“Please wait here, Alp-, I mean Mr. Tynen will be back in a few minutes.”
That was the instruction given to Vevina without a single care about her own wishes. As she had said before she had fallen asleep in the vehicle having a sweet dream for the first time in a long while.
Still groggy from her sleep she hadn’t been able to grasp her sense of surroundings and by the time she realized where she had been she found herself all alone in a big office overlooking the cityscape glittering from the numerous lights shrouding the busy night.
She vaguely remembered Alastor informing her that he had to stop by his office to do some work before he would take her to her new home but she wasn’t very sure. Deciding to snoop around she walked forward to the gigantic table sat in the middle of the room and her attention was at once attracted to the black name plate kept on it.
‘CEO ALASTOR TYNEN’
The words were written in gold italics carved beautifully into its black background making it stand out. The richness and lure it held seemed to be laughing in her face as the reality of the man who had come to help her finally made sense to her.
This was no ordinary man that she met. People would have killed to have a chance to even talk to the young Billionaire who had led his father’s Event management company to the pinnacles of success in the business world along with conquering and expanding his name into many different fields such as cosmetics, clothes and jewelry.
He was a genius in the world of economics and was someone that her teacher from school would always bring up to a level of borderline obsession. The degrees lining the wall behind his chair along with a whole cabinet full of trophies on the other side of the room was a clear show of his wisdom and wealth.
To anyone else these things would have brought a sense of admiration and inspiration but to Vevina it had only been a moment of realization.
She had fallen out of the grasp of one rich man into being the puppet of another.
The kiss that she had been punished with flashed in her mind and feeling bile rise into her throat at the thought of submitting to money like her mother had to her father she pressed a hand to her mouth. A flush passed through her body making her stagger and catch hold of the desk.
She needed to do something or find a way out of there to stop the destructive images of her mother smiling at her while calling her, her daughter.
‘You are just like me, Vevina. You understand now the power of money, don’t you?’ the voice mocked her in her head and moving her hands away from her mouth and to her ears she shouted, “Shut up!”
But the voice didn’t stop as it repeated itself and realizing that this had all been Alastor’s fault she stared at his name plate. Snatching it she noticed the edge to be sharp, the metal winked at her telling her to do it. To use it to commit something that would hurt Alastor for having hurt her.
She needed to show him that just because he was someone who had money didn’t mean that he had the power to control her. The more she thought in that manner the more she realized that he had only been toying with her from the beginning.
Who was he to take a test of her?
Why did she need to prove anything to him?
She knew that every move that Alastor had played till now had been to demonstrate his power and influence to her. To scare her and make her docile to his will. It took her some time but she recognized the human behind the mask that he was wearing and she wasn’t going to be scared.
Not anymore.
The nameplate was the size of her forearm and holding one end of it she stared at the certificates lining his wall and standing in front of his college degree she laughed. Her parents hadn’t even cared when she had said that she wouldn’t go to college. Her father wouldn’t even stop to listen to the full news and her mother had laughed and said that she had expected exactly this from a disappointment like her.
Vevina then had been struggling to find courage to go to another educational facility where she might get bullied the same way as she had been in high school. She had wished and prayed to her mother to show some interest in her then and to help her take this step that was important in every child’s life but when she had done nothing Vevina had fallen deeper down the spiral of depression.
Therefore Alastor’s college degree looked like it had been making fun of her.
“You think you are smarter than me just because of these? I have already figured you out,” she muttered, swinging back the nameplate and smashing the frame containing his certificate. The glass shattered and flew around her, glittering in the light and finding the spectacle to be pretty she didn’t wait for even a second and smashing and kicking off the rest of the hanging degrees and diplomas she couldn’t help but giggle.
The fun was only short lived and now that she was done with it, the anger started filling her up again.
She needed to do something more.
This much destruction wasn’t enough, the office still looked too prim and proper.
Eyeing the trophies in the corner placed inside a glass cabinet she felt giddy at more shards raining and glittering like small iridescent gemstones from the white light falling on it. Deciding to make it scatter iridescence as much as she could she readied herself and then with quick shattering strikes into the cabinet she laughed as the glass flew all around her shining brightly in her eyes. A few pieces sliced and scratched at her skin but she didn’t care about them. They would heal up; she had already been used to them anyway.
With blood dripping from her open wounds and falling down on the strewn shards she noted that some glass pieces looked like rubies and grinning at her creation she picked up a particularly bigger piece leaving behind her previous weapon now that she had found a better one.
Frolicking to the couch she stood up on it, staring at the painting of Alastor. She stretched out her hand to the further corner that she could reach and grinning she scratched right through the top and carved a cross on his face.
‘I hope he will like this.’
She thought giggling as she scratched a few more lines across the same lips that had kissed her a while ago.
Getting down she then worked at destroying the couch, tearing open the leather and toppling the coffee table she dashed to the bookshelf on the other corner and threw out most of the books making them flutter and clutter at her feet. Stamping over them she looked around but there was nothing more she could destroy and finally decided to go back to Alastor’s untouched work table.
She was about to throw everything off it when she heard the door to his office open and looking back she found Alastor standing there staring at the scene before him.
Her anger had almost calmed by then but it gushed again at his appearance and smirking she said, “Did you think that I would keep quiet after the stunts you pulled on me? You should know by now that I am not ‘normal’ like the others. This is what you get in return for the test that you made me go through and the kiss.”
She watched him carefully, waiting with anticipation to laugh inside when he would burst out in anger at her. She wanted to watch his veins bulge to the limit where he might just pop open one but to her disappointment that didn’t happen. Instead of getting angry Alastor smiled and stepping in he closed the door behind him and laughed, “This is exactly why I like you.”
He said, making her suppress a gasp.
‘Was he crazy?’
The thought huddled in her mind at the jolly expression he had. She couldn’t fathom such a reaction and what did he just say- that he ‘liked’ her? Did the power of money make him go insane?
“Are you blind, I just trashed your office and that is what you say?” she asked, wondering what this unpredictable man had in his mind.
“The only time I might get angry at you is when you refuse to listen to me or disobey me. Since I never said that you couldn’t trash my office, I don’t see why I should scold you. Besides I had this coming my way after the test but the kiss was perfectly logical,” he explained, sounding like the proclaimed wise man he was.
Not getting the results that Vevina had wanted irked her and shouting she alleged, “Don’t think that just because you have money you can do anything that you want with me! I am not going to fall prey to rich scum like you.”
“But when did I try to overpower you with my money? I only offered you a job that you accepted. Moreover I would never show off my money to get you to do something I don’t need those things. I like it when you take charge of a situation and act out; subduing that chaotic beauty would be a sin.”
He said, making her think back and for a second she wondered if her thoughts had been distorted because of her mother’s voice in her head. He had been the one to come save her after all.
“Ah but there is one mistake that you made,” Alastor sighed, making her look into the direction of his gaze, “That painting had actually cost me a lot and was one of my favorites. Your destroying my image is a direct show of your hatred and defiance towards me. I can’t have you harming the employer, I can’t have you hurting me.” As he said this he took a few steps towards her and although Vevina stood her ground she felt something weird bubble in her stomach at his smoldering gaze.
Was it excitement?
Catching hold of her chin between his rough fingers he gazed at her lovely face, slightly unnerving her with his piercing blue eyes, “You can have anyone trampled below your feet, except for me. We work together or you stay a step below me, the choice is yours but never are you to stand against me. We have been in this together, Vevina, for a very long time now.”
His words surged a power through her and she realized that it wasn’t his money that she submitted before but his aura. There was something strange about his aura, his touch, his voice; that no matter what Vevina tried she couldn’t seem to escape it.
Feeling his hands slide from her chin to the side of her neck and finally to the strap of her dress she anticipated his next move as she heard him say, “That being said I hope you are ready for your punishment. It is necessary to remind you of never committing this mistake again.”
It was unknown to Vevina when she had been robbed off her weapon but the shard of glass that she had used to wreck Alastor’s precious painting now glistened in his hand and swifter than a blink of her eye he had cut off her dress’s strap making the material fall down at once.In the bright light of his office Vevina stood bare in front of Alastor’s hungry eyes in nothing but a matching pair of black lacy underwear. It had been the sexy kind that had been enticing and teasing with enough fabric to make a man’s imagination dance at the anticipation of what was hidden behind the beautiful flower patterns.The sudden nakedness and lack of clothing would have made anyone feel ashamed or awkward, especially when someone was staring at their body but not Vevina. She had been so used to her mother ripping off her clothes to hit her that shedding off clothes for someone else’s vision didn’t even bother her anymore.But her body had been so well conditioned to the actions that came after it tha
“I thought I told you Jax that I didn’t want any disturbance today,” Alastor grunted, walking out of his penthouse to a floor below where Jax was waiting for him in a conference room.“I am sorry Alpha but this was important. I wouldn’t have bothered you otherwise,” Jax apologized, noting that his Alpha had been wearing nothing but a robe. From the heavy air of sex that followed him, he was aware that when he had retired for the night to his room a few hours ago Alastor must have mated with his mate and the thought made him happy.Alastor had been waiting and searching for her for so long- to be specific for the past six years since he had turned eighteen that it had almost become disheartening to watch at one point. And yet even when he found her he still had to wait to have her for six more months and having seen the two struggle all along he was the happiest at this treacherously long awaited union.Besides him only a few knew about this bond to begin with.“What is it?” Alastor as
*The present time* Glaring at the hand that had almost destroyed her body from his roughness and fucked with her mind with its gentleness she slowly moved it away. She didn’t want to wake him up yet, liking the quiet solitude that she had lived in almost all her life.It was weird how just when she had made peace with the fact that she was fine with being alone this huge beast of a man had barreled into her life. She didn’t quite understand what he wanted with her and that messed with her head. On one hand he said he was just her employer and on the other hand he treated her like she was a fucking queen.Getting off the massive bed she felt a slight pain in her core from the rough sex that he had gifted her with for taking her punishment so well before. Standing naked in front of him she blocked the sunlight coming in through the glass wall that took up an entire one side of their bed room.This slight distance from him was making her body itch for some unknown reason and she wa
Stretching out her limbs Vevina stepped back into the pent house. It was an easy kill and she felt herself to be thoroughly refreshed after this little exercise.Walking to the kitchen she saw a basket of fruits kept on the island and feeling her stomach grumble from hunger she was about to take one when she realized that her hands were still dirty from the blood.It had completely escaped her mind that she had to wash her hands and walking to the kitchen sink she vigorously rubbed at it with the liquid soap kept there. When the smell of roses filled the air and her hands reverted back to their ivory color she wiped them on a hand towel kept there and rushed to get her food.“You might want to change your clothes and shoe before you get that,” Alastor’s voice cut through the silence making her realize that she wasn’t alone.Looking towards the entrance she saw him standing there. He was bathed and dressed in new clothes, a luxurious brown suit that was left open in the front to displa
Walking through the lavish ambience set up in a luxurious hall with Vevina by his side, felt enchantingly unreal to Alastor. She wasn’t small by any means but beside his towering height she looked so delicate to him that he didn’t want to part from her even for a second.Vevina was easily the most beautiful woman attending the charity event. Her long legs weren’t visible because of the fishtail finish of the gown but her curves perfectly embraced by the thin shiny material almost made him want to take her right back to their bedroom and make love to her.They had been late because of the slight deviation that Vevina’s act had brought upon and not wanting to be late anymore Alastor had to force himself to curb his desires after seeing the finished look of her already beautiful self.‘Are the preparations made?’ Alastor asked Jax through the mind link.‘Yes, Alpha everything has been arranged as you had wished for.’ The reply came back.“So this is the kind of party that you go to,” Vev
Antipathy rooted deep within Vevina’s barren heart snared at her and clutching her lungs making it hard for her to breathe.Demonic eyes banal and abhorring stared at her from every direction. It prickled her skin seeping through the outer layers and deep within her body making the years of abrasion come alive. Her mind whirled as her eyes flicked all around at the vapid eyes filled with malice.‘A pitiful monster that no one loves!’The words they chortled echoed in her head afflicting pain and sadness as an after effect of all the bullying that she had faced. She had believed that she had changed and that she had become better but after leaving high school she had never met them once. She had believed that would be the case forever.That wasn’t true and since her mind wasn’t prepared for these sudden tribulations it was making her light headed.The table before her eyes blurred, her head felt heavy and the gazes on her only increased the iron pricks sensation stabbing through her. T
“Are they your friends, love?” Alastor asked, smiling at the bully who had approached them, feigning ignorance.“Yes, Vevina went to high school with us,” she said, motioning to the other two main bullies sitting around her. The other minor ones looked away at the gaze of the queen bee Rachel. ‘Fucking Cowards,’ she thought but the other two who had hated this beautiful red head just as much came skipping to the table.“What a wonderful coincidence this is,” He said, showing surprise while looking between the two of them, making Vevina give a nervous smile. The discomfort she showed was noted by the three evil souls standing crowding her table.Passing a smile to each other they asked, “Yes, would you mind if we caught up with her? It’s been so long since we last talked and we have missed her.”Vevina lowered her head at the suggestion trying to hide her smile. They were falling for her act just as she had thought.“If it is alright with you all then you can use my private meeting roo
“Still think your Luna is a weak person?” Alastor asked his dumbstruck Beta who had just stepped inside with Alastor when Vevina had called for them.To Jax violence didn’t mean that it was a sign of a person’s strength but among his people they were certainly an indicator of one’s physical and mental power. To be ruthless was to be powerful in the land of the beasts and Alastor had always stayed on the top. Even then he had a better grip on his senses than Vevina. He knew when to stop and what was the limit although he crossed it many times being aware of it was more than enough.He couldn’t claim the same for Vevina.The red haired beauty stood smiling in the middle of the room along with small puddles and splatters of pungent blood with bliss shining in her eyes. She almost looked more grateful when her brown eyes shifted to Alastor and him, more so than the time when they had rescued her out of jail.Insanity was a colorful streak in her dull eyes.