Betrothed To The Mafia Lord by Josephine Ivy Chapter 29

Chapter 29

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Luca’s POV

a nned to him. He showed up with fighi wounds” James asked and m in and starting the car

e my way towards the car and operind it immediately before slidina

Ware ite was floating on molly and some other shiti replied to him and glanced sideways as the bodyguard who usually rides with us in the first cartooed the door open and slid into the passenger’s seat “Llenus This early

can fucking relate, man ireplied am i siarted to slowly case the car out of where it was packed

tended the call with amester 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 il and I drove out of the compound immediately, casing into the busy roads and navigating through the traffic as it permited

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 youve rade one that still was forever in your brains and veins that was the saine 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 other this morning myself Now I was feeling hall 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” Ferrati 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

7- 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, muffered 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 turnbled 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 hurt 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 secretares 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 wouldnt fall off ihe wall after a little while “You booked really rough man, like you had a really bad morning Did something happened? James inquired in a voice void of all playfulness this time i Fan myfges through my hair and moved the finger down to the veins on the back of my head to mussage it slowly with my fingers

I was in desperate need of a thorough muscle massage at this point “I don’t know inanil haven’t been sleeping that well for the past few days as well so I guess that was part of why I feel like shit at the moment” i explained to the blating braght to turn now that he was finally sitting in the chair before me, a bunch of files in his hands which he settled on the table and pushed to the other side of the table and placed a couple of pens on it the way we always do to avoid muung up files that shouldnt be tuued, together “Why haven’t you been getting enough sleep is it because of your little wife?” James demanded, narrowing his eyes at me and I rolled my eyes at him at made to supply turn with ani aiswer “Ht wasn’t because of her she didn’t do a thing “Ave you sure?” He dernded and i nodded my head immediately in a quick move “Positive”

But this not getting enough sleep of yours literally only started after you got married, five days ago James started to say and I sighed a little as ! silently begged the secretary to return with my coffee as fast as possible

cornpletely ignored himn

i started to

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Ningunat the back of my teal and slowly avoured the taste of the coffee loving the way it hot liquid slightly burned try tongue That was part olin t ot drinking coffee early in the naming While it is going to be doing its job in waking your system up in the morning the burn it would leve bebunt on this tongue alone would you bram awake “Where ta istashed James once I already had almost all of the liquid in my system and I could already thankfully start to feel more like a human and less like a rombie

The dumond gathering it’s pretty stupid as to why a gaihering is set this early in the morning, if you ask me.” Jarnes sud with an eye roll as he started Hipping through on one of the files he was scarching lor when I came in here, some time ago

it doesn’t sound that important, is it really really important?” I asked with a small grimace as i quietly swallowed a mouthful of my coffee and allowed it to slowly slide into my throat this time

7 is and it isn’t It depends on how you look at it looking at it from out perspective, it’s important to us. It’s about an auction and we’re all going to be bidding for diamonds” James paused and i leaned further in my seat as my mind started to pick out where I had heard about this particular thing before

We received an invitation to the gathering about a month ago, right?” I asked, the thought still feeling loggy as fuck in my head.

You received the invitation a month ago yup.” James clarified and I rolled my eyes and massaged my hands against one another on the table So we have to go bidding for a diamond we have no use for 7″ i demanded and James cracked a smile before shaking his head and leaning forward in his seat as well

First off all, a lot of high people are going to be there. In fact, I heard The Manzo mafia were also invited, which means a lot of other huge mafias around the whole of Italy were probably invited” James paused and reached for my coffee, which I picked up and downed the remaining content without missing a beat

James continued without making a fuss, as if he didn’t just try to casually drink from my coffee. It also means every mafia is going to want to prove a point that they were the richest mafia in the whole of malias invited by bidding and bidding. It means were also going to bid and bid and not give up until we get one of the most priced diamonds there.”

Wait” i paused and rolled all what he just said around in my head “All that just to prove a point? Who cares if we’re seen as the richest or not?

“A lot of people do If we don’t emerge as one of the best there, we’ll loose a lot of respect and some dumb people might get into their head to directly come attack you after a while” James explained on and on and I nodded my head, finally seeing sense in what he was saying My mafia was one of the most respected of the Italy and I wouldn’t want that to change to avoid us talling to the bottom drastically

“So how are we going to do it?”