Entangled With The Mafia Lord

“Come here, Aria.” I panted hard, a quick glance at my left hand showed that the gunshot wound was already bleeding again due to how much weight I was putting on it.

Aria walked towards me without saying a thing, at least she wasn’t crying anymore, instead she was just quiet now.

“You’re bleeding, oh my gosh,” She stated with wide eyes on taking a look at my left arm which I couldn’t even move around well.

“I know,” I replied around another pant before gesturing with my right hand at the dead body I was trying to move. “Let’s move this big guy over there.”

“Huh?” She demanded. “I can’t touch a dead body, on my gosh, please don’t make me touch him. His spirit would hunt me for the rest of my life and I wouldn’t know peace anymore, oh lord and…” Aria continued but I cut her off.

“Aria! This is serious, we have to move him over there and go meet the police men downstairs.” I glanced around the office in frustration, pushing away the urge to just shoot Aria to shut her up for once.

“To hand ourselves over to them? I thought you said-”

“Fuck, shut up, Aria. Now take hold of his right hand. It might be a bit cold because he’s dead, obviously. And we’re going to drag his body together and dump him on the pile of the rest. Understood?”

“Please forgive me sir, I wasn’t the one who shot you but him, and I have to drag his dead body against my will and I’m really sorry for that, I really hope you forgive me, lord…” Aria started to mutter under her breath as she gripped his left hand with her two hands while her eyes were squeezed shut. She popped her eyes open and glanced down at her hands wrapped around the dead man’s hand and shuddered visibly as she dropped his hand immediately and watched it flop down lifelessly.

“His hand is extremely cold, you said it would be a little cold. Oh my gosh, this is so creepy. Fuck, I didn’t sign up for this when I got transferred to work for the owner of this company whom I didn’t know could kill people flawlessly.” Aria started another string of ramblings which was only helping with worsening the pounding of my head.

I glanced hard at her without saying a word until she nodded her head like I said something to her before letting her eyes fall shut as she picked up his hand again.

“How would we move in the right direction if your eyes are going to remain close throughout?” I demanded.

“Um, I don’t know,” She muttered as she peeled her eyes open.

“Just drag on his hand along with me, I’d have done this on my own if my left hand wasn’t almost falling off.” I reminded her as I started dragging on his left hand.

“Sorry about your wounded arm,” She muttered quietly as she pulled along with me, her eyes trying their best to avoid landing on the starting pile of dead bodies.

In no time, we were done dragging the bodies to a corner. Blood trails decorated almost the whole floor of the office, I wrinkled my nose in distaste as I dug out my phone from my pocket and texted Tristan to send the clean up team to come into my office to clean up the whole office and the bodies tonight.

“Go take care of your face and straighten your clothes, we’re going down to the main floor now,” I said as I winced while carefully putting one of my spare shirts which I’ve always kept here in the office Incase of any emergency.

“What’s wrong with my face?” Aria asked as her hands flew towards her face in horror.

“Nothing. Only your eyes are too puffy and your mascara is all over your face. Your eyes are too red rimmed and black like you’ve been crying since the break of today.”

She flew to the window and in a few minutes emerged back with a face bare of any make up and her face creamy white while her eyes were still red.”

“What are you still doing? Grab your things, let’s get out of here immediately.” I demanded when she sat down on my chair and started digging into her bag for something.

“Wait, I wanna wear a little eye makeup, my eyes looks too swollen, which is all your fault.” She mumbled the last part to herself as she applied the mascara, but I pretended I didn’t hear anything to avoid any dumb argument, something she was really good at.

At last, she stepped out of the office with me behind her, I paused and locked the office before pocketing the keys into my pocket before we made our way into the elevator.

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On stepping out of the elevator, everyone’s eyes landed on us and the once loud room became quiet, and in the next second, there were murmurs of ‘see? He wasn’t shot at’, ‘he’s not dead, see?’ and other stupid conclusions they’ve all come to themselves since they were that jobless.

I walked forward and the crowd parted immediately like it always does since apparently, everyone was afraid of me, like they should anyways.

“Good morning, sir.” One of the police men greeted me the moment he sighted me.

“Hey,” I replied before glancing at my wrist for show before glancing back up. “I’m sure you’d prefer to ask me a few questions. I’d really appreciate it if you make it quick as I have somewhere important to be…” I paused before continuing. “Also, I’d like the security of this company to be improved because I’m extremely sure it’s not a good thing for someone who’s about to make a deal with a company get shot in that same company by a sniper which I didn’t even know where it came from.”

I glanced at Aria who was glancing at her feet before continuing. “I’m sure witnesses already informed you about what exactly happened?”

“Yes sir, they have. But…” The police man started to say but I cut in gently with a blank expression.

“I don’t think there’s any need for buts, let’s head over there for the question and answer session, yeah?”

The officer looked around and nodded before leading the way towards the suggested part. After asking a few questions, the officer whom I suspected was already feeling intimidated by me like I wanted from the start, thanked me for my answers and said I was free to go. They’ve already questioned the witnesses before I came downstairs and after a few minutes, they all drove off, their loud sirens ringing on and on before fading away.

I glanced back at my employees and shake my head on seeing all their curious gazes on me.

Clearing my throat, I began to say, “Good morning, everyone.”This text is property of Nô/velD/rama.Org.

“Good morning, Mr Auden.” They all replied.

I refused the urge to wince in pain when a sudden pull went into the gunshot wound covered by my clothes as I continued. “As you all must have figured out by now since everyone of you has a big mouth, the owner of the shares company in Spain that came for a meeting some hours ago is now dead.” I paused as mummers started to increase in folds, like they weren’t aware of the man’s death before I even came down.

I cleared my throat and everyone went quiet again before I continued, “for all we know, the shot that hit him might have been meant for me.” I paused and glanced around slowly before continuing, “For all we know, the hit man might as well be in our midst right now, like a wolf in sheep’s clothing.”

Everyone started talking at once but I shook my head before raising my good arm up and demanding order and quiet.

“The time’s 11:01am and I’m officially ending today’s work for everyone. I’d like everyone to be extra careful and mind their own business for their own good. And I’d like the wolf of wolves in sheep’s clothing to please continue to play your games, the minute you get caught, that’s the end.”