Love Together, Be With You Never novel Chapter 7

My heart raced and seemed to jump out of my mouth at any time. I clenched my fists tightly to force myself to calm down and said, “Mr. Redford, the reason I come here is not for anything important, but to seek for your help.”

Marlon pinched and lifted my chin to make my lips closer to his. He had given me a strong illusion that he wanted to kiss me, but no matter he wanted to kiss me or not, with such a short distance, I actually wanted to kiss him very much. But I could not. I had to pretend to be composed. “Mr. Redford, I think a big boss like you mustn’t mind to have another secretary, not to mention a secretary that knew your fetish very well, right?”

Marlon fell into silence. He pinched my chin and stared at me. My heart beat even faster and I thought I was going to die of sudden cardiac death. My face also flushed from his stare. Asking something or asking help from Marlon was one thing I had never done before, and it was also the least thing I wanted to do. But, no matter it was because I loved him deeply and I wanted to see him more often, or to take revenge on the Cornell family and make them uncomfortable, becoming Marlon’s secretary was the best choice. Not to mention I did not have any other choice at all.

“What if I say no?” Marlon spoke slowly. I smiled. “Mr. Redford would definitely agree. Mr. Redford must not want your dear fiancé know about what happened between us. There are tons of our photographs taken intimately in my phone!” Those photos were taken secretly by me for reminiscence purpose when Marlon slept. I would never have thought that one day I would use these photos to threaten Marlon. I didn’t want to, but I had to.

I sensed abrupt pain from my chin as Marlon exerted force when he pinched my chin. “Rachael, looks like you’ve grown, you dare threaten me!”

“I only want to make a small bargain with Mr. Redford!” Provoking Marlon was the scariest thing happening to me and I could only lift my head and smile at him while meeting his eyes. The force he exerted on his fingertips increased and my chin hurt so much as if almost being crushed. But I could only exaggerate my smile. Marlon slowly approached me like a hunting cheetah. He then spoke slowly one word at a time, “Rachael, you’ve really disgusted me!” My heart ached and chest tightened. It truly ached.

“If you dare tell Alicia, you may try. Of course, you better face the consequence, like, Davidson Cornell!” He spoke slowly beside my ear like a devil. “You can’t harm little David…” Without even letting me finished my words, Marlon tossed me away like garbage. I lost my balance and fell straight onto the ground. “Rachael, don’t let me see you again, you’ve dirtied my eyes!” Upon finishing, the main gate clanked shut before me mercilessly. Still maintaining my posture on the ground, I sat and stared at the tightly closed gate in a daze, looking like a broken doll.

The night was dark. As I looked at the gate, I smiled, and started off. I had actually anticipated this kind of outcome back then, yet I still wanted to try. Maybe, Marlon would truly care about the four-year relationship between us? As I smiled, my tears dropped. I was truly useless and inept. Not only that I was not able to join the Marvin Group, come close to Marlon and take revenge on the Cornell family, I was pathetic enough to not be able to find even a job.

Tears were all over my face and my line of sight was blurred. Suddenly, the shiny words “We are Hiring” leapt out at me and were exceptionally conspicuous in the dark. I wiped my tears away and entered the building following the signs. However, upon entering, the eerie purple lighting inside made me felt uncomfortable.

“Come here for a job? Little missy.” A woman aged around forty with a thick makeup on her slightly wrinkled face walked out. She was wearing a camisole, denim miniskirt and a pair of sky-high shoes. I felt even more uncomfortable at once, but I nodded. “Yes, I saw the sign outside!” The middle-aged woman walked round me and examined. “Although you don’t look that much, and have an average body, but you look naïve, and I think you could do the job!”

I felt something was wrong from her words. At that moment, a bunch of ladies suddenly filed out from inside and greeted the middle-aged woman while chatting and laughing with each other. They addressed her as Cheryl and lined up in rows obediently. “Hey, it’s the new comer!” A beautiful lady who was the nearest to me smiled at me. “Don’t worry, most of our clients here like naïve types like you. They’re exceptionally enthusiastic and of course, the price is high too!”

My smile froze at once. Having lived until this age, if I still did not know what place I was at, it was best that I never lived at all. I quickly replied, “I’m sorry, I think I’ve come into the wrong place!”

“Wait!” Cheryl grabbed my arm. “Missy, you don’t have to reject that soon. From your look, I can tell you really need a job; we don’t have to force you too. You can just drink and play with the clients!”

“No, thanks!” I wanted to find a job, and I really needed one, but I had never imagined working at this kind of place. “Oh come on, stop pretending to be virtuous!”

“Yeah, who do you think you are!” My rejection had immediately irritated the ladies. As I was going to leave, a forlorn shrill was heard that echoed all over the night club, and the next moment I saw, two men in black suits looking like bodyguards were carrying a stretcher out and a woman covered in blood was on top of the stretcher. The blood was terrifying to see and the woman’s looks were barely discernible.

“No! Mr. Charles! Please don’t!” The woman on the stretcher was completely in great horror. She was still pleading in fear when she was carried out. I was stupefied by the sudden condition. Another man in black suit then walked out and glanced through the ladies who were standing in rows coldly. Yet as if seeing a ghost, the ladies all slowly backed up to the corners. “Mr. Charles is not happy yet, hurry up and get some ladies!” The man in black said frigidly. “Yes, yes!” Cheryl nodded profusely and agreed.

I did not stay there any further and quickly left. Yet the moment I stepped out of the door, I saw Marlon walking straight towards me. I wanted to avoid him from instinct, but he dragged me rudely and tossed me onto the wall. My back crashed onto the wall and it was painful. “Mar…”

“Rachael, could you be anymore disgusting?” Marlon stared at me with cold black eyes. “What do you mean?” He sneered and glimpsed at the night club behind me in contempt. “You’ve sold yourself here for money. So how’s the business tonight? How many men have laid their eyes on you?” His words were like sharp knives stabbing me and my heart ached so much that I could not recover at once. Yet he smiled. His smile was grim and uncomfortable to look at. “You look dissatisfied, looks like those men did not manage to satisfy you!” Those words resembled another knife that stabbed me deep to the bottom. It hurt! It truly hurt!

“I didn’t!” My heart ached so much that I could not breathe, but I still tried to explain. “No, Rachael, you should have looked at your dirty look at this moment!”

“Marlon!” When Alicia’s sweet voice was heard from behind, Marlon tossed me off as if I was the filthiest garbage or he was afraid that Alicia would misunderstand him. “Sis!” Alicia put up a big smile upon seeing me and she acted as affectionately as she could. My heart was bleeding. I did not want to see them being lovey-dovey anymore, and I was tired to do so too. I wanted to turn around and leave but Alicia held me back. “Sis, I saw you coming out from YES Club, you…” She wanted to say something more but she stopped. She then opened her purse and took out a stack of cash worth around one thousand yuan and forced it to me. “Sis, if you’ve run out of money, tell me, I can give you. Don’t you come here anymore; the men here are all disgusting and rude!”

The cash in my hand resembled a red-hot iron block that burnt me greatly. I lifted my hand and tossed the money all at her face.