Mika sat at the desk with spine erect, looking tall and lively as ever.
"beautiful surprise hah, Spooky?" she said, looking up from the MacBook screen, keenly observing Ruby.
"yeah Mika. A pretty jaw dropping experience. Been meaning to reach out back in there you know…".
"that's not the vibe I catch from you in there though," Mika replied curtly.
Bring it on Mika, just what I needed to get the night started. A good old fight from a ship.
"you are her shadow, where is she?" I asked Mika without further preamble.
"I am right here." Diana answered from an adjacent side door leading into the inner pup, where exclusive house parties are held.
"sweet lord dear, you are looking amazing Luby."
"I am touched Diana. Great to see you," she replied, while squeezing her grip on my arm.
"are you okay?" I murmured and she nodded.
"please hop in, Kate and Mike are in here. I have a feeling we will be having a blast to night."
Diana waves us in, taking the lead.
"pleasure to meet you Ruby, I am Mika," she extended her arm across the table to shake hands with Ruby, avoiding eye contact with me.
we followed Diana down the stairs leading to a well-lit interior hall.
"everything seems to be going down over here. The feeling is mind blowing."
"I am glad you are having a good time Ruby."
"I am kuga, thank you,,," she replied with a salacious lingering kiss on my lips right in the middle of the stairs.
On reaching the landing, leading to the hall, Diana turned around in time to see us under the dim corridor light before disappearing into the hall.
I saw a fleeting moment of consternation in those eyes, before she merges in with crowd.
"you are nervous Ruby…". "am I? perhaps it's the wine"
"I thought, it did rather give you a fictitious boldness you can derive candor."
"perhaps, I want to let the lady know you are taken," she laughed over the buzzing sound of a rich music I've never heard, as we enter the hall.
"who is that?". " what do you mean".
"the music. the artist Ruby... she is killing the sound..."
Ruby was already vibing to the sound in her movement.... "yeah Spooky, it's definitely my kind of sound".
No one seems to pay as any attention, except the three people sitting across the room at the far corner.
Kate and Ruby run into each other arms. Exchanging girlish pleasantries, as kate inspects Ruby closely.
"your buoyance overwhelms me kiddo," she complimented her sister happily, glancing my way.
"I guess we have you to thank for this Kuga." She whispered so that only I could hear here as we hugged.
However awkward it seems, it was a hug nonetheless. In her red evening garb, the lady looked dashing.
"my pleasure ma'am."
There was elegance in the space. beautiful young women, in the arms of fine young men from rich homes.
Most of them are probably from Lycan families, or close friends in their social circle.
Mike remain on his seat on the sofa, tapping the fire of his Cuban on the ash tray before puffing on it greedily once again, oozing big puffs of rich spicy smoke.
Pompous weakling. Vice of a premature aristocrat. The fathers work hard to build the fortune at the expense of losing the humanity of the heir in most cases.
This is the reality of guys like mike. To prove themselves as tuff guys, they take it out on the women, and people who serve them.
His stupid statement in the yacht the last time we met, projected an image, I can't erase from my mind.
Mike had a man with him. Perhaps they are more of them lurking in the neighboring shadows.
I took notice of this one, for every step I took towards Diana and mike, was under his scrutiny.
"Spooky the jaw breaker. How many jaws did you break in your exile under the ocean?", mike said in a snigger.
"so many I couldn't count Mikey," I taunted.
I was glad to have Ruby and kate hanging out with some of their girlfriends on an adjoining couch few yards away from I and Mike.
"are you the one fucking the bitch now….?" Mike mocked with a smirk, gesturing at Ruby, who was giggling at some hilarious comment from the girls' company.
My fury erupts like the raging lava of Pompeii, and I embraced it whole. Good lord, I welcome it home.
All civility left me, perhaps I never had any. All I knew was, my mind shut down as my body sprout alive with something quite surreal and deadly.
My fist worked like pistons on Mikey's face, breaking bones and tissue, but I couldn't stop.
My knuckle push ups, I did been using to control my wild emotions, this day was paying great dividends.
I head the ladies, shrieking in panic as though from a far away place in the heavens.
"you have stop it now!...". "you will kill him…" . I felt hands grab me from behind, trying to restrain me but I fought them off with a mad zest breaking free after having incapacitate them. they're some Mike's men.
My knockles drip with blood… none of it mine…"
Out of the blue, someone strike me with a baseball bat. I saw the attack in a split second, perhaps a little too late, but quick enough to received the full force of the blow with both hands, saving my skull from a blow that could've ended my life.
I charged at my attacker like bull, sending him flying. We landed spontaneously on the hard epoxy floor in a crashing thud.
The crunchy sound of the skull of my opponent was like music to my ears.
With my weight pressing him down, I strangled him between my thighs and got to work all over again on the face of my next victim...
"stop! Stop! Stop! it" she whaled repeatedly, clawing, and raining blows on my back.…. "Ruby!.." I gasped in shock as my vision begin to clear.
I looked down at the damage face of my second victim. It was D'mick. This send me yet into another shock, a more conscious kind.
I caught sight of the baseball bat. thanks for bringing this to me D'mick…. I simply shove Ruby away, as I got hold of the bat.
then, I rain blows to the legs of the fallen man, braking bones and tissue, I wanted the so of a bitch crippled for life.
"a cripple can hit a woman…" I rasped in each blow.
"drop the bat now, before I put a bullet in your brain." Rhymz said pressing the cold nuzzle of his gun to my neck.
I knew that was a vague threat, but I comply anyway. Why bother, I was content with my handy work…
I smiled as Ruby gave me an incredulous look of disgust. She spat on my face, following up with a hard smash across my face.
"you are a monster! Animal! Stay away from me!", she yelled at me hysterically, before seeking comfort in the arms of Rhymz.
The room was quite now as most of the ladies already scurried out in fright. Diana and Kate, including Mika and unfamiliar faces, most of whom I didn't know, all looked at me with mouths gaping as though they've just witness the macabre of Hitler in gruesome detail.
"be ready when the marvel drops Spooky?" Rhymz hissed, but his voice seems not to reach my ears.
For, my ears and sight were filled with Ruby's disgust in words and images.
I rode back home all alone like a GPS robot. In essence, I didn't know how I got home. I knew I was going to have nightmares.
It turns out to be a night, full of abundance and peace. I can't remember ever having a delightful eight-hour sleep at a stretch.