The Love Affair(Good Wife Better Mistress)

KILL HER

A sudden, loud noise interrupts the pulsing dance music. Within moments, the music stops and the speakers go quiet. As if the sudden silence was a signal, the crowd quickly heads towards the door of the club. The club empties until only ten people remain, lounging on the sofa.

Alex's bodyguards begin to emerge from the dark corners of the club. The menacing men walk in perfect coordination; with their hands placed cooly in their pockets, they separate into two rows and surround the sofa. Alexandro Romano appears behind his bodyguards and assesses the scene. A well-dressed man with greasy hair holds a coquettish woman in his arms.

Nicole Romano is sitting on Thomas paul's knees. She wrapped one of her arms around his neck in an embrace, and she's gently swaying her long, elegant legs. She leans down seductively and whispers something to Thomas. He smiles and she begins to giggle. Alex's face is immediately filled with wrath.

Thomas begins to worry. He tries to push Nicole off of his lap, but she doesn't budge.

"Nicole? Come on, baby, stand up," he pleads, "Mr. Romano is coming."

Nicole turns away from him and smiles teasingly at ALEXANDRO.

"Mr. Romano, what a coincidence seeing you here! Did you want to watch me cheat on you in person?"

Alexandro knows that Nicole is teasing him, that she hasn't really done anything with this man, but he's furious nonetheless. He clenches his teeth and points a gun at Thomas.

"M-M-Mr. Romano, did I offend you?" Thomas asks with a tremor in his voice.

Alex points the gun at the hand embracing Nicole's waist.

"Get away from her!" he commands.

Thomas's face goes pale with fear and he puts his hands in the air. The atmosphere has become tense and still. Alex looks as furious as if he'd caught his wife in the act of making love with another man. He stalks towards Thomas and roughly pulls Nicole from his lap.

Alex kicks Thomas hard and he falls onto the floor. Thomas covers his crotch and groans miserably. Alex's bodyguards begin to beat the other men who admired and flirted with Nicole; some of them already have bloody noses and swollen, bruised faces.

Thomas is confused. He remembers that Nicole said she was married, but he can't remember if she ever told him who her husband was. He looks at Nicole.

"Are you Mr. Romano's wife?" he asks fearfully.

Alexandro Romano stomps on the hand Thomas had wrapped around Nicole's waist. The bones in his hand crack.

"Did you touch her with anything else?"

"Mr. Romano, this is a big misunderstanding," Thomas whimpers, "I didn't know she was your wife. Besides, she told me she's getting a divorce. Believe me, if I had any idea that she's your wife, I never would have laid hands on her—divorced or not."

Nicole grimaces scornfully at Thomas. The man had talked a big game, threatening to beat her husband to a pulp, but now he's the one on the floor crying and m.o.a.ning.

"What a coward and a liar!" she thinks, "I never said anything to him about the divorce."

As soon as Alex hears the word "divorce" he becomes even more indignant. He looks like he might explode. Slowly he turns his back on Thomas.

"Nicole Romano," he hisses.

Alex is so furious he can barely control himself. He throws the gun to the ground and glower at Nicole.

"Stop! No!" a terrible scream echoes through the club.

Nicole turns to see Alex's bodyguards bending over Thomas. Thomas' pants are torn and his legs are covered in blood. The bodyguards have blood on their hands and they're holding something that looks like human skin.