Entangled With The Mafia Lord

I scrubbed my hands over my face in frustration, how many people already knows about the diamond now? And this one here is denying not knowing about the whole attack which occurred in the morning when he also just hinted that he wasn’t working alone.

Why is everything already upside down in just a day?

“I’d like to speak to my brother before we end the call,” I proposed, hoping he’d be able to reassure me that he’s hanging on just fine in his own voice.

“No, sorry bud. No talking. Can’t have him yapping more stuff to you like he did the last night.” He said around a laugh. I blinked as I felt my heart drop into my stomach, they figured out what he told us last night?

“Shit. They probably beat him until he had no other choice than to tell them whatever he told us last night.” Tristan said quietly beside me.

Shit. I tugged on the scattered curls on my head before scratching the root of my hair with my fingernails.

“Let me hear his voice. I have to, before we proceed.” I tried again but the fucker disagreed immediately, saying some bull crap about how I shouldn’t worry about my brother and that he was fine and also that I should keep in mind that I’m not the one in charge in this situation. All a bunch of bullshit, lord help him when I get a good grip on his neck, I’ll suffocate him to death.

He rattled off an address and told me to meet him there by eight tonight and to come along with the diamond.

“Come alone.” Were his last words before the line went completely dead. I pulled the headset away from my head and threw it across the room in frustration before pushing out from the chair I was occupying a moment ago and strode towards the window to lean my head against the cold glass.

“You can’t go alone,” Tristan said the moment he stopped beside me. I shrugged my shoulders helplessly, not bothering to lift my head away from the window. “I guess,” I muttered before turning around until I was facing Tristan completely.

My face was probably a mess of strain, red rimmed eyes and stress. I grabbed him by his shoulders and shook him a little before asking tentatively, “What if I go with you guys and the fucker ends up shooing Nicolas? What if he doesn’t make it? What if…” I continued to say but Tristan gripped my shoulders and shook me a little until I stopped talking and instead sucked in a deep breath before resting my head on his shoulders, I was so tired I could sleep for days but I wouldn’t even dare lie down now. My kid brother is probably wounded now and I’m shamelessly thinking about how tired I am, shame on you, Auden.

I wrinkled my nose at the voice in my head before lifting my head off Tristan’s shoulders to take a step backwards until my back was resting on the window once again.

“You can’t go alone, that’s a very absurd thing to consider.” Tristan started to say after dropping his hand away from my shoulders. He paused and glanced behind himself, I followed his gaze and it landed on Daven who was doing a very shitty job of pretending not to be looking our way by tapping away on the laptop before continuing.This content provided by N(o)velDrama].[Org.

“I’m sure the dude expect us to be dumb enough to do something like that without coming with backup. Knowing how slimy the Xobras are, I bet they’d be waiting to get the diamond from you before shooting you in the forehead in front of Nicolas to probably show him how to be more of a man.

I breathed out a sigh, this part of our lives can be so hard to live sometimes and right now is a really good example.

“So let’s plan.” Tristan suggested before bumping my shoulders with his fisting and turning around to go back to the laptops, on dropping back into his seat, he dropped a light slap on Daven’s neck since he’s been shamelessly eaves dropping since.

I puffed out another breath before walking back to the chair I emptied and dropped back into it. Cracking my neck muscles and pressing on the sore spot with my fingers for a few seconds, I sobered up and said, “Alright, let’s get on with this shit.”

—–

Pushing open my room door, I let myself in and closed the door behind me. It was only some hours away until we’d have to go get my brother. Aria was curled up on the bed with her hair spread over one of the pillows. She had earbuds itplugged into her eyes and her eyes were closed shut but I could tell she was awake with the way her fingers kept tapping away to some beat on the bed.

I walked towards the bed and she suddenly jolted up, yanking the ear buds away from her ears while she stared up at me in fright and apprehension.

“Hey, Hey… it’s just me, yeah?” I said softly as I sank into the soft mattress of the bed.

Aria sat up, the shirt she borrowed from me riding way up her belle and passed her rib cage. The dip of her belle called out to my tongue but in the next instance she was pushing the shirt back down until it covered the boxer shorts she helped herself to.

“Um, I’m sorry but I thought you were maybe one of the guys who were chasing us this afternoon and you were here to kidnap me, that was why I jolted that way the moment I felt eyes on me.” She blinked before continuing, “Have you been in here long?”