"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
Xavier could feel blood running down the side of his head.He didn't care.He had to get the ladies out of here.The house was crumbling around them and the reverberations were spreading out into the whole city.It would have been a surprise to him if it didn't, but it did and soon............ even he didn't know what would become of Orion city.Just breathing in this room had become a massive problem and they couldn't just step anywhere.The world was changing around them, and along with it, the very fabric of what they termed their existence.Xavier heard someone grunt beside him and he turned to see one of the ladies lagging behind.Con would have carried all of them in some act of bravado and gotten them out of the house the very minute it began to crumble, but he wasn't Constantine Easton. The other man had the resilience of a bull and the stamina of a dragon. Someone like him would crash before he even got to the front door.Xavier watched with wide eyes as the space behind th