The Mafia's Obsession

Chapter 9

she grinned evilly as if she knew someone was following her. As she took the next turn she stopped and waited, Julia who hasn't yet turned didn't know she has stopped and realized too late. "Stop there" the lady commanded coldly as Julia attempted to run away. Julia pretended not to hear and continued walking away quickly, but with the speed of lightning she felt herself kicked from behind and she fell to the ground, she tried struggling to stand up but she felt a cold nuzzle pressed to her neck.

A gun! "Do you want to leave here alive?" She asked wickedly. Julia quickly nodded " then tell me why you are here, who sent you, and how you located this place" she whispered coldly and deadly into Julia's ear. Julia pretended to comply, but she was pulling her slippers gently and carefully, she was happy that she wore rubber slippers and not sandals. Unexpectedly she swung her leg forward and the slippers knocked the woman head with full force.

Caught off guard, she turned to see what hit her taking advantage of her momentary distraction, Julia pulled out her gun and hit her head with it. The woman slumped and lost consciousness. Julia quickly put on her slippers, put her gun back in her pocket and headed to a door where MD was boldly written and knocked. 'Yes Joyce is that you'? That voice.......that voice that killed her father! Julia fists clenched but she didn't reply. Then the door swung open, Julia lunged in and gripped the girl on her neck catching her unaware.

But to Julia's surprise and astonishment, she freed herself effortlessly and she saw a tea jug hurled almost immediately at her. If not for her swift reaction, she would have been hit by it and probably died because of the force that followed it. It shattered on the wall leaving Julia stunned but she broke out of it when she was pinned to the wall by a high heeled leg. She looked up at the girl who was pointing a gun at her 'why does everyone has a gun?' She thought to herself but she didn't have time to dwell on that because she needed to free herself. But the more she struggled trying to free herself, the more she was pinned.

With no other option left, she pulled out her gun and fired at the girl. To her utmost astonishment, the girl dodged the bullet but she freed her. As Julia tried to give her a flying kick to knock her down, she felt her neck held from behind. She struggled to look back when a cold voice whispered in her ear 'still not giving up?' It was Joyce! Caught in between the two ladies, Julia knew there was no way out. "But how did Joyce suddenly wake up? Or was she pretending before?" Julia thought her heart pounding. She then surrendered making Joyce lighten her grip on her.

"move!" Joyce commanded leading her out of Juliet's office with her hand not leaving her neck. As they began to walk down the corridor, everywhere was becoming gloomy and darker. Julia knew she had to escape because if she let them lock her up that will be the end of her escape quest. So she pretended to be tired and began to walk slowly, Joyce who was becoming impatient with her lackadaisical walking pushed her hard and she fell to the floor. She quickly pulled Joyce's leg with force upsetting her balance and making her land heavily on the floor.

She quickly stood up and began to run, but she had a gunshot and felt a sharp pain on her back. She has been shot! But she didn't give up and continued running. Luckily she saw a hole on the roof again and quickly jumped in, she crawled hurriedly towards the exit of the company. She was loosing blood and was gradually becoming weak, but she managed to hang on and successfully landed at the company entrance that had became empty again. Coming out didn't require palm printing so soon she was out of the company.

She entered her car and tried driving but she was too weak and was gradually loosing consciousness too. Gritting her teeth, she called Niles explaining were she was the best she could before slipping out if consciousness. Meanwhile, Juliet paced around her office uneasily in deep thoughts. Finally she had seen the resemblance between herself and that strange girl it was just took striking and couldn't be ignored. Feeling frustrated, she picked her phone and dialed her boss number. It was he....... Rugger! The unchallenged boss of the underworld.........

Rugger isn't his real name, his name is Edgar. He was given Rugger because of his ruthlessness and power. He is the boss of the underworld, he has many chains of business across the city and beyond. Anybody who dares challenged him didn't end well including Bernard. If he wants something and isn't given, he will collect it through any means even if it results in death without and regard for the law. He rarely appears in public, and when he does its with an heavy disguise that will make him look like an ordinary person. He was popularly known as 'the multiple faced mafia' because a lot of people have heard of him but haven't seen him even most of his employees and thugs.

The closest person to him is Juliet who had been with him since she was a child and she had even only seen him once when she was five years old and training in martial arts. She had been raised by an old nanny as long as she could remember, it was only one day at her training center he came to see how she was faring and it was after he left that she was told that he was the dreaded Rugger. When she grew up and started working at the underground company, they only spoke on phone and at the door of his sacred office where he spoke from inside and she stayed outside taking orders or laying down complains. Many people wondered why he was so cold blooded and merciless, some people even said he was born that way. But is anybody born wicked? No!