Ugo kept giving Rocco suspicious stares as they walk Alita into a room in the same building. Although he had no idea about Alita being his master’s new pet it’s still a death sentence for a worker to have anything doing with any person been made as collateral, to be sold, or even meant to just be held to think about his or her fate next time.
“What’s wrong, Rocco?” Alita whispered behind Ugo where she and Rocco walked hand in hand.
Her eyes wandered as she caught glimpse of a tattoo at the back of Ugo’s hand, it looked familiar but she couldn’t get where she had seen it or how connected she feels it is. She looked away with a weird sad look on her face and made up her mind to mind her own business. Upon how she tried she couldn’t ignore it until she knew when she had seen it.
“Rocco” she whispered, “His tattoo” she tugged his sleeve “It matches the one at-” she froze as Rocco untangle his fingers with her, his face straight and cold.
She stared up at Rocco’s face and tears filled her green eyes as he remained silent. Slowly, he unchanged their fingers and walked ahead of Ugo to open the door for her. She noticed he kept avoiding her face and staring at Ugo in a way she doesn’t understand or might be yet to find out.
“The party is still on downstairs,” Ugo said, pointing the lingerie on the bed and a sly smirk appeared on his face “The boss ask you to wear this and wait for him”
His expression remain calm and light as he walked to the door, opened it, and waited for Rocco who didn’t move an inch.
“Please give us some time alone” Rocco pleaded “Let me know if anything comes up”
Ugo grinned, he looked at Alita who flinched a little bit and took a few steps away. Not even up to two seconds after he closed the door, he burst in again with a weird smile on his face.
“Have to make it faster” He said to Rocco “Lu would be up in ten” his cold gaze stopped on Alita’s body, his lips twisted into a frown as she hugged herself feeling insecure.
Twenty seconds passed when Ugo shot the door, Rocco swallowed, literally making the first noise. He moved back as Alita tried to hold him and instantly regretted his actions. His sad face shrieked into a cold glare as he adjust shoulders, making popping sounds as he strengthened his neck.
“What do you want to tell me?” Alita decided to start “That you don’t like me or you will help me out from this mess?”
Her face show nothing but pain and hopelessness as she stared at Rocco’s steel face. Angrily, she wipe out the tears rolling down her red cheeks as she stomped towards him, placed both palms on his broad chest, and pushed. At first, he didn’t move until she pushed him again, harder.
“Chicken!” She yelled, “If you don’t have anything to say, get the fuck out!”
Rocco opened his mouth to say something but closed it back. He couldn’t get to tell Alita that he loves her more than life itself and would do anything to keep her close and safe. He closed his moist eyes tight as a flashback of the meeting he had with Lu because of Alita replayed for the hundredth time since the encounter.
‘Have anything to do with her again and I will send her off’ Lu said, his face mean just like he meant his words ‘I will send her to China where someone can pick her and use her as the worst slave’
For what felt like an eternity, Rocco just stared at Lu’s face, trying to see how he had been friends with such a monster. Even when he begged that he would do any job assigned to him just to but Alita but his boss still refused.