"Why did you have to involve Malissa? She’s as clueless as a child..." Hayden said with a sigh.
"This is the way she’s chosen to pay off her parent’s debt. It’s that simple," the boss replied coldly.
"You mean this was the path you forced on her..." Hayden spat.
"Would you rather, I auction off her body parts in the underground market instead? Or put her on auction so that some old geezer could purchase her as his personal sex slave? Would that even cover the debt, I wonder...probably not" the boss said with an amused smile on his face.
"You’re a sick bastard..." Hayden hissed; his eyes wild with anger.
"I don’t care how you see me, Hayden. I have my responsibilities and you have yours! Marry her, sleep with her, impregnate her and give me an heir already!" the boss shouted once again.
"What the fuck are you saying? Do you even hear yourself right now?" Hayden said in disbelief at what he was hearing.
"What’s the problem? If you don’t like the order of my proposal, you can sleep with her before you marry her. Like hell if I care. Although, I don’t think you can impregnate her without having sex with her...haha. You gotta do it the natural way, my boy..." the boss said with a smug smile.
"You’re the one who doesn’t get it. I can screw her until she breaks, and I’ll still feel no love for her. I can fuck her until she goes crazy but that doesn’t mean that you’ll end up getting your heir. I will say it again, I don’t want to take over this business and I’m not going to breed anyone else to take it over after me," Hayden said loud and clear.
"Stop being so selfish, Hayden. I wouldn’t have you either if I had other options. Unfortunately, for both you and me, there is no other option," his father stated, his tone dark.
"You can’t use that girl to tie me down to the business..." Hayden said calmly.
"We’ll see about that..." his father replied with a shrug.
I smiled at her because I didn’t want to lie to her. The truth was since the mafia breaking into our store and I ended up here, I haven’t attended university. Since it was my final year, there wasn’t a lot of classes that I had to attend because most were course work where I had to hand in pieces of art of various projects.
I had been focusing on making sure that I did not miss the deadline for those because it would definitely delay my graduation.
I didn’t want to worry my dear granny unnecessarily, so I didn’t tell her any of this. I hoped that once the situation was resolved after a month’s time, everything could go back to normal. Grandma was sick so unnecessary stress wouldn’t be good for her health.
"Actually, university is quite chill now. I do have to hand in some projects, though," I replied vaguely.
"What do you plan to do today? You’ve got so much stuff with you," My grandma asked pointing to the aisle, paper and other art supplies that my bodyguards helped carry into the room for me.
"I told you yesterday, didn’t I? I’ll be waiting a portrait of you so I’ve brought some materials today so that we can start off by doing some sketching" I explained.
"Sketching? You mean, you’ll sketch me?" she asked, curiously.
"Yup. My plan is to sketch a couple of sketches of you in different poses and different facial expressions and we can choose which one you would prefer for me to paint. How about it?" I said as I smiled proudly at her.
"I see. Ok, that sounds good. Let’s follow your plan," my grandmother said with a nervous laugh.
Although I tried to sketch my grandmother just as I had planned, it wasn’t as easy as I had thought, and the main problem was my own lack of concentration. I just couldn’t concentrate like I normally could. When I looked down at the white paper of the sketch book in front of me, my mind would start to wander. Unfortunately, whenever my mind wandered it always ended up on one person: Hayden.
I couldn’t stop thinking of Hayden for the whole day. I felt my face heat up at the thought of Hayden and all the naughty things he did to me last night in the theatre room. I hoped that no one heard my loud cries and moans. The fact that I showed that side of myself to Hayden was embarrassing enough already.
--To be continued...