“Fine…let’s do this.” I muttered quietly, throwing to the winds whatever cautiousness I was supposed to keep.“Great! That’s more like it Mr stiff…urh nah, erm, Mr soft, I mean…from now, you are Mr soft! Let’s go!” she grinned. I chuckled and followed her. we got onto the rollercoaster ride.“Your seatbelt…” she reminded me.“Oh, yeah thanks.” I reached to lock my seatbelt but she had already leaned in towards me and clamped it for me.“Thanks.” I mumbled, hiding my slightly embarrassed face.“You are so welcome.” She winked.Soon the ride began and the rollercoaster started to move upwards. I panicked as we moved higher but I forced myself to act strong.“It’s alright to be afraid Mr stiff! Hold onto the wheels and enjoy the ride!” Isabella screamed excitedly. I bet she must have senses my fears. But not a single fear did I see in her.When we neared the maximum point, I was tempted to look downwards.“Don’t look down!” Isabella cautioned but I was already a second ahead as my eyes h
Chief Alegra starts to probe for the identity of the men that attacked him in his house. He visits the prime minister’s office and revealed he didn’t give up the contract on his own accord.“What! I felt it…you know, I kept wondering why you of all people would reject such a huge contract.” The prime minster reeled in shock.“How could I, in my right senses do that? But I must find out who dare did this to me! I must get to the root of this!” chief Alegra gritted. “Who was the contract then given after I rejected it?”The prime minister shrugged. “Well, it was only hierarchal that the mantle fell on chief Giovanni Piero…as much as I can remember, he made no direct calls or indicated hidden interest personally.”“Chief Giovanni…” Chief Alegra mumbled as he racked his head for the image of him in his head.“You don’t know chief Giovanni?” prime minster asked with surprise.Who doesn’t know chief Giovanni. A ruthless wealthy man, shady and does underground deals yet manages to never get
6:00 pm Alessandro walks into an Italian pub. The place was banging busy and loud with live music. A man with long bulky twisted hair stood at the upfront and sang to the music playing softly from the speakers. As he walked further in, he scanned around for the spot Lorenzo had told him he was sitting. He stopped and stood at a spot, calmly took out his phone from his pocket and had another quick look at the message Lorenzo had sent to him. He slipped back his phone into his pocket as he located the spot. Just straight up from where he stood. He started to walk towards the spot. Earlier while he checked his phone, he had noticed from the corner of his eyes, a set of ladies at a table nearby checking him out. He just ignored them and pretended to have not noticed. As he started to approach Lorenzo, one of them stood, purposely walked past him and slipped a note into his pocket. Alessandro knew what she did but calmly walked to Lorenzo’s table and sat down. Lorenzo gave him an ack
WEDNESDAY NIGHT11:00pmISABELLA’S HOUSEIsabella tossed and rolled on the bed. She had barely been able to get any sleep the whole night. Just tossing and turning and rolling. She was getting frustrated already. This was her only time to get a maximum sleep since she would be working the whole day and into the night the next day. She sat up from the bed and reached for her phone on the bedside drawer, checked the time and nearly screamed.“Oh shoot!” she groaned.It was as if she just got into bed. An hour had hardly passed since she climbed onto the bed.She gulped some water and lay back on the bed hoping that sleep finally takes her this time.Still, all efforts for her to fall asleep fell futile. Worst of it all, she couldn’t place a reason for her sleeplessness. Only that the thought of the events of her day kept popping up in her head but then she kept shutting them off all in a bid to push off any thoughts that would bring about the image of the one person she was dreading to
Mafia twelveAlessandro shrugged, Lorenzo always resorted to using violence for even a thing he could just talk about. Last thing he wanted early on was bringing the attention of the other security men to them.“Put on his vest…” he told Lorenzo who gaped at him in confusion. “What? Why would I put on that shit on my body?” he scoffed with disgust.“Fuvking put on the vest. It will keep your dumbass head safe until we get past the security.”“And what stops you from putting it on yourself?” he retorted.“Fuvk you dude! I will be shielding your ass!” Alessandro snapped totally annoyed with Lorenzo’s unnecessary bickering.“Damn!” Lorenzo cursed but finally wore the vest of the security man. Alessandro connected himself to the security communication of the house through the communicator of the dead security man. This way he gets to hear them speak but will have to turn it off before speaking to his team members.They got into the house. While Lorenzo walked in front, Alessandro stayed c
ALESSANDRO’S POVThe moment the elevator door gave way, the men, just as I had expected started to shoot sporadically into the place but good thing Lorenzo and I had seen that coming and crept quietly up at the ceiling. Since the inside of the elevator was pitch dark, it made things hard for them but easier for us.They had shot for a few seconds but heard nor saw a body fall dead when they paused. Well, I hadn’t seen it but with my experience in scenes like that, I was certain the leader of the team had pointed to one of the men to go closer and have a better look.That was the part Lorenzo and I was calmly waiting for. Two men came in at first. Lorenzo and I jumped at once on their heads. While he took care of one, I had the other to myself.Keeping them in control, we started to shoot towards the other men outside as we gradually forced our way out of the elevator while using the men as shield.“find the control room and I will find Giada…” I snarled, shoved the now dead body of th
ALESSANDRO’S POV“That lady back there, you know her?” Lorenzo had asked as we were driving back after the operation. The other men had drove back to their units in the other car and for some reason I couldn’t understand why Lorenzo had requested to ride in my car with me. Asides during operations, we both hated to be near each other.“No.” I answered, praying he dropped the conversation. Whatever the fuck Isabella had come in our operation scene to do at that moment. Talk about a terrible fate and omen. Felt it the entire night. And it happened.“Are you sure it was wise leaving her alive. She acted quite suspiciously…” he added.I ignored him for a second but knowing Lorenzo, it was always best to set things straight to wave off every suspicious vibe he was already getting.“Don’t you think it would have been more suspicious that some random lady walks into a crime scene and just laugh like it was nothing…she is just mere server girl.”He shrugged and didn’t say another word.We dro
LORENZO’S HOUSEThat night after the operation in chief Giada’s house, and after Alessandro dropped him off, he had popped open a wine of alcoholic drink, stood in the balcony of his house and took sips of it as he smoked. One would think he was perhaps celebrating a job done but that was out of the picture.The moment at chief Giada’s house and especially the weird lady that had walked into them kept bothering him. Lorenzo kept wondering why Alessandro hadn’t seen her as much as a threat as he did. Fine, she was just a mere server but she had acted quite odd for a server girl.And then the really silly excuse she had spluttered hurriedly and dashed off. It sounded so unreal. Alessandro knew that but chose to spare her.He hissed. He acted like a Mr-know-it-all-goody- shoe sometimes and it irked him.Why was her reaction different from what she should have given off? She had in fact looked surprise from something else other than the state of the room and it bothered him. Alessandro’
A YEAR LATERISABELLA "Ales! Get your fine self over here this minute!!" I called onto Ales who was playing with the little kids at the other end. He looked up and waved heartily at me. The kids rounded him and made him chase them around.His mother stood at the other end, with an anxious face worried for the kids, his son inclusive. "Stop running around kids! You will hurt your leg!" She would yell when any of the kids happened to fall. But the kid always gets back to his feet giggling and calling on Ales to come get him again. "Mother, don't you worry yourself. The kids will be alright." I sling my hand into her arms. She heaved. "Oh heavens! They would be the death of me."I laughed, she can be dramatic at times. "The air is nice here. Would you like to take a walk?""Sure, I could use some distraction."Did I shock you? Well, I apologise but I survived the gunshot. I was lucky to have had the shot in my shoulder and for weeks I couldn't move my right arm. It took me some time
WRITERS POV Leonardo started to track down the location he had seen in Lorenzo's phone. As he was leaving the house after killing him. At a point he felt he might need more help from the man Lorenzo worked with. He had returned back to Lorenzo's house and with Lorenzo's number sent a message to Tino to meet him at a place after which he left taking with him Lorenzo's phone. He pulled up in the parking lot of a nightclub and waited in his car. Moments later Lorenzo's phone started to ring. He ended the call and sent him a text instead telling him to join him in his car. He watched through the side mirrors for the sight of him as Tino made his way towards his car. The window glasses were tinted. Tino pushed the door open and got in. "Oh wow! You got a new car. This is a machine! I should take another look when I get down…did you see my text?" Tino rattled once he got into the car in admiration of the car. He kept on taking glances around the inside of the car. He noticed the unusua
ISABELLA'S POV The scare is over for now at least. I hope it lets us breathe before another one pops up. I gaze at Alessandro as he sleeps soundly on the bed. I held his hand tight, scared he would leave me again and never return this time. His entire upper body was wrapped with bandages. His fingers that were brutally tortured and were dangling were bandaged too. Mattia and Dominique had said it will take some time to get back to normal. They must have experienced it a lot in the past. Seeing him tied up in the chair back at the place made my heart wrench. I could barely recognize his handsome face. And there he sat acting like it was nothing and holding it all in. Makes me wonder how he always managed to hold out for all the time he could have experienced that much pain and torture. He stirred and let out a groan. "Is your body in pain again? Should I call a doctor?"He had refused to let us call a doctor for fear of revealing our location and so I had to treat him to the best
WRITER'S POV"Tip the police about the organisation and meet me through the secret entrance if I don't call you in the next ten minutes."That was the message Alessandro had sent to Mattia just before he stepped out of his car and headed towards the organisation. He had thought, If he can't do it alone or get stuck while at it, then he must use the help of the authorities. He knew chief Giovanni ould surely have some of his products stored in the building. The police barged in. One of Chief's men had refused to let them in in a bid to delay the entering until Chief's products had been hidden and gotten into a gun fight with the police. During the gun battle, Chief Giovanni was shot dead as he couldn't make it out through the secret entrance that Alessandro had blocked. Some of the police and his men were found dead too while others escaped. A search warrant was placed on chief Giovanni and his business offices were searched, closed down and their documents seized."I will find that
ISABELLA'S POVI was in the car anxiously waiting for Mattia and Dominique to give me the signal so I could drive the car forward and they hop in when I hear a knock. My heart flew. I didn't see anyone when I looked out of the locked windows. I waited for some more seconds and then a minute and yet no one showed up. I relaxed again when I realised it could have been just my imagination. Some minutes were already gone and not a signal from Mattia or Dominique. I was getting worried. If at all they have been discovered and captured then I must try to find another way to help. I stepped out of the car to take a look. A hand gripped my neck from behind. "Let me go!"I screamed and kicked but something heavy landed on my head. Things became blurry and I passed out. ALESSANDRO'S POVI feel something cold like water drenching me. I tried to force my eyes to open but felt a sharp pain hit me and shut it back. Was it time for another torture… My head was splitting open with a headache.
WRITER'S POVAlessandro started making plans to go rescue his mother. Now he was certain of something; a saint life was never for him. He thought he would start afresh and be happy with Isabella. He scoffed within him. He must have wished for too much. Now he must go back to being a killer that he is. He took out his tools, a sniper rifle, a revolver, dagger and knifes and carefully arranged them in a box. "Boss, we will go with you…" Dominique said to him. Aless paused as he heard Dominique said that to him. He knew it was him that betrayed him. His fist clenched along with his jaw. "Yess Boss, we will come with you." Mattia added. "Is there something I can do to help?" Isabella joined. She knew it would have been too good to be true if life went on fine for them. Alessandro finished packing his tools and closed the box. He slipped a revolver beneath his trousers and faced them. The last thing he would have wanted was Lorenzo using any of them to get to him again. His mother
ALESSANDRO'S POVIt has been days of perfect peace. Seeing Isabella everyday that I wake up makes me happy and at peace. Sometimes she wakes in my arms and other times she insists on sleeping in her room. My insomnia surprisingly reduced to a great length. I stopped having nightmares of my mother being stabbed and other nightmares generally stopped to a point. Life started to become meaningful to me and above all, I began to see life in a different approach. Isa and I went on short road trips, shopping and anywhere she wanted while being wary of bumping into Chief Giovanni or any of his men. But I wanted more. I wanted to leave freely and not hide from anyone. But as far as chief Giovanni and Lorenzo lives, I knew I would know not peace. And most importantly I wanted to find my real mother. Not my step mother but my real mother. Ever since I began to make money, I have searched for her but my search was slowed down for the fact that I had very little information about my mother.
WRITER'S POVDominique sat on one of the sofas in the living room. He kept a keen eye on Mattia as the clock ticked in his head as he waited for the moment.Alessandro who had been in his room the whole time starts coming out of his room. "Video game anyone?" He asked with a smirk. He always won them whenever they played. "Sure, I'm in. I promise, I'm winning this time." Mattia said. He had a determined look on his face. Alessandro let out a mocking short laugh. Dominique cursed under his breath. This was the wrongest time. "You in? Dominique?" Alessandro motioned to him. "Urh no," he declined. Alessandro and Mattia start to play video games. Dominique was beginning to get uneasy. They must be ready and waiting for him by now. The people he was doing business with. He already informed them he would lure Mattia and Alessandro out to them today. He kept glancing at his wrist watch and looking towards where Mattia and Alessandro were playing the video game. If he didn't act now,
WRITER'S POV"Oh damn it! These bastards should fuvking stay out of my damn life!" Lorenzo cursed. It was yet another beep of his phone and no doubt he knew it would be those that have bound him in chains. Chief Alegra. He sleepily reached for his phone on the drawer and got hold of it. Once he got hold of it, he silenced it and threw it carelessly on the bed without caring as much as checking the message. Seconds later his phone started to vibrate signifying a call this time around. His teeth clenched. He grudgingly picked up the phone and rightly as he suspected it was chief Alegra calling. He swiped the answer button. "Chief, I understand we are working together but can you fucking let me get some sleep? Do you and your boys have to blow this damn phone off…""I'm in your house. Open the door." He heard a voice say and clink, the call ended. "What?"He scrambled out of the bed. "Right now? In my house? Why?"Lorenzo hurriedly put on his clothes and went to the door. Truly chi