Chapter 31 - Sports Week (Part 2) + The Woman With The Black Rose Tattoo

David bounced the ball from his left hand to the right hand alternately in and out of the opponent's defense making them confused half to death.

Aside from David's shot which almost never misses the ball into the ring, his movements are also very difficult to block. In addition, it took two to three people if you wanted to block David's movement by physical contact. It may not even be enough.

David really made the opposing team lost half to death. Not only in terms of attack, but also David's defense that cannot be underestimated.

He truly is a demon in any kind of battlefield.

David moved the ball from his right to his left and went forward very quickly. The fast cross-over[1] broke his opponent's ankle without even having a physical encounter with David.

David lunged forward, where there were two enemy defenders who were ready to prevent David from scoring again under the ring.

David smiled. If another player who was in David's position now would have chosen to pass the ball to another player. With two large men under the ring, and one play-maker[2] constantly looming over David's movements nearby, it was certainly not an advantageous position.

But not with David. Instead, he ran straight towards the two defenders of the opposing team who were bigger than him. Without further ado David jumped up, held the ball in his right hand and raised it as high as he could without letting go.

Seeing David who was already in the air made the two big defenders of the opposing team jump too and raise their hands as high as they could to prevent David from scoring and widen their already very long lagging gap.

Even the play-maker[2] who had been trying to keep up with David's speed of movement also jumped up and tried to ward off the ball in David's hands from behind.

Now the four of them are already floating in the air.

Crassshhhh! ... Teeeeeeet~

Everyone who watched the match gaped, trying to believe what was appearing before their respective eyes.

The end bell rang, and David managed to slam-dunk[3] with his right hand after physically clashing with three opposing players who tried to stop him. After hanging on the basketball hoop for a few seconds, David released his grip on the metal hoop ten feet from the floor and descended to see the three unfortunate people who had clashed physically with him in the air.

The three of them lay unconscious on the floor as a result of the hard impact after the physical fight with David. Several medics ran to check their condition.

David walked off the playing field and headed straight for the dressing room. He dried the sweat all over his body before going into the shower room to wash his body.

The sound of the bathroom door opening made David a little wary. So far, no one dared to go into the bathroom when David was in there.

David wouldn't mind if his team-mates also stepped in to clean up. As long as no one is homosexual[4]. David is not a homophobic[5], it's just that he was in a lazy condition to meet strange looks from fellow men who sometimes make him feel uncomfortable.

David turned the shower lever to the left to let the water flow over his head, washing the soap all over him. But a hand was groping David's chest from behind.

He knew this was not a man's hand. Even so, David felt familiar with the aura the hand gave, so dark and gloomy. It was like being touched by a hand that had taken hundreds of lives.

David didn't understand, but he could feel it. A hand's aura as dark as his. However it is a woman's hand.

Just by feeling it, David can confirm that the woman who is groping his body from behind is not one of the thousands of employees who work for his company, the Stockholm Corporation.

"Stop it, before I get out of control."

The woman behind him smiled broadly. "Then, what are you gonna do, my dear David?"

This voice. So familiar to her ears.

No, this is not Ainsley's voice.

Then, whose voice is he hearing now? Before David met Angeline, no woman apart from Ainsley was close to him. At least so in David's opinion. But not for the woman who still hasn't stopped her hands to feel every curve of David's upper body.

David grabbed her hand, pulled her to the front and slammed her back against the wall very hard and immediately choked her neck mercilessly.

David never distinguished between who he considered an enemy, be it male or female. For him, the enemy was something that would kill him if he didn't kill him first.

David glanced hard at the woman he was choking. And when David could see her face clearly, he paused for a moment. The slightly shrill but still elegant laugh from the woman he was strangling made David frown in confusion, trying to remember who the woman in front of him was.

Why did her voice sound familiar to his ears?

And why did that woman laugh after she had her back slammed so hard against the wall and now her neck is being choked mercilessly?

The woman was still smiling, even though a drop of blood started coming out from the corner of her lips. "Are you gonna tell me afterward to hold my breath again and drift me into the city sewage like the last time we met?"

David was still trying to digest what he had just heard.

Holding breath?

Municipal drainage stream?

David spontaneously loosened his chuckle slightly on the neck of the woman in front of him, opening his eyes perfectly.

"You ..."

Before David had time to reveal the identity of the woman who was in front of him, the woman let go of David's loose choke with a very fast motion and stuck a syringe in David's stomach.

The woman quickly dropped David to the floor and immediately crushed David's body. He smiled very broadly when their faces were only inches away. David felt cramps all over his body, and even now he can't move.

David is almost completely paralyzed thanks to a syringe he received from a woman who is now lying on top of his naked body.

The sound of the bathroom door opening made the woman's smile even wider.

"David, your team mate told me that you've been in the bathroom too long, have you--"

Angeline, the girl who was now standing in front of the bathroom door, was still stunned when she saw the scene before her eyes.

David, her husband, looks like he is making love with a woman she doesn't know who it is, and the both are in the same condition without any clothes covering their bodies.

Angeline's tears dripped out of her eyes, without saying anything Angeline ran away from where David and the unknown woman were.

Angeline didn't think that David could do that to her. The millions of questions that rang in her mind were incomparable to the pain she felt in her heart.

Probably not. The real question is,

Who is the woman who has the tattoo of a black rose on her back who is making love to David in the bathroom without wearing any clothes?

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Author's Notes :

[1] Cross-over : Movement of a dribbling basketball where a player who dribbles changes his dribbles from one hand to the other followed by a movement in the desired direction.

[2] Play-maker: Commonly referred to as the creator of the game, the creator of the gameplay that can make a game his and also the team he is on.

[3] Slam-dunk: A style in the sport of basketball where the ball is placed in the basket where the palm of the hand touches the iron on the basketball hoop--one or two hands--after the ball has passed the high of the basketball hoop.

[4] Homosexual: 'Gay' is a term generally used to refer to homosexual people or homosexual traits. Or the crude language is a term for someone who likes another person with the same gender as them.

[5] Homophobic: Also known as 'homophobia', it includes a range of negative behaviors and feelings towards homosexuality or towards people who are perceived as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender--LGBT.