Chapter 2
Justin watched as she resolutely left him not turning back even once and could almost hear the sound of his heart as it broke into smithereens, because how else could he explain this bone deep pain in his chest.
He screamed out loud and with frustration, swept off everything on the coffee table.
It wasn't like he couldn't force her to stay even if she felt unwilling, because he had the confidence to say he could achieve that.
He could threaten or coerce her into it with her best friend or with her family if she had any, unfortunately she didn't.
Yes, she was an orphan.
But what after that?
What happens to their relationship after he does that? Without doubt, he knew if he ever did threaten her with her bestie, whatever love she had left for him would cease to exist and be replaced by hatred. And that was definitely what he never wanted to see.
He was a businessman and would usually do anything to achieve his goals, of course that was excluding murder, arson, drugs and the likes. However, Nina has always been an exception to those dirty schemes as he loathed to use those methods on her. He loved her too dearly to even harbor the thought.
What he wanted had never been a canary, he wanted the stubborn and independent woman he had fallen in love with in the first place.
His love for her has always been his weakness but he couldn't bear to part with this weakness.
Chaotic thoughts ran through he head making him more and more irritable but in the end, he finally managed to suppress those thoughts slightly. Subsequently, he calmed himself down and focused on trying to remember everything that happened that night.
Yet, he thought and thought of anything and everything but still remembered nothing. This realization only made him even more suspicious because he had always had a large capacity for drinking and no matter how much he drank, he could still remember what happenened the next day even if those memories were a little fuzzy.
Despite that fact, he completely had no memory of what happened after drinking what? Only a few cups of alcohol which wasn't enough to even make him tipsy normally?
This could only mean he had been drugged!
A gloomy and foreboding aura instantly appeared on Justin's being at that thought.
He had been careless!
But... He would make sure he finds out whatever had happened that night and make whoever dared set him up pay a bloody price!
Without pausing, inky darkness flashed past his eyes as he picked up his cell phone and dialled his personal assistant, Larry's number.
As a qualified and capable assistant, Larry dared not allow his boss's call to ring for not even a minute longer and instantly picked up seconds after Justin dialled his number.
"Sir?", He said respectfully as he waited for Justin's instructions.
"I want you to bring that woman to the Night Kingdom in the next half-hour!"
At first, Larry felt puzzled as to the woman his boss meant but quickly understood when he heard his boss's dark tone and also remembered the recent incident that happened to his boss.
After relaying his instructions, Justin expressionlessly hung up, then he proceeded to call his business partners who were present that night to also meet him at the Night Kingdom. Only then did he head out with the car keys.
***
Meanwhile, after Nina left Justin's house, she drove aimlessly around the town trying the ignore the burning sensation in her eyes.
'I won't cry... I won't cry..', She kept repeating to herself as a mantra and at the same time tried to ignore the gnawing sensation coming from her heart.
"Damn it! I told myself I wouldn't cry but what is this?"
Her hand moved to feel the wetness on her cheeks with the tears that kept dripping out of her eyes with no intention to stop after she screamed that out in an hoarse voice.
Moments later, she noticed her sight beginning to go blurry due the tears and hurriedly stopped the car at the side of the road after which she slammed her head heavily on the steering wheel.
Not long after, her heartbreaking sobs sounded continuously from the car making the hearts of the listeners feel somewhat stifled for some reason.
She cried for quite a while and only when an abrupt sound rang loudly in the confines of her car was she startled and at the same time stopped crying. Following that, a slightly sluggish look appeared on Nina's face as she finally seemed to realize what she had been doing all along.
Was she, who had always been hailed as the ever cold and gorgeous supermodel actually crying so pathetically over a man?
"Damn it... Nina, you are better than this. He isn't worth it! He just isn't worthy of your precious tears!" She shook her head in disbelief before saying with some degree of force.
Then, she hurriedly took a tissue from the car compartment and wiped her face dry and also touched up her makeup in the process regaining her composure in a flash. No one would have believed that she had been crying pathetically few minutes ago if not for the reddish tint in the corner of her eyes.
After doing all that, she ten remembered that it had been the sound of her phone ringing that had snapped her back to her senses.
'I wonder who is calling?' she wondered absentmindedly before picking up her phone to check the caller but the call happened to end as soon as she picked it up.
"It's Lena!" she whispered excitedly when she saw the missed call.
"Is she back?" She was going to call her back when the caller whose ID was 'My Lena" happened to call back.
"Hellooo Nina darling! I missed you so sooo much!", Selena, Nina's best friend exclaimed excitedly on the other side of the phone.
When Nina heard the voice of her bestie, an urge to cry overcame her again, because she knew that even if the whole world turned against her, Selena wouldn't. It had always been the two of them against the world. Her backbone was back!
She asked in an hoarse voice, "Are you back in the country?"
Chapter 3
Sensitive as she was, Selena quickly noticed that something was obviously wrong with her bestie's voice. Her voice on the phone panicked as she asked with urgency, "Nina, what's wrong with you? Who bullied you! Tell me, I promise to make that person's life a living hell!"
On hearing Selena's protective words, warmth instantly suffused Nina's ice-encased heart. She replied teasingly, the unpleasantness in her heart fading away temporarily.
"How are you so sure that I was the one who got bullied and not the one bullying people?"
Almost without thinking, Selena replied arrogantly, "Even if they got bullied, it's their honour to be bullied by you."
Nina instantly laughed out loud, feeling carefree for the first time after finding out about Justin's affair.
On the other end of the phone, Selena inaudibly breathed out a sigh of relief listening to her friend's carefree laughter. No one knew how scared she was hearing Nina's obviously wrong tone and now listening to her laughter, she felt relieved and at the same time thought to herself that whatever the problem was, it would have to wait until she was face-to-face with Nina.
She never believed that there was an unsolveable problem in this world, only people who were unwilling to try!
"I am back, Nina darling! Come pick me up at the airport. I'll be waiting for you, don't lemme wait for too long, okay?", Selena said.
"Okay Lena... I'll be there in a moment, just give me a few minutes."
After hanging up, Nina quickly composed herself and drove towards the airport.
***
AT NIGHT KINGDOM
The Night Kingdom was the most luxurious entertainment hub in Nova City. It had everything you could ever imagine for entertaining either yourself or business partners.
It's luxuriousness was apparent in its garage. Various luxury cars ranging from Bugatti, Lamborghini, Aston Martin and others whose prices you couldn't even begin to imagine could be found parked neatly over there.
It had three floors. Two of which was open to normal rich customers while the top floor had three suites; Heaven, Earth, Stars. The Heaven suite belonged to the mysterious owner of the club and wasn't for booking while the Earth and Stars suite were mostly booked by the mega rich and powerful.
Currently at the top floor, inside the most luxurious Heaven suite, the situation appeared obviously tense. Three handsome men who looked like they had walked out of an magazine cover sat inside the room while another stood beside one of the men.
The three gazes all looked in the same direction with a gloomy and sinister look in their eyes. The object of their stare, a seductive looking woman was kneeling on the floors as she sobbed heartbreakingly.
It was supposed to be a particularly moving scene but none of men in the room felt anything towards it. In fact, Justin who was sitting on the sofa stared at the woman crying with deep coldness and even killing intent. He wished nothing but to strangle the woman to death right then and there but repressed the thought after thinking of the consequences.
Not to mention that even though he had the power to make sure he could take her life cleanly and wouldn't even be able held responsible for it, he didn't want to dirty his hands because of someone like her since he found her unworthy of doing so.
Moreover, it wasn't time yet after all, he hadn't gotten the information he wanted to know from her mouth yet..
"I will ask you once again, how had you been able to get inside the suite that day?"
Yes, this was the woman he had found on his bed and whom he had supposedly cheated with.
"Young Sir, I really do not know anything! You have to believe me when I say that I also can't tell how I found myself inside your room. I was also suprised to find myself on the bed, with you beside me that day as well. I must have been set-up, Young Sir!" Emily looked up pitifully with her puffed up eyes at the gorgeous looking man who looked like he walked right out of a painting.
He was silver-haired and had deep ocean blue aquiline eyes which seemed to see through everything making her panic for no reason as she feared the fact that he might have seen through her, yet those eyes also made him seem even more beguiling. He also a straight nose with a perfect jawline and his thin lips looked absolutely kissable, making her swallow involuntarily.
Then, she thought with hatred, jealousy and resentment to herself.
"We had both debuted at the same time together but why was her road to stardom so smooth while mine was filled with obstacles! And what right does that b**ch has to receive the love of such a perfect man? But anyway, it doesn't matter now anymore for he now belongs to me because I am now pregnant with his child!"
A cold and sharp look from the man in question ruthlessly snapped her out of her daydream. She then began to tremble when she remembered the rumors of his ruthlessness. With one word he could decide her life and death, so she definitely couldn't let him find loopholes in her story. If he finds out it was all a set-up to separate him and Nina....
Emily shuddered just thinking of the consequence. She definitely couldn't let him find out! Never!
"I slept with you that night?" Justin asked again, looking sharply at the woman trying to decipher any change in her demeanor.
But he was bound to be disappointed as the woman who was definitely a born actress blushed furiously like a newly bloomed flower, only he couldn't feel any tenderness or attraction towards the woman. But if it was Nina....
Realising his thoughts were moving in the wrong path, he quickly cleared his thoughts to focus on the matter at hand.
But after questioning the woman for a while, Justin discovered the fact that he couldn't get any useful Intel from her since she was very tight lipped. Turning to Larry who was standing beside him faithfully, he ordered with deep coldness in his voice.
"Move her to the villa in the outskirts of the town and tell them to watch over her well."
Chapter 4
Emily eyes shone brightly when she heard his orders thinking dreamily to herself,
'I finally won the jackpot! This perfect man is going to be my man and maybe even my husband! I am sooo happy. That b**ch can go to hell for all I care! I am going to be Mrs Walters!'
Justin looked at the woman who turned dreamy when he gave his orders, he could guess what was going on in her mind. He smirked cruelly, he would make her realise just how far from reality she was. He then signalled at Larry to bring her away.
Larry went forward to not so politely drag her out and left.
After Larry left, he began to doubt his vision as to why he couldn't see through the stupid woman who could even turn dreamy because of what he said. Or could it be that something did happen? because except for that he couldn't fathom why be couldn't tell if he was telling the truth or not.
When he also interrogated his business partners who he was drinking with that day earlier before questioning Emily, they also claimed to know nothing.
But it shouldn't be possible that he did sleep with her, should it? He couldn't be possibly that cheap that he would sleep with whatever he sees even if he was drunk!
He fell into self doubt for the second time in his life, the first being when he fell in love with Nina at first sight in college and afterwards pursued her but was rejected which made him doubt his charm. It's funny how both times he doubted himself were relates to her.
Ryan Anderson, one of Justin's best friends and a shareholder at Night Kingdom frowned and asked coldly successfully interrupting his thoughts,
"What do you plan on doing with her?"
Dan, his other best friend also looked questionably back at him.
Justin asked amusingly, "do you guys really want to know?"
"Cut the crap and tell us the plan or do not tell me you plan on really making her your mistress!"
"Always impatient, Dan." Justin made a disgusted face on hearing his last sentence before shaking his head slightly looking like a father who was disappointed at his son for failing to live up to expectations.
"F*ck you, J. Don't stare at me with that look, it makes me to really want to bash you up violently" Dan swore with annoyance.
"But can you? You know bash me up.." J said teasingly and slowly as he raised his eyebrows.
Dan deflated as quickly as he blew up because he knew he could never beat Justin in a physical fight.
"Okay that's enough both of you. We have more serious issues on the ground," Ryan said to the two of them.
Justin quickly replaced the teasing look on his face with a serious one.
"I already ordered an investigation on her. My men found out that she is just an average model. She had been looking for a sponsor but would not settle down for normal rich folks. I also found out that she and Nina had bad blood between them." Dan stated straightforwardly.
Justin raised his eyebrows and asked mockingly,
"Bad blood? She and my baby? Is she worthy?"
Both Dan and Ryan looked amused at Justin's words.
"Umm, you are right. It is probably that b*tch one-sided obsession with Nina. I am betting Nina never really remembered who she was. Well... until she went and introduced herself as your baby mama" Dan mockingly commented.
"Don't worry brothers, I got this under control. Since she wants to play, I will definitely play with her and whoever the hell is behind her. I am only worried they would be played to death by me."
Ryan and Dan nodded at him, they knew he wasn't boasting or anything. It was what he was fully capable of doing. They also breathed a sigh of relief on seeing he hasn't gave up on his self as they were both in the know to how much Nina meant to him.
"If you need anything, don't hesitate to find us, brother." Ryan said while giving him a friendly pat on the shoulder.
Dan also puffed up his chest and patted it, "Yes. Come look for us at anytime. You know we would always be ready to help".
Do not look at Dan's frivolous or foolish attitude or at his somewhat feminine features, he was the second-in-command of the most feared and dangerous mafia in the world, the Blood Gang and he had a nickname that was also feminine, The Poppy Beauty though he would kill whoever dared to call him that to his face. Ryan however, with his perfectly sculpted face and domineering aura was the big boss and commander of the gang.
"Umm, I will definitely find you guys if there is any problem. I could use the free labour" Jay said deliberately while eyeing Dan.
Dan blew up as expected and cursed,
"F*ck you! J. I am trying to be nice here, can't you see that? You don't have to be so annoying all the time!"
Justin was the sort of person that when he wasn't happy, he also liked to make others unhappy. And Dan was always an easy target but that was to him, the bones of his enemies buried underground will probably like to claim otherwise.
Ryan sighed exasperatedly unexpectedly making a joke unlike him,
"That's enough, J. Stop bullying Dan. His little heart wouldn't be able to take it."
"Are you actually taking his side or mine?" Dan asked frustratingly glaring at him.
"None" Ryan replied.
"You guys want a drink?" Dan asked knowingly.
"You wanna die?" Justin asked threateningly.
He was thinking, 'Alcohol got me into this mess in the first place, how am I supposed to continue drinking? I am definitely never drinking again in this lifetime. Not even one drop!
"I will be on my way then. I have an engagement. Good luck getting the girl, J." Ryan stood up and patted him on the shoulder.
Dan and Justin also stood up.
"Let's go together."
The three handsome men exited the hub together inviting countless stares of adoration from women and envy and hate from the males.
A random woman asked her female companion curiously,
"Who are those men? especially the one in the middle, he is sooo handsome with that silver hair and blue eyes. Is he a movie star?"
The female companion looked amused at her friend who was totally in fangirling mode with hearts practically shooting out of her eyes and whispered secretly in her ears,
"That is not a movie star. That man is Justin Walters."
"What! THE Justin Walters?" The woman shouted incredulously.
Her friend quickly covered up her mouth and whispered furiously as she dragged her to the side.
"Don't get me into trouble, please. Why did you have to shout? What if he heard and felt like we were disrupting the club? Do you want to be banned for life? You know being able to get inside here is also a status on its own."
"I am sorry. I just got carried away for a moment. I finally got to see the elusive heir!"
Similar situations could be seen in various corners of the club but the trio were indifferent to it. It seemed they were already used to scenarios like this.
It comes naturally when you are Rich, Famous and Handsome!