The Temptress: Tempting the Devil’s son

“You sure you ain’t capping, baby?” He asked, furrowing his brows at her. He fucking couldn’t believe his ears.

“Of course, not. I’m dead serious baby! He is my brother’s best friend. Remember according to the media, my brother and Blake are best friends!”

“What the hell…” He gazed at Blake in total stupefaction. He seemed not to be paying much attention to the them anymore as he was pretty much focused on his meal.

He looked nothing like a billionaire! He just looked like a simple guy but he was very very handsome. That was for sure.

A few of his business counterparts had described what he looked like on various interviews and judging from their description, people easily imagined him as a man of aesthetic features. A lot of people are curious to know what he looks like but he wasn’t ready to show his face to the world.

Why hide such a beautiful face from the world? Austin wondered. He still couldn’t understand why he never showed his face till date. Women would certainly dump their boyfriends and husbands just to be on his bed. Not like he gave a shit!

Straight men would easily turn gay just because of one beautiful man. He would throw the world into imbalance and chaos. He could easily win the title of the most handsome man on earth if he wanted.

He had his reasons for keeping his identity secret. He didn’t want the fame and the critics that came with it, the haters, everyone wanting to know what kind of life he lived, not having enough privacy without others trying to interfere in his life, being unable to do almost anything in secrecy.

If the world got to know his identity, they were a lot of things he could no longer do, like walk on the street freely without everyone casting their gazes at him, everyone wanting a fucking autograph, or the press secretly stalking him, looking for a good damn article to publish.

If it wasn’t for the underground tunnels in his house that led to the city and his office respectively, he would be unable to get out of his own house without being spotted.

He had filed so many restraining orders and sued a lot of them, he was getting tired of it. And the press were becoming more and more desperate to find out who he really was.

They even stalked Liam and Maddie several times just to get a clue as to what he looked like. They were annoying as fuck! He wished he could just kill them all but that would be too suspicious.

When the time was right, the world would know who he really was. That was if he didn’t destroy it before then. But as of now, he had no plans of revealing his identity.

“Would you stop staring at me? It’s creepy!” He arched his brows in displeasure.

“I’m sorry. I’m just…” Lost in thoughts!

“If you weren’t with Maddie, I would think you were gay or maybe you’re bi. Who knows?” He teased. “It’s weird to stare at other men intensely. People could easily misunderstand.”

Maddie gazed at Blake surprised. Was he seriously being nice to him even to the extent of teasing him? He was never nice to her exes! Does that mean he accepted him?

“What? No. I’m straight! I like only women!” He flushed.

“How many more women do you like apart from my sister?” He questioned, seriously.

“Just her.”

“Good. Cause If I happen to see you with any other woman, I would break your penis, maybe cut it off and then kill you,” he uttered with so much seriousness in his tone.

Blood drained from his face as he grew pale. He wasn’t joking at all. He was dead serious.

“Blake would you stop threatening him? Austin would never cheat on me!” She defended.

“Don’t you fucking defend him. I wanna hear it from his mouth!” He growled at her for interrupting. And she could swear she saw his eyes flash red for a moment. She knew what he could do when he was mad, so she said nothing. She didn’t want to provoke him further.

Of course he would never cheat on her and he loved her so much but the way he said it just now caused cold shivers to run down his spine. He was suddenly dumbfounded and frozen on the spot.

Like he was submerged in a sea of freezing water, drowning and unable to do anything as the life slowly drained from his body.

Blake carried a strong aura around him. One that made him seem powerful, one that made people tremble at the sound of his ferocious voice.

“I love your sister very much and I would never cheat on her. This I promise you.” He avowed as cold sweat ran down his face.

It was like he just made a covenant with the devil and once broken, he was a dead man. But what he didn’t know was that he was actually the devil. How could one man be this scary?

“For your sake I hope you don’t. What kind of job do you do?” He questioned as he sipped from his glass of juice.

“Erm… I own an importation and exportation company. It’s not very big but it’s doing very well,” he answered nervously.

“How much money do you make in a year?”

“About five million dollars!”

“That’s fair. Five million dollars is the salary of an average worker in my company. Maddie’s salary is worth more than five million dollars. What if you can’t keep up with her lifestyle? What if you can’t take care of her? Though she looks simple but she likes to live in luxury. I wouldn’t want her to regret marrying you and I wouldn’t want her to suffer when she marries you.” The world is gonna be destroyed anyways, who cares?

“Blake it’s fine. I like him just he way he is and I don’t care for his money. Besides, I have more than enough to take care of us,” she gritted.

She just couldn’t stand and watch him insult her husband to be. Technically he wasn’t insulting him, he was just being logical.

“It’s not fine and don’t interrupt me next time! You know I hate being interrupted!” He let out a warning growl as he glared at her.

“But…”

“It’s alright baby, don’t worry. I got this.” He placed his hand on hers, squeezing it gently.

“Like I was saying before I was rudely interrupted, I wouldn’t want my sister to suffer, so I’m going to help you make more money. See me in my office tomorrow by 9AM sharp so we can discuss the possible expansion of your business, not a minute late. Maddie knows how pissed I get when she’s late. I detest lateness.”

“Yes, sir. I would be there before 9AM,” he nodded, excited.

“Good.” He rose to his feet and was about leaving when turned around as if remembering something.

“One more thing, my sister is not a punching bag. Though you certainly don’t look like someone who would lay his hands on a woman, I just thought it wise to warn you. Beating her up is worse than cheating on her. And that requires a much more worse death!”

He was suddenly remembered of what he did to the asshole who turned Maddie into a punching bag. She was very much in love with him to leave him behind. All she could do was hope he would change, Blake never gave him the opportunity to.

Once he found out about it, he was enraged. He marched off to his house in an instant and then he beat him to pulp till he was unconscious, after which he cut off his fingers one by one and then he made sure he died a miserable and painful death.

Maddie was mad at him for months for killing the love of her life but she later understood that he did it for her. If he hadn’t killed him, he would have killed her instead. She was being stupid to think he would change.

Maddie has really been unlucky with men in the past, he didn’t want a repeat of what happened in the past.

With all her experiences, he thought she would be unable to give love a chance again but she never ceases to amaze him. She wasn’t ready to give up on love. She was determined to make her love life work. She was a strong and great fighter.

And she just might have found the right person for her, her prince charming, her missing rib, her better half, the love of her life, her soulmate. She looked over at Austin as he shivered slightly in fear. Blake was scary, alright.Nôvel/Dr(a)ma.Org - Content owner.

He garnered courage and then declared boldly, “I would never raise my hands to hit her. I love her with all my heart!”

His words made her heart melt and caused this warm feeling to run down her body, a feeling of love and satisfaction.

“I hope so,” he mumbled before walking up to his mom and giving her a peck on the cheek.

“Bye mom.”

“Bye son. See you later.” He was about leaving when Liam suggested, “I’m coming with you!”