Chapter 55: "The tooth fairy will visit me tonight, I will place it under my pillowcase. No, beside my pillow case." Ruben prepared a light toast and freshly squeezed fruit juice for Tess, bringing it up to her room. He walked in without knocking it, strolled into the bedroom and suddenly stopped in his steps. Luke and Luuk were on the bed with Tess. She was now wearing a silk night dress with a silk robe draped over her shoulders. Luke had his head on Tess's lap, his eyes were closed as he enjoyed the comfort of Tess's fingers caressing his hair. Ruben frowned in displeasure at the two intruders as he narrowed his eyes at them. Luuk returned Ruben's gaze with gloating eyes, his eyes conveyed the words– who is the boss now? "Oh? Father, come here" Luke sensed the awkward silence, he opened his eyes to see Ruben standing awkwardly in the middle of the wide room. Ruben grunted lowly, delivering the food to Tess's bedside. "Why are you here? It's 1am and you should be sleeping." H
Chapter 56: "One bang and you're gone."Luuk's Artificial intelligence prototype went viral when an employee posted a photo of it. The Netizen, especially the females, were very enthusiastic about it. They posted multiple comments on De Vries chat web page asking the official launching of the shopping assistant. "Sunny is about to be my bestie." "When is this feature coming onto my screen? I'll invest in my entire property." "Don't let the fashion influencers see this, we would suffer from oppression." "Sunny is such a befitting name, shedding light on our shopping dilemma." They demanded for the company to give them a reply soon. The Netizen were the only ones enthusiastic about sunny, the artificial intelligence shopping assistant, other business owners especially the shopping apps and rich conglomerates wanted it for themselves. Fashion influencers and celebrities took to their social media accounts to show their interest and support in the viral shopping assistant. De Vrie
Chapter 57: The top dogs. "Raise your fucking hands above your ears" The vicious looking intruder spoke in a ear-aching gruff tone. He had a frightening unique scar across his face, from his lower left cheek through the bridge of his nose to his upper right cheek just below his eyes. Even more weird and frightening was that everyone else that came with him had the same scar. Ruben raised his hands above his head slowly, conceding to the rough looking man's request. Inwardly, he had no intention to engage in a physical brawl, only thoughts to escape the hell hole. Reality hit when the rough looking man cocked his gun, moving closer at point blank range. Ruben stood stoic, his face devoid of warmth and any emotions. He looked calm as if he wouldn't be dead in an instant if the other party decided to pull the trigger. The scary scarred man shivered slightly, he had heard of how terrifying Ruben was and he had huge respect for him and his unruly ways but unexpectedly, their big boss
Chapter 58: "Do you still want to see my face?"As they were huge in number and up against only one prey, Ruben used it to his advantage, they couldn't attack him at once so they came in pairs. Growing up, he had followed military training to build strength and his martial arts skills so taking on three men at once wasn't so difficult. One scrawny guy and two heavily built men approached Ruben, waving their weapons at him. Ruben acted fast, he slammed his elbow on the scrawny guy's face, his hard rock muscle sending the latter a few steps back, to the ground, wincing in pain.In the same moment, one of them took the advantage to slice Ruben but he cut through thin air. Ruben had seen through his attack from the corner of his eyes. He shuffled two steps backward, evading the first enemy's attack and delivering a fatal blow to the second enemy's gut. He grabbed the metal bar from the fallen enemy and whacked the last standing burly man among the trios. Ruben was very versed with human
Chapter 59: Avis Tess could tell her work was done with Li. She had crushed his will to live and rendered his brawny muscles useless. She turned her back against him, raised the crest in her hands and instantly, all of the men stopped in their actions. They were originally staring at the fallen Li in shock because he was plummeted by a woman a third of his size. In the process, their eyes fell on the crest that shone in Tess hands and they fell on their knees at the same time, shaking as it they were faced with a ferocious blood-sucking beast. All colors drained from their faces and they lost strength in their limbs, expecting the doom knocking at their doors. Everyone in the underworld recognise the crest in Tess's hands. It was impossible to make a replica and anyone who spoke of making a duplicate would be killed instantly. A special batch of men were dispatched to ensure the genuity of the crest isn't compromised. The crest was made with a special metal ore and different color
Chapter 60: Elisa"Mmh, she was a good friend of mine." Tess helped him up. Compared to the other fallen men, the young guy had no scar on his face, just a streak of charcoal in imitation. Tess had a notion that he was the plaything of the boss of the top dogs but was sent into battle after he was abandoned. It was a common act in the underworld, rulers send their lovers to a battle of no return after they had fallen out.Not just lovers, when a person of higher authority tries to court another and they refuse, the laws of the underworld prevents baseless killings so they send the person to battle and most times give specific instructions to the leader of the team that the person must not return. '"What is your name?" Tess asked. She wiped the streak of tears falling from his eyes with her napkin. Her eyes were filled with soft tenderness. "Rex…mother named me Rex." He replied. Tess met a friend named Elisa during her first journey to the underworld. Elisa had a very cheerful per
Chapter 61: "Someone has been having lewd thoughts about an injured person."Ruben stared at Tess wordlessly. He seemed to be lost in the depth of his mind. "Do you trust me?" Tess repeated. Her voice wobbled slightly as a budding of fear rose in her heart. Truthfully, she was still in doubt about the recent occurrences. Luke, Ruben, Brittany's and Lucas's heinous plot, and the strange events that came with it. She felt everything could be a dream, a long bittersweet dream. A mix of steamy passion, bliss and dreary tragedy, fiction-like. She had been too busy to process the whole situation but now that she thought of it, what if it was all a dream? What if she was still living in the past, six years ago, and all of these were a manifestation of her wishful thoughts, a warm family and loving husband. "Tess, You are my world. When one loses trust in their world, they lose themselves and their reason to live." Ruben's voice pulled Tess out of the hazy layer of fog clouding her senses
Chapter 62: "Mmmh I want a lot more in places only us can see."The sun stood high in the sky, shining its glory on the world. Shimmering rays of light seeped through the window curtains, spying on the couples cuddled in each other's arms. Their sweet serene moment was interrupted with a knock on the door.Tess woke up first. She snuggled out of Ruben’s strong embrace, rubbed her eyes sleepily and yawned in exhaustion as she got off the bed to pick her robe laying on the floor from their intense session the previous night.She walked to the door sloppily to open the door. There she saw Thomas standing at the entrance. He was wearing a dark blue retro suit, with his hair gelled up. It seemed like a dressing for a special occasion as his hair was always led down in a fringe. Due to their height difference, Tess's eyes traveled down his long legs to his shoes, a designer Tommy brown leather man shoes. A minute passed and he hadn't said a word. She retracted her eyes from his shoes and