Lies.

If possible Vanessa would have shot everyone around the proximity to save herself from the embarrassment but it was impossible for her to do that, the bullets in her guns weren't enough and among the crowds, there were her men too, who have gone thick and thin with her but ——- she just wished that she had something like a bottle of water of Lethe or something because tonight was going to be one of those nights that she wished she could forget.

Honestly, the embarrassment from which she was going through at the moment was enough to make her sob. This was too much! Why was she the one who was so unlucky? Though she was crying tears of regret, she still chattered on like a twittering bird. " ah, I am sorry. My phone slipped from my hand and I mistakenly dialled your number, I hope that I didn't disturb you?"

" No, you didn't disturb me," answered Nick as he walked out of his cabin in the office and strolled towards the employee break room. It has been quite a few days since he met Vanessa, yet she has been nothing but perfunctory towards him, she would only text him in the morning or the night and even those texts were nothing but good morning and good night greeting, for two days, he was worried that Vanessa might have played a prank on him because these kind of texts were exactly what his relatives of the older generations sent him.

What he didn't know was that Vanessa never used a cellphone before because she was afraid of getting traced and it was only recently that Derren brought a non-trackable phone that she was using before that it was all burner phones that would be used and discarded later on.

But then one day Romi complained to him about the same thing and realized that Vanessa wasn't playing a prank on him. She was the one sending him text messages but they lacked the interest that she has shown him back in the restaurant, there was even a few moments in his days where he stopped to think about whether Vanessa lost her interest in him. Now that he suddenly received a call from her, he was a bit happy on the inside but he didn't even get a chance to smile before she told him that she called him by mistake.

So, now what? What was he supposed to do now? End the call or should he try chatting with her? But what if she thought that he was being a bit too forward?

This was after all his first time talking with a girl on call.

He pondered about the situation for a few minutes before finally chickening out. " Umm, so should I end the call? You look a bit busy to me…"

" Oh, No I am not busy at all," said Vanessa as she grabbed the man who was trying to blindside her by his hair and pushed his face in a water barrel until he started to lose his breath. Only letting go when he was almost on the verge of losing his breath and then used the sharp knife that was hidden in her boot to deliver one last blow to the back of the man's neck. " I am not busy at all, we are just having fun here."

Turning on the silencer of her phone, she aimed the notch of her gun at the two men who were trying to overwhelm Joseph and pulled the trigger, silencing the two men once and for all.

" Is that so?" Nick could hear a lot of ruckus coming from the other side, he thought that Vanessa might be at a party, those high-class elites did have the habit of attending a party once every week. But then the sound of a gunshot blazed through his phone and his eyebrows instantly hit the ceiling above him. " Vanessa is everything alright, what's happening there?"

" It's nothing, nothing at all!" She pulled the trigger three times as she shot the man who just used his gun without a silencer and then glared at the men who were looking at her in terror and mouthed. ' Use your gun without a silencer and I will end your freaking life.'

The men: "…." EEP! MONSTER!

Vanessa wasn't called the 'Princess' of the underworld for no reason, her agility and strength weren't something that even Derren dared to look down at much less these men who have suffered so much under her hands, they immediately turned their silencer on before starting the fight again.

Only then did Vanessa turn her attention to Derren and smoothly lied. " It's nothing just my brother and his antics, he wanted us to watch a movie together and he chose one of those action-packed thriller ones."

Nick was surprised that a tiny blonde like Vanessa was watching an action movie that was filled with violence. He never thought that she would have such a peculiar taste for someone so small, but he wasn't going to judge her for that everyone had a different taste. " I see, so you like these movies?"

" Oh, no..not at all," said Vanessa as she staggered when the man behind her took advantage of her lack of attention and smacked her head with a thick log, furious she got hold of his hair and smashed his face again and again with her knees as she grounded out. " There is no way that I will like something so gruesome." She plunged the notch of her gun into the mouth of the man who succeeded in getting a hit on it and shot before continuing to aim at her other targets. " I simply hate everything bloody, cruel and ruthless." She pulled her hand back and smashed the back of her gun in the face of the boss of the Black Cobra gang and dug the heel of her shoes in his crotch causing him to shriek like a pig getting slaughtered. " Even the smell of blood irks me."

Standing in the middle of a pile of bloody corpses she grimly smiled as she finished lying. " I absolutely loathe it."

I will be stocking the chapters for a mass release next month, don't think that I have abandoned this book!