Your greatest mistake

Chapter 1.

My breath is stinging in my chest, I have to admit it has been a while since any man gave me the run around like this. Part of me is pissed off that it has come down to this and my calm resolve was thrown way out of the window, but there is also that part of me that hoped he would run, that had hoped this would get messy and I would end up getting to hunt. I'm not proud of it but I know that sick and twisted side of me is there no matter how much I fight it. It's always there. Maybe if I fell in love and had kids and settled down it might change me? I doubt that very much though, especially since I don't get a choice in who I marry and have kids with.

Once in a while I get the freedom to choose what skirt I'll chase and eventually fuck then leave. I've never had a serious relationship. My family would never allow it. I dated a few girls in high school then after a while just stopped talking to me or they upped and moved away.

I know my family had something to do with it once my high school girlfriend Willow disappeared. She was not the kind of girl that could be bought or threatened. She was pure and honest to a fault which I liked most about her.

When she disappeared, I stopped trying. I knew I was dooming any girl that wanted to be with me, a fate I wish I spared Willow and the others. This is my life, if that's what you want to call it.

I'm hiding on one of the lower floors of the River Lily Hotel in Italy. It's nice but I find it is too flashy for my taste. I can smell the man I'm after from his expensive cologne that stinks so bad it smells like he bathed in it.

I can't stand people who try to push their money in other people's faces. It really shits me, especially when I know how in debt the guy is compared to others but I'll be damned if we are one of them a moment longer.

"Come on, Alex. You really think all this hassle is worth a measly ten mil?"

"Oh, Blake, since we are being so formal, I have killed men for far less," I smile, launching out from behind the pillar catching him off guard and shooting him in the left leg.

His four guards come at me and try to protect their boss but they were too slow. I shoot my gun four more times, never wasting a bullet and always hitting my mark. They all go down easily. I hold my gun to Blake's head while the other four hold their injuries.

"You should have chosen the easy way," I say, beginning to put pressure on the trigger once more. That's all I need. Blake breaks just as I knew he would. I'm relieved I didn't have to kill anyone and then again but I'm disappointed at the same time.

Blake makes some calls, moving things around eventually wiring the money through. I don't care. He is most likely ruined now. I have what I came for so I leave without another word. I walk out the main doors and into my waiting town car.

It doesn't take long till I'm at the airfield and hopping into the awaiting private jet. My phone buzzes. I look at the name and see Devil woman. I sigh and answer on the third ring "How can I help you Bonney?"

I hear her sharp inhale at how I address her but she doesn't comment. That means she is up to something.

"How did it go?"

I roll my eyes knowing she can't see me, one of my few freedoms from this wretched family.

"I'm on my way home. How do you think it went? I'm obviously alive and you would have already seen the wire transfer, so is nothing more than idle chit chat or you are up to something? And as you loath chit chat I'm going with up to something," I say dryly

"Ouch, Alexander, it really hurts that you think so little of me," she says with her best sulk. I haven't heard it in a while. Whatever this is about it is no small matter.