Shards of the Broken Heart

*Knock-Knock*

"Who is there?"

"Chairman, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas are here requesting a meeting with you."

"Let them in."

A few minutes later, my assistant led a couple of a man and a woman, inside the room. The assistant bowed a little and left the room, giving privacy to me and the couple for our discussion.

The man was handsome in his 40s with platinum hair and green eyes. The woman was in her 30s with a vivacious body. She had blonde hair and light brown eyes.

Without saying anything, they both took their seats facing me across the table. The man had a complacent smile on his face and said.

"How are you doing my son? I heard you have a hard time handling both the charity and the company. You are in the prime of your life. You should enjoy yourselves more. How about this, you hand over the company to me, then you can have more time for the charity as well as for yourselves?"

I didn't say anything and just glared coldly at the man. He flinched but quickly composed himself and tapped the woman on her shoulder. The woman unlocked her phone and passed it towards me.

There was a video which was on pause. I didn't play the video but just stared at them. Seemingly unaffected, with a seductive gaze and an alluring voice, she uttered the words that made my heart cold.

"My dear Lucas, what do you think about having a young teenage girl experience the pleasures of the flesh for the first time with many old men at the same time. And what could be better than watching such a tender bud blossom into a flower with your own eyes?"

Hearing her words, I felt my scalp tingle and my fingertips turn cold. I did not want to believe her words. To refute her false words, I played the video with my trembling hands.

In the video, there was a naked young girl who had recently reached adolescence. She had a frightened expression with tears streaming down her cheeks. There were men around her, touching her all over the body.

'Leave me alone!! Don't touch me! I want to go home. Mom! Dad!'

Two burly men pinned her hands on the floor as a flabby guy with a nasty grin started to spread the girl's legs open.

'No!!!' The scared girl screamed in protest.

*Crunch*

I smashed the phone as extreme fury surged through my body. I flung myself on the man and grabbed his neck, clenching my fingers around it. His eyes bulged out, and his face turned purple.

I growled at him.

"Tell me! Where is she?"

"Stop! Let go of him. Do you not want to save her? If you kill us, she would be left to her fate of getting toyed with. Even if you save her, our men would post this video all over the internet. Do you want to make her live the rest of her life in shame?"

The lady screamed while trying to pull my hands off the man’s neck.

I let the man go and he slumped into the chair. I glared at them and spat the words.

"You want the company, right? I will sign the papers. Just tell me her location!"

Hearing my words of accepting his terms, the man smiled while still massaging his neck. Getting a little cocky, he said.

"Now, now... Take it easy-agGHH!"

His words got stuck in his throat as I once again choked his throat. This time, the strength of my hold was stronger than the previous time.

"Victor! Don't test my patience. I said I would give you the company. If you don't give me the location now, I will torture you to death. And believe me, I will get the location, even if it may take many days. Then I will get there and slaughter those guys and... ‘save’ her too. But you won't get anything from this except an excruciating death."

"We will give! We will give you the location."

I released the grip on Victor. He coughed hard with a startled look on his face.

The woman rummaged through her bag, took out a folder with papers about transferring the company's ownership, and passed me the folder. I had a grisly smile on my face.

"Ashley, you are a very good opportunist..."

I signed the papers and handed her the folder back. Receiving the folder back, the couple had a small smile of victory.

Sensing my glare on them, they returned to sense and gave me the location. The location was in the sea, a fair distance from my current location.

"Tell your men to stop them and kill those guys. Or else I would kill you."

"We-we have left her on a ship of smugglers. The location is a small island which acts as their base. I don't have any contact with them."

I kneed him in his stomach and chopped at his neck to make him unconscious. I grabbed the fleeing Ashley and made her unconscious, too. I called the guards to drag them and lock them in an isolated room for torture.

I took a chopper to the port and, from there, took a speedboat to the location of the smuggler's hideout.

I reached the island with a team of elite guards when the sun had set down the horizon. The island was relatively small, with a building for residence and a warehouse. I split the guards into two teams and led one team to the building while the other went to the warehouse.

With noise suppression muzzles, the squad made a clean work of the smugglers, and we reached the topmost floor of the building. There was a large room with an adjacent terrace.

There were sounds of animalistic grunts and moans coming from the room. I kicked the door open and found five men and three women performing carnal activities with enraptured expressions.

When they saw the door being kicked open, they stopped their act and gawked at us.

One of my guards shot a woman through her forehead. She slumped on the guy she was mounted upon with a gun in her hands.

I scanned the room, but with a darkened expression, I ordered them to kill everyone except one guy.

"Where is the little girl?"

I asked the single man left in the room. He stuttered a little.

"Lit--little girl? There are m-many girls in the warehouse. We don't have any little girl here. I swear!"

I stabbed him in the forehead, left the room, and sprinted towards the warehouse.

The other group had also cleaned up all the mobs in the warehouse; some were standing in front of a room with an uneasy expression. I entered the room with a heavy heart.

There, I found many naked teenage girls with blank faces. There were bruises all over their bodies, and they were covered in some sticky fluid.

The guards were carrying the dead bodies of some naked men out of the room. Seeing this scene, my blood turned cold, and my steps came to a sudden halt. I asked the guards to bring a few buckets of water and bandages.