(NFTMB)Chapter 58
Alessandro
(Five Hundred Ways To Kill You)
World stop.
That was what it felt like with Niccolo’s reaction to my shocking news.
I don’t blame him though. He ought to feel that way. It’s a tough news to bear. Even I myself when caught on my worst days would take a moment to sink everything in.
“What?”
He was still reeling from the information, still going round it in his mind.
Even his body language was in accord. He has been clenching and unclenching his fist.
“Yes. Fabiano must have promised to be her sponsor. He must have made her shiny promises to make her a star”
“But I told her I would do that for her”. He muttered to himself.
It made me sick to see the amount of stupidity Niccolo had been swimming in all because of a girl anybody can have.
That’s true.
I had caught her making lusty eyes at me and that’s all the more reason why I hated her as much as I did.
It’s not a matter of what Niccolo can do for her, rather it’s a case of she can’t keep it in her pants.
She’s a wayward woman. Immoral and sexually perverse. Niccolo alone wouldn’t be able to quench her fire.
She’s a wanton woman. It’s in her blood. It’s quite surprising that Niccolo, who is the man between the two of them, is quite faithful but his highly opinionated woman is the one that has been around the block.
“It doesn’t matter, brother. She’s a bad girl, she can’t help it”
“How did you find out about this?”
“Research. Facts. Background check. Pity, you fell in love and lost your mind. I just hope for your sake that she is clean. Did you get her checked up before diving in?”
“How do you expect me to run a background check on the woman I love?! It’s nobody’s fault but yours that you have never been in love”
“Oh yes, you’re right about that but at least I wouldn’t bother about the so-called woman I love having sex with my uncle! Right under my nose without me knowing a thing!”
After my outburst there was quietness in the office as his heavy breathing was the only thing that could be heard in the room.
“Where the fuck is Fabiano! I’ll kill him myself and I’ll kill Jasmine too”
“No, Fabiano is mine to kill”
“And who the fuck made that law?”
“I did”
“Bullshit, Alessandro! He messed with me! Not you! He fucked my girl right under my nose! I’d said I get to pull the trigger this time”
“No, you don’t!”
“And who the hell says I can’t!”
“I do! And as the head of this family, Niccolo Elio Rossi, you will do as I say!”
“Bullshit!”
“Go against me and you will see the other side of me, Niccolo! You wouldn’t want to go up against me!”
“So, what do you expect me to do! Sit around, fold my arms and do nothing?! Jesus Christ, Sandro! Put yourself in my shoes”
“Why the fuck would I be in your shoes? Do I look like a loser to you?”
“So I’m a loser?”
“Yes, you are. You’re a loser, Nic because you lost your damn mind in between the legs of a woman! A very ungrateful woman!”
“How was I supposed to know? How was I supposed to know that Jasmine would do something as sneaky as this”
“This is more than sneaky. This is heinous and unacceptable, Nic. You should punish her. She shouldn’t get away with this”
He slowly dragged himself to the side opposite mine and sat down with his head in his hands.
I looked at him as I smoked my cigar and I noticed something about him.
Niccolo is unstable. Emotionally and mentally.
One moment he’s hot and the other he’s cold.
This girl really did a number on him.
“Nic”
“What now, Alessandro. Come to hurl more insults at me? Talk about how I’m a failure and a let down? That I’m a loser?”
“No”
“Then what is it?”
“What did you do to her?”
“Jasmine?”
“Yes. I watched the footage”
He looked at me with an annoyed expression on his face.
“What do you think?!”
“Did it work?”
“How the fuck am I supposed to know so early? Actually at this point I wish it wouldn’t work.
I’d be disgusted if someone like her becomes the mother of my child! I’m even disgusted by myself for having sex with someone who has slept with my uncle”
“You have a point there. Fabiano has been in there. It would even be difficult to believe her when she says the baby is yours”
“Yeah. I doubt it worked though. Jasmine is always on the pill”
“Fantastic then”
“Yeah, whatever”
“Calm yourself, Nic. You’re getting angry”
“How can I not get angry?”
“I know you ought to be angry but for now you need to think rationally. Fabiano is a sly old fox who might probably have found out that we’ve caught on to him and Jasmine”
“Whatever, Sandro!”
He says in anger getting up from the chair.
“You deal with that perverted, sick old bastard, Fabiano while I deal with Jasmine”
“That’s a fair deal”
I watched him make his way till the door before turning like he forgot something.
“And you might want to keep an eye on Valentino and your girl, Victoria. They seem to be getting quite close. Even mother saw it”
He left.
He walked out of the door immediately after saying that like he had not just dropped a whole missile in the room.
Valentino and Victoria?
Were they sneaking around behind my back? Would my own blood brother betray me in the cruelest of ways?
I put out the light on my cigar and made my way to the one person I needed to have a word with.
I walked right past Amara who looked at me with expectation but I wasn’t in the mood for that.
I didn’t bother knocking as I stormed into Valentino’s wing of the mansion to see him doing something on his laptop.
His eyebrows were pinched so closely together that you can tell he’s quite engrossed in whatever it is that he was doing.
I didn’t care about what he was working on as I snapped the computer shut making him look up at me with anger.
“What the hell is your problem, caveman?! I was working on something there!”
“That is none of my concern, Valentino”
“What do you want now? What brings you here?”
“What is going on between you and Victoria?”
And there was silence in the room. He didn’t know what to say.
I had caught him off guard.
I watched his face and every feature on it as he was having an internal debate with himself.
Finally,
One thing about Valentino Orlando Rossi is that he is a master at turning his emotions off and on.
Just like a fucking light switch.
You can’t tell what he’s thinking. You don’t know what goes on in his head when he’s looking at you.
Five hundred ways to kill you with a smile on his face. That’s Valentino.
“There is nothing going on between Victoria and I. We’re just friends”
“Friends you say? That’s not what I heard, Val”
“So, what did you hear?”
He asked that question with so much carelessness that he could deceive a thousand people that there was nothing going on between the two of them.
I had noticed it before but I didn’t think anything of it.
Mary hadn’t been at work for a while now so Victoria was kind of alone with nobody on her side since she and Amara definitely couldn’t be friends.
I had only made it out to be mere friendship between Victoria and Valentino since it was quite expected to see her gravitate towards him, he’s nicer, friendlier and more of a gentleman than the rest of us.
Every girl would like a perfect Mr. Romantic with a shit ton of spare cash to spend.
“I heard you both were quite too close for comfort. You know how I feel about that Valentino”
Still, there was nothing there. There was nothing to read on his face. No expression, no emotion and most of all, no slip up.
“And who told you this? Let me guess, the raging lunatic who beat his girlfriend to a pulp at breakfast?”. He said with the most refined and calmest voice I’ve ever heard.
No, I would rather deal with a crying and wailing criminal who would admit to his fault than a staunch and stone faced person like Valentino.
“He has his reasons for doing what he did”
“Just like you had a reason for hitting Victoria too?”
“Stay out of things that don’t concern you, Valentino. And most certainly keep your hands away from Victoria”
“So I’m not permitted to be within the same vicinity as my sister in law? You’re really losing your mind like Niccolo, aren’t you Alessandro?”
“Watch your words, Valentino!”
“Or what?! You would shoot me too just like you shot Sebastian and then shot that boy dead?”. He says getting up to look me dead in the eyes.
“You’re my brother and regardless of what you think of me, I would never hurt my own blood brother”
“Wow, I’m honored”. He said with no atom of gratitude or appreciation. Just pure unfiltered sarcasm.
He didn’t even blink his eyes.
I would have to find another technique if I wanted to teach Valentino a lesson and keep him away from my girl for good.
“I’m warning you, Valentino. Keep your distance otherwise it won’t end well”.
“Then you should damn well learn how to treat your woman right!”
“Mind your own damn business! I won’t repeat myself”
He stared me down without saying a word before I left his room in anger slamming the door on my way out.
I walked out of that wing to meet Amara still wiping the surfaces diligently.
For fuck’s sake!
“Amara!”
“Yes, sir?”
“In my office now!”