A show

CAMILLA

I looked at Dante where he sat working across me at the corner of the bed. For the past few days, he had spent a lot of time with me. Silently working as he was doing now or walking with me round his compound.

I looked forward to our walks the most. Being confined to one room was claustrophobic. I was glad for the opportunity I had to leave the room.

One thing I had learned about Dante was that he was highly intelligent. He was also very playful, he was able to match my banters, word for word, insult for insult. I hadn't meant anyone who could do that in my life.

Underneath his playful exterior was a dark menacing individual who even I was scared of. I didn't plan to bring out that side of him ever.

I kept wondering why he had bought me though, he could have any woman he wanted so why me. Men especially men in the mafia world bought women for one purpose and one purpose only. To fuck them and break them into submissive little robots.

Dante hadn't even touched me sexually in any way or tried to change my personality. I was beginning to suspect he wasn't even attracted to me.

"Camilla, earth to Camilla." he said snapping his fingers in front of my face.

I looked at him, "What is it? Why are you snapping your fingers?" I asked.

"Because I have been calling you for a while now and you were busy daydreaming." he replied, an annoying grin on his face.

I rolled my eyes, "I don't daydream. I am a mature woman. I have no time for daydreams." I told him.

"Whatever you say princess." he replied.

I suppressed the urge to strangle him, reminding myself that I would be dead before I even touched his neck.

There was a knock on the door. "Come in" he called out.

Maria entered the room, gave me a slight bow and made her way to him.

She leaned down and whispered into his ear. He nodded and whispered something back. She stood straight, bowed her head slightly and left the room.

I looked at the time, it was past twelve midnight. Wasn't he leaving tonight? Or was tonight, the night he finally touched her.

It disgusted me to know that a traitorous part of my body lingered for his touch.

I shook my head vigorously to get rid of her sinful thoughts.

"Aren't you leaving tonight?" I asked him.

"Why do you ask? Are you chasing me away?"

"As a matter of fact, I am. I need to sleep and I can't do that with you here, so leave."

He rolled his eyes at me. "Such a princess." he teased.

"Stop calling me that." I said angrily.

"Wear warm clothing, so we can go for a walk." he told me.

"Really, it's already late. Can't it wait until tomorrow?" I protested.

"Just do as you are told Camilla." he said.

I stood up begrudgingly and went to change trying not to think about how sexy my name sounded as it rolled off his tongue.

I changed and he took me out of my room. We didn't walk around the compound this time, he took me to the top floor of one of the buildings in the compound.

It was very high and probably used as a vantage point by the security to oversee the full compound.

From this point, i saw the whole compound.

I quickly noticed two things; one - His compound was big and wonderful. Two- there were no guards, whatsoever.

I looked at him in surprise. "What is It Camilla?" he asked me.

"where are your guards? A compound this big should have a lot of guards patrolling and guarding every night."

"Awnn! Are you concerned about me princess?" he asked me.

"of course not. I was just stating the obvious" I replied.

He chuckled, "You are so funny princess." he said. Apparently, princess was to be my new nickname. I ignored the warmth that ran through me when he called me princess.

"So I assume there is a reason why there are no guards?" I asked him.

"Yes, there is."

"well, what's the reason?" I asked impatiently.

"Just have a little patience princess, a show is about to start." he said as he handed me a pair of binoculars.

Before I could ask why he was giving me binoculars, I heard the sound of gunshots. I looked at him but he looked unbothered.

I picked up the binoculars to look at what was going on. A lot of trucks with men armed with firearms were driving into the compound.

I looked at him in alarm but he still looked unbothered.

"Dante, what's going on?" I asked him.

"Like i said earlier princess, just have a little patience, the show is just about to start." he replied.

One of the men who seemed to be the leader strode to the front. I recognized him, he was one of the mafia family heads too, but his family was known for their scheming ways.

"Ha ha ha. The great Dante is about to be defeated by me. Not even one security around, all this negligence for a damn woman he is enamored with" he said with a chuckle.

Some of Dante's men walked out to meet them. One of them went to meet the leader.

"Master, I did as you said, I have recruited men for you and brought down the morale of the men" he reported.

The leader looked at him in approval. "I didn't expect you would be this efficient" he told him.

"It wasn't hard at all master. Dante helped out a lot by being enamored with his pet, he didnt pay attention to any thing else. In the end, a woman was the cause of his downfall"

Dante picked up a walkie talkie I hadn't noticed until then.

"Kill everyone but leave him alive." he said. He noticed me looked and winked at me.

"You can't resist my charms, can you princess?" he asked.

I rolled my eyes and picked up the binoculars to look outside again.

Previously, I had thought that there was no security. It turned out that I was mistaken. Men armed with heavy gun power came out of the shadows.

Before the stunned newcomers could react, fire was opened on them.

They tried to fight back but they were too slow to fight.

In a few minutes they were all dead on the floor. Just the leader Conti was remaining standing and he looked shaken.

Dante looked at me, an unreadable expression on his face.

"Show is over princess. Let's go down." he told me.

He left and I followed after him.

We went downstairs. Conti was shocked to see Dante.

"You.....you knew everything." he said in a stutter.

Dante smiled at him. "Yes, I was aware of everything. Did you really think you would plant a mole in my territory and I wouldn't know?"

"But you stopped paying attention to things and you were spending all your time with her." Conti said.

"All part of the plan to make you look like a fool and it worked because you came in here looking like a fool." Dante replied him.

He walked closer to him while Conti stepped back in fear.

"You are a scheming fool Conti. You dared think you could infiltrate my family and overthrow me. Only a fool would dare think of such."

Conti knelt down, fear written clearly on his face.

"Please spare me this time Dante, it won't happen again." he pleaded.

"I need to teach you a lesson you would never forget, you need to die so that no one would ever try such a thing again" Dante said.

He took a gun from one of his men and pointed it at Conti.

"Please don't do this, you aren't a killer, your brother is the killer not you. Have mercy on me please." Conti begged, tears running down his face. He looked really pitiable.

Dante smiled, a slow menacing grin that looked terrifying.

"my brother kills for money, I kill for revenge." and he shot Conti once on his head.

I watched as Conti fell down, he was already dead.

Dante returned the gun to the man he had taken it from.

"What's next?" the man asked him.

"Go to Conti's compound, get his estate manager and then kill the rest. I want nobody left alive." he ordered.

"Yes sir." the man replied and left accompanied by the other men.

Dante looked at me, "Did you enjoy the show princess?" he asked.

I looked at him and realized that all the time he had spent with me was just part of his plan, I was nothing but a pawn in his games.

Red fury coursed through me. I and anger didn't mix well because I always did stupid things when I was angry.

I raised my hand up and slapped him hard on the cheek.

The remaining men who stood there looked at me shocked.

Dante had an unreadable expression on his face.

Fuck! What had I just done?