"Amanda, what do you want?" Jake wasn't in a happy mood. For once, he was feeling good and hanging out with someone that actually cared about him. He didn't have to pretend around her and he certainly didn't have to be hatching plans to get rid of her one day and make me fall in love with it the next. It was a roller coaster with Amanda and as much as he loved it, it was getting to be very exhausting."I'm waiting outside our apartment for you. I want to take you somewhere. Come quick." The woman didn't wait for him to pick. Jake was starting to see a pattern. All she did was bark orders at him and expect him to follow blindly. She didn't have a maid at their house and she was taking him as her own personal maid. Jake ignored the anger boiling inside of him and got up."I gotta go. Wife needs me." "Okay. Well, we should do this again sometime, okay? I really had fun." Sasha smiled, hiding her frustration at always being the second person in his life. "Yeah. Me too." Jake placed a ki
"Now, in here is something that is very delicate," Levi said when Kevin had reached their seats with the bag in his hand. He started the slow process of opening the bag."Wait!" Maverick screamed as Levi took hold of the bag's zipper. His voice cut through the silence that had engulfed the room and startled everyone."What is it?" Jake could see that Levi was getting tensed."We haven't locked the door yet. Anyone can come in." Jake suddenly became scared. What could be inside the bag that they would have to shut the door just to open it? Kevin walked briskly towards the door and after he had poked his head outside and confirmed that there was no one out there, he closed the door and locked it. "All clear," he said as he walked back into the room. Jake suddenly became aware of the fact that they were the only ones in the room. And even when they walked in, he didn't see anyone else in the room. Just the three boys. Maverick grabbed him by his collar and dropped him viscously on a cha
"If you think that I'm afraid of you, you must have another thing coming. And I will warn you to not get me upset. Believe me, you do not want to see what I can do when I'm upset." With a snap of a finger, Jake could get Amanda removed from the surface of the earth. He could bankrupt her father's business, he could ruin her mother's life. Jake could bring the entire Cash empire to the ground, but he chose not to. Luckily for them, he was a man of peace. A trait that Sasha hated most of the time about him. He could never dish out the punishment that people deserved to them.Amanda moved her body closed to Jake. She may have been scared of him in the past but she had no reason to be. He was absolutely nothing. He was worth nothing and he had nothing. There was no way he could hurt her and so she needed not to fear."Do your worst," she whispered as his breath fell on her face that was alarmingly close to his. Jake stared into her lovely blue eyes, transfixed at how brave she could actua
Jake's heart wasn't pounding as he stepped foot into the club. How could it when he had beside him the most beautiful girl in all the town? The club was just as noisy and the lights were just as blinding as before. Amanda made a mental note to have a word of discussion with Levi about having his boss change the lights they placed in the club. She noticed that the colours of the lights did not complement with the paintings on the wall and it just didn't create the best clubhouse ambience. Jake knocked on the door of the VIP room and Kevin was the one who opened the door. Jake was beginning to think that maybe Kevin was the errand boy in the group. He nodded his head at the man as he walked into the room. He finally took the time to scan the room that he might be describing one day to the police. The room had few items in it and the brown paint they had on the wall didn't help it look any better. It appeared as a narrow hallway with just chairs and a table. But there were posters on t
Fear crept into Jake as he stared blankly at the evil smiles of everyone in the room apart from Amanda. He should have known that the will be a catch. After all, you don't take from the devil freely. "What does he have to do?" It was Amanda that spoke on his behalf and Jake was sure that he had heard the same fear in her voice as she spoke."It's not a big deal actually. All what he has to do is take an oath." Amanda scoffed. "When did you guys become so barbaric? Must he really take this oath?" "Yeah. If he wants us to trust that he won't run away with our product." Levi spoke and he took a seat on the sofa that Jake had sworn his body will never make contact with."Okay. Let's take the oath then," Jake said, he didn't need anyone calling him a bitch. He also wanted to leave their room as quickly as he could. Levi passed a look to Kevin and Jake watched as Kevin nodded his head. Maverick was the one who moved closer to Jake and grabbed his hand. "What the hell is going on here?"
"Repeat after me," Levi spoke. "With this oath, I promise to be loyal to the Chairman. I will not elope with his goods and neither would I rat him. If I try any of these things, let me die at the spot," Levi said and watched Jake's lips with satisfaction as the man uttered the words he was told to. Jake decided to not ask who 'the chairman' was. After all, what he doesn't know won't kill him. The men watched as Jake took a sip of the oath and finally handed the cup back to them. Jake didn't spit or make any distorted face. He kept a straight one as he knew that they would believe him. Kevin took the cup from his hand and quietly walked away with it. "So you guys are also into human trafficking?" Jake asked when the tension in the room had lessened."No, this is actually our boss's stock. But we do help him." Levi responded to his question."I thought you guys were your own bosses." "I can see how you would think that but I should warn you, Jake," Levi's voice dropped to a low and fr
Jake couldn't figure out which room was hotter. The VIP or the clubhouse. He held Amanda close to his side as he moved through the crowd with the boys. He could see some girls throwing dirty looks at him and the guys did the same for Amanda and he was grateful that Amanda paid such guys no mind. She must have been regretting bringing him to meet these guys. He could tell that from her sober appearance but he was going to make sure that she got exactly what she wanted. Levi moved into a booth and the guys that were sitting there hurriedly scooted away without a single word from Levi. It got Jake wondering who exactly these guys were to be able to remove a crowd from a space without uttering a word. Levi took his seat and so did the guys. Jake, who was still holding Amanda's hand, lowered himself into the seat and the smooth leather felt good on his skin as he sat down. Amanda inched closer to him and he wrapped his hand around her. He saw the angry look on Maverick's face, the look ca
Scott held the key to Jake's life and he didn't even know it. Maybe if he did, he would have collected the drugs for free or ended the good relationship he had gathered with the Chairman over the years. He knew that Jake was at a loss as to who the Chairman was, it was a clear sign that the guy was an amateur but then people had worked for them for ages and never got to know who the Chairman was. He preferred living a low-profile life in a secluded environment where no one knew his name. But in truth, no one ever knew the man's name. He was a mystery to everyone. Apart from one person.Jasmine Blake.The only woman who had ever heard him call himself by his name. She was an endangered species and the Chairman protected her with everything in his possession. Yet, the woman had no idea. Every day she would go to her office on Laker's street and sit in her little cubicle, input numbers that most of the time, she didn't know what they meant and then she would stand up and go home. She did