DEVIN STONE: Rise of the Billionaire Magnate

CHAPTER FIVE

“You fucking bastard. What the hell are you doing here?” She snapped at Devin.

“Did you come here to beg after causing a scene earlier? How dare you raise your filthy hands on my daughter and her deserving man?” She yelled at Devin.

“Come on, you mean those two bitches?!” Devin calmly stated but quickly interrupted by Sera.

“You fucking clingy pest! Amanda must've been out of her goddamn mind to keep your ass around for so long. You should be on your knees thanking us for not letting you croak from hunger on the street. ”

She walked closer to him, her anger palpable.

“What the hell makes you think you can come here and harass us?”

Sera glared at Devin furiously. If he dared to take even a single step forward, she'd make sure he'd regret it big time! 

“Madam, watch your words! It was Amanda who cheated on me! I'm the goddamn victim here!” Devin was at a loss for words.

“Bullshit! Why the fuck can't she cheat?“

“You were just a pest in her life! A stigma to this family!“

”is she just gonna be stuck with a piece of crap like you and live like a widow?!”

Sera looked Devin up and down with visceral revulsion, as if he were a walking contamination zone.

“She's finally found a rich man to take care of her, and you want to pester her again?”

she added and crossed her arms.

Devin sighed while he shrugged his shoulders. 

“I came for what's mine. I'm not leaving until I find it,” Devin stated firmly. 

The bald bodyguard had checked the trash bin before they knocked but the necklace wasn't inside anymore.

Someone had taken it.

“Get the fuck out of my house!” Sera screamed and pushed Devin as hard as she could. Her knees gave way and she almost fell.

“There's nothing for you in this house! Everything here belongs to Amanda.”

“You're lucky I'm not pressing charges against you.” she continued.

“You delayed my daughter for so long and we didn't even ask for compensation for wasting her time,” Sera yelled at Devin.

Devin gritted his teeth as the angle of his face became more prominent. He had never expected that her whole family would be so shameless.

“I bought this fucking house! I paid your family's fucking bills.”

“And your daughter cheated me!”

“It should be you motherfuckers, pay me back!!”

Sera gasped in shock. She never thought that Devin could raise his voice at her. And the more she looked at him, the more she observed that he had changed.

Something was different about him. Sera just couldn't put her finger on it.

“You're nothing but a spineless sack of failure! What makes you think you're worthy to even breathe the same air as my daughter?” she pointed her finger at him.

“Let me make this clear – you don't deserve to lick the dirt from Luther's boots! Throwing your worthless ass to the curb was the smartest damn decision Amanda's ever made!”

Sera rolled her eyes.

“Now, get out of here or I will call the police to kick you out!”

Sera yelled again and attempted to shut the door in Devin's face. Devin scoffed contemptuously, done wasting breath on Sera's shameless trash. He shoulder-checked the door, steel-toed boots slamming toward the inner sanctum like a human battering ram.

But then, when she moved her neck, Devin's eyes caught a glimpse of his mother's necklace. His eyes flared and he suddenly pushed the door back while she attempted to shut it.

Sera gasped.

“Give me that necklace. It's mine,” Devin said in a growl. 

“You must be insane. You're fucking crazy over money. This is my necklace,” she argued.

The craftsmanship of this precious artifact alone screamed obscene wealth. No way in hell this belonged to Devin, the penniless cockroach. 

Even if by some cosmic mistake it did, anything found under her daughter's roof became blood-entitled property. Finders keepers, and she'd burn cities to keep it.

“I won't ask the second time,” Devin told her. He took it a step further and stared at her with a sinister look in his eyes, as if he was going to snap her neck and grab the necklace in the next second. Sera shuddered, she started waving her hands around and shouting for help.  

“Help me! Somebody help! He's trying to rob me!” She screamed out from the top of her voice. Footsteps approached from within the house and Amanda's younger brother Jim appeared.

Jim was as useless as they came. He had no job, no direction in life, and constantly jumped from one party, drugs, and crime to another.

He was involved in three break-ins, and Amanda had begged Devin to bail him out every time with his money. Devin had to do it because he loved her, but now he doesn’t.

“What's happening here? Why is this scum here?” He called out to his mother and wrapped his arms around her.

“That fucker is trying to steal my necklace!” Sera blurted out.

Devin ignored Jim and looked straight at Sera. 

"I'll say this one last time. Give me back my mom's necklace. I don't want to make a big deal out of this."

Devin repeated the words from earlier, but his tone was already quite cold.

"Hey, how dare you talk to my mom like that!"

Jim pointed his finger right at Devin's nose and started yelling, "Do you know who you are? You're nothing but a fucking dog at my sister's feet!"

Devin frowned, and his eyes finally turned completely gloomy.

Is this the quality of this family?

Seeing that Devin didn't say anything, Jim thought the latter was scared and became even more brazen in his taunting. 

“Why the hell don't you get down on your knees and bark like a fucking dog?”

Jim scoffed.

“Maybe if I'm in a good mood, I'll fucking give you some money.”

Devin still didn't say a word.

But this time.

He directly raised his hand and slapped Jim hard across the face as he was yelling.