"Did you find her?" A man in a gray suit sitting in a position that exuded high status and elegance asked puffing his cigarettes. He looked very handsome with his piercing gray eyes that scanned the faces of the men standing in front of him.
"Boss, the last time she was seen in the city, she was with René Tokugawa." One of the men stepped forward and answered.
The man frowned. What was René doing with her? Were they lovers? No he doubted that. René Tokugawa was never seen with women in public, nor had he ever been rumored to get involved with women. There were rumors that had started to circulate around that the powerful mafia lord was into Men instead and had an affair going on with his second in command Tanaka Hayabusa.
"The girl is mine… i don't care whom you saw her with. I don't pay you to tell me tales. Bring me the girl" he said. Although his voice was calm,the venomous looks in his eyes were enough to chill his men to the bone.
"Yes Boss!" The men bowed and hurriedly left the office in a single file.
Although Kenji Matsumoto never raised his voice, he was a ruthless young man. His sudden rise to power as the lost son of one of Japan's most wealthy oil tycoons was something that made the headlines daily.
"I want to see your face again", he muttered to himself and smiled.
He had met her at the orphanage, she was quiet, feeble and had a habit of tilting her head to look him in the face whenever he spoke to her. He had been abandoned at the orphanage in Tokyo by his mother who had run off with another man. His mother who hadn't gotten Pregnant for his father who was her boss at that time kept his identity a secret from his father and only revealed it in a letter containing a DNA test sent to his father through his mother's lawyer four years after being abandoned at the orphanage.
He was 11 years old when he was abandoned at the orphanage and had only stayed there for four years before his father had taken him away from there. In the four years he had spent together with Faye at the orphanage, he had made it his duty to protect her and by the time he had been taken from the orphanage, he had become completely in love and obsessed with her. He had even begged his dad to adopt her which his father had initially refused.
"I'll come back for you okay? Just wait for me, I'll come back and I'll marry you" his 15 year old self had thought keeping his promise of going back for her and marrying her would be so easy but immediately his father had brought him home, he sent him to a boarding school in luxembourg and later sent him to the US for his university education. Even though he had wanted and initially planned to come back after finishing the university, his father had forced him to stay there and run his company's branch in the US until he turned 25 and decided to come back for her by transferring to the branch in tokyo japan.
"Kenji-san" he looked up to see an old classmate he had schooled with in the US walking into his office.
One of the many women he had admired but had no intentions of getting involved with.
"Minami Hori" he called back smiling. She was the free Spirit kind of person that Everyone deserved to have around. She was currently working in his father's company as the HR. He had no idea their father's had been old friends until he had returned to japan.
"Must be nice having free time on your hands" she laughed, dropping off some documents on his table.
"Who said I had free time? See? You just added extra work for me" he pouted playfully. Minami was one person he could be his childish self around. She was three years older than him. He was 25 years old and she was 28 years old.
She laughed "oh you poor baby".
"What's up? What have you been up to? We don't really get time to hang out anymore" she sat down and spun sideways in the chair.
"Too much work" he sighed. They were both conversing in fluent English.
"Loosen up big boy ... .I'll tell you what, let's have a couple of drinks after work today. My treat" she relaxed into the chair and stopped spinning
"As if!" He chuckled. "Sure, but only if I'm paying", he added, scanning through the documents she had just dropped off. He was aware she was watching him but made no moves to point it out. She liked watching him and he liked the attention.
He didn't like bragging but he loved the attention he got from both male and female in both his workplace and outside his workplace. Before moving back to japan, he had taken up a hobby of modeling in his free time.
Han mansion 203 Tokyo.
"Why haven't you delivered? I paid you enough money to have the girl" A short tubby old man sneered. He was Akio Hanson, one of Tokyo's most dangerous pimps.
"She just suddenly disappeared. We haven't been in contact since, "Unami said, chewing the gum in her mouth loudly.
Faye had suddenly disappeared and the last time they had seen each other was when she had babysitted Daisuke. Maybe she had left with That man from that day.
"I think she left with the man from that day" she thought out loud.
"What man?!" Akio slammed his fist on the table before him. For a man his age, he was insanely and physically active.
"René Tokugawa!" Unami said lazily leaning against the wall of the insanely decorated office.
"What?! Well if you can't bring the girl to me then you pay me back my money" Akio relaxed in his chair. He knew he had unami in cuckold. She had already spent all that money clubbing, buying shiny new clothes and more bold makeup. That woman was basically useless. She never spent money on more than these things.
"Fine! I'll just call her and lure her over" she rolled her eyes and walked out of the office.
Nevertheless,Akio knew he was treading on dangerous waters. René Tokugawa was a dragon that breathed fire and it burnt fiercely but The greed in him was too much to make him see the danger ahead. The young heir of the matsumoto groups had already paid him heavily for the girl and he had promised to deliver her to him.
"What do you want with her anyways" umami's head peeped through the opening in the door.
"That's none of your business just get me the girl!" He yelled frustrated. That woman liked to get on his nerves.
"Stupid bitch!" He spat as unami rolled her and slammed the door behind her
HAKONE
Faye opened her eyes and René smiled at her. He was hovering over her, planning to wake her up with kisses. He was like a love sick puppy.
"I need to go back to tokyo" she sat up and he frowned.
"What do you need to pick up there? Tanaka or Fuyichiyo could pick it up for you" He hugged her from behind nuzzling her ear.
"No… i need to pick up some private things from my apartment" she squirmed in his hold.
"But they could pick it up for you.. it's dangerous to go back there now" he sighed burying his face in her neck.
"I want to go by myself…" she got out of his hold and stood at the foot of the bed.
He was starting to get angry and faye could see it in his expression.
"Do you understand your lives are in danger?!" He growled.
"I'm sorry, you're the reason my life is in danger" she rolled her eyes annoyed. She didn't understand,was he was becoming so overprotective. Besides it was just to see unami. She sounded so urgent on the phone and it's not like nobody would know she was back in Tokyo. She could easily slip in and slip out.
"Fine… tanaka will go with you" he sighed. He really didn't want to argue with her and make her think he was being overprotective.
"It's fine… it'll be easier to go alone. Slip in and slip out of tokyo quietly." She shrugged. It sounded easy to her.
He looked at her with total bewilderment.
"Are you serious right now?" He yelled and she cringed taken aback by the sudden outburst and anger in his voice.
He sighed, inhaled and exhaled. He was trying to control his anger.
"If you can't take one of the men with you then you're not leaving this villa and that's it!!" He stormed out of the room and faye was left standing in bewilderment
What had just happened? Why did he suddenly go from loving to monstrous? There was no reason to yell like that. Was he hiding something? Don't be ridiculous, he's just worried.
She knocked on his door but he didn't respond. She pushed the door open and found him lying in his bed with his eyes closed and his arms folded across his chest. She knew he wasn't asleep.
"Fine, I'll go with one of the men " she said, sitting at the edge of the bed.
He didn't move,neither did he respond.
"René? I'm sorry I was being unreasonable" she gently shook him but got no response. Her heart rate accelerated.
"René, can You stop joking around like this? Stop it, you're scaring me" she tapped his shoulders but no response.
"Baby?! Stop it please, this isn't funny." She began to sob.
"Tanaka!! Tanaka!!" She called, turning to run out of the room but in confusion,returned to René's side.
"René please!! Wake up! I'll do whatever you want, I won't be stubborn, I won't go to Tokyo anymore" she buried her face in his chest and cried.
René's eyes fluttered open, he sat up and he burst out laughing. Faye looked up at him but couldn't stop crying. She had been really scared. She was really scared. She didn't have anyone else apart from the man in front of her and losing him scared her. She wouldn't know what to do with Daisuke if René had suddenly died.
"It's okay, I'm fine" he drew her into his arms,still laughing. Even though he had made it clear it was all a joke,she hadn't stopped crying and he stopped laughing. He could see the fear in her eyes.
"Hey it's okay. You can go to tokyo. I'll come with you" he hugged her, rubbing her back. She stopped crying and looked up at him.
"You're so mean" she said
"I know.." he smiled down at her and lowered his lips to kiss her.
"What's going on?!" Tanaka rushed in, making René stop halfway.
Faye made to move away from René shyly but he drew her back to him.
"It's ok, it was just a joke" René waved Tanaka away and he gently closed the door behind him with a smile.
"Can I get that kiss now?" he asked passionately, capturing her lips with his.
"Mama!!" This time it was Daisuke that came bursting through the door
Faye and René quickly moved away from each other like they were both hot coals.
"Daisuke! I told you to stop running, "Faye scolded as both she and René got out of bed and walked towards the child.
"Mama, i have a puppy" the child jumped up and down excitedly. He was doing very well now and looked very healthy in just a span of one week. Coming to this isolated hidden villa in Hakone had been the best option for all of them.
"Did you get him a puppy?" Faye asked excitedly. As a child she had always wanted one and she was grateful that even though she couldn't eat the things she had wanted as a child,her son was getting them.
"Yeà, figured it was going to be too lonely for him out here" he kissed the side of her head.
Standing there together, in matching pajamas made them look like one big happy family of three.