Betrothed To The Mafia Lord novel Chapter 29

Luca’s POV

“What happened to him? He showed up with fight wounds?” James asked and I made my way towards the car and opened it immediately before sliding in and starting the car.

“Worse. He was floating on molly and some other shits.” I replied to him and glanced sideways as the bodyguard who usually rides with us in the first car tugged the door open and slid into the passenger’s seat.

“Jesus. This early?”

“I can fucking relate, man.” I replied as I started to slowly ease the car out of where it was parked.

I ended the call with james after exchanging a few more with me and dropped the phone into the console as I drove the car towards the gates which slide open after a few seconds of me waiting behind it and I drove out of the compound immediately, easing into the busy roads and navigating through the traffic as it permitted.

I wasn’t used to driving because I always had a driver on me almost every time, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t know how to drive. I might not be texting my driving skills very frequently but I still knew how to drive a car just fine. It was like a bike. Once you learnt how to ride one, it doesn’t matter how long you’ve rode one, that skill was forever in your brains and veins… that was the same with driving a car.

I wished I had at least calmed down a little and prepared a cup of coffee assuming I had known beforehand that I was going to be driving the car to the office this morning myself. Now I was feeling half dead and with barely enough sleep as I handled the wheels like a pro that was.

I finally pulled into the company’s premises and parked the car in its usual spot in the part marked out for only really important people. I noticed James’ Ferrari parked a little space away from mine as I alighted the car and slammed the door shut. The one in control of all the cars came around and halted in his spot for a few seconds on seeing me stepping out of the driver’s seat today.

“Good morning, Mr Ricci.” He finally greeted one he regained himself as he remained a few steps away from me.

“How are you, Henry?” I inquired as I ensured my phone was deep in my pocket before I slammed the door shut and locked it with a button on the car’s key.

“I- I’m fine, sir. Very fine.” He replied almost immediately, a little bit too fast and too rushed with gave away the fact that he was a tad bit afraid of me, and also nervous around me.

Everyone was just so afraid of me, it gets annoying sometimes.

“Here are the keys.” I said to him with the keys raised up and he reduced the distance between us before reaching up and collecting the key from my grip. Henry was a young adult of either twenty one or twenty two years of age but had the height of a teenager.

He accepted the keys, muttered his ‘thank you’ and was whirling around and away from me almost immediately. I made my way into the company and into the elevator, all the way to the highest floor where my office was located.

Making my way into the office, past my three secretaries which consists of two men and a woman, all in their early and late twenties who were currently huddled over a particular file they were trying to figure out, and into my office.

James lifted his head up and stared at me before going back to the files he was currently counting on one part of the first shelf in the office.

“Hey man, good morning.” I called out to him as I sank into my seat and quickly dug out my handkerchief to wipe off the perspiration that had gathered on my forehead, or tried to, because I relaxed at the last second that I was without any.

“You have an handkerchief with you, James?” I called out as I stifled an unexpected yawn that tumbled into my mouth from my throat.

“Oh yeah, look into my suit jacket’s pocket.” James called out and I stood up and turned around to pick up his jacket which was currently handing on its usual spot which was the back of the chair opposite mine. I checked the first pocket and found a fresh handkerchief there, before tugging it out with a relieved sigh and using it to mop my face almost immediately as I made my way back to my seat.

“Gosh, I need coffee so bad, I might faint if I don’t get one in the next few minutes.” I said aloud as I picked up the new set of files my secretaries had sorted out and had submitted here for me to go through, sign and stamp. I couldn’t do any of that shit now without getting coffee into my system.

“Call the secretaries and have one of them bring you coffee, to wake your brain up.” James' voice started to get closer before he came to stand at the side of the table and stare down at me.

“You look like shit, Luca. Is this because you drove yourself to the office this morning?” James murmured with a slow grin and I puffed out a breath and flipped him off before picking up the wired connected phone on the wall beside my table and put a call through to the room after mine, which was the secretaries’ office.

One of the two men answered the call and I requested to be brought coffee. He agreed to go get it immediately and I ended the call immediately and placed the phone back on the wall, hooking it up carefully so it wouldn't fall off the wall after a little while.