The Playboy’s Downfall novel Chapter 105

IT WAS eight in the evening. After dinner, Zero and Isla stay up on the balcony of their room.

Their daughter was already asleep in the next room.

“How’s school?” Zero asked as he leaned on the chair and stared at her.

She heaved a deep sigh, and Zero knew that there was something wrong.

“Any problem?”

She bit her lower lip and nodded. “In school…”

“Uhm?”

“—someone is bugging me and even threatening me,” Isla started and frowned when she saw Zero's unbothered face.

Zero sipped on his glass of wine. “What about him… or her?”

Isla sighed; turmoil suddenly pierced inside her heart which jolted her chest. Is it right to tell Zero about it? She wondered.

However, it’s the best thing that she must do. Troy is a big threat.

“I had a classmate. His name is Troy Angelo—”

“Angelo?” Zero frowned and put down the glass on the side table. “You said, Troy, right?”

Isla’s forehead creased. “Yes. Troy Angelo. And I’m sorry, I did tell him about you and our daughter. It’s the only way I thought would be best to get rid of him. However, earlier…”

Zero scoffed. “What’s that bastard doing in your school? Why didn’t my men report me about this? I have two reapers watching you, yet they didn’t report about this, Angelo?”

The lines drawn into Isla’s forehead were visible. “What do you mean? Do you know him?”

Zero sighed. There’s no need to hide it this time.

“Also, he saw us—I mean the wrecked car when you send me to school after that need for speed,” she added.

Zero nodded. “I’m expecting that. If you already told him about me, of course, I already knew who the fuck tried to greet me. Unfortunately, I’m not afraid of anyone. Just let him bug you. Besides, he can’t touch you. Buy some time. I just need to confirm it,” he explained.

Still, Isla was confused. “How do you know about Troy? He enrolled one week late months ago. I don’t know if he had the same age as me since I’m not interested. Even Becca was getting irritated with him.”

“Just let him. And deal with it in the meantime, baby. Let’s just see what’s his plan—”

“He said to me that: what Troy wants—”

“He gets?”

Isla nodded. “Then, he can try if he can,” Zero uttered and crept a smirk on his lips.

“OK, baby. However, you didn’t answer me earlier. How did you know him?”

Zero took a sip from his glass of wine and played with it circularly before he met her gaze.

“Before you… about a decade ago. I fell in love with the woman whom I thought wouldn’t be capable of hurting me—”

“She’s the reason why you became like that—the fuck monster people have known.”