Wounded Hearts

Chapter 23: Hook or by Crook

Faith's POV

Right now I was at the office after having a massive argument with Dario on the phone along with my parents and brothers at home. Why?....because they were all adamant of me not going to work but me being me has to go to work. I have already missed 2 days of work and I can't miss anymore of it and right now I am glaring at Atlas who was forcing me to go home. "Shut up Mr Williams, I've already has the same talk at home, I don't need a repeat of it. I am perfectly fine to come to work so stop annoying me and please leave" I said gritting teeth. He sighed and ran his hand through his hair. "Ok....but if you need any help, don't hesitate to call me. I'm always here" he said and turned around finally leaving me alone. 

I huffed and stood up, leaving my cabin to get some papers printed off. Now even though I am a CEO I prefer to do some things on my own even though I have my PA to do that. As I was walking down the corridor I saw Clara getting to close to Atlas while he was explaining something to her. Clara....the bitchiest...most sluttiest piece of s**t of a woman I have ever seen in my life. Clara is the girl that everyone hates. She is Atlas's PA and has 4 faces. Yep...not 2 but 4 faces. She acts like an innocent little girl in front of Atlas but behind his back she acts like if she is his wife and the boss of this company. "Sure Sir....I won't let you down. I will put my entire hard work and effort into this project" she gave him an innocent smile, standing way to close to him. He gave her a stiff nod and turned around walking back to his cabin. She looked at the file he had just given her and smirked. 

I rolled my eyes at her smirk as I knew what she was thinking of. I continued walking until she came in front of me. "Good Morning Miss Abdella, how are you doing now?" she asked innocently as she pointed towards my plaster on the side of my forehead. "I'm fine...Thank you" I replied back with a cold tone. I tried to move forward but she blocked my way causing me to clench my palms. "It must be hard for you" she said with a fake sad tone. "What do you mean?" I asked with a raised eyebrow, while I folded my arms. "you know?....being stuck in between two hot men" she mocked. "I must say....you are lucky to have two hot guys after you. I don't really know what's so special about you" she hissed at the end and there you go, her face number 2 was out. 

I just stood there with folded arms looking at her feeling unfazed. "Hmmm.....even I wonder what's so special about me but thanks to you I have my answer. I have something in me that basically you don't have, probably that's why two guys are after me" I mocked her back. She glared at me and pointed her finger at me. "Listen b***h, I don't care if you are the CEO or Manager of this company, Mr Williams is mine, so just stay away from him so that he can move on" she spat. I laughed and tilted my head at her. "Oh sweety, you won't know how much I have tried but you can have him. I don't want him so he is free, I'm not a threat in your way" I raised my hands up in surrender as I smirked at her. "Good...and keep it that way" she flipped her hair and was about to walk away until I stopped her. "Just for your kind information Clara-" I spoke, while she froze, her back still towards me. "I know Mr Williams since childhood and one thing I know....he won't ever choose you as his partner. A woman who sleeps with every guy in this company or even outside, if I was you, I would have already gave up" I said playfully trying to tick her off. 

She turned around and glared at me with her big blue eyes and thick fake lashes. "Oh you will see Miss CEO, you will see for yourself how I replace his dead ex- wife and become the love of his life. I will show you how I replace his son's mother and become his step-mother. Wait and watch" she challenged. I raised my eyebrow and smirked back. "I'll like to see you try" I challenged back and chuckled walking in front of her. I heard her cuss under her breath but ignored it as I was mentally laughing. "Stupid girl" I mumbled. 

*************************************************************

Dario's POV

I slammed my fist onto my table, gritting my teeth. "Find him....Find that fucker and bring him here" I ordered. "Yes Sir" my men said. "I can't believe he stooped so low to burn a school down. Seriously....a f*****g school?....didn't he even care about those innocent kids?" Alexander growled. "Why would he care?...he only cares about f*****g money and power" I snapped. Xander groaned and sat opposite to me. "I can't believe she did that...I can't believe she actually jumped into that fire to save her enemy's child" he sighed. Alex was my right hand man and also my best friend. His job for now was to protect Faith from danger, so he started working at her company for a while.

Faith.... I felt as if my heart stopped beating when I saw her laying on the ground, with her eyes closed, fire surrounding her. My life lives within her, she is my heart, she is my soul but seeing her like that nearly killed me. She means so much to me, so much and because of that bastard I was going to lose the only person who meant the world to me. If I didn't reach on time then-. I closed my eyes not wanting to think negitive.

"I would have murdered that mutt head if anything would have happened to her" I hissed, as I mentioned Atlas. 

"What are we going to do about Damien?" Xander asked me. "we are going to first torture him, then kill him" I stated coldly. Xander smirked at my words. "That will be fun" he smirked evilly. Damien Grim-Shaw, an enemy of mine was trying to finish me off so that he could take over my place. I scoffed at that thought. I am a king...no one can take over my place. I am the number 1 best known business man as well as being involved with the Mafia. That fucker decided to burn a school down to show me that he has more power than me not knowing he was about to kill my woman, my girl and for that I am going to make him beg for death.

I smirked and took a sip of my wine. "because of that fucker, I was going to lose my life, my girl and for that I will make sure he gets the worst death ever" I growled. "Man, you're whipped" he laughed at me making me smirk. 

"You do know you are in competition" he wiggled his eyebrows at me. I made a click sound in my mouth "nah....he is no competition for me. She will be mine hook or by crook" I said with confidence. "Of course...if Dario Rizzo wants something he will get it" he laughed playfully. I looked at her photo on my desk and picked it up. 

"Absolutely Correct"