The Deal

Chapter Two - The Deal

The car drove off instantly, Carmen's heart beat faster than normal. The car arrived to it's destination safely escaping from the masked guys.

As they got down from the car, Carmen sighted the most feared man in New York, she almost fell thinking what he came to do here.

This is the first time she's seeing him in person, but she has seen a lot of his photos.

She was dragged to his father by two guards and they forced her to get on her kneel.

Sylvester sat beside her father. She needed no prophet to tell her why both of them sat like comrades. Her father was trying to sell her to him.

She dragged herself trying to escape as she wept heavily, but the guards already pinned her down.

Lincoln walked to her place, raise her head up, he checked her well and went ahead to whisper in Sylvester's ear.

"How much will I pay for her?" Sylvester asked as he turned to face Carmen's father.

Her father couldn't say a word, he thought of which price to say. When Sylvester noticed that, he laughed aloud and stood up.

"Recce, pay him any amount he wants. Lincoln bring the girl over" He ordered, he took a last glance at Carmen and moved out laughing out maniacally.

Carmen was dragged to the car booth and was locked up. They arrived at Sylvester's mansion in no minute.

"What should we do about about the girl?" Lincoln asked following Sylvester to his room.

"Bring her and the second girl now" Sylvester ordered as he took his clothes off.

"You mean Martha?" Lincoln asked to be sure. But Sylvester kept quiet, Lincoln bowed and moved out.

Twenty minutes later, he brought Carmen and Martha to him.

Martha gulped down so hard, holding the hem of her blouse, she bowed and dare not look at the devil.

Carmen stared bravely deep into his eyes. She wanted him to kill her rather than becoming his slave.

The devil lighted a cigarette and stood up from his bed walking towards Carmen slowly. Her heart skipped a beat, she was getting afraid but her eyeballs didn't move an inch from staring at him.

"Get her a new dress and wash her up" He commanded pointing to Martha.

"What about her?" Lincoln inquired as he also pointed raising up his head slightly expecting an answer.

"Lock her up in the torture room" He replied puffing out smokes before dashing off his clothes.

Martha was so glad that she was spared, she was appointed as one of his cook.

She came from a very wretched and poor family. Her father owed the dangerous mafia thousand of dollars and he had nothing to pay back. To save his life, he sacrificed his only daughter.

•••Sean's Residence•••

Sean came out of the bathroom with a towel wrap around his waist. He shake his head to let the water in his hair off.

He put on a grey pant and a black shirt before applying body creams on his skin.

Sean is also a dangerous mafia, second to none except Sylvester Stallone and they had always hated each other.

Some do say; Sean is Sylvester's rival while some say; from now till years to come Sean can never be Sylvester's rival, and can never be compared with him.

He tries his best to be on the same stage as Sylvester but that's almost impossible.

Ethan Cruz, his most trusted servant and also his personal assistant knocked on his door.

"Come in" He growled without minding who was at the door.

"Our spy said that Sylvester visited Richard today" Ethan announced and proceeded to move out.

"He must have gone to collect her daughter, get my car ready, I'm meeting Sylvester tomorrow" He mumbled and thought of how he would tease him about Richard's daughter tomorrow.

"I'll see if I can turn her to one of my spies and also help me in bringing Sylvester down" He thought to himself aloud.

•••Sylvester's Residence•••

The next day came so swiftly. Carmen moved to and fro in the torture room as her heart pounded heavily for every seconds that passed by.

Her hand was tied with chain, she tried to break off the chain; but it was impossible.

She smiled within herself when she heard footsteps towards the door.

"I heard Sean would be coming today" One of the guards coming said to the other guards gleefully.

A cup of water was passed to her through under the door.

"Water??" She asked herself angrily, "'How would I survive with water alone?" She asked rhetorically banging the door heavily, but the guards left her without replying her question.

"Don't you wish to die again?" A voice barged into her ear.

"No, I'll live, I'll see my father again, if killing him would be the last thing I'll do before my demise, then I would be grateful" She said to herself as she wept profusely gulping the water down her throat.

Sean arrived at noon, the guards at the door didn't allow him to enter unless he would drop all his guards.

"At least can I take him with me?" He enquired pointing to Ethan. The guards at the door allowed both of them in reluctantly.

He laughed aloud as he saw Sylvester sat crossing his leg, he also sat and did the same.

"Why did you tell your guards to keep my guards outside? Perhaps, are you now afraid of me?" Sean asked rhetorically and laughed aloud.

"I'm sure that's not why you came" Sylvester grinned as he sipped some of the Chinese tea before him.

"Of course" Sean said as he also sipped a bit of his tea. "I heard you visited Richard" He added.

"Yeah, and what does that have to do with you?" Sylvester asked trying to find out Sean's real motive in coming to him.

"It has a lot to do with me Sylvester. Well, you go with a perfect deal that fetches you money and I came here to make a deal with you. How much did pay to buy his daughter?" Sean asked curiously and frowned slightly in order not to look cool and gentle.

"Yes, I go with a perfect deal. But I don't leak information between me and my client to other people" Sylvester replied with a deadly smirk sipping some of his tea again.

"Can I take her? I'll pay thirty thousand dollars" Sean muttered trying to make him fall into his trap.

"Pay six hundred thousand dollars, that's way more perfect" He countered him trying to make him quit.

"SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS!!! " Sean exclaimed angrily. He knew Sylvester was trying to make him stop down on it.

"Can I.... "

"No! I want all the money in cash, once" Sylvester cuts in with an evil smirk.

"I'll buy her, I'll come back for her in two months time" Sean said nodding angrily. "Can I see her?" He asked hoping for a positive answer.

"Of course, but I would like to ask why you wish to buy her?" Sylvester asked curiously as he stood up.

"I can't disclose that with you, lead me to her" Sean said more like an order.

"Lincoln, take her to Carmen" He commanded and dashed into his room thinking of why Sean could want her.

The door was opened for Sean to enter, he entered and saw the poor girl lying helplessly on the floor. She sat up quickly as soon as she noticed his arrival.

"I'm Sean, in two months time I'll purchase you from Sylvester, I'll also help you in fulfilling your wish. Whether it's to revenge on your parent or on Sylvester" Sean explained as he stretched out his hand for her. She quickly grabbed her hand.

"Please help me escape from here, all I want is to revenge on my dad and his cruel wife" She muttered sobbing softly.

"I'll help you, before I return in two months, study this house so well, look for Sylvester's weakness, make him fall in love with you" Sean rushed the words, more like an order. Carmen chuckled.

"How will I seduce and make him love me when he has no compassion, or feelings for human?" Carmen inquired on how to carry out the plan.

"That's not true, there's no man who can't fall in love, we are just all trying our best not to, take this note and study it, I'm sure he will fall for you within a month" Sean whispered and gave her a note.

"I don't believe he will ever fall in love" Carmen said still not believing.

"Let me tell a secret, this has been buried and only Mafia's like us who are looking for his downfall knows. The devil once had a girlfriend whom he loved so much, but after a while she left for Spain leaving him in so much pain, it was that period that he killed his sister angrily, that's one of the reason he chose not to ever fall in love" He explained trying his best to convince her.

"Sylvester is curious of why I would want to purchase you at a huge price of six hundred thousand dollars, so he will surely free you soon to see what's special about you, seduce him till he can't get enough of you, let him want more of you, don't behave like his slut so he won't take you as one" He explained, then he stood up and walked out.

Sean chuckled happily as he walked out, he felt his plan was already accomplished. This is a perfect way to bring Sylvester down and show the whole of New York City that he's the mafia lord.

"Finally, hopefully, there's still a way to carry out my revenge" Sean and Carmen thought within themselves...