The Devil's Eyes

by Jennifer Loren

Nick takes hold of me and walks with me to his car. “Get in the car, Kayla.”

  “No, Nick, please let him go.” I said but the intensity in his eyes scares me.

  “It’s okay, Kayla, if he wants to try to take me on, then let him.” Daniel boasts like a fool. “You better kill me, Nicholas, because if you don’t, I will surely kill you.”

  Nick laughs, “This guy?” He asked me. “Really, Kayla?”

  “We love each other, Nick. No matter what you say, she will never be yours.” Daniel said.

  “Stay away from her!” Nick states with meaning that sends chills down my back.

  “Sorry, but I can’t do that.” Daniel said, smiling wickedly at Nick.

  “If I had known it was you, I would have never …” Nick said.

  “Never what? Never let me steal her right out from under you? Oh wait, she turned you down cold so she never was actually under you. I guess there is a first time for everything.”

  “What is going on between you two?” I asked.

  “Don’t worry about it, Baby, I will explain it to you later when we get home.” Daniel said reaching for me.

  Nick nearly throws me in his car. “Kayla!” He says through his teeth. “Don’t you move!” He yells at me.

  “Are you going to kill me in your own parking lot, Nicholas? Not a wise move.”Daniel says, backing up to his men.

  “So help me God, if you ever come near her again, I will kill you. And this time, I will make damn sure you’re dead and buried myself.” When other cars begin to approach, Nick motions for Luke to get in the car with Dwayne and they speed off. Nick’s other men hold strong against Daniel and his men as Nick gets in the car and orders Tanner to drive quickly. Too scared to speak, I sit quietly rubbing my arm that still shows the mark Nick left when he threw me in the car. When he makes a noise, I sit back unsure of what is coming next. “I’m not giving you a choice anymore, Kayla. You are not to talk to him or to see him again. I don’t want you to even look his way. Until you prove that you understand this, you are going to be escorted to and from everywhere you go and you will be watched over until you get from one place to the next.”

  The anger quickly builds up within me, “Let me out of this car!” I yell.

  “No.”He said calmly.

  “I don’t want to be with you, Nick! I don’t want to live with you and I don’t want to work for you anymore!” I yell.

  “I don’t care what you want.” He said tense but calm.

  “Nick! I thought you said you would never force me to be somewhere I didn’t want to be?”

  “That’s when I thought I could trust you to make the right decision.”

  “And how has that changed? Because I want to be with somebody you don’t like?” I asked watching him ignore me.

  I grab the door handle and start to open it when Nick pulls me back in and pins me down, “Kayla! Stop! I am not doing this to be mean to you, I am doing this for your own good. You have to trust me.”

  “Why? Tell me why and maybe I will.” I asked, struggling against him.

  Nick holds my face still, forcing me to look at him, “He doesn’t care about you, he is only trying to get to me.”

  “That doesn’t even make sense. He doesn’t ask me about you or about anything you do. He doesn’t care about you. He loves me!” I yell at him. “He loves me, Nick! No one has ever loved me before.”

  “No, he doesn’t, Kayla.” I push away from him, hiding my face into the corner. “I’m sorry … I … If you … You’re going to do as I say, Kayla, and that’s all there is to it.” Nick makes it known to his house guards that I am not to leave the house alone again. When I protest, Nick forces me into my room and locks me in for the night. Over the next few weeks, I am followed everywhere I go. I go to work and I am forced to return to Nick’s at the end of the night. I’m miserable and I hate him even more than I did. I am desperate to leave the situation I have put myself in, but I don’t know any other way out other than to kill Nick.

  ~10~

  Kayla

  Tonight is the night. I have to talk to Exie for hours before she finally agrees to help me. When she arrives at the club I rush her into my office and shut the door behind us. “You brought it right?”

  “Are you sure you want to do this?” She asked hesitating.

  “Exie, I am his prisoner now. I can’t live like this.”

  “It’s not like he doesn’t let you go anywhere.”

  “Yea, I can go out as long as I have the two goons following me.”

  “Kayla, have you thought about what will happen after? If you do pull this off, Luke will hunt you down and kill you. Not to mention, Nick always has a gun himself. This is going to get you killed. Come on, it’s Meagan. She is so dumb, she probably won’t know to point the gun away from herself.” Exie said. I giggle until she expresses her annoyance clearly.

  “It will be fine. I will coax her into a rage and casually mention where the gun is. Then it will be up to her. I am sure she knows how to handle a gun. I can work up enough hysteria to make myself look innocent before anyone can get to us. Even Nick will assume I’m innocent if I do it right. Luke or Dwayne will take over and surely they will let us keep our jobs, at least. If not, well, you’re finished with school now and I can go find something new that doesn’t involve Nicholas Jayzon.

  “You are going to die.” She says as I take her gun and put it in my bag. “And please don’t leave that gun anywhere. I really don’t want to be connected to this crazy plan. In fact, I am a little worried about what they will do to me if they ever find out.”

  I didn’t consider that they may go after her. Sighing, “Wait I thought you said this gun isn’t traceable.”

  “Not traceable by cops, Nick’s crew is a little more successful at getting information.”

  “So complain that Meagan came in to talk to you first, and while you were distracted, she stole your gun.”

  “What if she says she got the gun from you?” Exie asked.

  “Who are they going to believe? Me or crazy Meagan? I think we both know that answer. Meagan is so drug induced these days, she can barely speak an entire sentence that makes sense. I will call to let you know when it is done.” As I finish, Exie shakes her head in amazement. “Don’t worry, I have thought about this for a long time and I am not going to fail.” I said surely.

  After I make a call to Meagan, I wait as long as I can, hoping to give her enough time. Becoming impatient to hear that I made it home Nick sends Dwayne to escort me home. When we pull to the gate of the house, a strange car suddenly cuts us off and maneuvers in front of us.

  To my pleasant surprise, Meagan jumps out waving her hands in a tirade. “You stupid bitch! Get out of that car and face me!”

  “Stay in the car, Kayla,” Dwayne says getting out to calm the psycho down.

  Watching her and listening to her complain, I feel good about my plan. I open the car door and wave Meagan over, “You want to talk to Nick yourself?”

  “Yes. He needs to know what he’s done.” Meagan said.

  “I agree that you have a right to be heard. Come in and I will make sure you get a chance to talk to him.” Meagan eyes me closely as we walk into the house.

  “Nick is going to be pissed at you for letting her in here.” Dwayne said shaking his head.

  “I didn’t ask for your opinion.” I said waving him away so I can be alone with Meagan.

  “You want me to leave you alone with her?” Dwayne asked wide-eyed.

  “I will be fine.” I said as he walks away mumbling under his breath. “So, do you want something to drink?” I asked Meagan.

  “You live here now?” I nod hoping to stir the anger more. “So, you are still working for him?”

  “I help run the club, but that’s it. He forces me to stay here even though I don’t want to be.”

  “Why?” She asked staring at me in amazement.

  “Because I love someone else. But you know Nick, what he wants goes.” I pause
and give her an innocent smile as I gaze over her tattered once expensive wears. Tell me something Meagan, how are you doing?”

  “He won’t let me work for him anymore. I don’t know how he expects me to live without any money.” She cries.

  “Are you still using?”

  “A little, but I told him I would quit if he would help me.”

  “He doesn’t care about anyone. Once he is done with you … you’re on your own. You use to be so beautiful when you two were together and then he left you without anything. Why did you let him do that?” I asked encouraging the thoughts in her head. “He’s not going to let you back, no matter what you do.”

  “But he owes me.”

  “Exactly.” I said.

  “I did everything he asked of me and he owes me.”

  “I think that’s his car now. You should tell him how you feel about what he has done to you.” I get near her and whisper, “If you need any help convincing him, I have a gun in my bag that’s on the table next to you. That should help drive your point home.” She looks up at me suspiciously but nods seeming to understand.

  Nick comes in and I turn to him with an innocent smile, “You have a guest.”

  “What are you doing, Kayla?” He asked frustrating me that he immediately assumes that I am up to something.

  “Meagan here has something she would like to talk to you about.”

  “Well I don’t want to talk to her. So you make sure she gets out of my house.” Nick starts to leave the room and the nutcase rushes for my bag and pulls out the gun.

  “Nick!” She yells after him. He turns and shakes head before eyeing me with a smile. “I want you back, Nick. Get rid of her.” What?

  Confused, I turn and see her aiming the gun at me, “Are you insane?” I yell at her.

  “He’s mine, not yours.” Meagan said shaking the gun at me.

  “He is not going to take you back, you moron!”

  “Watch it, Kayla. You don’t want to piss her off, she is the one with the gun.” Nick said having way too much fun with this. “Okay, Meagan, what is it you want?”

  “I want you! I want to be back in your bed. I want everything to be just the way it was- before her.” She whimpers.

  “Hmm. No, I don’t think so.” Nick said calmly.

  “I will shoot her!” Meagan yelled at him.

  “I guess you will have to shoot her then because I don’t want you back. Not while I got her.” I look back at his amused smile.

  “I’m serious! I will shoot her!” She yells, shaking the gun at me.

  “Do what you’ve got a do, but I like her too much, to even consider taking you back.” Nick said obnoxiously.

  “Nick,” I cringe.

  “What, Kayla? You want me to stop her? How could I possibly? She has a gun.” He sarcastically trembles with fear. “Although, for the life of me, I can’t imagine how she got the gun. You wouldn’t know, would you?”

  “She told me to get it out of her bag.” Meagan, the dumbest person on the face of the earth, confessed.

  “Really? Why do you have a gun, Kayla?” Nick eyes me as I begin to realize that I’m the dumbest person on the face of the earth.

  “Shoot me then. Nick is going to kill me now anyway.” I said sinking into my own failure.

  Humored, Nick sits down relaxing, “Probably. So, I guess it does make sense to save time, go ahead … shoot her.” Confused, Meagan stands silently not knowing what to do. “Go ahead shoot her, it’s okay I will have someone clean up the mess.”

  Meagan pulls the trigger. “It’s stuck,” she said, holding the gun out to Nick.

  Nick glances in my direction, laughing, before getting up to take the gun. As he takes possession of it, he holds it against Meagan’s head. “It’s not stuck, the safety is on, Sweetheart. Now get out of my house.”

  “But, Nick?” Meagan pleads.

  “Get out, Meagan. I gave you plenty of chances. I paid for rehab twice and yet you still think I owe you something. Get your life back together and maybe I will give you a job, but I can’t have you working for me high all the time.” Meagan falls to her knees and refuses to leave. Nick calls for Dwayne and he physically removes her with little effort. “Oh- and, Dwayne? Take this gun before Kayla hurts herself with it.”

  “No problem,” Dwayne said shaking his head at me.

  I sit down waiting for Nick to kill me or call someone to come back and do it for him, but instead he goes upstairs and goes to his room. Sitting at the edge of my seat, I wait as Nick turns out the lights on me and goes back to his room. What the hell he is doing? Trying to make me crazy? Angry, I run up the stairs and barge into his room. Undressing he barely looks at me as he removes his shirt. “Are you going to kill me while I sleep or something?” I asked him.

  “I wasn’t planning on it.” He said amused.

  “Then why are you getting ready for bed?”

  “Because I’m tired, Kayla. That’s what people do when they are tired.”

  “I just tried to kill you.”

  “You did? It looked more like you were trying to get yourself killed.” He laughed.

  “Ha-ha. You know I gave her the gun to kill you.”

  “I know.” He said taking his shoes off.

  “So, why aren’t you yelling at me or …?”

  Nick comes at me quickly causing me to step back, “Do you want to kill me, Kayla?”

  “Yes.”

  “Why because I won’t let you see your boyfriend?”

  “Yes.”

  “Or is it because of your sister?” My jaw drops. “I know who you are, Kayla. I knew the first day I saw you at the club. Did you think I wouldn’t remember you?”

  “You never paid attention to me when you came over.” I said as a slight smile crosses his face.

  “I paid attention to you more than you know. I didn’t kill her, Kayla. Braylin was a sweet, beautiful girl, but she …”

  “She was nothing to you!” I yell at him. “She loved you and you just threw her away like she was nothing!”

  Nick stays focused on me, “I didn’t love her.”

  “I hate you!”

  “I didn’t love her, Kayla. She couldn’t handle that and that’s my fault?”

  “I hate you!” I screamed even louder at him.

  “Kayla, she did everything to get my attention focused back on her. She talked Luke into letting her get her own set of clients, hoping that she could impress me somehow. When I found out, I forced him to let her go.” I try to turn away from him but he forces me to stay and look at him. “She became desperate to earn money to impress me and got caught up with the wrong people, Kayla. It was those people that messed her up so badly. And I’m sorry about that but by the time I found out it was too late. She was so far gone she wouldn’t listen. All she wanted to do was take care of you and she thought the people she was working for could help her do that. She wanted so bad to send you to that college you kept sneaking into. She loved you so much but she wasn’t strong enough to get out.” Trembling with rage, I struggle to get away from him but he holds onto me tight. “I don’t know for sure who killed her Kayla but I have an idea.” I look up at him, “You thought she killed herself, didn’t you?” He said. “No, she wouldn’t have left you like that. Somebody got to her and they left you alive.”

  “I don’t understand. She always talked about you.”

  “After I forced Luke to let her go, I assumed she would go back to that diner and work.”

  I push him away, “No! The way you treated her, the way you would fuck her and leave like she was nothing.” I said fisting my hands.

  “I was a stupid kid, Kayla. Yes, I wanted to fuck her but I didn’t love her.”

  “Shut up! I hate you! I wish you were dead!” I scream hitting him.

  Nick takes hold of my arms. “You hate me?” I nod. “Then kill me.” I pause watching him take his knife out. “Here take it. Kill me if that’s what you want.” He hands me the knife and holds out his arm
s so I have easy access to his bare chest. I take the knife and go at him but he catches my hand, “Not like that Princess. That was too light. If you want to kill someone, you have to go at them with all the hate you have inside. Now try again.” He pushes me back and I look at him unsure of myself for the first time in years. “Braylin was weak, easily manipulated. She was so easy to get into bed, too bad she was a horrible lay.” I rage at him and he stops my hand again, “Much better.” He pulls me closer. “You’re not at all like her, your strength is amazing to me. I knew you wanted to kill me the moment I saw you watching me in the club. I wondered how long it would take you. What would finally push you over the edge, I begin to wonder if you even had the courage to do it at all.” Nick pushes me away, “Try again.”

  “No, Nick.” I said, trembling.

  “Try again. Come at me and mean it!”

  “I don’t want to.” I whimper.

  “Come on, right here!” He says smacking the area over his heart. I step back and he comes after me, taking hold of my face, “What’s wrong? You hate me, remember? Stick it in my heart, Kayla. Teach me a lesson. You said yourself that I am going to kill you, you might as well get me first. Do it! Do it, Kayla!” He yells at me over and over until finally I come at him with everything I have reaching his chest and stopping myself just as the tip touches his skin. I look at the redness of his skin against the shiny blade and feel nothing: no hate, no anger, nothing at all until I look up into his eyes.

  “Nick?”

  “What, Princess?”

  “I … I.” I manage to say before Nick takes the knife from my hand and throws it behind me pressing his lips to mine with a heavy breath. His eyes hold me hostage as he rips my shirt from my body. His strong hands hold me still as he kisses down to my breasts, taking each nipple into his mouth and sighing at the touch of them. He raises me up against the wall sucking on my lips as he pushes his erection between my legs. He feels so good, I can barely think. When he pulls back to look at me, the devil’s eyes tease me, provoking me until I can take no more. “I want you, Nick. I want you so bad. Fuck me, Nick!” I moan. Nick pulls me fully into his arms and lays me on his bed. With one jerk, he pulls my skirt off and begins kissing his way up my legs, fingering me through my panties until he is satisfied with my want. Easing them down my legs, he slowly gazes over my naked body, his eyes burning with desire. I try to sit up and reach for his pants but he reaches underneath me and pulls me to the edge of the bed causing me to fall back. Nick spreads my legs out in front of him, with the feeling of his tongue he sends me gasping backwards. I fist his hair and beg for him to stop but within seconds I am begging for more. Holding a pillow against my mouth I mask my final pleasure filled screams. Pleased with himself, he steps back and removes his pants. Standing naked and erect, he watches me lick my lips with a slight chuckle. I haven’t seen him fully since that day I watched him with Braylin, but I am just as in awe of him now as I was then. Gazing at his body, my eyes find their way to the menacing dark tattoo stretching from his ass to the side of his ribs, highlighting the edges of his muscles all the way up to his neck. I lay back waiting for him. With an irresistible turn at the corner of his lips, he eases over me, caressing my body to his. With a groan, he glides his lips down one of my arms and then up the other, kissing each finger as he takes hold of my hands. When I open my eyes, I see a different man staring back at me. I try to speak but the fervor in his eyes takes hold of me and relaxes every muscle in my body. Leaning down, he kisses me gently before he rises again and looks deep into my eyes, penetrating me tight and strong. I gasp his name as he whispers mine. He moves slowly and precisely, handling me with ease as he moves me around the bed, smiling and enjoying every push into me and every kiss I reward him with. Moving me on top of him, he grips my hips watching as I rise up and down on him. I lean back, moaning, trying to hold on, but it is no use, the feeling of him inside me, the scent of him, and the sight of him enjoying watching me makes me insane.