A Woman's Empire

XLII

CHAPTER FORTY TWO

Leo woke up to a stranger lying next to him. He reached out his arm, thinking it was Lucy when he suddenly realised that Lucy had left the state last week. Rubbing his eyes, Leo focused on the naked girl next to him. He must've drank too much last night.

Slowly getting out of the bed, Leo made his way to the bathroom to freshen up. He grabbed his pants that were chucked at the end of the bed and saw that his shirt was on the ground. Turning the faucet on, Leo watched the cold water fall into the marble sink. He splashed some water on his face to wake himself up before heading back into the bedroom.

Just as he grabbed for his shirt, the girl in bed groaned, rubbing her eyes before sitting up. When she realised that Leo was standing at the end of the bed, she smiled and held the blanket against her bare chest.

"Good morning."

"Morning, um are you hungry?" Leo asked, looking around for his wallet that he then found on the dining table.

"Hungry for you." The girl smirked, crawling seductively towards Leo. Leo chuckled slightly then his face went serious.

"No."

"No, what?" She pouted.

"Look, I need to get to work. Here's a hundred dollars. That'll be enough for room service right? Stay for the whole day if you like but I've only paid for-" Leo was suddenly cut off when the door was slammed open, almost shattering the mirror hung next to it.

The girl screamed, scrambling back into the bed to cover her naked body. Leo was quick to react, grabbing the gun he placed in his back pocket. However, he wasn't quick enough. The slightest second later, the intruder's fist connected straight with Leo's jaw, almost knocking him over.

Leo didn't have time to punch back either, because as soon as he had a slight stumble, he was woken with another punch. Punch after punch Leo took the blows until he felt his head thumping and a warm river of blood flowing from his nose.

"Where. The. Fuck. Is. She?!" They spat in his face while they threw punch after punch.

Leo shoved the person off of them to realise it was his younger brother beating him up. When Leo sat up, Antonio backed off only to pull out a pistol and hold it against his head.

"Where is she Leo?" Antonio screamed, a vein popping out and visible on his forehead. He held the gun harder against Leo's head when he didn't get an answer.

"Where the fuck is who?!"

"Audrielle! I swear to god if you kidnapped her I will not hesitate to put a bullet through your fucking skull!"

"What on Earth are you talking about? I haven't seen her for what? Three, four months?!" Leo barked back but he didn't move, because he knew for a fact that Antonio would kill him right then and there even though Antonio was never the violent brother.

"Don't play fucking mind games with me Leo. Just tell me where your god goddamn wife is so I can take her back to a safe place. Far away from you."

"Listen here fratello, I have no fucking clue to where she could've have ran off to."

(Translation: brother)

Antonio stood up, letting Leo go but not before smacking him across the face with the gun. He was about to leave when he slowly turned around and looked at the frightened, naked girl on the bed and then back to Leo.

"You disgust me. Need I remind you that your wife is not only pregnant but now she's been kidnapped by god knows fucking who and all you can be bothered to do is fuck low life whores on the streets and drink whatever goddamn thing gives you a hangover the next day?"