Leonardo

"Dammit!" Leonardo swore loudly, reached for the whiskey bottle before him, and angrily smashed it hard against the wall. Shards of the broken bottle flew everywhere around the room and the smell of whiskey permeated the atmosphere taking over the fresh air.  

The maids cowered in fear. Toni, Leonardo's assistant immediately moved out of harm's way, who knows when the bourbon bottle that was also within his reach would follow through and who knows which direction the bottle would fly towards, maybe his head since he was the bearer of bad news?

Toni gestured to one of the maids to open the doors and windows widely to allow in some fresh air. They wouldn't dare attempt to clean up the mess that was all over the floor yet unless they want to risk being trampled upon by their furious boss who was now pacing the length and breadth of the living room 

"Where the fuck is Matt!? Leonardo turned his deadly gaze towards Toni whom he saw was now standing far away from him. Toni was about to answer the question when Leonardo cut him off mid sentence, asking another question instead...

"And why are you standing so far away from me!?" 

Toni again opened his mouth to answer but his boss interrupted him yet again

"You know what, I don't give a shit… Just tell me where the fuck Matt is!?"

"He's already on his way sir..." 

"He's still already on his way, it's been two fucking hours! Doesn't he listen to the fucking news!? Or couldn't he see that the fucking internet has been abuzz with lies about me !?... I'm also all over the fucking newspaper and my fucking lawyer is taking his sweet fucking time in coming to me! Am I supposed to call the bastard before he knows to come to me!?" 

"He already called sir, said he got held up in the traffic on his way here..." Toni replied in defense of the lawyer

"Yeah, what a good day to get held up in the traffic, right!?" He asked sarcastically.  

Toni nervously swallowed the non-existence lump blocking his throat as Leonardo's cold eyes bore into his own. He finally breathes a sigh of relief when the deadly gaze shifts away from him.

Leonardo resumed pacing, his mouth set in a hard line and his features cold and unapproachable. He has never been this angry in his entire life and then nobody has ever played him for a fool and disgraced him this way.

He might be a playboy but he was still a fair one. He's never dated two women at the same time and he's never treated any of the women he's been with unfairly. As soon as he grew tired of them he always gave them enough money to set them up conveniently. 

It's not his fault that he couldn't stay with one woman, it's those women's fault for not being able to hold his attention for long. Now he knows he's been too lenient with them. Wasn't that what gave Lisa the guts to do what she did? How she thinks  she could defame him, get the netizen's sympathy and get away with it was beyond him.

She knew him well enough to plot her attack on a Sunday when he always allowed himself the pleasure of sleeping until ten in the morning. All his family members and close friends knew better than to call him during the hour of midnight till ten in the morning. That was why he immediately got up to answer his phone when he heard it ring. He already knew it would be an emergency. 

He sat up in bed and became unsettled when he saw the caller ID was his father.  

"Leo is it true that you raped a girl?" The question his father asked threw him off guard.

'Raped a girl!' He wondered to himself and instantly became alert, his brain cleared of whatever cobweb of sleep that was still lingering. Wherever did his father get that silly news from? He wondered but he also knew that his father wouldn't ask him if it wasn't important

"I'll call you back papà..."  He said and immediately disconnected the call with his father

He was about checking the internet for any news that his father might have stumbled upon when he got an email notification from Toni. 

He opened the email and saw Toni was already aware of the situation and had prepared a report for him.  Three pages of well-detailed information that showed that what his father asked him was true. Lisa his ex-girlfriend accused him on her twitter page of raping and physically abusing her on several occasions. 

When he was done reading Toni's report he went back and read Lisa's tweets and most of her friends' comments. He couldn't help but laughed at the ridiculousness of it all.

Rape and abuse!? He wondered to himself. How could he have raped her when she was the one that was always begging him for more sex because he was already getting bored with her. She doesn't interest him anymore. And how come she only knew to accuse him a week after he broke up with her? 

What got him to lose it was when he heard his assistant report that they've tried all they could to take her tweet down. They couldn't because the tweet has been retweeted so many times there's no way they would be able to stop the news from spreading further. 

"Stupid bitch!" He cursed Lisa aloud. Now apart from being known as a CEO and a billionaire, would people now refer to him as a rapist? He asked himself

He finally stopped pacing and sat down on his favorite armchair, reclining it to the back. He shut his eyes and massaged his temple just above his right eye where he could already feel a nagging headache coming up, making it impossible for him to think.

When Toni, his saw that his boss had calmed down at last, he immediately beckoned to one of the maids who still stood cowering in a corner to clean up the shards of the broken bottle that was scattered all over the floor.

The maid had not started to clean the mess when the intercom that linked his mansion to the security post started ringing. Toni picked it and listened to the message

"Your father is here sir. He related the message to his boss

"Oh fuck!" Leonardo swore under his breath. He wasn't expecting his dad to come around so soon. He knew he had just been served into his dad's hands, who he knew would nag him to no end about getting married and stuff like that. "This is going to be a fucking long day!"

Leo immediately stood up when he saw his father enter the room. 

"Papà..." He said in greeting

"What happened in here?" Leonardo's father, Matteo DeVille started by asking when he saw the shards of the broken bottle everywhere that the made had just begun to clean

"It was an accident. Let's go talk in my office Papà," He said, leading the way to his office.

"Explain to me everything that happens? His father immediately demanded when they both sat down in their chairs

"It was all a lie Papà! The accusations were all false. Why would I force myself on a girl that I have already fucked many times and grown tired of? I just broke up with her a week ago and she accused me of rape the following week!?"

"Okay, but if you had gotten married like your mother and I had suggested would all these have happened?" His father asked with a raised eyebrow

''There we go again... '' He leaned back on his chair and murmured, under his breath. "Can we not talk about this right now papà, please!?"