Chapter 29

Damien POV

I come home early from Europe to see Rhea and hopefully patch things up with her. Things have been so tense between us and I cannot take it anymore. I need her more than she will ever know.
I do have other women that are business partners and at one point they were always bed partners but that is no more. I only want Rhea. I fear Soul has her wrapped around his little finger and trying to manipulate her. I think she would be to naïve to see what he is doing to her. He will let her think she is in control and he will be pulling the strings all the while.
Soul has a bad habit of taking women who are on top of the world and using them for his own sick twisted game. They will not even know they are playing his game until it is too late to get away from him. He has this draw that pulls them in and makes them want to serve him.
I need to see her. I need to talk to her. I need to explain myself to her and Soul’s game. She will be crushed by him if I do not stop him from his twisted little game. I arrive at my house and her car is gone. She is with him, I know it.
I go into the house and leave my luggage for my butler to collect. From what I understand Rhea hired a new one. I wonder if she is fucking him too. I go into the house and up the stairs to check her room.
I go into her room and it is clean and untouched. I wonder where she has been staying at night or maybe she cleaned this room really well. Who knows with her right now. She is off her rocker.
I take my phone out of my pocket and call her. To my surprise she answers it.
“Where are you?” I ask her.
“I am in the cottage working,” she replies and then hangs up on me.
I run down the stairs and out the back door. I sprint across the grounds to the cottage. I open the door and there she is working. “Where is your car?” I ask her.
“In the shop,” she answers. “I was worried about you when I saw it gone,” I say.
“You were worried or upset that you cannot control me and my where abouts?” Rhea asks.
“I was worried, Rhea. I have been very worried that is why I am home. I wanted to make sure you are okay,” I say to her.
“I do not think you are worried at all. I think you might be worried about Soul and I but there is nothing there to worry about. It is just business,” Rhea says.
“Just business. So you are not fucking him and his women,” I ask her.
“Damien, I am not sure what has gotten in to you but jealously does not look good on you at all,” Rhea says.
“I am jealous. I have a lot of feelings for you Rhea and I do not want you to fuck around and get tangled up with Soul,” I say.
“Tangled up with Soul! You have me writing his contracts and now you do not want me to get tangled up with him,” Rhea says.
“Rhea, why don’t you take the afternoon to read up on Soul and the things he has done to women he keeps. As a matter of facts, you should ask Number one why she stays and don’t take no for an answer. The truth will have you seeing red,” I say to her.
“Why don’t you just tell me,” Rhea asks.
I sit down on the side of her desk. “He has you does he? He has you under his skin and in his bed? Answer me Rhea!” I say to her.
“Why would I tell you anything about Soul and I?” Rhea asks me.
I go behind the desk and grab her by the arms. I shake her and begin to scream at her. I cannot help myself. She has really fucked up. “You have no idea what kind of devil you are playing with him. He will eat you alive and have you serving him for eternity,” I scream.
“Devil, he is a devil isn’t her?” Rhea asks.
“Yes, Soul is a devil. Soul is a pure evil and you walked right into his trap,” I say to her.
Rhea sits down and shakes in her chair. “What do I do?” Rhea asks.
“Do the job I pay you to do and stop fucking him!” I say to her.
“I am sorry,” Rhea says.
I go over to the cabinet labeled Soul. I pull out a handful and slam them on to her desk. “Read these and tell me what you think about your precious friend Soul,” I say to her.
I walk through the office to go into my office. “Oh and Rhea, Do not ever try to crawl into bed with me again. From now on we are employee and employer,” I say to her.
I go into my office and leave her to go through the file. I did not give her the bad ones. The ones I gave her will make her skin crawl. Soul is a wicked man. She has no idea what she has done or what I will have to do to protect her from him and his harem. She thought she was in control but she is not in control of anything not even her body. He took what he wanted from her and now he wants more. He wants her soul.
I can hear Rhea crying from her office. She is going through the files. I hear an occasional gasp and hear sobs coming from her office. When she gets to Number ones file she might lose her mind. It is really a sad story but there is nothing I can do to help number one she is his forever. She can never leave her devil. She is stuck in an evil contract that never ends. It ends on paper but it never really ends. If number one wanted to leave she would have to leave her soul behind to live out her life without it.
“No!” Rhea screams from her office. She has found number ones contract and all the paperwork. I told her it was bad. Rhea starts throwing things and having a meltdown.
I go to the door between her office and mine. It hurts me to see her this way. I thought I would bring her here and rescue her from that awful place she worked. I could give her money and a good job. I did not mean for her to get tangled up with Soul.
Maybe some of this is my fault. I wanted to love her and make her mine and here we are. I am watching her have a meltdown over a women she barely knows. She is hurting. I should go to her. I rush over to Rhea and put my arms around her while she sobs for number one.
“Are you okay?” I ask her.
“Hell NO!” Rhea screams. She kicks and screams. She is having a hard time excepting the terms of the agreement she just read between Soul and Number One.
“Why would she agree to all of this? I do not understand! She is so beautiful and such a good woman,” Rhea sobs.
I hold her tightly. I love this woman. She only sees the good in people even a devil like Soul. She can not be faulted for what happened. It is not her fault. He had her under some sort of spell. I will forgive and help her help the woman. Maybe she can help them get out of his hell that he puts them into every day. I cannot do anything. I am bound by my own contract. I cannot touch Soul.
Rhea can touch him. Rhea can stop him. I think it is time Rhea meets my witch. My sweet witch has been working so hard to put a stop to Soul. Nothing has worked so far, but with Rhea on our side maybe the two of them can stop him. It is worth a shot any way. What would it hurt to let Rhea meet my little witch. I know i will have to tell her things i am not ready to share. But I have to take a hit on this. I have to reveal myself to her completely or these womens numbers will keep growing. Rhea could be the answer to getting all of them out of this devilish contract once and for all. I have to give it a shot.
"Rhea, dry it up. I have to take you to see the witch," I say to her. Rhea gets up and follow me out of the room. We have to take care of this now. I have to protect Rhea.