The Emotionless Bride

Chapter 3

Ruslan Valetin

I was pissed having to go to Gatti family, but business never stops. I needed to speak to Lucio the head of the house as he has been a naughty boy spending more money than he makes. He is slowly getting into a big chunk of debt. At 1.2 million so far.

Stepan my second next to me, looked annoyed I am bringing him with me. One person Stepan hates the most in this world is Sophia Lucio’s daughter. Her mother Caterina is a pain in the ass too. If I could put a bullet between their eyes I would. But I am not allowed to just kill off people who annoy me. Shame.

Stepan passed me a file, we found out Lucio has a second daughter which he has hidden from us. Not much detail just she was from his first wife, half Italian and half Irish. No school records or anything. So, I set up this meeting under the guise of wanting to marry one of his daughters and I will wipe off his debt. Of course, he thought I meant Sophia. It makes me shudder inside just thinking of her. She would be dead in the first hour.

When we made it there, they were all standing out the front, Lucio in his suit, Caterina in a expensive dress, diamonds on her neck and her ears. Then there was Sophia, she had a dress on that looked if she was going to a charity ball and was that a f*****g small crown on her head?

I could feel the headache already coming. What I noticed was there was a daughter missing. This pissed me off. I was not here to play f*****g games and if he thinks he is going to take the piss out of me, he has another thing coming.

The driver pulled up to the house and came and opened the door for me. Stepan sliding out behind me. I looked past everyone standing at the front to see if his other daughter was behind inside, but I couldn’t see anyone there. This angered me more. When Sophia stepped forward to touch me, loop her arm through mine as if she was claiming me, my anger spiked at its highest. I looked down at her and gave warning with my eyes to not touch me. She got the hint quickly.

‘’I see you haven’t trained your daughter well on how to act, Lucio. This is not good. Now let’s go talk just us men.’’ I said, watching Lucio kick start his brain to work again as he was embarrassed about what I said. Sophia, I see went bright red. Good. This gave Stepan a kick. I could see the smile almost break out on his lips.

Lucio took us to his study and let us know it was soundproof, good I didn’t want those whores outside listening in. Taking our seats, I let the silence fill the room, giving no emotion away. Lucio seemed he couldn’t handle the silence as he was squirming and near sweating in his chair.

‘’Where is your other daughter Lucio?’’ When I asked this his eyes went wide, and he quickly masked his face.

‘’She is not here Don, I do not know where she is.’’ He looked a bit scared telling me this.

‘’Phone her and tell her to come here now I am not playing games.’’ Lucio stiffened when I requested this and see he was trying to think of an excuse. Why did he not want his second daughter to be here? I have too many questions about this. ‘’Now!’’ My patience was snapping with him and not listening to me.

Lucio sighed, picked up the office phone and rang a number, I told him loudspeaker. The call connected and all we heard was a small grunt. Then Lucio nearly shouted down the phone for her to come home, when he was cut off by gun fire. I kept my face masked to not show the surprise I felt. Then we heard a male voice saying 'got you b***h' and then gun fire again. Was she dead?

Next thing a melodic voice came through the phone, a strong Irish accent, telling Lucio 20 minutes and she hung up. I looked to Stepan and see his eyebrow slightly twitched giving away his surprise. Lucio looked angry and was muttering about his daughter being ungrateful. This got my interest piqued.

We made our way to the dining room and sat down, when Sophia quickly parked her ass next to me, she seemed she wanted to drape herself over me. I gave her warning look to not touch me, she listened. At the table which was ridiculous in size too big for this room, Caterina and Lucio sitting at the head, then Sophia, me and then Stepan. The layout was deliberate.

After 20 minutes had gone by the food was served to us by some house staff and the Gatti family seemed ready to dig in. The other daughter is not here yet and they was going to eat. I made sure they didn’t touch the food till the other daughter arrived. They will learn manners when I am sat here.

We didn’t wait long when the other daughter walked in. She was a stunner, one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen. She sat down looked at her meal ready to eat when Sophia kicked up a fuss. There was blood all over her hand and can see where her hoodie had been shot through, blood sluggishly coming out. There was blood on her hoodie. She got up with a sigh and walked off.

When she came back, I see she had patched the wound and washed her hands. Lucio tried to apologise about his daughter, but I put a hand up to shut him up. My interest has gone through the roof.

All through the meal she was very quiet, sat opposite me. Not once did she look at us only when she walked in. It was hard to take my eyes off her. This seemed to piss off Sophia and Caterina as they would not stop talking. I can see why Lucio couldn’t stand the quiet.

When the meal was done, I told Lucio to go to the study as we was going for a smoke. He listened like a good boy, and we spied. I see the mystery daughter start to walk out and Sophia and Caterina trying to stop her. Listening to every word they taunted her with, the mask on them slipping off. I knew they was fake, but it was good to see and now I know they truly are.

Elisabetta was her name, I couldn’t remember from the file. It suited her. When that Sophia asked if she knew who I was I stopped blinking as I wanted to know this answer. Elisabetta just shrugged. Shrugged! Then Sophia gloated who I was, told her, now usually when I was mentioned people are afraid, fear in their eyes, shake in their boots, but Elisabetta, nothing. She just said ‘and’ just that nothing else no flinch nothing. Now she really has my attention.

Me and Stepan watched more and then Elisabetta pulled out a gun ready to shoot them both. Her eyes never changed through the interaction they just looked dead. A killer eyes. I had to keep an eye on Stepan as I thought he would give us away, have an orgasm when she pulled the gun out on the harlots. To be honest I had to hold myself back as well. I got Stepan to get someone to follow her, then we went for a smoke I have seen enough.

Elisabetta kept flashing in my mind, I think I have just found my future wife.

Of course, Sophia had to ruin my thoughts when she see us and Lucio asked where Elisabetta went, the performance was award winning, the fake tears, delicate doll look as if the wind may shatter her and blaming Elisabetta for being mean and tried to shoot them. Lucio lapped it up. I made sure in the office he knew what was. No one is going to slander my future wife.

As for the two harlots outside I will make sure they get humiliated. Let the stupid b***h Sophia believe I will be marrying her and brag about it. Soon in front of an audience she will find out. No one gets away with flaunting about my money.