Con glanced at the two people in the car with him and noticed how both of them refused to meet his gaze.The lady who was named Heather simply looked out one window and the red haired Lance looked out the other.They both seemed deep in thought, but he could tell that they knew he was looking at them. They both avoided looking at him and they shifted uncomfortably in their seats when he looked at them.Even the red haired guy seemed to be wary of him and Con found himself smiling at that. He would still pay for that slap he had given him, but before he set about doing that, he would like to get an explanation first."Can I know what's going on?"Con watched as the other two occupants of the car flinched at the sound of his voice and he rolled his eyes. They were acting like two scared kids right after they had put on the show of a lifetime in front of him.The red haired Lance sat up straight and cleared his throat."To begin with, I'd like to apologize for slapping you so hard."Con
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Con watched as Heather nodded and he grabbed her from behind, pulling her close to him. He could almost feel her relaxing under his touch and he scoffed internally. She squirmed a bit in his arms before she turned back to look at him. "You can leave if you don't want to help me with this. I'll find someone else." Con shook his head and cleared his throat. He would go through with this, and when he was done, he would get as far away from here as he could. Back to Glover city and back to his old life. Heather found herself frowning at how desperate she was coming off. She could hear the way her voice cracked as she spoke. She was Heather Bloom for crying out loud. Her parents had the largest building in the whole of Orion city and her brothers were known CEOs. She would have wanted to make her family proud by getting married to the man they had chosen for her, but she couldn't because she didn't want to. Lance seemed satisfied with the deal
Jane smoothened the folds of her dress and looked across the room to locate the man she was to wed.She was nervous as fuck, but she had backup so she was a bit relaxed too.Aubrey had insisted on accompanying her and getting to see her suitor.For some reason, the slightly older lady seemed to be very wary and negative when it came to the matter of arranged marriages.Jane chuckled silently.Aubrey had proposed that they run away and fly out of the country, but she had refused.Her uncle had done a lot for her and he had respected her wishes not regarding some of her suitors. The first suitor he had brought was some rotten middle eastern scum who gave her orders on sight and said he would treat her the way he wanted once they were married.She had punched his teeth out and he had screamed so loud that it brought a smile to her face just thinking of it.The second suitor had been someone on her enemy list. He was a piece of trash who went by the name of Clark Gable. He was the one wh
Con could feel the back of his throat closing up but he still stood in the same spot he was.He had known that this day would come one way or the other.His family was a loose end that he would need to tie if he had any hopes of getting rid of them, and to do that he would have to see them.One of them at least.The spotlight was still on him, the dirty ragged street urchin in the midst of remarkably dressed people. Everyone was looking at him, and the ladies around him.Con felt himself feeling more confident with the reality of the fact that he had some people around him. Even if they were exceedingly pretty women, they were still people and so far, none of them had moved away."Tell me you haven't gotten yourself into more trouble, Mr Easton?"Con chuckled subtly and let a small smile bloom on his face ."Nice to see you too, Lana."All three women seemed to have their attention on him and on the people around them at the same time.They looked around and Con found himself doing t
Xavier could feel a million eyes on him and he stepped back, carrying the cane he had blocked with him. He could see everyone looking at him. He could see his reflection in their eyes even. The man who had done the main deed of blocking stood to the side. He had handed the cane over to him almost immediately after he had blocked the crucial hit this dead man had been aiming at his boss. Xavier could feel his eyes harden as he looked at the man in front of him. Con had never really spoken about his parents much. In fact, he had never said anything about his father. He only ever spoke about his mother and even then whenever he spoke of her, his eyes always seemed sad and dark. He had mentioned the fact that they had been abandoned once, but after that time he hadn't mentioned it anymore. The man standing in front of him though was definitely the trash piece of a father that had been beating his boss up. Xavier raised the locked canes up and in a swift motion he pulled backwards
Con woke up to the feeling of the object in his hand burning like hot coals.He threw it to the side immediately and looked around at his surroundings.He couldn't fully remember most of what had happened before he passed out, but the more he thought on it, the more it came back to himSandy blond hair and purple eyes,Con sighed and slumped back on the bed.Why had he frozen up like that?He could have snatched that cane from his father and used it to beat the old man silly. The man had never been a father to him anyways.Not once had he shown concern for him or his mother and not once had he ever seen him as nothing but a stain on his name and a disgrace to his family.He wanted nothing to do with that man, and he wanted nothing to do with their name.He was Constantine Easton, not Constantine Emmerson. He should have proved to his father that he was now his own man and that he would do what he wanted to do no matter what he said.But he had frozen up and received the most sound b
Xavier chuckled at the man in front of him.Surely he wasn't the only one seeing how ridiculous all this looked."I'm sorry, but what you mean to tell me, is that you want us to get out?"The dark haired man in front of him only nodded and looked at the time on his watch."I have to clean the room and get rid of your presence."That sounded really rude, but Xavier decided to ignore the tone and focus on what was happening at the moment.They had arrived at this house a few hours ago, and Con had been taken to one of the other rooms. The man who had brought them here had been the same one he had met at the Dramain museum. He had been in there looking and inspecting the masked lady's statue more closely. Con's lady friends had reported seeing something that matched the strange object they had found in his room on the mask of the masked ladyOn closer inspection they had seen that it was actually the shape holding the mask of the masked lady to her skin.They had told him they wouldn't
"On the 20th day, in the sixth month of the year 2897, Orion city experienced one of the most massive earthquakes to ever rock its foundations."***********************************Adeline mixed her tea in a cup and handed it over to the man beside her.A tear could be seen rolling down her cheek but she ignored it and kept on looking at the TV instead.The day the earthquake had hit had been just like any other. She had been in her office, considering yet again, if what she had done had been for the best or if she had just been fooling herself and giving up something she should have held close to her heart.She knew she shouldn't have used Con in that way. He was an asset to her and a caring man, one that she would have been happy to have in her life if she hadn't ruined all her chances with him.She would have been glad, elated even, but that was in the past. When she still had money and when he was someone she paid at the end of each month.Now she manned a cafe in a backwater par