Chapter two

Antonino Capello was fuming. He had just come off the phone when he was informed that a business had gone under and that somebody had informed his enemy about his operation, and they went to one of his secret warehouses.

Antonino was always careful with work and very strict, so that meant there was a leak. Somebody must have betrayed him, but he trusted his men, so he concluded it must have been an outsider, a SPY. But he was confused, he had always been clear-headed.

The greatest and feared don of his time, he commanded respect. How could he be confused ?! He reassured himself.

Most weekends, Antonino visits his clubhouses and hotels. He is on his way to ‘’The Eden Garden Hotel’’, which was one of his biggest hotels in Venice, but he gets a message that he is needed at Galos Club where one of his enemies is trying to invade them.

He quickly went over to solve the disruption. He was supposed to have a business deal signed off at ‘’The Eden Garden’’ which was important. But Galo's clubhouse is one of the secret lairs for work, so he couldn’t risk it.

He had told Julian to go to the hotel, bring in the investors and drive them down to the clubhouse. After settling the disruption ‘quietly’, he went upstairs to the VIP lounge and paid attention to his surroundings, which was a habit he picked up as a DON or leader of a mafia.

He noticed a petite sexy lady who didn’t seem to be around there. He was quite familiar with people who came to his club, but this face looked new and beautiful. He got curious, so he watched her from a distance while he was waiting for the investors to arrive.

He saw her talking with this dude, and he seemed to find the dude familiar. He tried to think and when they stood up to dance, he remembered who the dude was.

The dude was one of the guys he had just quietly handled, he was trying to gain entry into his underground lair, and he could have destroyed him once and for all. He was annoyed. What the hell was he doing back at his club and with that beautiful lady? He questioned himself.

He tugged his tie and reminded himself to put his act together. He couldn’t be jealous of someone he was supposed to kill and, besides, he didn’t know the girl. What if she was working with him? he questioned himself again.

His attention drifted back to them when he noticed the dude wasn’t a great dancer, but this girl was magnificent. He shot laser eyes and glanced at the guy.

The guy noticed it and tried to avoid his glance. The dude had been asked to monitor Antonino and report back, so he thought Antonino knew about it.

While trying to avoid his glance and monitor the beast, he wasn’t focusing on the dance anymore, he wanted to dance with this gorgeous lady and do his job, but he was having a rough time.

Rosa wasn’t attentive enough to know what was going on with her dance partner, but she noticed he shrieked with fear as if being scared, she was about to call it off, but he was saved by his phone.

His phone rang, and he excused himself from the dance floor. Rosa didn’t seem to mind because he was already trying to make the party boring for her, but she waited for some minutes, no sign of him. Then she continued her dance.

This time she was free, without a dance partner, so she danced like never before, she moved so seductively and gracefully she was lost in the dance and the alcohol seemed to be kicking in good.

Antonino was so enraptured and fascinated by her moves he didn’t know when he leaned closer to the rail and was smiling from ear to ear.

His men were busy trying to secure the investors and make them comfortable. They didn’t notice him.

Rosa lifted her head while dancing and saw this beautiful creature staring straight at her. She thought to herself ‘’She got a catch and for sure she was going to have him on her bed tonight’’.

He was tall and very handsome; his black tuxedo suit fitted his broad shoulders and gave him a daring look. He was made specially by God, she told herself.

Antonino snapped out of his daydream when he noticed she was staring back at him… he shyly looked away, OMG! What is wrong with me? He thought to himself.

He slowly tries to look down and check if she is still staring, but is cut short by Julian, who has just come back with the investors.

They are here, Antonino. Julian told him.

He re-positioned his tie and put on his business face. He hates when people don’t take him seriously and he needed this deal so badly so he could recover from the damage to his warehouse.

Rosa danced for some time, thinking the handsome man she saw on the second floor was coming to meet her, but after some minutes, no sign of him. She decided to lift her head to check if he was still staring.

She couldn’t find him. She felt disappointed. She thought to herself, maybe she wasn’t his type, but then she snapped out of it. She didn’t come to Venice to sob in her sorry life, she came here to get at life, so she decided to go find her man.

Antonino was livid that he had just lost the deal because the investors heard about the recent outbreak in his warehouse, which was supposed to be a secret.

He was furious. Who could have told them? He then realized something was wrong. There was a spy in the club, he answered himself.

Rosa searched the first floor, but her mysterious man was nowhere to be found. She decided to try her luck at the VIP lounge, but she was denied entrance.

‘’she has to improvise’’ she thought to herself.

She saw two old and rich men coming up the stairs, so she smiled at them and vibed with them, so she could be allowed inside the VIP lounge since she was with some VIP customers.

Antonino raced out of the secret lair to meet up with the investors. He saw the investors with her again.

Who the hell is this girl? What is the relationship between a girl and her enemy? What has she told those investors? What if she is a spy? All these questions seemed to ring in his mind.

Now it all made sense to him, but who did she work for? He questioned himself again.

Rosa, now in the VIP lounge, still couldn’t find her destined man. She excused herself from the men she had entered the VIP lounge with, she went to the rail where she had seen him stand and took a look down to be sure they hadn’t missed.

After a minute of eye-searching and was about to give up, she saw him entering ‘the staff only’ zone. She thought to herself if he worked here, she hurried down to catch up with him.

She could not enter the room because she wasn’t a staff member there and didn’t have a pass key. She needed to enter that room. She just wanted to talk to him. She had asked some people about knowing but no one seemed to know who she was talking about.

Luck shone on her when one of the staff came out in a hurry and forgot to shut the door. She quickly ran inside.

Whew!! That was close, she thought to herself. Happy nobody saw her, she staggered, she was so tipsy but didn’t care because all she could think of was her mystery man.

The room was empty and she couldn’t find him. She was sure she had seen him enter there, she was so confused and yeah, pressed, she needed the toilet.

She found the lady’s restroom by the end of the room, but after she was done with her business, she heard a ‘bang’, something like a gunshot.

She was still hearing the sound of music, but she was sure she also heard a gunshot. She decided to peek through a door opposite the ladies’ restroom, and on getting to the door she staggered again and fell down the stairs.

She picked herself up. She felt pains all over her body, her hands had a cut and were bleeding. She was now regretting following a man she didn’t know.

She pushed back the door in front of her open, scanned the room, and saw her mystery man who was staring at her with so much disgust, then again, still confused, she looked around, and then it clicked to her that she must have interrupted something.

OMG! Drugs! She shrieked with fear.

Before she couldn’t say or do anything, she heard a bang on her head and everything suddenly went blank and she collapsed.