A proud smile spread across Rocco’s face, although, Lu couldn’t see his face but he knew Rocco would be dusting his shoulders as usual.
“Alita Roberto is the Alita you think she is” Rocco smirked, the surprised look on Lu’s face made him tense as he cleared his throat “I don’t mean to make you angry”
“Skip the formality, what did you know about the Alita you think I know” Lu sat up, his hands on the tables and his foot stamping the ground.
Rocco might just as well be joking!
Nobody knew about the Alita he knew, well not for sure if she is still alive or even in such a great condition. Because the little girl he couldn’t kill years ago look cute, innocent, and scared, not hot, over sexy, aggressive, and ready to fight.
He scoffed, placed his elbows on the table, and buried his head in his huge palms.
“I don’t know how it worked out well or how she had escaped and survived but Alita and Gio are children of a couple your father had executed long ago” Rocco started “When I checked, I was still in your father prison when you went with him. If I am not mistaken, I would say you know her as Alita Roberto the daughter of Casey and Jay Roberto who escaped with her one-day-old brother Gio twelve years ago”.
Hell yeah!
Lu went rigid, his heart began to pound loudly as his jaw began to move. He raised his head and sighed. Not his night mare coming back at him, why now.
For thirteen whole year’s he had not slept a day without seeing her face. He always get to see that scared green eyes, begging him. He get to see that baby, tiny and sleeping peaceful while she cry her eyes out freezing to death.
“You don’t mean it, Rocco” Lu chuckled nervously “I know you are FUCKING KIDDING” he yelled the last part.
His pissed Italian accents do g him more evil same as Rocco’s amuse face. Behind the big man’s red face is a very high level of locked laughing gas.
“Where did you get the information from?” Lu asked dryly.
Rocco smiled, he walked to the windows and closed the blinds. He took the chair from the second table and sat opposite Lu with a weird smile spread across his face. For the first time in a while, Lu noticed his face scar that went across his left ear to his cheek and stop right below his eye. His neck tattoo unmistakable reveals the drawing of a dead bird.
“A poor soul” Rocco smirked “Ine poor that is dead now, saw a seventeen years old boy let the girl and the baby go” He started matter-of-fact manner.
Odd!
Lu did not move, he didn’t even flinch a muscle as he had learned how to control his expression and real emotions.
Memories of the scared girl with the green eyes haunt him, not just that, The baby she was carrying too. He couldn’t get to shoot her, he couldn’t get to tell his father that there was also a girl that look like an angel and she was carrying a baby. The girl look so scared and innocent that he couldn’t help to lie it was nothing.
He could not tell his father he was and is still scared over his first kill, the girl’s father. He could not tell his father that he could not harm the man and run away because he wants to be the favorite son, the son that gets everything done right.
“All clear, father”.
His own words ring back at him. Reminding him of that moment when he had to watch the girl close her eyes and prepare to die. Reminding when he held the pistol in front of her face while he shook like a freaking wet leaf!
Looking up to Rocco who now look a bit different. No more emotions, just his plain emotionless face gazing back at Lu.
“Why did you let her go, Sir?” Rocco asked, his voice low as he never want to offend the boss now “You couldn’t get to pull the trigger on her because of her green eyes? Cause that’s all I get you remember” he added with a bit of satire.
Call it obsession and he won’t deny it. The green eyes are so obsessive.
“Are you addicted to green eyes or just hers?”.
Still, Lu said not a word, for nothing that he would say can change the fact that his right man now knows his deepest secret.
The secret behind his green eyes dream.
“You know you can tell me anything, Lu” Rocco decided to go soft “We have been like brothers and you know I will never want to see you feel bad, not after I promise your father I will always be there for you”.
Bluffing.
Moving his legs simultaneously, Lu began to laugh hestorically. Not for long because he stopped secondd later like he didn’t just do that.
“It’s not what you think, Rocco” Lu finally said “She was so pure, sweet, and beautiful” he look straight into the thin air as if picturing her face “Would you have me pull a trigger on them too?”
Rocco nodded, his facial expression as he walked back to open the window blinds. He slapped a picture of Alita on the table and smiled.
“Can’t tell but I blow up the head of the woman I loved” Rocco grinned “Like a passageway