Page 29 of The Mafia's Property

“To calm your nerves. You looked like you were about to jump out of your skin.”

“So you were doing it save me. Is that what you’re saying?”

“I was doing it to save myself and my upcoming meeting. And it was a prelude.”

“Wh-what do you mean, prelude?”

“You heard me. You’re sleeping in my bed tonight.” He got up and soon he was making his way downstairs. Sleeping in his bed! What happened between I hate you and now that he was willing to have sex with me? I took out my phone and looked for Nico’s number. He wasn’t answering my texts, and he was ignoring my calls. Where the fuck was he? I shook my head. Wasn’t I supposed to be his and his only? If Nico found out, he might forgive his brother, but would he forgive me? Was there anything to forgive? I was so confused. But I didn’t have time for all of that because when Enrico came back, he had a man with him. My ‘job’ had begun.

The man he came with looked to be of middle-eastern descent. Tall, lithe, and handsome. Three men, who could only be described as bodyguards, accompanied him. They were looking around them and kept a distance away from the man in the middle. The moment he came in to our book, his gaze went to me immediately and he smiled. “You always keep beautiful women around you Rico,” he said. His gaze never left me the entire time he spoke. I didn’t need to know more about this guy to know that he was “that type” of guy. Enrico came over to sit beside me and said, “This is Freya. Freya, say his to Kalib, an old friend of mine.” I extended my hand for a handshake and he kissed it. Unlike Dante, whose kiss seemed perfunctory and could only be described as gallant, Kalib’s was more on the seductive end of the spectrum. And when he lifted his head, he continued to hold my hand in his until Rico cleared his throat. “Freya’s is not just my girlfriend Kalib, she works for me as my lawyer. She’s here to oversee this meeting. “

Kalib looked at me with renewed interest. “I never saw you as one to dabble in conflicts of interest,” he said to Enrico. She must be something special.

Enrico’s hand caressed my arm. “She is.” He gestured to the chair opposite ours and Kalib took the sit. The hostess from earlier came back with another tray of champagne and more glasses. I watched in fascination as she tried to muscle her way between Kalib’s bodyguards and Skits while also trying not to topple the wine and glasses on her tray. Somehow, she had a better job than the one I had found myself in.

“Are you ready to see sense?” Kalib said after the girl was gone. “There’s a lot of money to be made if you just let me work with you.”

“My answer is the same as always, no. And it will never change.”

Kalib leaned back in his chair and crossed his legs. “Where’s your brother? You two are rarely separate?”

“Europe.”

Kalib chuckled. “Are you going to say which part of Europe or do you want me to guess that as well?”

“He’ll come back soon if you miss him so much.”

“I kinda do, to be honest. At least he would have agreed with me.”

Enrico poured himself a glass of wine and poured me another one as well, and handed it to me. I was glad for the glass. Having something to hold in my hands made them less clammy. He squeezed my arm, and I remembered what he had said I needed to do. I rubbed my hips against him and leaned slightly on his shoulder. Was that too much? Would a girlfriend lawyer be as overt in her PDAs? “Nico would have bluntly told you to go fuck yourself. That’s why you’re dealing with me. You’re getting the nice twin.”

“Is that it?” Kalib said, and I belatedly realized he was speaking to me. “What do you think of the deal?”

I scrambled to think of what to say. The problem was Enrico’s cologne. It was making it hard to think of anything else other than the orgasm he gave me only a few minutes ago. Enrico said he didn’t want to sell it. It was better to go with him than against him. “It’s not about the money you’re offering. The club enjoys exclusivity.” was that true? It seemed like it judging by the way it was difficult to get in and all the A-listers around. “And that’s hard to get, no matter how many other clubs you pour your money into. Those other places don’t have the same edge this place has.” I took a sip of wine and hoped I sounded like I knew what I was talking about.

“Ah. So you’ve heard about my little jaunts about town. I thought those purchases were secret,” he said.

“I do my research,” I said. Was that convincing?

Kalib chuckled. Oh, no. “No wonder you fell in love with her,” he said. “A woman who knows her stuff and is as beautiful as you. She’s a keeper.”

Enrico brushed his lips against my neck and I almost jolted out of my chair from the surprise but managed to calm myself down and act like it was the most normal thing in the world to feel his lips against my skin. My hand went to his thigh, and I rubbed it slowly, inching up to his groin and then drawing back. “I know,” Enrico said.

“Is she the one telling you not to get me in on the deal?”

Enrico let go of me and leaned forward. “She’s the one who showed me I do need more investors. But if you want to buy a non-controlling stake, I am all ears.”

Kalib put down his glass and folded his hands. His head tilted from side to side as if he was contemplating on what Enrico was saying. “A non-controlling stake of what percentage? Ten? Fifteen?”

“Five.”

Kalib bellowed out, laughing. “Pussy has turned your brain to mush if you think I’ll accept a percentage that low for what I assume will be the same amount I was asking for at fifty.”

“You get to be in good company when you invest with us. And, we’re in the middle of expanding. Who knows where we might take this venture? Our brand could soon go international.”

“I heard about the,” he made a throat-cutting gesture. “end of a certain empire and that it was your doing? Is that true?”

“People like to talk. “

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