COURTING DEATH

CHAPTER TWO

Ademarro's POV

My assistant better pray she can find a job after this. I think as I stare at my schedule for today. She got everything fucking wrong. But I still have to hold interviews for the new assistant. Valentis is going to be pissed but I don't give a fuck.

My current about to be former assistant is Valentis' friend and she begged me to hire her and I did. But the bimbo can't do anything right. She can't even schedule a fucking meeting.

I issued the online notice on a job opportunity and I had already received hundreds of resumes. But I had narrowed it down to the twenty applicants that seemed worthy of my time. After taking breakfast I went to work and settled in my office before Shirley the bimbo assistant came in with my coffee and set it on the table.

" You are fired" I said already dropping the coffee to the trash as it was sugared and I don't take sugared coffee.

" What? But Valentis assured me that the job would stay mine" she said. " The job would stay yours as long as you did your work competently. You didn't" " Please. I promise I will do better" she pleaded. " You have fucked up way too many times" " Fine." she huffed and left but not before saying " You will regret this. And you will beg me to come back". She said thinking I hadn't heard her. I had her trailed to make sure she wouldn't try anything for the next few weeks.

After working for almost an hour my secretary knocked on the door and informed me the applicants were waiting. I went to the conference room where the interview was to take place and I had the first applicant come in. He was nice and polite and seemed able to do his work competently but there was just something that was missing. Same thing happened with the other 18 applicants and I was just about to give up for the day when I remembered I had one more applicant.

I heard a soft knock on the door and a lady entered. Dressed in a formal black dress pants suit and a white button up shirt with the first two buttons undone. Her hair was dark and curly and neatly styled. " Good afternoon sir" she said. Wait a damn minute. This face is way too familiar. I thought but I couldn't pinpoint where I had seen her.

I pointed to the seat deciding to ignore the greeting and move on with this. Maybe after she fails I can coerce her into sleeping with me. I thought. Basically in nature I am cold. I don't entertain nonsense and I will say what I think despite it being insensitive. A prey by nature if you may. In order to efficiently work with me one had to be basically immune to my constant glaring and need for perfection. Hence why I all of my candidates today failed and I have no doubt that this sweet angel here would to.

"So Miss West, What makes you the one?" I asked leaning into my chair. " I know I would be suitable for this job because of both my academic and social qualifications. On the academic side I have a degree in math and Business management along with a masters in psychology. On the social side I am not particularly outgoing but I am civilized and friendly enough to establish a friendship and or platonic relationships with people" she explained.

Marvelous answer. I know she didn't pick it up from some website.

I nodded and picked up her resume and read she had no work experience whatsoever. Now that's fishy. How do you not have work experience and you still have a house and food on your table.

"Says here you have no work experience". I started. " Care to explain why? I mean with such qualifications and the fact that you live alone in a prestige neighborhood as I can see in your address, you would be expected to have a job to pay for all that wouldn't you?" I asked tauntingly.

" I did work but due to unforseen circumstances my work remains confidential by the organization I worked for." she answered and it clicked. Neith. She is known as the Goddess of the bow in Egyptian mythology. She is the huntress that leaves her victims with an arrow to their chest into their heart.

" I see realization just hit you" she said leaning back and crossing her legs. "Neith" " Me" she said shrugging. " To what do I owe the pleasure of having the best hunter and sniper in my office? Or has Mafia life tired you that you decided to try out for a new job" I asked smirking. She smiled. A fucking smile. "Please If I wanted a job I wouldn't look for it here" she said.

" What we are too good for you?" " Nope. You are just boring" " Clever of you to insult me in my own territory. I could have you killed in a second " I said giving her a murderous glare. " I didn't think you were the type to catch feelings at the first insult" she said laughing lightly. I hardened my glare but that was of no benefit. I would have shot her but I wanted to know how this played out. I wanted to see if I can scare her into submission. I reached for my gun and I placed it on the table expecting her to atleast gulp of flinch just a bit but I didn't get that reaction. " Settle down. I come in peace. I bring an offer." She said sliding a folder to me. I raised a brow amused that she was offering me something. " I thought the great Neith worked alone" " She does. But this is an offer for a partnership." she said. I opened the folder and saw a picture of my enemy Sidrov. I closed it and went up to her chair caging her. " What twisted game are you playing at? Did he send you to kill me?" I asked. " Calm down. I am here with an offer to partner up and kill him. Bring down his empire" she said pushing me with her foot.

" No" I said. " That's your ego talking darling. Now here is the cold truth your men won't tell you. Last week I did more damage to his empire than you have in the last few years you have been enemies. Now no matter what you do it seems he's always one step ahead of you, now don't pout because that is the case with me too. I believe if we can put our obviously clashing personalities aside and partner up we can make him suffer." She said. She took out glasses from her purse and grabbed the folder reading through it leisurely.

"I know of your little adventure Nene." I said automatically giving her the nickname making her scowl. " You could have killed him but you didn't why?" I asked. " First, don't you ever and I mean ever call me that again. Second, killing him means I would have started a war with not only the few small idiotic mobs that follow him but also the government officials that help him in his empire. Now don't get me wrong I love my work but it's reall going to be tiring to start killing them to. I mean I already have a red dot on my back why trigger them to shoot. You know what I mean?" she said still flipping through the folder. " So you want us to what be hunted together" I asked scoffing.

" Darling are you oblivious to your power? You are the Mafia King for crying out loud now no one would go against you. And the government bitches will be so easy to take care of right?." " You are right no one would go after me. But people will go after you. They already do. Although they end up dead. So how would this partnership work?"

" Glad to see you are considering it. We plan together, you put in half of your men and I put in half but we make it seem as though you are the one attacking " she said. Just then the best idea came to mind. " But I get all the credit you get no praise" I pointed out building up to a proposal of my own. " Unfortunate as it may sound I actually don't care for the credit.Would be nice to get it though but I will live if I don't get it." she said rolling her eyes.

"I have a better plan. No one would come against the Mafia King and they most definitely wouldn't the queen fearing the wrath of the King" I said. " Last I checked you weren't married and even so it would not matter" she said narrowing her eyes in suspicion and scrunching her nose in confusion. She looked hilarious. " Perfect I am not married and neither are you so the best way to get my protection is this; Marry me" I said shrugging.

She burst out laughing not realizing I was serious. " Wait are you serious?" She asked. " Yes. Be my queen and all the protection I have to offer falls on you directly. That way we both get credit for the downfall of Sidrov. "

" No the plan is simple we plan you present" she said. " I will agree to this if you marry me " " Why the hell would you want to marry me ?" She asked appalled. " Glad to see your considering it Nene" I said using her words against her and she scowled at the nickname. " And to answer your question I just want to know what the great Neith is like." " No" " Then I won't partner up with you " I said. She thought about it long and hard before saying " If I marry you I call the shots." She said. I grinned like a mad man and said, "Deal" right before we shook on it she said, " You try, you even think of double crossing me God help me I will kill you " she said deadly serious. " Same goes to you Nene. " I said.

"Don't. Call. Me. That" " Sure thing Nene"

We shook on it and the deal was settled. I am marrying the greatest huntress there is. Aren't I a lucky man ?