The Billionaire's secret Love by Manogyna Marthi (readnow .txt) 📕

Chapter 20

Augustus

Next Monday morning...

Looking at the file pertaining details of Robert Evans my stance transforms to a sun ball. There was no way that I was going to let the old man free after robbing millions from my company and trying to damage the reputation of our firm. He is the father of Angelica and hurting him is like hurting 'her' but it is unjustifiable to club business with personal matters. With half of his hairs growing grey Mr Robert Evans couldn't understand the simple statement. Thinking of ways and means to handle the project in my hand, I choke out a plan.

Mr Robert Evans it is high time for you to pay me back my dues with interest.

My phone beeps from an unknown number. "Augustus Martin, may I know who is on the other line?" No sooner I finish my sentence I hear a woman giving a hearty laugh. "Hey Augustus this is Jasmine. Long time no see?" She cheers. "Let us have a fornicating weekend today." She suggests in her seductive voice. It is been a while since my little friend is begging me for a release. I immediately answer her in an affirmative and call my driver awaiting a full blown copulation.

All my sexual hangovers are done basically in my hotel's en suites and private lounges. Never do I let any of my flings enter my house as I hate gossips. I call my maid Martha and tell her I am out of station for the weekend. My expedition passed on like a blur with Jasmine in my bed and continuous sessions of starving sex.

As I reach home, I pull out my mobile from my pant pocket and formulate the first step of action.

Gird your loins Mr Robert Evans. You wanted to land the Martins as vagrants on streets and I am here, determined to give you back the harvest of your vicious seeds.

Within a few months the shares of the Evans Industries has gone down to an unstoppable low. The share holders withdrew their shares in a record fleeting time. Evans Industries got forfeited and the company was declared bankrupt. The assets of Robert were seized by bank which included his heirloom farmhouse, mansions in various cities and other industries.

As I invoke evil on the man who tried to disrupt me, a subtle feeling of affection strikes my beating heart remembering a sweet moment which happened more than a decade ago. Her rigid curls of chestnut hair which refuse to stay under the hair band and those big ocean blue eyes lacing in mischief as she jumps in a puddle of muddy water with huge smiles.

Sweet Heavens! She looked so innocent and pure, like an angel arriving on earth to grace the mankind.

Robert begets more foes than friends during his life because of his wicked doings. As a result he is surrounded with enemies all over the globe who are waiting for a chance to get a hold upon him. Their only target being his lone weakness, his daughter Angelica. A strong feeling of passion to protect her by any means ache my heart as I pick up my phone and dial her number. For the next thing that I knew was my heart missed a beat.

"Were you crying?"

"What's with your matter? Don't you have any business..." She goes on clashing her questions conceited.

Think of arrogance and here is the living example of it.

Genes determine the hereditary character of the offspring. Isn't it?

Hush! I was about to forget my 8th grade science lesson on reproduction but Angelica is always on time to bring it back into my memory.

A huge amount of arrogance with a combination of subtle childishness, smartness and a real beauty are the exact words to describe Angelica Evans.

But whatever she is, she is mine and I love her, my sweet little cutie pie.

"What the hell" I grunt concealing all the emotions. "Miss Evans, listen to me carefully. I am here to offer you a deal which can pull you out of the doldrums you are in. I know it is late in the night and it is incorrect to speak to you at this hour. So, I advise you to be in my office tomorrow morning by nine so that we can discuss some business." Without giving her a chance to speak further I end the call.

I am the lion of the business world and I wasn't going to fight a goat to deal the terms of trade. A war of wrestle should be meant between equals and I am not a reprobate to bring up an innocent girl into this. On the pretext of clearing the debts her dad made I will hire Angelica. It is the only way to protect her from the sinful world her dad created. I will employ her in my office where she will be working in front of my watchful eyes. Nobody dares to mess with Augustus Martin the billionaire who rules 2/3 of the American business world.

I apprise Angelica on everything including her dad's financial status and his pilferage against the Martins. As guessed, she was arrogant and stubborn not in any way going to accept my statements against her dad. So I gave her the time she required to understand and digest the truth. It was Robert's call to brief his daughter thoroughly regarding his fateful deals.

Trying to hold a stoical countenance towards her, I place my next words prudent. "Work for me for the next five years, clear the dues of your dad and I set you free after that else..." I halt for a while for her to assimilate my next words. "Your dad will be behind the bars before he sees the sunrise of tomorrow under the clauses of hacking accounts of Sunrise Industries and robbing money from the firm."

She grinds her teeth looking at me in disdain which quakes my heart to an unbound extent. But I quickly conceal my emotions under the shadow of my eyelids. Meeting her ocean blue orbs, I prepare myself to brace her umbrage ones again. "I am ready to work as a stripper at a night club if that is a last chance I get to repay you of the debt of my father but I will never work for you." She declares with her head held high in repugnance.