Missing Flash drive
“What do you mean you lost it?” Rodriguez roared in rage at Jared. The other man taking a step back, looking at the table that stood between himself and Rodriguez wondering if it was enough to shield him from the older guy’s wrath.“I thought I put it back into the brief last night but it seems I didn’t.” Jared replied, doing his best to sound like he wasn’t shaken to the very core by the anger that poured out of Rodriguez in waves. He knew all too well what happened when his boss lost his temper. No one wanted to be at the receiving end of Rodriguez wrath. Taking another step back, to put even more distance between himself and the fuming Rodriguez, like that would help the situation. He cleared his throat once, twice, before facing Rodriguez once more. Pleading for mercy with his eyes.“I had a couple of our men try to retrace our steps from the last time we saw it at the bar till we got back to the house, and there was nothing.” He replied scratching lightly at the back of his neck. He saw the rage flare up in Rodriguez eyes and knew he had to do something fast, else his head wouldn’t be a part of his body anymore.“I’ll find it boss. I will.” Jared said once again, trying to appease Rodriguez.“You better Jared, you better! If that drive gets into the wrong hands, best believe I won’t make your death pretty.” Rodriguez said through clenched teeth. Giving a long, hard look to his almost cowering second in command he leaves the office with nothing else but a click of his tongue. Slamming the door shut behind him.Stalking out of the room in rage he moves into his training room, not bothering to change out of his office wear or cover up his hands, he starts to hit the boxing bag in the center of the room as hard and fast as his muscles will allow. Letting the murderous thoughts flow through his mind and into his hands. The information on that drive was a hundred percent confidential. If it got into the wrong hands if could bring him and his entire empire down. All he had ever worked for, all his family had ever worked for, would be taken away within the blink of an eye.Rodriguez swore heavily under his breath, hitting the bag even harder, ignoring the pain in his knuckles that begged him to stop. He went on for what felt like hours, and maybe he would have continued if it hadn’t been for the bag bursting open and emptying its content at his feet. He groaned in frustration. Kicking the sand that lay at his feet. Seeing as his punching bag had given up on him. Rodriguez couldn’t stop thinking of all the different ways he could torture and kill whoever it was that dared to take the drive. He swore silently to make them feel pain like they have never experienced. Crippling pain. And he was certain that after he was done with them, whoever they were, wouldn’t live to ever tell the story. He smiled just imagining their tortured cries and screams. They would pay, dearly.Silver hummed a tune lightly as she dragged the wide toothed comb through her curly wild hair. Wincing slightly whenever she felt the comb nudge some tangles. As she sat in front of the mirror, trying to get her hair to look decent, she let her mind wander. Last night had been a different night for her. Her coworker Jenna had called in sick earlier so she had to deal with most of the floor work by herself. She knew if Jenna was working, she would have handled the powerful stranger with blue eyes. She was the better people person amongst the two, and did better with powerful people or presence. Since she was pretty much used to it, seeing as she had been working at the Blue Phoenix for longer than herself.Even as Silver thought of the men, she couldn’t help the slight shiver that ran through her when she remembered the one that had spoken to her. Although he wasn’t as intimidating as the blue eyed one, he was pretty impressive. She didn’t think she could survive a long time in their presence, she’d probably pass out from lack of oxygen or just sheer fear.Putting the comb back in it’s holder, she applied a thin layer of gloss to her plump lips. Opening the drawer to keep it back in its purse. Just as she opened the drawer, he eyes caught sight of the drive. She picked it once more, inspecting it curiously, like it was supposed to speak to her. Silver frowned lightly, when she couldn’t figure out why they would have left this behind. For sure, important people like them, kept important stuff around them. She contemplated plugging the drive into her laptop and going through its content. Nodding once to herself like she had finally taken a right decision. She pulled her laptop from its bag and set it on the table before her. Powering it on, and just as she set to plug in the drive, her phone began to vibrate on the bed. Closing her laptop, and dropping the drive on top of it, she moves towards her bed to check the caller ID. A wide smile gracing her face as she sees the name of her best friend flash through. Hurriedly swiping to take the call, she presses the phone to her ear.“Hello?” A squeal loud enough to make her ears hurt rings through and Silver takes the phone from her ear to save her eardrums from the onslaught.“I’ve got great news Silver, great news. You wouldn’t believe it.” Elina replies, excitement coating her every word.“Well, if you want me to be able to hear this good news you better tune it down a bit.” Silver replies, chuckling a bit.“Meet me at the mall as soon as you can baby, as soon as you can. Okay?” Elina says and hangs up before Silver can get in another word in response. Shaking her head slightly at her loud best friend, she walks over to her closet pulling out a beautiful black sandals that complimented her black sweatshirt and puts them on her feet. Patting her pockets for her phone and keys before going out of her apartment, locking the door behind her.Forgetting all about her laptop and the drive that she had left laying on her table.Stalking HerAs he sat in his car, watching, waiting. He tapped an impatient finger on the wheel in front of him, waiting for her. A sadistic smile spreading on his lips at the though of how much torture he was about to dish. This one will be a good one, he could just feel it. Silver shook her head at her obviously wrong decision to drive, the entire parking lot was filled and she could just guess how packed the mall would be at this time. She sighed defeatedly, regretting why she had even agreed to meet Elina here. While her best friend was the outgoing, extroverted, and loud between them, she was the complete opposite, shying away from crowds, noise and the lot. Sighing once more she backed her car into the street and parked close to the end of it, grumbling to herself about how she’d have to walk the long distance to and from the mall. She checked her image in the mirror once before finally exiting her car, locking the doors behind her and tucking her keys into her bag. A sudden
The Phone Calls Silver and Elina finished their food, making their way out of the diner and back into the mall, holding hands like typical female best friends“Thank you for paying, you didn’t have to.” Silver said quietly to Elina. “Oh come on! It’s my treat, besides I invited you.”Elina replied, in her ever cheerful voice. “Now let’s go shopping! Come on!” She quirked pulling Silver with more force than required. Silver wasn’t difficult to pull in the first place, she was as light as a feather. “I don’t really need anything.” Silver shrugged, chewing on her bottom lip. Elina scoffed in response, rolling her eyes and shaking her head. “You’re a girl honey, you always need something.” She dragged Silver into the nearest store, eyeing up the different clothing, as she traced her fingers along the different dresses, studying them, eyes shining with excitement.“This one here, this is nice. Goes with your sweet brown skin.” Announced Elina, holding up a pretty yellow summer dress,
Living in FearRodriguez sat in his office, tapping his fingers on the closed MacBook in front of him. He flexed his fingers, the urge to strangle something or someone was overwhelming. Huffing in annoyance he squeezed his eyes shut to try and get his dark urges under control. He had worked tirelessly for the information that he had gotten. Putting his life on the line, betraying alliances; this one he was sure would come back to bite his ass, but having the complete operation had been a sure way to calm them. Knowing that some things had been done for the greater good of all was the only thing that had been needed to restore peace, but he didn’t have that anymore. Things were about to fall apart for him, and he’d be damned if he let that happen. Swiveling in his chair, he faced the floor to ceiling windows. That had been the best addition to his office. Something about being able to watch the world around you without being watched gave him a surge of power. He enjoyed that sort of t
KidnappedSilver took a sweep of her room once more, checking for clues other than the missing drive that there had been another person in her room. And not a single thing looked out of place, even her laptop sat in the exact spot that she left it.Tears pricked at her eyes and her plump lips wobbled in utter desolation as she it dawned on her, just how much of her little world was falling apart in the space of one day. Had it been the flash drive all along? Was it the Russian men after her? The man at the mall, was he a part of their group? She didn’t recognize him as one of the men she had seen a night before though, so maybe he was sent by them? She picked her favorite teddy from the bed, it was a small bear that had once been white but had faded with wash and time, it had being a gift from a special person in her past.The little brown eyes of her bear brought back memories that she didn’t want to indulge at the moment, not with the chaos happening around her. It helped to comfo
Meeting the Mafia DonRodriguez stared at the tiny figure in front of him, and he couldn’t understand for the life of him the conflicting thoughts that ran through his mind. For the last couple of days all that had mattered to him was finding the Drive and torturing the person who had taken it till death.Right now all that will and contempt had gone out the window the moment that he had set his eyes on the girl. He still didn’t have the Drive and that just drove him insane, but Silver had been the last one to be seen with it and he had her, but for some goddamn reason he couldn’t find it in himself to lay a finger on her. Not when she looked so vulnerable, pure and innocent. Instead he stood across the room from where she sat, tied to her chair and watched her sleep.Silver felt the headache first, wincing at the discomfort that came with it. She felt stiff, like she had been sitting in a spot for days. Her entire body burned from the pain. She tried to open her eyes, but it felt dif
Becoming A Slave“Boss?” Rodriguez was snapped out of his reverie by the sound of Jared’s voice. His second in command had come into his office with some business details that he had to attend to and in the middle of his droning on about how important some of the details were, his mind had slipped back to the young girl, tied in the room downstairs. Silver.He couldn’t get the image of her wobbling lips, shining eyes and her little tongue out of his mind and it drove him mad. He had requested that she be moved from the chair to a more comfortable mattress on the floor and that she be fed twice daily. He wasn’t quite sure about what to do with her, but letting her go wasn’t an option he was considering at all.“That girl Jared, what do you suggest I do to her? She obviously doesn’t have the Drive anymore, do you advice I let her go?” Rodriguez asked his second in command, looking to the younger man with pleading eyes, it almost felt like he was trying to plead with Jared to solve this
A New LifeSilver was slowly adjusting to her life in the empire. Serving Rodriguez. It wasn’t a difficult job to be honest. There were more than enough maids in the house that took care of a lot of things and all she had to do was present them to him, or clean them. The past one week had been more than awful, and although she had to be serving him, she usually did her best to avoid contact with him, keeping interactions to the barest minimum.She would wait till he left for the office before she would go to clean his room and so on. Silver hated having her freedom taken away, Although she could see the light shining outside the windows during the day, she wasn’t allowed to step a foot out not even to feel the sun on her skin. And it upset her more than she could express.She missed her life, missed her friends especially Elina, she missed working at the bar. Which surprised her as she really didn’t enjoy her job that much, but the absence of it made her crave it, the normalcy that ca
A Friendship With The Slave“Why have you been avoiding me Silver?”Words stuck in Silver’s throat at the question. She didn’t know what to say to him. How would she explain that she had a festering hatred in her heart for him? He took away her freedom, by making her a slave.What else did he expect that she would do? Have tea in the evenings with him, while they discussed business? She shook her head lightly, averting her eyes to her small hands on her lap, twisting them nervously.Even with the fact that Rodriguez had only addressed her with the gentlest of voice that evening, she still felt fear being in his presence. The overwhelming urge to submit to him still wrapped around her threateningly.“I’m sorry.” Was all she could say in a whisper.“What was that?” Rodriguez asked, lifting her chin up with two of his fingers to stare deep into her emerald eyes. Silver’s heart caught in her throat when she saw the raw emotions bared in his eyes, she felt arousal stir deep in her core and