CHAPTER ONE (Finding a way)

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"Mylar! Mylar, I know you can hear me. Open the door."

Mylar's landlady kept banging her door. She was an old lady but the way she kept hitting the door with so much strength, one would think that she was a youngster.

Mylar yawned and turned around uneasily on her student size bed. She got up ignoring the noise being caused by her old landlady and went into the bathroom, she slowly picked up her brush and started moving it from right to left inside her mouth. Her toothpaste was finished so she had to brush without it.

She wasn't really thinking about the finished toothpaste or her nuisance of a landlady but about how she has been living her life for the past three years after her graduation.

Back when she was in school, she would tell her friends that once she graduated, then all her sufferings will be over. She will get a job with a famous modeling agency and have some other side businesses of her own. She will become famous and have a fancy car and a large house to herself. She was so certain back then but now looking at the mirror, she wasn't so sure about fulfilling those dreams anymore.

She spit out the white content that had formed in her mouth into the sink and dropped the brush by the side, her landlady was still banging on the door but she didn't really care, all the old woman wanted was for her to pay the rent and even after working so hard last night, it was a miracle that she came home with four dollars and three cents.

She changed into a simple blue armless top and white pants, she comb her hair and applied the little hair oil left in it container and packed the hair behind in a knot.

She picked up her only good looking hand bag and house key. She quickly arranged the bed cover properly and went to open the door of her tiny and overcrowded room to go out.

The landlady was sitting right outside, Mylar really thought that she must have given up and gone already.

"Where is your rent for the last two month, you promised to pay two weeks ago?" The woman asked immediately she saw Mylar come out of her room.

"I promise to pay you soon." Mylar said and tried to go away. The landlady came in front of her then she yelled at her in anger.

"When is your soon suppose to be bitch? You work at a club and yet you can't find any man to give you money to pay your rent."

Mylar murmured angrily to herself. The landlady smiled and asked.

"Are you cursing me you wretch?"

"No I am not. I will definitely find a way to pay you soon." Mylar said and quickly went away.

She boarded a cab that took her straight to 420 East 61st street, black glass tower (one Sutton place north) Manhattan, New York.

A David Brody designed rental tower. The most sought after rental residence in the city, a rising 42 story building.

She got out of the cab and walked to the building, the security was right outside.

"Good morning ma'am." He greeted her with a lovely smile on his face and opened the door for her, perhaps he thought she was also one of the rich and famous.

"Good morning." She replied with a smile on her face and went in. This was how she wanted to be, people showing her respect and treating her right and not like a piece of trash. There were security cameras everywhere. She went through the extravagant lobby to one of the elevators and pressed the botton to the 41st floor.

Khai Montero was seated on his fluffy sofa in a white robe barely covering his body. He smiled and got up as soon as he saw Mylar, he left his door open waiting for her arrival.

"You finally agreed to meet me beautiful. Welcome to my abode." He spoke lovingly and greeted her in the usual way but his pecks were much more deep and took longer than usual.

Khai was a car dealer who has more than one thousand staffs working under him. His houses spread across different cities in the United States. He was one super rich dude with all the right connections but he had only one problem and that was womanising.

He met Mylar only four nights before at one of the most exclusive clubs in the New York City and invited her over to his house.

She had to think it over severally before she finally agreed to come.

She sat down after being asked to and he always sat next to her with a sexy smile on his face as he asked.

"What would you like to drink?"

"Just water will be fine." Mylar replied him as she look around the expensively furnished apartment, she was feeling very nervous but couldn't stop looking around as well.

Khai raised his brows up surprised by her reply.

"No, I don't agree with that. I will get you a glass of mulled wine, one of my specialty." He said and corrected himself.

"Actually the only drink I know how to make. I would have offered you something else but I already gave my staffs a day off." After he said this, he went straight to the kitchen to make it.

Mylar took her time to savor in the beauty of the place. She wished she could live in such a house, enjoying the most wonderful cinema experience in a clean shinny house without any disturbance from kids and their parents.

It's was always so annoying to go to the cinema and not be able to complain about the people causing so much disturbance around you.

The interiors of the house was something else, it was the absolute best and it color white and brown added so much glamour to the house.

"No wonder so many people want to live here." She thought to herself and sighed heavily. She then laid back on the soft and comfy couch.

From the corner of her eyes, she noticed some book shelves in the room whose door was slightly open opposite her. She was trying really hard not to overstep her boundaries but that room kept calling to her in a deep voice, like when those evil spirit call someone in a movie.

Mylar! Mylar! Mylar!!!

One thing about Mylar was her deep passion for reading, she could spend the entire day reading without getting bored. That was why she was called 'bookworm' back in college. She always got A's in all her tests and exams, she also graduated as the top best student of the business administration department.

She quietly got up, tiptoeing towards the room careful not to make any sound. She slowly opened it door and went into the room.

OMG!! She gasped at what she saw in the room. It wasn't just a few shelves but a whole palace filled with books. It was an amazing view, books lined up above her head and all around her. There was also a very old telescope and treasure maps with gold sculptures in the room. The telescope was shinny but looked ancient, she could tell from it design.

She couldn't stop herself, she started running around checking different books all at once. Maybe she thought that she could read all of them in just a day.

Khai came back with one glass each in both hands, he was surprised to find an empty sitting room.

"Did she maybe leave?" He asked himself quietly, he was disturbed by this thought.

Mylar!

Mylar!

Mylar! Mylar!!!

He called out loud over and over again but little did he know that Mylar was lost in her world, a world full of books and endless reading.

After a while of not getting any response, he decided to place the cups on the center table and as he bent to do so, his deep blue eyes noticed the door of the library open.

He quietly walked in on Mylar who was sitting down on a chair confused as to which book to read first, she scratch her forehead in distress.

Khai smiled at this and walked closer to her, he lowered his lips onto her bare neck, she got startled and jump up.

"Didn't mean to scare you babe but your glass of mulled wine has been waiting for quite a while." Khai said to her with an apologetic smile.

"Oh, I am so sorry that I came here without asking, I was drawned to the library because of my love for books." Mylar said explaining to him.

"It's okay." Khai said to her. He came closer to Mylar, wrapped his right hand around her waist and pulled her to himself. He then wispered to her.

"I guess we both have something in common."

His grip was tight that she was feeling a little pain in her waistline. He moved his lips closer to hers in attempt to kiss it.

Umm! Mylar resisted and pulled away, then she asked.

"Why don't we go and talk in the sitting room?"

He was a bit hesitant and he wondered if Mylar was refusing him with the way she pulled away from him. He replied her with a smile after thinking it through.

"Off course beautiful. That way we can enjoy our mulled wine in the right place."

They got back to the sitting room and sat down. He moved closer to her, picked up her glass and passed it to her, she collected it with a sweet smile. They both drank the content at once.

"So what do you want to talk about?" He asked, his eyes looking seductively at her.

Mylar breathes deeply, she was very nervous. Before coming, she hoped and prayed that he will just agree to give her whatever she asks for.

"I need a favor." She blurted out quickly.

He smiled and slowly licked his lips, then move much more closer to her. She could feel the heat of his body because of how close he was to her now, then he said to her.

"Tell me what it is beautiful."

Mylar's heart started beating fast but she manage to gather the courage to say it out loud.

"I need $1000 dollars for my rent."

"One thousand dollars?" Khai asked and started laughing.

Mylar watched him laugh while she looked like a puppy drenched by rain.

Seeing how she was staring at him, he stopped laughing and put on a serious face. He then said to her.

"That's the least of the things I can do for you, it's really a small amount. I will give you $5000." Then he grabbed her and started kissing her body ardently like a hungry person ready to devour a plate of deliciously cooked food.

He continued moving his hands around her body and his tongue around her neck, she started feeling very uncomfortable and suffocated, so she tried to stop him but he wouldn't stop and so she pushed him off her and got up. She picked up her bag and went out of the house without saying anything to him.

Khai watch her leave with a surprise look on his face, he thought that she was ready for this when she decided to come, he wasn't going to be giving her money without doing anything with her. He picked up his phone and called the first number on his dialed list of contacts.

"Get me girl now. I will pay double the usual." He said and hung up immediately. Then he started laughing hysterically.