Chapter 9

Kayla Santino.

Fuck. I pull on my hair frustratedly.

This person must be in this house. There is no way my grandpa came from Italy with that note in the cookies. This must be someone from this house and I will find out who. Starting with planting secret cameras in my room.

They will regret messing up with me no matter what their reasons are.

I toss the cookies away cause I can't eat them anymore. Who knows, maybe they got them poisoned too.

I furiously march out of my room to the Thomases. Opening the door without knocking to find him watching tv relaxed like he was not making my life miserable. Am sure you put that note in my cookies and here you are pretending as if nothing happened, I grit out internally.

"You want anything princess" he acts startled. I know he knew I was coming. Fuck face, wait until I have evidence. We're going to have a very long interesting talk.

"Yes, I forgot to buy shoes to go with my dress, please get them for me. It's size 38" I say handing him a bundle of cash.

The main reason is to get him out of the house so theo and I would have the privacy needed to install the cameras.

"Sure, the store from earlier right?".He talks calmly you wouldn't even suspect a thing.

Hope am wrong about him.

"Yes, and they should be sandal heels" I point out

He grabs his jacket from the bed and the cash before leaving the room, forgetting to lock the door or maybe he just never locks it. Whoever cares.

I patiently wait for Theo in my room and he arrives in no time, we immediately get in action, and I lead him to Thomas's room who now is at the mall getting me shoes I don't need.

"Hurry up then," I tell him impatiently as he installs the camera at a spot near his dresser. It's in the middle of the room so we will be able to see everything that happens around the room. He installs one in his bathroom and two in my room.

"And done" he exclaims grinning cheekily

"Is everything done?" I whisper yell looking in the corridors in case someone saw us.

" Yes, let's go check it out on my laptop, I will also hack his phone for incoming and outgoing calls plus messages. You have his number right?" he asks leading the way out of the house.

"Yes, I have it. Wait, where are we going?" I ask when he is about to open the door of his car. Thought we are doing everything in my room.

"We need to do it somewhere else, the creep might easily sneak on us and we don't want him knowing we already have suspicions about him" that makes sense. I nod going back to my room to arm myself before joining him. Anything can happen along the way.

"We are going to our house, he won't follow us there" he starts the car and I keep myself busy with my phone.

"Is carl home? we don't want him to get suspicious"

"He's not home, probably screwing some whore or something" he shamelessly says

"What did you just say?"

"Shit. Am sorry princess I completely forgot"

"Don't worry about that, am the one wearing the crown" I assure him " Just because we are expected to get married doesn't mean he already got me. He's gonna work for it if he wants me" I say seriously.

I can always find another way to keep the alliance without the marriage. Imagine getting married to a manwhore, for what?

"That's my girl" he chirpily exclaims. Damn, this man is so ecstatic. He's not that bad

" I just don't like how men move from one woman to another like we are objects. I hate it with my all" I spit harshly

"I agree with you girl. If one is not ready to commit they should practice celibacy better still find one woman for when they want a release" he says and I look at him with a scrunched face.

He pulls up at a big grey mansion and the first thing I notice is the large swimming pool on the left side of the house. I miss one, am getting in the water soon. Men are scattered all over shirtless showing off their muscled bodies.

"See, this is what I was talking about. All these muscles hurt my eyes" the whispers before opening my door.

"Shouldn't your man's muscles be the only ones hurting your eyes?" I challenge smirking at him

"It is but damn, I gotta appreciate all these views and it's suffocating." he's so dramatic I swear " Btw you just smirked at me, that is the most reaction I got from you so far, progress right?" he grins widely

"Let's just go" I roll my eyes putting back my serious face on.

"Okay, my lady" The place looks beautiful except for the horny eyes trailing up and down my body, which I would love to pluck out one by one.

"Don't mind them, it's rare to see a girl around here. Only boss brings girls home and the rest of us have to do it outside" he explains when he sees my revulsion

"Do they know who I am" I whisper to theo

"Most of them know you as the princess but don't know about you being betrothed to our boss" he explains in a whisper

"So I was not the only one in the dark?"

"The reason Carl keeps it a secret is he doesn't want to draw attention to you from his enemies. You know how this works, if they find out about his wife they'll probably use you to hurt him"

"So he lives freely like he's not tied to someone right?"

"You can say that" he verifies.

Wow! Men.

The big double doors open to a large sitting room, well furnished but the smoke in the air lets you know it's a men's den. Carl is sitting on a large king-like couch, shirtless with a cancer stick between his lips.

On his lap, sits a blonde in a straddling manner busy eating out his neck while her hands run all over his body.

Some husband he is.

"Shit" theo whispers looking at me worryingly after he follows my gaze.

"Where is your room? we have something to do remember" I ignore the couples facing him

Clearly not the reaction he was expecting from me, he hesitantly leads the way to the stairs on the left side of the living room.

"Are you okay?" he asks

" Why wouldn't I be Theo?"

"I just thought maybe,...., never mind "

I think everyone knows where their loyalty lies and Carl is mature enough to make his decisions. It's a forced marriage after all.

We slowly take the stares up to Theo's room. Carl and his crew don't notice us.

"I like your room" I compliment when he opens his white door, the room is large with white walls covered by flowery portraits. Always thought men were a bit untidy.

"Thank you, it's my haven" I have noticed he doesn't interact with the other men most of the time. The only person I have seen him with is Sam.

"So let's check out what our boy is up to," he says setting the laptop on the table. He does his thing and Thomas's room appears on the screen.

He's sitting on his bed with the phone in his hands, he places it on his ears like he wants to talk to someone.

"His number, hurry" I quickly pass him my phone so he will take Thomas's number, he doesn't take time on hacking it and we can hear what he's saying.

"Yes, master" his voice comes through. We are not able to make out what the other person is saying so we settle on listening to his side.

"She had sent me to the store, it won't happen again boss" Theo and I look at each other knowingly. We caught him.

But who is this master?