Chapter 38 TRUST AND DOUBT
ROBERTO
30 minutes earlier,
These kids just love getting on my nerves every single time. Such little creeps.
I wonder how Katherina is able to cope with them all. They are just disturbances I want to get rid of it as it stands.
I'm just glad she could gill in that space for their mother. It has always been a source of worry to me.
I still remember when my dear wife died..I blooded for weeks on how I was going to raise the children.
Keeping them safe couldn't be so difficult but nurturing them to grow was one big take even I, as a Mafia Lord, feared.
I walked out of the room, leaving Katherina to do the job and I bumped into my housemaid,”Lucia.”
“Apologies, Boss. I didn't see you coming out..” she fell on her kneels immediately with her head facing the ground.
I smirked.
“You've been bumping into things now, uhn? Cause the last time I picked you up from the streets, I don't remember telling you to barge into everywhere in my fucking house!”
“I'm really sorry, Boss. I noticed Aria and Joanne went this way so I was trying to see if they were in the hallways and that led me here,” she defended.
“Now let's get to that..who let those kids out of their room?” I asked with a tightened fist.
Only to scare the shit out of her.
“It was Marcus Bloom, sir.”
“He was in there playing with them and that's all I know,” she said in a defensive tone.
I sighed out, releasing my clenched fist. Marcus was permitted. He was the only one with that access and long before now, I had made him realize that.
“So it was Marcus? That's fine…well, you can go in there. They are having a nice time with Katherina. Let them be..”
“But they have to eat, Boss….” she objected all of a sudden.
“And I don't know that? Get back to your post. When they feel hungry, they would leave there. Do not go into that room!”
That dame minute, Marcus came around, “And that's my boy right there!” I said, patting his shoulders.
“The girls?”
“Lucia just told me you made them come to me. Kts alright. They are in with their mother,” I voiced out.
“Their mother?” He interrupted with a raised eyebrow.
“Well, I mean my bride, Katherina….You know, she is now like a mother t Aria and Joanne,” I smiled.
“C'mon, Boss. You can't be serious about this. How long will you keep allowing that young lady manipulate you into trusting you?” Marcus objected.
“She is not like them, Marcus. I have seen her. I have spoken to her and I can tell from her innocent eyes. She has no bad blood infsct she cares about my daughters…more than their late mother..”
He shook his head at my words, “Boss, I told you I don't trust her. She means bad to us and I am sure her father sent her to us to infiltrate the barriers. She is nothing but a spy in disguise.”
“Hmmm…spy,” I scoffed.
“Katherina DeLuca, a spy?” I questioned.
“She is now a DeLuca? Since when?” He asked with a frowned face.
“Since she became my woman or have you forgotten she was given to me as a reward for our peace deal?”
“Oh, Boss…don't tell me you still believe in this peace deal? You still told me some days ago how you think on the agreement. What changed all of a sudden?”
“I don't know but she is not a bad blood. That's all I can say, Marcus. So take your suspicion off her. You have to respect her and protect her as much as you protect her.. she is part of your job now,” I uttered.
“Boss…….you are not seeing it. She is not someone you should trust or leave alone with your girls. Who knows what she might be up to? I can't prove it just yet but I know very soon, you will see it for yourself, Boss,” he spoke with so much seriousness.
I laughed it off.
Marcus had always been after my health and safety so I wasn't surprised but why hate on Katherina?
I am the only one allowed to do that. Maybe I am looking somewhere to him, falling for some daughter of my rival, the same idiot that think he is way ahead of me…the fool that killed my greatest asset!!
But, I was already in love. Greatly in love with the woman whose father killed my worker.
“Marcus….”
“What is happening on the streets? Are you mobilizing yet?” I asked.
He coughed out, “Boss…you don't take me serious. We need to remove he enemy within before anything. Dimitri isn't going to attack from outside but from inside. It's the same thing he did to your late wife..”
“He's a smart man and you know it too. You are aware of his crazy plots and crafts. We shouldn't take him lightly. As far as I know, he has more on us than we have on him,” Marcus opined.
Raised eyebrows and gnashed teeth.
“What the hell are you saying?”
“Dimitri is less. If he has something on me, it would his loss to count,” I raised my voice…
“Boss….he has his daughter planted here and he has your privacy in check. We don't know what the girl is feeding him. I mean, she has a phone, doesn't she? A phone she brought in here not the one you gave her..” he said.
“What are you insinuating?”
“Are you saying Katherina could be telling Dimitri every single thing happening in here?”
“Oh yes Boss…even more. There is everything fishy about her. Indont hate her, Boss. You know I like whatever you like but I would do anything to make sure you have the best..because you deserve it, my Lord..”
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“But lady in there, she has an ulterior motive and if we don't get it, we just might end up in a mess….”
A mess created by Dimitri Salikov.
I grunt as I thought about it.
“Maybe she isn't even worth the love I am giving her, “ I thought to myself
But a little doubt erupted in my head.
“We would get to that part soon…now tell me what is going on, the streets, how is the mobilization? Do we have the board yet??”
“What score do we have to settle? Whose blood is going for it??!”
That same minute, we both saw the gate open and a red Ferrari drove in.
“Who the fuck is that in my compound?”