The Untameable Leon

CHAPTER 5: DON MAXIMO

I quickly grabbed my head the moment I woke up. I could feel the pain coming from there as if my head was being hit repeatedly. I can also feel the pain in my whole body from my wounds and bruises in various parts that are still not healing.

I couldn't quite open my eyes yet but after a few seconds passed and I suddenly felt like it was cold and I was lying on something soft and in an unfamiliar feeling, I just suddenly opened them properly.

When I finally opened my eyes, a high gray ceiling with expensive lights appeared to me, which surprised me quickly.

I am lying right now on a white and very soft pillow and bed which is so very unfamiliar to me. I am also already wearing a different shirt and shorts and my wounds are also bandaged which I don't remember if I changed my clothes and treated my wounds.

I also quickly felt nervous as I looked around the entire room where I am lying in right now.

The room is so huge. It's the same size as the house my ex-wife and I used to live at which now I think has already been consumed by fire.

There are so many expensive things in every corner of the room like the huge flat screen television and a computer set that I am seeing right now. It seems like this room belongs and is owned by a man based on the color, design, and the expensive things inside this huge room.

I don't know where I am right now and how I got here. The only thing that I remember is that I got so drunk in an exclusive club and I don't know what happened next. I also don't even remember how I got out of the club.

When I already finished looking around, I immediately tried to get up even though I still have a strong headache and even though I also can still feel the pain all over my body. I just woke up minutes ago but I feel so weak right now.

When I succeeded in getting up from the bed, the big double doors just in front of me, opposite to the bed where I was, opened just in time.

Two beautiful and sexy girls entered, smiling, who I think are already in their twenties.

"Good morning, Señorito," they greeted at the same time and they even bowed their heads at me as soon as they entered and closed the double doors.

Based on what they are wearing right now, I think they are housemaids in this house.

"You are already awake now, Señorito. I'm so sorry if we are not by your side the moment you wake up," softly said by the woman wearing a pink housemaid uniform when they finally got close to the bed where I was.

"We just checked our fellow housemaids downstairs, Señorito. We're sorry again," added by the woman who was wearing a red housemaid uniform.

I was immediately stunned from where I was sitting as I listened to what they were saying.

My mind was quickly filled with wonder as they continued to speak and apologize to me for something that I don't know and don't understand.

And why the heck are they calling me "Señorito"? Who are they? Where am I?

With so many questions swirling in my mind right now, I once again held my head because of its increasing pain. I also suddenly groaned and closed my eyes because of the intensity of the pain from there.

Damn!

After just a few seconds, I immediately felt them approach and touch me and because I was weak, I could not move away from them.

"Are you okay, Señorito? What are you feeling?" one of them asked in an already panicked tone.

"Here, Señorito. You need to take this medicine to get rid of your hangover headache right away," the other housemaid said and when I opened my eyes again, I saw that the woman in red was the one who was handing me the medicine and the glass of water.

My eyes just went back and forth from them to the medicine and glass that she was holding.

What the hell is really happening?!

"No, I do not need that. All I need right now is to get out of here. Where am I? Who are you? And who brought me here?!" I said seriously as I am looking intently at them straight in their eyes, making sure that they won't see or even feel the nervousness I have right now.

"Don Maximo will be the one to explain everything that happened to you once he gets back, Señorito, so in the meantime, we will take care of you first," explained by the woman wearing a pink uniform.

"Your headache won't go away and it will get worse, Señorito, if you don't drink this, that's why you better take this now," added by the woman in red uniform which furrowed my brow even more.

"I don't care what you say about that Don Maximo. I don't know him. I already said that I don't need that medicine. All I need right now is to get out of here that's why you should tell me where I am right now and then let me go. Simple as that and stop calling me Señorito because I am really confused about what's happening right now. You are just making my head hurt more," I said seriously again, strongly disagreeing with what they wanted.

Like seriously?! Who in their right mind would take the medicine from the people that they don't know and they just met?! Obviously not me!

"We're sorry, Señorito, but Don Maximo instructed us to watch over you and not let you go. For now, we will just follow all his orders and not yours while you are still recovering."

"Why can't you understand what I am saying?! You don't know me and I don't know you either so why don't you want to send me away, huh?!" I quickly answered as I am starting to get irritated already.

I am really confused as hell and I don't understand why they don't want me to leave even though I know to ourselves that we don't really know each other and we have never even seen each other before.

The lady in red was about to speak again when just suddenly, the double doors opened which immediately caught our attention.

Two men entered first who I think are bodyguards based on what they are wearing.

After a while, someone came in wearing a navy blue high-end suit which I think cost a large sum of money as well as the leather shoes that he is wearing as I can see they are of good quality even though I am a bit far away.

The man was smiling as he walked towards me as if we knew each other. As I watched him move, I realized that he looked familiar to me as if I had seen him somewhere before. I just can't think where and when, all I know and feel is that I have already seen him.

The two housemaids immediately greeted and bowed to him when he got close to us.

"Good morning, Don Maximo," they greeted in unison.

So he is the Don Maximo they are talking about?

The man just smiled and nodded his head at them and then turned to face me.

"How are you, young man?" he asked me while smiling. Even his voice is so familiar to me.

Where did I hear that?

And because I still didn't understand what was happening, I couldn't say a word which made him talk to the two housemaids.

"What happened here, Lexi?" he asked the lady wearing a red uniform.

"He doesn't want to take the medicine for his headache, Don Maximo. He is also forcing us to let him leave," the lady whose name is Lexi answered.

"Put that down. I will take care of him. You can both leave now," he said to them and just for a few seconds, it was just the two of us in the room.

Silence quickly enveloped across the room as he sat on the bed where I was still, in front of me to be exact.

"How are you feeling, young man?" he asked.

I stared at him for a few seconds first before speaking.

"Who are you? Where am I? Why don't you want me to leave?" I answered, straight to the point hoping that he wouldn't notice that I was still nervous as I talked to him.

He stared at me for a few minutes first before he spoke again.

"I am Maximo Dela Mercad and you are in one of my mansions right now," he answered. "Does it ring a bell?" he playfully added and right after he said those words, all of a sudden my eyes widened.

Damn! That's why he's so familiar to me! He's Maximo Dela Mercad! The richest man in the world! What the hell?! How come I am here right now with him?! What really happened?!

"Well I guess, I don't have to introduce myself to you anymore because you already know who I am based on your reaction right now."

And as I continued listening to him, my memory gradually came back to our meeting at the expensive club that I went to as well as the paper that he made me sign.

It's him!

"It also seems that you now remember what happened at the club," he added.

"What did you make me sign, S-Sir?" I nervously asked as my grip on the bed sheet tightened while many kinds of bad things entered my mind.

I was even more nervous when a few seconds passed first before he spoke again.

"It's a contract."

"Contract? Contract for what?" I asked, still confused.

Why would he make me sign a contract?

"Contract where it is stated that I will make you my heir," he said simply as if that's not a big deal.

W-What did he say? Me?! His heir? Is he already out of his mind?!

"Why me, S-Sir? I-I mean, we just met last night and I am not even your relative for you to choose me to be your heir."

"Besides the reason that I am already seventy years old, my also reason is that I can see myself in you then."

"How did it happen, Sir, if you are rich while I am poor?"

"Leon, like most, I also started out poor," he started. "And like you, I also went through a lot of hardships just like what happened to you. Most people don't know that my ex-wife cheated on me and left me for another man because I was poor like a rat before I got to where I am right now. I know the hardships and pain you suffered because I have also been there too that's why when you told me the whole story of your life, I didn't think twice to help and choose you because honestly, when we met, I was already looking for someone to leave all my wealth and property. I really believe that it is destiny that we met so that I can help you, especially in taking revenge on the people who insulted and hurt you to the core. I can help you to become powerful and stop people to make fun of you who are higher than you. If you will agree to what I want, you will be the richest and most powerful man in the whole world, that's why I hope that you will think about this carefully. I will give you time to think about everything. You can disagree with what I want if you really don't want to. You won't see me in the meantime. You can only see me when you have already decided so think wisely."

And true to his words, he never really showed himself to me as I am thinking about everything he said.

It took me almost a few weeks to think and decide what I really want to happen in my life and when I have already made up my mind, I immediately find and face Don Maximo to tell him my final decision.

"So what is your decision now, Leon?" he asked right after I sat on the chair in front of his office table, not wasting time.

As I looked at him, there were already words running through my mind which I really want to happen and achieve immediately.

To be rich. To be powerful. Take a revenge.

I took a deep breath first before my final decision came out of my mouth.

"I am already agreeing to be your heir, Don Maximo..."