chapter ten

6:00 pm

Alessandro walks into an Italian pub. The place was banging busy and loud with live music. A man with long bulky twisted hair stood at the upfront and sang to the music playing softly from the speakers.

As he walked further in, he scanned around for the spot Lorenzo had told him he was sitting. He stopped and stood at a spot, calmly took out his phone from his pocket and had another quick look at the message Lorenzo had sent to him.

He slipped back his phone into his pocket as he located the spot. Just straight up from where he stood.

He started to walk towards the spot.

Earlier while he checked his phone, he had noticed from the corner of his eyes, a set of ladies at a table nearby checking him out. He just ignored them and pretended to have not noticed. As he started to approach Lorenzo, one of them stood, purposely walked past him and slipped a note into his pocket.

Alessandro knew what she did but calmly walked to Lorenzo’s table and sat down. Lorenzo gave him an ack