What Now?

Sebastian



I slammed my fist on the desk unable to focus on anything other than the face of the one woman— Athena.

It was not supposed to be like this, I was not supposed to be thinking of her all day long. There were so many important tasks for me to fulfil and here I was, sitting here for the past few hours and looking at the scattered papers in front of me, yet not being able to figure out why was I exactly doing this.

However, it was unavoidable to not of her when it was about her safety that concerned me so much.

Motherfucking Vicent Thompson was trying to hurt my mate. That bloody bastard!

Even though our enmity started because of his want of taking revenge on my damn father which to be honest I thought was fair but over the years I have gathered enough reasons to kill this guy. I'd never killed any innocent...in my perception.

People's views and mine were different. How could someone be called innocent if they are willing to lie to cover up their misdeeds?

Loyalty is rewarded but, mistakes done in the right mind and with sole control is fucking depravity.

I believe— Someone working for you or around you, claiming to be loyal, should be loyal as dogs if not then there is no reason to keep them alive. No matter how many times those bloody parasites apologise or come up with different promises, they should not be spared — Snakes only sheds skin to become bigger snakes.

For me, it is always one mistake...one mistake that'll decide the fate of my victims. I never gave second chances.

I'd tried making amends with Vincent but that nefarious being did not just want all these to end.

However, It was not because of any guilt, or pity— The reason was I never let anyone's dept stay over me. The condition of Vicent and his family was the result of one of many crimes Elijah committed during his lifetime, and I did not prefer to be held responsible for any of his vices.

I knew what kind of person my father was and though, for a long time, I did not have the exact idea of what he did to Draco and his family, when I finally learned about it, I offered to give Vicent his business that I took over after he faced a huge loss but his ego was too much to let him think straight. He ended up getting into real estate, and with the lack of cash and proper business models and supervision, he ended up failing there as usual and was eventually left bankrupt.

It was then that I thought he have finally gotten out of his haze where he was confident that he could destroy me, but I was wrong. He planned a meeting with me after a few days after his last business loss and there he planned his dirty game to kill me, but that failed because I dodged the bullet and it accidentally hit Hailey, his wife who had only rushed there to stop the hazard from happening.

Unfortunately, that pregnant woman died because of her husband's fault. And Vicent deserved to go through the loss, but it was true that Hailey did not deserve to die like that.

So, it was clear as water to me why Vincent wanted to target Athena. Not only did he want to take revenge on me but also he planned on snatching Athena from me because his mate was snatched away from him.

But he did not know that this was the biggest mistake of his life— I can tolerate anything but not someone who'd try to take my property away from me. Athena was mine— Her body, soul and mine, everything was mine. None was allowed to even look at her except for me, let alone touch her or worse... hurt her.

Vincent have made a very big mistake, he might not even be able to imagine how I was going to kill him. I'd leave not even one drop of blood left in his body. The day I get to catch him was going to be the last day of his life.

Sudden rage attacked me from every side once the remembrance of the last day flashed in front of my eyes.

I was so close to catching that motherfucker but he managed to get away. I'd almost beaten him to death but Aaron's aim at Vincent missed and the bullet hit the gas Cylinder that eventually made the explosion eliminate the entire house.

Somehow I managed to save myself from the deadly destruction so did Aaron who made it out of there much faster because he was at the doorway, but amidst these happening that bastard Vincent escaped from the window.

His damn luck! If it was not for that explosion, he would have been long gone from this earth.

My rage began crawling up higher and higher to the point where I could barely control it. And the last thing I could afford right now was to lose my shit.

And there was only one solution to all my problems— Athena Campbell. That woman was the way to my peace, I needed her close to me. So I just did what I had to, I called one of the maids.

"Tell Athena that I want her in my study."




Athena


I did not precisely remember, how long  I was actually standing on the balcony and searching for some sort of assurance in the calming breezes. There were dense clouds everywhere around the sky, it could be easily mistaken as the near afternoon or even near evening, if I was not aware of the fact it could have only been one or two hours since I woke up.

Surprisingly, within this period I discovered another interesting fact— I'd begun to crave Sebastian's presence.

It was really very ironic of me to want a man like him to be close to me, but the denial was not going to change the truth.

We both have faced our own demons in life. In fact, if I compared, we'd be almost equal in the miseries we'd faced. Yet I was willing to give life another chance and Sebastian on the other hand, wanted to snatch that opportunity away.

Our fears were the same, but in different forms and build in distinct circumstances. He did much worse to me than I had, in reality, I did nothing to him. The whole time I only born all his tortures and sadistic craving he satisfied using both my body and soul.

Then why? Was his curse too hard to let go or was it that he just too weak from within to actually let it go? Either way, I did not have any way to figure it out, because Sebastian was a mystery none can solve but himself.

The damage from the past was not easy to heal.

Before my thoughts could proceed further, there was a sudden knock on the door.

I walked to the room from the balcony, knowing that it could never be the person I was anticipating, knocking on the door was never his way of entering the room, his arrival always screamed authority; It always told me that knew that this place and me, both were his property.

My eyes fell on the maid standing at the entrance of the room. It turned out that I did not need to question her about her sudden interruption because she spoke for herself.

"Mam, Alpha wants you in his study. Right now." She informed.

"But I thought he did not want anyone to disturb him today," I spoke, both curious and confused.

"I don't know, mam. I am letting you know what Alpha has told me," Her eyes did not remove even for a second from the floor.

"Okay, you can go now. I can make my way there."

She left without needing to be told twice.

Well....I did not need to be told twice too because I was aware of the consequences of defying Sebastian very well.