Betrothed To The Mafia Lord novel Chapter 30

Luca’s POV

My mafia was one of the most respected of the Italy and I wouldn’t want that to change, to avoid us falling to the bottom drastically.

“So, how are we going to do it?”

“That’s the thing! We’re going to observe and observe as if the prices of the first set of diamonds showcased were all way too expensive. We’ll only come in when it’s at the very last diamond and then, we’ll drop a higher price. If the person that was about to receive the diamond before we come in decides to up his price, we’d up ours with millions immediately, and on and on until the person gives up and the diamond would finally be handed over to us.” James started to say and I nodded my head in understanding as he went on and on until he arrived at the last part.

“Wait. When we finally get the diamond, what’s going to happen? I won’t pour that much amount of money on a diamond only to keep it with me and set myself as a trap to hungry, shameless thieves.

“What’s going to happen is that, we’re going to sell the diamond back to the people that organized the auction. They’re going to buy it back with a higher price than what you bought it with, so you’re going to end up gaining.”

I stared at James, not following up with all what he saying.

“Wait… the same people that organized it would buy it back from us?”

James nodded his head with a grin and leaned forward in his seat once again, “It’s not actually those particular people. It’s some group of people that the organizers of the auction would arrange themselves, that way if anything goes wrong with the selling of the diamond, you’ll hold them guilty and get them sued.” James explained, serious as ever and his eyes shining the way it usually does each time he was talking about something that really intrigue him.

“How do you know so much about this?” I asked him in awe of how he know so much about an auction I was invited to, and hasn’t bothered to look it up and make researches all those while.

“I made researches and lots of findings like a normal human before sending back a message indicating that we had received the invitation and would be gracing them with our presence.” James said with an eye roll and I didn’t miss the laugh tugging at the side of his lips right before he dropped his head down and stared at his hand on the table instead while shaking his head a little.

“That’s really amazing, really. You’re really amazing.” I paused and waited until he glanced back up at me, an readable expression on his face, before I continued. “You know, I don’t think I appreciate you enough. You do so much and not once, not twice, I sometimes wonder how your knowledge of things is so broad. You do so much for the mafia and want little to no credit on most days… like? How did I get this lucky to land someone as amazing as you as my right hand man?” I paused once again and puffed out a sharp breath, my heart constricting in my heart as it all started to dawn on me all over again, about James was just… James and how he was such an amazing and selfless human.

James stared at me without saying a thing and finally allowed his head back down once again as he absorbed the whole emotions stifling the air.

“James?” I called out after some time and he raised his hand up and murmured in a quiet, gravely voice, “Give me a minute, man.”

When he finally raised his head up, his face was blank of any emotion like I had expected and he moved his fingers against the table for a few seconds before starting to say in a low voice. “You know, for someone who’s known as the most brutal and emotionless person all around Italy, you sure are a mushy idiot.”

I grinned knowingly, already expecting the angle he had decided to use in handling his emotions.

“I am not mushy, I just want you know how amazing you are and how much I appreciate you.” I replied without missing a beat and watched as a tiny sound escaped his mouth before he leaned forward in his seat and sighed slowly, all sign of playfulness gone from his face.

“That was a whole lot to offload on me without any warning, do you know that?” James finally started to say and I shrugged my shoulders, not feeling one bit remorseful.

“I’m sorry, man. It wasn’t intentional.” I drawled out and reached for the capture cup of coffee and started to tap my finger lightly against it.

“At least give me a warning next time.” He continued and I snorted while nodding my head in understanding, he was shits when it comes to handling his emotions.

It was almost hilarious to watch.

“I really appreciate the fact that you see me in that kind of light.” James finally started to say and I stared at him without saying a thing until he continued. “I mean, I know you know I am really amazing, because hello? It’s me, amazingness.” He paused again, an unknown emotion shining in his eyes. “But it really means a lot, hearing you tell it to me.

“But just offload everything to me at once next time and give me a head ups next time please… I mean, you don’t want me breaking down in tears because of the amount of emotions you offload on me without warning, do you?” James demanded this time, a small scowl on his face but you couldn’t miss the way his eyes was shining with emotion and the way he cheeks was almost spreading into a smile.

“Actually, I’d like to see something like that. You, James, breaking down in tears would be a really intriguing sight to behold.” I started to say and I watched as he shook his head from side to side right before he flipped me off and whispered a low ‘fuck you’ to me.

“Now what?” I said as I pushed myself to my feet and out of my seat. I stretched my arms out and moved from side to side as I felt the muscles of my shoulders stretched out.

“Now, we sort these files which we’re going to need for our third appointment today, there’d be no time to this after our second appointment and we most definitely won’t be coming back to the office from our second appointment. We’d instead head straight to the third appointment.”