CRESS POV
As I sat on my chair, my mind racing, my chronic insomnia has become a familiar foe, I try everything, but I still can't sleep, it's honestly so suffocating.
And now the memory of Evie scream still lingers in my head.
"Damn that woman, she just had to scream at the moment I thought I could finally sleep," I muttered.
"I might as well kiss goodbye to any chance of sleep I thought I might have now."
Then I heard a soft knock on the door.
"Enter," I said
Matteo, my trusted friend and advisor, stepped inside.
"Trouble sleeping again," he asked.
I nodded.
"I just saw that girl Evie was her name I think, she looked devastated, did you do something?" he guessed.
My expression darkened.
"Forgetting her place and disturbing my peace," I snapped.
"Well you are the one that saved her and I still wonder why, all we had to do that day was to pick up the briefcase of the contract we were going to sign with the Bears syndicate," he said as he walked towards me,"You could have just left her there to die , I'm still surprised you actually chose to save her."
It's true I would never have saved her, but she will be a useful pawn to me in the mafia world. Evie Grede I had a few encounters with her before the day I saved her , a girl beautiful as she is dangerous.
Having such a person as a slave to me will definitely be useful, she is someone I could use around this mafia, but she will first have to learn her place.
" So, Matteo, why are you here?" I tried to deviate from the question.
" Ohh right, I'm here to inform you that the signed contract has been sent back to the Bears, and we should be hearing from them soon." He said, "Also ,the elders of the Marianos empire are beginning to act up again and again."
"Well I'm not surprised ,they were never happy that I became the lord and I have been killing a lot of their allies recently," I responded.
"Yes that is true and as for the bears?" Matteo asked.
"When we receive their own signed contract then we begin the oil business with them, also Matteo gets the cars ready. We need to go check the land where the oil will be gotten from and make sure everything is going well," I stated.
"Okay, I will go now, and we should be ready to leave in the next 20 min," he said as he left my room.
I know the elders will definitely try to find a way to disrupt this deal.
Those annoying elders, I can't have them disrupting this oil business now, and I have the perfect way to warn them and keep them at bay.
20 min passed, and I made my way to the oil mine, everything was going according to plan and that since the contract will be fully signed soon I can finally get the money for all this.
A few days passed, and the contract was sent back, and it did not take too long then we began the deal.
I sat in my office signing some papers, and then I heard a sound.
"Knock, knock!"
"Come in," I said.
Matteo came in and said,"Good day Cress, the oil work has already begun and the money coming in is estimated to be well over 1 billion euro and also the annual ball for all mafia groups is to take place this week." with a smile on his face.
"Well, that is good and to be expected," I replied.
"Also there are rumors that a few elders of the family are trying to sabotage the deal, and we have found evidence, what should we do about this," he asked.
"Well we just have to get rid of them, you know we the Marianos do not condo anyone who goes against their leader," I stated with a firm voice.
"Then should we have them get rid of them immediately at your command, that is."
"No I don't want the outside world to hear of this right now, especially not the bears, they mustn't think that we are having trouble inside the Marianos now," I said.
"So how do you intend to deal with the elders then?"
"Well you say the Marianos annual ball is next week right, then we just have to make an example of an elder there to get the rest in line,"I uttered.
"And how do you plan to do that?"
"Evie," I said
"Evie?, you mean the lady you just saved and is now a maid ?," Matteo asked.
"Yes her, the once heir to the former Grede family, a lady who has been trained to fight and kill from birth, the Grede were popular for one thing it was how meticulous they kill, she would be perfect for this," I stated.
"Are you sure about this? Would she be able to pull this off?"
I stood up from my seat and said"Well shall we ask her then, go tell the head maid to bring her here?"
Matteo left, and then a few min passed, and then he came in with Evie and madam Chen.
"Madam Chen, your presence is not needed here, you leave us," I said, and then she made her way out.
"Now Evie, I hope you have been adjusting to this place?," I asked.
"Yes, I have ," she replied with her head faced down.
"I'm sure you are curious why I called you here,"I said as I walked over to her and raised her head,"Well I called you here cause I want you to kill someone."
"What?" she muttered as she asked with a face stunned.
The shock on her face was rather interesting and funny to see,
"It seems like you didn't hear me well the first time, I said I want you to kill someone."