THREE MONTHS ONLY

CHAPTER SIX

Luca had sent her back to her room after their little tete a tete. Bianca was so annoyed at how she had screwed up royally. 

Not only did she almost get killed, she got roped into a counter deal and a marriage, and she knew better than to try to run away. Luca seemed more dangerous than the man who had hired her, and from how quickly he found out who she was, he seemed to be quite resourceful, he would tear the whole earth to find she if she escaped without fulfilling my bargain of the deal. She might be an assassin but she knew which fights to pick and which fights to back down from, and Luca was a fight to back down from…at least for now.

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About an hour later, a soft knock is heard on the door.

“Room service”

A lady called out. She rosed and opened the door while a young lady wheeled in a cart with food and boxes into the room.

“I didn’t order for any of this”, She told the lady, annoyance lacing her voice.

“It’s courtesy of Mr. Luca. He says you’ve caught his eyes and he is smitten’, the lady said with a polite smile, but even she didn’t buy the nonsense talk.

“Leave!” Bianca seethed, reining in her anger as she walked towards the cart.

She had just picked up a card from the tray when the door shut softly behind her

“To my beloved wife, whose kisses bring me close to death”

She grunted as she folded the card into a ball and threw it away in frustration. She looked at the tray, fruits and desserts were displayed, and there were a few boxes. I opened the largest box and saw a beautiful satin gown. I lifted it from the box and its length fell to the floor. It was breathtaking, its deep red colour was very captivating, its shade like that of blood, and the bodice promised to be luxurious.

A note was laying in the box that read: “For the introduction tomorrow. I’m picking you up by 7pm, don’t be late”

She was so exhausted, this day did not go as she had planned and she hated when plans didn’t go according to plan. Not only did she fail to kill Luca but she would soon be making an enemy out of Romano Moretti, her dealer.

She pulled out her laptop from her backpack and sat on the bed, if she was going to fight Moretti, she need to do a very digging into his life. She wasn’t about to mess up a second time like she had done with Luca. She pulled out her phone from her pocket and made a call to her informant.

“I need a very deep search into Romano Moretti”

She waited for a while to listen to the rapid fire questions that the person on the other end was asking, but she kept quiet. She knew she couldn’t trust anybody, even her closest informant. Once tortured long enough, everyone spill for the sake of their lives, she couldn’t blame them but that didn’t mean she would ever trust people.

“Well, you and I know in this line of our business, information is very crucial for survival and if I want to survive, I need leverage. Send me something by tonight, ok?”

With that, she hung up and started doing her own digging into the Moretti Family, and unlike what Luca believes, she didn’t want to kill only Romano. Her beef with the Moretti family goes deeper and if Luca wants them dead, then she will use him as her shield while she deals them a heavy blow.

A smile crept onto her face, this deal was exactly what she looked forward to while accepting the deal. This had been her plan B all along but she had never thought she was lucky enough to get Luca to want to save her. Now, he didn’t only save her, but he would be a shield to protect her. She looked forward to being Mrs. Vincenzo.

She was still deep in planning and scheming when she dozed off.

A few hours later, someone was raping on her door and that jolted her from her restless sleep. Her hand instinctively went to her gun that she keeps under her pillow and she stood cautiously.

“Who is it?”

“Mr. Vincenzo sent me to remind you of your meeting, in case you had overslept. He insists you have enough time to prepare. He also sent a meal tray ma’am”, a soft feminine voice responded outside the door.

“Leave it there. I’ll get it myself. Tell him I’m up”, she responded and after a few minutes, she checked the peephole. Once she was certain no one was around, she opened the door and wheeled in the food tray.

Locking the door behind her before observing the food tray, she had to admit that at least Mr. Vincenzo knew how to take care of his woman. There were varieties of fruits, sweets, desserts and a bottle of champagne on ice.

She smiled as she plopped a sweet into her mouth, then tied up her hair. she had a new plan now, and she decided to keep it as simple as possible.

She will get through this evening with the Mr. Vincenzo’s family and in whatever time is set, she’ll get married to him. She wasn’t a fool, she found out of the ultimatum the elder Mr. Vincenzo had set and Luca had less than 3 months to find a bride and someone like him would never had found someone that quick. Coincidentally, that’s when she came into the picture.

How timely!

She will get married to him, use him as a shield to bring down the Moretti family and to get as much money and power as possible, get divorce and disappear from the face of the earth. A new identity and a new life is all she really needed, and if Luca is the key to that, what’s a wedding band in comparison to that?

She only needed three month.

3 months!