Chapter 36: thirty six

•Rosalie

"Don't be nervous. Just do as we practiced." Azalea assured me everything would be fine as long as I did as I was told.

After I had left the hotel I met her at a nearby cafe. I just went out to clear my mind and she offered me that I could stay with her.

I didn't expect that she'd also put in a request like this. But well I felt bad freeloading. And well there was a very important reason I followed her.

She said she knew why Lexus bought me.

"But I've never done anything like this. Why do I have to do this anyway?"

"I'm really sorry Rose. I would have done this but the person we plan to trap already knows me." She looked down, "I couldn't think of anyone better than you."

"Is trapping that person that important?"

"He's an underworld rival of Arius and he's plotting something against him. But still, he's scum and like all men. He has his guard down during sex."

"Wait. You want me to have sex with him??!!"

"No. You just need to make sure he gets to that room alone. I promise I won't let anything happen to you."

I looked at her in disbelief. I looked at myself and my flashy red short dress with a deep cleavage and red heels. No wonder I'm wearing something like this, I have to seduce a man.

"Azalea." I sighed, "You have the wrong person for the job."

"Rose. I promise I won't let anything happen to you. If I had a choice I would have taken it but I would be killed immediately."

"Killed?"

"Yes." She slowly rubbed her arm, "It's because no one knows you. No one will doubt you, you will be able to lure him away and I promise I won't let anything happen to you."

"..." I no longer knew what to say. Azalea wasn't a bad person. I knew that. It's her line of work that has made her a bit devoid of life.

"Rose." She whispered, "I don't want to die yet."

"Okay..."

***

The club was blasting with music and maybe it was the way I was dressed or maybe it was my strange hair color, people with red hair are so rare, but still, I got a lot of attention as soon as I entered the club. It was my first time in a place like this but Azalea had spent a whole day making me look like a regular, so I tried my best to look confident as I swayed my hips to the music and made my way to the second floor in the private lounge.

There on the couch sat a man, quite stern-looking but with sharp good looks. Two other females at his side.

"Risa here at your request." I said and the man, Ryan, looked at me.

"You all leave." He told the girls and then examined me from head to toe and then extended out his hand to me. I took it and he pulled me to sit right next to him, intimately close.

This is where it starts but-

"You're quite a beauty." He whispered in my ear.

I don't like this.

I turned my head to him, "Well, you're not bad yourself." I smiled, sliding my fingers on his chest.

"I've never seen you before."

"I'm new." I laid my head on his chest, "You're my first customer." He placed his hand on my thigh and I flinched.

I hope that doesn't give me away. "Y-you see. I hope you'll be gentle with me."

He grinned, a nasty grin. His hand running further up my thigh, exposing the whole of my leg.

His touch didn't feel good. It was just pure lust.

He stood up, pulling me with him and began walking towards the back of the club. My eyes desperately looked on the first floor where people danced without a care, looking for Azalea. But I couldn't spot her. My heart beat began to speed up. Fear began covering my mind.

Why did I agree to do this?

***

"Take them off." He demanded but I had frozen from fear. I didn't want him to touch me, I didn't want to touch him!

He stepped towards me, took the zip of the dress and slowly began unzipping it.

Azalea! Azalea where are you?

The dress loosened but i held onto it so that it didn't fall off me and I stepped back. Ryan didn't like that attitude. He came stomping towards me. Ready to rip the dress off me but as soon as he reached me, my ears vibrated upon hearing a bang. It wasn't that loud but I heard it clearly.

Blood splattered on my face as the red liquid trickled down from a hole in the middle of Ryan's head. He fell to the ground and I saw Azalea standing right behind him.

I was relieved as well as angry. My body began to tremble. She stepped forward to console me but I hit her instead. Yet she managed to pull me in a hug.

"You did well." She zipped up my dress.

"I hate this." It felt so disgusting.

"You're lucky Rose. You are most likely the only slave who isn't being worked or tortured in some twisted way." She pushed apart and looked at me, "Who would want to do this kind of work?"

My eyes fell on her collar, then I looked into her eyes.

That's right, Azalea would never have wanted this but since Arius is her master she has to follow him.

It made me realize something. I acted so immaturely. Running away just because I got a little scared.

I want to go back. I want to go back to Lexus.

"Rose." I looked at her, "Go outside the club. Lexus is there."

Lexus? Outside?

I nodded my head and ran out of the room. I wanted to see him. I must have caused him trouble by disappearing like that. He even opened my collar and even though Azalea had been with Arius for years, the collar still remains on her.

Just as I reached the exit, I stopped.

But, what will I tell him? Just what do I say to him? How do I tell him, what reason do I give him for running away?

I took a step back, staring at the door in front of me.

What will I say about what happened here?

What if he doesn't want me anymore?

Wait.

Did he ever want me?

I looked back.

Azalea was supposed to tell me after all this.

I was about to run back to where she was but someone caught my wrist and pulled me back.

"You're not going anywhere."