The Billion's 2

Chapter 8

PANDORA'S POV

"Where are we going?" I asked my parents. "Somewhere." Was all mom said before opening the door for mommy and I. Seconds later, Blondie and Eliza came in with the most revealing dress ever. I can't believe I'm looking at their cleavage now.

"Geez, Pandora!" Eliza covered her chest and chuckled. "Drive," Mommy said to the driver. I leaned back and relaxed my body. My mind wanders to Clarice. The beautiful, beautiful Clarice.

I looked out the window and closed my eyes. Her smiling face appeared in my mind. Her funny side, her mysterious side. Let'sLet's just say everything about her made my heart melted.

"Whatever you witness today, don't say anything. Don't do or move even an inch. Understand?" Mom warned us all. I simply nodded with my eyes closed. It's always been that way whenever we have this type of meeting.

Either it will end up in a fight or a shootout 'party' like what mommy calls it. I opened my eyes when the car hit a pothole on the road. I feel like I've been here before. I turned to Blondie and Eliza. "We've been here before right?"

They both didn't say anything back. They looked at each other and gave me a soft smile. "I like what you're wearing Pandora. You look like your mother." I smiled at mommy. Yea. I do look like mom.

Except she's a little evil and has a right face rather than a loving and cool face like mine. When I realized the car stopped, I noticed a familiar environment. Why am I in CLARICE'S mansion?

Mom was the first to come out.l followed by mommy, Blondie, and Eliza. I was having second thoughts about this. Mom bends down to the window and looked at me. "What's wrong? Don't be scared. I will kill them if they touch you."

I shake my head. There's no point in saying no. I took a deep breath and got out of the car. I noticed Clarice happily walked down the stairs and her reaction was priceless. It's written on her face that she too doesn't know what's happening tonight.

"Ahh. Iris. And family. Come on.. come in.." a middle-aged woman walked out and invited us to their mansion. I can't believe her family is one of the bad guys in Las Vegas. All this time I thought there....

"Hey, Pandora." I smiled at her. "Hey, Clarice." Mommy went to my side and offered her hand. "Blanche Vera. Pandora's mother." Clarice smiled widely. "Clarice Abernathy." "Wait. Leo's last name is Abernathy?"

Clarice nodded at mommy's question. "I'm sure you've met Blondie and Eliza at school?" Clarice nodded and smiled. "Please, come in. My father is waiting inside."

Walking into Clarice home was normal. More normal than my home. For example, they don't have half naked maids walking around inside. "Princess. Please let Clara know our guest has arrived."

Clarice went to the stairs and disappeared while we went into the living room. "Welcome to my humble pad." A man suddenly said as we walked in the living room. Mom scoffed. "Humble huh? If it's so humble why would it need to be guarded by an armed man?"

The man I assume Clarice's father just smiled. "To get my enemies on their own lines. Of course to protect my family. Like what you did to your daughter, wives."

Wives? Then I remembered Blondie and Eliza both standing closely at mommy's side. I chuckled. "So Leo.. are we just going to stand and talk?" Mom asked rather rudely. I noticed his eyes twitched.

"I'm sorry. The queen needs to be pampered. Please. Have a seat." Mom calmed herself down by breathing in and out and smiled. Mommy went to sit next to mom and sat down together.

I shake my head when mommy deliberately crosses and uncross her legs in front of Clarice's parents.

Eliza sat next to mommy while Blondie sat next to Mom. Now that they all sat together, this is actually a great family portrait. "What's with this dinner invitation, Leo. I thought we have a deal." Clarice's dad looked at me and sighed.

"I need to be your allies." Both my parent's eyes widen. They looked and gave each other sly smirked. "Did I heard this right?" Mom asked. "You want to be our allies?" Before he could answer, Clarice and a woman I assume her sister walked in.

"Meet my oldest daughter, Clara. My very own lawyer." Clara went to shake my parent's hands including Blondie and Eliza. "Clara, you know them very well and that's Pandora." I waved at her.

"Mom told us to tell everyone dinner is serve," Clarice announced and the man of the Abernathy household stood up and invited us to dinner. "Shall we have dinner together?" The man said.

But before we walked towards the dining hall, mom scoffed and said: "I hope you're not poisoning us." Clarice's expression was priceless.

***

I was outside the veranda when Clarice touched my shoulder and suddenly appeared on my left. "So.. how's dinner?" She asked. "Intense." We both chuckled and took a deep breath. "It was. Actually the best dinner ever." Clarice sighed.

"What's with the sigh?" She shakes her head. "Too bad you're going home soon." I was about to reply her when we both heard a loud screeching noise of a supercar. Clarice squinted her eyes and gasped.

"I totally forgot about him." Him? Timothy? I watched her ran towards her parents and whispered. I noticed the Abernathy's eyes widen and both stood up. I walked back inside and watched they smiled at my parents.

"We'll be back." Mom waved for them to go. "Don't you wanna go too?" Mommy asked Clara who's just sitting on the couch and reading some books. "I've seen him every day. He's my fiancée." Mommy nodded.

"Don't you want to meet him?" Mom asked. "I don't even love him. I was forced to." We were waiting for the Abernathy when we heard a ruckus going on near us. "YOU CANT GO IN THERE!" I heard Clarice's voice.

"Here we go again," Clara said and stood up. "I want to meet my wife.." A guy walked in. He looks like he's drunk. He keeps on slurring his words we can't even understand him. "JAYVEE! GET OUT OF THE MANSION!" Clarice's dad thundered. The guy didn't even care and made way towards Eliza.

Eliza spat his hands from touching her chest and moved away from him. "Come on!! Let's have fun.," he said. I noticed Mr. Abernathy or Leo looking as place as a sheet. "JAYVEE!" He shouted and still the guy made way towards Eliza.

"I'm sorry you have to witness this." Mom said before grabbing the nearby table lamp and smashed it on the guys head. Everyone in the room froze when mom pulled her guns out and aimed it on his bleeding head.

"Tell me why I don't have to kill you?" She said. Jayvee was struggling under mom's gripped. "STAY STILL!" "IRIS!" Mommy shouted and instantly mom seems relaxed and kept her guns on her waistband. "Get off of him!" Mommy pulled mom away by the collar.

"Manners please." Mom shrugged. Mommy faces the Abernathy and apologizes for the mess mom had caused. Minutes later we bid our goodbyes and I waved at Clarice. I was in the car when I feel my phone vibrated, showing I received a text from Clarice.

"Your mom is my idol now." Her text says and I chuckled. "Why is that?" I replied. Seconds later she sent me a text again. "She has the courage to hurt Jayvee. That's what I called an idol." I chuckled and mommy nudged my side.

"I've never seen you smiling like that before." I smiled and lock my phone. I decided to reply to her when I'm alone in my room.

***

THIRD PERSON POV

Iris was walking towards her private quarters when Blanche pushed her by the shoulder and slammed her back to the walls. "You made us look bad in front of them!" Iris was baffled by her wife sudden outburst.

"What's wrong with you? He was harassing Eliza!" "I didn't mean that! I mean how you treat Leo in front of Pandora's! DO YOU KNOW PANDORA HAS A CRUSH ON CLARICE!" Iris's eyes widen. "What? She has a crush on an Abernathy?!" Blanche just realized she blew Pandora's secrets.

Blanche released her gripped on her wife and sighed. "Don't walk out on me. What do you mean by Pandora has a crush on Leo's kid?!" Blanche knows her daughter will be so angry at her. "BLANCHE!" Blanche flinched and turned to her wife.

"Don't yell at me. Yes. Our little Pandora is in love." "With Leo's kid?! Why didn't you say anything to her about it! Why didn't you stop her!" Blanche was angry. How dare she says that! "You will never tell all those things to our daughter! NO WAY IM LETTING YOU DESTROY HER HEART!"

Iris was surprised that her wife just yelled at her. "If you hurt my daughter I will use that guns of yours, blowing your heads off," Blanche said and smirked. Iris watched her wife go. Iris shakes her head. She's actually afraid of her wife when she's angry.

Iris shakes the feelings away and continued to her private quarters. As she entered, she closed the door and went to sit behind the table that was placed in the middle of the room. This room was design like an Oval Office.

Every wall was filled with books and each bookshelf has its own secrets. "Noah, enter," Iris called for my trusted righthand man. Minutes later he entered and bow at me. "Madam." "Investigate Clarice Abernathy. Secretly. Don't let my wife know." Noah nodded.

"That's all. But please call Blondie and Eliza for me." Noah bows and walked out. Iris noticed a piece of paper on top of her table and opened it. She read through everything and ended up throwing the paper across the room.

She was hyperventilating when Blondie and Eliza walked in. "What's wrong?" Eliza asked as Blondie grabbed the paper that's on the floor. "Anonymous letter?!" Eliza went to Blondie's side. Iris stood up and went to the liquor stand.

She didn't even bother to pour it on a glass. She just chugged it down from the bottle itself. "Somebody wants my head so badly." Blondie and Eliza threw the paper in a basket and went to Iris's side. "We're here to help you any way I can. Don't worry."

Blondie placed her head on Iris's shoulder. Eliza wrapped her arms around Iris's waist and leaned in. "No one will hurt you anymore." She whispered before placed her head on Iris's other shoulder.

"They trying to hurt my family. They want to hurt my wife and kids. They want my attention! They will pay! Everyone will PAY!" Iris yelled before smashed the liquor bottle on the floor. "Grab everyone who has a grudge on me. I'll be their God for their last breath on earth!"

Eliza and Blondie looked at each other. They never saw Iris so mad before. They all turned when Blanche entered the room. "What's with the meeting without me?" Blanche turned her gaze to the basket. "Another threat? Babe. You can handle this maturely. Don't let your anger controls you."

"I never let anything poison my thinking mind. I'm planning to bath with their blood when it's time. They should be worried about me, the Angel of death." Iris turned to look at her loved ones.

"No one will ever harm you all ever again. No one!"

***

"Are you ready Grace?" Pandora asked her friend when she's walked in her best friend house. "Now I am.," Grace said while carrying 2 huge suitcases. Pandora's eyes widen as she watched her friend packing as if she's going to be in LA for such a long time.

"Are you planning to live there?" Grace shook her head and smiled. "My essential is a must bring things." Pandora shakes her head and helped her friend to put her suitcases in the car.

After a series of goodbyes towards her family, Grace went to the car and waved. Pandora started to drive towards the private airfield where her parents will be waiting. "I'm so excited!!!" Grace beamed at her best friend.

"Meeting your family, who's famous for being who they are. Geez. I'm going to love my first trip to LA." Pandora chuckled. "Relax. It's just LA." Pandora turned to a familiar road and grace gasped when she came face to face with such a vast landscape.

"That's the plane?!" Grace asked when Pandora drive through a huge guarded gate. "Yup. The Vera's private jet." When Pandora stopped in front of the plane and got out with Grace, Iris and Blanche too got out of their Limo and smiled at Grace.

"Having a fun yet?" Blanche asked. Grace vigorously nodded and chuckled. Iris smiled and enters the plane. "Sit anywhere you want. It's cool." Pandora told her friend. "Get me a glass of vodka and today's paper," Iris asked the flight attendant.

"This will be fun." Blanche beamed at her daughter.

(a FEW HOURS LATER)

"Wow wow wow!" Grace breathe out when she's admiring Los Angeles site for the very first time. Upon arriving, a group of Cadillac was waiting for them completely armed. Iris smiled at the sight. Iva didn't forget her request.

"I can't wait to meet Zeva," Pandora said. "Your sister?" Pandora nodded at her friend. It's was a long drive but worth it. When they arrive, Zeva was waiting patiently with Abigail, Iva's wife.

When Zeva saw her parents, she ran towards them and hugged them both tightly by the legs. Iris kneels and picks her daughter up like always. "Wow. You're getting bigger honey." Iris said before kissing her daughter's cheek repeatedly.

Blanche did the same. Words can't describe her happiness and joy. Pandora walked forward and smiled at her little sister. "PANDORA!!" Zeva beamed at her mother's arms. Pandora leaned in to kissed her sister and messed up with her hair.

"Zeva meet Grace, my friend." Grace waved at the little girl. "I'm showing you all everything!!" Zeva beamed and asked her mother to put her down. She then dragged her parents and sister all over the place.

***

Clarice was playing with her food when her father walked in and looked at her. "Princess. Don't play with your food. What's wrong? I never saw you this anxious before." Clarice placed her fork down and looked at her father.

"I hate my boyfriend. I hate him so much. I don't want to date him any more daddy. He's evil!" Leo raised both eyebrows and sat down. He knows this conversation will take a while.

Leo listened to his daughter ranting and actually paying attention to what she has to say. For a bad man like him, he's a family man too. He cares for his family more than his own life. To him, his family is everything.

"He looks at me as if I'm his accessory. I don't want to be treated like that daddy. I want to be treated like a princess. A queen even. I hate him! I hate him, daddy! Please do something. I don't want to end up with Jayvee 2.0."

Leo let out a raspy laughed and caressed his daughter's cheek. "You are free to do anything you want princess. It's your life, not mine."

"But his father? How will you survive?" Clarice asked her father. As much as she wants to be out, it's hard for her father to do his business. Timothy's father is a well-known person all over the world.

"We're allies with the Vera. No one will harm me or my family anymore. Trust me on this princess." Clarice finally let out a genuine smile at her father. She loves her father more than anything.

"Remember this Clarice. If you're not happy just do what you think is best. I will not be mad or judge you for it. I want to see you smile as wide as you can. I want you to laugh as loud as you can. Go and do what's right."

Clarice kissed her father and thanked him for his advice. She excuses herself and went to meet her soon to be ex-boyfriend.