Chapter 18

Nico

I check the time again; Lucky has not arrived. I made it explicitly clear she was to accompany me for this opening, I am enraged and on top of this my youngest brother is drunk and high on my sofa back home. It is an outrage, what the fuck is going on with my life right now? Do they not know who they are dealing with? “Call her again, I want her here in ten minutes, she has thirty minutes at the most.” I tell my assistant, Vinnie short for Veronica.

“With due respect I have called her already twice, Nico and left her several voice messages.”

“Well then fucking send someone to get her, I want her here. Do you hear me?” I bellow down the phone, my protection does not make any gesture that they can sense my distress nor pay attention to my outburst, they have heard worse, but this Lucky Gianluca is trying my patience and ordinarily I can be a very patient man but with her, she sends me over the edge. First hand fucking myself this morning thinking about her, never happened to me bef