Chapter 30
Luca’s POV
My mafia was one of the most respected of the Italy and I wouldn’t want that to change, to avoid us
falling to the bottom drastically.
“So, how are we going to do it?”
“That’s the thing! We’re going to observe and observe as if the prices of the first set of diamonds
showcased were all way too expensive. We’ll onlye in when it’s at the veryst diamond and then,
we’ll drop a higher price. If the person that was about to receive the diamond before wee in
decides to up his price, we’d up ours with millions immediately, and on and on until the person gives up
and the diamond would finally be handed over to us.” James started to say and I nodded my head in
understanding as he went on and on until he arrived at thest part.
“Wait. When we finally get the diamond, what’s going to happen? I won’t pour that much amount of
money on a diamond only to keep it with me and set myself as a trap to hungry, shameless thieves.
“What’s going to happen is that, we’re going to sell the diamond back to the people that organized the
auction. They’re going to buy it back with a higher price than what you bought it with, so you’re going to
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end up gaining.”
I stared at James, not following up with all what he saying.
“Wait… the same people that organized it would buy it back from us?”
James nodded his head with a grin and leaned forward in his seat once again, “It’s not actually those
particr people. It’s some group of people that the organizers of the auction would arrange
themselves, that way if anything goes wrong with the selling of the diamond, you’ll hold them guilty and
get them sued.” James exined, serious as ever and his eyes shining the way it usually does each
time he was talking about something that really intrigue him.
“How do you know so much about this?” I asked him in awe of how he know so much about an auction
I was invited to, and hasn’t bothered to look it up and make researches all those while.
“I made researches and lots of findings like a normal human before sending back a message indicating
that we had received the invitation and would be gracing them with our presence.” James said with an
eye roll and I didn’t miss theugh tugging at the side of his lips right before he dropped his head down
and stared at his hand on the table instead while shaking his head a little.
“That’s really amazing, really. You’re really amazing.” I paused and waited until he nced back up at
me, an readable expression on his face, before I continued. “You know, I don’t think I appreciate you
enough. You do so much and not once, not twice, I sometimes wonder how your knowledge of things is
so broad. You do so much for the mafia and want little to no credit on most days… like? How did I get
this lucky tond someone as amazing as you as my right hand man?” I paused once again and puffed
out a sharp breath, my heart constricting in my heart as it all started to dawn on me all over again,
about James was just… James and how he was such an amazing and selfless human.
James stared at me without saying a thing and finally allowed his head back down once again as he
absorbed the whole emotions stifling the air.
“James?” I called out after some time and he raised his hand up and murmured in a quiet, gravely
voice, “Give me a minute, man.”
When he finally raised his head up, his face was nk of any emotion like I had expected and he
moved his fingers against the table for a few seconds before starting to say in a low voice. “You know,
for someone who’s known as the most brutal and emotionless person all around Italy, you sure are a
mushy idiot.”
I grinned knowingly, already expecting the angle he had decided to use in handling his emotions.
“I am not mushy, I just want you know how amazing you are and how much I appreciate you.” I replied
without missing a beat and watched as a tiny sound escaped his mouth before he leaned forward in his
seat and sighed slowly, all sign of yfulness gone from his face.
“That was a whole lot to offload on me without any warning, do you know that?” James finally started to
say and I shrugged my shoulders, not feeling one bit remorseful.
“I’m sorry, man. It wasn’t intentional.” I drawled out and reached for the capture cup of coffee and
started to tap my finger lightly against it.
“At least give me a warning next time.” He continued and I snorted while nodding my head in
understanding, he was shits when ites to handling his emotions.
It was almost hrious to watch.
“I really appreciate the fact that you see me in that kind of light.” James finally started to say and I
stared at him without saying a thing until he continued. “I mean, I know you know I am really amazing,
because hello? It’s me, amazingness.” He paused again, an unknown emotion shining in his eyes. “But
it really means a lot, hearing you tell it to me.
“But just offload everything to me at once next time and give me a head ups next time please… I mean,
you don’t want me breaking down in tears because of the amount of emotions you offload on me
without warning, do you?” James demanded this time, a small scowl on his face but you couldn’t miss
the way his eyes was shining with emotion and the way he cheeks was almost spreading into a smile.
“Actually, I’d like to see something like that. You, James, breaking down in tears would be a really
intriguing sight to behold.” I started to say and I watched as he shook his head from side to side right
before he flipped me off and whispered a low ‘fuck you’ to me.
“Now what?” I said as I pushed myself to my feet and out of my seat. I stretched my arms out and
moved from side to side as I felt the muscles of my shoulders stretched out.
“Now, we sort these files which we’re going to need for our third appointment today, there’d be no time
to this after our second appointment and we most definitely won’t being back to the office from our
second appointment. We’d instead head straight to the third appointment.”
I paused in my thores of stretches I was performing and turned around until I was staring at him– or at
his head rather, because he was once again going through the said files we were supposed to sort out
together.
“Where is the third appointment holding at? The AMAs, right?”
“Yeahhhhhh. That particr sharespany. They wanted to merge with us because they’re in debts.
But once we merge and we pay off their debts, the whole shares would be divided equally between
bothpanies, and then we’d be automatically receiving twenty percent of their own shares every
month. So once the whole iees in for the month, we get seventy and they get thirty. That is
after we take back the money we used in paying off their debts though.” James paused and nced up
at me to check if I was still with me. After confirming, he dropped his head back down and continued
what he was doing to the files right before he continued what he was saying.
“So now we’re merging theirpany with my fourth sharespany because it was my most
smallestpany but wasn’t doing all that bad either.” I said to him and he nodded his head
immediately.
“Exactly. So that’s what’s going to happen. The auction is going to be taking ce in an hour and so
minutes and we’d have to leave for there any moment from now.” James informed me and I nodded my
head at him even though he couldn’t see me.
I made my way towards the restroom in my office and washed my hands in the sink. I stared at myself
in the mirror once I was done and took in how red my eyes looked and how bags were starting to
gather beneath my eyes.
I didn’t need anyone to point out to me that I was stressed the fuck out. My facial expression was more
than enough exnation for anyone.
I made my way back into the office and sank into my seat before taking each file james had already set
aside and quickly nced through it before stamping and putting my signature down on it. We were
both done in a few minutes time and together rounded up before making our way out of the office
together.
We made our way into the empty elevator together and started talking about one thing or the other in
there, almost immediately.
“You don’t n on driving us there, do you?” James asked and I narrowed my eyes at him.
“What do you mean by that?”
“I meant that, you’re in no state to drive.”
“Fuck you.” I replied him with a scowl and he onlyughed in my face as the elevator doors slowly slid
open.
We made our way out of the elevator and were out thepany’s main door in a few minutes time. We
decided to take my car since it was bigger and James insisted on driving because apparently I looked
way too stressed out to consider driving, and also because I wasn’t used to frequently driving the way
he obviously was.
We drove out of thepany’s premises with the other car containing my bodyguards, tailing the car
as usual. After a really long while, quite longer than I expected, we finally pulled up against arge
building painted in white. The gate got thrown open after we were confirmed and cleared as one of the
people that were officially invited, which means people who didn’t receive an official invitation wouldn’t
be allowed to go in.
We parked in an empty spot on one part of the wild looking expanse of space were a lot of other cars
were parked in. A few people were moving around and beside each car, stood a guard or two in
different attire which would each signify each particr mafia by just staring at their guards clothes.
James removed the keys from the ingenator and turned around slightly until he was facing me. I slowly
did my bottoms back up and made sure my tie was in ce as a feeling of weakness slowly washed
over my body.
I needed sleep.
I needed to rest.
I’d have rather not be here at this moment, but because it was important for our mafia, here I was,
attending the auction and hopefully existing therge hall room where the ceremony was going to be
taking ce, with the most biggest auctioned antique.
“You ready?” James asked and I nodded my head before unconsciously reaching upwards and yanking
on my tie.
“Whoa, there. You’re supposed to be making yourself more presentable, not doing this.” James signed
out beside me as he ran his fingers through his hair and patted it down, he aligned and arranged
himself until he was looking neat and sleek as fuck.
I, on the other hand, felt like crap. It felt like the coffee I had taken this morning at the morning has
this morning as I drove all the way to work, from the house.
I arranged my tie once again and patted it down until it wasying smoothly against my chest. I knew I
was only being unconsciously difficult to myself, because the reflection of myself staring back at me
through the rear view mirror and the side mirror, was that of me on a normal day.
I didn’t look sick or weird or lifeless Iike I was currently feeling, my face still looked sexy as fuck, except
for small the eye bags beneath my eyes. My hair was also not as slicked back and curly as it used to
be like on a normal day, now it was fluffed out, the curls appearing even more prominent this way.
I wasn’t all that bad looking, at the moment, the way I had been feeling at first.