(Filippo Valentini)
I open my eyes, I don’t recognize where I am, I try to inhale air with more force, but the cloth on my nose hinders the passage of air, I run my hand over my face, I’m still wearing the mask.
How could I let this happen?! Dumb! Fool! Donkey!
I sit where I am and look around, white walls and several beds, this is the infirmary of the base.
“I thought I wasn’t going to wake up anymore,” Camily appears in my field of vision.
“Has anyone seen my face?”, I speak directly, can’t let anyone unnecessary know my identity, It’s going to be a lot of work to kill so many, better to avoid a massacre.
Although I won’t be able to kill them all, but anyway, if I don’t kill most of them, I’m going to have serious problems with the other families, so I don’t want them to know.
Before my father’s death, I had planned to run away, I would live a fugitive life, but anything was better than continuing to live there. But then the Lord helped me by taking that bastard and my brother took his place. It would be very ungrateful of me to run away and leave everything in the hands of my brothers who always protected me in every way they could.
Matteo knew about my plan, so he decided to make a deal with me, they didn’t introduce me to the other families, I mean, they only know that the Valentini family has three heirs, but they have never seen my face. Or maybe… Have already seen me, I am very famous, and although I have never said anything about my personal life or the members of my family, maybe they already associated the names. Whatever, it’s too late now. Another day I talk to my brother about it.
“No one, I personally supervised all the procedure,” she answers and sits down on the couch in front of my bed.
“Excellent, what time is it?,” I ask and my mouth feels dry.
“Two o’clock in the afternoon, you won’t be discharged until tomorrow…”
“Cazzo, col cazzo!”, ‘Fuck, no way’, I curse in Italian and get up, I have better things to do than to stay here.
“Watch your mouth, agent zero-two-three,” Camily complains.
“I can’t stay here.”
“And why not?,” she also stands up, “You never stay here! I always have to call you or send you signals where to go, no one but me and the boss know your identity, why do you hide so much?”
I refrained from rolling my eyes, I met Camily when we were still cadets, she was very pretty, her green eyes and long blonde hair, I kissed her and she if I fell in love. I made up a lot of things not to date her, but then time passed, she became my boss and I started a world famous company, I got my face plastered on several magazines and she tried to get involved with me once again.
Apparently she won’t accept that I don’t love her, oh annoying fucking woman! Years had passed, but she continues with the feelings of a girl.
“You know very well the reason, Camily,” I say calmly.
“No, I don’t know, agent zero-two-three, or should I say, Filippo Valentini.
“Don’t say my name!,” I speak between my teeth. “I hate to have to tell you again, but I will tell go only one more time, I don’t want to live as a fugitive, full of men coming after me, I want to have the most normal life possible, it’s not because I work here that which I have to live like you, Americans,” I say part of the truth.
“I’m going to pretend to believe it, why don’t your parents have social networks?”
“That’s none of your business,” I don’t care if I sounded rude, “I don’t have social networks too, it was my choice, mine alone and just like that parents, in this case, my mother, my father is already dead.”
“Why so much mystery about your family?”
“And what do you want to know about them for? What do you get out of it?”
“I know the names of all the relatives of the agents who work for me.”
“I’m not just any agent,” I answer with conviction.
“For me, yes,” she looks me up and down.
“Magari!,” ‘I wish,’ I roll my eyes, I’d like to be just anyone in this woman’s life.
“I demand that you tell me…”
“You don’t demand anything from me!,” I shout angrily, I hate it when they try to boss me around, “You don’t have that power, little boss,” I say mockingly, “Put yourself in your place, don’t forget who’s really in charge.”
“Bastard,” she says with clenched teeth, “Do what you want, ” she turns around and leaves the hospital room.
Finally some peace, I take my gun and keep it in the waistband of my pants, I’m still out of this base, I won’t go to company today, I’m going straight home, I need some time to assimilate everything that happened.
The streets are busy, but the traffic is not bad, one in a minute I look in the rear view mirror to see if there is someone following me, after feeling safer, I take off my mask and keep it in my glove compartment, I need to remember to get rid of this car tomorrow.
I never stay in the same car for long, and that time decreases when I have to go on a mission with it. My own colleagues may try to follow me to find out my identity. I am the captain of the alpha team, no one but the head of all the teams and her boss knows about my identity, and even though Camily is the head of all the teams, I have the protection of her boss, so I don’t reveal anything about myself to anyone.
I will have to kill them both before I go back to the mafia, regarding my documents they have access to, I also already planned how to end that, I already created a hacker who will do it for me.
Looking at it this way, it looks like I’m looking forward to going back to the origins, but that’s not it. I just don’t want to have a headache when this time comes. And from recent events, that time is already knocking at the door.
Fifteen years away from the mob, six years as an FBI agent and three years with the title of richest tycoon. And I’m only thirty-two.
I leave the car in the garage, pick up my cell phone and have two missed calls from Veronica. I need to get rid of her, she thinks just because we fucked once, she thinks she’s special, poor thing, she thinks she has the magic pussy. Smiling I open the living room door, but in less than half a second my laughter dies.
“What is she doing here?”