It was sunny but all windy weather in the terrace and a good amount of people were having lunch there but still they barely filled only the half of the tables . Maybe, people mostly preferred having food in their suites.
"Come let's go there."
Enzo pointed at a table which was decorated beautifully like it was arranged for a date.
"Isn't it reserved?"
I asked him because maybe it was for some couple, why would they decorate it heavily, everyday.
"The reservation was cancelled."
He said looking at his tab and then he pushed it toward me to take a look. There were rows and columns in the screen telling the table numbers and those who reserved or cancelled it.
"Hmm ...Quite a managerial work."
I admitted.He smiled and we went towards the table and sat down, the smell of hyacinth and roses was exquisite and one can sit there until they fade. It wouldn't take long though. A woman approached us as soon as we settled on the table, they knew how to impress their boss, which was still Enzo.
"What would you like to have sir?"
She asked with a formal smile plastered on her face and a bit of petrified emotion she tried to suppress behind. Enzo looked at me for my answer.
"A chicken lettuce wrap and a salmon and avocado salad will do."
I said,scanning through the menu and finally closing it as I gave my order. She turned to Enzo and he said,
"A caprese salad with pesto sauce and a mushroom risotto."
He ordered and she went back with a smile.
"Would you like to drink something?"
Enzo asked as he was looking at the decoration. It would have felt totally romantic if I was here with someone I loved and maybe even with Alantino, a few hours back. Enzo and I were practically enemies before,if things had gone well with me and Alantino, but now he was my savior,he saved me when I needed protection the most and helped me, maybe it's because he wanted the same and keeping me at his side, he would enjoy the torturing even more.But I would always respect him for what he did for me, knowingly or unknowingly, intentionally or unintentionally. I would always make sure whatever I do,until in this mafia world, my deed would always favor Enzo. There was this respect and good image of him,formed in my heart that I didn't wanted to neglect and neither wanted to show.
"No.I don't drink alcohol."
I told him after a moment of silence.
"Then something non-alcoholic?"
He questioned and I didn't felt like drinking anything now as I was more hungry than thirsty.
"No it's fine."
I admitted and he ordered a red wine for himself.Our lunch came and we ate it quietly and after having meal it felt so good as I wasn't used to being hungry, the only thing I enjoyed at my father's house was that maid were always ready to prepare whatever I wanted to eat, whenever I wished. And I was a big foody.
"What are we going to do next?"
I asked him promptly as we entered the elevator. Now that I had fed my stomach, I had much more level of energy to work.
"I thought this was it for today I would explain you the details of work, what exactly you have to work on , at home."
Enzo told and he was right I couldn't just only roam around the whole property, I had to learn business too.
"Yeah. We should probably head back."
I said and we went back to Enzo's home and my temporary residence. There was no one there, no guards, no servants. Everything was properly organised and clean. I think the servants already did their jobs. Enzo went and took a seat on the couch, throwing himself in the plush leather couch and casually shoved his arms and legs. He was tired or maybe not. All these things wouldn't make him tired. He was a fighter, a mafia. I took a seat on the adjacent chair and thought of removing my blazer but then the top I wore inside was too revealing. I managed in the heat whereas Enzo was already out of his tux and had unbuttoned half of his.
"You were going to talk about my duties.. "
I said and he looked at me,
"Don't you feel hot. Go and change into something casual."
He ordered and I was thankful for it. I went toward my room changed into a tank top with matching pajamas and tied my hairs into a bun and wiped my makeup away. I went back to the hallway but Enzo wasn't there may be he went to change as well. I thought of touring the house but I wasn't sure if was allowed to. Then I walked outside, into the garden and the familiar scent of hyacinth filled my nose. And I realised Enzo had them planted in his gardens with some other beautiful ornamental and flowery plants. I thought of wandering around more but the sun was just too much hot today. I went back inside and there was a wall in the doorway, decorated with photographs. I thought it might have some snaps of Enzo's childhood, or family. But all the photographs were only those of his business trips and with famous entrepreneurs around the world. Only one photograph drew my attention that was of a little boy holding hand of a beautiful girl who looked from a royal family. I suppose it was his sister. And the way Enzo held onto her made me realize, how much he might have loved his sister that he still cared to place his snap with her framed in one of the most prominent walls of his apartment. I heard the hard footsteps and went towards the hall. I don't think making Enzo wait for my purpose would be good.
I settled down on the couch and Enzo sat next to me in a gym vest and shorts. Was he training or working out now? He was sweaty but not much to bother.He switched on the MacBook he carried along and opened a document named Rexivo.
"Here, these are the details of the suites and rooms and their bookings which are updated by our receptionists as soon as someone books a room. You can check it out if have any query and it isn't necessary to go through it everyday as our receptionists are good managing it."
He said and went on explaining me everything I needed to know to start my work and it wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be but it wasn't exactly easy either.
"We have got the information that the capo of London would be visiting Milan next week and he would surely stay in a hotel owned by either Alantino or us. It would be a great advantage for us and our business if he stays in our hotel. As he is a very strong capo and could help us in our illegal businesses in his country also which I need the most at me this time because Alantino Russo is being a great trouble now a days I have lost many of my men and drugs because of him. He won't let my drug business go well in Italy. I need the support of Benjamin Williams. The capo of London for the same."
He told me and the desire of winning over Alantino was clearly visible in his eyes. I would do anything to take this opportunity at our hand. If Enzo said Williams support is important, then it obviously was. I was looking forward to show Alantino my comeback for the first time. That would be fun.
"Okay. I understood and I will contact Williams personally tomorrow."I said."Yeah but I would prefer you contact his right hand first and don't directly ask them to stay at our hotel. That will sound creep."He said as if I didn't knew that."Okay."I nodded."Don't you think you should be good at physical training as well. I will surely provide you a body guard but you should learn self defence too. As you would be the first mafia woman to run mob business."Enzo suggested and he was right. Once the legal proceedings were done I would have many adversaries who would try to get their hands on me. I wouldn't be some general girl, they would think of me as an equivalent enemy as Enzo."When can we start my self defence training?"I asked."Tomorrow morning but for now, the lawyer is com
I took a sigh of relief as the delivery guy handed me my order.I closed door and leaned against it, I wasn't sure what had made me this scared for opening the door but the relief I felt was equivalent as someone has removed a tons of weight from my back. I took the pizza and after pouring myself a glass of juice, I sat on the couch and ate it while watching TV. They were showing the Harry Potter series, the Voldemort was troubling the little boy. But Harry was able to muster the power to win upon the evil. I ate my pizza, watching the same movie, I had watched a tons of times. It was still fun to watch it. I ate my last slice of pizza and was already full to have the desert I ordered for myself. I was feeling dizzy but did not want to go to my room I decided on watching the TV until I could and eventually fell asleep on the couch, was too languid to switch off the TV.I don't know what time it was when I felt myself moving and my body felt a lot more lig
I panicked under Enzo's hand and he looked at me, I was petrified and nervous. Enzo followed my gaze and his grip on my shoulder tightened. Alantino made his way towards us with an unreadable face. I thought it wouldn't take me much efforts to face him, I thought I have mustered that much courage but somewhere I was wrong and for a second I thought of running away from there. But there was no turning back now, I had to face him, if I had to survive here and most importantly, to seek my revenge. I would only survive in peace, once I'd made sure that none of my adversaries, rest in peace."I suppose you have your hand on my property."Alantino said with a cold smirk to Enzo and then looked at me and the small hairs on my neck rose."Well, she is no one's property."Enzo said, pulling me towards him and exerting the more pressure in the word:property."You can't stay that close to her, she
"I loved it."I admitted to Enzo and he was still standing at the door, observing my expressions."I'm glad you liked it, but I'll take my leave here. Your assistant Chloe Winthrop will help you in everything. Also I'll be returning late today, so I have asked one of my best soldiers to not leave your side until I am back. He is standing outside."He told me and I peeked out to find a tall, muscular man, dressed in formals with a straight body posture, standing beside the door. He was as tall as Enzo, but I still didn't believe anyone or rely on anyone as much as I did on Enzo. But it was good to know that he cared for me and assigned me a personal bodyguards to my service. If he wanted he wouldn't have bothered about my life. He wanted to play games with his enemies and anyone could have done the help for him if not me. But it felt so good to know that he actually cared for me."Have a safe trip. I'll d
"That's a great news, Chloe."I said and there was a big grin on her mouth."I should call Enzo, first."I said and Cloe handed me the cordless phone, she was holding. But I kept it back on it's place because I wanted to call him from my personal number and for some reason it fascinated me to talk to him on phone, with my personal number. Crazy, wasn't I? I took out my phone from my handbag and was about to call him when the door flew open and Enzo's tall, muscular, beautiful body walked in. There was this formal look on his face which made him look all the more gorgeous. I pushed the thoughts aside. He was only my boss, in a way as he was letting me handle his hotel, nothing else... Right?He looked at me and said,"Congratulations on your first big achievement."He said and smiled. This time the smile reached his eyes that meant he was genuinely happy.
Enzo took a seat beside me and across Duke. Chloe and I watched him in utter shock, as he didn't even cared to explain his sudden appearance and even Duke was calm on his seat. After settling down, he looked at my bewildered face and smiled."Would you bother to explain your sudden appearance?"I questioned."I called Duke to check on everything, he told me you were planning to dine here, so I came to join you."Enzo answered."What about Genoa? You didn't you go there today?"I asked."No, Valerie I don't go there everyday. I have businesses to attend in Milan too."He said simply and that's when I realised he must also have his illegal businesses going on in here. The waitress served us food and I was happy that Enzo joined us for dinner but I was cursing Duke in my mind for telling everything to Enzo. Of course, Enzo cared for me for
"Can you ever stop surprising me?"I asked with a laugh and Enzo smirked."No."He simply said and motioned to move towards the restaurant. I followed him and so did Chloe and Duke. It was becoming a nice routine to hang out with them.The restaurant was comparatively smaller from the ones I have been to. But the place was decorated in a very artistic way without much expenditure. We settled on a simple booth. The waitress took our orders and I ordered more food than others. I was a shameless foodie."All preparations done for Benjamin?"Enzo asked."Almost."I replied in a low voice, not wanting to extend the topic. Enzo, sensed it and turned to Duke to talk about business. They talked till our food came and it took a long time, their servicing wasn't much appealing but the aroma of the food made me forget about that and I o
Enzo and Duke performed as a good team and it didn't take them much time, finishing off half of Alantino's men. Even I hadn't expected that, I thought the night was gonna be end of us, it wasn't like, I didn't trust Enzo's strength but one could never underestimate Alantino too."Do you think, we can help them in anyway?"Chloe asked me."You think?"I said, gazing at the direction of those tall and muscular men. We wouldn't stand even a second."But we have to do something, we can't let them fight. They are so many and Enzo and Duke are gonna get tired up soon. We can't wait for that moment."Chloe stated as a matter of fact. She was right we couldn't just stand there and wait for men to complete their fighting. I was thinking of calling in the hotel to ask them to send more men when a car reached the spot and all of us were confused because, no-one took their ass
"You should be sleeping now, you already had alcohol and I remember you refused to have champagne in your wedding, saying, you don't consume any alcoholic thing. When did you start drinking alcohol?"She asked in a solemn tone. She was worried at my situation, I wondered how pathetic I must have looked for her to be this concerned for my alcohol consumption."I still don't usually drink alcohol, this was the second time I did."I told her and a realisation struck her as her expression changed and gave me an encouraging smile."You've been through a lot Valerie but you must choose your ways wisely. Alcohol will only make ugh distracted from your goals and attracted to it."She explained to me as she helped me wipe my makeup off and undo my hairs."Mrs Russo... ""Mom*"She corrected me."Yes, mom, do you suppo
"You should be sleeping now, you already had alcohol and I remember you refused to have champagne in your wedding, saying, you don't consume any alcoholic thing. When did you start drinking alcohol?"She asked in a solemn tone. She was worried at my situation, I wondered how pathetic I must have looked for her to be this concerned for my alcohol consumption."I still don't usually drink alcohol, this was the second time I did."I told her and a realisation struck her as her expression changed and gave me an encouraging smile."You've been through a lot Valerie but you must choose your ways wisely. Alcohol will only make ugh distracted from your goals and attracted to it."She explained to me as she helped me wipe my makeup off and undo my hairs."Mrs Russo... ""Mom*"She corrected me."Yes, mom, do you suppo
Mrs Russo helped me reach my home and I was feeling much better in the silence. She put her hand on my head and smoothened my hairs. Then gently sat beside me on the bed."Are you okay Valerie?"She asked gently with a motherly love, that I almost felt like hugging her and crying all my problems out. The void was so filled with depression. I was tired of all this, I didn't want to fight anymore but I couldn't even step back now. How many things would I have deal to survive in this world? I wanted to live not just survive."Not really."I answered in a hushed tone. I wasn't sure what to say, to tell her his son was the ultimate reason of all my suffering? Or should I tell her that her husband was the worst man I've ever seen? I couldn't, she was being nice to me and I couldn't take that for granted. I know she could only help me till she saw no threat in me but if I started making her familiar with my rea
Mrs Russo helped me reach my home and I was feeling much better in the silence. She put her hand on my head and smoothened my hairs. Then gently sat beside me on the bed."Are you okay Valerie?"She asked gently with a motherly love, that I almost felt like hugging her and crying all my problems out. The void was so filled with depression. I was tired of all this, I didn't want to fight anymore but I couldn't even step back now. How many things would I have deal to survive in this world? I wanted to live not just survive."Not really."I answered in a hushed tone. I wasn't sure what to say, to tell her his son was the ultimate reason of all my suffering? Or should I tell her that her husband was the worst man I've ever seen? I couldn't, she was being nice to me and I couldn't take that for granted. I know she could only help me till she saw no threat in me but if I started making her familiar with my rea
"What are you doing Alantino? He's the son of one of our underbosses."Mr Russo reminded him but his expressions remained same. Deadly."He dared to touch Valerie."He said in a voice that would make anyone tremble out of fear and many of the people gathered around dance floor were already frightened. No-one would want to get their name associated with what that guy had been doing with me. And I could see many of them had already made a distance from me."That doesn't mean you'll beat him to death."Said Mr Russo as he gave a disgusted look towards the man lying on the floor drenched in blood. Then another disgusted look at my way."What did he exactly do?"He asked me and was he fucking kidding me, by asking me in what way did the man harass me, in front of everyone?"What did he do Valerie?"He asked again
"You look fabulous, Valerie!"Complimented Mrs Russo, who herself looked epitome of charisma. She always managed to look so effortlessly beautiful, she had a great sense in fashion."You look stunning! "I couldn't stop myself from complimenting her, she looked so gorgeous."Should we have something to drink, dear?"She asked and I knew her drink meant having to join other ladies, wives of mafia men."Yeah sure."I said despite the urge of not wanting to face those trophy wives who had poor ideologies of a lady and I certainly did not wanted to be their next target to have tea about. But then, Mrs Russo was the only person that would be easy to go with and I couldn't possibly be alone throughout the whole party.Mrs Russo directed me towards a group of ladies siting around the table, drinking and laughing and gossiping... Unt
we went inside the hotel and to the hall where party was meant to be."whose party is this?"I asked trying to know about the people I was surrounded with."It's the eighteenth birthday party of the only daughter of our enforcer."Alantino answered."Do mafia people even celebrate birthday of their daughters? I thought the only celebration for them was the induction day of their sons."I said the bitter truth of our world."True but our enforcer seem to love her daughter and he is not the only one who feels that way, there are many fathers in our world too who loves their daughters, sometimes more than their sons."His words made me think about a men that I have came across who loved his daughter as Alantino was saying, but I couldn't even remember of a single man with that quality. Daughters were only raised with luxury so that in future they can b
we went inside the hotel and to the hall where party was meant to be."whose party is this?"I asked trying to know about the people I was surrounded with."It's the eighteenth birthday party of the only daughter of our enforcer."Alantino answered."Do mafia people even celebrate birthday of their daughters? I thought the only celebration for them was the induction day of their sons."I said the bitter truth of our world."True but our enforcer seem to love her daughter and he is not the only one who feels that way, there are many fathers in our world too who loves their daughters, sometimes more than their sons."His words made me think about a men that I have came across who loved his daughter as Alantino was saying, but I couldn't even remember of a single man with that quality. Daughters were only raised with luxury so that in future they can b
we went inside the hotel and to the hall where party was meant to be."whose party is this?"I asked trying to know about the people I was surrounded with."It's the eighteenth birthday party of the only daughter of our enforcer."Alantino answered."Do mafia people even celebrate birthday of their daughters? I thought the only celebration for them was the induction day of their sons."I said the bitter truth of our world."True but our enforcer seem to love her daughter and he is not the only one who feels that way, there are many fathers in our world too who loves their daughters, sometimes more than their sons."His words made me think about a men that I have came across who loved his daughter as Alantino was saying, but I couldn't even remember of a single man with that quality. Daughters were only raised with luxury so that in future they can b