Chapter 20 Final
I must have heard wrong, Serena thought shaking her head to clear her thoughts.
No, I definitely heard wrong, there is no way I heard Damon command someone to kill my father, NO WAY!.
“I thought you had left” Damon’s voice interrupted Serena’s thoughts.
“Left? This is my house too Damon, incase you have failed to notice. I don’t want to ask about what I heard upstairs, it is definitely a joke right?”
“It is no joke, Serena. Your father owed my family a great deal of money and he gave you to me in exchange for that, you might have thought that he would calm down and focus on his family after that but no; he went ahead to steal from my father and his associates.”
“Steal? What the fuck are you talking about. My father is many things, a gambler and a liar but a thief is not one of them, how dare you?”
“I wish it were untrue because as much as I want to hurt him, I don’t want anything affecting you.” Damon said calmly.Property of Nô)(velDr(a)ma.Org.
Serena laughed, closing her eyes as if to ward off evil.
“Tell me this is a joke, this is one elaborate joke you do all the time.”
“I wish I was joking, I have no choice than to hunt your father and properly interrogate him.”
“What exactly did he steal from you? What is so important you will have him killed”
“Drugs, Serena. He stole billions worth of drugs from us, he was walking a very thin line before but right now if he doesn’t return the drugs willingly, he is going to die.”
“How dare you!” Serena screamed lunging for Damon who held her even as she fought.
“I am sorry but this is what I do, he signed his death warrant, the minute he decided to steal from us. My father is aware that he is not the only one involved in this operation and he might have friends who pushed him into it. If he agrees to provide their names and the location of the drugs, we might spare him and his family.”
“And his family? We are talking about my father here, I am his family too. So what if he doesn’t tell you anything? You are going to kill him and murder us too?” This is crazy.”
“Welcome to my world, Serena. I never wanted you to hear all of these and that is why I asked for you to remain at your mother’s till I have everything sorted out and you are a Matteo now, you are mine”
“Of course, sorted out meaning presenting my father’s head in a box. Let go of me, Damon.”
Damon released her and watched as she walked away from him, as much as he wanted to stop her; he couldn’t. She should not be around him right now when he had business to attend to, pity her father was the business.
“Is it taken care of? She isn’t going to be a problem, right?” Santos materialized from wherever he had been hiding.
“It is, proceed with what I have told you, or wait… I shall interrogate the bastard myself.” He said grimly, thoughts forming on various methods he was going to use to interrogate, it really has been so long.
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Serena had never seen this side of Damon before, granted she barely knew him and they had gotten married but she felt like she was finally seeing the man they referred to as “the devil”. The one enemies trembled in fear whenever he passed, the one whose name should not be uttered in broad day light. She had made her research after her marriage to him, wanting to know what kind of person she had been bound to forever seeing that divorce was not in the dictionary of the mafia family and what she had seen had left her in abject shock, he indeed was the devil. She wondered how she had even doubted her research when he always so sweet to her, telling her how much he wanted her, a fool she was.
Serena thought long and hard on what to do to prevent the death of her father and total annihilation of their family and she only arrived at one conclusion, she was going to ask Damon to include her in the interrogation of her father, she was going to beg him to allow her talk to him first before anything and if he indeed confess, he was going to promise to not kill him.
She took her bath immediately and waited patiently in the room for him, naked. She was going to give him her body in exchange for her father’s life.
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Damon was tired, he had just gotten off a long conference call with his father and most of their associates, it was plain obvious that they were downplaying to him the actual size of the drugs that was stolen. His father’s voice had been whiny in a way that he had never heard before and the others were threatening to take matters into their own hands, the only reason they haven’t is because they did not want the matter escalating or getting out their to rival mafia families who would take it as an open way to steal from them, seeing them as weak.
Damon had done his best to reassure them and by the end of the meeting, he was sure he was going to kill the man, how dare he!?
He climbed up the stairs, pretty sure Serena was already asleep, she had not come down since she went up and he was wondering how she was faring now that her family was involved in so big a scandal.
The door to the bedroom was open and the light dim, Damon noticed.
Serena was naked, he could see and she was headed towards him, a big smile plastered on her face.
“What are you doing” Damon asked his eyes traveling over the length of her, she looked like a goddess.
“Fulfilling my end of the contract” She grinned, her green eyes twinkling.