Chapter 27

“Baby, that honestly was great.”

I yawned, rubbing my eyes. My entire body was tired from the indescribable amount of sex we just had in his condo. A quick glance at the wall clock informed me ‌it was four in the afternoon. The hunger that riddled me earlier was almost non-existent now. All I wanted was to just take a rest, but he kept coming again and again.

Fortunately, I didn’t have to worry about taking emergency contraception in my state.

“Can I continue my rest now?” I asked.

Kaiser laughed. “Get ready to come down in thirty minutes.”

I didn’t get what he was saying, but the haziness in my mind prompted me to just go on sleeping. I would figure it all out later once I had refreshed my energy. As he left the room, I closed my eyes and tried to sleep.

But sleep just didn’t come to me. I dreamt, unwillingly, about all those people who hurt me then and now. In my dreams, I was pretty and powerful like the antiheroes in the superheroes movies. I had my hair in two long ponytails, bleached platinum blond with bold red streaks.

Sherry was kneeling on the floor, and Lenard Lee was tied to a chair in the room, naked.

“Please, Piper, I never meant to hurt you!” I heard her plead. “I didn’t know it would come to this!”

“You didn’t hurt me, your actions did,” I declared in a no-messing-with-me domineering tone. “You were so weak, you never used your mind to think before putting yourself in danger with someone who had designs on you! That could have been avoided!”

I shouted the last sentence out loud. Sherry shook with the turbulence of my hollers.

“I.. I didn’t mean to,” she said, looking at the floor. “Lee Jung has turned over a new leaf. I trust him. He won’t ever hurt you or me again, now that he has the company!”

It infuriated me that she was pleading for someone who raped and did hurtful things to me. Especially how she trusted a man that had come that close to molesting and f*cking her while she was most vulnerable. 

I only had myself to blame for having such a weakling like her as my friend. I yelled at her and struck her in the face.

Right now, I don't care about her. If not for Andrew, I doubt I would have stuck with her for three years. Looking at Andrew made me melt. He had the most beautiful brown eyes and he was so innocent that it made me forget my pain momentarily.

That I couldn’t have a child made me just treat the boy as my own. I hadn’t realised it until the day I had to leave, that I really wished he was mine. Maybe it was because I was too distracted by everything happening to me, starting from how Lenard Lee kidnapped and raped me, that I couldn’t focus on giving him the love and attention he didn’t get from his parents. I had to force myself to leave, and at that point, I felt a part of my heart dying.

“Give up your son. You don’t deserve him.”

She crawled towards me and begged me a few more times. I flung her off.

“You’re in no position to beg.” I walked towards the end of the room and Andrew materialised. I picked him up and carried him in my arms. In the distance, Sherry cried at me for help, but gradually disappeared into the void.

I sat Andrew down in a high chair beside me, then I turned towards Lenard. He looked to be in extreme pain from the wounds inflicted on him. Even with his torture, he didn’t bother to beg me. Instead, he laughed at me evilly.

“No matter how you torture me, I’ll be back for you for revenge, Piper! I’ll provoke you until you are forced to kill me!”

I didn’t bother to answer him.Instead, I called the guards.

“Gut him and feed him to the dogs.”

The guards untied him and he began screaming wildly like an animal, but it wasn’t long before, like Sherry, he was gone as well.

I laughed evilly in triumph.

When I opened my eyes, dismay hit me to realise ‌it was just a dream. I got up and slowly put on the clothes that Kaiser had left on the table beside the bed. It was a short nightgown, and I felt naked in it, but we were in the privacy of Kaiser’s condo after all. At most, he had some female servants living with us.

Kaiser was waiting for me at the lower level of the two-floor condominium. The two floors were separated by a fancy staircase that curled like in a magical fairytale. Upstairs was where the bedrooms were, and the dining room and main hall were downstairs. The stairs took me down to the dining room immediately. 

At first, it surprised me to see a spread of food on the table. I wondered if he had whipped them up himself.

But then he said, “Alexia was in a good mood to receive you today, so…”

I observed the lack of emotion in his eyes, and then looked down at the dishes. 

“Alexia is my cook.”

I sat down and joined him for the meal. Servants then entered the dining room single-file, bringing us appetisers and snacks, along with drinks. I absorbed the conditions around me, then wondered.

Is this how the secret life of a dark CEO was like?

I had never tasted such good food in my life. In the past, I thought a sweet life with Syl was ample for me, even without much money. As long as we were happy, that all mattered. I had planned to have kids with him, be it one or five.

But that dream was over. I had woken up and come to terms with reality. Reality was that I could not be that hopeless romantic that once thought love could fill up my stomach. I was now in a position that I could not let down my guard. I had to keep going, no matter how heartless I would seem to Jacques and those whom I had a good relationship with before. I had to eliminate them from my life, because I only needed those I could benefit from.

So, I had to cut my happy memories with Jacques from my mind and bury them deep so that they would no longer impede me from my goals.

Which is what I did by giving myself up wholly to Kaiser. Whether I was his lover, his employee, his sex slave or his other woman, it didn’t matter to me.

But it was with Kaiser, that I experienced the luxuries of life. Jacques had tried to give me a safe and happy life, but it didn’t keep Lenard Lee from threatening me. 

We finished the meal in silence. Kaiser didn’t enjoy talking when he had his meal. I relished the rich taste of the meat and the sweetness of the soup that accompanied it. I wasn’t very knowledgeable in exotic cuisines, furthermore a dinner fit for a king.

“Are you satisfied?”

Kaiser had sent away all his servants for the night. As it was an apartment-based residence, they returned to the quarters in his main residence, the villa. 

“Yes, I am.” I answered him with confidence. He looked at the empty table and without hesitation, he lifted me up and placed me on it.

I didn’t need to guess to know what was happening. His fingers were gentle against every piece of me as he took me right on the table, sending thrills through my abdomen with each stroke.

“Kaiser, Kaiser” I could only moan his name. 

It seemed every spot in his home was a humping ground for me. He fit inside me so perfectly, that I felt I was in heaven. I even thought that I was losing my innocence all over again. I couldn’t even remember what happened ten years ago.

The moment he withdrew, his load splattered all over me, making me laugh at the sticky situation I was in. He was equipped handily with a pack of baby wipes, which he handed to me readily. That got me quickly out of the mess. 

“Come here, baby.”

I pulled on my nightgown to cover my bare body and followed him. He led me upstairs and then past the bedrooms to what seemed like an endless walkway. The room looked like a normal storage room but then he reached for the shelf in the corner, put his hand inside it and pulled swiftly on a small box mounted on the shelf.

The shelf moved, making way for a secret opening. My eyes gleamed with excitement as my eyes took in what stood before us. It was an entrance to his secret world. From computers bearing illicit information to the restricted weapons in his possession, instead of triggering my fear, it enamoured me greatly and tempted me further.

“Welcome to my secret life,” he whispered deeply near my ear, placing his arms on my shoulder possessively. Without a further word, he devoured my lips wildly. 

My mind was clear; I desperately wanted to be part of his secret world. Only with this power and going to the dark side could I ever have my revenge on those who hurt me.

I wouldn’t regret this decision.