Chapter 39 - Medusa

David stared expressionlessly out the window, seeing the coils of Cloud that were lower than their current position.

Yep, David is up in the clouds. Not in daily terms, but indeed his position is higher than several levels of clouds that stretch across the sky.

David turned his head down his thigh when a muttering sound was heard.

"Auntie, I'm not a kid anymore. Let me put my own clothes on."

David smiled at the peaceful face of Angeline who was now lying on his lap. David pulled the few strands of Angeline's hair that had entered her mouth to behind of her ear.

The peaceful face of Angeline sleeping was the most beautiful sight for David. While sleeping like that, Angeline does look cute and seductive at the same time.

Angeline's peaceful face while sleeping really looks very adorable to David. His lips were small but tantalizing, it seemed that David wanted to kiss them gently. David had even imagined that he was kissing every dent on Angeline's face, from lips, ears, nape to neck.

Also, imagining him making love with Angeline on a plane like this, made David's heart beat wildly. David thought that making love when their position is above the cloud like this was what he have been desires for all this time. But his dream could not be fulfilled, because Angeline slept all their way, and David did not want to disturb her sleep.

David looks back on when they weren't married. David always fought with his own mind whenever he saw the beautiful face of Angeline who was sleeping like this.

On the one hand, he wanted to greedily kiss the seductive lips that were presented there. Getting down to the nape and neck which is very difficult to resist. But on the other hand, David did not want Angeline to feel uncomfortable and leave him.

But now things are very different. David is free to do anything to the angel in human form who is now lying with her head on his lap.

Of course, because they are now a legal married couple.

They are now on a private jet owned by David and are on their way to Hawaii.

Previously, David had Angeline determine what punishment Elly deserved because as a result of her negligence, Angeline was kidnapped by an amateur gang that David didn't even deserve to spit on. After all, in David's brain are millions of the cruelest ways he could do to kill Elly who let his beloved wife kidnapped like that.

However, Angeline's choice is to take a week off from Elly's hard training, asking David to take her on trips to places that travelers around the world crave like Hawaii, and leaving Elly unemployed.

Of course it's not a punishment. Angeline just made it an excuse to be asked out by David, who lately rarely had time for her because of work reasons.

Although Angeline does not know that what David does every day is to find information about a woman who recently threatened their life, and that women did it openly, like she trying to raise the war flag right in front of David's face.

Yes, someone named Catherine Jane Adamma--David just learned the name of the woman called Catty a few days ago--who was once a member of the elite squad named S.W.A.T.

After the sad incident that happened to her, she changed the course of her life and walked a life filled with bullets and blood just like David did.

Yes, Catherine has been living in the Underworld ever since.

From the results of his search for information over the past few days, David found Catherine has a reputation that is quite feared in the circles of the Underworld, and she achieved such high achievements without the knowledge of David, who is actually the most feared and respected mafia in this era.

Catherine moved in the shadows, slowly but surely creating her own reputation. Even after the things she did in the Underworld to earn an astonishing reputation, even the three great former generals of the legendary mafia syndicate Hendrick Brasco couldn't move in front of Catherine.

Isaac Dominic, Benedict Rivaro and Steve Stiffler. The three men at the top of David Stockholm's list of revenge targets have now joined Catherine's influence.

And people in the Underworld nicknamed Catherine as Medusa.

Medusa is a Greek mythological creature in the form of a beautiful woman with a snake as her hair. Anyone who looked directly into her eyes would turn to stone.

At first, almost anyone who saw Catherine would fall for her. Her face is not as beautiful as Angeline's--according to some people's perceptions, because judging someone's beauty and not is a relative thing, the real beauty resides in her heart, not what it looks like on the outside--but the combination of her face and body has a very big effect, especially in the eyes of men.

It's as if her face and the beauty of her body are made into a package that truly exudes beauty.

But no one thought, that Catherine has a very brutal soul. In her first days of entering the circle of the Underworld, she had killed every mobster who looked at her wildly, as if to indulge their lust for Catherine's body without limits.

It was as if this woman had a grudge that the heavens could not measure on a man, and took out on all the men she met.

Catherine had stopped killing to raise her reputation in the Underworld so that she could stand in line with David when she heard the news of the death of Hendrick Brasco, who was betrayed by his trusted subordinates.

Even Catherine thought David had died there too. Those were the darkest moments in Catherine's life. Her efforts to accumulate a reputation in the Underworld seemed to be in vain, as her target for revenge had already been killed by someone else.

In the end, Catherine, feeling empty in her heart, did not stop killing the mafia for no apparent reason. This was not to enhance her reputation, but to vent her anger and resentment at missing the opportunity to take revenge on David who she thought had died at the hands of someone else.

Catherine continued to slaughter the mobsters so blindly, day and night, that she didn't realize that her reputation was even on the same level as David's in the Underworld. People were as afraid and reluctant to Catherine as they did to David.

From then on, Catherine began to stop accumulating reputation as well as information about David, until she didn't realize that David was the sole owner of a multi-national company that belongs to one of the ten richest companies in the world, the Stockholm Corporation.

Catherine just realized that David was not dead when David announced his marriage plans with Angeline which went viral in cyberspace due to all employees of his company talking about David very hotly in an online forum.

David has never shown his face in any media before. Every time he was interviewed either in writing or in audio-visual by magazines that discussed about the economy and business, he always asked Lucy, his personal secretary to replace him.

There was no way David could show his face in public, let alone in a business magazine. Even an amateur in the Underworld would laugh at the Demon Lord on the battlefield, having turned into a businessman who sat behind the work desk every day.

And for the sports week that the Stockholm Corporation hosts for all of its employees each year, they do see David's face. But David has put the number one rule when they apply for a job at Stockholm Corporation, which is that they are not allowed to take pictures or record David's face and share it on any social media. Those caught will be fired immediately and David will make sure that no companies are willing to accept him to work.

They have no problem with that. They think that seeing David's face in the office is a bonus for their job. Especially for female employees.

And when David announced his marriage to Angeline, that's where Catherine found out that David wasn't dead. He is still alive, and now his life is so easy. Plus he has found someone he will marry.

Of course this made Catherine's resentment towards David burn in her heart again. She did not only have a grudge against David, but also against Angeline for no reason that she could confirm for herself why Catherine also had a grudge against the woman who was loved by David, the target of her revenge so far.

However, one thing is for sure, no matter how bad and evil Catherine's intentions are towards him and his loved ones, David will never hesitate to sacrifice whatever he has to protect his life with Angeline, the only woman he loves to the bottom of his deepest heart.

David lightly rubbed Angeline's sleeping head on his thighs, stared out the window of his private jet and smiled broadly. "If you are a demon, then I am a devil.. Let's prove it, who will dominate more in hell."