The Manipulated Villainess

With his hands binded by ropes which were tied to the wood in both sides, Aston was not in a good condition.

One hour had passed but he already suffered so much in Lester\'s hands. The two men along with the right-hand man of Lester Yun were the only persons on the rooftop as all the other members were on duty in the building.

Countless wounds on his neck and upper body and a little on his face, he had already loss a few blood but not enough to endanger his life.

If Aston was not a man with high endurance who had gone through many hardships, he might already lose his consciousness. But he was still standing there as he had undergone many things worse than this.

The Big Boss of the Red Tiger Gang was very sure of his limit. He rarely hurt his face for a reason. He didn\'t want the top actor to have scars on his most important feature - his handsome face. Maybe a part of him still care for his former right-hand man!

"If you beg me to stop, I will do that right away. You know that I always like you." Lester Yun said with a smile that always made him resemble a lunatic man. But it\'s not wrong. He was indeed crazy.

He put down the narrow plank wood which he used as one of the torture devices. When he wiped his face, the blood on his hands spattered on his face which made him looked like the absolute devil.

"Beg you?" Aston sneered as he looked at the crazy man with disdain. "That will never happen." He finds it hard to talk much due to the wounds on his neck and the pain which covered his whole body. But still, his disgust for this man can\'t make him shut his mouth.

"Are you not afraid? Right now, your life is in my hands." Lester said with a victorious smile. He sat down on the chair which was placed a few feet away from the actor and crossed his legs, enjoying his time.

His eyes never leave Aston. He always wished to see him suffer and he finally got to see that tonight. It won\'t be fun if he didn\'t examine his pain in a keen way!

"We have known each other for too long yet you still didn\'t know me well." Aston\'s eyes were devoid of any fear when he glanced at the man who could easily kill him any second. "When was I ever afraid of death?"

His words were followed by a continuous cough which was the effect of him talking when his body was not in a position to do so. As such, it earned him a chuckle from the Gang Boss.

"Look at yourself, Aston. You\'re a mess right now." Lester shook his head and looked at him as if he pitied him. "You should learn how to control yourself."

Aston\'s eyes that were lowered due to the cough instantly darted to the man."Control myself?" He laughed but all at once, his once calm eyes were filled with deep hatred. He glared at Lester like a ferocious beast.

"If it was not for the fact that I controlled myself, your dumb head would already be apart from your body. You will already be dead in my hands." His voice was dangerously low which made the man feels intimidated.

"How dare you!" Lester abruptly rose from his seat and walked to him. He grabbed Aston on his collar but the actor was more than unfazed by his behavior. "Don\'t test me. You know that I\'m not that forgiving."

"These filthy hands..." Aston\'s narrowed his eyes at the hands which grabbed him aggressively. "They are the same hands that killed my best friend. Do you still remember him?"

The flashback of his friend who met his demise in the bullet that came out of Lester\'s muzzle flooded his mind. Five years had passed but the scene was vividly rooted in his mind as if it happened just yesterday.

He tightly clenched his fist and if it was not for his hands that were bound to the wood, the crazy man will surely get a taste of his fist. He closed his eyes and think about the last words of his friend. He must calm down himself.

"You and Michael betrayed my gang." Lester hissed. He tightened his grip on Aston\'s collar and gave him an icy glare.

"Don\'t talk nonsense." Aston scoffed. "We gave you the exact amount of money you demand so that we could withdraw from the gang. But after taking our money, you chased us and hunt us down as if we were runaway slaves!"

"You even manipulated Rion so that he could betray us," Aston added.

Him along with Michael and Rion dreamed of quitting the messy life of gangsters. They even pay a hefty price for their freedom but... everything was ruined. Rion betrayed them due to the pressure of Lester, Michael was killed on the hunt and Aston made it alone.

"When you said that you want to quit the gang, that\'s when you betrayed me! I trusted you so much and even made you the second in command but... you broke my trust! And your friend paid the price." Lester yelled at him right to his face. It was an undeniable fact that the Gang Boss was barely holding back his anger. His fierce red eyes were the proof.

"You should consider yourself lucky. If Michael\'s wish was not for me to live a normal life, you will never live to see this day. So, stop talking about my friend." Aston sneered at the man once again despite the blood which was flowing down the side of his face. "You have no right to talk about him with that despicable mouth of yours."

Lester had lost his patience. He picked up the steel pipe next to him at once and lifted the pipe to hit the actor so that he might shut up. "You have no right to judge me either!" He yelled again like a mad man as he raised the pipe in the air.

Aston stood still even though a steel pipe was about to break his skull. His gaze fixated on the man who was thirst to kill him without batting an eye, not for even once.

"Boss, please don\'t do this. Killing him won\'t solve anything." The current second-in-command, Calvin rushed to his Boss side and hold back his arm, pleading him not to do unnecessary things.

Hearing the pleading words of his right-hand man, Lester lowered his hands and roughly threw away the pipe. He walked around and squawked, trying to calm down the burning anger inside him. His actions resembled that of a psychopath!

He can\'t help but hold back his anger. Calvin was right. Killing the top celebrity would only bring him troubles.

Aston\'s simply stared at the crazy man with a nonchalant face. He was still the same, as crazy as ever! But his manipulative skills was the thing who made this crazy man a wicked serpent.

"Let him go," Lester muttered as he bent down to hold the fence of the rooftop. He decided to not look at the actor\'s face anymore because if he did that, he would lose his self-control again.

Calvin immediately complied with his order and release Aston from the ropes that bind him and made him leave the building with his tired and wounded body.

One glance of the actor and everyone would be convinced that he won\'t last long before he fainted due to his injuries and blood loss.....