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(It All Started With A Deal)
“Jasmine!” Adrian yelled and Jasmine glanced at him with anger in her eyes.
Sapphire hurriedly ran out of his office without looking back.
“How dare you, man wh-_-re?!” Jasmine yelled back, and made to slap him but he held her wrist in the air.
“Do you want a break up?” He glared with seriousness, and for a moment she felt like crying before slowly dropping her hand back.
“You always seem to hurt me, don’t you?” She fired, shaking her head negatively as Adrian went back to lean in his chair.
“I’ve told you countless times Jasmine, I’m only doing this because your father wanted me to date you. I don’t love you” He answered straightforwardly and Jasmine felt like throwing her shoe on his face.
“Adrian!” She cried out.
“I’ll meet you at home, I’m in my office and as you can see, I’m working!” He shot back with furry.
“So you’re now busy to talk to me, but you weren’t when you were with the piece of $h|t!”
Tsk!! Bang**
Adrian banged the desk loudly as he shut daggers at her. “She isn’t a piece of thing Jassy, that’s Sapphire. My Sapphire!” He corrected and he could swear that he heard her hiss and scoff.
“You are mine alone, Adrian. Only mine” She said, gritting her teeth.
She hissed and walked out angrily when he didn’t reply her instead just went back to his laptop.
••
“Oh, hmm” Sapphire released the breath she’s been holding in back there as she entered her car.
She held the driving wheel with one hand as the other one reached out to her thighs. She gasped when she felt the wetness and rivers in-between her.
She really had an 0rg@zm back there. What the hell was he doing to her?
She was about igniting the car when her phone started ringing, it was Easton calling.
“Easton?” She answered.
“Are you at home?” Easton asked from the other end, and she gulped nothing.
“Um, yeah, yeah. I am” She replied, trying not to stutter so he won’t suspect.
“I’ll be back in a few minutes” He replied and she hung up.
She ignited the car and drove away speedily.
••••
Jasmine’s Royce drove into the big estate through the help of the securities as she stepped out.
She didn’t bother responding to the greetings of the workers as she stormed straight into the house.
“Where’s dad and mom?” She asked a maid who was working.
“Upstairs ma’am” The maid replied, and she rushed upstairs instantly.
She was from a wealthy family, a family where richness never ends.
“She’s the only daughter I have Brock!” Mr Celine exclaimed.
“Isn’t she my daughter too? She’s going far away and that’s final!” Mr Brock replied, and that’s when Jasmine stepped into his suite.
“W-who is going away?” She stuttered, her legs barely standing straight on the ground with a shaky voice.
Mrs Celine stood up immediately and went to hug her.
“Baby” She snuffed.
“Dad… Who is going away?” Jasmine asked again, but Mr Brock ignored her question.
“Listen dad, I only love Adrian and it’s Adrian I will have even if it means dying for him” She clarified and Mr Brock immediately glared at her.
He stood up and went closer to her, and in the next minute, his hand met her face, giving her a resounding slap on the cheek.
“Since when did you go crazy that you didn’t tell me you need a psychiatrist?! Have you gone nuts, Jasmine!” He thundered, and Jasmine’s legs throbbed weakly.
She was always a shadow of herself when it comes to her father.
“Honey!” Mrs Celine half yelled.
“Listen, young woman! You are going out of the country, sooner or later! Your visa is being processed. I need you to go do your masters and come inherit the company!” Mr Brock said, and Jasmine shook her head with tears in her eyes.
She dropped on her feet instantly, holding her dad’s clothes.
“No, no! Dad, I don’t want to go do my masters. I want to stay here, I love New York. Dad, please!” She cried out, but Mr Brock’s mind was bent on it already.
“Your crazy obsession for Adrian has to stop! You no longer visit us like you use to. Ever since we allowed you date Adrian, you always spend more time with him and loose focus of my plans for you. You’re going to Germany, whether you like it or not!” Mr Brock replied, and walked out of his suite.
Jasmine looked up at her mom with tears and anger in her eyes.
Oh, did I forget she also has anger issues. Oh yeah, she does.
“Jasmine, I tried my…”
“Oh, just shut up! You did nothing when dad was saying I’m going out of the country. You said nothing, and yet to claim to be my mother!” Jasmine yelled, and Mrs Celine slapped her heavily on the other cheek.
This time, Jasmine’s face turned red as she held her cheeks, looking at her mom in horror and Celine regretted it instantly.
“Jasmine, baby, I’m…”
Mrs Celine was still speaking when Jasmine gave her the middle finger and stormed out of the suite.
“Jasmine! I’m sorry!”
••••
“It was nice working with you on this project, Mr Easton Maxwell” Mr Costello smiled as he shook hands with Easton.
“It was nice collaborating with you too. You can count on the contract” Easton smiled back before releasing from the handshake.
Mr Costello nodded and left the office. Easton sighed, removing his glasses as he rubbed his eyes before putting them back on.
He then remembered he wanted to meet with Sapphire, he stood and grabbed his suit jacket and made to go for the door when Aldrich walked in.
Aldrich was his secretary.
“Is there any problem, Aldrich?” He asked.
“Someone is here to see you, sir” Aldrich replied and Easton furrowed his brows.
“See me?” He asked, and Aldrich nodded.
“Didn’t you tell him or her to book an appointment? My schedules are tight today” Easton replied.
“I did tell him sir, but he kept saying he wanted to see you, that you were his friend” He replied, and silence followed next.
“Okay. Let him to come in” Easton broke the suffocating silence.
“Yes sir” Aldrich replied and walked out.
Easton groaned, stretching his body as he turned to the windows which was endowed with beautiful views.
“Hello, Easton” A voice so deep, said, and Easton stood on his tracks towards the window immediately.
He slowly turned to see who it was, and his eyes went wide.
“Jace ki||ian!” He exclaimed, and the man who looked in his late twenties smiled out, his one side dimple revealing his beautiful set of teeth.
He had a sea rover blue eyes and endowed with a fine pointed nose with thin pink lips. He had his viking hair combed the side, giving him a deadly dangerous hot look. The first two buttons of his blue suit open, revealed his enamelled chest.
“Easton” He called, still smiling and Easton didn’t know when he embraced him.
“You just returned?”
“Yeah, nobody told Canada was going to be like that” He joked, and Easton smacked his head lightly with a smile as she released him.
“Come have a seat” He gestured, and Jace gave a nod as he walked to sit opposite Easton.
“You grew more handsome, course mate” Easton complimented, and Jace smirked.
“I’m always handsome” He winked, and Easton giggled.
“I’m back, and I want to be a shareholder in your company” Jace said, and Easton gawked at him.
“Shareholder in my company?” Easton furrowed his brows confusedly, and Jace nodded boldly.
“I’ll be glad if my request is met with good profit” Jace said, and Easton immediately stood up.
“Um, we’ll have this talk another time. I need to go see someone” He replied, and Jace smirked darkly as he crossed his legs.
“Are you avoiding this issue? Easton remember you owe me alot, and I’m just here to take 50% of your company… You have different tech moguls yunno” Jace blurted.
“I’m not avoiding anything. I just remembered I need to meet someone” He replied.
“Your girlfriend? You’ve got a chic?” Jace asked.
“Jace…”
“Your girlfriend?” He asked again.
“Yes. My girlfriend!” Easton said, drawing on the word “girlfriend”.
“Take a chill pill, no one is stealing her from you” Jace smiled, and Easton sighed.
“I’d appreciate if you bring this talk another time. Let’s leave” Easton said, and Jace stood up, tucking his hands in his pocket.
“Tell her I’d love to see her though” He winked, and started walking out of the office with a smirk crept up on his lips.
Easton thought about it for a moment before shrugging it off and he left his office too.
••••
Sapphire had waited for Easton to come back that night but it seems he was still yet to come back.
She had just finished eating before taking a walk upstairs to her room, going to the window to receive the warming breeze that the cool night brought.
Her eyes became teary as her mind flooded with what transpired in the past.
“Mom.. Dad…” She whispered, clenching her hands on the frame.
FLASHBACK**
“You can’t just do this to us!”
“It’s our home! We have no place to go!”
The people of El Francisco kept shouting at the building constructors. It became too much and an architect stepped in the middle to confront them.
“This isn’t any of you guys land. This land is already brought by someone in power” The architect said loudly.
“Who?! That person is heartless!” The people screamed again.
21 year old Sapphire was happily walking back home from the small coffee shop she works when she beheld everything that was happening.
“Dad, Mom” She called, walking into the angry crowd to meet her parents.
“Little Star” Mrs Chelsea smiled sadly.
“All of you have this week to pack out! Or else we’ll demolish this building!” The architect man alarmed again.
The people wailed as they started departing back to their residence.
Sapphire got back home together with her Mom and Dad and the first thing her mom did was to go straight to the kitchen.
“Dad, what’s happening?” She asked the only person available.
Mr Walton sighed and sat on the small couch, and Sapphire sat next to him.
“We’re packing out of this residence, Little Star” He replied, and she blinked.
“They can’t just do that to us! No!!”
“It’s alright Sapphire. I’ll just try my possible best for us to leave here before due time” Mr Walton smiled, but from the look of things, Sapphire could tell all was not well at all.
She knew her dad to be only a factory worker who doesn’t earn much to even get a house, and her mom a pretty trader who rarely provide for her.
Mr Walton stood up and went to the balcony with a sad expression on his face.
(Still In Flashback _Next Day)
“Dad! Mom!” Sapphire squealed excitedly as she walked into the residence, but her legs stood abruptly and her eyes widened in horror.
The whole buildings were being demolished. People were dying everywhere. The constructors were merciless.
“Mom!!!! Dad!!!!” She screamed in horror, rushing to their house.
She had just gone to beg her Manager for a loan so they would accommodate a new house only to come back to meet this horrific incident.
She walked in with her heart in her hands, her legs were throbbing and her hands were shaky as tears slipped out of her eyes… Painful tears.
Behold, was her parents lying in their own pool of blood. They were murdered in cold blood.
“No!!! Father!!! Mother!!!” She shrieked, shaking them vigorously to wake up, but all to no avail.
Her world crumbled that moment. The world felt like it ended that instant. The people she was living for are now gone.. what’s more to stay alive for?
She walked to the damaged kitchen with bloody hands. The only thought in her head was to end her own life.
What was the essence of staying anyway?
“They are all heartless!!!” She screamed in tears as she grabbed the knife on the counter.
Her hands were shaky as she raised it up slowly to stab herself. She closed her eyes, expecting the knife to dive into her stomach but then someone caught in the air which made her to open her eyes at once.
He walked closer to her, wearing a nice black tuxedo suit that hugged his well six feet two frame.
He had rough gel black hair. His eyes had the same starling clarity as a mountain stream and the lineaments of his face were in perfect proportional to each other and his eyes piercing into hers.
“Life isn’t over” The man who seems to be in his late twenties said, throwing the knife to the other side.
The bulldozer was getting to their building, ready to demolish it completely, and before she could speak, she was dragged out with the guy.
He held her strongly till they got to a safer place.
“Wh.. who are you?” Sapphire stuttered with tears still dropping out of her eyes.
“I’m here to help you. I can help you get justice for your parents death” He answered, and she scoffed, sniffing.
“And how will I be sure you don’t have a hand in their death” She glared, and made to walk away but he grabbed her possessively.
“I didn’t know you were quite stubborn. You have nowhere to go now, nobody to look after you. I’m your angel in disguise, and I’m here to help you” He commented, and Sapphire turned to face him.
Her eyes were now bloodshot with anger running through her eyes and veins. Her mind and soul wanted only one thing, that’s Justice. She balled her fist as she kept glaring at the handsome guy in front of her.
“Just be my segz slave and you’ll never experience what you felt before” He said again.
Her ears rang tremendously at the thought of being his segz slave. What does he take her for? A cheap thing that he just picked from the slump or brothel?
She wanted to cuss at him, she wanted to refuse his condition but vengeance was what she seek for.
“Just make sure my parents ki||er don’t go unpunished” She replied after much contemplation.
He smirked dangerously at her.
“And is that a deal?” He asked, staring at her. He could see through that she was scared.
“What’s your name first?” She demanded to know and he snickered.
Really?
“Adrian. Adrian Riccardo” He blurted out, and she nodded gently.
“Deal” She replied, and his lips curved into a dark smirk.
Only did she know that was just the beginning.
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TBC