The scene before Luca had him rethinking the decisions he was about to make but that was the only way to secure his house and properties from the clutches of the government.
No matter how pocketed you have some few police men they would always act on orders.
And he didn’t want any order on his property.
He had Sophia to secure and take care of now.
More fumes rose up into the sky and the fire grew from any whip of wind on it.
They were in late spring and rain does seem like something that would fall anytime soon nevertheless.
He rolled up the sleeves of his shirt and snapped his fingers to his head security to get his attention who was gawking at the rising fire like an art.
“Get me a fire hose”
“Hose?” He asked, his eyes popped open and mouth agape.
This was it.
Luca licked his lips and stepped up to his security face.
Towering over him, his head security was tall but he was an inch taller than him.
“If the police gets a whiff of this smoke up in the air wavering like it’s giving fucking veneration to them. They’re going to bust inside here and you know what they’re gonna do? They’re going to lock everyone up including your ass for working for me. So you better get me the hose and make sure the water is steady. We are going to put away this damn fucking fire. Shit” he pushed his security to move along.
He watched as the fire increased, expanded and was coming to the front of the maze and soon will fall to the ground and then the buildings.
He scattered his hair, shoving and pushing it with his fingers and none made him able to decipher what he could do before the police took notice of the fire.
He didn’t want to voice it out but he was scared.
First time and he sniggered at himself.
A woman.
Someone that even didn’t want him and only needed him to flee from him.
How pathetic.
He wasn’t scared of the police.
They would do nothing but he didn’t want to take a chance on that.
He’d heard from his source of how his name had been on their lips after the little stunt with the Albanians.
The blowing of their businesses had caught their attention and they couldn’t do anything since they’d no evidence to lock him up or file charges against him but any whiff or his presence would get them sweeping in here like rats.
While he watched the fire, his security personnel tottered his way carrying the fire hose along with his other workers.
He thanked God , he kept such things in his home though they’re never used he just had it.
And now they were useful and came handy “It’s connected right” to the damn pump.
He nodded like someone that’s seen a ghost, he knew what he was doing was risky.
He just had to do it.
He wasn’t on his fire resistant gear.
This was highly dangerous.
He could burn to ashes without those clothes but he didn’t care as he dragged the nozzle from his security.
“Can you dress up in the gear and bring more fire hoses and help me up there” he wouldn’t put their life in danger “if you mind” neither would he force them.
They nodded but didn’t give him a finite answer.
He dragged the hose’s body to the mouth of the maze, a place not too far away from the raging flames.
“Fuck!!!” He yelled, as he turned the handle and increased the water from the ring to stream.
The heat from the fire clawing its way into his skin, he hissed as the flame crackled up again and he stepped forward.
He turned his head sideways wishing he could see his security but found none.
He sighed and groaned, taking a bold step into the flames ready to do this alone; however , the sounds of muffled voices and crunching from the ground caught his attention and he whipped his head back to the source.
There, his security personnels and soldiers from his house and…from his club.
He looked, searching for Angelo.
He better not be here.
Who was watching over Sophia if they were all here?
He opened his mouth to chastise them when someone said like they read his mind “Angelo is with her. She is safe” and that calmed his heart and breath.
She was safe.
The fire won’t touch her.
It won’t come anywhere close to her.
He was going to fight for her.
In death and life.
He smiled, feeling a rise in his morale.
“Let’s go soldiers!”
The sounds of boots on the ground and “yeahs” resounded and they sprinted into the maze all the while Sophia watched from the balcony of her room.