A tight slap resonated on his right cheek as he made that proposal to her.
How many so obnoxious men like him made assumptions about what her job involved doing and it would be everything except for what it got to do with.
"I'm not a slut that you are appointing for your brother to sleep with."
She hissed. And Blake was beyond shock that she had hit him out of nowhere just like that.
"I'm done. I have been spending almost all my time with that psycho and the last thing I want to do is sleep with him."
"Yet have you gotten done anything?"
Blake yelled out. The slap that she had plastered against his cheeks had made him more than furious ever.
"And for Christ's sake, if you ever raise your hand against me, I will fucking end you!"
"Try me!"
Alister rose too, her scrutinizing gaze holding onto him, not fluttering away.
The silence was loud but did not take long to end when it was he who looked away the first time and then he did not say anything, which got her curious.
He just turned around and pulling out his cell phone, dialed a number, being answered right away in just one call.
"See this? That's the frail almost dead old man you want to protect right?"
He brought the screen to her face and watched the projection on it, all her anger vanished and transformed into fear, an anxious feeling.
She looked up at him, who was cruelly smirking at her. Her eyes tuned in back to the screen.
A man in black was standing right beside the bed and was pointing a gun out straight at the resting old man's head showcasing everything in the camera.
"One word from me...just one and he is off the records, Alister. Do you understand?"
Blake said and disconnected the call. She was still trying to process what just happened. How did it get to here?
She had been always so secretive about everything from the start. The men she worked with, made sure to not have anything known about her family.
"You are not working for some ordinary man anymore...you owe Blake Cardoso, and you will do as I say...or else that old man and that sister, or whoever the fuck it is of yours, would all be six feet under the ground, remember that?"
Each of his words was penetrating her head like a bullet being fired inside her thick skull.
He was blackmailing her. She never entertained such kind of sick tactics. She had been through such things.
When someone was working in her field, there was no way one could escape from being threatened by those rich selfish men to get her to do their dirty bidding.
Making them see your vulnerability meant giving them the strength to get to her, attack her, and dominate her free will.
She had to keep business out of her personal life and she had been quite successful at that. No wonder she had been able to move without a fault from one deal to another.
But not thinking much, she had accepted this contract without thinking about the consequences that would come with it because of the amount of money that was at stake.
"I need words."
"I will return your money."
She spoke out right away.
Realizing the prospect of what it would take to get it done, she had not thought about it earlier, but she might not be even ready for it.
"I do not think I can keep up with it anymore."
Blake's eyes were all over her. She was for real backing away from a deal that would end up making her a millionaire.
He could not believe she was being real.
"I will wire it to you back."
She said, picking up her purse to leave when he stopped her. There was nothing much he could do about it, but resort to the only option left.
She looked determined to leave. Then she stopped on her track to turn around and see him.
"My man is still there...one call is all it takes."
She was beyond furious. For the time being, she knew better than to let it show and get a reaction out of him.
"Why? Why not get someone who could do it better than me?
You have the resources, hire someone more skilled."
"You have his trust."
He was quick to interrupt her.
She was trying to pull out making him see another alternative, someone too far better for the job.
"Not many have that luxury. Gaining Ryan Del Cardoso's trust.
Now tell me Alister, who would be better off doing this if not you?"
His words were like a snake's vice, wrapping her in his game, not seeing any more options to get out of it.
"You are my twentieth. Fifteen of them could not even get close to him.
The other five could not gain his trust.
And you meet him, get to him, earn his trust, and then overnight, become his official girlfriend. He declares it to the media.
Still have doubts that there is someone better than you?"
He could not let her go. Not when he had gotten so close while failing so many times.
She remained static on her spot. Her eyes plastered onto his wicked ones.
"I'm not asking you to sleep tonight...tomorrow night...or the coming weekend either.
But speed up your game because I'm getting impatient."
He walked up to her, standing by the door. When his hand held the doorknob, she pulled hers off. He smiled at her.
"It runs in the Cardoso bloodline, you see...being impatient.
You can take your time but not too much to get my man tired waiting there, you know."
He tapped on her shoulder lightly and then walked out of it, leaving her stuck inside, to wonder what had just happened.
'Now off you go, before your wild boyfriend comes looking for you.'
Her phone beeped and the text message flashed on her screen.
If anything the bastard had ever told right, was that part...her boyfriend, he would surely go crazy. She sneaked out from there to be here.
She clapped her forehead, for addressing that psycho as her boyfriend. She surely was losing her mind for good.
Before anything could get worse, she flipped the door open and walked out too, fully knowing that the game was not in her control anymore.
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