The Greek Billionaire’s Indecent Proposal
Chapter 74

Paskal’s POV

Something didn’t feel right about how that meeting had gone at AE, everything felt off. Soraya’s energy was different and Hector that lapdog had swapped masters for a new one! This time for a female master, Soraya was no Yoko Ono. She didn’t have that kind of power to control men!

Circe sat across from me in the lounge watching me as I tried to calm myself.

“What woman?! What are you staring at?” I yelled out loud.

“You spoke out loud about Mrs Adamos.”

I didn’t realise that I had vocalised my thoughts. “I think it’s time that you left.” I said in an irritated tone.

“Are you sure about that? Maybe I can be of use to you.” She got up and sashayed across the lounge to where I was sitting.

“How could someone like you be of help to someone like me.” I laughed out loud. You know nothing about the Adamos world.

“I work at AE, I might be just an admin and copy girl but I see things you know.” She straddled me, her hands cupped my face then her fingers went up to rake my hair, this sensation began to turn me on.

“I’m listening.” I g*****d out. She massaged my scalp while she tugged at my hair. I g*****d again, she smiled like she was proud of herself.

“Stop thinking of your sister in law like she’s some basic helpless woman because she is not. Ever since she started working at AE she has been making big changes, for the past couple of weeks I have seen her walk in and out of the building and she has everyone at her command it seems. Soraya Adamos definitely has power.”

“You sound like you idolise her.” I snapped at her. She smiled when I said this.

“And you want her for yourself but you can’t handle a woman like that. I definitely idolise her, She has a man like Xander Adamos wrapped around her fingers. Every one of those Adamos men are at her back and call. So I’d say she definitely is Yoko Ono, she has the power to break up the Beatles.” She smiled thoughtfully as she continued to massage my scalp.

“She definitely had Xander fooled, he died and left her in charge.” I sighed. That definitely was some crazy p***y power.

“Mr Adamos is dead? I thought he was still in hospital.” Her hands stopped moving on my scalp, she had a look of shock on her face.

“Hospital?” My hands grasped her arms. “What are you talking about woman?”

“He was in a coma at the hospital, I don’t think the staff is supposed to know about it but I overheard Dorian when he instructed Mrs Adamos’ security detail last week. The man he was speaking to has a twin that looks like him.” She pointed out. That was either Yannis or Leon.

I began to laugh, she was of some help after all, i cupped her face and kissed her which seemed to please her. She was such a simpleton, a sucker for affection. Why would they want me to think Xander was dead? Did they know that I was the reason why he was in hospital? They couldn’t know that, I was very careful about everything.

I pulled away from her, she pouted when I made her get off me. “I have got work to do.” I said to her. “I will reward you when I get back.”

I had to finish Xander off, so the bastard was in a coma huh? I couldn’t help but laugh out loud as I walked to the bedroom to change. As I changed my clothes I realised I actually needed Circe to assist me with one more task, she would have to come with me to the hospital. There was only one hospital that the Adamos family used, they loved to endorse it in their CSR (corporate social responsibility) news letters for the business.

Hector’s POV

Soraya fussed over Xander as she continued to groom his face lovingly, she raked her fingers through his hair and smiled at him.

No one could ever accuse her of being with Xander for the material things that his world provided her, just looking at how she looked at him you could see that she only cared about him and his wellbeing.

When she was done wiping his face, Simon took the small basin she had been using and the cloth. She thanked him as he walked off. “I can’t stop thinking about the interaction we had with Paskal yesterday at the office. Something feels off.”

“Do you think he might suspect that Hans is compromised?” I asked her.

“I don’t know, he is no longer at the house so we can’t listen in on his conversations.” She stated.

“He has a woman staying with him at the hotel so bugging the phones and the room will prove to be difficult.” I explained to her.

“Do you know who the woman is? Maybe we can bribe her or distract her somehow while we get the room bugged.

“I will get Dorian to replace out who she is and then we will take it from there.” I said as I reached for my phone to call Dorian. She nodded her head then focussed all her attention back on to Xander.

Paskal’s POV

Swiping a hospital keycard from a nurse who had been getting a latte at a coffee shop near the hospital had been easy, all I had to do was flirt with her. If they were hiding the fact that Xander was still alive from me then they definitely wouldn’t let me go into the hospital to see him. I could sneak Circe in, she had proved herself to be very resourceful.

“You need to get to the private wards and look for Xander, all you have to do is inject this into his IV drip when no one is watching then get the hell out of there.” I placed a syringe in her hands.

“What if I get caught? I don’t want to go to jail.” She looked horrified. She didn’t know that jail should be the least of her worries, she would get tortured then killed. But I definitely couldn’t say that to her.I had gotten her scrubs so that she would fit in as a nurse.

“You won’t get caught if you do what I tell you, there’s bound to be heavy security on his floor but if you own your s**t and walk in like you have been working there for the past couple of weeks then no one will stop you. Find out which doctors are working on him and act like you were sent there to prepare him for some tests he has to do.” I grabbed her chin and leaned in to k**s her.

“Do it for us babe, don’t you want to be rich, I will have you dressing like Soraya, you will be my Mrs Adamos. Don’t you want to be powerful?” I coaxed her. My hands went under her shirt and I groped her breasts making her m**n out loud as I kissed her again possessively.

“What’s in the syringe.” She asked when I pulled away.

“Thallium acetate, he’s already in a coma, high levels of this in him will ensure that I become the next head of the Adamos family.” I smiled at her. I placed the cap covered syringe in her scrub shirt pocket.

“Right now you are nurse Maia Samaras, the real nurse Maia is drugged laying in an alley somewhere because her coffee was spiked.” I pulled her close to me and kissed her again. “If you do get caught, keep your mouth shut and I will come to get you out of whatever hell hole they put you in.

She looked panicked but I kissed her again. “Adamos men don’t hurt women, they won’t kill you. I will save you Circe, trust me. Don’t tell them anything.”

She walked out of my Audi R8, took one look back at me then confidently walked in the direction of the hospital. I had parked two traffic lights away from there but I decided to drive further down the road incase they had security doing a heavy sweep.

Soraya’s POV

“Mrs Adamos I don’t feel very comfortable telling you this but as this is my job and I have to do it…” one of Xander’s doctors was standing in front of me after checking him.

“What is it?” I looked at him directly.

“Your husband is going into the fourth week in a comatose state. If his condition persists for more than four weeks then we have to classify his state as being in a continuing vegetative state.” He said as he looked uncomfortable like I would rage at him. I compartmentalised what he was saying before I responded to him.

“The first two weeks you induced the coma, do those weeks still count?” I asked him calmly.

“Unfortunately yes they do, the longer he stays in this condition the lesser his chances of waking up. In cases like this we would normally advise family to think about taking their loved ones home if they can afford to have them cared for at home or move them into some type of facility that cares for patients in conditions like these.” He explained.

“I uhmm…I hear what you are saying doctor and ehmm… thank you for your honest professional opinion.” I suddenly felt like the room was spinning but I had to keep it together. “Please excuse me.” I said and gestured for him to leave the room.

“Before I go, we are going to perform another MRI to see if we missed anything.” He said. I nodded my head and gestured for Simon to walk him out.

Hector got up from his chair and walked towards me. I put my hands up to stop him from touching me. “No I’m fine.” I smiled at him.

“Soraya…” he began.

“Don’t say it Hector, don’t say you are sorry! My husband will wake up! Xander will wake up!”

“We need to let Gaia know.” He said quietly.

“Not until I deal with Paskal, if you all want to give up on Xander it would do you well to remember that I am in charge! I am his wife and legal guardian so I will be making the decisions about his life! Xander will wake up.” I snapped at him.

“I’m not saying that he…” he walked closer and I backed away.

“I think I need you to leave for now, please.” I pointed towards the door. He looked hurt and conflicted but I didn’t care. I just wanted to be alone with Xander. “Hector please leave!” I snapped and he sighed heavily and walked out.

I sat down by the chair and took deep breaths to calm myself. I wished that everyone would stop talking about him like he he had given up and had decided to die. I got up and walked to the ensuite bathroom and closed the door behind me, I could feel a panic attack coming on.

My heart was racing really fast and I felt like my chest felt tight, I tried to take a deep breath but I couldn’t. No matter how much I coached myself that I was okay I couldn’t stop the attack. I dropped to my knees as the tears started to roll down my face. I needed for the room to just stop spinning as well, why couldn’t I breathe. Oh gosh I needed to breathe. I didn’t want this life without him, I didn’t want to be an Adamos without Xander.

I closed my eyes and pictured him, a memory of him carrying a sleeping Kai when we were at Disney popped into my head. My hand went up to my chest and I coaxed myself to breathe in really hard then I breathed out. My lungs seemed to respond as I did this again.

I pictured him kissing me the first time we came back from the warehouse, when we made love and he told me he loved me and that he didn’t want to be without me. He told me that he needed me. Even though he was in a comatose state he had to know that I needed him too, I would never give up on him. I started to feel calm, I got up and wiped my tears as I looked in the mirror making sure that my face was still okay.

Thanks to Stacy my make up was waterproof, I would need a little touch up but it was still fine. I opened the door to go and get my make up bag, a nurse was standing over Xander. “Hi, nurse….” She turned to look at me and I smiled at her as I tried to read her name tag on a keycard that was clipped above the pocket of her scrub shirt.

She looked familiar but I couldn’t remember where I knew her from. She definitely wasn’t one of the nurses that I had chosen to be part of the medical team to take care of Xander.

“It’s nurse Samaras, Maia Samaras.” She volunteered and smiled back at me. She looked nervous though, was it because I made all the medical staff nervous. Her hands went behind her back like she was trying to hide something.

“What are you doing? I don’t think you are authorised to come in here.” I said to her.

“Uhmm, I have to get Mr Adamos ready for a test, one of the doctors instructed me to get him ready.

“Which doctor? Simon!.” I called out. One of the security guards walked in to the room.

“Simon has gone to the gents quickly Dona.” He explained, he looked at the nurse and frowned like he had not seen her come in.

“Leave us.” I told him while he was still looking at her. She didn’t look very terrified for someone who had been caught in a place she wasn’t supposed to be in.

“Dona…She must have come in when we swapped shifts.” He said sounding petrified.

“It’s fine, I will deal with it. Call Simon.”

“Yes Dona.” He said and walked out closing the door behind him.

“What do you have in your hands Maia, if that’s even your real name.” I asked her.

“I think I should just leave and come back with the doctors.” She smiled and started to walk towards the door.

I walked there faster and blocked it. “I’m only going to ask you this once more, what do you have in your hands.”

“It’s a syringe, I told you I was supposed to prepare Mr Adamos for a test.” She said nonchalantly. “I am supposed to inject this into his IV drip.”

“What kind of test? Did you do it?” I asked her.

“Uhmm, no we can just wait for the doctors to do it themselves.” She said. I walked towards her and she backed away slowly.

“Your face looks familiar, you were sent here to kill him weren’t you. Who sent you?”

“You can’t go around scaring people just because you are rich you know!” She snapped at me.

“Oh I’m going to do more than just scare you if you don’t answer my questions.” I said, my tone sounding very menacing.

She took out the syringe and pointed at me. “If you don’t let me go I’m going to inject you with this, it’s lethal.” She said as a matter of fact.

I laughed. “It’s Paskal isn’t it?”

She looked so scared her hands were shaking, she couldn’t hold the syringe steady.

“Tell you what, you drop that syringe on the floor and I will let you walk out of here but you carry on pointing it at me or my husband and I get it out of your hands… and believe me I will, I’m going to inject you with it and call it self defence. Like you said, it’s lethal. Do you want to die?” I was more worried about protecting Xander and the baby inside me.

She started to cry but she dropped it on the floor and fell to her knees. Just as she dropped it, the door opened behind me.

“Dona.” Dorian’s voice sounded from behind, he came to stand next to me. I looked at him, he was frowning. “Circe?”

The lady’s face went white with shock and she began to sob as her hands covered her face.

“You know her?” I asked him.

“She works at the company, she’s the lady that’s been staying with Paskal at the hotel.” He handed me a file. I opened it, there were pictures of her that had been taken from the security cameras at the hotel as she came into the lobby and walked out with Paskal, there was also a page with her name, surname and other details.

I laughed out loud, I couldn’t help it. Most of my laughter bubbled from relief that I had walked out of the bathroom when I did because Paskal would have succeeded had I not caught her.

“How did she get in here? Where’s Simon?” Dorian looked around.

“She got in during a security swap.” The security guard outside was now standing by the door looking very guilty.

“It means one of you left your post before the other one showed up!” Dorian snarled at him. “Get out of my sight!”

“It’s okay Dorian, she didn’t succeed.” I said quietly.

“You said you would let me go if I dropped it.” She said between sobs as she looked at the syringe like she wanted to reach for it. “He ss.. said you dd..don’t hurt women..” she stuttered out.

“Only the ones that try to kill my husband.” I walked towards her. “Get up, I’m not going to kill you Circe. I can’t vouch for Xander’s brothers though.”

As I said this it sounded like someone had just gotten punched outside the door, I knew that it was Simon beating up the guard by the door.

Dorian walked towards Circe but she grabbed the syringe from the floor, opened the cap and pushed it into her neck, I stood there a little shocked that she had just done that.

“He’s not going to save me, it’s you that he is obsessed with.” She said with tears running down her cheeks as she fell to the ground and her body began to convulse.

I backed away from her and looked at Dorian who had stood in between us protectively. She went still, her eyes were still opened as she looked up at the ceiling.

I walked towards her and felt for a pulse, there was none. She was dead. Hector walked into the room as well and surveyed the scene before him before he turned to look at Dorian.

“She killed herself, I think Paskal sent her here to kill Xander.” Dorian said.

“She didn’t succeed. He definitely did send her, judging from what she said he knew that she would get captured.” I said. I walked up to Xander and kissed him.

“Let’s quietly get her out of here. Simon will deal with the security, I think Xander is better off at home. We can bring the medical team home with us.” Hector said. I turned to look at him.

“We can move him after we have captured Paskal.” I said Hector. He nodded quietly. “I wonder if he will still show up to the house as planned.” I added

“He will, even though his logic will tell him that something is wrong, he is crazy enough to convince himself that he can still take the estate and the business.” Hector said.

I nodded my head as I looked at Circe laying on the floor. I felt sorry for her even though she had just been about to end my world.

“Soraya I am sorry about earlier on.” Hector said.

“It’s okay, let’s just deal with all this and get it over and done with.” I smiled up at him.

We managed to bug Paskal’s room.” Dorian informed me. “When he makes a call from within the room we will be able to hear his phone calls.”

“That’s great, let’s hope he has not made any other plans that we are not aware of thus far.” I said.

“I doubt he has, this is Paskal we are talking about.” Hector said arrogantly.

“We definitely didn’t see this coming so don’t underestimate him Hector, we never thought Xander would be laying in a hospital bed because of Paskal.” I said quietly.

“You are right.” He looked at Xander.

“Let’s get her out of here.” I said to them.

They all cleared out of the room with Dorian carrying Circe out. Simon walked in and closed the door behind him. I could sense his guilt even though he took a professional stance by the door.

“I don’t blame you Simon, I was in the bathroom when she walked in.” I confessed to him.

“Dona these are my men out here, how they work reflects on me… I trained them.” He said as he looked at the floor. “I can’t afford to disappoint you or my Don. Not again.”

“I was in the bathroom having an anxiety attack when she came in.” I blurted out to him. I didn’t know why I said it.

“Besides my mother, you are the strongest woman I know. The way you have handled everything is nothing short of amazing.” He said. “The boss will wake up, he would never leave you. Not like this.”

My breath caught as he said this, I took a deep breath and nodded. “Until he does, let’s keep him safe okay?” I said blinking away the tears. He had no idea how much I needed to hear what he had just said.

“Yes Dona.” He bowed his head in respect.

“I think I’m going to stay here tonight, let Helga know please. I’m going to need a few things from the house.” I sat on the chair next to the bed and took Xander’s hand.