"Sorry babe, I can't make it, an urgent meeting came up" Hazel texted her boyfriend, standing right in front of his house with a smirk holding a bouquet and a diamond ring in her hand to propose to him for marriage.
They've been in a relationship for three years and she knew it's about damn time they get married, and her heart was fluttering with excitement. She just finished drawing her and his wedding dress ready to be designed. She didn't inform her parents yet, but she knew he was capable of convincing them. He is a gentleman for all she knows.
"That's okay love, I know you won't skip our dates until it's really urgent" he texted back in a minute, reading it had her heart pound in her chest with warmth, realising she got a good man. She can't wait to show to the world that she belonged to him.
Unlocking the door with the spare keys of his house, she stepped inside sneakily to surprise him. She even planned a trip after he accepted her proposal. She imagined a life where
She walked as quiet as she could to his room, tiptoeing her when she heard him groaning, the sound of skins slapping against each other along with the bed moving with force.
Her face paled, realising what she might just encounter if she opened the door that wasn't even shut correctly. Her heart stopped beating for a moment, her whole body turning cold at the thought of it.
"Jann, I'm coming" Alex moaned, panting and seemingly, done fucking.
"Oh god, yes Lex, harder" Hazel's heartbeat dropped at the woman's voice.
Peeking inside the bedroom slowly, she saw him fucking her from behind while the woman kept moaning while he pounded into her.
It was impossible. He wouldn't do that to her, nor would she. It has to be a bad dream, she thought, the bouquet in her hands crumbling under her heartbreak.
He loved her. He promised her a life full of love and happiness. He was perfect in every way she saw him. Perhaps, there were things he didn't quite show after all.
Feeling a single tear that fell down her eyes, she wiped it before keeping a stone on her heart, turned her emotions off and kicked the door open, Alex and Jannette, her P.A., looking at her with wide eyes.
Jannette's face paled while Alexander was shocked. They looked as if they encountered Satan in his true form. To some extent, it was true.
If she was going down, she'd drag them down with her if it meant she'd have the satisfaction of rubbing it on their face.
"Why did you guys stop? continue.. I love watching live porn" Hazel gritted her teeth as she saw Alexander pulling out himself out of Janette, wearing his pants quickly while Jannette was too shocked to react.
"Love, it's not what it looks like" Alexander buttoned his pants, stepping closer to Hazel who threw the bouquet at him in anger, controlling her tears.
Being weak wouldn't help her at this moment anyway, so she'd at least take her anger out.
"Step back, or I'll chop off your family jewels which by the way need a microscope to see" Hazel sassed, turning to Jannette.
"Taking the salary I give and fucking my boyfriend behind my back, thank you so much Jannette. Your services will be recognised. And you'll be missed" Hazel gave a tight lipped smile, throwing a throw blanket at her naked figure who immediately covered herself up in shame.
"Oh, don't look ashamed you at least fuck behind my back. God knows how many people saw me roaming out with this parasite. I am the one that needs to feel ashamed" Hazel spat out, her blood boiling as the image of them fucking kept flashing in her head.
"Hazel" Alexander looked insulted, infuriated and mainly scared.
The girl who stands in front of him right now, confronting him was the softest girl he ever knew. And he fucked up, fucking someone else.
`Don't you dare call my name with that filthy mouth you just used on her" Hazel screamed, throwing the nearby vase at him in anger while he ducked down at the correct time before it hit him, looking at her with wide eyes.
"Hear me out please, she's the one who seduced me" Alexander covered up immediately, pointing at Jannette who was looking at him with a fear stricken face which immediately turned into anger.
"He's lying, he has been sleeping with me for two years, I even have pictures. Even if I did seduce him, he could've simply said no, but it was him who kept seducing me, even in your office" Jannette barked, getting up and wearing her clothes.
"If I see you coming to my house on your knees to take me back, I swear to god, I'll shoot you with my rifle" Jannette slapped him before she dashed out of the apartment, feeling utterly embarrassed.
How low her standards have been if she was fucking her boss' boyfriend and he bailed on her? Jannette thought as Hazel called her.
"I'll have your resignation on my table before tomorrow's lunch" Hazel commanded to which Jannette nodded before leaving. She knew accepting the new reality was better. There is no need to act and beg, Hazel was one of the most stubborn women she ever knew.
Hazel scoffed, looking at Alexander who went on his knees, crying as soon as Jannette left.
"You know, I should in fact thank her, or I was planning to propose to you for marriage. She saved me from a slug like you" Hazel looked utterly disgusted, stepping back as he tried to touch her feet.
"Please forgive me, give me another chance" Alexander begged, desperate to get her back.
"That's so embarrassing, get up" Hazel spoke and he immediately stood up, hoping she'd forgive him.
"Now, pack your stuff and leave this place before the sun rises again. If I ever see you even in my eyesight, I don't even need a rifle like your mistress, my heels are enough to stomp in your eyes and you very well know where I'll stomp again" Hazel warned him pointing at his dick, her eyes blazing with fire and he nodded without a word, feeling his voice struck in his throat at the way she was looking at him.
He never thought he'd see a day where she'd be threatening him. Even if she ever found out, he thought she'd forgive or beg him to take her back.
Flipping her hair over her shoulder, Hazel walked out, dropping the ring in the dustbin before getting into her car, finally letting herself cry.
This was definitely not the day she was expecting to have.
"Sir, it's time we close Adrian Grover's chapter. He seems to have increased his illegal businesses. He is getting into organ smuggling" One of the members sitting in a boardroom for a meeting uttered, standing up when they were discussing the cases that are supposed to be allotted to the teams that will decrease the crime cases in New York, an agency that ran by government secretly, non existent to the public.
"Adrian Grover? That case will be handled by the Alpha team" A man in his fifties announced, his voice booming in the boardroom, filled with authority and dominance and anyone who was about to argue had their voices die in their throat.
"Alpha team?" A female gasped.
"Do you have any problem with my decision, woman?" Jared Kensington, the head of Dark Sun Syndicate asked, narrowing his eyes at a blonde woman in her thirties who immediately lowered her eyes.
"He's literally Lucifer's right hand" she muttered under her breath before she shook her head at the elder person and replied "Why would I have a problem with it sir? He is perfect for this case" the blonde replied while her friend beside her laughed quietly, knowing the Alpha team is the most ruthless team in their syndicate.
There were even rumours that he was the reason this syndicate was started, and not everyone was lucky to see him. He was always in the dark, or with a mask on his face, keeping his identity away from everyone.
Jared nodded at her reply, pleased with the fear in her eyes.
"So the dark lord is to defeat Adrian Grover?" Jared's assistant asked, amused to which Jared nodded in response.
"Where is he?" One of the head members of teams in the boardroom asked.
The door bursts open with a loud sound, grabbing everyone's attention. And there he was, the dark lord that grabs everyone's attention and fear, the room suddenly smelling of dominance and tension.
Everyone's heads literally snapped in that direction, their eyes wide, the blonde who just murmured something started sweating, hoping he didn't hear whatever she said.
Each of his movements screamed confidence as his 6 feet 2 inches muscular body moving like he was walking on run away, unintentionally flexing his muscles with his plain white button down shirt and black leather jacket, paired with black trousers, his hair combed in a perfectly messy way with his clenched sharp jaw and grey eyes that'd have any woman in NewYork drop to their knees for him.
"What do we have here?" Alpha team's head, Kieran Salvatore asked, sitting beside Jared, his grey stormy eyes flicking to everyone while the black masquerade ball's mask covered his face, the mysterious nature still lingering in the air.
"It's Adrian Grover" Jared replied curtly to which Kieran's jaw tightened as his eyes turned a shade of dark, his aura changing from mysterious to the kind of darkness that craves blood.
"He is mine" Kieran snapped, anger boiling in his heart by just hearing the name.
"I know, you are handling his case" Jared pointed out at the projector screen, flashing Adrian's picture.
Kieran nodded, his lips curving into a sinister smirk, his mind already working on the plans to destroy Adrian. He can finally have the revenge he has been craving for fifteen years.
To have Adrian punished was a want before it turned into the craving for vengeance, his obsession to have Adrian's head hung at the front door of his mansion increasing with each passing day.
"Organ smuggling, drug dealing, kidnapping kids and making them homeless for a while before selling them off to other countries as slaves, forcing teenagers to have drugs and blackmailing their parents for money, he is trying to expand his sinister kinks to other countries too" Jared's assistant explained, her voice monotonous and filled with no emotion.
"And what's the punishment you have planned?" Kieran asks, knowing whatever Jared planned his punishment for, he is going to break all the rules and values to make sure Adrian is suffered to his fullest.
"Permanent sleep, death. He doesn't deserve to live. It would be every kid's peace if he dies, to know that they won't be suffered by that demon anymore" Jared explained, knowing Kieran would do it anyway.
"Is it going to be my way?" Kieran asked quietly while everyone else in the boardroom exchanged glances.
Kieran was known for his brutal ways to kill people. No one that fell in his hands was alive. Even if they were, it was either mind-dead or no limbs kind of alive.
Jared pressed a button, picture sliding, showing a young woman that seemed to have a few features of Adrian, her smile contagious, but her eyes weren't reflecting her smile, as if she was not alive from inside.
That intrigued Kieran. Her black hair, her smiley face but almost dead eyes filled with pain, plumpy cheeks, button nose, Hazel colour eyes with grey specks, doe eyes, heart shaped lips, fair skin, she looked like an angel. Kieran can't stop himself from staring at her.
"Who's she?" He murmured, his eyes taking in each of her features, her pain making him more curious than anything.
"Hazel Grover, Adrian's one and only daughter. Or the only daughter he shows to the world" Jared answered, frowning at the expression on Kieran's face.
Kieran's face hardened at his words. The only woman that ever had him intrigued like this is the woman that's no longer going to have a father anymore and he's going to be the killer. Kieran nodded, without showing any expression.
"She doesn't like her father much and she is not aware of his atrocities. She doesn't even know about his second family. She runs a fashion house, very famous in her field. So you can take her help to have him arrested, officially" Jared suggested, knowing how paranoid Adrian is and how he doesn't let anyone enter his circle.
"I'll look into it. Me and my team will do the job. Give me sometime and this case is going to have my whole attention for a while, so don't throw any cases at me" Kieran stood up, pushing his chair back and walked out of the conference room without waiting for any reply and went to the top floor of the building where his cabin is.
He is going to ruin her to make sure Adrian is dead in all ways.
A knock on the glass door of his cabin has Kieran jump out of his thoughts as he scrolled through dark web to find any information about Adrian, the man that ruined his life for good or bad.
"Come in" Kieran commanded, his voice filled with dominance shutting the laptop and sighed in relief when he realised it was his assistant, best friend and his right hand man. All three in one person.
"Why do you look like someone squeezed your balls?" Dorian asked grinning wickedly, amusement dancing in his eyes as entering the cabin and shut the door behind him.
"You heard what happened in the conference room" Kieran narrowed his eyes at his friend's comment, who seemed least bothered with everything.
"I did. And I thought you'd be happy to finally have the chance to take revenge on Adrian" Dorian shrugged, sitting on the seat opposite to Kieran.
"I'm happy that I got a chance, but we are not celebrating until we kill that motherfucker" Kieran's eyes darkened as he fisted his hands, his past events playing in his mind.
"Sounds good to me. And as Jared asked, I dug a bit more around that girl, what was her name? Oh yeah Hazel" Dorian hesitated to speak, looking at Kieran for approval.
Kieran nodded, gesturing to Dorian to continue.
"She broke up with her boyfriend this morning, like an hour or two ago. That Chad had been cheating on her like for two years or so and she never picked up any clue. Either she really loved him so much to ignore other women in his life or he was really good at acting" Dorian blurted out without any filter.
"How long have they been in a relationship?" Kieran asked, narrowing his eyes as he processed the information.
"Three years approximately. Why are you asking?" Dorian narrowed his eyes on his friend. Kieran is a really good man since they are childhood best friends, but when it comes to revenge, mainly something that's about Adrian, it sends Kieran to a dark place where no one can ever pull him back from.
"I need to know about her before we do anything, but this break up might be the perfect thing we need to enter into her life. And by we, I mean me, I want to handle this single handedly, I mean your hand will be there, but I'll be the only character she'll see" Kieran looked straight into his best friend's eyes, his adam's apple bobbing up and down at the slight doubt he is having in his mind at the plan he formulated quickly.
"To tell her how asshole of a father she has, you need to be a character? What are you talking about? Jared asked us to tell her the truth" Dorian stated, suddenly not having a good feeling about whatever was going to happen and kieran's sinister smile just confirmed his doubts.
"And who said I'll take orders from anyone?" Kieran raised his eyebrows, finding this conversation rather amusing.
"Kieran, I need you to tell me whatever that is running in that wicked mind of yours" Dorian's voice held a warning as he tried to be polite.
"Adrian is going to experience what he did to me. Snatching a loved one. Or three in my case. But that asshole deserves it" Kieran shrugged, leaning in his chair like he wasn't talking about spoiling someone's life.
"Easy words. I need easy words to understand" Dorian cleared his throat, almost having an idea of what Kieran was going to do, but he wanted to be so wrong at that moment as he prayed in his mind quietly.
"I'm going to make her fall in love with me and then show her what kind of a bastard her father is" Kieran's smug voice had Dorian look at him with wide eyes, his mouth forming an 'o' shape at how cool Kieran is about this.
"She just had a break up" Dorian deadpanned, composing himself from shock after a few minutes. Kieran isn't that kind of person and he won't let his best friend spend the rest of his life regretting this.
"So?" Kieran asked, looking bored at the statement.
"A three years of serious relationship and she found out that her boyfriend is cheating on her with her very own personal assistant. I don't think she'll be interested in any new relationship soon, or even if she is, I'm so damn sure she can't take another heartbreak when you make her fall in love with you and then show her yours and her father's real face" Dorian sounded angry, his jaw clenched as he banged his fist on the table.
Kieran's brows shot up in surprise. Dorian is not someone who usually goes against Kieran's plans because he makes sure no innocent gets hurt.
"What happened?" Kieran asked, sensing his best friend's anger, not liking it. He'd go on with his plan anyways, with or without his best friend's support.
"She is innocent. Making someone fall in love with you for your own selfishness and then breaking her heart is cruel. We don't hurt innocents" Dorian glared at him, his nostrils flaring as he stood up from his seat, not liking the way Kieran was going about this.
"What if she is not innocent? What if she knows what kind of person her father is?" Kieran retorted, swinging in his chair side to side.
"What if? You are going on with a case with 'what ifs'? What the hell is wrong with you?" Dorian yelled, throwing the file in his hand about Adrian on the table.
"No, I'm certain what I'm going to do. And I'm not doing this to hurt her, I'm doing this to hurt him. Adrian is going to know how it feels to lose your loved one but in his case, she is going to be alive, just hating him" Kieran paused, leaning forward and grabbing the file before he leaned back, going through the contents.
"Whether you like it or not, this is going to happen. I'm going to go on with this and I'll spend the rest of my life apologising to her for whatever I did. I'd rather regret this than leaving Adrian to his karma" Kieran started with a sigh before adding-
"I'll make her fall in love with me if it means I get the revenge I want from 20 years."