Chapter 1
“I will not give up on my plans!”
The dark-haired man at the age of forty is now talking on the phone with someone while keeping his legs spread widely and sitting comfortably on the soft, small sofa in the living room that is well-lighted with the chandelier hanging on the white ceiling in the evening time. He sometimes keeps his eyes on one of the pictures hanging on the wall, or just watches a movie on a TV that is working at low volume. But the man does not pay too much attention to what’s happening in it and is too busy with what he hears from the other man on the end of the line.
“No, buddy, never!” the man exclaims. “Do you really think I will give up so easily after I’ve been waiting for the opportunity to take revenge?”
“It’s been so many years, but you’re still wishing to take revenge on that girl for what she did not do,” the man on the phone replies.
“The gal must pay for what her close person did to me one day.”
“But you said that person has already paid a lot for that.”
“Right, but it’s not enough for me. I want more.”
“Don’t think about your past, my friend. What’s wrong with the fact that someone hurt you? You should learn to forget and forgive! Live quietly and do your business!”
“Oh, no, I am not going to forget and forgive! And I will not calm down until I ruin the life of that gal.”
“She has done nothing bad to you. And the sins of her friends and close people are their sins. She doesn’t have to pay for them. She should only pay for hers.”
“That cutie is not as innocent as it seems. She is not as fluffy and sweet as she wants to seem.”
“Yeah? I think she is very good! She has never been involved in a scandal!”
“So, I shall start it!” the man smiles slyly and leans back in the sofa with his head proudly raised. “I will ruin the reputation of that second-rate model, who pretends to be a freaking goddess.”
“If she knows who did it, that girl will skin you alive. She probably has good contacts! Lawyers, policemen, and some important people. In the worst case, you will just be put in prison on the charge of something. But in the best case, she will just sue you, and you will have to pay her a lot of money as moral damage.”
“She can try.” The man glances at the slightly open window, through which the cold winter wind gets into the room. “First, she will have to find the one, who is guilty of all of it. And prove that it’s all my fault.”
“Ha, interesting… How are you going to take revenge on her to remain uncaught?”
“Don’t worry about it. The gal will not guess who did it. At least, because she does not know me yet.”
“Are you going to meet her?”
“I am.”
“Doomed to failure! That model is probably surrounded by a lot of bodyguards, who don’t let anyone come to her and follow her everywhere to take care of her precious ass.”
“You are wrong in this case!” the man exclaims. “The girl has never cared about it. I know for sure that she has never hired bodyguards. Even when she was somehow chased by a crazy fan, who was obsessed with her.”
“Are you so sure?”
“I watch her life very closely and have examined the full biography of that girl.”
“You’re acting like a possessive maniac!”
“Yeah, but I am not obsessed with her. I am obsessed with revenge. A wish to turn the life of that model into real hell. Ruin her career and make her reputation much worse.”
“Don’t tell me you want to hire killers and kill her,” the man on the line gets suspicions.
“No, I am not going to kill her. At the moment. I don’t exclude that I can change my mind later. But now I care about something different.”
“What did you come up with, then?”
“Don’t worry, my friend. You will see everything soon. You will see it when the fans will start turning their backs on that gal, and companies will cancel all the existing contracts with her. I shall do my best for her to become an outsider in the show business. So that nobody wants to talks to her or just say hello to her.”
“If you are going to spread false rumors about her, you will have to prove them. Otherwise, your party will end after the first statement from her managers.”
“That’s why I have examined her full biography to know what could be good for me. Trust me, I found out a lot of interesting things that I could use.”
“What things in the biography of the girl with a perfectly clean reputation could be terrible?”
“Many things… There are many things that she is terribly afraid to make public. She understands that if everyone knows it, the place of the innocent angel will be taken by someone else.”
“So, do you want to say all her smiles, good actions, and something like that are fake?”
“Exactly!” the man exclaims. “E-xact-ly! Just because she is always so nice to her fans doesn’t mean that the gal really loves and appreciates them.”
“Really?”
“Raquelle Cameron will love them until they praise her. Until they pray to her like a goddess, Until they tell her how beautiful, sexual, and talented she is.”
“Actually, everyone loves getting compliments.”
“Yeah, but that girl tries to assert herself on them and make herself sure that she is really strong, brave, confident, charming, and talented.”
“Man, all the girls doubt themselves! Even a certain Miss Universe can find a million reasons to hate themselves, even if the whole world admires them.”
“You are right. But Raquelle is just playing the role of the confident girl. She does it for fame, money, and admiration.”
“I think you have a very bad opinion of her, friend. Yes, I can’t call myself a fan of Raquelle, but I like her anyway. She is a beautiful, young girl. Single, just saying.”
“I do not judge those, who go crazy for her. But I do not agree with everyone’s opinion of her, and I think people chose the wrong idol.”
“Actually, young men and girls admire her! But excuse me, you are no longer a boy. You are more than forty. Your tastes can be absolutely different at a different age.”
“The case is not about age, man. There is just nothing special about that girl. If you remove her makeup and put some cheap clothes on her, she will become an ordinary, homely girl. The homely girl that does not spread sex, for sure.”
“My God, why are you so obsessed with Raquelle?” the man sighs tiredly on the phone. “Let the girl live and enjoy her life! She is young, beautiful, earns millions of dollars, travels around the whole world, and does what she wants… She has achieved everything by herself. With hard work.”
“Yeah, hard work…” the stranger smirks evilly.
“Hey, is the problem with banal jealousy? Are you just jealous of her success? Are you jealous that she earns much more than any average guy in our country? Are you jealous of her youth?”
“I am not jealous of anyone! And I earn enough to live a normal life.”
“Then, why would you the heck make the girl suffer? Would you feel better if you saw everyone showering her with mud? If you saw her being all alone and dreaming of hiding from everyone?”
“That’s what I want. I want to know that she is suffering. And trust me, Raquelle will not remain indifferent. The modeling career is everything for her. That girl would sacrifice anyone to keep shaking her ass for a camera, walk on the runway in shoes with 7-inch heels, hear compliments from everyone, and catch glances full of admiration.”
“You are starting to scare me more and more.”
“Anyway, I am no longer going to save it for later,” the stranger says confidently. “I am going to start to make my plan come true in the nearest time.”
“Come on, do this. I will watch how the police are going to catch you.”
“Nobody will guess anything.” The stranger smiles slyly. “Nobody will even think about me. Nobody will think that such a sweet, innocent, and fluffy man like me could do such terrible things.”
“After listening to you, anyone would unconsciously think you’ve got mental issues. And think it’s time to call the doctors from a mental hospital at your home.”
“No, my mental health is fine. I just want to take revenge on Raquelle Allison Cameron so badly.”
“Why?”
“Trust me, I have a real reason to do it. The case is not only about my wish to ruin her reputation and ruin her career to the heck.”
“It’s like you are taking revenge on her for rejecting the love of your son, nephew, brother, or someone else.”
“Alas, I don’t have anyone from my family. And even if I had a son, I would not let him date such a nasty bitch like Raquelle Cameron.”
“I don’t understand you, then!”
“You will understand everything someday. You will understand what kind of pain one of her close people gave me one day.”
“I repeat, she must only be responsible for what she is doing.”
“She will, don’t worry. She will pay for sure.”
The stranger glances aside, pays attention to the wooden table placed near the sofa, and takes a glossy magazine from it. Then he starts to look at the young, attractive girl, whose portrait is published on the cover of it. With straight, windy black hair, piercing, slanting gray eyes, a narrow face, puffy, bright red lips, and massive golden rings in her ears. Her light skin looks much smoother, and her eyes are bright and full of gloss thanks to the good retouch of the photo.
“That bitch will pay me for everything…” the stranger pronounces thoughtfully. “The weight of revelations will break her wings. Soon, everyone will see that she is not a kind and innocent angel. That she is actually a selfish egoist, who is obsessed with her job and compliments. Who forgot her real side. Who forgot that she was actually a terribly insecure, homely girl, who used the chance to feel like a goddess very well.”
“Oh, do what you want!” the man on the phone gives up. “I am sick of trying to change your mind. If you want to have problems with that girl, God will judge you, as they say.”
“I am an atheist and don’t believe in any Gods.”
“In short, I have told you everything.”
“Let’s see who will have problems. Who will be crying much louder. How that girl will be proving that I am guilty of all her problems.” The stranger raises his head proudly with a sly smile. “May my revenge come true! May everything I have come up with come true! I want it passionately! My game starts right now. From this minute on. The countdown to the moment X has begun.”
The stranger puts the glossy magazine aside and starts laughing evilly, not suspecting that a part of his talk is heard by the one, in the apartment of whom he is now being. Standing near the half-closed door, the six-foot-tall man with jet black, thick hair and slanting blue eyes frowns slightly, looks closely at every action of his, and listens to every single word from him. He also has suspicions about the strong wish of this man to take revenge on the girl, whose name he did not hear because he came here at the last moment.
However, the owner of the apartment decides not to ask the stranger about the reasons for this act, assuming that it is going to be worthless. It seems like he somehow tried to do it, but he did not manage to get any clear answers that could help him understand who was about to be in the middle of a serious scandal. Though, the black-haired young, sympathetic enough man is truly worried about the life of the one, who is hated so much as if she gave his visitor too much pain. However, he does not exclude that the stranger did not go crazy, and he may wish to take revenge on her for a real reason, which he tells nobody about, thinking that the moment for the full confession has not yet come.
