CHAPTER TWO, A RAY OF HOPE

 

"I have been working here for three years and for two years now, I have been paying the loan of $80000 that I took to save my mom's life when she was at the hospital. When am I going to finish paying you or are you simply trying to tie me down here for the rest of my life?"

She was furious and her blood was boiling as if on fire. She could feel the heat coming out from inside of her, she was absolutely tired and frustrated. For several years she wasn't able to achieve anything because of this club, each time she tried to go for an interview she would get there late because she couldn't sleep at night.

Now she's had it, she isn't going to allow him to keep her here any longer. He watched her vent out her frustrations, and then he went closer to her and whispered in her ears.

"Now you know that I want to keep you here but do you know why? Because everyone that works here belongs to me and I can use them however I please. If you try to leave this place, I will hunt you down and when I do find you, I will end your precious life. If you want to leave this place, then pay for your freedom as well, until then don't mess with me."

He walked away from her with a vicious smile on his face. Two drops of tears fell out of Mylar's eyes, how will she leave now that Ozzy is even threatening her?

Her life is officially over.

"Hey, Princess Mylar." called someone from behind. When Mylar turned towards the person, it was Vida Colter one of the stripers in the club and the only true friend Mylar had.

"Girl, are you crying?" She asked when she saw Mylar's wet face and teary eyes.

She quickly went to Mylar and gave the most comforting hug, Mylar needed the hug at that moment.

Mylar told her everything that happened and how Ozzy threatened her.

"You don't have to worry about that, I know and I believe that one day Jesus will save us from this place. And also you are intelligent and hard-working, I know you will be able to make enough money to buy yourself out of here in less than a year." Vida said to her smiling.

Vida was into drug trafficking until two years ago when she was almost caught by the authorities at the airport, but she was saved by a single prayer she said to 'Jesus' Since then, she has become a devoted Christian and could never do without talking about Christ, even for a day.

Mylar hugged her tightly, Vida cleaned Mylar's face with her hands and they went back to work.

Hours later, young men, old men, and teenage rich kids started flooding the club, taking their seats. Tonight they were all VIPs, no riff-raffs were allowed into the club.

The lighting was great, with amazing background music, excited voices being heard in the entire club, waitresses going around in their mini dresses and heavy makeovers serving drinks and trying to be naughty with customers just to entertain them as Ozzy instructed. Stripers dancing on poles, guests cheering loudly.

Mylar was so busy going up and down serving the guests their drinks. A while later inside the storage room, Mylar could hear people shouting (not in an angry way), they were hailing someone important that just walked into the club. Out of curiosity, she and Vida, who came into the storage room a while back after her pole dancing to help Mylar out, went to take a peep.

It was Camilo Wylder, a cold, arrogant, smart in the bad aspect but handsome man. He was also very tall and masculine, girls say he is charming but the only amazing thing about him was that he is a young billionaire.

The first son and heir to his daddy's properties. Even though he was filthy rich on his own, people say he follows his daddy's orders and tries to please him for the money (that's according to the rumors).

"He is here for another ass to fuck." Vida whispered and went back inside.

"He pretends to be an angel in the morning and he is a total jerk at night. Paying money to force girls to go home with him, what an asshole." Mylar said and went in after Vida.

A while later, Camilo got up and went to the men's room, coming out of the men's room, Camilo and Mylar bumped into each other.

"I am sorry." Mylar apologizes looking away from him. And she made a quick change of direction, she turned back and headed to the club just to avoid talking to him any further. She was on her way to the ladies rest room before but seeing Mr. Camilo was enough to change her mind, he was quite famous for forcing ladies to do what he wanted.

As she walked back he kept staring at her behind and licked his lips with a smile on his face. Mylar was quite the big ass lady, this was something she inherited from her mom, a big bouncy ass though her boobs were not that big.

Wait!!!! He called to her.

Mylar was hesitant, she didn't want to respond to him but if he were to report her to Ozzy, then she would be in big trouble. She turned around slowly and answered.

"yes?"

He walked up to her and stood before her like a mountain, with a sly smile playing at the corner of his lips.

"Come with me." He said in an ordering tone and walked ahead of her, she slowly followed him but suddenly changed her mind as they almost got to a secluded place and went to the bar hoping she would escape him if she did that.

He turned and looked around but couldn't find her anywhere so he furiously went back to the club where loud music was playing and saw the girl who ran away from him at the bar.

"Mylar! Ozzy wants to see you." Said Flora one of the waitresses.

"Why?" Mylar asked.

Flora shrugged her shoulders and replied.

"I don't know. Why don't you go and find out yourself."

Mylar got to where Ozzy was seated with one of the stripers who was busy kissing the uncovered part of his body.

"You called for me," Mylar shouted trying to make him hear her voice amidst the noise.

Ozzy made a sign for her to come closer and he said something into her ears.

"I need you to go to room six and clean it properly, lay the bed, and wait for me there. Also, leave the door open."

The striper stopped what she was doing and glowered at Mylar, she couldn't believe her ears, Mylar who always pretended to be the good girl wanted to spend the night with Ozzy.

Mylar wondered why he would ask her to do such a thing but she had no choice but to go.

She got to room six, this is one of the rooms where some of the guests would bring stripers sometimes waitresses they paid money to spend a night with.

She started lying on the bed as instructed by Ozzy, she was so engrossed in what she was doing that she didn't hear the sound of tiny footsteps of someone approaching her. Camilo smiled at what he saw before him, Mylar bent over as she was spreading the bedcover and so spanked her ass from behind. She fell on the bed and that was when she saw his face, he had this crazy smile on his face (like that of a maniac).

"What was that for?" She yelled at him.

He sat down close to her on the bed and said to her.

"You surprise me, no girl has ever run away from me before, they all want me to look at them and they also give in to me willingly but you just ran off, like that." He said and snapped his finger, then he moved his face closer to hers and asked.

"I want to know your reason, am I not attractive?"

"Whether you are attractive or not, all I know is that I can't be attracted to a jerk," Mylar said angrily and hissed but he smiled at what she said.

She was irritated by his stupid smile, maybe he thought his smile made him handsome or something.

Camilo knew his smile was a false one, he was deeply hurt by what Mylar said to him.

"But what if I am offering you lots of money." He asked and ran his hand through her blonde silky hair.

"I don't need your money," Mylar whispered.

"Of course you do. You see everyone needs money, money can do absolutely anything." He said looking closely at her.

She kept quiet and looked down, pulling on her dress in a fretful manner.

"Let's have a one-night stand and I will give you a very good amount of money. Will $100000 do?" He asked her and waited to see her reaction.

She quickly raised her head at the mention of that amount of money. That would be able to clear off all her debts and she would have some extra, she swallowed up her saliva.

"What do you say to that, huh?" He asked and kissed her forehead.

"Okay," Mylar whispered almost to herself.

He moved closer and asked.

"What? I can't hear you."

"I agree." She replied and he smiled opening almost all his front teeth. He felt Victorious anytime he made a woman agree with him.

He got up and pulled off his shirt showing off his masculinity and threw it away, he looked at how she sat down shaking like a frightened little child on the bed, and yelled at her.

"Is that what you plan to do all night, lay on the bed so we can do what we agreed upon."

She was startled by his shouts. She slowly got up and lay on the bed.

He smiled, happy to see that she was finally doing what he wanted.

He got on the bed and wanted to touch her but she stopped him and said.

"I want to be sure you will give me the money, so give it to me now."

He pulled out some bundle of dollar notes from a briefcase he brought in with him and threw it on the bed. She picked up the money and counted it.

"Satisfied?" He asked after she finished counting it, she nodded.

Some minutes later, Camilo came out of the room fixing his pants zipper and he went back to the club with a satisfied grin on his face. Mylar cleaned herself up and got dressed, she went back to the bar and noticed Ozzy raising his thumb at her with a smile on his face.

"He knew about it, that bastard." She said angrily under her breath.

"Where did you go to for so long? I also saw you with Camilo, what were doing with that jerk." Vida asked.

She looked at Mylar who was looking a little messed up, her hair didn't look the same as earlier. She knew something was wrong.

Mylar tried to form a lie in her head to tell Vida, she knew Vida to be a really smart lady, but it was quite hard to lie to her. She always figured it out but she still wanted to give it a try.

"Tell me the truth," Vida said to Mylar after Mylar told her a few stupid lies.

Mylar took Vida behind the club and told her everything that happened.

"Jesus Christ, Mylar! I said you can make money in less than a year but I didn't say through this way." Vida shouted at Mylar.

Mylar made signs at Vida to keep calm, and then she explained to her quietly.

"It's not my fault, I thought about it severally but still couldn't find a better solution to my problem. This was the best way for me to get money."

Vida calmed down and looked at her best friend sadly, she felt pity for Mylar and herself. They were going through a lot because of the lack of money.

"It's fine. So what do you intend to do with the money, are you going to give it to Ozzy to buy your freedom?" Vida asked a little excited about the word freedom.

"No. I have a lot of other things to do with the money, like paying my annoying landlady her rent. Buying some foodstuffs and also giving my best friend at least $1000." Mylar replied with a smile.

"And who is that best friend?" Vida asked jokingly.

"You, silly," Mylar replied and they both gave each other a tight hug.

Mylar arrived home late and tired but she had to do something important before going to get some rest. She went to the landlady's room and banged on her door, the sleepy old woman came out and saw Mylar at her door, she asked angrily.

"Can you ever stop being a bitch? Were you planning on breaking the d..." Before she could finish her sentence, Mylar brought out the money she owed and tossed it at her landlady, then she turned around and went to her room smiling, feeling on top of the world. She has always wanted to be able to do that to the old lady.

You are fired!!! Camilo yelled at his secretary. She was startled by his outburst and hurried out of his office, she bumped into a tall, long curly-haired man in a brown suit. He asked her after she apologized for bumping into him.

"What's wrong with you?"

"Sir Camilo fired me because of my dress." She replied to him in a shaky voice because she was already crying.

"Your dress?" The man asked and looked at the secretary, she was properly dressed in a white shirt buttoned up to her neck, a black suit jacket and her skirt was long as well.

"Is Camilo feeling okay?" He asked himself.

He told the secretary to stay right outside the door and went in to speak to Camilo.

"Elio," Camilo called the young man in the brown suit when he saw him come in.

"What brings you here, I thought Dad ordered you not to come into any of his or my company. My baby brother can't follow his daddy's orders, his acting all grown up." Camilo said mockingly.

"We all know you are his pet dog, so keep following his orders. As for me, I am a man of my own, I don't follow anyone's orders." Elio said with a confident smile.

Camilo was annoyed by what he said but put on a permanent smile. He didn't understand why he couldn't just hate his stupid brother.

"Baby! Can't we just leave all this anger behind us and come together to take care of our dad's lifelong hard work." He said to Elio in a sweet but still mocking way.

"I am not here for that, I will tell you why I am here later but first I need to ask you why you fired your secretary," Elio said to his brother and sat down.

Camilo also sat down and smiled, then he told him.

"That girl, Zayla she is very stupid. She doesn't obey simple instructions."

Elio crossed his legs and asked.

"What instruction did you give her?"

"I simply told her to wear a short skirt, unbuttons her shirt a little to reveal the top of her breast, and not squat when she wants to take out a file from the cupboard."

"And why would you ask her to do that?" Elio asked

"Because I want to be seeing it, those things give me the energy to work better, and crazy mind-blowing ideas come into my head whenever I see these things," Camilo replied.

Elio scoffed, he found his brother's demands very stupid and absurd. Why would he ask a lady to dress indecently just for his perverted self and what kind of boss is he?

"I want you to hire her back," Elio ordered.

"And why would I agree to that?" Camilo asked, a smile on his face.

"If you don't, then I will go back to being a good and obedient son to Dad and you know what will happen to you when I do," Elio said also smiling.

He bent down at his brother, looking at him closely. Elio decided to mock him.

"Poor baby. You will be abandoned and neglected."

Elio fixed his suit and used his hand to push his hair backward, smiled once again at his brother, and went out of the office.

Camilo breathed out heavily and banged his hand on the desks in anger.