the abused wife of the Mafia King

Chapter 13

Nicolas POV

Being the Mafia King comes with a lot of responsibilities, and because of that responsibility, I had to leave my sweet little love behind and handle work. Now that she has decided to give me a chance, I want to treasure each moment with her.

Long and I drive to the Black Lion company, there is a prisoner that I need to meet. He was the one who used to work for Lara, and recently he has been shadowing me. Being undercover and following my tracks.

Of course, Long is very intelligent in his job, and he notices the men and arrests him immediately.

So today I am going to go and question the men of my ex-girlfriend.

We get in the car, and Long is silent. It was dreading me.

“What is bothering you?”, I asked Long annoyed.

Long looks at me through the rear-view mirror and remains silent.

“Speak Long?”, I say again, this time my voice was not as kind as before. It was more like a command.

“Do you think Lara sent him to follow you?”, Long said I could sense his nervousness. He was the one who told me to stay away from Lara, but stupid me, I didn’t and instead, I chose to believe her.

I know why Long is asking me this question, he knows that I still love Lara very much, and he doesn’t want me to fall for her tricks again. But I have learned my lesson the first time.

“It could be possible, but even so, what does it matter, we will just kill him to send her a message”, I said in my deep voice, sounding unbothered, but deep down I knew that I wouldn’t be able to hurt her.

Long doesn’t say anything else and the rest of the drive we both remain silent.

Once we get to the black Lion company, we head straight into the dungeons at the bottom of the building. Once we get there, a strong smell of blood, pee, and sweat hits my nose. Just the smell of this place sends chills down someone's spine.

My mother created this dungeon 20 years ago, to hide our prisoners and to make sure we are always here just in case something happens. So, when I took over, I kept it as it was. Instead, I made it worse. Just the name of the Lion dungeons is enough to make our enemies pee on themselves.

We get to the second cell on the right and there he was, Ken, the loyal man to Lara.

I looked at the guard who was standing outside the door and motioned for him to open the doors.

And within seconds the door opened. Ken was on his knees and both his hands were in chains.

“Who sent you?”, I ask him.

Not wanting to discuss other things with him.

Ken looks up at me but remains silent.

I take a chair and put it right in front of Ken, I sit on it crossing my legs.

“Who sent you, and be aware, I won’t ask again?”, I tell him.

I see fear in his eyes, and he swallows his silva.

“La, Ma’am Lara sent me, to check up on you”, he says, his voice filled with fear.

“Why”, I ask him.

“She didn’t tell me why, but she just said to check up on you to make sure you are fine and doing well”, he said. His voice was low.

“Well, can you send Lara my response, tell her I am fine and doing great”, I said, and Ken looked up at me with relief on his face.

“I will deliver your message to Lara Ma’am”, he said. I got up from the chair and asked Long for his knife. Long handed me his White and Gold knife, and with that, I carved the word Fake on his face and slit his throat.

Ken struggled in front of my eyes and within a couple of minutes. Ken’s body was lying in front of me motionless.

“Pack him up and decorate it, and send it to the black panther resident”, I said as I walked out of the cell.

I spent the rest of my day in my office, going through paperwork, I started business all over the world.

When I have kids, I don’t want them living on money that comes from the Mafia, but instead, it was rightfully earned money from my businesses.

At 6 pm, I sent a text to Lana, she had been in my mind the whole day and I just wanted her in my arms again.

“How was your first day as job hunting?”, I said through my text.

After a couple of minutes, she replied, “It has been tiring, I went to a few architecture companies, but they are looking for someone who has a bit more experience than me”,

Looking at her message riled me up, who dared reject her and her work, but again, I wasn’t planning on letting her work for other companies. I wanted her to work for me.

“Can I suggest a company?” I sent her a reply. And within a second her reply came.

“OMG really, do you know anyone who would want me”, she sounded really excited and just reading her text put a bright smile on my face.

“Yes, I do, I can take you there tomorrow if you like?”, I texted her, and again, she immediately saw my message and replied,

“Great, I will be ready by 8 am tomorrow”, she replied. And just after that another reply came from her.

“You are the best Nicolas, <3 ?”

After seeing her smiley face emoji and love heart emoji, I chuckled again and put my phone down, getting ready to head back so I could see my little love.

Just as I was about to head out, I got Long in the hallway, coming towards my office, “Sir, we have sent your message to Lara”, he said as he stood beside me.

After hearing what Long said, I somewhat felt guilty, I never wanted Lara to see any insecure pictures let alone, send her a dead head of her men.

But again, she needs to know that I am not the same guy who she used to play games with and threw away after she finished.

“Do you want me to take you back to the hotel?”, Long asked, throwing me off from my thoughts.

I walked straight without replying to him, I still had Lara in my thoughts, and she was not a happy thought.

When I got into my car, Long occupied the driver seat and we headed off, but just as we were about to reach the hotel, I got a call from an unknown number. I let the phone ring, but the caller was very persistent and kept calling. So, after 6 missed calls, I finally answered it, and just as I spoke, I heard her voice. Lara black panther was on the call.

I was loss for words; I had not heard her voice in years and now all of a sudden she was back to torture me.

I stayed silent on the phone, not wanting to respond to her.

“Nicko are you there?”, she said in her sweet voice.

“Nicko, I know you can hear me, I received your message, I just wanted to apologize for what I did back then…” she said before I hung up the phone. I didn’t want to hear further, because I knew I would end up with her by nightfall. “Was it Lara?”, Long asked, seeing that I was in no state.

I threw my phone back on the seat and brought my head in my palms, rubbing my face, all the pain and heartbreak that she caused 5 years ago, came rushing back in.

“Why, why is she doing this to me?”, I asked Long.

Long remained silent but after a few minutes, he said.

“Demons never disappear fully, they will always come back, we just need to be strong to face them and not fall for their tricks”, he said.

I knew what he said was right but why do I feel empty?