Saving Ms. Bad Girl

CHAPTER IV- THE SHARPENING OF THORNS

C H A P T E R – IV: THE SHARPENING OF THORNS

Take time to smell the roses.

Proverb

AMARY ANTHUR

MARCH 11, 2017

My father’s death and James Linden’s announcement were too overwhelming for me, I wasn’t sure to why my father chose James when he is not the first in line or the direct heir of their business. My father definitely had plans but it didn’t went accordingly.

Seeing people pour tears as my father was being buried on the ground, people whose hearts are fake makes me want to shoot them in the head, majority of the people here are only faking it because they think they can make me appreciate their condolences towards my father,

His death wasn’t as we anticipated they know we’re going to seek revenge so we have to be careful and attack out of their anticipation as well. James Linden physically looks good, he looks healthy, athletic body but not too bulky but I wouldn’t deny that he really is good looking,

I looked at him as he stand beside me about 12 inches away from me as I watch my father being buried to the ground, they’ll never know how good of a person my father is, shady business but amazing person, if only the world knows, he’s a Robin hood like, bad to others but not to all.

I will avenge you father, I threw a red Amary to the ground where my father will forever rest until he turns to dust.

I looked at the people gathered here to the burial of my father, I shed no tears for I know my father doesn’t deserve this death. I will only cry again once I have avenged my father.

After the burial I went straight home together with James,

Caleb riding next to driver’s seat as they escorted us. “You have to announce your engagement as people have seen you in public already” Caleb said as he ran his fingers to his hair,

“I know,” I replied, I took a quick gaze at James, he was silent like he’s some loyal dog,

Soon we reached the mansion, James and Caleb went out of the car but James assisted me first and I saw Caleb was about to, why am I feeling tension?

James tilted his head as if he was telling Caleb it’s my job now, I looked at Caleb and sadly had to tell him to leave it. James is difficult to figure, he’s a silent thinker, like my father.

“It’s time you tell me about Pharmakeia” he said, as I fully stepped out of the car.

“Of course,” I said, “I hope I don’t need to get rid of you” his brows met, then smirked, “Try me” he said,

“We will, follow me. Caleb ask everybody to leave the mansion, we will not enter the mansion until its empty” I got my gun from my legs and pulled the trigger, he looked at me as if he already anticipated it.

JAMES LINDEN

MARCH 11, 2017

She pulled the trigger, damn this hot lad, she’s ready to kill me and after a few minutes Caleb signaled Amary that the mansion has been emptied. She gestured me to enter the mansion by her head, she’s still wearing her all black dress and coat, a black high boots, that makes her a terrifying Amary,

She walked to the marbled floor, her boots makes a tip tap spund, as we entered the mansion and I followed her we went to the right side underneath the staircase where a normal looking wall resides. She then looked at me, she placed her hands on the middle and suddenly the corners of the door lit,

Damn,

It was an elevator, “Come in James” she said, I took a deep breath and entered. “Pharmakeia,” she said,

“My father owns a very shady business,” she spoke, as her back is the only thing I face as she spoke “I believe so, this is way too cool though” I commented to lighten up the moment, she chuckled thankfully.

“So, what’s this shady business?” I asked, still not sure of how this drug producing business really looks like,

“You’ll see” she said, after a short while the elevator door opened leading to a dark room. We stepped outside as she pushed a button near the elevator door that caused the place to light up and damn,

I guess this is the biggest drug producing factory I have seen in my entire three years of being assigned to people related to drugs, no wonder it took us a long time to discover this. I was right, but I have to pretend clueless,

“Woah, is this the factory your company uses to create new parts for your ships?” I asked, still amazed, yes I am honestly amazed,

“No silly,” she removed her coat leaving her a thing strapped straight black dress that falls to her knees,

“We, James Linden, produces the highest quality of drugs all over the world. This 8 hectare of land, the underground is a drug producing factory” she looked at me, she grabbed one chair and sat in front of me as I was still in astonishment, I hope the boys are getting all this.

“Amary, are you serious?” I asked as I observed the whole place, big tanks, big materials, I don’t even know what to think anymore or what these machines are called.

“That’s why I told you, you should be ready” she spoked, I took a deep breath and smirked,

“You need not to use that gun, your father, he did gave me some hints already.” Amary’s brows curled to my response, she got up, grabbed a cigar from the pocket of her coat and sat back down waiting for me to continue,

“Your father told me that he is trusting me because of my knowledge towards drugs since I was a graduate of pharmacy” that’s true but as I study pharmacy I also trained as a secret agent,

“He asked for my help by saying, Pharmakeia needs you in the future, Pharmakeia is my underground business but my protective skills is what captured him the most to pick me as your fiancée” I grabbed a chair and sat down,

“He told me to take care of you and our business but the rest to why and how this business runs is for you to tell me” I said to Amary.

“I will tell you tomorrow, I guess I need not to use this gun” she turned around and shot straight to the darkness, she turned the lights on to that area, walked to it to as if there was a paper target to its side hanging,

She got it and handed it to me, impressive, indeed impressive, I quickly got the gun from her hand and swiftly placed her to my arms as if I held her a hostage.

I took aim of the second paper target and shot it three times exactly at the bull’s eye. “Who are you James Linden” she asked, as I removed her from my grip, and made her twist to my gaze making her catch her breath,

“Just a guy who lost his father” I said,

“Amary Anthur, if this is what your father entrusted me to, tell me, you make me understand why? You people are incredibly successful in your ship building company,” I asked, she removed herself from my warm body and awkwardly fixed her hair,

“Aside from the fact that if I will not understand it you’ll execute me.” I said, she chuckled quite malevolently and looked at me thru her peripheral sight,

“It’s difficult to explain everything without you seeing it, but for now I want you to learn our business, James Linden, and in five days I will give you the answer that you are looking for” she said, this girl do loves thrills,

“You do love giving days as a collateral to your family’s secrets” I said, she again gave me an evil grin,

“You do not right away kill your prey James Linden, you also have to play with them” she said in her husky voice,

“Then I’ll play with you, Amary Anthur. You’ll never know who the prey is” I smirked at her then she rolled her eyes,

“Okay Mr. husband to be, if you survive” she said, she signaled me to come close to her, I grabbed the cigar she was holding and killed it by my foot.

“Uhhh?!” she complained,

“You will also have to lessen your usage of cigar, I want a healthy wife, your brain will deteriorate because of that, I don’t want you going dumb don’t we?” I asked her as we walked to the halls of this drug factory,

“Damn Linden, you are one of a kind” she said, she showed me around the factory and I was overwhelmed,

“Do you do drugs? I mean do you use them?” I asked out of pure curiosity,

“As ironic as it is, I don’t Linden, but I use weeds, the high quality one, we also produce them but you’ll only see them after five days” she said, I rolled my eyes at her and sighed,

“So many surprises in this family,” I said, but “I like it,” I smiled at her, she looked at me with her eyes squinting, damn, I have to hold my heart on this, Amary is way too beautiful that my eyes are falling in love with her,

“This is where the finished product comes out then it will be pulverized by that big machine, then voila it’s finished and ready to travel the world to the brains of addicts.” I reacted mockingly at her reply as she gestured the way you inhale drugs,

“How about those drugs that are injected you know, those kinds?” she nodded for a while as I asked, she again gesture me to follow her with her index finger,

“This factory is way too big, we produce every kind, any kind, and all kinds of drugs, party drugs, murderous drugs, drugs that can make you incredibly insane, drugs that can make you see demons and drugs that can make you feel numb” she said as we continued roaming around the factory,

“Here is where we produce liquid types of drugs, you probably know a lot from this that’s why I’m no longer giving you elucidation about each drugs, upon my research about you, you where the head of the pharmaceuticals that your family owns so just by one look you probably know it already. I believe that’s the reason my father chose you, it’s because of your skills, knowledge and talents when it comes to drugs.”

“There’s nothing really impressive about me, there are so many others out there who are more knowledgeable than me. I have been quite busy being a nomad really, exploring the world, travelling and I was just forced by my brother to come to your birthday and the turn of events and me being here right now is still quite a bizarre scenario” thinking about it, it really is bizarre,

“I understand where you are coming from but I believe yeah, you being a trained fighter might be a great addition. My father wouldn’t just marry me off with some guy” gesturing as if she was kind of, annoyed.

After a tour to this grand factory to be subjected as a façade of Anthur’s company I was surely overwhelmed. “Does this house has anymore surprising traits like specialized cctv and stuff like that? Because that would be cool” I said, I need to learn the security features of this house.

“No, my father wants the house a normal home but the underneath a topnotch secret so yeah, just imagine if your house has those kinds of stuff, we’ll become more suspicious. We only have cctv’s that are placed in the front, sides and exits of the house” She said, her stomach suddenly grumbled, her both hands suddenly held her stomach,

“Seems like the Amary with spiky thorns is hungry” I said mockingly,

“How can you be so cool about this?” she asked, she cleared her throat and looked at me,

“I don’t know but the turn of events made me overthink, your father also gave me quite tons of hints when we conversed the night of your birthday I just didn’t uhm, want to jump into conclusions but to be honest I didn’t expect it to be this huge.” I said as I followed her since she started walking in the middle of my statement,

“I wasn’t surprised as well that I didn’t have to kill you, although I did anticipated this somehow that you already have an idea, you’re smart and please do not tell this to anybody, I guess you already know that.” She said as we entered the enormous wooden door giving us an entrance to the magnificent kitchen that has the Greek vibes,

“Sit,” she said, she grabbed a stock pot and poured it half full I believe, “Need help?” I asked, but she carried it without effort and placed it on fire,

“No thanks, let’s change clothes first and please be back here in 10 minutes, water’s probably boiling by then so yep, I’ll cook something nice as reward for not being killed today” wow, just wow, I chuckled at her silliness and bad ass attitude as we both walked to our rooms and separated paths when we went inside our own rooms, I changed into a comfortable sweat shorts, a white shirt and some slippers then I went out and waited for her to come out.

She got out wearing a black tank tops and a red cargo short, damn it, as I was scanning her from head to toe I noticed that she had a tattoo on her right upper leg.

“It’s a rose with veins and thorns, then I added details like this wolf,” she said, she pulled the side of her short a bit higher to show it to me, “It goes until my waist, it took 3 months to finish this,” she said proudly,

“Such a bad girl,” I said, I rolled my eyes and placed both my hands on the pockets of my sweat short as we both walked downstairs to the kitchen,

“Sit, just be there” I nodded. I turned my phone on and started watching some movies while she cooks, after a few minutes someone knocked on the door,

“Oh, hey Bryant” she said, as the old man enters I stood up, “This is Caleb’s father, my father’s aide, Bryant, he’s the new part of the pack, James Linden” I extended my hand for a shake hand, he did shook mine without removing his eyes from me,

“Sir” I said, “it’s nice meeting you James, Henry chose you for your skills in medicine, I believe you have been saved from your execution” Bryant said as he leaned on the wall, “she’s cooking, survivor’s soup” he added signaling to Amary, I chuckled,

“Don’t worry its edible” he said teasing Amary, “Heeeey! No badmouthing of my artwork!” My eyes widened, “Good luck” he said, he exited the door chuckling as I sat here frozen, I looked at her and she suddenly looked like a witch making a sick potion,

“Don’t worry, it tastes good, really, I don’t know, it’s just that I love cheese and people here doesn’t” she said, quite in a sad tone, she kept on mixing whatever she was cooking and it unexpectedly smelled good,

I saw her place shredded chicken meat, cheese, pesto, it actually looks good and smells good,

“My daddy always says he likes it, but yeah he’ll drink a glass of water then champagne to remove the taste from his mouth. I just appreciate that he eats this whenever he comes home safe from you know transactions” she said, she’s actually pretty nice is she like bipolar or something,

“You got tons of freckles” I said,

“Yeah, it’s ugly” she said as she sat across of me and scanning her chest,

“No, no, no, It looks perfect” I said, thank God I removed my earpiece and lens or else this will be my doom, damn I am doomed for finding this lady attractive, I am doomed,

She gave me a half smile, “Thanks,”

She poured me one bowl of the soup she made, “It’s actually an Italian Pesto Soup. I once visited this family in a provincial area in Italy, they were very sweet and welcoming and they cooked me this and that was the time my father sent me there because I was becoming quite a bad girl, when I came back here in the United States I kept on cooking this soup like how Morisette, the mother of the household cooked it,” I listened to her as she gave me a soup spoon and a glass of warm water,

“Thanks,” she sat across me and started to dig in, I did too, it may not look that appetizing since the ingredients weren’t properly chopped but it smells inviting,

I started to take a sip, as the tasted invades my palette, damn, it tasted amazing! “Are those guys kidding you? Like seriously, this is an amazing pesto soup” I said, I finished the whole bowl and she was in all smiles.

“Wow, you’re the first person to ever enjoy my soup” she said with her face looking at me all astonished,

“I don’t know, it tasted perfect for me. Honestly” I said, I drank a half glass of water then watched her as she finished her soup,

“Tomorrow, we’ll have to train. In 20 days, we’ll be leaving, but you will only know the details of our departure after 5 days, when you already know the reason behind our shady business.” I nodded at her as she cleaned up the table,

“Where are your maids?” I asked,

“This is off limits to them, it used to be my mother’s favorite spot, no one else can cook here aside from me and my father yeah,” she grabbed the scrunchie from her right hand and pulled her hair up in a messy bun,

Damn I just died,

“I-I am privileged then to be able to taste the soup” she smiled at me, I stood up, “I’d consider that a thank you, James. Go and rest. Good night” she said, I gave her a faint smile because I know she’s stopping herself from crying, but for some reason I don’t want to comfort her,

“Good night Amary,” I said before exiting the kitchen,

“Good night, James”