Chapter 5
"Give me your f*****g money," Ryan ordered sternly at Vinz, the man he hated the most because of his ex girlfriend, Arisha, who broke up with him many years ago to be with that guy who was standing beside him at that moment and obviously couldn't hardly move because of fear while staring at the knife pointing on the latter's waist.
"W-What the hell, man? Chill--"
"Don't f**k up with me, give me your f*****g money now or I'm gonna end your f*****g useless life," he growled angrily and tightened the grip of his hand snaked dangerously on the latter's shoulder while pressing the knife pointing to his waist even more.
"s**t. Damn you, Delos Reyes. I should have trusted my instinct earlier that someone was following me here in this uncrowded place after I visited Arisha because she's sick."
"Oh shut up you asshole. I don't give a damn about your f*****g thoughts anyway. Now give me your money or else."
"My wallet is in my car far from us so chill out and let's just go there."
He obliged. They went to the latter's car's direction while he was still holding his shoulder and pointing the knife to the latter's waist. He secretly scanned the place again. No one will ever think that there's something wrong going on between them because of their position. He saw the douche earlier going to Arisha's house when he was about to go to Anna's house too. So out of curiosity and anger of remembering how his ex betrayed him for that asshole and out of troubling how to help Anna for the latter's school financial problem after the latter cried in front of him the other day for that, he finally saw Vinz as his primary prospect for that obstacle. So he followed him secretly and when he finally got the chance, he immediately grabbed it.
"Open your f*****g car door now," Ryan ordered Vinz as they finally reached the latter car. But Vinz didn't move.
"What the f**k are you still doing? I said open your f*****g car door now."
"In your f*****g dreams."
His eyes wide-opened. And before he knew it, Vinz suddenly moved, grabbed the knife from his hand and was about to stab him but he directly took the knife again and stabbed it first in his waist three times before he realised what he did. With a lot of blood covering his right hand, he saw Vinz's lifeless body fall to the ground. He nervously looked around and saw no one saw him. So he ran away from that place and went to Anna to ask for help. But before he could totally hide away from the crime, the few people who passed by there finally noticed it and shouted for help. And he thought at that moment while running, his life was suddenly at stake.
"Ryan, dude!"
He woke up from his deep thoughts when he heard that voice. He looked outside and sighed in relief. "Damn, Jax, thank God you're here! Have you seen Anna?" Ryan asked worriedly at his best friend Jaxon as the latter reached his jail. It was already evening. But Anna didn't visit him yet.
"No, I haven't. But Mela gave you these foods for you to eat now. She said that Anna seems to couldn't visit you here tonight because your girlfriend was quite busy finding money for you to set free from this hell hole."
He sighed. He's really a heavy burden to his girlfriend. He was then.. And he is up to now.
"Dude.. What really happened?"
He sighed so deep and glued his forehead at the cold jail bar helplessly. "You don't have to know."
"Come on, dude, tell me. You know you can trust me man."
He sighed again and looked around. The area was clear. A police officer was far from them and was busy talking to the phone so groaned in frustration and told Vinz the truth. "All I want was a money from him so I can help Anna on her financial support for her studies but the f*****g asshole just won't give me a f*****g penny and even tried to kill me so I f*****g killed him first."
"Dude, you're insane."
"I'm not!" He firmly disagreed. "I just did that thing for my girlfriend and I was just protecting myself."
"But look what you did to her now. She's carrying your burden again."
"What can I do? Damn it," he said and sighed deeply again. "f**k. f**k this f*****g life!"
Jaxon tapped his shoulder. "So what's your plan now? Tell her the truth?"
"No,of course not!"
"So you're really gonna make her suffer?"
He sighed deeply, glued his forehead on the jail bar then closed his eyes tightly and murmured in confusion and pain, "I don't know what to do anymore, man. I don't know what to do anymore."
Jaxon shook his head and tapped his shoulder. "You have told me the truth, man. I know you can do the same to her. Just look for the perfect timing."
He rubbed his palm on his face frustratedly. "I can't. I can't tell her the truth. She's going to leave me and will surely let me rot here. Tsk. Shit."
It was Jaxon's turn to sigh. "Don't worry, man. I'll have my eyes fixed on Anna while you're still here. Think about this mess, before everything is too late.." Jaxon said that made him sigh.
"Welcome to my place, Anna. Feel at home."
Anna gulped in disbelief as she feasted her eyes at the entire view of the young billionaire, Kendrick Zyler Las Conia's humungous yet luxurious mansion. It's so huge, like a kingdom of those royal movies she used to watch at home. Then she looked at him, taking off his coat, with her mouth still slightly opened.
"Y-You live here.. alone?"
He gazed at her face seriously. "I don't like a person that I just met who was already asking me about my personal life eventually as if we're bloody close."
She blinked twice. "I'm.. I'm sorry I was just curious--"
"Then keep your curiosity to yourself because you're here with me now for only one purpose and not to question me about my personal life. So zip your noisy mouth now and just follow me."
She sighed so deep, nodded and obliged. "O-Okay, sorry," she agreed and followed him. They walked on a long gold-inspired staircase until they reached the door of a particular room and Kendrick opened it.
"Get in. This will be your room."
And so she slowly and shyly did.
"Lights on," he said and the lights of that wide and marvellous room magically lightened. She held her breath while scanning the room. Geez.. What Kendrick did was way too cool for an ordinary girl like her, even that room where she would temporarily, was way too luxurious for her. God. Was she dreaming? She thinks she's dreaming.
"This.. is gonna be my.. room?" She asked in so much hesitation and doubt.
"Yes. Any problem with that?"
"N-Nothing. Nothing actually."
"Good. Now this room, as you can see, is complete with everything that you need everyday. Personal fridge, personal wine cellar, personal wardrobe, everything. You can have all of this wealth for a lifetime too with your own money from me when you have already done your job of ruining my brother's marriage. I want him to suffer so hard, Anna. Real hard. As well as his b***h too. So do everything to succeed with your plan sooner or later. Do you understand?"
She sighed and wearily nodded. "I.. I will. But.. D-Do I really have to.. uhm.." She gulped and couldn't continue her sentence.
His thick, charcoal black eyebrows arched immediately. "Do you really have to do what? Tsk. Hurry up."
"Uhm.. D-Do I really have to.. G-Give my b-body to your brother if.. if necessary?" She asked shyly, then bit her lower lip and expected that he's going to snap eventually and yelled at her for that. But to her much surprise.. He didn't. Instead, she saw him looking at her face seriously and intently, as if reading her face deeply said..
"No. Change of plans."
Her eyes flickered abruptly. "C-Change of.. Plans?"
"Tsk. You heard me once. I don't like repeating myself twice. So for now, I want you to prepare yourself because we're going to have a long day tomorrow. And not just long, but we have to make it productive and exciting also. Especially you," he said and smirked at her devilishly before turning his heels around to walk away from her.
But before he opened the door of her room, she bravely stopped him, "K-Kendrick?"
He stopped walking without facing her. "Hmm?"
She bit her lower lip. "Uhm, m-may I just ask? W-Why did you suddenly change your plans?"
For a moment, he couldn't utter a word right there. He just stood there silently, probably thinking for the right words he should answer to her. So she bit her lower lip shyly and said, "D-Don't mind it, I'm sorry if--"
"Anna."
She held her breath. "Y-Yes?"
"This is the answer to your curious question.." Then he held the doorknob and said, "You're lucky. For making me the very first man, who took your purity first. Otherwise, you'll suffer from my cruelness." Was all he said and left her there, leaving her speechless and dumbfounded.
Then her eyes flickered. What was he.. talking about?