Chapter 11

"Ah, there we go, come alive," I frowned at the close voice and struggled to open my eyes. 

"What's going on?" I mumbled out but it sounded like gibberish because all of my words were slurring and twisted together. 

"A little bit of patience," I heard the voice again but this time I knew it was Leonardo. I let out a surprised moan of pain as I felt something sharp in my arm, "it's just a little something to make your headache and nausea better. That's the suck-ish thing about the drugs," I heard him sigh and my vision completely cleared as I looked at him and he looked down at me, wearing white gloves and holding an injection in his hand. 

"I didn't get the chance to test this drug, but you came along and gave me the perfect opportunity," he tilted his head and smirked at me, "I must say thank you." 

"What did you do to me?" I grunted out, trying to move but my body refused to. 

"How are you feeling?" He asked me before he shined a light in my eye and I groaned, attempting to move my head away, "you'll regain control of your body in a few minutes, give it five minutes. I hate having to test my drugs for the first time, I mean, you could've never woken up again." 

He cleared his throat and sat down opposite me in a big leather chair, "you could've bled through every orifice in your body, your body could've exploded from the large amount of acid..." He placed a finger underneath his chin, "but let me not scare you. Wait, there is one good thing coming out of this and it's that we'll call that very special drug, the Leti. How does that sound? First day on the job and you already have lethal drugs named after you." 

I struggled to move, "what did you do?" 

"I poisoned you, I've told you already. We should begin talking about when you start working and that's now. The minute you can move is the second that you start working. A lot is going to change for you, Leti because in this line of business, we’re all ghosts. We live in the shadows and dance with the dead. Your name is no longer Nyeleti Mabuya, you don’t exist anymore. Nyeleti is who you used to be and she is left behind and will probably never be found. You don’t have an ID, your birth records have disappeared and any social media presence you had before has been wiped out. Your family is going to sound crazy looking for someone who existed yet does not exist," he crossed his leg over his other, "we couldn't get rid of the pictures that your family has, but it'll only be at most, two weeks before your country and news stations forget all about you and you just end up being that missing person who never found their way home." 

"From now on, you don't answer to anyone but me. You don't even speak when spoken to, you'll just become a bodyguard and killer. I'll give you three options and you pick the name you like the most, number one, Scorpion, number two, Shadow and number three, Unicorn," he chuckled, "that last one is my daughter's idea, isn't she gorgeous?" He asked me and I would've fucked out if I could move but I just sat still. 

"I can't stress enough how everything that happens when we're together, can't be told to anybody else. If you so much as glance at a police station, I'll make sure your mother's head is cut off in the next five minutes, are we clear? Where I am, you are. Where I laugh, you frown. Who I point at, you kill. Are we clear?" He asked me finally as I took in a sharp breath when my body felt a jolt through it and I could suddenly move. 

"Where am I?" I rushed out as I rushed to sit up and I looked around the beautiful bedroom. 

"Your new bedroom," he replied leisurely. 

I can see that, I wanted to say but instead looked at the open sliding doors that led to a balcony, "I can see that," I answered honestly, "I meant...where?" I asked slowly, confused about what was going on. 

He stood up and adjusted his tie and pointed outside, he walked to the doors and I watched as he leaned against the railing of the balcony before he turned to look at me, "oh, I forgot to say," he paused, a smirk coming on his face, "welcome to Italy." 

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