Silence....
That was all there was.
Utter silence.
The air in the whole office was pregnant of it.
It lay between them as a thick blanket, weighing heavily upon the restless souls of the offices occupants, slowly started the unseen process of suffocating them.
After doctor Angelo had finished his last drink, had said goodbye to Marco and Dimitri, and made his way back upstairs one last time before he would go back home, as to say goodbye to his beloved patient, the woman who had his heart, body and soul! The only woman who he ever truly and deeply had loved, who he still loved!
Don Micah's mother.
As he stepped out of luxurious, build-in elevator, after it had reached the first floor, the floor with the bedrooms, he saw a stern, bulky looking man standing in the corner at the end of the hall, all dressed in black. Angelo did not like the guards being so close all the time, but he did not have a choice. Don Micah had especially after his mother became ill, arranged for her a body guard who would always be close to her just in case, he had explained to him some time ago and her understood but still, every time he went up to see her, seeing the guard made him uncomfortable, especially because nobody else knew that he was more than just her doctor!
As he approached the bedroom he looked up at the hulk of a man and smiled while craning his neck, since the guard was unusual tall.
The guard who's name was Lucas nodded his head as a greeting back at him before he opened the bedroom door and slipped inside, gently closing door behind him with a soft thud, as not to disturb his beloved Anastasia.
As he went over to her bed, where she lay peaceful asleep, he grabbed his favorite chair and took a seat beside her. After some seconds of watching her with a yearning heart, he leaned in and brushed his lips gently against hers, without waking her. Then he looked up again and watched her beautiful face. God what he would give to see her healthy again! But alas, life was not easy, especially not the life of this family he thought with a sigh. The things he had seen over the years, while serving the famiglia, it supposed to make him shocked and sick to his stomach but he had learned and made peace with it long time ago, that it would never change! Their world would never change! and if he was really brutally honest with himself, he wouldn't have it other way because trough it he met her.
While Angelo spended some extra time beside Anastasia, downstairs, Dimitri and Marco were playing some billiard in the mansion's big entertainment-game room, trying to relax a bit after the utter shocking story of the doctor.
After Dmitri had finished his turn, he took a seat on the sofa with a frown on his face while watching as Marco took his turn.
"Do you believe Angelo?" Dimitri suddenly asked.
"Yeah that is the question isn't it? but he looked sincerely throughout the whole story, i just wish we could find some evidence about it" came Marco's reply as he took the chair opposite of Dmitri.
"Maybe we should as doc about that, because like he said, it indeed sounds so fairy tale like, making it hard to believe"
''Exactly, can you check if he is still around and if he is can you ask him to come here?" Dimitri says while getting up to grab another drink.
"Sure, let me check, i will be back in a minute so you can also pour me one of the same you have" Marco replied while walking out in to the hallway as to look for the doctor.
Marco looked around but did not see Angelo and after asking another guard he went upstairs and knocked on the old Donna's bedroom. Seconds passed and then the door went open and Angelo stepped out closing the door behind him softly.
''We still have some questions regarding your story, so if you wouldn't mind, Dimitri is waiting for us in the game room'' Marco explaint to which Angelo nodded and followed him back downstairs again.
After arriving in the game room, Dimitri motioned to Angelo to take a seat of which he did and waited for Dimitri to start talking.
"Me and Marco have come to the same conclusion, that we believe that you spoke the truth but, still we find it, like you said it before, a fairy tale of which i am not sure how to explain that to the rest of the men, you understand doc? So what we want to know is, is their any evidence to back up your story, which we can look at?'' Dimitri asked.
Angelo looked a bit sad when he stared into nothing and sighed.
"Do you remember the place i have told you about the person who saved the girls life at the last moment?" Angelo asked back a bit reluctantly.
"Yes we remember, why?" Marco replied this time curiously.
"Well that person.....that person was....was my father!" Angelo said, almost whispering the last part.
"What?!.....Your father?? Really, wow i didn't see..." Marco said but got interupted cut short by the sound of a knock on the door.
"Who is it?" Dimitri muttered annoyed.
"Ehm its me, Carlos, sir" came in a timid muffled reply from the otherside of the door.
"Carlos? Come in and shut the door please!" Dimitri replied while looking suprised at Marco face.
"Sorry Doc, hold on to you last thoughts please, let me see why on earth the pawn shop boss is here!" Dimitri told Angelo, who nodded in understanding.
After the door was opened by the guard outside in the hallway, Carlos walked in and stopped in his tracks when he spotted the doctor.
"I am sorry, did i interrupt something?" He asked while his eyes went from the doctor to Dimitri and then to Marco.
"Its okay what can we do for you, you look a bit...upset?" Dimitri asked curiously.
Carlos fidgeted slightly with his fingers, unwillingly giving away that he was indeed very nervous about the reason why he was here!
"I uhm,.....well yeah, i have some important information for the Don, so is he around?" Carlos asked a bit hesitantly.
"No, he is not, but if its that important, that you came all the way over here to tell the Don in person, than please do and then we will inform the Don as soon as we can get hold of him!" Marco answered without noticing the little slip of his thongue!
"Hold of him?? Please don't tell me that old bastard got to him already?! Please, tell me, am i too late?" Carlos asked, shocking all the other man in the room in the process.