Bought by My stepbrother, the don

Chapter 101: Meticulous

Vera (20 mins before)

I’ve never had a family before. At least, not people I actually considered family. My father was a drug addict, and my mother an enabler and she was worse.

We gathered debts like others gathered sweets for Halloween. Buckets full, yet it was never enough.

Still, I had a brother who I thought I was close to. That was before he almost sold me to an escort agency to pay his own debts.

He had high goals and needed money to fund them. Business ideas that never seemed to succeed, yet he expected me to fund him like my mother did my dad.

Haa... I still remember the shock on his face when I carved the knife deep into his heart. He looked stunned, like he didn’t see it coming.

His loss.

Joining a spy agency was easier than I thought, especially since it was that or become a prostitute. The money was good and stable, but more interesting was the job itself.

I enjoyed it.

Toying with people before stabbing them in the back.

This job was supposed to be easy. Infiltrate Nico’s mansion and get to know his weakness. The one thing he cared about enough that could be used against him.

How was I to know that my new boss was a psychopath?

There was nothing he cared about, as far as I could see.

Carmen’s entry had been a surprise, but even I could tell that she was just a form of release for him, nothing more.

Still, I stuck close to her. The pitiful girl. She had just lost her father, and although she had a hard shell, I believed it was only a matter of time before I got in.

Still, once I was done with the job, I fully intended to pay her and Nico back for my missing toe.

The fucker.

I had been cleaning like usual, something I didn’t mind. It was quite soothing, when I got a notification on my phone.

Latest news: Nico and Carmen had been arrested. Something about a hospital shooting.

I didn’t hesitate.

I headed straight down to the kitchen and to the male chefs I was familiar with, who didn’t hesitate to hand me the cookies I asked for.

Especially since I was sleeping with one of them.

Hell, the higher their position, the more likely I was to sleep with them. It gave me free rein in the mansion.

Carrying the box of cookies, I headed straight upstairs toward the security station, lacing them with one of the drugs I had with me.

It was a sleeping drug. Nothing too heavy, nothing that would arouse suspicion.

I knocked on the door leading into the main viewing area.

One look at me, and the guard at the door let me in. It wasn’t my first time.

Opening the box to show what I brought, I walked toward where they were seated. Only one of them was focused on the screens, watching the main entrance in case of an attack.

"Cookies for all!" I said with a smile.

They didn’t hesitate. I had been giving them treats for months, so they didn’t question it.

"Did you hear?" one of them started as he munched. "Our boss has been captured. Crazy, right?"

The conversation quickly picked up.

Some believed it was part of his plan. Others thought he had been genuinely caught.

"No rich person has clean hands. You expect me to believe he doesn’t have shady dealings?"

"Even if he did, do you think he’d be stupid enough to shoot people in a hospital himself and get caught?" another argued.

The discussion became louder.

I picked up a cookie, pretending to listen, but I wasn’t.

Instead, my fingers traced the control board, looking for the screen connected to Nico’s study.

If I was going to find his weakness, then I needed access to everything.

I had even tried seducing him when I first got here, but he barely gave me a second glance. freewebnovёl.ƈom

Once I found what I needed, I got to work.

Instead of unplugging it and leaving a blank screen, I made the footage loop. Most of the cameras showed static scenes anyway, guards standing still, nothing moving.

It only took a few minutes.

Then I turned off the camera in Nico’s study completely, making sure that when everything reset, it would look like a simple malfunction.

The noise behind me grew louder.

I was glad I had brought enough cookies, making sure to personally offer one to the man in charge and watch him eat it before leaving.

The drug wasn’t strong. Just enough to make them drowsy and less alert.

If one of them fell asleep, it would look like a nap.

With that done, I left and headed straight to Nico’s study.

The moment I stepped in, I knew one thing. Everything had to remain exactly where it was.

If anything was out of place, Nico would notice. freeweɓnovel.cѳm

After getting arrested, he would be even more alert.

Carefully, I searched through documents and folders, but they were useless to me.

What I needed was his secrets.

Something hidden.

But it quickly became clear that if he had something like that, it would be in a safe. And there was no visible safe in the room.

"Do I really have to sleep with your head of security?" I muttered, thinking of the middle-aged man whose presence unsettled me.

He seemed cold, like stone.

And honestly, I doubted sex would work on him.

Finding nothing and realizing I had spent too much time, I hurried out, making sure everything was exactly as I found it.

The cameras would reset. Everything would look normal.

No one would suspect anything.

As long as no one walked in at the wrong time.

"This, like everything else, has been a waste of my time," I muttered as I rushed out and headed toward the far corridor, the door that led outside to the servants’ quarters.