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Tony sat on the phone in the living room, awaiting for Maria to emerge. How could it take her so long to get ready when she literally had only her handbag and the clothes from yesterday.“Trig” he sighed tirelessly to the thorn in his side that felt the need to update him on everything. Following the shooting, some of the boys had captured a young man of about 23 years, wielding a gun that was way too fancy to have been purchased on his own dime. He was refusing to talk, even with Tony’s soldiers working him over with their fists on an hourly basis since he was locked into a room at one of their other locations.“If he won’t talk, then we don’t look for who he works for, we look for who he is. I want to know where his mother lives, I want to know if he has a sibling we can scare him with. Everyone has a weakness, everyone” he muttered, trying not to be too loud with his threatening suggestions whilst Maria was around.&l
There was that inherited anger she must have gotten from her Daddy. It almost physically hurt him to let her get the last word but he used her formal title knowing that would get across everything he had to say.Marie let out a short laugh, “Oh, Miss LeTale now again, is it?” she asked rhetorically. She wanted him to argue back, she wanted to feel like she had let out some of that pent-up steam and anger. “Am I only Maria so long as I’m being a good girl, Tony?” she scoffed, her head shaking sideways in pure disbelief that he had backed down in this way. “You’re Miss LeTale when you’re treating me like a damn scum of the earth employee” Tony replied, his voice measured and calm but the whiteness of his knuckles on the steering wheel were giving away how much restraint this was truly taking. He could tell she was wound up beyond relief, clearly didn’t finish the job in bed for herself last night.“News flash, Tony, you are an employee and you’ve done some rather unsavoury things in yo
Frankie Trustin was the LeTale family accounts and administrative manager. He was in his early 40’s and despite trying to give off the appearance that he was a clean cut business man, he could be as dirty as they come. Tony did not care for Frankie at all so had been pleased that he wouldn’t need to supervise Maria’s baptism of fire into the business dealings she was going to be steering.As Frankie knocked on the door to the LeTale estate, he was quite looking forward to meeting the young Miss LeTale. He had heard from a few of the boy that she was quite easy on the eyes and he had always been a fan of beautiful women.Maria, having showered and changed, appeared at the top of the stairs to find a stoutly gentleman, not in half as good shape as the majority of the men that worked for her father.“Mr Trustin I presume, I’m Maria” she introduced herself as she approached him, extending a hand to shake that he took upon himself to bring to his stubbly lips. She shuddered a little inward
Maria’s date was a reasonably handsome, though quite slim and tall man. He had brought her roses and immediately begun with the compliments which had made Maria blush, as they stood in the entrance to the mansion engaging in small talk whilst her mother hovered.“Tony, do you think she loves him?” Tommy whispered to the capo who chuckled a little and ruffled the young ones hair.“No Tommy, she just met the guy” he scoffed, though his eyes didn’t offered the same light heartedness his voice did. He could see how easily she fell into conversation with a man also from her world, how he made effortless jokes that she seemed to enjoy, throwing her head back a little as she laughed politely. Tony felt a surge of feeling inferior and being alarmingly aware of his lack of education and worldly experiences.As Tommy seemed to get uninterested in the proceedings, he sauntered off to bed whilst Tony trailed to his car. They would travel sepa
The date had dramatically gone downhill since the start, she had noticed the smug look on Tony’s face when it became evident that Richard had ordered for her which she took as a forewarning of his feelings about women having their own opinions and was boring her as the night wore on. Maria couldn’t wait for it to be over, a waste of a pretty dress. Letting out a sigh, it seemed her date had tuned into her mood and agreed they should call it a night.As soon as he saw them rise to their feet, Tony rushed onto his own, relieved the evening was over. He had spent way too much of his time watching Maria, thinking about just how amazing she looked with her hair over her shoulder in that way, how that hair might look splayed out behind her over a pillow or similar. It was not good for Tony to spend this much time with her all dolled up.“Thank you for a lovely evening” Maria offered softly as her and Richard heading back to the
It was a timely nine am when Tony rapped his knuckles against the LeTale door, thanking their housekeeper as she let him in.“Tony” the petite redhead almost purred at him in greeting, make Tony awkwardly chuckle not really noticing that Maria had already appeared on the stairs and clocked the exchange.Dressed in a pair of flared burgundy trousers and matching jacket with a black strap top that didn’t hide her cleavage as much as her mother might prefer, Maria warily eyed the way the housekeeper was looking over at Tony. As if they shared a secret, or a past even. The woman was quite young and Maria couldn’t help but wonder if the housekeeper were much older than herself, which inevitably led to thinking about Tony’s wife. He still hadn’t mentioned her and Maria didn’t know whether to be offended that he didn’t seem to think it mattered. Was that because his personal life was none of her business and this was just a bit of harmless flirtation or was he purposefully harbouring the tru
“I didn’t do what I did ‘cos I was working, Maria” he told her gently, as her eyes finally moved up to meet his. “Y-You didn’t?” she stammered, swallowing hard as she hoped he couldn’t hear the pounding of her heart against her chest because it felt so strong that she feared he might.“Course not, I’m not a complete a**hole, no woman deserves to be treated like that.” He paused slightly “Maybe the knife was because it was you, I probably wouldn’t have pulled the knife out for just anyone” he added with a slight what-he-hoped-was-reassuring smile.How did he manage to make pulling a knife out sound almost sweet?“Its just…” Maria started, sighing again as she wrinkled her nose up. “The first guy to kiss me in a long time and it’s like that and with some absolute jerk who is just honestly the opposite of what I want.” She told him, her soft vo
Tony stayed silent until he heard Maria get in the car, looking down on Jerry who was lulling in and out of consciousness. What was it about Maria and not wanting violence, didn’t she realise the business they were in? Didn’t she understand what Jerry had been hinting at?“You’re f**ked” Jerry spluttered, blood in his mouth as he did so yet he still managed a bleak laugh. “I ain’t never seen you look at someone in that way,” Jerry coughed through his laugh, “He will kill you Tony” the man warned him gravely.Tony tensed slightly, his brow furrowed as he looked towards the door where Maria had left moments before.“It was a slip” he told Jerry gruffly, “I’m not an idiot, I know shes off limits. She’s just so damn interesting… not to mention beautiful and she had a rough night, shes hurting” Tony grumbled in an explanatory way, standing up from his position of straddling Jerry to hold him to the ground.“Are you going to tell him?” he asked Jerry point blank, his hand resting on his gun