AN OVERSIZED POTATO!

BRIA

I couldn't look away from his insanely handsome face, and he didn't back away, adding to my misery.

"Why?" His hot breath fanned my face.

I struggled to think as my brain turned into mush. The only thing that overpowered my senses and rode on my mind was him!

"I d-don't know" I whispered honestly.

"How?"

"Uh?" I gave him a dumbfounded look.

"How do you know when I am staring at you?" I stilled hearing his question.

What should I answer now?

"I just... feel it. It feels like you have the lasers in your eyes that burn me whenever you stare at me for longer than three seconds..."

Something changed on his face, but I couldn't pinpoint what.

The only relief was he was not upset by my answer.

'You go, girl!'

But how could I when his brown orbs stared at me, trying to look through my soul? I missed his goggles!

Why was not he wearing them now?

I shuddered visibly when his long finger touched my bare arm. Goosebumps appeared on my skin at his feather-like soft touch.

"Does this too make you feel uncomfortable, Miss Maxwell?" He whispered, sending chills down my spine. He ran his fingers down on my arm, leaving a trail of burning sensation behind.

I shut my eyes tightly, fighting the fountain of unfamiliar emotions that were ready to rise inside of me.

"P-Please!. D-don't touch me!" I breathed out while clutching the hem of my shirt tightly with my hands.

"Then answer me. How does this make you feel, Fire? You don't like it?" He asked while his fingers found their way up to the exposed skin of my neck.

God! Please save me from these torturous ways of this devil!

I sucked a deep breath when his calloused fingers ran on my collarbone. Something dark and prominent ignited within me, rumbling against my walls. I bit my lower lip to keep myself from making any sound.

"You are disrespecting me by keeping quiet, Fire. And you know that will lead you to get punished. Do you want that now?" He gently freed my lower lip from getting harassed by my teeth.

His eyes were focused on my lip as if it was the only watchable sight in the world. I saw a drop of red blood on the tip of his thumb. My blood!

That was when I felt the stinging sensation on my lip.

His eyes flickered to the red liquid on his thumb for a moment, but they soon found my face. I was in a trance that I was not aware of my actions. I shook my head slowly.

"Words, Fire!" He demanded.

I gulped down as I felt my throat run dry. His eyes followed the action like a hawk.

"No. I don't want the punishment." I breathed out.

His face relaxed after hearing my answer, indicating that he was satisfied with it.

His following action set my body on fire, as he deliberately pulled his hand away from me and licked the little blood on his thumb, his eyes not leaving my eyes at all. He put his thumb in his mouth and sucked the drop of blood after engulfing his thumb with his lips. My eyes widened as my pupils dilated with passion rising inside of me. I gulped nervously as my lips parted slightly.

I felt like collapsing right then and there. My breaths came out shallow, and it took me every resolve not to bite my lip again.

"Bria, I am hungry. Are you done?" Cameron shouted from the first floor, making me jump out of my skin.

"Yes. I am almost done. Come down" I said loudly, thanking the lords above that my voice didn't betray me.

I dared to peek behind to see the devil sitting in the dining chair.

When did he go there?

I swear the man is Vampire! He even tasted my blood!

We had dinner after that, and I kept my eyes to myself. Cameron asked me about my bruised lip making me choke on my food, but I successfully made some lame excuse that he bought.

Once the dinner was done, I began cleaning the kitchen when Cameron came to stand beside me.

"Hey, we have a free day tomorrow. The meeting is day after tommorrow. Would you like to go on a walk with me?"

My eyes twinkled in excitement. "Of course! I would be more than happy to explore this place." I exclaimed in delight.

Cameron gave me a warm smile. "Ok then. Good night, dear little sister!" I was taken off guard when he hugged me.

My heart melted hearing those words from him. I smiled and lifted my hand to hug him back but stopped in the middle when I saw the devil with his vein popping out of his forehead. He watched us like an angry bull who was ready to attack with its horns.

What the hell was his problem?

That night he didn't show up in the bedroom. So I had the whole bed for myself, and yet I slept in the chair, thinking he would return late in the night and sleeping in that chair for a giant like him would be a problem.

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ANONYMOUS

"They have landed here and now are heading to their place." I heard the person talking from the other side of the phone.

I smiled in satisfaction. "Good. Keep a watch on them. I don't know the exact location of their stay but I will send you whatever information I have. You have to find their exact location."

"Ok. You are sure that King doesn't suspect you?"

I smirked. "If he had even one per cent of doubt on me then you wouldn't have been talking to me right now."

"Fair enough." The person on the other side of the call agreed.

"Now don't contact me till you are done with the plan or my cover will blow up," I warned.

I cut the call and sat on the bed, staring at the wall in front of me.

'King, You have taken the most precious thing away from me. You are the reason that I never got a moment of peace, even for once in my life. You got everything that only I had a right on. Now watch how I will take everything away from you. The people who are loyal to you, the people who fear you, this enormous wealth, worldwide business, power and your EMPIRE.

I will fucking burn down everything into ashes right in front of your eyes. I will make you beg for your life. I will torture you every minute and every second. I have risked everything for this day. I have sacrificed everything to see you on your knees. This is my revenge!

Poor Bria Maxwell, you must die along with King and his lapdog! You shouldn't have agreed to go with him.'

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KING

I intentionally spent the whole night in the living room staring at the kitchen where I had spent those surreal moments with Fire. I almost lost my control there. If not for Cameron, then I might have...

Thinking about it made me suck a deep breath. When I returned to the bedroom in the morning, I found her curled up in a chair without any blanket to cover her. I glanced at the bed to see it as clean and neat as I left it.

I ignored her and took a shower. Changing into black pants and a black shirt, I came out of the washroom only to get bumped into her.

Where I was all washed up and clean, she looked like a homeless woman with her signature morning look.

"You-"

"I-am-not-drooling!" She said, emphasizing each word.

Well...

I cocked my brow in amusement, and the action didn't go unnoticed by her.

"I was actually going to ask if you slept well but that additional knowledge was good to know."

"Why, thank you! That was so fake kind of you" She sassed, smiling sarcastically.

And even in her morning look, she looked... tempting. My eyes fell on her lip which was still swollen from the last evening, only to travel down to settle on her chest.

Her necklace reminded me that it had a tracking system in it. It meant whoever had control knew our location.

"Now who's the one drooling, you sick pervert?!" She mimicked my deep voice.

My eyes snapped to hers. "What did you call me?" I took a threatening step toward her.

"Pervert! You are a sick pervert! Are your ears not working fine?" She said heatedly.

"Why did you called me that?" I genuinely wanted to know.

I kept crossing the distance between us, and she kept backing away from me until her back hit the window behind her.

"B-because you were s-staring at my ch-chest" She mumbled.

"Miss Maxwell"

"Y-yes?"

"A pervert can do many things which are beyond your imagination other than only staring at your chest."

Her eyes widened before she nodded her head like an obedient puppy. But I knew she was far from that.

I enjoyed her squirming in uneasiness and the way her act of confidence always cracked around me.

Only I could make her feel those things!

"I prefer braveness, intelligence, strength and beauty over cowardness, dumbness, weakness and an oversized potato to be a pervert."

"Oh!" Her face fell, registering my words and then they hit her brain. "Wait! You just called me an oversized potato?"

Her high-pitched voice rang painfully in my ears, and I backed away from her.

"I also called you coward, dumb and weak, Miss Maxwell!"

When a pillow came flying in my direction, I was already walking out of the room, leaving Fire fuming in anger.

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CAMERON

As promised, Bria came screaming my name and after some time, we both were on our way to the stroll around the place. This place was beautiful and Bria's incessant blabbering, it just made more amazing!

She was annoyed that the men followed us and asked about it.

"Why are they following us?"

I sighed "After the little stunt we pulled that night, King has warned me to not go anywhere without guards. Thank god he didn't make them follow me to the toilet every time!"

It was the first day in the past ten years that I spent by the lakeside with Bria talking about random things and making jokes. I was laughing and looking at the light through a different light.

And it all happened because of the tornado that crashed into our lives unexpectedly. But I was grateful that it did!

While on our way back in the evening, we took the short route as we were already late.

"Hey, Camera. Look that flower!"

I heard her thrilled voice as she ran to touch the vibrant-coloured flower.

"Bria, stop fooling around. It's getting dark. King will kill me if we get late than this." I complained.

She rolled her eyes, and I turned to leave, but her next words stopped me again.

"Hey, Camera. You said this is a private property right?"

"Yeah. Why?"

"Then why these footprints are here?"

I took a look at the footprints imprinted in the moist soil.

"It might belong to our men. Now let's go." I shrugged.

"Uhh! Camera, since when any of your men started smoking cigars while on duty?"

She pointed at the pieces of cigars near the footprints. A moment of deafening silence passed before both our eyes met, and we cursed together.

"FUCK!"

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