Falling for obsessed mafia leader

Beast

When I got toward them, Rishi tapped the chair next to him and told me ‘sit here’.

I sat on that chair and saw Mr. Mariano went through the file that Rishi made about my work and my books. He had this serious look on his face, that of the perfect business person. He looks so young to be in his early forties. Before we came here, Rishi explained everything about this company and about Mr. Mariano.

If he explains anything to me, it means he explains it to himself again.

After closing the files, Mr. Mariano turned toward me, and he said, “Your manager explained everything to me and I will be emailing you the details of the contract”.

See, that is why you need a manager like Rishi. He does everything without having me. “Thank you, sir.” me and Rishi say in unison.

“Before you leave, I would like to ask you a question, Ms. Zoey,” he says. He looked at me. I smiled at him as I turned to see Rishi give me looks, saying ‘if you mess it up, I will kill you’. I turned to Mr. Mariano and nod my head.

“So, what inspired you to write ‘Five reasons’?” he asks. So, he read my books. Five reasons: a story about five best friends and about the problems they have in their lives and how they overcome with the help of each other.

I smiled at him once,” It is because of Rishi here. When I went to his graduation, I overheard a gang of friends talking about their struggles during their college days. It might be silly, but that is what inspired me to write ‘five reasons’,” I say.

Mr. Mariano chuckled and said, “that’s all. Let’s meet at a contract signing”. He got up from his chair, came toward our side and held his hand out to handshake. I got up and grabbed his hand and said thank you. He did the same to Rishi, but he didn’t look at him the same way he looks at me. He looks at Rishi with desire in his eyes. I slightly chuckled and turned toward someone catching my eyes. The man sat on the couch, got up and turned toward where we were standing and met my eyes.

Huh.

The moment I saw that person my heart started to beat crazily.

The person I didn’t want to meet in my life.

The person I want to avoid in order to live my life normally.

He smirks at my reaction; I know I might look like I saw a ghost. But I’m looking at the guy who makes people's lives hell. I shouldn’t read every article about him without sleeping. I started to see everything I read in my mind. He walked toward me and stood next to Mr. Mariano. I turned away from him and turned to Rishi to give him a look like ‘let’s go’.

I know he didn’t get it, because he turned to look at Mr. Mariano, who was standing in front of him, was looking at him as if he wanted to eat him. Not only Mr. Mariano has that look. Here the beast aka ‘Lorenzo Morelli’ standing in front of me wearing an emerald green three-layered suit also looked at me the same. I can feel the change of atmosphere in this room. If he keeps looking at me like this, I might be on my knees in front of him in a minute.

I held Rishi's hand and pulled him toward me and whispered to him ‘let’s go, before they eat us’. He turned to give me a nod and turned toward Mr. Mariano gave him a shy smile. This b***h, did he know how to smile?

Before we walk away from them. Mr. Mariano held Rishi's hand which I was holding and said “Ms. Zoey, I forgot to introduce my friend.” as he looked at the mafia leader near him. He smirked at me as he held his hand out, “I’m Lorenzo. Nice to meet you ‘again’

Ms. Zoey” he said darkly. I rolled my eyes at his tone.

I shook his hand and said “Nice to meet you again too. Mr. Morelli.” In my dark tone. See two can play a game. He rolled his eyes as he held my hands tightly.

Truly, it hurts, but I can see him trying to dominate me. He didn’t know I wouldn’t submit to him. I won’t. I keep looking at him with a smile on my face.