Chapter 18 Prey And Predators
Hera swallowed visibly at his statement. She thought that she had somehow managed to reach out to him but here he was, telling her that he won’t stop and that she would be the one begging for it. Why would he even say that?
She thought that she had somehow managed to reach out to him but it was pointless. He wasn’t listening to a single word that she just said.
Her eyes wandered everywhere around his bedroom but his face.
She couldn’t bring herself to look at him. Not after what he just said to her.
The sisters at the Convent weren’t lying when they said that the outside world wasn’t a safe place for innocent people.
She felt like a prey walking in the midst of hungry, blood thirsty predators who would pounce on her anytime soon.
He towered over her as he spoke, “You don’t have to worry about me touching you.” He groaned in a deep voice. “And besides, I don’t touch my employees except they want me to. And trust me, they always beg me to.” He said with an air of finality.
“I am not like your previous employees Sir.” She challenged him. Bryce was taken aback. He most definitely wasn’t expecting this.
“I’ll take my leave now” she muttered before exiting his bedroom.
Halfway through the stairs, she bumped into someone.
“I’m so sorry sir” she apologized with her head bowed down. “I swear I didn’t mean to.” Why was she always caught up in the middle of these problems.
“Hey it’s alright!” He stopped her from blabbing. “I’m fine. Thank you.”
“Okay”
“Is your boss in?”
She pointed upstairs “Yes, he’s in his bedroom”
Hera replied sharply before proceeding to make her way out of the mansion.
Max grinned from ear to ear as he watched her leave.
Damn! The bitch was loaded.
Making his way towards Bryce’s room, he stopped at the entrance and knocked on the door softly.
“Hera?” The door flew open in an instant.
Bryce was disappointed as his countenance fell drastically at the person who he saw standing outside the door. He was hoping that she had come back to him but how wrong had he been, it was none other than max.
“You look disappointed” Max pointed out to him.
“Is it because I’m not miss hot and sexy who just left?”
“Shut up!” Bryce shunned him before walking back inside, leaving Max to follow.
“I never knew you employed a hot maid.” Max exclaimed “Jesus, that bitch is fire!”NôvelD(ram)a.ôrg owns this content.
Bryce eyed him and his mouth snapped shut “She’s not a bitch and her name is Hera.”
Max laughed “You even know her name? This girl has really done a number on you. Have you tasted her yet?”
Bryce took his seat as he pretended to ignore the question. “Nope. Apparently she wants us to be friends. Whatever that means.” Bryce muttered the last part under his breath.
Max eyes widened in surprise “She friend zoned you? Fuck!”
Bryce’s mind drifted to what had happened earlier. He wanted so much to believe that he had been dreaming but it wasn’t a dream. She did tell him that she wanted absolutely nothing to do with him in a sexual kind of way.
“I can’t believe that you got friend zoned” Max mocked “Does she know that you’re a hot shot in Los Angeles? Women trip over you all the time.”
“She lectured me Max” Bryce felt his ego being bruised as he recounted what had happened “So told me that only married people should kiss and have sex.”
Max was really roaring now. His eyes had already started to water from laughing too hard.
“Damn the nerves of that girl!” He mumbled “I don’t blame her though, she’s from a fucking convent.” Bryce dropped the bombshell.
“Hell no!” Max shook his head in denial “That freaking goddess is from a convent?”
“Full blown nun if I must say.”
“That shouldn’t be a problem for you then. You don’t do nuns remember?” Max reminded him.
Yeah, he doesn’t do nuns but sometimes one’s perspective’s gotta change right?
“Listen, she might be a virgin for all we know” Max deadpanned.
It was Bryce’s turn to laugh now. “Yeah right. That makes me a saint then” He said in between laughs “There are no fucking virgins Max. That shit is old.”
“I’m telling you that she could be a virgin.”
Bryce shook his head “Not a chance Max!”
“How about I have a taste to confirm?” Max insisted and Bryce’s face flares up in anger.
“Cool down big guy. You don’t do nuns and you hate virgins so how about I take that problem off your hands.” Max offered with a wide grin on his face.
“No!” Bryce replied sharply.
“Come on dude. Don’t go all greedy on me now. You don’t even want the bitch.”
“She considers me her friend and friends don’t sell each other to people who can’t can’t control their sexual desires and is controlled by their dick instead of their brain.”
“You know that she’d be more safer with me than she ever will with you” Max gave him a cornered look Bryce shrugged like he didn’t see it.
“You’re the manwhore here” he pressed “Tell me that you haven’t kissed her yet?”
“I’m not answering that”
“Come on dude. We share women amongst ourselves all the time. Why is she any different.”
“Correction” Bryce began “We fuck women amongst ourselves. Don’t give people the wrong ideas and plus, Hera is off limits even to you.”
Max looked at his friend. He couldn’t believe what he was hearing.
He wondered if it was the Bryce that he knows or that someone had managed to take his place. Bryce was a sex machine that doesn’t give a fuck about women only when they’re straddled underneath him so why does he care so much about this one?
How is she any different from the others?
“She’s too innocent and I can’t risk her getting close to you.”
“What if she’s already sex and just doesn’t want to do that with you?” Max argued.
Bryce face tightened in a frown. The fact that someone else might’ve touched her doesn’t sit well with him.
“It could be possible but even if she has then it must be a boring guy from the Convent so it doesn’t count.”
“She really has you wrapped around her fingers” Max said incredulously.
“Why did you come all this way Max?” Bryce asked, staring at him with intent.
“I heard that Natalie is in town.” Max informed him with a smile.
“No way!”
“She is so I thought that you could use that piece of information to your advantage.”
Max watched as all the colors drained from Bryce’s face only to be replaced by something he couldn’t describe.
“I will have her!” A swore to himself. A solemn promise that he intends to keep.