LUCREZIA
First, someone betrayed us and tipped our business to the authorities. Then now, we just received public news that someone burned down one of Leuzzi's warehouses.It turns out not only our family were attacked on the same day.My expression turned serious instantly when I heard the news from my father. Seeing the newspaper he was holding, I hurried towards him and snatched the newspaper from his hand.In the headlines, it wrote that a warehouse was burned to ashes, and they failed to save anything stored inside it.According to the news, the damage amounts to at least $14M. However, the report didn't state exactly what contents were burned along with the warehouse.I could only assume that illegal kinds of stuff were kept in that warehouse. Meaning, Leuzzi couldn't also apply for insurance even if he does have it.In just one day, Leuzzi's $14M was all eaten up in flames. I wonder how Tiburzio Leuzzi must be feeling right now.EvenEROSA sinister smile appeared on my lips when I received the call. "An emergency meeting? Interesting." I couldn't help but think to myself. Is this day not going to get any better?First, I received news that Raimondo's consigliere is under investigation, giving his business a handicap. Then Leuzzi just lost $14M in just one day. This day sounds too good to be true. Why am I getting too much good news all of a sudden?I couldn't help the laugh that escaped my lips as I imagined how Raimondo would be reacting to the problem he was facing now. Without his consigliere, it would be like he just lost the limbs of his business. What can I say? That man deserves it. He doesn't know how long I've been trying to be patient with him. He is too arrogant that he thinks he could push me around just because he has leverage over me. Now look at what happened to him. I did not have to do anything. The world already did me a favor. Serves him right.
EROS"Then…" Serrano spoke after Raimondo made his announcement. Everyone stared at him as they awaited his question. "What are you going to do now?" He finally asks when he realizes he is free to speak. Raimondo looked at me when Serrano asked his question.He doesn't know how to answer his question. He couldn't just leave his unfinished business with me behind. I still need him. for my plans, and he has to stay with his family to ensure that I wouldn't go back on my own word. We gave our word to each other and made an alliance together. He couldn't leave in the middle of our plans. "As of now, I still don't know. I can't completely leave the business behind to my daughters. I'm confident with my daughter's abilities to handle the business, but as long as I am still alive, I'm still effectively the head of the family.""You are not leaving the country like your consigliere?" I asked him. He shook his head. "I won't leave the country. I'm just go
EROSI stared directly at Pietro with a challenging look into his eyes.It's obvious who the person behind all these things was. Since there is no such thing as an outer enemy, and I was the person who made attempts on his life, then I could only think of one person that is behind the attacks. If I am not behind the attacks on Leuzzi and Rocchi's business, then Pietro must be the person behind it all. Pietro attacked Leuzzi and Rocchi to pin his attacks on the person who wanted him killed. So he could pin it all on me and add enemies to my list. Upon realizing this, I locked my jaw and fought the urge to spit out a dark laugh. Pietro just hit more than two birds with one stone. Pietro tipped the authorities and compromised Rocchi's consigliere so no one would suspect he was behind the attacks, without knowing that Raimondo Rocchi was actually one of his enemies. He also burned down Leuzzi's warehouse, thinking he was the most probable suspe
PIETROThe meeting has ended. Pericles and I are on our way back to the office after today's successful meeting. Pericles is driving the car, and I'm sitting on the seat beside him as usual. We did not bring our driver with us since we could both drive, and we did not want to cause trouble for anyone and make them wait outside while we were in the meeting. Bringing a driver with us would be useless since they aren't even allowed to join the meeting. We don't need someone who will wait for us outside until the meeting ends."What are we going to do next?" Pericles asked while I was staring blankly at the window beside my seat. "H-huh?" I asked back as I slowly turned to face him.I think I just heard him say something. I just didn't quite catch what he had said. I was busy with my own thoughts. I've been out of myself the whole ride. "Are you alright?" Pietro couldn't help but question. He could no longer ignore how I have been caught up in m
PIETROI took a deep breath to calm my nerves when I finally arrived home. Pericles and I were supposed to go directly to the office when our conversation in the car led to another. Since I had given him my word, I told him to drop me at the house instead and that he must go to the office first without me.Pericles couldn't hide the satisfaction on his face when he gave me a proud look after dropping me off the car. Weirded by the stare he gave me, I turned around and ignored him instead. My palms turned sweaty, and my heart started beating erratically in my chest as I faced the mansion where Lucrezia and I lived. I still haven't entered yet. I still haven't seen Lucrezia or opened my mouth to say what I had to say. Yet, I'm already feeling so nervous, as if I were going to the police to confess that I'm a murderer. I never thought that this would be a big deal to me, not until I was already standing here. I entered the house, expecting to
LUCREZIA“What is wrong with me?!” I groaned loudly in the dining room as I burrowed my hands in my hair and dropped my forehead on the table. My mind couldn’t stop drifting off to what happened yesterday between me and Pietro. For some reason, I was deeply bothered by how the conversation went between us.I couldn’t remove the look on Pietro’s face when he said words that couldn’t make sense to me. He looked hurt like my words had pierced through his heart. I shut my eyes tight and shook my hair as if that would help in removing the thoughts from my head. I raised my head back up again with a scowl on my face, leaving my hair in a huge mess that could be a great substitute for a bird’s nest.I’m glad that I am alone in this house, or else they would have mistaken me as someone who escaped the asylum. They would have thought that I had gone crazy, mumbling to myself and groaning loudly all by myself.Why did Pietro ask me such questions? Why did P
LUCREZIAI solemnly nodded my head when I heard Agrippa’s words. I’m happy for her that she finally found the courage to fight for herself and not let her husband continue in his cheating ways. Even though Agrippa and Orenzio got married because of a family arrangement, Orenzio shouldn’t be cheating on his wife just because they had a loveless marriage. Orenzio made his vows at the altar, he should be true to his words, he should respect Agrippa not just because she is his wife, but because he is a man and she is a woman. Wherever you look at it, Orenzio is at the wrong here.I’m glad that even though Pietro and I got married just because of the benefits, he never had any women other than me. I’m glad that he respects me and the vow that he made at the altar in front of my family and inside the whole congregation. I don’t know how I would be able to handle it if I found out that Pietro loves someone else and he is choosing her over his own wife.
LUCREZIA“Don’t be so nervous, we are not even there yet,” I whispered to Agrippa seeing how her fingers were trembling beside me. We are inside Agrippa’s car on our way to their great family mansion where only Don Leuzzi and her wife lives along with their house servants.Orenzio and Agrippa lives at a different place that is equally huge as her in laws mansion with their children. Since Orenzio already had a family of his own, he had to live separately from his parents house. Since we are using Agrippa’s car, Agrippa’s driver also drove for us while we both sat together at the backseat. Agrippa has been silent the whole time, and I don’t know what else to do to comfort her.I reached out to hold Agrippa’s hands to help her calm her nerves, however, Agrippa pulled her hand away when she saw me trying to reach out to her.Her ice cold fingers brushed with mine, chilling my fingertips. She is so nervous that her fingers had turned as cold as ice.