Raul

(An hour before Mia’s capture)

“Make sure to inform me when you managed to get her back. I’ll be there soon.” Raul ended the call with Karl and slumped on the work chair as he heaved a long sigh.

He was happy that his wife will finally return to him, but that also begs the question inside him; of what he should do to win her heart back.

He is not someone romantic. At most, he is just flirty with some of the women who caught his attention and bed them immediately after they submit themselves to him. No romantic gestured whatsoever is involved, just pure, lust and carnal desires to be satiated.

He thought that was probably why his relationship never lasts. Although he would be the one who always dumps someone, he would feel his heart empty soon after that, and would again find another person to satiate his lust. He felt more like an animal than a human.

That was why his mind is in deep conflict, thinking how to apologize, how to make things right again for the two of them, and for their child inside her. Simply planning is easier than executing the plan.

Suddenly his phone rang, with a number displayed that is completely different from Karl’s. Raul furrowed his brows towards the unknown number, before slowly, picked up the call.

“Oh, you finally picked up.” The Mafia King’s eyes immediately darkened after he heard that voice; the seducing and slightly raspy voice that begs a person to do them. It was none other than his ex lover who was together with him longest before he married Mia.

“What do you want? I remember telling you not to contact me again.”

The voice giggled softly, before then, continued to use that seducing tone to entice Raul.

“Don’t be mad. I’m just here to check up on you. Aren’t you pent up enough when your whore left you?”

Raul unconsciously clenched his phone. “Minerva, one more time I hear you swearing about my wife, I’ll swear-!”

The door to his office suddenly opened. A feminine figure clad in cocktail dress that completely exposed the entirely of the upper breast and the back walked in with a smirk plastered on her naughty face.

“You’ll do what, exactly?” She taunted and sashayed near him.

“How do you-”

“Know the lock to your office room? Don’t mistake me for a dumb woman, I know my way to get what I want.” She gazed at Raul, still wearing that seductive smirk on her face.

Minerva isn’t a person Raul should be messing with, and he just realized that after two years of having one night stands with her. Minerva is a ferocious woman, someone who would do anything to get whatever she wants. It was a mistake that she fell in love with him and decided to make him fully hers, that was why Raul decided to marry Mia; so he could run away from her.

Yet Minerva didn’t stop in making him and Mia’s life miserable. For countless times already, Minerva would disturb them be it physically or mentally. It began with the unholy amount of paparazzis following Raul wherever he goes, revealing his location to his enemies and even threatening his wife secretly without him knowing.

After Raul won a case against Minerva about a few months ago, he thought Minerva would stop. Yet she once again appeared in front of him, and even in the worst moment of his life.

Raul growled to Minerva who bravely entered his personal space and leaned in onto the work desk.

Minerva glanced at Raul’s smartphone on the table that’s placed right in front of him.

“Hm? Don’t tell me, are you waiting for a call?”

The corner of Raul’s eyes twitched. If there’s anything he dislikes about her other than her fussy and bitchy attitude, is her analytical behavior. With that skill, she could be someone successful, yet she chose to be a playgirl and resumed to steal other people’s riches as her own.

“It’s none of your business.”

Minerva’s mouth curved again into a wanton smile. “So you are waiting for someone.”

Raul gritted his jaw in exasperation.

“Just get the hell out of here, will you?”

He then brushed his pitch black hair groaned.

For a few moments, his action gained a silence stare from Minerva, before suddenly, she walked closer to him without him even realizing.

“What are you doing-”

“I miss you.” Raul instantly at a loss of words.

If usually Minerva would use her seductive tone to glamour people to her, her tone right now sounded genuine, like she really missed him.

Minerva then brushed her thin fingers on the opening of Raul’s shirt doen until the middle of his abdomen. Leaning near, she whispered.

“I know you are looking for your wife, but at the same time, you actually didn’t know what to so after meeting her, so your heart has been feeling heavy all the time, right?”

Minerva’s voice sounded so tempting, like a siren that attracts adventurrs to their deaths, yet for the originally distressed Raul, her words couldn’t sound more relatable than that.

“Because of that…” Minerva withdrew her face to meet Raul’s eyes, her brunette wavy hair glistened from the moonlight that shines into the dim office.

“I will help you ease that uneasiness. For the last time, can I?” Minerva tempted, one of her hands had already caressed the region between his legs.

For a few moments, Raul felt his decision to save his wife waiver greatly by Minerva’s seduction. He is immediately brought back to those nights where he was able to taste this woman in front of him. From her fingers to her legs, all about her is the epitome of perfection.   

Raul had already grabbed Minerva’s waist firmly when suddenly the door flung open and Ruby Absilon walked in with Mark behind her.

“I thought so.” Ruby heaved a tired sigh.