Luca watched the screen of his laptop, his eyes following the movements of the woman behind the screen “What are they saying?” He took a sip from the drink in his hand.
His consigliere shifted on his feet, right now the sight of his capo was menacing, exuding too many emotions that could be life threatening for someone.
He could feel the anger burning within him right from where he stood.
“Nothing”
Luca chuckled darkly “Nothing?” He pushed his chair back, crossing the room to stand before the floor-to-ceiling glass.
Right now he was in his office back in one of his clubs.
“Yes capo. Everywhere is calm and no signs of them”
“Not even the Russians?” His consigliere shook his head and he sighed, it was good and informative to know the location of your enemy but silence after issuing a warning or more like starting a war was bad and right now everything was bad.
He knew the territory he was stepping into was that of nothing but death and one person would come out victorious and he was going to make sure that person was him.
The mention of a certain brunette was enough to trigger the beast in him.
He couldn’t imagine anyone’s hands on her which weren’t his.
His heart skipped at the thought of someone infiltrating where he left her.
He went back to his desk and pushed the laptop closer to his face and there she was behind the screen going through the books in the library.
He had allowed her to move through the house after her little tantrum a few days ago.
“Will you be able to let her go?” He heard his consigliere ask behind him and he scowled.
What a question.
Only Angelo had the guts to ask and speak to him that way.
Could he answer?
Would he be able to let her go after the one month was exhausted and she was able to keep calm and display temperaments enough for him to know she was capable to live and stay on her own without his enemies or her fathers’ catching a whiff of her?
Was he capable of doing such a thing?
Luca straightened up and scrubbed his hand down his face.
“That’s not the problem here Angelo. She can leave if she wants. I only want Peter to lie peacefully in his grave knowing I tried to keep her safe at least” he swiped his thumb across his lips.
“Or we could do as they said”
His head jerked up at those words “Are you crazy or stupid?” Luca growled.
“They only said those words as a ruse for a treaty.
They need to be destroyed and wiped from the face of the earth.
And you know who could do that?” Luca goes to stand in front of his consigliere “Me”
“That I’m not doubting now but…”
“But nothing Angelo for Christ sake” he smacked his hand on the desk and the laptop rattled catching Luca’s attention as the woman behind the screen halted in her reading like she felt something.
He smugly smiled “Don’t ever doubt me.
I know what I’m doing.
It may look stupid like I want war with the Albanians but no” he shook his head and raised a finger up “They’ve been stepping on my toes and I let them but now I want to crush them since they stepped on the wrong toe”
And that toe was the woman behind the screen.
Right now he had many things to do and that would start with finding out about the whereabouts of the Albanians and then “The guns?” He turned to his consigliere.
“Huh?”
“The shipments?
Guns?” Luca glared at his consigliere like he’d gone stupid because it seemed so “Don’t tell me you’ve forgotten?”
His consigliere shook his head and nervously laughed “Almost at the dock. Nearly lost it but had to pull a few strings but good now”
Luca hummed “Good. You may leave and lock the door behind you”.
He wanted to be alone and watch the woman that made him lose his thoughts and composure.
Right now she was lying down on the couch with a book between her hands, probably reading with her brows pulling and stringing together.
“You just had to come into my life to destroy it huh”
He sniggered to himself knowing and realizing the fact, this was him till she left.
She would never let him come anywhere close to her or talk to her.
She blamed him for the death of her father, he wished and prayed she never knew why he killed her father and it remained like that but could he continue to digest the fact she hated and didn’t want anything to do with him?
This was his life now.
Watching over her.
***
“Miss Don Luca wouldn’t like you wandering through this place. Please let’s go back” Sophia turned to the girl by her side.
She wondered where he brought all the women she saw here.
Like they were all different ages and so young, the girl right now was going to be at least the age of fifteen or sixteen and… what the hell was a girl of this age doing in a pool of men?
The last one had called him master, another called him by his name and this one had called him don.
All different faces, she never saw a face twice. so beautiful and from different races and skins.
What was he doing with them and where was he bringing them from?
Sophia scoffed, she didn’t want to be rude to someone she didn’t know and won’t see after today but Luca was pushing her to do things she couldn’t normally do.
But living here wasn’t normal was it?
“Honey, have your Don come find me when he’s searching for his pet dog” asshole “Don’t worry. He won’t do no shit. Tell him I said that when he asks about me ” she traipsed her way into the maze knowing she didn’t know the way out or about it.
The maid watched her while she entered the maze then looked up.
It was evening and soon night.
The lights in the maze weren’t too bright though there were cameras in there she wasn’t sure were working.
She pulled back, not following Sophia inside and shook her head.
Don Luca won’t be happy with this.