Chapter 71 - The Poorly Boss (3) (1/2)
Wirata glanced at the tall man. Saw him looked at the ceiling like he was thinking something in his head.
”Do you often fight?”
She asked with curiosity. The soft hands rubbed the cream gently on the red marks.
”Don't know. I've never counted.”
Stefan answered. It was normal for people in this type of business. In fact, his business didn't do anything illegal. The MC enterprise was doing business under US laws. Finance, banking and insurance company, everything was right. But for the Quick loan which he had operated on his spare time, it may be in a little gray area as its interest was a bit higher than usual.
But both parties, debtors and creditors, were satisfied with deals and agreements before signing the contract. Stefan never forced anybody to come to him. But people who were in need of quick cash in this area knew that Stefan Mackenzie was a fair businessman.
Everyone came to him willingly. If the debtors had good credit, never missed a payment, they would be allowed to continue borrowing money from him. But anyone who did not keep their words. He would have to carry on seizing the property that they had put as the guarantee for the debt. It was business.
But many cases, if he thought the debtors were decent people, Stefan would be flexible to give them time and adjusted the deal to suit them. It depended on each individual.
”Is it worthy to get hurt like this? What are you doing to yourself, Stefan? Have you never heard that people die because of bruising in?”
She asked a similar question to the early hour. She did not understand why the person who has money and everything like the man in front of her had to go fighting and got hurt while he could just enjoy his money and wealth instead.
Why not just be comfortable, traveling around the world, or did whatever he wanted to celebrate and live a happy life, no fighting and risking life unnecessarily. Obviously, he didn't realize how lucky he was to have a perfect life like this.
”You don't have to understand. It's my life and the way I live it.”
Stefan didn't want to explain himself to her or anybody. This was his lifestyle. In this gray business, you couldn't be weak, otherwise, you would be a victim, and you couldn't be a coward. It an eye for an eye, face to face, man to man, kind of.
However, he had never killed anybody yet, he had used a gun and he shot to protect himself when he had faced the enemies but just chose to shoot to injure them not to take life. But Stefan wouldn't promise anyone that it wouldn't happen in the future. No one knew.
”Why did they want to harm you?”
She looked up and asked another question.
Stefan sighed. How the hell would he know why his rivals wanted to harm him.
Maybe it was a matter of jealousy or some cases were the matter of misunderstanding, or they just wanted to proclaim that it was not only Stefan Mackenzie who had Influential and overloaded power in this paradise. Therefore they just wanted to challenge his power.
”Many reasons, finished yet?”
He asked to cut it off. Stefan was wondering if she gonna interview him till tomorrow. He was not a schoolboy who had to answer all of her questions!
Wirata looked at the injured person who started acting irritated and annoyed with her questions. So she stopped asking him. She thought that maybe she would secretly ask Ben and James later about their boss.
It seemed that he did not like to tell people about himself and Wirata was certain there must be a lot of hidden stories about Stefan Mackenzie! Wirata finished applying the cream. She got off the bed to wash her hands in the bathroom and came back to him.
”Are you hungry?”
She asked. From his condition, luckily that his mouth was unwounded.
”Lie down here with me.”
He did not answer but slapped the mattress beside him to signal her to lie down.
”No, I will go to make some food for you. You need to eat something, and then take the painkiller.”
”I will eat you then take the painkiller.”
The voice said with the straight face but his eyes were sparkling with mischievous thought. The big hand pulled her arm and she fell onto his chest.
”Ouch!” The man winced with pain. Wirata tried to get off him, but he didn't let her go.
”Stefan, please let me get up. I don't want to lie on top of you like this. You are injured.”
She reminded him. His bruised face was not far from hers. His arms wrapped around her waist. Her body fully lay down on his. And there was only the towel covering his part down there.
”Because you are stubborn. I did tell you to lie down next to me. But you didn't listen so I had to do what I had to do.”
He told her the reason that sounded like it was her false. Wirata sighed. She couldn't win easily with this man. However, he put her next to him and held her close to his side. He was quiet then. Wirata looked up at his face. She didn't know where to put her hands. So she decided to put them on his bare chest.
”As a child, you must have been very stubborn.”
She murmured. Stefan bent over and put his nose onto her hair and sniffed the lovely scent. Her question made him think about his childhood.
What he remembered was, since a very young age he was surrounded by big bodyguards. His favorite sports were horse riding and shooting. His father had practice places for those sports in the Mackenzie residence. Friends of Stefan were those bodyguards.
He was practicing judo, taekwondo, and karate. fighting was always on his daily schedule. Michael Mackenzie wanted to strengthen his eldest son to be as strong and capable as possible. Prepared him for the family businesses in the future.
”Why do you think I am stubborn?”
Stefan asked the slender woman in his arm. As far as he could remember, he was an adult from the age of ten. He didn't have close friends of the same age because no one dared to approach the influential godfather's son. If not because they were afraid, it was because of hate or jealousy.
Until when he went to England to study at a university, he started to have some close friends then. Because at that time he grew up and was a good looking young man, the son of a very wealthy businessman as people knew him for, and then he began to use his freedom wildly. And he had grown to become Stefan Mackenzie, the man he was now.
”Because you never listen. You just like to please only yourself. Now, if you are not stubborn, you will let me go. It's lunchtime and you need to take some medicine. ”
She said.
”I am not stubborn, but yes, I like to please myself. Who doesn't like to please themselves? Everybody does.”
He argued with a smirk on his face. He held her tight and kissed her on the cheek. Wirata tried to hold back. He was poorly but that didn't stop him to misbehave, like a wayward child. The big hand started to caress her arms and then put on her breast.