*BOOM BOOM*
There was it, what? the bastard, Daniele couldn't seem to trust was holding the trigger, seemed terrifying as his hands were shivering with an unknown reason to Daniele. He turned around to get a look at him, and his eyes went wide with surprise and there was Luca felt unbothered with the situation they were in.
"What are you doing here?" said the cold tone of Daniele, and his hands backed from the trigger, in addition, his footsteps fell on the surface creating the sound of thump with every step in his direction while his eyes held pure resentment for his betrayal, although he didn't trust him with anything but his guts to pull his tricks on the most feared mafia, was a bit surprising for Daniele.
"Why do you seem surprised?" said the man with the holding of feared expression.
He smirked and titled his head with the tip of the gun, "Oh!" he mouthed and out of the blue he hit the side of his face with the corner of the gun which soon made him bleed.
"You-" the end. And the loud sound fell in the atmosphere and the blink of an eye, there was the body of him lying unconscious on the floor.
He bounced and kicked his body to the side, further walking towards Marco, who held no expression but appeared to be shocked with the death of his loyal men.
"I knew you planned this," said the harsh voice of Daniele, while getting seated beside the space of Luca, "It was a nice trick you pulled by the way," said the person beside Daniele, Luca.
* * *
"How did it happen?" the sound of breaking of the glass, heaved the burden on Eleonora, the moment, the news dropped in her ears that Marco got caught by the Italians.
"They tracked his location, and-" the voice of the men was cut off, by her shouts which shook the figure of her men.
"SHUT UP, AND DO WHAT IS NEEDED," she said, and he nodded while leaving the space.
"Let's see how you save her," she mouthed and smirked in the reflection of her in the mirror while inhaling the smoke of cigarettes.
* * *
"You think, after killing me you would set yourself free," said Marco, with the confidence in his tone, but then for a moment, his voice rumbled as Luca attended the tools kept on the table, he swallowed the fear of being tortured to death but somewhere his fronts didn't seem to wrinkled with that fact.
"Are you wishing for death?" Luca said while tipping the sharpening of the knife in his hands, eyeing it with a grimace on his face.
Felt helpless to utter any words, Marco coughed while soon having the sight of the blood of his hand.
And the silence reigned between them, which wasn't appearing awkward to any of them but the more the silence, the more his throat tightened as the steps of Luca approached his figure. He wasn't scared of his life, as he was mafia so of course, his death wasn't the worry of his concern but Eleonora, he realised that she would have to deal with them alone, and it might be the biggest rivalry in her life.
"Let's keep it simple, hm?" said Luca while sounding more like a psycho as his fronts appeared the same, it did nothing but heightened the tension between the two.
"What do you want?" Marco uttered, he knew that there was something they needed to accomplish with his death, so coming up straight to the point, made sense to Marco.
"Eleonora," Luca whispered
"What?" he mouthed with wide eyes as it was surprising for him, to hearken that utterances,
"What do you mean by Eleonora? Marco's voice cracked as he dared to question that.
" I want her and you will make it happen," that was what, every mafia do with the life of others, frightened people to interpret their commands. So was the situation now however it was next to impossible as Marco loved her, so he wouldn't ever think of that.
"Don't think of that," Marco said with the hint of confidence in his voice.
"Come again?" Luca taunted
"DON'T THINK OF THAT," he whined with the gritted teeth and struggled to win against the grip of bails around his body.
"Ah!" however the punch from Luca seemed unexpected to Marco, and the blood got the sight.
"Leave him," and the interaction of the two was hindered the utterances of Daniele, as he kept tight-lipped from the start.
"Let's meet again," Luca said and they both left the security of him to the guards in the basement.
"Why do you want her?" Daniele asked with a heavy sigh.
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"Why you were talking to her?" the anger poured into the words, as he got demoralized with the mention of that woman in his existence. With the heavy footsteps, he sauntered closer to their presence.
"What happened? Why do you come across to be angry?" Jin-Ae asked without any clue about his rage while holding the phone in another hand, and seemed to forget about the conservation with Jae.
"Don't mind," uttered in annoyance and took away the phone from her holding.
"Brother?" she spoke with surprise.
"You don't have to give her a call," he mouthed away from the common space and hung up the call without further talking and backed off the phone into her hands.
"What was that?" she asked whereas Sung-Ho sensed not to intervene in their private matters, as he stood in silence.
"Don't talk to her," these were the only words that came out of him, and the next moment, he walked inside the house, leaving her confused with his behaviour but he didn't seem to care about her, however about Jae, his mom.
"Why is he behaving like that?" Jin-Ae said and looked up at him, giving him a look that was clueless for him too.
"Don't worry, I guess he would be concerned about you, have this," those comforting words made her smile, and then they both had time together without any disturbance, neither the behaviour of Ji-Hoon bothered her anymore.
* * *
"What does want from her now?" he threw the phone on the mattress and loosen the tie with the frustration building inside him.
"What happened?" Ari approached him with a confused look and stood against him.
For a moment, he didn't utter anything but then he escaped the heaved sigh and connected sight with her, and she paused for him to explain her.
"Jin-Ae received a call from her,"
"Her?"
"Mom," he said and seated on the edge of the bed while supporting the head in the palm resting on the knees.
"What is bothering then?" Ari didn't seem to have any issue with that but his behaviour of him was something that was needed to be attended to, and it happened as she also grabbed the space beside him, keeping his hand over his biceps, "You don't know what she did in past?" he said.
"Yeah, I know but I don't think she still carries the hatred for Jin-Ae, moreover she tried to wish on her birthday even, I guess she is feeling sorry for past happening," Ari was right, but those words had no effects on him, considering his thinking. As again he couldn't let the past repeat just because of stupidity that she would have changed.
"You don't know that Ari, I can bet that she wouldn't change herself but think of some dirty trick to pull on Jin-Ae again," he said while facing her, Ari could smell the worry building inside him, as his expression was hinting her.
"But you don't have to worry about that, she isn't here to harm her," she cupped his face and caressed the side of it with the thumb.
"I am worried about Jin-Ae, and even she is far that doesn't mean she wouldn't do anything," now his tone was soft and pleading which crept the smile on her face.
"But why are you thinking like that,-" she was cut off him as he gripped the wrist of her hand, and pecked it lovingly.
"I don't want to think but that incident makes me worried, I'm afraid that what if something like that happens again, and I can't risk it," he said.
"Alright, but don't worry about that and go get a shower, I am going downstairs," Ari said with the smile appearing on her face, she wanted to comfort him from all for worries, he was getting involved with.
While pressing the lips into the thin line, he nodded and embraced her into his big arms.
"Alright," he mouthed and got away while pulling from the hug.
"Go and get downstairs for dinner," she said, and got up to get downstairs, but the moment she swirled, and the moment Ji-Hoon got away from the sight of her, the sight of Jin-Ae standing at the entrance of their shared bedroom surprised them.
"What were you talking about?" she asked when their sights connected.