⚠️ Warning: explicit violent scene at the end of the chapter ⚠️ 

"Hey Damon! Where are you headed?" Someone called out.

Damon, a man in his early twenties with blonde hair and brown eyes turned around to face his colleague that was calling onto him.

"I am heading out to grab lunch." Damon replied.

"Mind if I tag along?" Chris; Damon's colleague asked.

Chris was a handsome man himself, he had the perfect build and shape to make girls trip for him. He had jet black hair that was neatly swept back while his eyes were a fierce blue.

Damon on the other hand, didn't have the looks nor the body to make girls fall for him. We can just say, Damon was quite average.

"Sure why not?" Damon asked as he turned around to head off to the canteen along with Chris.

Damon was a staff of Cliffson's industries; a company that dealt with advanced technologies.

Damon in the company of Chris finally got to the canteen and then they got their food and settled down to begin eating.

"So I heard that the boss is working on something new and more advanced." Chris said as he took a scoop of his food into his mouth.

"Yeah I heard the same." Damon replied while he was relishing his food.

Damon and Chris weren't exact friends. In fact, their relationship was quite complicated with Chris wanting to stick around Damon while Damon wanting to be alone.

"Whatever it is, I know it will be ground breaking." Chris said while drinking a kind of beverage.

"Yeah. After all, Cliffson's industries is the best." Damon replied.

After a few minutes, they finished eating and Damon headed out on his own.

'The world is so peaceful.' Damon thought while looking at the skyscrapers everywhere and the flying vehicles heading to their destination.

After leaving the canteen, Damon went to his office where so many tech and what other people will call junk lay. He just went to his seat and huffed a puff of air.

Swirling around his chair, he was lost in thought.

'Chris has such a perfect life. But unlike me, I can't seem to get the life I want. The only thing I'm good at, is this.' Damon thought as he looked at all the piece of tech.

It wasn't like Damon was poor, working for Cliffson's industries, meant that all their employees are treated well and paid handsomely.

But the problem was that in all his 22 years of living, he hadn't gone on a date. It was either he was too busy with work or the girls he got, didn't like him back.

Damon was a workaholic, doesn't even have time for his self. Always working on one tech or another.

That was when a knock on the door pulled him out of his thoughts.

"Come in." Damon said and a female beauty walked dressed in a black skirt and white shirt with her hair neatly swept back.

"The CEO wants to see you." The girl said.

"CEO? Wants to see me? For what?" Damon asked feeling his heart beating rapidly in fear.

The girl just shrugged. "I don't know, he just asked me to call Damon Raymond and here I am."

Damon tried to calm him heart down then he looked up at the girl. "Alright, go I'm coming."

The girl swiftly left his office as Damon was trying to calm his heart down and then he checked his self to see if he was properly dressed.

Satisfied, Damon quickly exited his office and hurried towards the CEO's office. After taking the elevator that took him straight to the first floor, Damon walked towards the CEO'S office.

Looking at the door, he could see the wordings of CEO above the door. With a huff of air to calm his heart, Damon was about to open the door but that was when he heard shouting.

Trying to listen in, Damon was trying to make out what was being said.

"I told you, I won't release it to you so get the f*ck outta here now!" Damon heard the CEO say.

"And I said I'm not leaving until I get what I want." Someone said.

From the voice, Damon could tell that it was a male speaking.

"That tech is very dangerous and in the wrong hands like yours, the world is doomed." The CEO said.

"Then why did you create it if you didn't want it to get into the wrong hands?"

"I just created it. And besides I didn't expect a criminal like you to come here for it."

"Criminal?" Damon silently said surprised.

"Will you give me the tech or do I have to kill you for it?"

"You can kill me but I won't tell you where the tech is. Hold on, how did you even know about the tech?" The CEO asked.

"That means one of my staff betrayed me. I will make whoever did this pay heavily." The CEO shouted furiously.

"Well, too bad you won't be alive to do so." The man smirked as he pulled out a longsword and pointed it towards the CEO.

Damon fearing for the worst, opened the door forcefully and barged in to see a man with a sword pointing towards the CEO'S neck.

"Get away from him now! Or else I'm calling the cops." Damon shouted.

"Cops?" The man laughed. "Do you think the cops can do anything against me? Alright go ahead and call them."

"I'm not bluffing, I will really do it." Damon said as he pulled out a mobile device to call the cops but then he could see the device on the floor.

"Huh? Strange, I didn't let go of it." Damon said but that was when he saw his hands still holding the device on the floor.

Quickly, Damon looked at his hands and saw that it had been cleanly cut off with blood spurting out of it.

That was when panic set into Damon's heart because he hadn't had the man move and suddenly his hand was cut off cleanly not even allowing him feel the pain.

Damon felt a cold air on his neck. "Go ahead and call the cops now."

Damon quickly turned around and he could see the man; the fierce yellow eyes that felt like they were glowing and

the clean shaven face.

"There shouldn't be any witnesses." The man said and Damon vision was now black…