Chapter 24

“Kaiser, but it’s just been three weeks since I started having sex with you.”

I tucked my hair on the right side of my head, knowing it was a seductive action. In my head, I already formed an idea. For whatever interest my boss had over me, it was to my gain.

“So what?” Kaiser huffed.

“You have Griselda. Who is she to you?” I feigned jealousy.

“She’s my cousin.”

I almost choked on my own saliva hearing what he said. 

“Yes, Gri is my cousin. We aren’t supposed to have relations with each other, because we are deeply related. Our fathers are brothers.”

“So, meaning to say, she’s a Klef?”

I didn’t know much about his roots since Klef was a rare surname to have. When Griselda blew Kaiser off on the plane, I expected them to be lovers. With the jealousy she exhibited towards me, I expected it to be more than that. But he had authority over her, suggesting some kind of relationship between them.

“Yes. And I didn’t f*ck her. She only used her mouth.”

That seemed to be a lot for a newcomer like me to know. Unless Kaiser had been planning it all along. Did he know something about me that led me to him? I thought about the flight, but then he started moving again after a long pause, disrupting my thoughts. I let out a shrill moan, digging my fingernails deep inside my back as I felt him thrusting harder and harder inside me. 

Finally, we both came together, and I collapsed on the bed, wasted. 

“So, Piper?” His domineering stare compelled me for an answer.

“Can I say no?” I smiled sweetly, crossing my arms over my chest. He pulled them apart, bearing holes into my eyes with imaginary spears.

“Piper, I know what you want. You want revenge against Lenard Lee. Trust me, I am the only one who can lead you to him. If you satisfy my needs, I promise you that not only you can have your revenge, we can destroy his triad slowly. And not let off any one of your enemies.”

“How do you propose to do that?” I teased him with a flirtatious movement of my tongue over my lips. 

“Connections.”

He said it charismatically that drew me to take his words seriously, despite lacking solid proof of his claims. But contemplating his offer, I knew I had nothing to lose. He had a great sex drive and with him, I was sexually satisfied. However, I had to think of the bigger picture. If he was able to assist me in bringing down Lenard Lee and letting him have my revenge, I would be indebted to him for life.

But it all seemed too good to be true. My fate was unknown. I didn’t believe in a hundred per cent success rate. Yet, if I didn’t seize the chance, I would miss out greatly on it. I had to make the dealing quick before a new recruit stole his attention.

Why me, though? Griselda was beautiful. So were Scarlet and Shen, the new ladies who had arrived. Scarlet was even underaged, and Griselda had arranged for her to lose her innocence recently to not a client, but one of Kaiser’s connections as a practice session. Now, Jasper Lang was frequenting her.

I opened my mouth after a long while.

“Okay, I agree.”

He looked relieved. Then, I added. “On a few conditions.”

“What are they?” He immediately asked.

“The first condition is that when either of us wants to call it quits, we will.”

He nodded in agreement.

“The second is that you must help me achieve my revenge on Lenard Lee two years from now. Or once I feel I’m ready.”

“This is a tough one, but okay.” He held my hand to his chest. “You have my word.”

“The last condition is that you must tell me everything that I need to know. I don’t tolerate secrets. Also, I’m a petty person.”

He laughed. “What secrets are you talking about here, Piper? Haven’t I already told you about Griselda?”

“That’s not all. How do you know about me and why do you want me?” I asked confidently, tousling my hair. He released my arms and pushed me under him, observing me devilishly.

“Trust me, Piper, I’ve wanted you for a very long time. I wanted to f*ck you right on that plane. But I had to get you slowly. That’s why I gave you that fake newspaper.”

I froze in my doubt. “How do you know I was going to be on that plane, and how do you know everything about me?”

“The Unnamed One.”

Who… Who the heck was that?

He noticed the confusion on my face and explained, “The Unnamed One is the man who is working for us. He is Lenard Lee’s mysterious assistant, due to the similarity in their appearance. In other words, he’s a double for Lenard Lee, like a stunt double in movies.”

“Yet he works for your company?”

Kaiser nodded gravely. “He owes his life to my late father, and will not hesitate to assassinate Lenard Lee when the time comes. Trust me, Lenard Lee has a medical condition nobody knows about, except him.”

“That didn’t answer my question fully. Why me?”

“I like experienced women. You are mature and sensual, unlike the young virginal women who submit themselves to me. I hated their wailing. No one has turned me on like how you do. If only I knew you earlier, Piper, maybe that tragedy wouldn’t have happened.”

I gnashed my teeth in frustration, unwilling to let the pain from my past affect me. 

“It’s over. I will rip Lenard Lee into shreds myself if given the chance.”

“The Unnamed One told me about a particular woman whom Lenard Lee and his associate used like a tool. Not only did he share you with his associate while you were unconscious, he also passed you around like an object.”

I remembered how during my capture, I dreamt of a passionate night with Syl, before waking up naked in my cell, feeling stickiness between my legs. I had no recollection of what happened that night because of a drug administered in my drink. That incident happened a day before the gang-rape by Lenard’s men. As a result, I didn’t know what happened. Only after hearing the dialogue between Lenard’s men, did I realise he was not in town for some time.

I couldn’t believe Lee Jung had been the one to rape me that night. Jacques had come clean with me, and Lee Jung had already got what he wanted. So why had he done that heinous act on me, furthermore, while I was unconscious?

I recalled what Sherry had told me while I was pretending to be May. Lee Jung had almost had sex with her twice. Once was when she was tricked by someone he hired, believing her husband had asked her to go to a secluded spot on a beach, and the second time was while she was asleep on her hospital bed. The mental stress and anxiety she suffered almost caused her to miscarry Andrew. 

She told me this, thinking it would make me feel she was sympathetic and related to my pain. Hell no! I wouldn’t forgive her, because it was from her that I became a victim. If I had just walked by that day and left her to her own devices, then maybe I wouldn’t have fallen into this predicament! Maybe she would be Mrs Lee now, instead, and I wouldn’t be ‘that broken girl with an abused past’! She really didn’t deserve my kindness and friendship at all! That b*tch!

I was determined that Lee Jung raped me that night because he couldn’t get Sherry! And Sherry had trusted him in the end! This finding made my blood boil.

“Piper? I’m sorry.” Kaiser gently wiped a tear from my eye with his soft fingers. “I just didn’t want you to think I was keeping what I knew from you. We’ll eliminate them slowly. Trust me.”

I nodded. In the haziness of the truth that surrounded me, and without Jacques, Kaiser was the only one whose words I could trust. I kissed him passionately while cursing each of those people who hurt me, Sherry and Anderson including a slow death. I was vile now, no longer the kind and innocent Piper they knew.

First, I would make sure Sherry suffered what she deserved for the injustice I had suffered because of her. She was happy now without me, so I granted her time to count her blessings. After that, she would have to say goodbye to her blissful marriage and comfortable life.

I hatched an insidious plan to break up her happy family. I had word that she was going to get remarried to Anderson half a year after I left Bangkok. I wanted her to know my pain of never being able to conceive again. I wouldn’t use the same drugs administered to me with her. Neither would I take her womb or childbearing ability from her. 

Instead, I schemed to use contraceptives on her for a while by ganging up with her co-workers and her gynaecologist, who was my gynaecologist as well.

She would thank me because two children were too much to deal with. I would repay Anderson’s ‘kindness’ next.

One year. That was just the most I would give as a grace period to their sweet marriage. Although I would need to say ‘hello’ to Sherry first. The only thing was that I loved Andrew, being his godmother, and I was sorry he had such parents.

I smiled as I lay in Kaiser’s embrace after our long kiss. His arms granted me the warmth and strength I needed for the night. I told myself I wouldn’t let my enemies down.