chapter 3

when i reached the most luxurious third floor my heart started to race for no reason. I could see seven men sitting, five muscular men dressed in black suits standing along with our manager. In all there were thirteen men plus Jack fourteen and counting John made fifteen.

'Holy Molly Alicia was the only girl among them, poor her but why would they need a girl over there, jack and John would have handled everything. Now I'm stuck with them but luckily i know two men in there maybe John is still taking care of Alicia. why the manager looked as if he got constipation?'

while i approached nearer,the bodyguards became more alert and one of them stopped me. I froze at my place and i looked around to see if he was actually stopping me or someone else but no doubt it was me. The five bodyguards looked almost the same you can identify them by the hair and skin tone. They had same clothes, shoes, goggles, height, body shapes. The light skin tone who is balb took steps towards me.

He touched my shoulders, hands, ribs and when he put his hands on my stomach i didn't realise my action, my hand automatically raised up and kissed his left cheek. I slapped him so hard that it echoed in the room and his goggle flew away from his eyes. Everyone stopped at what they were doing and looked at my direction except one person. His back was still facing me.

i didn't know what happened to me, when i felt this man hand touching me i felt disgusted all because of that Ben Afroz. That horrible memories played in my mind, my screamed, my pain, my tears, my anger, my helpless, by remembering all of these i did this action even i was shocked. I saw the manager slapped himself on his forehead. Jack had a worried expression on his face while others stared at me coldly, i couldn't see the reaction of the other bodyguards as they had goggles and that man who hasn't faced me yet. At last i looked at that man i just slapped, I got a murderous vibes from him.

I bit my lips so hard in nervousness that i tasted a little dropped of blood on my tongue.

"Mr Bob do you think we came in a circus and what kind of employees you have kept, one dared to throw coffee on me now look another crazy woman slapping my bodyguard." A young man around 26th shouted at the manager. He has a blonde straight hair and it's long till his neck, he's round like a potato. He was the one who slapped Alicia, i wanted to take a knife and peeled his skin but it seemed i had a bigger problem than that.

"Maeva Reeds, apologize to this man, right now!" Manager Bob tried to sound firm with his words unfortunately we all noticed the fear behind it.

I looked down and clenched my fists, "Im...I'm sorry Mr Bob but it wasn't my fault. This guy touched me without my consent."

"without consent? Are you kidding me? Everyone look at this cheap middle class shit, she doesn't even know the difference between touching and checking. Miss for your kind information my bodyguard was just checking if you didn't have any weapons, poison, bomb hidden somewhere inside of you, afterall we have a thousand of enemies." The potato guy tried to humiliate me but i wasn't going to accept defeat.

'Ah, Alicia I'm doing this for you girl and just pray i don't get buried here itself.'

I definitely was afraid but not as much compared to that rapist. Ben knew my weakness and he used it as a weapon against me, luckily these dudes didn't know and that's why i was able to face them a little bravely.

"Excuse me sir, there are many ways of checking and your man used his hands which means he touched me. So for me a man touching a woman without her permission is called harassment. From now on you must also keep some female bodyguards like that you won't get to see drama or feel to be in a circus. But as i can see you all seem to be uncomfortable with women so better take my advice, buy some machine detectors for your bodyguards, I'm sure you'll be able to afford for these afterall you're so rich."

It took me a lot of courage to say those lines and while i was talking Bob was signaling me to shut my mouth.

"You! You bitch!" Mr potato pointed his fat finger at me, if he could spit out fire he would have surely burned me, "Do you even know who is standing in front of you, I'm Fabio Elton the owner of this place!"

And 'boooom' the bomb finally exploded, i felt the earth slipped away from my feet.

"No...it can't be." i shook my head not being able to believe what I've heard.

"what do you mean it can't be! I am the owner and i fired you!"

'He can't be the owner, Grace told me she heard people talking about how handsome he is, the effect he has on people but this Fabio is neither breath taking nor i feel the electricity nor he held the power that Ben was talking about. What's going on here?'

"Miss Maeva Reeds, did you hear what i said, You're Fired!" His unpleasant voice shook my eardrums.

'You're fired, you're fired, you're fired.' This kept ringing in my ears.

"No!" i shouted, "you can't fire me, you impostor, fraud. You can't be the owner infact you're not, the real owner is an Italian MAFIA, he's extremely handsome like a Greek God and very powerful but you, look at you Mr Fabio you don't look like this in any angle, you...you look like a sack potato."

Everyone looked as if i have pointed gun on their forehead, 'Maeva where did you go wrong?'

"H..how know, wh..who told?" Fabio didn't know how to put his words before talking, he was gagging.

I heard the creaked of a chair, the man who was sitting silently all this time finally stood up, he fixed his suits with his hands and then his watch. Everyone attention was on him.

"You're right, he's not the real owner but how did you know this, do you know the owner personally?" He asked.

woah! His voice sent chilled down my spine it held so much power, it is so firmed and so manly.

"I...i...i was just blabbering like that, well i had my doubts on him because i have heard people talking about how the owner personality is and this Fabio was not even 1 percent near it."

"Hmm, anyway don't worry your job is still secured." He said

"but Ace you promised..," Fabio started to protest and i could see the man raised his hand near his mouth and i heard "ssshhh! "

Fabio looked down disappointingly. 'It's so enjoyable to see him like this afterall all boss has its boss.'

"Gentleman the meeting is over." He said and turned to walk away.

'Thump, thump thump!' My heart rate started to beat uncontrollably when i finally got to see him.

His hair so dark and spiky, he has bristly eyebrows, brown almond shape of eyes with so much depth in it which complexed his fair skin, he has a defined cheekbones, concrete jaws, sharp nose, Titan's shoulders, so dishy.

He moved with a leopard-like grace and when he passed near me an earthly scent swirled around him, i felt like fainting. He smiled and that was it to make my nose bleed.

He furrowed his eyebrows at me, he took out something from his pocket and handed it in my hand. It was his handkerchief, i was surprised by his kindness.

"You're something and I will go deep in it to find out what is it, till then take good care of yourself... Miss Maeva." I was dumbfounded, my body had given up on me i couldn't even thank him, i watched him walking away till i couldn't see his shadow.

"ha." I released my breath which i was holding for so long and obviously i didn't wiped my bloody nose with such an expensive piece of cloth. I found some tissues on the table.

"Maeva are you crazy?" Jack hit me lightly behind my head.

"what! i didn't do anything wrong."

"Really, you just escaped from being hunt by this pack of wolf." He said dramatically.

"Yeah and a vampire king just saved me from them." I mocked him and he rolled his eyes at me.

"Sadly this vampire king didn't save Alicia, I'm going to check on her, you're coming?"

"You go ahead i will freshen up and come."

I sniffed his handkerchief, 'God, even this piece of cloth can make me faint.' i looked at it then my eyes landed on the printing 'ACE ELTHON.' So he's related to this potato Fabio, Who can this Ace Elton be? I hope we meet again. It's the first time I'm showing interest in a boy maybe we can be friends but i know if Ben finds out what I'm thinkig he will kill me.' He didn't like when i befriended with guys, he didn't know about Jake and John, they never called me or text me, if they are worried about me they tell either Grace or Alicia to call and check on me.

'when will i get my freedom?'

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ACE

"Ace what's wrong with you? You promised your dad you will give me this coffeehouse and every deals being done here i will be the one handling it, how could you do this to me? Sign the documents right here the guys are still here so they can sign it also." Fabio said desperately.

Fabio desperation made my doubts on him confirmed, he was definitely up to something. I needed a reason to not sign this deal today and both girls helped me unknowingly especially that little white sheep. I was impressed with the slapped she gave that guy and the earful words she said to Fabio. I was watching everything through that mirror hanging infront of me on the ceiling. I saw her looked at my way a lot of times, if she would have noticed the mirror she would have definitely see me earlier.

What she said next made me more alert.....

"Fabio don't worry we'll fixed it soon, the contract is not going to run anywhere, i have more important things to do, i took out time for you but you were more interested in wasting it by showing those girls their places. It's not my fault, excuse me now i need to attend another meeting, important one."

Before sitting in the car I warned him, " I know you must be blaming thoes two ladies and thinking of seeking revenge but let me make it clear to you, till I'm the owner you shouldn't even dared to touch a single hair of them, on that note see you later brother!" I could see him exploding with rage anyway who cares?

"Boss, this lady Maeva do you think she's a spy?" Ethan asked.

Ethan is my only driver, my right hand man, he knows everything about me even more than my parents know.

"Even i was thinking about that, i want you to find out everything about her, every details of her daily life and if she turns out to be a spy then she better start to dig her own grave to be buried alive."