Devoted Love, Mr. Hayes’ Darling Wife

Imperial.

Inside a luxury apartment.

Buena was looking at vitriol on the Internet with great amusement when her phone rang.

It’s an unknown number.

She answered, “Hello.”

The other party was an unfamiliar, ungainly male voice: “Do you still know me, girl?”.

Buena frowned, “You’ve got the wrong number!”.

“How could I have called the wrong number, I’ve been looking for you for days!”

“Who the hell are you?” asked Buena impatiently.

“Who do you think I am, I’m Mr. A, the boss of the Blues Bar.”

Buena blanched, “What are you calling me for, I don’t know you!”.

Mr. A, the headliner, laughed: “You don’t know me? Seven years ago we did a play together at least, and although I didn’t want to meet you, our agreement at the time was that I would collaborate with you on the video and you would pay me a sum of money.”

“That’s not it, what are you doing here with me now, could it be that you want to extort?”

“Don’t talk so loud, you only paid to have a video made in the first place, but now that seven years have passed since this video was made and you suddenly publish it, you have seriously violated my right to privacy. ”

Buena scoffed, “A prostitute has a right to privacy? How many female clients have you stripped in front of, and now you’re afraid they’ll look at you naked?”

“Shut your mouth! I’m not negotiating with you now, I’m just informing you that five million dollars, and if you don’t credit my account in three days, I will step in and make it clear to everyone who the person in the video really is, and tell everyone that it’s all a ruse by you, the scammer. Including the fact that you tricked me into making the video.”

Buena gritted her teeth: “Making a video is a consensual thing to do, and I’ve already paid you to do it! I’m telling you, don’t be cheeky!”

“Come on, you only paid me a few dollars at the time, you bagged me for one night and I had to accompany you on a video, if I hadn’t seen your pity at the time, I wouldn’t have done such a thing for you! Now you have put my video on the internet and it has been trending for days now, I am a man with a face too!”

“You don’t even show your face in the video!”

The man replied, “Does that even matter? What matters is that the man in that video is me.”

Buena was furious, not expecting to be blackmailed at this juncture.

She hung up the phone and received a message on her phone.

“Here is my bank account number, you have three days, and when I don’t see the money in three days, I will break your lies.”

Buena read the message and got so angry that she wanted to smash her phone.

Shameless guy!

Buena lay back on the couch, thinking about how to get rid of the guy’s blackmail, anger and venom hardened in her eyes.

Five million dollars, why didn’t he steal it, she won’t give him a penny!

…

Inside the Blues Bar, the umpteenth bar operated by The Rufio Family in Imperial.

Newly married, Rufio usually kneels at the keyboard and has made it a point to go out for a drink tonight.

Bipolar positive.

A pair of feminine men in black satin shirts sit at the bar next to them.

The immodest ones were talking to each other, discussing how to please the rich woman’s heart.

Boss A: “The 40-year-old fat lady I served yesterday, you don’t need to look at her, but she is generous, today she bought me a limited edition Hermes bag.

The old lady bought an apartment for C in Imperial, a house in the middle of the second ring, that’s a great deal!”

“Holy cow, who is it, let me see it!”

“You have to, that’s Little C’s client, what are you doing, trying to take people away from his clients?”

The ace in the head took a sip of his Bloody Mary and said in his old fashioned way: “What’s this to you, I tell you, three more days and I’ll be rich.”

“Good for you, you have a rich family, which one?”

Boss A proudly pulled out his phone, found the video on the internet and asked his colleagues, “This video has been hanging on the sidelines for days, you’ve seen it right?”

“Have seen ah, they are busting with this video, I do not say so, that what big businessmen, what more disgusting than we na, we at least with who is honest with whom, we never engaged in cheating that set.”

Boss A’s face was a staged smile, “Actually, the man in this video is not at all the big boss of that MO group.”

Rufio, who was sitting off to the side sipping a mulled wine, lit up and couldn’t help but listen intently to what they were saying with pricked ears.

“You’re not saying it’s you in this video, are you? Hahahahahahahaha … Don’t be ridiculous, he has a tattoo on his arm, do you have one?”

Headline A: “Ha! You are so stupid! That tattoo is a random sticker I bought online, it’s exactly the same pattern as this one, I had a hard time finding the stinky woman who posted the video today, I warned her that if she didn’t call me in three days with five million dollars, I would go expose the incident.”

“Really? You’re bragging.”

…

Rufio listened to their conversation and put down the brandy in his hand, the corners of his mouth slightly curved.

Next, he picked up his jacket, which was lying on a card holder to one side, and slung it over his shoulder with his opposite hand.

He reached over and patted the boss, Mr. A.

“You, come with me for a moment.”

The boss, Mr. A, was taken aback, not knowing Rufio, “Who are you?”.

Rufio has just taken over the estate of The Rufio Family, which has numerous upscale bars, pubs and nightclubs in Imperial, so the minions downstairs don’t even know the boss.

Rufio looked at their ignorance and smiled coquettishly and mockingly, “Yo, Rufio, La familia Rufio man, the owner of this bar, now do you two know each other?”

…

Late in the evening, Rufio phoned Severo Laris.

Severo Laris works in his studio.

After picking up the phone and hearing the sound and fury from Rufio’s side, he frowned slightly and scoffed, “All married and Susana doesn’t care about you?”

Rufio, on the other end of the phone, laughed uncontrollably, “Man, you have me to thank for going out on a blind wave today. If I hadn’t gone out on the wave, you wouldn’t know how long this would have taken to investigate.”

Severo Laris held the phone, frowning harder, and dragged his ears.Content © NôvelDrama.Org 2024.

Rufio: “The popular video that slandered you, with the real male character in it, was found by me. Guess what, it turned out to be the headline of our bar. And he said he was going to blackmail Buena for five million. I almost didn’t die laughing.”

With a twinkle in his eye, Severo Laris said, “Force your headliner to shoot a video to set me straight.”

Rufio: “No need to remind me, I’ve already recorded it for you and emailed it to you.”

“Thank you.”

Rufio said in a fluffy voice, “You’re welcome. The thought of holding the rest of your life’s happiness in my hands, big brother, makes me feel like I’m on a mission.”

Severo Laris laughed lightly and shot back, “How old is he that there are still headlines in a bar of The Rufio Family? As a lawyer I have to denounce him.”

Rufio: “No! Severo Laris, you’re breaking the bridge! You’re killing me! You’re not being decent, do you understand?”

“Hang up, I have things to do, I’m not going to talk to you.”

Rufio sighed, “Envious of big brother’s uninhibited bachelor life now.”

Severo Laris left amused and said helplessly, “I envy you this life without freedom from being tied to marriage.”

Rufio threw in, “When you marry Paulita you will know what a terrible creature women really are, checking your phone, checking your whereabouts, checking your shirt for locks of hair, everything you tell her will be a confession in court, like Sherlock Holmes.”

Severo Laris: “Then you wish me a quick jump into the grave of marriage and have him prove the pain you speak of.”

“Mr. Severo, you are a true brother! We suffer together.” Rufio admired from the bottom of his heart.