CHAPTER 14: TOWARDS REVENGE

"Hey wait up! King wait!" Charlotte shouted after king, she was practically running, though she didn't mind, this was the least of the things she could do to gain this man's attention, call her shameless all you want, she gets that everyday and she just doesn't give a damn.

The cold man finally came to a halt, he sighed frustratedly, he didn't know why this woman has chosen to be a constant thorn in his flesh, no matter how many times he tried to scare her away, she still somehow managed to come clinging back to him, she was a nuisance to him.

They met in high school, when King was in his last year in junior high school, Charlotte was just in her first year in junior high school. Normally, King would never know or have anything to do with Charlotte if not that she was a family friend, and Charlotte as little as she was back then, would always take advantage of this relationship.

She always calls out to him in school, always wanting to sit with him during lunch at the cafeteria and she would always want to go home together with him, even though she had a chaffeur that takes and collects her from school, she would always leave the man hanging.

It would have been bearable if he only had to put up with her in school, but she made matters worst by showing up on every weekend! She used anything and everything as an excuse to be with King, it was so very suffocating for him!

But he thought she would get wearied out with time, but he was wrong, here they were all grown up, yet she was still as clingy as ever; even more!

"Hey! I've been calling out to you for ages!" Charlotte said almost out of breath. "What do you want Charlotte?" King asked demandingly, the only reason he stopped was because he had gotten to his car and his bodyguard had delayed a second to open the door for him, so she caught up with him.

"Nothing really, I just wanted to compliment you for what you did back there, you really whoop that guy's ass!" she said with a light giggle.

"Are you done??" King asked uninterestedly, he didn't even wait for her reply, the next thing, he got into his car and the guard was about closing the door when Charlotte abruptly held it, she almost fell in between the door, "no wait! uhh... there's this party...." "I don't attend parties. Harry, roll" he ordered his chaffeur and he started the car and they got rolling and his convoy followed.

She grunted frustratedly at the exiting cars, he keeps turning her down all the time, time after time, year after year! "But King my love, I don't mind, I really don't mind at all, it doesn't matter how long you keep turning me down, pushing me away, I will still keep shooting my shots. If I didn't give up all those years, I will certainly not back down now.

One day, you will make me the queen of your world and you... you're already the King of my world, King" she giggled and blew him a kiss and then walked back into the house.

As King's convoy drove out of the Luciano's mansion, they drove across Owen trying to get into his car, just as he was crossing to get to his car, the screeching sound of King's car startled him and he came crumbling down. King chuckled from where he sat, it turned out he had ordered his chaffeur to give Owen a little scare.

"Hey! Are you planning on running me over or what?! haven't you had your fill??!" Owen shouted nervously, King just scared the life out of him.

"Piss off scaredy cat or I will run you over" King warned sternly and just then, his chaffeur fired up the engine and was about to crush Owen, but he barely escaped, he went flying across the other side of the lane.

"You will not always have the last laugh King! One day, I will be the one inflicting pain on you, I promise you that!" he threatened after the disappearing car, oh he wish! But King is always at the top of the food chain, King as the predator, him as the prey, it's always gonna stay that way or is the tables gonna turn someday??

As they exited the Luciano's mansion, King's phone buzzed and he picked up.

"Speak" he said, urging his caller to state his business.

"Boss, I've got updates concerning the neighborhood you want to buy" the man on the other side of the line said.

"What about it?" he asked calmly.

"Well boss, some of the owners are reluctant to sell their properties to us, they just won't give in no matter how much we offer them, most of them claim it to be their family's legacy and so, they can't just part with it like it's some piece of cake. At this point sir, we've offered our best, going beyond what we're offering them right now would be completely outrageous."

"Hmm, still as stubborn as ever. Now tell me, what's the ratio of the willing sellers to the unwilling one's?" King asked.

"7 : 3 boss" he replied.

"That's to say, we have more willing sellers than unwilling one's, that's a win. Switch to plan B, they must know that I'm doing them a favour, people like them shouldn't even be paid a cent!"

"Boss, I really don't mean to question your orders but, don't you think it would be rash to just demolish their...." "Keep your unsolicited suggestions to yourself Lukas! And the next time you dare to question my decisions, I will get rid of you and that is going to cost you."

"I'm deeply sorry boss, I promise it won't happen again" "your promises is not what I need from you right now, I need you to get your sorry ass working!" "Right away boss!" he said and King hung up.

He was slowly accomplishing his dreams, and buying that neighborhood was one of them. Anyone who's going to pose as a threat to his accomplishments will get crushed!

He leaned back on his seat as this news took him down memory lane, he quickly shook it off, he can't let anything take him back to those memories, they should stay locked away for good because in those memories lived his worst fears, his weaknesses and most especially, his losses.

As he opened his eyes from his brief reminiscence, they landed on a high-end fashion couture and he smiled.

"Stop the car Harry!" King ordered and the car came to an abrupt stop, thanks to it's super breaks and luckily for the escort cars, they all had same breaks, else they would have come crashing into King's.

Soon they entered the shop, the shop was top-notch, but it was feminine and most people didn't understand why he was there. King being an important personality in the city, had the entire shop to himself, every other person was sent out.

"Welcome sir to La vida Lena! What can we help you with?" the bobbly manager asked as he came rushing to King, he knew very well who he was, so he tried to be as polite as possible, who knows the favour he might get from this once in a lifetime 'meeting'!

But instead of getting an encouraging reply from him, he was sent away by the simple wave of the hand, he wasn't even given as little as a side glance, the handsome billionaire seems to have his eyes on some other things.

He himself wasn't sure what he wanted to get, but he knew whom it was for. He skimmed his eyes throughout the shop for nothing in particular, until he got to a dress that got him. This was surely the perfect dress for his new woman, he quickly selected a matching bag and shoes and jewelries too, afterwards, that was when he remembered the attendant.

He asked for an attendant and immediately the manager came around again, he wasn't an attendant, so why does he keep showing up??

"I need wears that would turn a woman from a maid to a queen, do that in 10, I don't have more than that to spend here. Meanwhile, put these in a cart" he said referring to the ones he had already chosen and it was done immediately.

Just then his phone buzzed again, it wasn't a call this time, it was a message and he grimaced at it.

"Let's go!" he ordered curtly, forgetting and abandoning his order, but Leo quickly paid for the already selected ones in the cart and hurriedly followed him with them.