Page 88 of Kings of Lust
‘Don’t play victim with me, Bea. You knew what you were getting yourself into from the start. This is a sex deal. One no one forced you to enter. No room for love and emotions.’ He really still thought I didn’t get it.
Oh, butI did.‘It’s okay, Brax. I don’t need your love. I never knew love except for my family. It’s ok not to have feelings for me. I would be much more concerned if you did. For you, I’m an object meant to bring pleasure. And that is what you should seek in me. Only pleasure. That’s why I asked the question earlier. Am I done pleasuring you?’
‘Get out!’ He snarled from his seat, letting the full weight of my words sink in.
How could I refuse such a command since it seemed impossible to be in the same room as him even for a second? I just walked through the door, abandoning shattered pieces of another illusion. Unfortunately, I was making a bad habit lately of collecting pieces and drops of broken dreams.
Chapter 20
Icouldn’t even remember what day it was, or how many days had passed since the beginning of my deals. But what I did know was that we had only one day left on the clock to set up our plan.
After another troubled night’s sleep, I extended myrollingbetween the sheets until noon. It was like I was trying to avoid the unavoidable, dreading even more a new encounter with the kings than the plans I had with the governor.
But as all my fears usually came true, before I knew it, I was climbing the entrance steps of Ferris’s mansion.
‘They are all waiting for you in the living room,’ Alfred let me know as soon as he opened the door, escorting me to where the guys were.
Cole was there too, although I hadn’t expected him to return and help us with this part of the plan. Not that I could say anything about it, but his gesture impressed me more than I let it show.
‘I see everyone is here,’ I put on a smile—a bitter one, as I walked into the room. But no matter how bitter it was, it couldn’t match the one on Ferris’s lips. There was something off with him. As there was with me. I was acting on automatic, tossing all feelings aside and focusing only on the plan. It wasn’t like too many feelings were involved in the first place. At least not on their side.
‘Do you want a drink?’ Brax walked to the bar, probably to get his signature whiskey. I couldn’t tell why he even bothered to ask. Polite wasn’t a word in his vocabulary. Maybe his conscience was telling him to, knowing that he took things a little too far last night, not necessarily by what he did, but by what was said. It was too late for regrets anyway and maybe even too late for forgiveness.
‘I’m fine, thank you,’ I answered, taking a seat in an armchair next to the fireplace. ‘So, how are we going to do this?’ I looked towards Ferris since he was the one responsible for the tech part.
He didn’t answer, lost somewhere in a parallel world, like he was thinking about something else.
‘Ferris!?’ Cole got his attention, and how couldn’t he when he yelled. ‘Bea was asking about the plan. How are we doing this?’
Still no real answer from Ferris. He just ran his hand through his hair while his eyes narrowed like he was just making sense of things. ‘Right... the plan,’ he finally murmured. Then, as if nothing had happened, he asked for my phone. ‘I’m going to install some basic decoding programs and a little something to help me remote operate the phone easier.’
‘So, you said his office and the safe. All we have to do is learn where the safe is,’ I was still trying to figure out how was I going to find out where the safe was or if he even had videos in there.
‘I’ve been to his house a few times with my father. I don’t think the safe is on the ground floor. He always has people over, parties and brunches, lunches and whatever excuse for an event he might get to mingle with the Elite. No one would keep a safe in a place with so much traffic. It must be on the second level.’ Cole tried to explain the Elite’s way of living to me.
‘Communication,’ Ferris cut us in, acting strange again. ‘A wireless micro earphone that no one could detect and a camera with a microphone hidden in the earrings.’
‘Which earrings?’ I asked since he didn’t tell me to bring a specific set of earrings along.
‘These ones,’ he pulled out a small velvet black box from his pocket.
The last time I saw a box coming from Ferris, things didn’t turn out that great. I just hoped this time would be different. And it was. Two diamond earrings that looked exactly like a majestically crafted set of jewelry and not at all like a device of any kind.
‘Perfect,’ I murmured, putting them on to see how they looked while Ferris was turning his laptop towards me so I could see the screen. Live footage of me looking into the monitor was reflected through the earrings at an astonishing quality. ‘It’s like seeing through someone’s eyes.’
‘It’s something that my father and I used to work on. Nanotechnology with the highest clarity level available. We’ll see everything you see and hear everything you say as if we were there with you,’ Ferris stood up right after he finished speaking and walked to the opposite corner of the room to get something from a table.
‘What’s that?’ I asked, noticing another small box in his hands.
‘Air pods. At least that’s how they look for the untrained eye. They have a USB cable to connect to the computer and a jack for your phone,’ he spoke, pulling a cable from the small box.
Brax cared to continue ‘They’ll probably have you go through a security check. I don’t want you to have anything suspicious on you.’
I didn’t say anything back. Maybe I should have, but Brax wasn’t the keen on words type and I wasn’t in the mood to waste any on him.
‘You’ll have a tracker in the earrings, in addition to the one in your phone,’ Ferris spoke while taking a drag out of his cigarette.
‘I have a tracker in my phone!?’ That was new to me.
