Snakes and wolves

“I’ve done everything you wanted me to do, Vito. I’ve even risked being hated and probably be killed by Daemon just so we could proceed with our plans so don’t you dare pin it on me! I’ve done more than what you did in the years!”

Maddy threw the cigarette butt on the floor and lit up another one. She is in fury when Vito blamed her for their plan did not work.

“You must have forgotten who put you in your current place, Maddy. Don’t you forget who made you of what you are today. I did it all, Maddy! I made you a wife of a senator of this country but you can’t even devise a working plan even after all the experience I gave you?”

“It’s not my fault that the mastermind is as dumb as me! I told you that we should have taken care of that Farrows before she could be a threat to us and look what happened! I was right all along! She is not what you thought she would be! I should have killed her the instant I had the opportunity!” she shouted back.

“That will be too complicated! I cannot afford being on the wrong side of the Farrows. You know that her father invested a billion on my cartel.”

“Bullshit!” she puffed out the smoke. “Why are you still hesitating? I can just order one of the men of Daemon to finish her off. She is banished from her house. Her family does not care about her anymore. No one will care if I throw her body into the ocean tonight.”

“You will not do such a thing! Devon is still an asset of the Farrows family. You don’t know this because you never had a family Maddy but abandoning your family does not mean that they do not care about you anymore. The Farrows may operate based on shame if a member of their family is eliminated. That is what we are preventing from happening so don’t be rash in your actions.”

She gritted her teeth. Vito must be thankful that he still had a hold on her or else she had already ordered his death this instant. She could just ask her husband whose so head over heels in love with her to do the honor.

She remembered how Daemon took her side earlier. It almost drove her nuts that the man who used to pour all his attention on her is now smitten to the other woman.

She might not admit it but she is insecure and jealous of the woman. Devon Farrows is the known princess of the whole district and many men wanted to marry her not just because of her name but because of her beauty. She bet that Devon did not experience any valuable hardship in her lifetime having been offered with all the lavishness this world can offer.

While the likes of her need to feed off the ego of the old powerful men like her husband, Devon is busy going from one place to another spending the money of her parents. And now, she is poised to seize the only man she will ever love.

“But she is becoming a big nuisance to the plan. If she so blocks my way then, I will gladly blow up her pretty head. I don’t care about the circumstances. It will be your problem, Vito.”

“Maddy, don’t you dare my patience. Don’t act high and mighty just because you have tasted a bit of power. I could just as easily as take it away from you. The senator wants you for now because of your beauty. One cut on your face and he will find another one like you. One slash, just one blemish on your beautiful body and he will come again to me to look for another wife. Have you forgotten that you are just a replacement of his dead wife? Do I have to remind you again about that ugly truth?”

Her hand trembled not in fear but in anger. How dare this man who had abused her countless of times threatened her? If not for her, he would long be gone from his position as a cabinet secretary.

“I did not forget any of it, Vito. Between the two of us, I guess that you are the more forgetful one. Daemon saved you countless of times and yet, he is the first on your list to be attacked. Did you know who saved you aside from him? Me! I saved you from his doubts. I consistently reminded him of your friendship just so he could not include you on the people that he is investigating. Ugly truth my fucking ass! This truth, the truth that you are betraying your own friend is an uglier truth!”

“But you are also helping me now, don’t you? What will happen if I tell Daemon that you also betray him? What would the people of the district say about him? They can’t say anything that could damage you because your reputation is already known. They will mock Daemon for getting on with a woman like you. A powerful mafia leader like him has been led on by a prostitute named Maddy Johnson. He gave you half of his life and yet you betrayed him. I think that would be considered as the ugliest truth, my girl.”

Vito laughed in the line. Maddy can’t help but bit her lips until it bleeds. This bastard never failed to make her feel as tiny as a dirt on a fingernail. Time will come when she will return the favor to his face. He will scramble to her feet one day after she’s got what she wanted.

“I am not betraying Daemon. I am just redirecting his road. It’s for his sake.”

He laughed in derision. “Continue to live in your imagination, Maddy. Just don’t forget your mission. I want half of Daemon’s properties and his spot in his organization.”

“You can have that but you make sure that you clean the wild mess I will leave. And Vito, I can’t promise that I won’t hurt the Farrows princess. She’s been getting in my nerves lately.”

She turned off the call after and settled in her luscious bed, naked and waiting for her husband to arrive from his late dinner with his colleagues. Tonight, she will be asking a very important favor from him so she has to make sure that he will not say no and the best way to do it is to suck his dick until he screams in pleasure and begs for her to stop it.

“Men are simple creatures but Daemon is not.”

She closed her eyes and recalled the very first time she had crossed path with the only man who has shown her what a true love is.

Marcel, Daemon’s father is visiting her orphanage to adopt a boy. He arrived with the young Daemon who has taken an interest on her. He befriended her and the next time that they came, he gave her a necklace that she still has until now. It was her most prized possession.

She wished at that time to be a man so that she got a chance to be adopted. One of the kids left with the Drufts and that’s the last time she had seen Daemon.

The second time they met was in a stripping club where she was working. She left the orphanage at the age of thirteen to search for Daemon but as life taught her the realities of the world, she realized that she was living in fantasy.

When Daemon found her, she is in a very sorry state. She is addicted on drugs, recently aborted her second child, and is in an abusive relationship with her boyfriend.

Daemon practically saved her again. He gave her a fresh start, a fresh life that is so far from the kind of darkness she experienced for the most of her existence.

It was an open secret that she is harboring feelings for him and she felt it too that the feeling is mutual but Daemon cannot seem to say it to her face. Something is holding him back. She confessed first but he turned her down.

“You are special to me too Maddy but I do not want to go beyond this. You are a great woman. I can’t forget you for the past years so I scoured the area to find you. I’m sorry that I took so long. I like you too but I cannot pursue you at all. I will be assuming the place of my father in our group. It’s a big responsibility where love is not possible. I don’t want to be a burden to you so please, find some other man who deserves the love you can give.”

She left his house the next day and ended up under Vito’s brothels where he made her as one of the madams upon learning of her connection with Daemon. She continued loving Daemon from afar. From all the flings and girlfriends, he had that did not last, she celebrated secretly. Every break up felt like a chance to take the place on his side and so she began dreaming.

She met many men. Powerful and wealthy man but she is just for a night for them. No one respected her for who she is. No one showed to her the things that Daemon showed her. They all wanted her only for the pleasure she can give.

So she jumped in a deeper well. She specifically targeted older men this time. Vulnerable men who is seeking for love from younger generations showered her all the material things. She felt beautiful but it didn’t last long. She was still nothing compare to the women that Daemon openly dated. She is just a garbage when put side by side with them.

Nothing went well until she married the senator who saw the face of the younger version of his late wife on her. She experienced the wealth and the power and immediately agreed. True to this, she began earning the respect of the upper classes.

Even though they still talked shit behind her back but a sense of respect is still there. She revered in this new limelight. She loved being seen alongside the ladies in the posh magazines. She enjoyed the lustful stares the distinguished men gave her. That’s how she began taking up the space, the space that Devon Farrows is trying to take from her.

But a greater opportunity has presented itself. This is what she’s been waiting for the longest time. Daemon will be hers this time. She will finally have the man of her dreams. No matter what happens, she will cling to this opportunity even if it means committing murder again.