Con wasn't mad at the whole thing.Just a bit annoyed that all this had happened while he was asleep and he was barely aware of it the whole time. They could have done so much more if he was awake. He could have taken her to the pinnacles of pleasure and shown her the way back too, but he had been asleep and he had let such a golden opportunity pass him by.Con sighed and looked around his room.Aubrey was right. The place was indeed filthy.Cleaning up wasn't an option this morning because he still had to go to work.Today was a Thursday and he didn't have a day off. Jane would want to see him and so would Adeline.With any luck, everyone at Nurain would want to see him and then they would laugh at him, for being so thoroughly humiliated and disgraced.No doubt some people would want to taunt him too, so he had to get to work and face all of this fast so he could come back home and start plotting.His enemy list had just increased with two more names. Jake Caswell and whatever th
Con got to work late again but this time it was for a good reason.He was surprised.Even John didn't reprimand him too much for coming late when he saw the puzzled look on Con's face.None of his co workers could think of a reason why he looked like he was in deep thought, but anyone looking at Con could tell he was heavily thinking at the moment.Con sighed.So it wasn't his fault after all.He had only gone to the wrong lady because he had been shown the wrong lady, and he had sincerely thought she was the person he came to the party for.He really didn't know how to digest this new piece of information. On one hand it made him happy to know that his memory was still as good as ever, even if that was the only thing he had going for him, at least he had that, but on the other had he felt a bit annoyed at both Aubrey and Lana.His landlady had unintentionally misled him and shown him the wrong picture, and Mrs Caswell hadn't been really forthcoming with the truth of her identity eit
Con arrived at Adeline's office to see he wasn't being tricked or trapped.Well he wasn't being trapped. Tricked though? Maybe a little.Adeline had done something to her office and it had changed since the last time he had been in here.To begin with, her table was cleared, there wasn't a single file on it and apart from that, there was a bucket of champagne.Right in the middle of the table.Adeline was dressed in the most alluring dress he had ever seen her in, a lot of skin was on show but there was also some layer of added modesty to it.She always looked prim and perfect, but her small face and luscious lips looked extra tempting today and the way she looked at him with so much innocence made him want to smirk at her and pull her into his laps.Adeline smiled at him and took her seat while Con killed that thought in his mind.Of course he couldn't do anything like that.If last night had taught him anything, then it was that he was at the very bottom of the food chain, and when
Con noticed something like a flash of disgust pass by on Adeline's face but it disappeared as fast as it had appeared.Adeline simply smiled and nodded her head at him."In a way, I guess."Con grabbed his glass and drank from it.Adeline was acting weird. His time as a mercenary soldier had taught him not to overlook any sudden emotions that his men exhibited.Hidden emotions could be dangerous especially when your survival as a team literally depended on your level of teamwork. That was one of the things Con had made sure to make very clear to his men.Any issues had to be thrashed out before they went into the field, and he sometimes had to step in to intervene in settling those issues, and ultimately his men were always transparent with each other.They could argue and have disagreements but they weren't allowed to hold grudges. That was a major rule.The way Adeline was acting didn't make Con feel too safe. Truthfully It didn't make him feel safe at all."Are you scared Con?"
The ornate marble walls of the museum gave off a sleek feeling to the building.In fact it gave off a sleek feeling to everything that was in here.Jake followed the guard who walked ahead of him as he was led through the personal museum of the Aliyev family.Gabe and the other two members of the Black Clouds had advised him to come seek help from them.Jake had actually thought they would help him after they had humiliated him. After he had slapped Lana in the hall and Gabe had helped him disgrace the man that had been dancing with her, Jeremy and Clark had led him to a car parked just outside the grand double doors of the hotel.Melissa and his secretary, Hailey, had been waiting in the car for them.It was a four seat jeep, one that Jake had been eyeing for a while now but he couldn't afford if he wanted to see through with his plan of making Adeline hand over her company to him.He had been ushered into the car by his friends and the driver drove them to a hotel.Jake had followe
The men that drove the car spoke as they drove and it was the sound of their voices that woke Con up.His head had a dull ache to it and he still felt slightly drowsy.Adeline had drugged him. That part was clear enough.Even with the drug still in his system, Con could still see the look that had been in Adeline's eyes as he passed out.He should have listened to that gut feeling and been more conscious of his surroundings.But he had been watchful hadn't he? He could naturally smell a number of things normal people couldn't. In a dire moment he had even managed to sniff out a bomb once, but that had been in a dire moment and that moment in Adeline's office had been anything but dire.Adeline had put his heart at rest. She had made him feel calm and foolish and fuzzy inside, so much so that he had let his guard down and gotten himself drugged, and now he was being carted away in a car to heaven knows where.Con groaned as the persistent headache lashed through his brain and the me
Con woke up in another car and he glared at the man sitting on his left."Did you really have to knock me out? You could have just untied me so I could walk.The seats in this car were covered with deep blue leather, not the black of the other one.The man on Con's left simply gave him a knowing look.As if to say 'we put you in those ropes for a reason'.Con scoffed as he saw the look on the man's face and relaxed back into the seat.The seat was wide enough and long enough that he could lie on it comfortably, but his neck still hurt and his legs were slightly curled.Con groaned as that annoying headache came back again and he struggled against the ropes.The feeling of being bound irritated him, as well as the general feeling of these ropes on his skin. Everything just made him angry and annoyed now and he didn't care if the ropes would strangle him to death, he had to get out of them and get a fucking explanation to what was happening.Where was he being taken to and who was he be
The guard nodded and Con shook his head. That wasn't it. He didn't know that name. He didn't read it in the book Aubrey had given him when she was teaching him about the powerful families in Glover city. But why would guards from an unknown family just kidnap him? "Can you tell me more about the Aliyev family?" Con watched the guard and waited for an answer but it never came. Instead the man just looked at the floor and shook his head. '"I'm sorry master, but this guard will have to refuse you that request." Con scoffed. He hadn't been expecting them to. He would have added the names of all the members of the family to his enemy list. They would be right under Adeline Highton. As much as it hurt Con to add her name to the list, he had to. No one sold him like a chicken and got away with it. Adeline would be punished for her deed, and maybe she wouldn't be on the enemy list. She would be on the punishment list. She was his comrade's sister after all, and Mark had asked hi