Alejandro
"Update?" I asked, pressing the gadget in my ear as I stepping up the sleek black stairs leading further up my house. I was still in the black clothes I had in the torture room, and there was just an hour and a few minutes left till the meeting.
"Limo successfully acquired, sir." A male voice answered on the other end.
"It leads my escort vehicles." I ordered with a sadistic smirk and ended the call. I could only imagine how Alexandra much have reacted when she learned someone else had snatched her big baby. And that someone was me. Too bad I wouldn't be able to see that reaction, but I would fucking see the pain in her eyes when I step out of the same Limo she had been longing after for years.
I stepped into a lobby only to freeze in my tracks when I saw Mikel right there, fully dressed in a grey suit and shiny back shoes. His hair was even styled. My unimpressed gaze slid down to his side, and saw some random lady in a thin dress, smoothing down the sleeve of his suit with one hand, and feeding him grape with the other hand.
What the fuck.
"How the fuck did you get here before me?" I speared him a burning glare. It was fucking annoying having a tech expert as a best friend. He could fucking hack your security systems if he chose to. And I had ordered the security outside to let him through since I thought I had would get here first.
Now, I step into my fucking mansion to see him eating grape from some random woman's hand?
He chewed a grape and swallowed. "Well, Leandro, while you were busy buying Limos you don't need, I was getting ready for the big day. I even had time for a massage." He smiled down at the woman, who smiled back.
My gaze turned murderous. Did Mikel fuck someone in here?
He looked at me and laughed as if he read my mind, "You dirty minded demon! It was just a regular massage honestly. She can give you one too, man." He looked at her. "Right?"
She looked directly at me with a sultry smile, running her eyes up and down my body like I was a fucking feast and she was about to devour me. "I wouldn't mind releasing the tension in those broad shoulders." She purred with a fake shyness. And then winked at me.
Without a word, I turned away from them and their bullshit, striding through the glass door on the other end. I needed a fucking shower. And hearing Mikel's laughter echo behind me was grating against my nerves.
When I finally got to my bedroom, I threw everything on me off, walking naked to the bathroom. Standing under the shower, I turned it on, letting the warm water cascade over my head and down my back and shoulders. My wet hair started to droop into my eyes, and I brushed it back with one hand, inching my face higher so the shower sprayed water directly onto my face.
Mikel's "masseuse" was right. I did feel fucking tense. The biggest reason was because I had not gotten any information from that fucking bastard down in the torture room. Even if that piece of shit called Mikel had not interrupted, I doubt that man would have given up any information.
There were 14 men in that large van he burned. It was a well planned ambush, something that would have taken a group to carry out, not just one man. But even with all my manpower, he was the only one we got. The others escaped. Thinking about it filled me with so much deadly rage. I was going to find every single last one of them, and I would get to their leader, and slaughter him like the fucking wild beast he is.
I had a feeling that was not going to be the last ambush. But I was not going to fucking let any of my employees die for no reason.
I grabbed the soap and lathered it up my head, blankly staring at the black glass of the large, king-sized bathroom. As if I wasn't pissed off enough, the leaders of the Reyes Empire decided that they wanted to merge with Vega, thinking it would make us more powerful. As if we weren't already at the top of the business world. Yes, I was the fucking CEO, and all decisions are controlled by me, but it was a majority against minority situation.
I could fucking get voted out of power if I refused to make the decision.
Deliberations had begun a year ago, and it was my fucking father who planted the idea in their minds. Not surprising, he was fucking close friends with Mr. Vega -the father of that annoying little bitch. Gradually the idea looked perfect, and today, it was going to be official.
Co-CEOs with Alexandra Vega. What a fucking pain in the ass. If she fucking lets it get to her head, I'm gonna slam her back down to her senses so hard. I do solo. I was never one for partners, especially the worst partner anyone could ever end up with -Alexandra.
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Alexandra
"Oh, Miss Vega, Congratulations on your new position." A couple of people in suits milled around me, shaking my hand firmly.
The business deal handshake.
I was all smiles as I accepted congratulations and welcoming words from the executives who were currently making their way into the executive board room for the big meeting between us and leaders of the Reyes Empire. It was official, I had signed and been sworn in as the new CEO of Vega Conglomerate. It was a powerful feeling.
I was standing in the lobby at the entrance of the board room, quickly placing my signature of a few things that needed my immediate attention. Kim was by my side, holding everything I would need for the meeting, and making updating my secretaries on what I want and did not want.