Black's POV
“How about a strip show darling?”
All the colours left her face and she became pale upon hearing my words. I am standing too close to her which is making her more scared.
Her entire body is trembling due to fear. Tears are flowing freely from her red eyes. And then something unexpected happened.
She fainted.
If it was not for my hold on her waist she would have fallen on the floor.
“Wow…. Did she just faint?” I heard Noah asking with amusement. It is really amusing. How can she faint just by hearing my words. For God sake, I haven’t even forced her to take off her clothes.
“You scared the girl too much Black” Rick commented. I chuckled at his words.
“its not my fault that she is weak” I said and picked her up in my arms bridal style. She weight nothing, she is as light as feather.
“Martha call the doctor” I ordered and started walking towards my room.
I can’t believe she lost consciousness when I didn’t even do anything to her. I can’t imagine what will happen when I will really try doing something to her.
She is supposed to be stronger than this, after all she is from a mafia family.
But did she really thought I will force her to do something like this? I just said it to scare her, I wasn’t planning to really make her entertain my friend.
And I am sure they also know that I was just scarring her.
I entered inside my room and placed her on the bed. I sat beside her and started caressing her soft cheeks.
She looks very innocent. If it was not for the fact that she made a huge mistake and I have to punish her, I might have fallen for her innocence and beauty, though I don’t believe in love.
In fact I despise the word love After that night. It is a weakness and I am not weak.
I can’t trust any woman after ‘her' betrayal.
Am I being too hard on Riya?
She looks very small and fragile. I remember I almost killed her twice today, but I couldn’t control my anger. Ava is very precious for me and seeing her cry made me loose my temper.
And when Riya slapped me, I lost it completely. I wanted to kill her. No one has dared to raise their voice in front of me let alone slap me.
And she dared to do that. Well it didn’t hurt me physically, but it hurt my ego, badly.
She was shivering in my arms and for a second I felt a tug in my heart. But my mind reminded me that she deserves everything I am doing to her.
She killed my innocent sister and her child. And instead of paying for her crimes she tried to hide the truth. She didn’t even for once think about her family members and loved ones. How they might feel and how difficult it must be for them? She just killed her.
‘She deserves to be punished' my mind said.
I came out of my thoughts when I heard a knock on the door and Jennifer walked in.
“Hello Black how are you?” she asked me politely, placing her bag on the bed and taking Riya’s wrist in her hand to check her pulse.
“I am fine and you?” I replied. Jennifer is our family doctor and works for my family. She is wife of Carter, my friend who also works for me. He is doctor as well. They take care of our men in case someone gets injured.
“I am good” she replied and started doing her work. After giving an injection to Riya she turned to face me.
“She fainted because of shock and stress. She is very weak as well. Is she not eating her food?” she asked.
“I don’t know but I guess she didn’t eat anything today” I replied honestly.
Jenny sighed and said, “I know you are angry at her but go easy on her. I am writing some medicines for her, give them on time. And make sure she eats.” She said in her professional tone.
“Okay, how is Carter?” I asked her.
“Good, missing you all. Come over at our place when you have time” she said with a smile.
“Sure” I said. After bidding goodbye she left. I once again sat down on the bed beside her. My eyes fell on my finger prints on her delicate neck. I caressed it gently.
“why did you have to kill her?” I asked slowly to her unconscious figure.
I retreated my hand, she don’t deserve my pity or concern. She only deserves hate and anger. I got up from my place, sat on the couch and started working. My appetite is long gone.
I called Rick, my second in command and my most trusted man and best friend. I asked him about the progress of the our new consignment. We are smuggling weapons from Arab to Spain. For this we are getting a huge amount.
As the most feared and powerful mafia, we sometimes get request for smuggling weapons and drugs from one country to another. And we gladly take such request and fulfill them.
It helps us improve our relationship with other countries and mafias and we get huge money for this.
Rick informed me that so far everything is fine but one of my rival is trying to mess with us.
That bastard.
If he was not as powerful as me, I would have killed him. I can still do that, but it will create chaos and even in the underworld there are some rules and regulations we need to follow, to work out things smoothly.
But I will have to do something about him.
After some time I heard the sound of someone's groaning. I averted my gaze from the file I was reading to look at Riya. She is whimpering and saying something in her sleep.
In the next second I was beside her. I can’t understand what she is saying. But she is having a nightmare.
“Riya” I called her name to wake her up but she didn’t budge.
“Wake up Riya” I shouted while shaking her. She opened her eyes and as soon as our gaze locked, she sat up with a jerk and tried to move back away from me.
“Please don’t….. I can’t….” she said in her cracking voice. I didn’t understand what she is saying. She is shaking badly and continuously going back.
I realized that she will fall down from the bed if she again moved back so I held her ankle and pulled her closer to me.
“I I.…. Can’t….. please” she cried out loud. Her eyes are filled with fresh tears but still I can see so much fear in them.
“Please…. Don’t… make me…… do it” she again begged trying to release her ankle from my grip and that’s when I understood what she is saying.
I pulled her more closer and made her lay on the bed while I hovered over her, resting my both hands beside her on the bed.
Her breath hitched and a sob left from her mouth when I leaned closer. I can tell she is struggling to breath properly.
“you don’t want to entertain my friends?” I asked her looking into her teary eyes. She frantically nodded her head in yes.
“Okay you don’t have to but what will I gain in return huh?” I asked wiping her tears with my thumbs, still balancing my weight on my other hand.
“everything... you say, just please.... don’t force me” she requested with hope in her eyes. I smirked at her words. I am sure she said it without even realizing what she is agreeing to.
“Everything?” I confirmed. And that’s when she realized what she said and I saw her expression change. When she is scared, it is very easy to read what is going on in her mind.
“Hmm?” I urged her to reply. She thought for some time before nodding her head hesitantly. My smirk grew wider.
“don’t back out on your words” I replied and got down from the bed.
“go freshen up” I ordered and like a good girl she obeyed this time without any argument and got down from the bed.
“Where are you going?” I asked when I saw her walking in the direction of door.
“My room” she replied in her groggy voice.
“That is washroom. You have five minutes, go” I told her pointing towards the door.
“I want to go to my room” she said. Once again her stubborn self came out and I narrowed my eyes at her.
“I guess we can start where we left right now” I said and could take only one step in her direction when she started running in the direction of washroom door.
I chuckled at her reaction and asked a maid to bring some food.
Just for tonight, I will go easy on her as I did too much today and scared the s**t out of her. Moreover I don’t want her to faint once again. After ten minutes she came out.
“Eat” I said pointing towards the food placed on the table in front of me. She walked slowly and took a sit on the couch in front of me.
Without saying anything she started eating and I got busied in my work glancing in her direction every now and than.
“I am done” she said and I looked up to find she has eaten everything in her plate.
“take them” I said gesturing towards medicines placed on the table.
“why?” she asked unsure.
“Doctor said you are weak. You should take them”
“okay” saying this she ate them.
“Leave” I said and she took a breath of relief and left.
Since I still have lots of work, I decided to finish it. Recently, my company signed a big contract with another company because of which there is lots of work.
It wasn’t even hardly five minutes when I heard some noises from downstairs.
I instantly put my file down and came out of the room to check what is happening.
I reached the stairs but the scene unfolding downstairs took my breath away. I increased my speed and reached downstairs but still it was too late. Fear crept inside my heart.
A loud scream echoed in the living room followed by sound of crying.