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Don Juan sat at the very end of the long table while other men sat around each side of the table. These people were another dangerous mafia, the one that had been even before Draco became a mafia Lord in his own organization.

That explained the reason why theirs were filled with men in their late fifties and early sixties. They'd been really old in the game.

However, the City Council , led by Draco of course posed a great rival to them in the entire Mafia in America . They were already competing over superiority in their dirty game.

A particular Mexican client had come to them for the sale of currency and guns. The man had seven months to conclude the deal with them.

But then, he met with Draco, who offered him four months for the deal to be sealed quickly with him . Draco was giving the man a thousand and one reasons to abandon the Headers and hand over the deal to Draco .

That was a big slap to the Headers, Don Juan and his men! This Mexican client was slowly drifting to Draco. It seemed The City Council had begun to have a stronger influence than them in the country.

The Headers sent a warning to Draco. It was a threatening warning, a gun and blood stained bundle of dollars. That was for him to back down from the deal. This deal was going to be profitable to them and Draco was offering the client more currency exchange than required, and that would make the man give them a whopping billion dollars.

"That belongs to us!" Don Juan growled , hitting his already clenched fist on the table.

The thought of losing the client to Draco and letting him have a billion dollars, made him grit his teeth in anger. He had never lost a client to the City Council and he wasn't planning to lose this profitable Mexican to Draco.

"Hope he received the message?" he asked, breathing heavily.

"Yes boss , since yesterday afternoon " Killian, his personal bouncer replied.

He was the one who sent the envelope to one of Draco's men , to give him. He'd disguised as a delivery man, so they didn't know him .

"And no reply yet ?"

"No boss. Not yet ."

Don Juan gritted his teeth again and tilted his head back and forth. He was upset as he remembered when Draco was still an errand man to the former Mafia Lord. The Former had no son , so he literally had no significance to the Headers who were the famous ones then , the most feared Mafia.

Then, the former handed over the power and position to Draco. Now, he was beginning to pose a threat to them.

"We need to plan something else, Don. We won't just sit here watching you pace forth and down , gritting your teeth" One of the older men , Sir Barrett stated .

"Draco can't step on our feet , the headers. We've been in this business since we were in our forties. We knew when he became the Mafia boss to the City Council. " Sir Donald spoke next.

Don Juan stopped in his tracks whilst pacing around. He seemed to have gotten an idea immediately.

He sat back on his chair and staring into the faces of everyone there, he grinned widely.

"I just got an idea, sirs . " he paused and continued….

"We're going to get an agent from within his home. An insider would be working for us from now while we plot the next warning, and this time...someone's gonna die "

The old man nodded in acceptance to his suggestion.

"But then again, none of the members of the City Council can betray Draco. His personal men are loyal too " Sir Stewart said, which left others thinking for a second.

"Not all his personal men are loyal, Stewart. Leave that to me". Don Juan concluded with a sure look on his face.

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I left the hotel and headed home, revising some lies I would tell my mother. I can never tell her that I had a one-night stand with a stranger! It is what it is already, I accepted that I'd had my first sex with a total stranger. The thought of it irritated me, but then the memories from last night didn't do the same to me.

I found myself blushing as I remembered how breathtaking that man was and how he handled me on my first night. But sadly , I wouldn't get to see him again .

I got home with a cab, with the money he dropped by the side of the bed . He might have taken me to be a slot.

My mom was in our almost empty living room , sitting on an armchair. She was counting some dollars and putting them into the large bag where we kept other amounts we've been getting, the money we would pay uncle Draco.

I walked in and she didn't look up.

Instead she asked "The rain kept you from returning last night , didn't it? So I assume you slept in the hotel. How did you pay then?"

I was surprised. That wasn't how I imagined this scenario to be in my head. I kept silent to at least gather the next words I'll reply, because it wouldn't be the words I'd already packed in my head that I'll say.

She put the remaining money in the bag.

"This is eleven million and two hundred thousand dollars. The week would be over in three days, Lorna and we've not gotten up to half the money ".

She seemed to have forgotten the question she asked me before and just as I was about to follow in her new topic, she asked again ;

"Was it the caretaker that paid for you? She told me she let you sleep in the hotel because of the rain and she left for an emergency that night. So , you probably slept in her own quarters?"

"Is that what she told you this morning, mom?" I managed to ask back.

The caretaker didn't let me sleep there . She'd told me she was going to get an umbrella for me , only for me to hear next that she had an emergency. If it wasn't for that stranger who finally slept with me , I would have been stranded. It was by chance that he got into that room...probably he paid for it .

But all I knew was that I didn't pay for anything and I just wouldn't tell my mom that I didn't pay for my night there.

"Yes mom...I mean no. I didn't sleep in her quarters actually. But she allowed me to sleep in a particular room that I didn't have to pay for. " The last statement was a bit implicating and I was wondering what my mom would say next.

Only for me to hear "Alright then. That's so good of her. Your class representative called.

You know you've been away from school for almost a week " she paused.

That was true. For those days, I didn't really remember that I'm a university student . I was so busy helping my mom in trying to get the money for paying Uncle Draco , that I totally forgot about school. I was just in my second year , studying Biology as a course.

Mom broke my train of thoughts by pulling me into a hug.

"I'm so sorry that I've pulled you into this matter, forgetting that you're a science undergrad , darling. I'm meant to carry this cross alone and fight for you not to be taken away from me "

"No mummy. It's not just your cross. I also do not want to leave you mom. "

"I get it , baby. Your class representative said he's been calling you, but you haven't been picking up. You know, Dave is such a nice guy "

How my mom really likes my class representative turns me off ! Dave was definitely acting more than just a class representative and I was deliberately ignoring his calls and messages.

"So, what else mom?" , trying so hard for her not to venture into Dave's topic.

"You have a practical respiratory experiment in three days time according to him. You were assigned to his own group and that was also part of why he was calling. "

Dave's group? This was certainly his doing!

"Alright mom. I need to go in and rest a little "

"Okay darling. I made cereal and French toast for breakfast. You could grab some from the kitchen while going to your room "

"Thanks mom. I can already perceive the French toast already " I chuckled.

I walked past her and started heading towards the kitchen. I didn't realize my walking step had changed and that my mom was watching me . I was walking somehow because my legs felt a bit sore.

"Lorna!" my mom called, I halted.

"Why are you walking like a lady who just finished having a round of sex for the first time?"