Semua Bab His Father's Obsession, I fell in love with his son. : Bab 181 - Bab 190

“You burnt down the cottage, didn’t you?” Giovanni asked, sounding like one who already has the upper hand.“What the fuck are you talking….”“You found the maps too?” Giovanni added, cutting Antonio's words halfway. “Fuck off!” Antonio muttered for lack of words as it suddenly hit him that he probably might have a mole amongst his men.He stood there in silence, the phone still pressed to his ear, Giovanni’s mocking tone echoing through his mind like a bad tune he couldn’t shake off. The mention of Manhattan wasn’t random and Giovanni never spoke without reason. It was certain that someone had told him something he wasn’t supposed to know. Antonio’s eyes darkened but he didn’t respond right away, didn’t even let his thoughts show. He simply listened, his breathing slow, his jaw locked tight. On the other end, Giovanni seemed to sense his silence and took it as an invitation to keep talking. “You’re quiet,” he said mockingly. “I take it you’re realizing what I just said.”Antonio

As soon as Veronica stepped into her room, she shut the door behind her and leaned against it, her chest still rising and falling from the action she had just displayed out there in the living room. She didn’t want the object of her obsession to see her all caught up with another, it’s not like she was all caught up but even the faintest of emotional attachment shouldn’t be noticed by him so she could catch his eyes.She thought of a tactics to use since the sickness scam didn’t last long, she clicked her finger and waved it in the air purposing to intensify her tricks. Her heart hadn’t quite settled from the way Antonio had looked at her with that calm and sharp look that said more than words ever could.She let out a breath and tossed her phone onto the bed before walking toward the mirror. Her reflection stared back, composed on the outside, but beneath the surface, her thoughts were tangled.She was still trying to calm herself when her phone began to buzz and the screen flashed

Immediately Luca stepped out of the kitchen, I didn’t even bother to look back at Veronica, I wasn’t ready for any of her misbehaviors this morning. I didn’t bother greeting her too, all I did was turn up the music on my phone and slipped back my air pods.My hands busied themselves with making the next batch of juice, and so, I kept working on the juice I was making, intermittently drinking from the glass I poured for myself and paying her no heed. Even with my air pods plugged into my ears, I could still heart the hum of the blender filling the kitchen. I knew that was the only sound that there was, still I sang along to the song, pretending she didn’t exist. I wasn’t about to let her ruin my mood again. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw her stiffen, her expression hardened as she stood there watching me with her arms folded like she was expecting me to drop everything and pay her attention but I didn’t. I kept humming, poured the juice into a glass jug, and began cleaning the co

My phone buzzed nonstop with reminders as I drove to the office and I knew I was past the threshold for lateness because as I walked into the office building, all eyes settled on me in a way that spoke volumes. To crown it all, the meeting I was supposed to lead had already started fifteen minutes earlier. The thought of walking into that boardroom with everyone’s eyes on me wasn’t exactly thrilling but I had no choice. The receptionist gave me a knowing look when I rushed past her. “They’re already in,” She said softly.“Yeah, I figured,” I muttered, adjusting my tie and trying to act calm even though my heart was racing hard.When I got to the window of the boardroom, I peeked through the glass and saw that Rob was at the head of the table and my slides up on the big screen. He was speaking with that easy confidence he always had. Bless that man! He was covering for me again. I quietly pushed open the door and slipped in, trying not to draw too much attention, but of course, e

“Hello, can you hear me? Are you okay? Lu…Luca…”Rob’s voice sounded faint, like it was coming from the end of a long tunnel. I saw his lips moving, but his words didn’t register because my mind had slipped into somewhere I hadn’t visited in years.He kept asking frantically if I was okay, I think but I wasn’t, my head was spinning with the image of Vince’s father, looking mutilated with his fingernails pulled out and the mention of loyalty issues got me thinking deep about the perpetrators.I rubbed my temples, trying to push it out, but instead, my memory took me back all the way to when I was fifteen.Our mansion had always been the kind of place that made people think we lived in luxury because of its big gates, manicured lawns and shiny cars in the driveway but behind all that polished look was something even darker which I could sense even as a child.I recall that my father had a small room which was far from the main house but still within the compound, nobody ever went there