🖤Prolouge🖤
"I'm warning you. If you don't have the money tomorrow, I'll think of another way to get it."
"Yes Jackson, I promise! Tomorrow I'll bring the money!" He panted with joy like a dog that was about to get a treat.
"See you tomorrow then.." Jackson said without changing his expression and kissed the woman's hand tenderly, which had been resting on his shoulder the whole time.
"Yes Jackson, thank you! I will be here on time! Trust me!" he said in relief, bowing over and over as he backed towards the door.
He was lucky that Jackson had a woman standing next to him and wouldn't want to scare her for something as mundane as money.
"Sorry dear. I hope his loud pleading didn't disturb you..?"
"No Jackson..", the woman behind him said very quietly.
He couldn't get any further. Loud noises could be heard from outside his door.
"HEY!" he yelled from his chair and immediately one of his men came back inside. "What's going on?!"
"It's Samuel, again! He says he's got an offer for you!"
"Why didn't he make that offer, just before he left?!" he asked angrily.
He closed his eyes and breathed slowly in and out to keep his composure.
"Honey... you don't have to be here if you don't want to. I don't want you to be bored..."
"But we wanted to go shopping together?" the lady pouted and looked at him sadly.
"We will. As soon as I've heard his offer, we'll drive off. If you want, Wayne can accompany you to the car?"
"No, I want to go with you..."
He got up, sat the woman in his place and went to the front of his table.
"Let him in.." he said with his arms folded in front of his chest.
Samuel rushed in and stopped when he saw the woman sitting in his place.
"I.."
"I'm listening Sam.." he said calmly and waited for him to continue.
He raised his head and uncertainly looked at the woman.. To quickly turn his gaze back to Jackson, again.
"I DON'T HAVE TIME ALL DAY, DAMN!" Jackson yelled at him and you could see, how Sam jumped up in shock.
"Yes. However, I don't think, that there's this anything valuable walking around you.." he said, laughing.
"You're wrong. And she's even more valuable than your... current possession...!", he said self-confidently and looked directly at him.
"I don't dare to say, that we're talking about the same values...!", he said confidently, but he nodded, prompting him to continue talking.
"She's my receptionist at work. Beautiful and...!"
"Jackson!" the woman suddenly shouted behind him. Apparently he wasn't quiet enough.
"Wayne... please take Celeste to the car. She wants to go shopping..." Jackson said without looking at him.
Wayne obeyed immediately, but the lady objected.
"And what about you?! In the meantime, you'll check out the 'beautiful' receptionist?!" she yelled, trying to get out of Wayne's hands.
"No! I'll wait here!" she said defiantly.
"Celeste please, it would be better if you left. I would like to be alone with Samuel."
"Let go of me, Wayne! I want to know what this Samuel has to say!" she said defiantly and stopped dead in her tracks.
"I beg you, Jackson! I hear you whisper the most indecent sentences in my ear every evening! The few curses won't bother me!"
She met his eyes defiantly and yanked her arm out of Wayne's grasp again, after Jackson gave him a silent nod.
Most of the time he tried to persuade the lady next to him with gentle words... but it didn't always work.
And well... Like all the other wishes before, he also fulfilled her this wish. Those eyes were just asking for it!
So why should he deny her this wish as well?
"I warned you, dear..", he said first in her direction and then turned to Samuel. "You should have waited until tomorrow with your really valuable offer, because then there would have been no misunderstandings with Celeste. And your second mistake is that you make this offer to me while a woman is in the same room with us. Not to mention that she shared the bed with me.... A man really shouldn't do that..."
"What's that Jackson?! You... What do you mean by that?!"
"That from today on, our ways will apart......" he said calmly.
"What?!" she yelled out.
She came in his direction with quick steps and gave him a hard slap in the face. "Just because I once didn't listen to you?!"
"BANG!"