Chapter 14: Proposition

There's the smell that reminds me of the reason why I hate alcohol. The man that caused me so much misery is now kneeling on the floor bonded and gagged. If looks could kill I would have been strangled, chopped into pieces, and thrown into the ocean to become fish food. I laughed "The ground suits you well you old fuck." I said as I sat in the armchair across from him.

He spat the handkerchief out of his mouth, looked at me, and smirked. "Laugh while you can pretty soon you won't be."

"Mmm I really hope you die soon then there would be one less deadbeat asshole polluting the world." his smirk was replaced with a frown, how satisfying.

Apollo stood next to me "Kitten I know you must be wondering what business I have with your father, to put it shortly he stole from me and is now indebted to me."

I looked into the eyes of the now masked Mafia King "Why do I feel like it's more to this situation then you're letting on?"

"Well, our original plan was to torture and then kill him, because we knew there is no way he will be able to pay us back."

I crossed my legs "Which you should have it would have been a blessing to the world...but!?"

"But your father proposed a deal that would clear his debt and satisfy our needs." Parker completed.

Why does it seem like he has something he doesn't want to tell me? I looked at the other guys and they were looking everywhere but me, it was beginning to irritate me. "Tell me what the fuck is he talking about King!"

The boys and my father looked between me and Apollo shocked that I spoke to the Mafia King in a disrespectful manner. They were even more shocked hearing him answer you right away rather than getting upset "He offered you kitten. His deal was, we take you as payment for his betrayal and never bother him again. To be honest I wasn't going to take the deal, because that's cheap and we don't exploit women for our own needs."

I looked at my father "What gives you the right to offer me up to pay off the debt you caused? How more selfish and careless can you get?"

He gave me a dark chuckle "It's simple really, you mean nothing to me. You live or die it doesn't bother me. The way you live don’t concern me, until now you have been useless to me."

Apollo and the others were seething with anger. They didn't like the way Ray was speaking to her. How can he call himself a man or a father? For Livia this was nothing new, but that didn't stop her from getting pissed off. This was it...the final straw. She looked down to the floor scheming up a plan. Saying she was furious would be an understatement. From the corner of her eye, she sees her father smirking thinking that he has won, that he has finally broken her, but oh how wrong he is.

I held my head high with a smirk on my face "King I admire you and I like you very much, but I am not the one to allow wrong doings go unpunished."

He looked at me intrigued by my words "What are you saying kitten?"

"I am saying I have a better proposition for you. I will grant you one wish, no matter what it is I will fulfill it with every ounce of my being in return I want that piece of shit to suffer. Here's the thing, that man has put me through hell and back. To be honest, I could easily kill him right now and feel no remorse afterwards, but that would be too easy of a way out for him. That would be a gift compared to what I have in mind."

Whenever I hear her say she admires me my heart flutters, I knew from this point on I would do whatever she asked that I would willingly be her muse "Whatever you have in mind will be granted to you there's no doubt about it."

"First I need to know exactly how much this bastard owe you and why?"

"Why do you want to know that little one?" Parker asked.

My father laughed "Because that's what whores do. They need to calculate how much that need to sale their bodies to get what they want."

Adrian punched him in the face. He always said that if Apollo ever find the one, he will treasure her/him until his last breath. He aimed his gun at his head "Disrespect her like that again and I will kill you understand?" he shook his head yes... pussy.

"That was unexpected...anyways can someone answer my previous question." This girl always ready to get down to business.

Jack pulled out his notes "Well princess we first got involved with him about three or four years ago. He came to us wanting to borrow money, a loan for $20,000 we gave him six months the first time, but he couldn't pay so we were lenient and gave him an additional six months. He claimed it was to take care of his daughter, well that clearly was a lie. He was around the time he had to pay up again, but he still didn't have it. We were going to kill him, but Poet found out that he was the secretary of one of our enemies, so we made a deal."

"And what was the deal?" I asked wanting to know every detail of the matter.

Cassian who has been M.I.A. since earlier walked into the room "The deal was if he were to become my spy and extract all the information, we needed without getting caught, we would expand his deadline to a year and reduce his debt by 50%. He succeeded his mission, and we kept our end of the deal, but in the end, he fucked us over for the third time. Jack came to learn that instead of saving his money to pay us back, he was using the money to buy drugs and alcohol from our underground branches. Yes, it was only $10,000, but it was a matter of respect at that point. And to top it all off he stole from us."

"So, the old guy really put himself in some deep shit...interesting."

"What are you getting at little psycho?" Adrian questioned.

"Keep quit the adults are speaking." He glared at me while the others snickered at her comment. "What I was trying to say before I was rudely interrupted was, I can give you whatever he owes you ten times fold plus interest for the trouble that this old man has caused and to compensated for nearly killing Adrian earlier."

"My life is priceless." He stated proudly.

"Worthless? Okay scratch that part out then." I quickly responded causing the others to snicker under their masks.

But of course, my father just had to open his mouth "And how would stupid useless bitch like you be able to do something like that?" Parker had his hand on his gun ready to shoot him. I held his wrist and shaking my head no.

I sighed "Don't you know silence is virtue?... and that's the thing father unlike you I have a brain that I use daily."

Chris laughed "Her comebacks have become my favorite thing to listen to now, they are priceless."

"You are such a disappointment." The hatefulness in his voice struck a nerve.

I walked up to him and punched him in the face breaking his nose instantly "Don't you dare speak ill of me. The only disappointment in this room is you."

"Ahh shit... fuck fuck fuck that hurts." He groaned as he fell backwards.

I pulled him by his collar "Listen to me you son of a bitch I put myself through school... me not you. I made a better life for myself despite of you. I did everything you couldn't and more. I don't need you I never did, so to call me stupid and useless its nonsense. It's true I am that bitch who could have killed you a long time ago just be grateful I didn't. Disrespect me again and you will see my wrath. I'm done dealing with your bullshit.

He tried to free himself from my grasp, the irony "You think I'm scared of you, huh? Do you think I would believe you, huh? You dumb bitch. See I disrespected you know what you are going to do about, huh? I guess I didn't hit you hard enough as a child."

Poet gasped "What? You abused her?... He abused you?" I hesitantly nodded my head. Apollo was beyond angry at this point the mere thought of someone putting their hands on his kitten boiled his insides, but before he could react Cassian shot him in the arm.

"Keep talking I dare you. Let another word escape your lips and I swear to god I will pull every tooth out of your head and the sew your mouth shut myself." Cassian said through gritted teeth.

No one ever expected him to lose his cool, out of all of us he is the most levelheaded. "I guess you've just sealed your fate of not making it out of here in one piece." Apollo mocked. "Even though my kitten could easily take you down on her own, I can't just sit back and let her have all the fun. Listen I'll be fair and pretend you have a choice in the matter, choose wisely.

a. I cut out your tongue.

b. I sew your mouth shut.

c. I break every bone in your body.

d. I do all the above.

"What's your decision?"