The Traps of Black Swan

Aarvi didn't have plans to add Tia in there. She wanted Tia to rest but thinking of Leon watching her and Tia together made her feel more sinful because Leon would burn in his losing pride.

So Aarvi had sent a message to Tia, instructing her to reach the Mall of Mocon if she would be unharmed. She wasn't sure how Tia and her team managed to get her out unscathed.

Tia received her coffee cup to her hands to warm cold fingers and palm. She tilted her head at Leon. "Leon Harmon, I have overdosed your men with cocaine, heroin, ecstasy…." 

Leon's face darkened deeper hearing her. He wanted to ask how she found them in the villa, but his ego stopped him. And how did she know the drugs' name?

It is impossible to know the illegal, banned drugs unless you have consumed them or studied them. An ordinary civilian wouldn't be able to see the difference, so he accurately came up with 'Anti Drug squad.'

His eyes growled at Aarvi. If not anybody, Leon understood her plan. Aarvi was trapping him from all the sides together. 

Tia shrugged her shoulders as she stopped listing other drugs' names. Then she probed him, "Never mind, would you like to save them?" She provoked Leon without a hint of fear against him. In reality, Tia didn't know the danger of opposing Leon.

Other than an oral statement from Tia, there was no proof to prove Leon is involved in anything. Hence, Tia hoped Leon would reach the villa where the special task force had already raided the entire place.

Not only Aarvi, even Leon knew Tia was trying to dig a grave for Leon. So Leon would neither save his men nor step around there without the proper gathering of information.

He ground his teeth for losing hundreds of millions worth of goods that were in the villa. All those goods were hidden behind the secret doors of the villa, and he could already guess the officers would have got most of the stock.

Leon ignored Tia, who started sipping her coffee. She was just a tiny sparrow to him whereas the preying vulture was more dangerous and… Bewitching.

The vulture was setting him in a big trap where it would be most challenging for him to get out of it. She was slowly holding all the strings where he held power. As soon as she takes the controls over them, she would definitely pull them together. She will squeeze every ounce of blood out of him yet keep him alive.

He understood how vicious she was by her patience. She was using all the opportunities and ways to pull him down as she was closing the loopholes to avoid him from escaping.

He was bubbling inside but repeated a line his psychiatrist had told him. 'The hardest test in life is having the patience to wait for the right moment.'

He might have power, resources but his anger could destroy everything, including his smartness. So patience was much needed. Leon understood it well.

Aarvi was now interested in knowing what changes Aaron made in Leon's treatment that Leon was yet to flip the table around. Considering his old behavior and temper, he should have flipped the whole cafe upside down, but he was sitting there, staring at her face.

Nevertheless, this form excited her more. She was having the tough player against her. One who would think before moving his pawn. One who would test the waters to know the depth of it.

As she expected, Leon started testing her being extremely calm, holding his erupting anger buried deep down. He didn't know suppressing emotions won't do anything well.

"Let's strike a deal." He was testing if she could be bought by wealth and fame.

Aarvi's brow lifted. Well, she was planning to let him know all her identities, so she chose to hear what he had in store for her. "Let me hear."

Tia glanced at Aarvi from her cup. She and her team got to know the mastermind behind the illegal import of drugs, Leon Harmon. 'Will Sister Aarvi accept his deal if it's advantageous to her?' Then she shook her head inwardly. In that case, Aarvi wouldn't have alerted her team and let them kidnap her.

Leon doubted if Aarvi was trying to find a reason to mock him or really interested. Thinking of Kelly International and Harmon Industries, he assumed he could tempt her.

"CEO of Harmon Industries." His first offer. Taking her intelligence, he could sit back and relax, watching her earn money for him. And it would give her fame too. He will have to take care of the board of directors.

Aarvi gulped a few words to her stomach, which were at the tip of her tongue. She had almost revealed one of her plans with mockery. Even though she wouldn't leave him to escape her trap, she didn't want to take a chance by telling him the plan.

Leon saw a peculiar smile on her face. He knew Ava Kelly wanted to become a businesswoman. He was giving her a big chance with attractive incentives, "Half a billion bonus per year." 

Tia's jaw dropped. She started counting the number of zeros in half a billion, '500,000,000… What the f**k!'  Harmon Industries wasn't the top one in the world. She had heard top companies giving shares and bonuses to the CEOs but from Leon to Aarvi? Aarvi won't have to work her entire life if she works for just one year. That was genuinely enticing.

Aarvi truly felt like coughing blood. As a president of Skylar or an ordinary white-collar employee, half a billion was too much even though her net worth was more than it. If he could offer that money from the company, he trusted her business skills or probably her overall skills. 

"I am surprised to know my worth is so high," Aarvi exclaimed. Nobody would give money for free. He would make her work her ass off if she joins.

Nonetheless, Leon smugly shook his head. That half-billion wasn't just for becoming a CEO. It was to keep her beside him. Making her the Vice President wouldn't be enticing as CEO, so he wanted to bring her close first before cutting off her wings. So the money and the beauty will be in his hands.

He added another offer, "I can give you much more you could wish for." His words indicated more than simply money. In exchange for villas, islands, and so on from his black money, she has to give up all her plans against him.

Smiling, Aarvi nodded at him. Leon was thrilled, and Tia choked on her coffee. 

Aarvi extended her hand at Leon. Before Leon could hold her hand and be happy by thinking she accepted her plan, Aarvi uttered, "I want your death."

'Bang' Leon slammed his hands on the table and rose from the chair. 

"Ava Kelly!!!" He roared at the top of his lungs.

That's the reason you should never bury the exasperation or any emotions too much. Aaron had always provoked her to let her feelings out so she had learned from him.

Tia who was shocked at Aarvi's words, felt her heart jerked at the loud clamor. She patted her chest to calm her heart. For a moment,t she felt like it thundered in the mall piercing her ears. 

'This man is a crazy animal.' She thought, looking at her coffee cup in which the hot liquid had slightly missed from scalding her hand.

Aarvi had an enticing smirk, serenely looking at Leon, who was red in anger, breathing heavily, glowering at her.