Painful pleasure

ious. But as usual she maintain a calm look. Her dark hair bounced

gh to take possession of it. Her parents had built it from scratch. With her mother's talent for illustration and her father's knack for business, they were indeed

nsured that should anything bad befall them, she would be well taken care of. Her grand-aunt helped run the company until she was eighteen and ol

lowed a simpleton to try to ruin

ixed gazes of her workers, she stormed into the back seat

drive."

rked for her for a full year and he was the only chauffeur who had lasted that long. People often asked how he was able to survive that

on the engine and slowly pulle

ped the screen, Her clean sharp nails

t man." She said as soon as the he

" He answer

drews drove past them. They were filled with humans who linger

sed her thoughts on her phone. Mateo's heavy breathing filtered

be crossing her limit soon." She sniped and from the corner of her vision, she saw Andrew w

am." He

teo's voice echoed thro

ank

eply, swiping open the text messag

She seethed as sh

he lioness and hoped to go scot-free. Oh, she would make him suffer. Her eyes hardeni

e made one

s. We're goin

*

down the door to a suburban house, paving

rom the sofa he had been reclining on. His watery blue eyes watched as three severe-looking

mberly laughed at the wimp's pathetic attempt to look unaffected,

over the other. The grey pencil dress she wore, framed her feat

He stuttered. "How.

n't have time to waste and I would

came to stand at her side and gulped visibl

man had carted millions away from the company right under her n

way aren't we?" She hummed and

d to dash out the door. But one of the men caught him by his shirt's collar and threw hi

e yelled as one of the men hoisted hi

ed off Kimberly's ears an

ms? Or shall I give you

ed. "I'm.sorry.

hing as he writhed under the crushing hand o

se. I never mea

man. He was pushed to the ground and she watched him, her nose up in the air in disgust. Raising her heels she pressed the flat sol

in the eye. "I'll ask one last time Mr

..A fixed deposit. To... be unlocked in two

yes she might be horrible, but not that horrible to turn down his request when it has to do with

pointed look she turned on

*

y Lockwood's residence and scream

hair dripping water to the floor. Four maids hunched against the

sual they cowered in fear. "What is

k, peered at the mess on the floor and

mush slowly. Everything spun too fast and sounded too loud and she ignored the urge to cover her ears. She kne

e useless worker of hers had stolen her money and put it in a freaking fi

lagued her and forced her to stay awake. Thinking a bath would help, she h

cluster up for the maids to see. She was a long way away

." The brave

nned maniacally. "Now make sur

her bed, feeling extremely exhausted. Her face hit the soft duvet and she felt the corner of

oated and drifted towards certain deep black eyes a