chapter 9- f u c k i n g c i n d e r e l l a



We got in an eight seater car and I decided to sit in the back knowing that Mateo would follow. Diego was pretty much invested in talking to Sienna and Luca was pretty much obsessed with Sebastian at this point where you could already see a future with them.

I turned back to Mateo who was looking out of the window. His jaw kept clenching and unclenching and his muscles almost looked like the wanted to pop out of his suit. "Are you okay?" I asked him and he nodded, not turning towards me.

"You know I'd really like a worded answer instead of you nodding, makes it seem like you have something more on your mind," I continued and he turned to me with pure anger written on his face.

"You want a worded answer? I'll give you a worded answer." He leaned in close, almost nose touching and whispered, "I'm not fine because I don't like the way Lorenzo is looking at you, I didn't like the way he kissed your hands at the door, and I definitely don't like the way he looks at you with only pure lust shown in his eyes." He moved back towards his seat and my annoyance was bubbling above the charts right now. He was angry only because someone had looked at me a certain way?

"You're one of the most stupid fuckers I've ever met in my life, does that even make sense? To be jealous when we aren't even together like that?" I respond back to him, my voice now clear with anger.

"Oh! Please tell me Maliyah, what are we exactly? How does that give me much of a reason to not be jealous?!" Mateo shouted back at me making Diego and Sienna turn around, probably enjoying the show being put in front of them.

"You don't get to be jealous because we just fuck! Nothing more, nothing less. Just because I let you have your way with me doesn't mean you could think of this as something more Mateo, pull your pants up."

"Okay, we're here. Remember to--"

I didn't listen to the rest of Lorenzo's speech as I got out of the car, trying to stop myself from potentially turning into Hulk and throwing that car over to Mars. We had parked in the back since we aren't actually invited to this thing, we just need to see if they'll strike here tonight since it's a perfect place for the women to blossom around here.

I was about to open the back door but a hand stopped me and I turned around to see Mateo looking down at me smirking. "I don't mind being fuck buddies, but you can't exactly leave since you're kinda my partner here." I sigh and roll my eyes, opening the door and walking through with Mateo following behind.

"We're in the hall now." Diego calls from the earpiece while I and Mateo still try to find our ways through the hallways.

"I'm in." Val says and I spot a few people walking and conversing which means that we're close by. I walked in their direction and we were soon face to face with the giant hall in front of us.

"Damn..." Mateo said as I gaped around the hall, my breath taken away for the second time today. I'd never been in a space that made me feel so powerful, it made me feel like I actually belonged here. Crystal chandeliers spiralled down from the arching cream-white ceiling, illuminating the golden walls and a floor so polished it looked like a mirror you had to pay millions to even take a look at it. And it wasn't just the ballroom-the women and men sparkled like a box of jewels, all showing their peers of their new shoes and jewellery.

"Are you guys in?"

I press my fingers to the earpiece, enabling the microphone, "Yep, you never told me it was going to be this massive." I and Mateo walked together around the ballroom, probably looking like a nice old couple.

"Maybe because you had a nice baby tantrum in the car earlier causing you to run away," Mateo retorted and I hit his stomach, still trying to keep an eye out for suspicious behaviour.

"Keep talking and the only reason I'd run away is because I managed to cut your arms causing you to die," Mateo laughed and also scanned the area as we stopped near the drink area. He poured a bottle of wine but I walked over to him, smacking it out of his hands.

"Hey! I needed that!" He reaches for the bottle of wine but I drag his arm, moving away from the drinking area.

"I can't afford you to be drinking right now, looking at you, you'd probably get drunk from a sip." Mateo starts complaining but I zone him out, trying to focus on the guy who is carrying a woman passed out in his arms and walking towards the hallway.

"You know- are you even listening to me?!"

"I think I've gotten him," I say as I run as fast as I can with my heels and I can hear Mateo's clicking from behind me. I try to push past the people dancing but their flat bottoms keep getting in the way.

"Have you gotten-" I shush him and pull out my gun that was strapped around my left leg, gesturing for Mateo to get his as well. The man looks around, before climbing up the stairs hidden near the bathroom toilets.

We quickly scurry towards the staircase and carefully go upstairs. There is a long corridor with a door at the end of it and the man looks around him before disappearing with the woman in his hands.

"Smart, no one would ever notice the women going missing with the amount of people down there." Mateo stays low and I nod agreeing with him. The Gala was a perfect place for them to strike since people were more focused on trying to get themselves drunk than really noticing who was going missing. The only problem is trying to figure out how many people are in that room.

"Sebastian and Luca, can you hear me?" I press my earpiece waiting for them to reply.

"Loud and clear, have you gotten a clue?"

"A giant one, I need you to check the room..." I peek out from behind the drawer that we were hiding and it reads 34A. "I need you to check the room 34A and the camera status, see if you could tell how many people there are in there."

"Alright hold on," I can hear Sebastian typing and saying the number and I look to Mateo who is adjusting his hair in the reflection of the vase that is sitting at the top of the drawer.

"What the fuck are you doing?" I whisper-shout and he looks down at me before kneeling back up, going back to adjusting his hair. I pull him back down but he tugs trying to get my arm off of him.

"What-stop, you're going to," There was a crash and the vase was knocked over. "-break the vase." Mateo took the safety off of his gun while I also did so.

"Don't blame this on me, I don't know you were trying to prep your hair so you could look like fucking Cinderella," I whisper-shout once again and his mouth opens to speak but he is caught off by the door opening.

"Who's there?" The man looks around, not noticing the broken vase on the floor.

"Mal, there are about ten women and three children in there surrounded by six men." Luca said over the earpiece.

"Send Val and Diego up here, we might need a little help trying to get the women and children down." I take my finger off the earpiece and I look towards Mateo and nods, signalling it was time to go.

I sprang up, shooting the guy in the head. He falls and I run with Mateo following me, about three other men scurried out of the room, smirking obviously because we were outnumbered but remembering the guy as he had walked out of the room, defenceless, it wasn't going to take long before they were on the floor.

They charged for Mateo and I and as I aimed my gun, one knocked it out of my hand sending it to the floor. Now I have to use hands, and I just got a manicure. Stupid humans.

I brace myself, putting my weight on my left leg and swinging my right leg up towards their heads, kicking them in the face. Another launched themselves at me but I crouched down before sweeping my legs under theirs and they landed on their head, probably knocking them out for the rest of the night. I run to get my gun but I don't notice the shouting that Mateo is saying till my head makes contact with the wall, sending me crashing into the wall with a pounding headache.

Another reason why I hate fellow humankind of my species is because they tend to get a bit cranky once you've sent them flying to the ground.

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-LMAOOO fr tho matiyah makes me laugh

-this is literally only the beginning of luca and sebby, they'll move real fast soon ;)

-i also hate humans too mal, you arent the only one

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-ta ta for now bishes

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