10. Weak humans
John came out of the car, "Whose house is this? Why are you here?", he said loudly. He wanted to talk to Zara but saw her in a car and decided to follow. She walks over to him, sighs as she stretches her neck, "I'm tired of your accusations and nagging for real now", she said with a hint of annoyance in her tone.
John chuckled, "Tell me now or-", suddenly Mr. W pins him to the wall by grabbing his neck. "Know your place you weak.....", Mr. W wanted to say something further but stops himself. To him humans deserved to be oppressed, a world without them was ideal.
"Throw him out", Mr. W ordered the guards calmly and sat down on the sofa. "He is your fiancé? I'm glad you're not marrying him. It is better to marry a vampire rather than someone who dies early", Mr. W said as he took a sip of his tea. "You must really hate humans. Vampires too, can die. Like by being beheaded or if someone takes their heart out and so on. We never know what happens", Zara disagreed with him because it was very recent that she found out that she was a vampire, she felt humans were as important.
"I do because they are weak and die quickly", he said as his voice faltered. "We all look alike it's just that vampires are a little stronger and shamelessly feed on their blood", Zara scoffed. "I can't believe you are saying that", Mr. W's gaze changed to glare. "A vampire", he added. "We aren't much different from each other if you think about it", Zara forced a smile on her face. "I guess I should leave now", she said and left. Mr. W runs his hand through his hair and gazes in her direction coldly.
Ava was invited by John for dinner at his place. The terrace had an open dining area with a rectangular glass top table, chairs, scented candles and a barbecue station. She wore a black dress on the other hand John wore a white suit. She sat down and took a look at the spaghetti freshly prepared by the chef. John opens the wine bottle and poured it into two glasses. "So what are you wearing for the wedding ceremony?", Ava asked holding the wine glass with a flirtatious gaze at John. "Huh, I want her to wait for me wearing the wedding dress. As each minute passes she should feel anxious", John said in a bitter tone, clenching his teeth.
"I'll go with you", Ava raised her wine glass to point at John. "Ah so you want her to be filled with jealousy", he almost imagined the situation when she snaps at him, "No!". John flinched then felt irked. "I mean we can do that later. I don't want people to call me your mistress. I received a tip that Zara murdered someone in high school, let's use that tomorrow", Ava said with a mischievous smile. John forgot everything, "Tell me more about it", he said amused.
Zara reached home and opens the door to find her sister standing in front of the door with a bag in her hand. "Are you going somewhere?", Zara asked glancing at the bag then at her sister. "Home, I'm pregnant", her sister declared as she went towards the gate where a taxi was waiting for her. "Do you mean you're going to live with Oliver? After all that you've been through? why?", Zara was confused and felt apprehensive about her sister's decision. Her sister turned around before sitting in the taxi, "Zara I have my own family now, do you want my child to live without a father? I'm going to withdraw my complaint and live with Oliver", Olivia said ambivalently and sat inside the taxi. Zara stood still in disbelief.
Mr. W went inside the kitchen, he stops at the door when he saw Leo casually taking out stuff from his refrigerator and eating something. Leo waved and smiled, "How did you get in here?" Mr. W was peeved to see Leo eating the last pudding cup he had saved. "I have to find my brother. Where is he?", Leo's expressions changed. "I don't know", Mr. W replied. "Tsk c'mon he's upstairs I met him a few minutes ago", Leo said informally. Mr. W closed his eyes and let out an exasperated sigh. "I don't have anything against your brother. You know our deal. Just one more day then I will let your brother go. I don't have any intentions to harm him so he is safe with me", Mr. W added as he walked towards Leo. He saw an opened can lying on the table, "Did you eat this?", Mr. W asked panicked. "Ah that yeah it tasted bad though", Leo replied still focused on the pudding. "It's cat food", Mr. W said concerned.
"Ah is it? thankfully I didn't each much of it", Leo said as he threw the pudding cup in the dustbin. He puts his hand on Mr. W's shoulder, "I'm going", Leo said and left.
Leo stared blankly at the documents in his hand unable to focus on his work. He continously fiddles with the pen in his other hand then hits the pen against the table cracking the glass top. Leo keeps the pen and paper aside and calls someone, "Do a background check on Mr. W", he said and ends the call.
He takes a look at the time, it was midnight already but he was more distracted by the date, 15th July. Same day a couple years ago his oldest brother Ken was standing near a pool. Leo glared at him from behind, clenching his jaw. He pushed Ken which made him fall on his knees and hands. Leo grabbed Ken from behind and pushed his head into the pool, his upper body submerged in water. Ken struggled to grab anything he could but even so he couldn't save himself, soon he died. Leo tossed the rest of his body into the pool and walked away. Everyone knew that Ken couldn't swim, he wanted to avoid Ken's screams from being heard so he drowned him like that.
After a month or so Leo became the CEO of QUBÉ even after being the youngest brother since Robin had no interest in running the company.