll think that I've gone crazy." That’s it this man has some mental problems.

"Damn right you're crazy, you don’t just throw away women's clothes when they're asleep, and what am I supposed to wear, I can't say in this robe?" I shrieked.

"I actually begged to differ on everything you just said. I could throw out your clothes whether you're awake or not because you belong to me and if I wanted you to stay in that robe whole day you would." His green eyes pierced mine.

"But you have a NDA to sign and you have a guest so you'll have to look decent", I desperately needed a shower; I probably looked like a mess.

"I need to shower and I need some clothes so would you please leave so I could freshen up." I retorted, it wasn’t a question and I only added please because it might make him leave faster.

"I ordered clothes and lingerie for you, which is in my room, the same room that you'll be showering and sleeping in, this room was only something temporary." Was he serious I can't sleep with him, well I would be having s*x with him, which I'm still freaking out about. I don’t know if my therapy sessions prepared me for living with this man.

Chapter Eight

Jenny

Richard showed me where our bedroom was and told me to meet him in the kitchen, I opened the door and walked inside the king-sized bed was fully made and it didn’t look like it had been slept in. His bedroom was enormous and the wall where his bed sat was nothing but windows from floor to ceiling. He had the most beautiful view I’d ever seen. His room was made up of neutrals, a mixture of pale gray walls with white molding and darker gray accents. I looked across the room and at the closed door that was the bathroom. I inched my way to the bathroom, I stopped in front of the full-length mirror that stood in the corner. My long brunette hair was knotted and greasy-looking. My fair skin had a gray cast to it, and I just looked like total s**t. Walking into the huge bathroom, that was bigger than the house I used to live in, I undid the knot on my robe and let it fall to the floor. I reached inside the shower, turned on the water, and stepped inside. I ran my hand along the beige marble walls as I looked through the triple glass doors that, if anyone walked in, they would be able to see me completely naked. In the corner were built-in shelves that held shower gels, shampoos, conditioners, razors, loofah sponges, and a sea salt body scrub. At least the ignorant man thought of everything. After I washed my hair, I grabbed a dry towel, wrapped it around me, and opened the door. I was startled to see Richard sitting on the edge of the bed.

"Jesus, I thought you left."

"The name's Richard, sweetheart, not Jesus", He smiled. God his smile was panty dropping.

"I thought you might have trouble finding your new clothes." He said as his eyes scanned my body.

"Don't worry I'm fine, the room is big but not big enough for me to get lost." I said under my breath. He lifted himself off the bed and walked outside. After he left I opened one of the drawers that displayed ten different beautiful bras, in different colors. A couple of them were plain, but the rest of them were made of lace and sparkles. Each bra had matching panties that came in twos, one with a thong and the other bikini-style. I put on one of the lacy bras, and I walked over to the double doors and opened them, revealing a large walk-in closet with built-in shelves from floor to ceiling. I’d never seen anything like this in person; only in the movies. On the shelves were a few pairs of pants that were neatly folded and a few shirts that hung on the rack. I dug through until I found a pair of black leggings. I grabbed a long, pink shirt from the hanger and slipped that on. The house was eerily quiet, but oddly warm and cozy given how huge it was. I slowly mad my way down the hall and towards the staircase, checking out my surroundings in awe. It was tastefully decorated with large paintings. The floors where carpeted in navy blue but the walls were kept white. Everything looked like it belonged in a showcase. Most of the doors to the other rooms where close, but there was one that caught my attention which had a security pin lock attached to it. I didn’t bother to investigate because I was hungry and I knew eventually I'd get the chance to over the next two years.

I wandered towards the back of the house and through a huge formal dining room with a table in the middle that had to seat at least twenty people. There was a door on the other end which led me into the kitchen, but I wasn't even sure the word kitchen would do this room justice. That just seemed like such a small word for the restaurant-style food preparation center that was before me. Everything was stainless steel and more sterile than the inside of a gallon of bleach.

"So you finally decided to make your presence known." Richard said and he dipped his finger into a bottle of Nutella. Was he even serious?

"Well I'm sorry for having to find the kitchen in this castle you call a home." I scowled.

"I'll take that as a complement. I'm late for work so I can't give you a tour of the house, my sister is visiting from Paris and is coming by to drop off some stuff, and she’ll give you the tour." He said as he got up from his seat. He was wearing a charcoal three-piece suit. There's something so god damn sexy about a man who's confident enough to wear a three-piece. It's sophisticated, but with just the right amount of old school charm. He walked over to where I was standing and looked at me completely dead eye and serious.

"I'll save you the trouble right now by telling you that there are two doors in this house which have electronic locks in them, they are off limits 24/7, do NOT even bother trying to enter numbers that you THINK may be the code because if you do a silent alarm will go off in the house, which I would be notified of at my office. Do you understand me?" he says impatiently. I whimper "yes." "Good girl." He nods in approval and kisses on top my forehead. "I'll be back at five." He said, and then he was gone.

Chapter Nine

Jenny

After I finished my breakfast; which was cereal by the way, because this kitchen is too big for me to find anything in it; there was a wall phone in the kitchen which I used to call Sophie. After ending my conversation with Sophie; who was apparently having s*x when I called because she was worried and needed a stress reliever. Sometime I wonder how we even became friends.

"Hello? Is anybody home?" I heard a singsong voice call from the entryway.

"Jenny? It’s me, Lilian, Richard's amazing sister, personal shopper, designer extraordinaire from Paris, here to whisk you away to what we women consider to be paradise." When I turned the corner I saw her head turning over at the entrance to see which one I'll exit.

"Um, hi", I said awkwardly. Her head spun around in my direction.

"Oh, hey" Obviously she was one of those cheery morning-person types. Her hair was hombre brown and blonde and was super bouncy, and she was so smiley and unbelievably gorgeous that she reminded me of one of those cheerleader captains in the Grease movie.

"Jenny Styles" I said as I walked up to her.

"Lily Walker," she said with a wide smile.

"I’m so ecstatic to finally meet you!" I stuck my hand out in a friendly gesture, but she rolled her eyes playfully.

"Oh, please!" She snorted softly through her pert nose as she waved off my somewhat formal greeting.

"We’re going to be trying on clothes all day. In my world, that's like having sex." She giggled and then grabbed me for a quick hug.

"And you’re dating my brother, so we're like sisters" A van showed up outside the gate with our dresses and security carried them into one of the locked room upstairs, which was apparently my dressing room. Yes you heard right, a dressing room, as if my walking closet wasn't big enough. I stared wide-eyed at the door way.

"Wow," I mumbled, Lily turned around and saw my expression and laughed, "I know right, the first time I came in here I thought he was going to marry the girl if he got her, her own dressing room, but he said it's because he needs his space from the women he's having s*x with." She rolled her eyes at the last part.

Three hours later I've tried on eighteen dresses with sixteen different hairstyles, and let me tell you this may sound fun but it's not, it's exhausting, trying dress after dress hoping each one will be good enough to impress Richard and his family.

"Lily, I'm sorry but none of these dresses are going to impress Richard or your family." I said trying to blow a piece of stray hair out of my face. She found her dress on the fourth try-on it was a Giorgio Armani plunging bias cut pewter satin gown with a low-cut open back and ruched bodice was accented with a long fringed sash-like detail, I was so jealous.

"Don't worry, I saved the best for last, trust me you're going to love this one." she rummaged through the remaining dresses. God I hoped she was right. She gave me a body bag looking thing and walked into the bathroom while I changed into the dress. After I slipped on the dress I walked over to the floor length mirror to get a proper look. I instantly wanted to cry, the dress was gorgeous, it was a Dolce & Gabbana cut out dress with a spaghetti straps and sweetheart neckline, gathered waist and thigh-high split. I was afraid to even touch the dress because I thought I might ruin it. Lily walked out of the bathroom and caught me it mid-emotional breakdown.

"Holy f*****g s**t. You look stunning, this is definitely the dress, and Richard is going to have a hard-on whole night." She walked over to adjust my hair. "Stop shaking, you look great and my parents are going to love you." Lily squeezed my shoulder and smiled at me through the mirror.

Chapter Ten

Jenny

After I changed out of the dress, we left the room so Lily could give me a tour. We walked down the corridor heading in the direction of the rooms which I passed this morning.

"There are nine rooms upstairs, five are guest rooms, two are dressing rooms, one belong to you and the other belongs to Richard, the one next to Richard's dressing room with the electronic lock on it is his office, but don’t tell him I told you." She stopped at the top of the staircase.

"The only reason I know is because he locked me in there while I was visiting because the power went out and he got worried." She looked over into my direction and smiled, so I thought it was a good time to ask about the one downstairs.

"What about the one downstairs?" I pushed.

"Oh, I don’t know about that one, but what I do know is that the pin number is tattooed on his body. We made a bet three years ago, I'm going to spare you the details on that one, but if I won he'd have to give me a hint to what the code is, and if he won I'd have to wear a dress that he'd design to one of my fashion shows, and let me tell you this man doesn’t have an ounce of style in his body." She laughed as we walked down the stairs.

"So what happened, who won?"

"I did, thanks to my mom. He didn’t even see that one coming, so he finally told me that it was tattooed on his body which was in his favor because the only one who ever get to see him without clothes is the women he sleeps with." She turns around and looks at me.

"Since I'm telling you this, you owe me by telling me what's in that room when you find out."

"Sorry Lily I can't he told me this morning that if I tried anything and its wrong that a silent alarm will go off and he'll know at his office." I didn't want to get her hopes up because I'm not even that stupid to get on Richard's bad side.

"Oh come on, he won’t get angry at you for that, if he does you have two options. The first is to have make-up s*x and if that doesn’t work there is a guest house on this property go stay there for about a month. He'll get over it if he isn't getting anything for those four weeks." She states nonchalantly. The rest of the tour was just a blur; the rooms downstairs were the library, storage room, and pantry and pool room. After the tour we had lunch and she told me a little about Richard from when he was a kid, she said that when they were younger he was very overprotective of his family, he still is, but now it's gotten worst. Apparently when he became CEO of the company he bought a house for his parents in Rome, claiming that he wanted them to have a nice retirement life but she thinks it's either because he wants them closer to her to save himself from all the stress about worrying about his parents or that he doesn't want any of his family living in America for some strange reason. After Lily left I walked back up stairs to the bedroom to shower, so I could ask one of the drivers to take me to the mall to get a phone before Richard comes home, hopefully Richard won't have me here like a complete prisoner without a phone. After my shower I wrapped a towel around my body and walked back into the room. I opened the same drawer from this morning and picked out a pink bra and lacy underwear to go with it. As I was about to walk into the closet I heard someone coming up the stairs, I'm not expecting anyone and Richard's not due home until another three hours. s**t, someone's probably trying to break in, but who would be so stupid to do that in a place that has more security cameras and guards than a bank. As the footsteps got closer I walked over to the nightstand and unplugged the lamp from it, I wrapped the cord around the bass and walked to the door. The footsteps stopped directly in font the door, for goodness sake I'm trained in Karv Maga and here I am hiding from an intruder with a lamp in my hand, god I'm so pathetic. The door knob turned and I tightened my grip around the lamp. It's go time. As the door opened someone walked inside and stopped right in front of me with their back facing my front. As I aimed the lamp for the intruder's head, he turn around and caught my hand in mid swing, he spun me around and pressed my body against his.

"Jenny you've only been here for a day and you’re already trying to kill me, that's a new record." As I heard his voice my body relaxed.