Betrothed To The Mafia Lord

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. ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

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.

“We’re going in there immediately, through the front gate.” I started to say before pausing and throwing

a glance at the said building, from over my right shoulder and silently contemplated with myself if my

initial plan was going to work.

But then we were running out of time, a quick glance at my wrist showed that the time was some

minutes before it reaches three p.m in the afternoon and there was only little time left at hand. We

could have planned to first of all check if there was another way we could get into the compound, either

from the back of the house or something else, but there was no time left for us to wait until a few

guards go around to check how the back of the building was located at– which was going to take more

than a few minutes for the guards to be able to get to the back of the building and get some

confirmation done.

“We are not drawing out weapons yet, and hopefully won’t draw out any weapons first.” I paused and

glanced over every one of their faces before continuing, “All you’re going to do is to follow my lead and

be on the lookout for any attack that might be coming my way from all corners. Got it?”

They all murmured their replies and I nodded my head before reaching out and slapping my hand on

the guard nearest to me. I noticed the way he flinched with fear before my hand connected with his

back and the way the rest of the guards had different looks in their eyes almost immediately.

“You’re staying behind, outside here. To watch the cars and make sure no one comes out from the

building to come shoot at the tires, do you understand?”

“Yes sir.” He replied almost immediately, his voice sounding way higher than necessary and I almost

shook my head at how scared of me he was.

Almost all the guards I work with had little to no balls each time I did as much as breathe into their

direction. I lifted my hand off his back and took a step backwards before turning around and staring

intently at the huge black gates. I patted both sides of my pants and felt the guns which I had inserted

in there lightly dig into the sides of my hips.

After taking in a deep breath and pushing my hair out of my face with my left fingers, flicked a hand at

the guards behind me and started to walk towards the building, faintly aware that the guards had fallen

into steps behind me almost immediately.

I paused outside the gate and reached for the smaller gate to try pushing it open— and surprisingly, it

gave way immediately, opening immediately to reveal the wild, empty compound.

I paused in my footsteps, not knowing how to go on about the whole thing again from this new finding,

at this very moment . Knowing it was either I go in and figure out what was in there or stay out here and

weigh out different other probability which there was only about a small amount of little to no guarantee

on those other options.

I pushed the gate more open and stepped into the compound after doing a fast sweep of the whole

expanse with my eyes. A few cars were parked around different areas in the compound and that was it.

I didn’t need to tell the guards not to close the small gate once they’ve all made their way into the

compound along with me and headed for the only house which was facing the front of the gate and was

a two story building. I paused a few steps away from it just as the front door opened to reveal two

guards with guns raised, pointed at me.

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!”