Betrothed To The Mafia Lord novel Chapter 42

Luca’s POV

James: Now, just why would you leave me on delivered? I get that today is your day off, but I am suffering here in the office while you sleep in and get nasty with your little wife.

I contemplated sending him a quick reply for him to shut the hell up and chill until I give him a call later today, but the sharp breath victor took beside me made me jerk my head up and stare at him– before following his gaze which was focused outside the car’s window.

My gaze hardened the moment I noticed what it was that has made him react that way– a bunch of guards in their uniform walked past our car in their uniforms, making my brains start to rack immediately. That could mean a lot of things but I wasn’t letting any detail that might end up being important, slip off my fingers.

The car started to slow down after a few more minutes and Victor leaned forward towards the front of the car to ask the driver if we were already where the phone was.

“Yeah, it’s probably in one of those buildings.” The driver replied before finally stopping the car and unplugging the iPad from the cord of the car and handing it back to Victor. I looked into the screen of the iPad once victor was sitting once again and noticed that the red button that has signified Aria’s phone all through our journey was kinda glowing, the shape getting bigger and wider despite the fact that it still haven’t moved from it’s particular spot.

Which only signified one thing, the phone was indeed around here. All I had to do is to hope the phone was still on her and that nothing had been done to her.

The driver came down from the car and pulled my door open a few seconds later. I took in a deep, slow breath before climbing out of the car and inserting my phone into my pocket, just as the car got slammed shut. I glanced behind my car which I had just alighted and nodded my head once on seeing my second car filled with some of my guards, already parking their own car, a few feet away from where ours was parked.

Victor came to stand beside me, his head coming up to stop exactly at my shoulder level. He lifted the iPad and pointed at the red button on the screen.

“My bet is one of these two buildings. They’re the two most biggest ones around here, and they’re close to each other, and the arrow is catching more signals when pointed in their direction.” Victor started to say immediately and I collected the iPad from him and moved towards the first building which was a little bit bigger than the second one, and surprisingly, the red arrow did catch some more signal.

I moved towards the second building, with the iPad cradled against my chest like I was reading something off it and wasn’t trying to see if they have my cousin in here, with the help of the said iPad in my hands. Once I got a few feet closer, the signal became stronger and stronger. I moved a few steps closer just to be sure and the signal got so strong and firm, and stronger and it might start beeping.

I walked back towards Victor, my driver and the guard and puffed out a slow breath as I handed the iPad back to Victor. Victor glanced down at the iPad before glancing up towards the second building which I was beside, a few seconds ago.

“You’ll have to go back to the warehouse now, Victor. You’ve done enough at this point.” I said to Victor who quickly glanced up from the iPad he was tweedling with and stared at me like he was about to argue.

“But Mr Ricci, I can stay behind…” I raised up my left hand and he trailed off immediately like I expected.

“This is a really dangerous situation and I won’t be dragging you into it. You don’t know how to defend yourself physically because this isn’t your strongest fort, you’ve helped in what you’re good at and that’s what matters.” I said to him and watched as the fire in his eyes dimmed a little before he lowered his head and stared down at the iPad before slowly nodding his head after a few seconds of hesitation.

“Get back in the car now, my driver is going to drive you to a certain point, where another car is going to block you guys and take you back to the warehouse from there, got it?”

He nodded his head before lifting his head back up once again and saying in a small voice, “I enjoyed working with you.”

I nodded my head once and pointed towards the car with my left hand and watched as he walked towards it with little to no enthusiasm as he pulled the door open and sank into the spot I was in, when we got here.

I was about to tell him about how I had enjoyed working him too– even though that wasn’t true, but just to satisfy some of the hero worship which I had picked off from him right from the moment we were still back at the warehouse before deciding against it and watching as the door got slammed shut by the driver.

A few minutes later and the car was pulling out of its parking spot, and speeding off on the same road we had been on, some moments ago.

I turned towards the guard standing a few feet away from me with his hands folded at his back and his head raised up in a confident stance. I jerked my head sideways and he walked towards me immediately, standing a few feet away from me.

“Go get the rest of the guards.” I said to him and he instantly went off to do just that, leaving me to my thoughts once again until the whole guards were standing a few feet away from me, barely making any noise and fuss like the professionals that they were.

Unsurprisingly, they were in the same uniform as the one I had seen those bodyguards in, when they had walked past my car, about half an hour ago.

I didn’t need to glance behind my shoulders to confirm that my guards had already drawn out their weapons as well. I watched as the eyes of the first guard widened the moment our eyes locked before he glanced towards his partner and whispered something to him, and then the two of them disappeared into the house and slammed the door shut behind them.

Just… What the hell was that?

I glanced over my shoulder as the particular guard that usually follows me in my car, every fucking day and pointed towards the door which the two guards had disappeared into.

“Go knock on the door.”

The guard did as I say, covering the few feet towards the house and knocking loudly on the door. He repeated the motion a few more times before the door finally got pulled open by a dude in a black jumpsuit.

“What the hell do you all want? This is the wrong house.” The dude said to us, completely avoiding my gaze pathetically.

I stepped forward with my hands folded behind my back before I started to say.

“I am here for the girl whom y’all had kidnapped hours ago and would appreciate it if you bring her out to me this very instant, with not a single scratch on her body.” I said to the dude in a jumpsuit and watched as he tried his very best to hide the fear that had crossed his face and lasted a few seconds there, before disappearing into thin air.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about, we- I haven’t seen any girl, please leave our premises immediately, you’re trespassing private property.” The dude said and I stepped forward once again, closing the distance between us until only a few feet separated us from being in each other’s private space.

“Did you hear what I said clearly? I said ``get me the girl right this instant!”