Dangerous Affair

Chapter 17

Nick

"Hey don't be rude, you shouldn't be this way with your favorite cousin," Marcel pushes me back, slamming my back on the wall and a low growl escapes my lips, I clench my fist at his audacity and click my tongue with my head slightly tilted. "Hi, Nick. I know you must have missed me. So tell me what are you still doing here? You should be home enjoying your lonely life like you always do."

Marcel has been evil since we were little. He likes seeing others aside his family suffer, it's like it gives him joy just to see others miserable. I know who put the rumours out there and what he wants to achieve but I am definitely not going to let him win this time. Despite the meeting we had today, I failed to get the board on my side and they f*****g had the nerves to threaten my position in my company.

I shoot him a cold glare and pull away from the monster. There's no difference between the board members and Marcel, they're all evil and I am sure that Marcel promised them something in return for the support they've been giving him lately. Those f*****g monsters made mother a laughing stock in the company and succeeded in throwing her out of the mansion. Mother suffered and was mocked by her family and everyone around her till she died, I may have been little when it all happened but I can still remember the details. They will stop at nothing just to see me down but I am not my mother and I certainly don't need Father to believe in me to pull this off.

I am a product of shame, so they say— a child birthed by a pauper who found her way into father's heart.

He never stood up for his wife when she tried to make a difference. Up till now, I hate father for letting mother die.

The one reason I want this badly is to make my mother proud whenever she is right now. They must not get away with it.

No one is allowed to dim my light— not even Marcel.

"You should be home, Marcel," I clear my throat and cough right in his face and he turns away feeling disgusted by my actions. "This is my company and I can do whatever I want with it. Do you have a problem with that?" I challenge the bastard.

"Hmm!" He scoffs.

Marcel has the most annoying smirk dancing on his lips and I glare at the bastard, he's always getting on my nerves and the more I see him, the more it hurts to know that my own family wants me down. I get to fight them over the company and put up with rumors of me being infertile and abusive. I get to hear the title daily ‘Product of shame’ and all this is coming from this bastard who won't just leave me the f**k alone.

"You should watch your back, dear cousin," he pulls close and whispers in my ear. "I don't want any bad news on your way home. The only reason you are not dead yet is because of your father and his influence. You don't want the old man feeling bruised and eventually gives up on life, do you"

"The f*****g nerves!" I thunder and he gives off a soft chuckle right in my face to piss me off even more. "You are crossing the line Marcel. You have no f*****g idea what I can do to you…. You see this f*****g fight you have started between us, you better get ready for the outcome because I, Nicolas Shark, the heir to the Shark's dynasty will make you pay and suffer in ways you can never imagine, so watch your back, dearest cousin."

"I will like to see you try, Nicolas. You are nothing but all talk. Just watch how I destroy you in this company. I will make sure you regret ever going against me. It's only a matter of time you end up like your miserable mother. You both deserve each other in the afterlife."

"You bastard!" I roar and before he can say another word, I slam his face so hard that blood starts slipping his nose and he falls to the ground. "You don't ever talk about my mother that way, do you understand me?!"

"You fool!" Marcel screams, his hands covering his nose and he growls in deep pains. "You are going to pay for this, I promise you that. I will make you suffer just like the company did to your slut of a mother," he splits a mouthful of blood on my face and pushes me aside as he storms out like an angry bird. "Just wait and see what happens to you next. I will keep coming for your sorry ass till you give up on life," he screams as he paces the hallway and slams his fist on the wall like a bloody lunatic.

"That f*****g bastard," I hiss and wipe my face with the handkerchief from my breast pocket and slowly walks away without looking back.

*

I open the door to my mansion and there she lies hopeless on the stairs and a slight grin curls on my lips. I look to the side, hoping to find a different route but there is none and I graciously runs my fingers through my hair and exhale. deeply.

"Tessa…." I call and she turns back immediately to face me, her eyes are swollen.

My face scrunches at her appearance and I bite my lips to hold back the anger in me. Tessa looks beaten and if there's one thing I hate so much is abusing other people— especially the women in my life.

"Who did this?!" I ask in a thunderous tone but she just stands still and her legs start shaking like some jelly beans. "Are you going to tell me who did this or not?"

"It's nothing," she pulls away but the anger in me won't let this slide, I grab her hand and she jolts.

"You are taking me to whoever did this," I say.