He was sure to brush his teeth well and wash his morning face, the thought of Jordan perceiving his morning bad breath made him chuckle. Since he was sure of having very hot sex the previous night, he wouldn’t want his body to smell of sex when he interrogate the snitch. He cracked his knuckles as he imagined how it would do a very good art on Luca’s face.
Walking out of the bathroom naked, his intention was to, first of all, freeze his room camera if Jordan had unfrozen it after taking Alita out. He wouldn’t have the boy spying on him in his house, if not that he want to catch the rat, the first thing he would have done is to remove the whole cameras in his rooms, offices and leave the rest.
Lu was about going to remove the cameras on his windows when he saw Jordan. The boy stood still wiggling his fingers as he stared at Alita in lust, it look like he was scared to carry her and his eyes were glued to her nipples that were peeking through the thin fabric of her bra.
He watched as Jordan act like he became compelled, the young man slowly wandered in his imagination as he stretched his fingers to touch her nipples beneath. The smile on the boy’s face was priceless and annoying that Lu couldn’t wait to change it.
He nearly burst into laughter as he watch the smile genuinely vanish after he slapped him hard at the back of his neck.
“Make sure to call me Luca on your way out” Lu’s cold gaze locked with Jordan’s scared ones.
The boy quickly threw Alita over his shoulder, covered her body with the blanket Lu gave him.
“Tell him to meet me at the basement immediately” he ordered.
Ugo stood with his hands crossed together behind him. For the past five minutes, he had been watching Lu interrogate Luca and it haven’t been going well for him. He wished he could do something, something fast for the situation but he felt helpless at the moment.
“Look at you, Luca,” Lu said angrily “I know you can barely see me from your left eye”
The disgusted look on Lu’s face could tell all.
Lucas sat hapless on the steel chair, his lips and nose were bleeding furiously. Both eyes appear swollen, the left one looked almost covered if not fully covered, the right was bad looking too but he could at least see through it. His neck and chest had fresh bruises, his arms were tied to the chair and his arms and wrist had red marks caused by the tight tie.
“Fucking speak up!” Lu punched him again “You know I can do this all day”
His fists clenched as he rain them on Luca’s face yelling at the same time. His face shows no emotion but deep Inside he felt bad, Luca’s face wasn’t giving him hope and he doesn’t want to kill him. He thought about his poor child and wife, even if he could pay them every month, the pain of losing the loved one would remain.
He took a hand towel Ugo offered and wiped the blood in his palms, his knuckle was bruised and it reminds him of the old days where he had to return from training with familiar injuries. He caught glimpse of regret and pain in Luca’s eyes and it melted his heart.
“Clean him up and lock him” Lu ordered, he looked at Ugo again and his expression went cold as always “I will break and fix you until you give up”
With that, he was out of the basement, making sure to bang the iron door to make Ugo and Luca flinched. For Ugo, it was like his heart jumped out of his body as he wait in silence, waiting to make sure Lu had gone far.
“You know what you have to do” Ugo whispered to Luca “You won’t fucking say a word”
His fist fold as he groaned and walk around the room angrily, he doesn’t like the way Luca was snubbing him and he feels like he would be in danger if nothing gets done. He lifted Ugo’s face with his index finger and scoffed.
“Vito won’t want to look at this face” He voiced sternly “If you talk, Zeno would kill your boy” he removed his hand and wiped the blood on his fingers on Luca’s trousers.
After staring at the wounded man that remained silent, he nodded and turned to go. His mind kept raising, contemplating if he should kill Luca and frame it suicide or wait for orders from his father, he brought out his phone from his pocket and dialed a number on it.
“Father,” he said immediately the person picked the call “Luciano found out about Luca and he is interrogating him. Should I kill him”
He waits in silence, listening to the person at the other end of the phone. He doesn’t really look happy with the person’s response, he glared back at Luca and smirked.
“What if we make it look like suicide?” He suggested with a smile on his face, the smile instantly vanished “fine, I won’t touch him” he moved away from Luca and cleared his throat “I think Alita found out that Luciano and his father killed her parents. I saw then talking over the camera and she tried to kill him”
Luca moved, he raised his head up and stared at Ugo, His mind kept analyzing why Ugo and Zeno would want to hurt Luciano. In all the years he had known his boss, he had never done anything unreasonable.
“I’m sorry I couldn’t get the rest because the camera video went off, by the time it came on board, she was nowhere to be found, not even in any of the rooms in the Building” he paused for a while.
Felt been watched and turned back to see Luca in the same position, his neck was down, his body messy and it looked like he had passed out for saliva and blood was coming out from his mouth. He nodded in correspondence with what the person at the other end was telling him.
“Accordingly to Rocco, Alita means a lot to Luciano” he continued “If we can get her, we would be able to convince Luciano to hand over to us or we kill her ” he looked back to check if Luca was listening then moved away.
“Amara too can be used as collateral damage” he continued “I can’t really tell who he loves more between them both because if he could attempt to kill his a friend like Rocco, he might as well do more for her”
The conversation went on as he kept staring back to see if Luca had really passed out, with the last reply, he put the phone back in his pocket.
“We can get your son’s finger delivered to you each day you try to talk,” He said to Luca.
His brows lifted as Luca didn’t answer then he shrugged, there was no need to talk to someone that has passed out. As for cleaning him up as Lu had instructed, he might consider doing it later.
Three days has passed and Lu would come each day to torture Luca, he would make sure to come with Ugo. He would also make sure to give him fresh bruises adding to the treated ones that are healing.
Not a day would pass where Ugo wouldn’t see Mia walk to Lu’s look with bread and water. He knows Lu would never each such and it might be for Alita but since she is not in his room, Lu might be the only one that knows where he had kept her.
For the heartless man to feed the girl with just bread and water once a day shows he has no heart. Technically, there is a heart in Lu’s chest but it might as well be used to only pump blood in his body. He began to wonder how He would love her and still make her eat just hard bread and water.
Meanwhile, Ugo had been looking for Alita, be would make sure to look everywhere but couldn’t find her. All the basements and dungeons were empty except the one where Luca was kept. Every moment, he would be tempted to ask Lu but he fear the young man might suspect him so he remain quiet.
“You called for me,” Ugo said as he joined Lu in his office.
Recently, he noticed Lu calling his attention to everything but wouldn’t let him know the main plan for it. He had talked about ending Luca’s pain but didn’t tell him how far he would do it.
“Have a seat” Lu said, he pointed at a free chair on his other table then in front of him “Zeno had announced a family reunion” he continued as Ugo settled in his chair “I want you to inform Cage and Stefano, the party is two days”
Ugo’s brows lifted forming wrinkles on his forehead, he fold his arms and pretend to be surprised.
“It’s somehow short notice but we have to be prepared” Lu began to press something on his phone “Wait for my direct order, not from anyone but me,” he said last and focused on his phone.