Chapter Six

Arson POV

Inside the car, i met with the still questioning eyes of Jack, am sure he must have watched the three hefty men escorted from my apartment, i sighed.

"Yesterday was just a misunderstanding, Giovanni was just messing arou..."

Before i could complete my sentence, Jack hands covered my lips, the very next instant, the two men at the front turned to look at me with scary wolf eyes, more like a death glare, i shivered.

"You don't mention the name of the Boss, rule number one." A deep irritated voice came from one of the men, making me flinch slightly, what the hell, i should be more confident in myself, how can i be scared of him cause he's huge, i berated myself internally.

But from then onwards, i decided to keep my mouth shut, i will explain everything to Jack once we got there.

Thirty minutes later, the car pulled into the estate, driving straight ahead towards Giovanni mansion.

After we arrived, we were led to the room where Charles took us to yesterday.

"Both of you are to share a room for a week, after the week compulsory training, if you are deem physically fit, you would be then be recognized as one of  Salvatore family bodyguard." Charles voice was displeased as he gazed at me, unable to fathom the reason for his gaze, i simply shrugged my shoulders.

"When can i get to meet with Giovanni? I've got something to discuss with him." I asked, but the next instant, a guard next to me tapped me twice on the two most painful acupoints on my body, making me whimper in pains, i fell on my knee with a thud, my eyes red as i glared at Charles.

"You don't address the Boss by his name!!" His voice was stern and resolute, his gaze burning into my eyes, i quickly averted his gaze, wondering what the big deal was actually.

After saying some few more rules about the bodyguards code of conduct, to which i was no longer paying attention to due to the pains on my body, Charles and the two burly men walked out of the room, that moment, Jack suddenly let out a long sign of relief.

"Gosh!! It was so suffocating, Man."

I scoffed at his reaction, what's there to be scared of, just  because they work out more and developed some few muscles doesn't make them scary or God.

Suddenly, as if on reflex, Jack jumped towards me, before i could react, i was already under him, he was throwing light punches and blows that wouldn't even hurt a kid at me, making me snort as i just relaxed and let him have his way.

After a while, he got off me, but still glaring at me angrily, i stucked out my tongue at him, a childish habit i was desperately trying to end.

"You are trying to get us killed, aren't you?"  

"I was merely asking a question, why were you so stiff, we came to work, not to be their slave."

"Are you crazy?, this is the Salvatore Family, Giovanni is a bloody monster, you better watch the way you speak, don't let your stubbornness be the end of you."

"We are under the labour law dude, Giovanni is human and he can't possibly kill us because we disobeyed a few words..."

"Oh yes, he could, he is in the Mafia remember?"  At the mention if this word, my face stiffened, even though i heard rumors about Giovanni dark side, i still felt like he wasn't someone that could be so evil that he enjoyed shading blood.

"Dude, snap out of it, our training is to commence immediately." Jack  figures snapped in front of my eyes as he almost shouted at me as he stood up to change.

Shortly after, a man not too tall but with an imposing presence came into our room even without knocking and led us to a large swimming area underground. The elevator stopped at the third floor, am guessing there's more floors beneath.

My eyes marveled at the large pool of water, more than twenty men were present, all wearing black swin suit, immediately the men led us inside, a tall dude who wasn't too masculine walked up to us, on seeing us, his eyes revealed shock.

"You are the new guys?" He asked with a bemsued smile, making me remember the smug smile of Giovanni. He walked round us in circles twice before stopping in front of me, he was standing few inches away from me, his curious eyes scanned my face silently.

"So tell me, what are your skills?" He asked loudly, the same time, turning around and signalling two men to come.

"I have a black belt in martial arts and a red belt in wrestling, I've worked as a personal guard for a Minister son before i was fired."  Jack was quick to list out his skills without knowing when to stop. Who tells their new employees that they were fired from their previous jobs so casually..

Tall man merely smiled and turned to face me. "Am good at spying."

"Is that even a skill, even a dog could do that." Giovanni stepped into the large area with large strands, with two men on suits following closely behind, my face turned red from being compared to a dog. Giovanni eyes shone as he walked closer towards us, all the men in the room all stood still with their head slightly bowed.

"I see you found a new boy toy, why bring in here and disrupt our system." The tall man asked accusingly at Giovanni, making me question their relationship.

"He needed the job Viktor, Mi sia goi...." He blunted a few more words in a deep Italian language that sent goosebumps on my body.

The tall dude, Viktor, glanced at me from time to time as they conversed, making me nervous, it felt like i was listening to my very death sentence in an entirely different language.

This situation brought back a bit of memory i had tried to bury down from childhood, my dad, with a gun in his hand pointed towards a middle aged man, they spoke and argued in English before converting to Italy, making it difficult for the young me to grasp anything they said but before long, my father had opened fire, shooting the man directly at his forehead, bloood gushed out as the middle aged man stared at me with horrified face, before falling on his back with a thud, i had screamed then and it seem to have attracted the man's bodyguard, my father had quickly picked up my trembling figure and ran.

My hands trembled slightly as the memories flooded back, unknowingly to me, my face had turned pale.

"Arson..Arson...you alright?" Jack loud whispers snapped me back to reality, my face became sweaty as i used my hands to wipe out the sweat, i looked around me, that was when i noticed It.

Giovanni gaze was fixated on my face, his sea blue eyes were devoid of any emotions, but his brows were furrowed into thin worry lines, his lips pursed. Under his intense gaze, i nearly crumbled, luckily Jack held me up.

Immediately Giovanni and Viktor walked towards us in slow pace, each with a menacing look on their faces.