All Chapters of Love and Shadows : Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

Chapter 22: Luca RomanoI can hardly believe my ears. She has a lot of spunk to come all the way to my office just to tell me this. However, as she leans back in her chair, I see that she's actually concerned. And despite how she makes it sound, she cares for me. I think of everything she's told me - she is right, and that makes it even more painful. This matter with the killer is affecting my life and also my future. I have an entire empire waiting for me to rule. It's already on a platter of gold. All I have to do is maintain it. So I have the advantage over her. She's fighting actively. Ambitious, but it's useless. But the only concern is that it won't be so useless if I'm not able to fight myself. Because if I can't, then her hard work is going to pay off and I will lose the fight to her despite my obvious advantage and head start."I simply don't want it to be too easy," she tells me, looking at me quite seriously. "That's why I said a moment ago that you are losing your touch. I

Chapter 24Kira RogersIt takes me quite a while to get to him this time around. It's a poison—short-term but very effective all the same. You'd never find a substance that can disorient a guard so much to the extent that his tears drop. Luca is in the car, and I'm waiting for my plan to turn into a success. I've drugged his driver impeccably, and now his sense of direction is all wrong. Even I don't know where he's going to end up, but I know that he's going to keep on driving safe until he finally can't drive anymore.Thinking about the ingenuity of the idea, I almost laugh out loud to myself. It's brilliant, even in my own eyes. I'm not about to burn Luca in an accident. That would be a very cowardly way of killing him. What's more, I want to meet him first, so it's another reason why I make sure that this setup is complete.First of all, I can almost see him screaming at the driver to get back on track, to get a hold of himself. From my distance away, I'm keeping close track on my

Chapter 26Luca RomanoThe driver seems to have gone insane. I simply enter into my car—today, I'm going earlier to work than usual, but he seems to be on a mission to get me killed. And quite literally, with the way he swerves and goes between other cars, I already know that something is wrong."Get off the wheel!" I scream at him."I have it under control," he tells me simply.It's not like I can't drive. I can. But somehow, the wildness of the situation takes me by surprise to the extent that I can't act decisively. Maybe he really does have it under control. If he thinks he's going to get me faster to my company with this method, maybe I should trust him. Maybe he knows what he's doing.However, soon he goes off track. He is not driving any safer, but he slows down a little so I can be a little more rest assured."Is this another route?" I ask him apprehensively. "I don't appreciate it. Let's continue with the conventional," I tell him.He frowns. "This is the conventional," he re

Chapter 28Luca Romano I feel a chill at how he considers the organization. "It's a criminal underworld," I tell him, but he glares at me. Clearly, his mood is completely turned around just from me mentioning it, and he's very angry at the moment, already descending into that calculating stage that makes him exactly who he is and sorry to complicate matters when it comes to dealing with our enemies."It's not just you," he says to me, his voice cold and angry. "Not just you, but a lot of others that are affected. And this family is already being shaken by them," he says. "Many of our businesses have been attacked already, and they have different assassins but you know who," he informs me.My eyes widen in shock. "If it's - how did it get so serious?" I question."That's not the correct question," he tells me, glaring at me. "The issue is how did it get so serious without your knowing.""I blame my not knowing?" I question, but he nods simply."You're supposed to be aware of something

Chapter 30 Luca Romano"Johnson," I say, half in greeting but also in apprehension. He's one of the master planners, and he's going to give us our mission, or at least a general direction to take."These people aren't joking," he says suddenly, getting straight to the point. He sits down and frowns at one of my men. "Well, someone gets me something to drink," he says. I don't quite appreciate it, but I know better than to object. Soon enough, a glass is brought to him, and I'm sure it's alcoholic. He takes a sip and then shows me a map."We need to take out as many of them as possible. This is war under the hood - they've attacked us first, and so we have to retaliate as effectively and as quickly as possible. We don't know how many of them, but I do have an idea of their hideouts," he continues. "As long as we play our cards right, we will be able to raid them and take out quite a lot."I nod at him in agreement, but I still feel a little apprehensive of his suggestion. Somehow I th