Temptation

What The Hell?

"Well, well I think its time we had a little chat."

"Daddy?"

"Mhm... come on I know you have the key to this place." Richard said nodding his daughter over. Mercedes started to walk towards him but stopped looking at him suspiciously.

"How did you know I was coming here... better yet how did you know about this house?" She asked narrowing her eyes.

"Don't ask questions you already know the answer to, you inherited a lot of things from me including your sneakiness. I followed you hear years ago when you still treated me like your dad instead of someone who was just your father. There's a difference by the way." He said waiting for her come to the door.

"Surprise you didn't sell it." She said under her breath and grabbing the key from an old rock near the door. When they entered he let out a whistle and shook his head in approval, the house was nothing like the one they owned. I was more so a home of sorts the living room had colorful accents pieces with warm tones to complement it, there was a large screen tv mounted with a large collection of movies and there was an old fashion record player and a rack next to it that housed over one hundred different records.

"So this is where you would come when you 'ran away'... I see why now because this place screams Mercy." Her dad said looking at her with a small smile.

"Yeah? I decorated it myself you know... well Denise helped." She replied with a slight giggle.

"Denise... how long have you known?" He asked sitting down on the plush couch and rubbing his hands over his face.

"Since I was eleven when you said I had a cousin that you wanted me to meet."

"What gave me away?"

"You hate your family and she was too old to be any of Aunt Faith's kids who by the way I met." She said looking at her father pointedly.

"Does she know?"

"I don't know... if she does she's never said anything about it but you need to tell her and daddy I can't marry that man." She said knowing it her turn to spill some truths.

"You haven't even given him a chance baby girl."

"He's been stalking me since I was in college and he is dangerous! He has this crazy idea that I'm in love with him and that I'm his and only his. He slammed me against the wall and caused me to have a concussion!" She said looking at her father who seemed to confused by what she just said to him.

"What do you mean he slammed you? Why didn't call us when this happened?" He asked jumping up and heading towards the door before she stopped him by standing in front of the door.

"You need to stop, he knows about Denise and he threatened to tell if I didn't do what he wanted... speaking of he's probably still looking for me. I left him in that awful ass maze... you remember what happened to the last one I led in there?" She said with a sly smile and a giggle but stopped when her father gave her an unamused looked.

"Little girl! That boy was dehydrated and damn near delirious when we found him!" He said shaking his head and pulling out his phone texting one of his security to go looking for Tank.

"It's not my fault she wanted it to be so damn huge! I got lost in that thing so much when I was little I'm surprised I'm still alive."

"You never got lost we knew you were in there, those boys are different we didn't know you left them in there you would come back into the house saying they left. I had to pay that poor boy's family so much money because of your actions!"