Black is the Color of Beauty

Chapter 1

* Italics denotes a conversation being spoken in Mandarin Chinese

Bo's POV

Club Unwanted

July 12, 2018

Shanghai, China 

     " Hey, doesn't she owe you a dance?" I say looking over at Lei. He nods his head as looks down onto the dance floor. We are currently in the VIP section at Club Unwanted in downtown Shanghai. The VIP section is located on the second floor of the venue, which is perfect because it gives me an aerial view of what's going on. And what's going on right now, is the three girls are dancing seductively on the dance floor. The alpha girl, the birthday girl who's wearing white, is screaming out all the explicit lyrics to the rap song that the dj is playing. Damn, doesn't the birthday girl have any class at all? Chinese women would never.... " Yes, yes she does and it's time to claim my prize, don't you think." Lei smirks like a maniac. Really Lei? You of all people? The man that likes nice, submissive women. I could tell him to back down, or I could potential watch Lei get challenged and put in his place. The latter one seems a bit more appealing, so why the hell not. " Oh I got to see this!" I egg his ass on and follow him down to the dance floor. 

  We were barely on the dance floor for two minutes, before one of the birthday girl friends brush past me. I glance at her retreating figure for a moment, as if expecting to see two other bodies following behind it... but nothing. I turn my head to see that the birthday girl and the other friend are still in the same spots. The other friend is dancing with a local drug dealer named Kevin. Cool, so she is occupied at the moment. The birthday girl drops her pocketbook and Lei bends over to pick up the contents that fell out of the bag. Cool, she isn't paying attention either. Is no one worried about the girl that just left. Instead of being consumed with my own frustration, I decided to take matters to my own hands. I walk up to Lei and whisper in his ear "I'm going to go check to see if their friend is by the bathrooms. Okay?", he responds to my statement with a head nod. I quickly walk to the back of the club to where the restrooms are located and immediately see a brown skin figure. But, what I notice next angers the fuck out of me.

   Two guys had cornered her against a wall. One of the guys had his hands wrapped tightly around her wrists, while the other one was whispering in her ear. Her eyes was squeezed shut as if she was waiting for something bad to happen. What the fuck? Without even hesitating, I rush over and my hands around one of the guys throats. " What the fuck is wrong with you putting your hands on a woman like that." I roared. The other guy runs away the moment he notices me choking out his friend out. The guy begins to tug at my shirt ... and his is measly ass attempt to fight back even angers me more. I begin to add a bit more pressure to the front of his throat. Lowlifes like you need to die. Lowlifes like you need to feel pain. Lowlifes like you don't need to be here. I am so caught up in my thoughts I barely register the soft voice from behind me. "Please, please... let him go. You're going to kill him." she begs. "He deserves it." " But you don't." she puts a hand on my shoulder. My hands loosen up from around his throat. "Huh?" her response confuses me. " You don't deserve to live with the guilt of taking a person's life. There's too much good in you to allow something bad like that to bring you down." she whispers. Too much good? Her response stuns me. I let the guy go and he scrambles. As I turn to face the soft voiced woman, her milk brown orbs were staring into my eyes. Something about being under her piercing brown stare, made me feel raw. " I'm sorry, " I mutter. "It's okay. Let's go." she smiles while looking away. Seeing her smile did something to me, like I would do anything just to keep it on her face. Damn, what is becoming of me?