Semua Bab Under His Control : Bab 11 - Bab 13

Jace POVThe soft hum of the servers in my private study was the only sound cutting through the midnight silence.I leaned back in my leather chair, grabbed a glass and poured the expensive scotch that was sitting untouched on the desk. I traced my finger in a circular motion around the brim of the glass, then took a sip of wine.It burned in a bitter sweet taste... very satisfying. I dropped the glass and laced my fingers together as my eyes remained locked onto the glowing matrix of monitors mounted on the wall before me.I was a man driven by greed. When I saw something rare, something perfect, I didn't just want to manage it. I wanted to claim it, lock it away, and ensure that no other living soul could ever touch it.And from the second Kale had stepped into onto that California Got Talent stage for his audition, I knew he was going to be my ultimate possession.My fingers moved across the keyboard, bringing up the encrypted, high definition camera feed from the downtown penthou

Kale’s POVThe sound of the crowd was still ringing in my ears when I walked off stage. The bright lights faded behind the heavy velvet curtains, and my chest was rising and falling too fast. I could not catch my breath. But I was smiling. For real this time. The judges had just called my name. I was in the quarter-finals of California Got Talent. I barely had time to breathe before someone screamed my name down the hallway.“Oh my god, you absolute star!” Molly came running at me. She crashed into me and wrapped her arms around my neck so hard we both stumbled back. We almost fell into a rack of costumes. “You owned that stage, Kale,” she said, pulling back just enough to look at me. “I am crying. I am screaming. I am done for.”She waved her hands around like she was on stage too. A few other contestants stood nearby. They had just been cut. They were not smiling. Molly saw them and rolled her eyes. She popped her gum loud enough for them to hear. “Let them look,” she said, not