Just as Albert left the room, the two men made their way to the parked SUV already waiting for their departure, Albert sat on the passenger seat, his dark eyes showing his anger clearly.
In a couple of minutes they reached the Mansion. Without even bothering for the driver to park the car, Albert rushed towards the entrance barging into the house.
"Where is she?" Albert's voice rang through the halls.
"Vincent!!?" He roared again, his voice echoing round the thick walls of the Mansion.
"Here! Boss... she is in the medical room" Vincent replied rushing downstairs at full speed.
"I have set up an IV for her. Though she lost a lot of blood from the slit on her vein, I managed to stop the bleeding." Luciana informed the men that had entered in the room.
Even after all the cameras installed in the building, Annabelle still managed to escape from her room. What angered Albert more was that she wasn't caught until one of the guards saw her climbing up the back fence of the Mansion.
Albert glared at Vincent who was already thinking about the wrath he was going to have to face later. He was well aware about his mistake and was ready to pay for it too. How can he not notice the girl opening the back gate of the building.
After all he had to take care of the security, he had alarms installed of anyone intruded the gates without permission. No one had ever tried escaping before, how could he make such a foolish mistake.
Albert was not only angry at Vincent and the other bodyguards in the house but he was extremely surprized at Annabelle's braveness too.
The girl he knew a few days back would curl up into a ball and cry every minute but to think of an escape when the Mafia Lord was away for business purposes had him thinking, was she really that innocent or was it all an act.
Though Albert was fearless, he had his own worries. He was constantly frustrated about the fact that the same things from two years ago would happen all over again causing him to loose everything he had worked hard for all these years.
It took him two years of hard work to stand where he was today and he did not want anything to effect his reputation anymore. He had spend number of sleepless nights just to clear put everything in plan.
Albert wanted to scream at the girl's lying body in front of him. He walked closer to Annabelle's lean body on the bed.
"I told you not to do anything stupid!" he whispered to the unconscious girl in front of him as if she could hear him loud and clear.
"Don't tell me you did something to harm her body!" Albert questioned not even bothering to shift his eyes from Annabelle.
"I had to inject her with benzodiazepines in order for her to fall unconscious" Vincent replied scratching the back of his neck.
He looked at Mark's direction indirectly asking for help.
"Uh... Albert, she'll be completely normal in an hour or two. The drug Vincent injected her with is not harmful to the body. Don't worry!" Mark explained trying to calm down his Boss.
The tension in the room only grew as Albert remained silent. "You know she has to go under surgery! Will it effect the procedure?" this time he directed his question towards Luciana.
"No, but she already has a very weak body. It will at least take a month for us to operate on her!" Luciana replied as she inserted a new needle on Annabelle's left hand that eas unharmed.
Confused at the conversation in the room, Vincent finally asked "Why does she need an operation for such a minor cut?" He looked at all the four people present in the room.
Mark simply shrugged his shoulders while Luciana looked towards Albert waiting for him to answer the curious men, but the latter was already in deep thoughts.
"Albert!.." Luciana called out breaking his train of thoughts.
"Nothing that needs your concern!" Albert looked at the two men and stood up from his chair.
Taking out a cigarette from his pocket, Albert lit it up and took in a long puff of his cigarette and then sighed, blowing a steady steam of smoke.
"What's got you thinking so hard?" It was Luciana's turn to question the disturbed man.
Albert looked around and a deep chuckle left his throat, one that was definitely not out of happiness. Trying his best to surpass his anger he punched the wall right beside the window, leaving a clear crack.
"ONE JOB! YOU ALL HAD ONE FUCKING JOB!" Albert alpha voice resonated the entire room. The three present felt a chill run down their spine. "ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS TO KEEP A FUCKING EYE ON HER!" Albert's sudden outburst left the others in pure terror.
"YO-" just as he was about to speak again, Annabelle's body shifted slightly rustling the bedsheet, indicating that she was finally regaining conscious.
Albert dropped his cigarette on the floor, crushing it while walking towards the bed.
He noticed the bandaged hand and shook his head in dissatisfaction. Poking his cheeks from the inside with his tongue, Albert waited as the girl still hadn't opened her eyes.
Mark and Vincent maintained their safe distance while Luciana sat down beside Annabelle and lightly patted her cheeks. "Can you hear me?" She asked the girl whose furrowed eyebrows tild obviously that she was having a nightmare.
Unable to wake up from the nightmare, tears streamed down Annabelle's face. Her body started trembling and her hands curled up in a fist.
The girl was in burning pain, her mind was creating scenarios that made it impossible for her to get out of the maze she had fallen into.
Albert looked at Annabelle's condition and his anger subsided. He held her fragile hands in his strong ones and bend towards her ear. Whispering sweet nothings, he rubbed circles round her palm trying to calm her mind first.
Seeing how her breathing was even once again Luciana injected Annabelle with another dose of chlordiazepoxide (Librium). Her then furrowed eyebrow's were now calm.
Albert who still hadn't lwt go of het hand looked at Annabelle and caressed her cheeks softly.
"When is she going to regain conscious?" he asked as calmly as he could.
"Almost in an hour" Luciana replied looking at the time on the clock right across her.
"Keep a close eye on her, don't make me repeat myself" Albert walked out of the room making sure his warning was clear enough for everyone in the room to understand.
Sitting in his library, his mind couldn't stop thinking about Annabelle. When Mark had informed him about the incident that happened in the Mansion, Albert was furious. What he couldn't understand was how did the girl manage to pass all the bodyguards alootted in different parts of the house.
Was she always this smart)
Was someone helping her ruin his plan?
Whatever it was, Albert wanted to get to the route of this and the investigation would start from the demonic Cosa Nostra's mansion itself.