Hidden Horns

The Devil's Eyes

"Good take! Let's wrap up." The photographer announced and the crowd claps their hands simultaneously while looking amusingly at Chloe.

Charlene takes the towel from the staff's hand and she pad towards her cousin wearing the proud smile in her lips.

"It's an honour to watch the most well known model in her best post for the newest fall collection of Vouge." Charlene said as she wrap the towel around Chloe's shoulder and tug the brunette to the dressing room.

"Shut up, we're in the same boat." Chloe sneered playfully. "I'll take it from here. Thank you." She dismissed the staffs who are helping her to undress and to change into most comfy clothes as she's done with her project for today.

The first project she received after she signed the contract and the first project that she did without Lev standing on the corner and looking at her proudly and excitedly. That is one of the thing that Chloe should accept, that there will be no Lev anymore, the brother she never had.

"Why are you here anyway? don't you have your own pictorial?" Chloe asked as the staffs left them alone inside the living room and Charlene sat in front of the make up table and rummaging through the different brands of make ups in front of her.

"The photographer didn't show himself." Charlene shrugs and since she got bored about the make up that she know that will not fit her face because they are all dark colours which is not her type in her face, she leaned back and look at the girl behind her through the reflection of the mirror who has four bulb in four corners.

"What about Ivy?" Chloe asked without looking at the Blonde. But after she already wear the brown blazer, still no response from the Blonde who was just looking at her intently. "What's with the look, Charlene Smith?"

"So that girl.." Charlene started. "Is she really your new driver/bodyguard?"

"That's what she said." Chloe huffed an annoying breath after she remembered the woman in a suit, with doe eyes that has no expression in them and arrogant smirk.

"But of all people, why woman? Knowing that your life is at risk.." Charlene paused and she spin the chair to face the brunette. "What if it happens that you're in a dangerous moment? What will she do? Scream for help?"

Chloe snort at that but she knew, deep inside, that her female driver was not an ordinary woman, she's like Nathalie who has her combat ability, quick reflexes and strength. She found out about that after she run over her but her driver/bodyguard, quickly jumped on the hood of the car to avoid getting run over and still compose herself and drove her at her work.

"Let's just not talk about her, you're setting my mood off." Chloe said as she tucked her sling bag in her right shoulder. "Where's Ivy?"

"She's on her way, she finished her pictorial yesterday and she have free time to join us." Charlene said as she heaved up from the chair and clings onto her cousin's arm and they both make their way out of the dressing room.

Chloe thought that she already rid her driver because she couldn't find the woman inside the building. But to her dismay, the car that stopped in front of the entrance made her frown. And Yohan step out, as if she's been waiting for her employer for ages with the scowl in her face.

"I'm going out with–."

"Hop in, I'll give you a ride." Yohan said monotonically and open the door in the backseat, ignoring the flashes from the press around them.

"No thanks, Charlene have her own–." She was interrupted for the second time as Yohan spoke firmly.

"Get in." She said, her voice is deep and it came out as growl. Jess and Agma who were watching them, shook their heads, because they know that Yohan won't let Chloe go anywhere unless she's with the brunette.

Chloe's mouth fell open in disbelief but immediately recomposed herself, she squared her shoulder and crossed her arms against her chest. "Who are you to–." And for the third time, she got cut off by her arrogant driver.

"Just get in and let me drive you to wherever you want to go." Yohan said and even if there are lot of medias who can see them. She grabs Chloe and forcedly shoved her inside the car that leaves Charlene no choice but to hop in as well when Yohan looked back at her with deathly glares.

"You are such a f*****g asshole!" Chloe snarled at her driver after Yohan climbed in and buckle her seatbelt. "How dare you to disrespect me in front of the press! You are just my driver in case you forgot!"

"And as your driver, it's my job to drive you wherever you want to go." Yohan said as she started the car and drove away in speed.

"But I never asked you to be my driver! I told you, I don't need a driver nor a bodyguard!"

"Chloe, that's enough." Charlene chimes in while squeezing her cousin's hand to calm her down as she could see Chloe's face in deep shade of red.

"I can't believe that there's a human in this world such as arrogant as you, or are you even a human? after all, I run over you but—!"

"You did what?!" Charlene asked flabbergasted.

"She should've been dead by now!" Chloe growled in frustration and kick the front seat. Yohan pursed her lips and took a deep breath to keep what's left on her and just focus on the road.

"Did you seriously run over her with your car?" Charlene asked again, but this time, in a whisper voice.

"I did, because her friends are the suspects for Lev's death." Chloe huffed.

"Oh my God. Are you really serious?" The blonde asked again, her voice laced with the sudden fear that's arose inside her.

"Yes!" Chloe exclaimed. "Look at her, she's not even denying that they killed Lev!"

"I did, the first time I introduce myself to you." Yohan shrugs her shoulder.

"No! You didn't even introduce yourself! What the hell are you talking about?!"

"Oh, I didn't?" Yohan asked sarcastically and she took a quickly glance at the two women behind. "Well, I'm Yohan, you're new driver, and the two women behind us, are also your bodyguards, the small one is Jess, the other one with narrow eyes is Agma."

"This is unbelievable, your driver is a woman and your bodyguards are all women!" Charlene said, shaking her head in disbelief.

"And in case you don't know, we are trained for our jobs, we are not different from male bodyguards because we trained hard and has ability to protect that little bean beside you." Yohan added to justify their jobs as women bodyguards.

"But how would Chloe know that you are qualified to that? You are still a mere woman in a suit." Charlene asked, though Yohan know the blonde is mocking them, she still know that Charlene was just making sure if they could really protect Chloe.

"We'll never know, unless her life will be at risk." Yohan said, meeting the blonde's eyes trough the rearview mirror.

"Nobody wants that to happen, as much as possible, I don't want my cousin to be in danger just to make sure you're capable to protect her." Charlene dismissed and look at the woman next to her who's still fuming in anger but chose to shut her mouth off. "This is unexpected."

"Yeah, like I thought I rid her off." Chloe sneered.

"No, I mean, Nathalie."

"She's here?!" Chloe exclaimed but immediately covered her mouth when Yohan took a glance at them. "I thought she'll be here in a week? Why too fast?" She asked again, but more lowly as the previous one.

"Yeah, I didn't know that she's in California, inside those three years." Charlene said with soft chuckles.

"Well, since she's already here. I guess, she's the reason why you asked me to have lunch with you." Chloe said and leaned back.

"That's right and..." Charlene paused and looked in front then back to Chloe. "Let's talk it out in the restaurant." She said and asked Yohan to pull over in front of the Mexican restaurant.

Yohan parked the car in the lot, doing a fast parallel parking job but with one front tire on the sidewalk. When Chloe looked at her in question, Yohan said. "Saves us time if someone try to harm you and have to jump the curb."

"Stupid, what is your purpose if we have to run." Chloe scowl at her before the door next to her open by Jess and the other side was opened for Charlene by Agma. "Murderers." Chloe mumbled, rolling her eyes at the sight of smiling Jess.

"She's rude." Jess pouts when they made sure that the two women are already far away from their earshot.

"Ok sensitive small bean, did she hurt your heart because she rolled her eyes at you?" Yohan asked mockingly.

"No, because she called us murderers." Jess said and the three of them exchange glances before they bursted out from laughing.

"Where's the lie tho?" Agma asked between her laughter.

"Shut up." Yohan rebuked and slap Agma's hand. "I'm going in, don't make a scene here."

"Ok, just be careful. I heard that b***h is back." Jess said, which caused Yohan to stop and looked back, asking her friend silent questions. "Nathalie."

"Oh, you mean Yohan's number one fan." Agma teased and laugh but she immediately stopped when she noticed how Yohan's face become serious. "I was just kidding."

"Why did she came back?" Yohan asked to no one.

"I don't know, Justin called me this morning and told me that he saw someone at Nathalie's apartment." Jess said.

"What if it's not Nathalie? What if it's the landlord and since Nathalie didn't show herself for three years, the landlord is moving her things out?" Agma asked, convincing herself that it was not Yohan's number one enemy.

The girl who tried to kill Yohan several times because she thought that Yohan killed her sister, Nicole. Wherein Nicole sold her soul to Yohan in the first place and she just took what's hera, which is Nicole's soul. But since they are both has their skill and because Yohan is not an ordinary human, she defeated Nathalie, but she doesn't have the will to kill her as Nath offered her soul to a devil just to have those ability, the abilities to fight the devil who owns her soul.

"I don't know, but it's better to be careful." Jess said.

"She's right." Yohan chimed in. "It's not like, I'm afraid of her, I just don't want her to be on my way because her soul already belongs to me, so killing her is useless because at the end of her life, she's still mine."

Agma and Jess looked at their friend, and they noted the colour Yohan's eyes, they were so dark and it felt like they were looking into an endless stretch of midnight sky, An endless depth of ink, sorrow, and pain. They could not see whites of her eyes nor the vessels that flowed through them. They were depths of Tatarus holding a thousand souls yet there were none to be seen.

"Alrighty~ then." Jess said a bit high to put Yohan back to herself as human, not the devil who holds dark souls within her. "We'll just wait here."

Yohan blinked her eyes and the devil's face vanished, she twisted her neck and squared her shoulder before turning her heels and walk towards the entrance of the car.

"What was that?" Ivy asked herself after watching Chloe's bodyguards inside her car. Agma snapped her head behind and her narrow eyes became narrower as she was staring at Ivy behind her windshield. Ivy's eyes widened and she panicked, she grabs her pursed and climbed out of her car. "What?" She asked raggedly.

"What are you looking at?" Agma asked with scowl in her face, afraid that she saw Yohan's face.

"You weirdos, you were just laughing a while ago then became serious." Ivy scoffed and was about to walk away but Agma grab her hand. "What the hell?"

"You saw—."

"She didn't." Jess cut her off and she smiled reassuringly at her friend. "Sorry about this, it is just the time of the month, you know? women in her period." Jess added but not enough to erase Ivy's annoyance at Agma.

"I'm going to tell this to Chloe and make you lose your job!" Ivy said and she took back her hand from Agma's grip and walked away.

"Are you sure she didn't see Yohan?" Agma asked while still looking at the woman's back until she disappeared inside the restaurant.

"No, Yohan's back facing her." Jess said and she tapped Agma's shoulder. "Relax, we're safe."

Agma released her breath that she didn't she's holding since how long it was until her chest felt the relief. They both walked to the entrance but didn't go in, they stayed outside and Jess pulled out her pack of cigarettes and put one stick in her chapped lips and lit it, before handing it to Agma who refused.

On the other hand, Yohan was just standing behind the wall that separates the reception and the diner, where lot of well known people are eating on their table. She's hiding and the receptionist was staring at her weirdly since she introduced herself as Chloe's bodyguard but as soon as she took one step, she immediately took a 360 turn and hid behind the wall.

She was not really expecting the last person she wants to see inside the restaurant and in Chloe's table. The girl they were just talking about awhile ago.

Nathalie Colt.

"What are you doing there?" Yohan hissed before she darted up her head and she saw Ivy, looking at her in confused but she can still see the rage in them. Yohan was about to open her mouth but Ivy waved her hand and speaks again. "Nevermind, but can you please, chastise one of your comrade."

"Why?" Yohan asked, then her eyes went down to Ivy's hand as she noticed the red mark. "Who did that?" She asked through her gritted teeth.

"That narrow eyed girl." Ivy said and walk pass on her to Chloe's table.

Yohan released a sigh and decided to walk out of the restaurant, as soon she stepped out, she fist Agma's collar, which make Jess to panic and toss the butt of her cig on the ground and approached them.

"Hey! what happen?!" Jess asked while trying to remove Yohan's fist from Agma.

"You hurt Chloe's friend? Are you insane?!" Yohan growled.

"I didn't mean to, I thought she saw you because she was in her car when we were talking outside!" Agma explained.

"You thought, but why'd you have to hurt her?!"

"I got scared, ok?!" Agma yelled and she resigned her hands from Yohan's. "I don't want your plan to get ruin jist because we became careless."

"That is not going to happen, you hear me?" Yohan said, glowering at her friend and removed her fist from the collar and looked at Jess. "Nathalie is inside and she's with Chloe."

"So Justin was right." Jess said and Yohan nodded as she walked at the alley in the corner of the restaurant. "But why she's with Chloe?"

"As far as I remember, Nathalie belongs at Chloe's circle of friend, along with Nicole." Agma said while fixing her suit and stood next to Yohan, she bends her knee backward and leaned at the wall.

"I forgot that." Yohan mumbles.

"Now what? Do you want us to get rid of her?" Jess asked.

"No." Yohan replied and shut her eyes hardly. When she open them, she flicked her tongue and scrunched her nose up. "She leaves me no choice."

"About what?" Agma asked.

"If she came back because of me, then be it. I'll put her in her place, but my plan to take Chloe will still be the same."

"But what if Nathalie tells Chloe your true identity?" Jess asked worriedly.

"She will not do that, she knows what I'm capable of. If I want to take her life, I can easily do it." Yohan said with certainty on her voice,the corner of her lips curved upward. "I'll go in, just stay here."

"Are you sure about this, Yohan?" Jess asked. Yohan looked at her with the emotion they haven't seen at her since she ate Nicole's soul. "Your face screams excitement."

"Because I am." Yohan said and she took the turn in left to enter the restaurant. The receptionist looked at her and watch her until she disappeared inside, thinking that she finally pick up her confidence unlike earlier that she was hiding.

Yohan walked towards the table where four women are having a serious conversation but they stop as she stood in front of the table and the three women looked up. "What do you want?" Chloe asked.

"Nothing." Yohan said, her voice was deep, as if it came from the deepest ground and that caused Nathalie to darts up her widened eyes. "I just want to greet my friend." She added, eyes pierced into Nathalie's eyes.

"Y-you.." Nathalie trembles. She already foreseen this scene, she was prepared in case that she'll meet Yohan, but not in this instant. She didn't know that Chloe knows Yohan, she wasn't expecting to see Yohan today. But here she is, standing in front of her, eyes looking straight at her, the eyes of the devil who took her sister's life, the eyes of the devil she saw after receiving her incomparable skills to defeat the devil itself.

"Long time no see, Nathalie Colt." Yohan greets with the smirk on the corner of her lips.

"Y-Yohan Ceyx." Nathalie said which made her friends to looked at the two of them back and forth and in confused.