Rick

My eyes are glued to the file in my hand, flipping through pages I access every minor detail to ensure there is no loopholes, my lawyer assured me though. A satisfactory smile appears on my face seeing how badly we have trapped Karen, no way they can challenge us, they are screwed.

Ms. Jeniffer Milano, I know this will hit you where it hurts, Mrs. Karen means so much for you than you let the people know. I have seen the affection and love in your eyes for her, and I am sure you won't let this happen, what I have planned for her business, however that's not my original plan for you.

The intercom buzzed and before I could answer the call, I heard a loud bang come from my inner office. The door swung open, thinking of devil and devil is right here in front of my eyes, she is standing on my door, looking very menacingly. I am so stunned with this brown eye beauty that I didn't notice my breathless secretary running behind her.

"I am sorry Mr. Adam, I tried to stop her" My secretary's voice startle me, I found my composure, I clutch my hand and the cold anger rushed into me.

"Where is your mannerism Ms. Davis?"

"What the hell is this?" Avoiding my taunt, she bellowed as an entire legal file flew through air, landing just a few feet in front of me. I got up and took back a step from the mess.

"Si...Sir, do you want me to call our guard?" Stupid, I shot the ugly look at her.

"Get out" the timid secretary nods her head and left the room hesitantly.

Then I turn my angry glare back on Ms. Davis, even her brown eyes blazing with fire.

"What do you think they are? A love letter.." Sarcastically I smirk at her, she stalks towards me, determination in her every step, looking sexy as hell too.

"Fuck you" oh my sweet Jen is swearing, not a good move. I study her face, memorize every little detail of her feature, I have missed her...yes in past few weeks I did nothing but missed her, missed her to the death, but hate her at the same time. So damn much.

"So desperate to fuck me Ms. Davis, maybe that's your plan to change my mind, isn't that your old tactics to divert my mind" I gritted my teeth an anger and bite the words out, my fingers curling against my palm, my blood running so hot. My words hurt her, I can see the pain in her eyes.

"What, truth hurts, right?" Jen swallow hard and shook her head in disappointment.

"I was wrong, I was so wrong that I thought you are a changed man" her voice struggle to stay strong and steady, she continued "You can never change, you will always be the monster that ruin everybody's life"

"Yes I am the same Rick Adam...At least I am not a fake person, and I don't use the fake name" she gasps, her eyes are wide, she can't stop shaking her head.

"Davis is my mom's last name, I took it with honor" this information surprised me, but it doesn't change my rage towards her.

"Sure, you did it to hide from the media, as you are on your hiatus" I feel like I'm about to burst into flames. She scowls at me and I enjoy her discomfort.

"Rick, this is between me and you, why you are involving Mrs. Karen into this, she has nothing to do with our past" She tried to put reason with me, can't she understand that I have gone too far not to return.

"But she has everything to do with your present." Her eyes sadden.

"Just because I am working with her, you will destroy her business, Rick Karen is not just a business to her" Aghast, she'd nearly cried the words aloud.

"Yes" so many emotions flicker on her face, she remains quite for sometimes then tilt her head at me, grief subtle on her face, my heart aches to see her sad. My twisted mind makes connection I find troubling.

"If this makes you happy, I will resign" she replies me in her defeated voice.

"Still, I will sue her" I sounded so cruel to even myself.

"What do you want Rick?" her eyes fired up as she spoke. "You are making me sick, I loathe you for this."

"As far as I know, you never loved me once you knew my intention against your father, since then you tried to make me forget about my Revenge. And at point I did but in return what I got? Huh..." I exploded, the years of anguish, a turmoil grew in me with times and began to manifest itself in occasional violence. Hers leaving me that day still stung badly in my heart then I got to know about this..... I am shaking with fury.

"You left me for what? I didn't do anything wrong that day, nothing but you put all blame on me and left me shattered." The wound is still open, never healed...

"Stop" the slightest catch in her voice, like I scare her. Great, she scares me too, actually she terrifies me. That's why I have been avoiding her the last few weeks, because I knew if I would have met her, then I could have done something bad to regret.

"I used drugs to forget you, god I became suicidal as I couldn't take the pain of leaving without you. I left my mom, whom I love more than my life, you know why? Because I felt guilty for not choosing you that day when you gave me an option." I felt like crying but tears would not come for some reason. I decided that I am too angry to feel sad enough to cry.

"In the whole year, I never even tried to connect any human, I mourned the day our relationship ended yet in the depth of my heart, I always hoped to see you back in my life, only with that hope I survived" I paused walking close to her, cupping her face in my hand I continued "when I saw you that day, I reborn into this earth. I tried to become that person who deserve your love, I patiently waited for you. I wanted you to heal and see us happening again but .." Jen looks strangely at me, listening to me in silence.

"But...you tired of acting, pretending the person that you are not, you want me to suffer but Rick, how much more you want me to suffer?" Speechless I stare into her questioning gaze. It's killing me. Tearing me apart. But I deserve it, I pushed her away. I acted like she meant nothing to me, when she means everything to me.

"As much as you are making me suffer." I replied coldly.

"How am I making you suffer? I have done nothing" she instantly says in her defense.

"Oh, Jen... you have done enough to call back this monster which I have buried in me for so long." i meant it.

"You know what, there's no point in talking to you. I will talk to Ryan" She turned on her heel to run away from me again, no...not this time. Before she could reach the door, I marched towards it and closed it behind me. I pressed my back on the door blocking her, I tried to take a deep breath to calm me, to gather my emotion, my anger.

"Move out of my way, Rick" she yelled at me, her voice thickened with an emotion.

"Ryan can do nothing in this, I have taken the authority in my hand. If you want anything in favor of Mrs. Karen, I am the only your hope." She closed her eyes, giving up already Jen. she swallowed a sigh.

"Mrs. Karen already dealing with so much shits, don't bother her with this penalty. Rick, she is an old woman who had suffered enough, she is living this day to clear her husband's loan. She has nothing Rick, please spare her out of this." Her plead is music to my ear, I became sadist, I guess.

"Fine, confessed why did you do this to me? Maybe I will be considering some concession on your punishment" she looked back to me in disbelief, she surely hates me at this moment.

"I have nothing to confess you, I don't know why you feel a need to punish me, I think you are too obsessed with Revenge game" Jen fiercely attacked me with her words, why doesn't she confess.

"Rethink Jen, are you hiding something very terrible thing from me?" She rubs her temple in annoyance.

"You gone mad Rick, I have nothing to hide, damn you" she shrugs her shoulders, and I feel losing my head.

"Ms. Jennifer Milano, you are such a liar, last chance..i am giving you the last chance to confess" and then I feel her frightened, she tried to push me.

"Let me out" she squealed.

"No" I lean my back against the door and cross my arms, contemplating her.

"Talk.. I am being overly patient with you"

"I have nothing to talk" she snaps right back.

"Fine, it seems you are cracked head and have no memory, So let me remind you your sin, you have killed one more family member of mine...how dare you?" finally I said it, I want to throttle her to death right here for doing this. What to expect from Milano. Her face paled like a ghost.

"What?" her body freeze and her eyes blanked, she horridly looked at me.

"Why you Milano are always after my blood, I could forgive anything but killing my family is the last cheap shot" I roared at her, she recoils and look away.

"You are insane"

"Look who's talking" I hate her at this moment with every fiber of my body, God I am controlling myself before I could do any damage to her.

"Rick I am done with your mind game, yes I am a killer, we both knows that very well, but I killed my blood, my father for your fucking love, I am living with my sin Rick every night, every day.." the tears rolled over her cheeks, she holds my gaze, unblinking. There's a storm in her bottomless brown depths that guts me.

"Love..." I laughed manically "you did it for my love, right then why did you killed our unborn child Jen" I shouted from the top of my lung, it broke my heart when I saw the abortion paper in her file when I looked for the reason of her panic attack. The case file of her psychiatrist. I couldn't have believed if I have not seen that with my own eyes, it made me sick.

Lost, she looks utterly lost. Within a moment, the storm in her eyes deepens, raging with an intensity that only strengthen my desire to ruin her.

"you spied on me" she has nerve to accuse me after this.

"Why? Why did you kill the child we have produced with our love... why ?" No energy left in my body, I knelt before her, finally crying my heart out. Broken...

"Because it came out of hatred, revenge, betrayal and all plotting" I couldn't believe my ears, the person who I believe has tender heart who loves everybody selflessly, can kill her own child. With little power, I looked up to her in disbelief. I experienced thousand death, tears well in my eyes.

"That's not true, it came in this world with pure love" I snuggle her waist, nuzzling her stomach I whispered, my kid was here and he thought it was the safest place, how unfair is this. A jolt of angst shaken my body, I am shivering with the pain of losing my kid. One more family has snatched away from me.

"You were aware of my intention, yet you pursued to believe me in love, and I did. We made love to each other once I confessed my love to you. That moment was pure of bliss just like our kid which you have killed in your womb" Her tears fell uncontrollably, I can see the despair in her every breath then why she did this, I need an answer. But at the same time, i want to console her, hold her...love her.

"Rick, what life we could have offered to that infant, when we both are not stable in our lives. We are beyond broken, same fate I couldn't give to that infant." She said holding her sob, her voice so forlorn, it angered me further.

"This could have healed both of us, you should have told me, you don't have a right to take that decision, I had a right to know about my unborn child" My blood froze in my vein, she confessed that she killed our child, I actually thought she would denied at least.

"It was my womb, my body and my decision...you have no right, not then and not now. Forget it" she pushed me away with despise, she seems so different at this moment, I couldn't recognize her.

"You didn't care about your own blood and you are lecturing me not to ruin the stranger's life. Hypocrite." She disgusted me, yet my love never fades even an inch for her.

"You are right, she is nothing to me, just an employer.. do whatever you wish to...fine" It has surprised me to my gut, she turned the knob to walk out then I played the dirtiest game.

"Scarlet...does she mean something to you?" She stops and her body became rigid, we both stand in silence and I knew that was a direct hit.

"Blood for blood" that is my Verdict, my vendetta...

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