(NFTMB)Chapter 83
Niccolo
(The Wedding Dress)
Suit….. check
Bow tie….. check
Cufflinks…… check
Gun…… safely tucked into my holster.
I slicked back my hair while looking at the mirror in the bathroom.
I look party ready. I’ve got everything I need.
All except one.
I opened the cabinet above the mirror and opened it to pick the ambrosia I needed in my system tonight if I was going to make it through without lashing out and losing grip of my insanity.
My antidepressants.
I took a pill and gulped it down before agreeing that I was really going to have a good time tonight.
Maybe.
I walked out of the bathroom and saw Jasmine.
“Yoo, Jasmine! What the fuck are you doing wearing that dress?! Take off that dress right now!”
“Why!”
“Because I told you to! That’s among the costumes to be auctioned tonight!”
“Even better. I’ll give them a treat by modeling it then! They all should count themselves lucky to see me model this for them. They had better bid a million or ten for this million dollar body!”
“No! I said get that wedding dress off of your body! Didn’t you already have a dress for tonight? Plus you gave your designer a new sketch as well! Take that fucking dress of immediately!”
She had put on a remake of my grandmother’s wedding dress which was supposed to be auctioned off tonight at a ridiculously expensive bidding.
Who the hell gave her this dress?
“No, Niccolo! Piss off!”
“How the fuck did you get yourself into that dress? Who gave it to you?!”
“Do I need anyone to show me around this museum of a house? I found it myself! And I put it on myself! Now leave me alone!”
“Look here, the moment I walk out that door and into the ballroom and you walk in wearing that? I’ll kill you. Mark my words, I will shoot you”
With that I left the room and made my way to the party.
All started already. Great.
“Nic!”
Alessandro.
I moved over to the place he motioned me to come towards.
“I left Victoria with Bianca, they’re surrounded by guards but there’s still no sight of any Russians”
I could sense the irritation in his voice as he threw his head back and swallowed the dark brown contents of his cup.
“Are you sure Sebastian didn’t fuck us over?”
It’s possible. The guy certainly isn’t to be trusted.
He has proved how shady and disloyal he can be and that’s why Alessandro doesn’t share his plans with him again.
The plan tonight was to deceive the Russians that we were going to be unarmed and unaware of their unwanted presence here tonight but turns out that they haven’t shown up yet.
Who knows if Sebastian hasn’t informed them of our plans to launch a counterattack on them if they come.
I’m very sure this was Sebastian’s doing.
He’s a rat and a mole.
“It’s possible. I was stupid enough to trust him and make the damn plan together with him”. Alessandro said in anger.
“Don’t blame yourself. You had no idea what he truly was or what we suspect him to be”
“Still I should have been more vigilant and alert. If this was Nicholas, he would have known a long time ago that Sebastian isn’t to be trusted.”
There it is.
That part of him that still compares himself to our dead loser of a father. Nicholas Rossi should remain and burn in hell.
“No, don’t do that! Don’t compare yourself to that dipshit Nicholas. You’re nothing like him.
Anybody could have easily trusted a man they’ve known since they were young.
It doesn’t mean you’re weak or a loser and it definitely shouldn’t make you compare yourself to a dead man”
He furiously ran his hands through his hair.
“Where is Valentino?”
“Valentino is where you will certainly find him. Where he is most popular.
Valentino is with the ladies”
Alessandro rolled his eyes.
“Of course”
“I was watching the footage from yesterday and I saw Jasmine pull Victoria into a corner and proceed to speak to her which I suspected were all bullshit talks from how Victoria reacted.
I don’t know the deal with her and Fabiano but I suggest you keep her away from me if you want to keep her alive for the rest of the night.
I’m not in the best of moods tonight so for her own safety, tell her to stay away from Victoria and me.
If she ever appears anywhere in front of me or Victoria tonight then the Cosa Nostra will be drinking her blood tonight”
It’s always Jasmine doing one stupid shit or the other.
“I’ll find her and keep her restrained.”
“You do just that if she plans to keep her silly head on her shoulders”
“You might want to know though, she put on grandmother’s dress for the gala.”
“Fuck! Who the fuck gave that to her?”
“I honestly don’t have a clue. She says she found it herself and put it on herself. I don’t understand what nonsense she was yapping about but I told her to take off the dress before coming here”
He laughed in a wry manner.
“And you think she will listen to you?”
What does that mean?
“Of course!”
“If you say so. If I see a scratch on that dress then she’s dead meat. Understand?”
“Crystal”
“I’ll go check on the guards and that Sebastian”
“Yeah that sounds just about right. We shouldn’t relax with him around.”
“If I catch him doing any funny shit I’ll put a bullet or two in him”
“In who? Is it me?”.
We both turned at the sound of Fabiano’s voice.
“Fabiano! What are you doing here!”
“Alessandro, good evening nephew. What a nice party you’ve organized. It takes me right back to England. It perfectly boring”
“Shut up and walk away if you don’t like it!”
“And why would I do that? This party has been in existence long before you ever dreamt to exist. A child like you can’t possibly tell me what to do!”
Alessandro walks closer to Fabiano standing face to face with him as I slowly gripped my holster in readiness in case Alessandro planned to release fire
I would be his backup.
“A child like me can kill you”. Alessandro said, making all the color drain from Fabiano’s face.
I released my hand from my holster seeing as Alessandro didn’t need a bullet to shut him up.
A good clap back did the job.
I couldn’t resist laughing at the scene as Fabiano looked at me in anger before pointing a finger at me.
“You shut up, Niccolo!”
“Or what?”. Alessandro challenged.
“This isn’t over.”
“Yes, Fabiano, it isn’t and I would suggest you stay away from my lane if you want to be able to witness the end. I can kill you before the night is over with how rabid I am today”
“Alessandro, you dare to–”
“Do have a horrible night, Fabiano. It’s awfully exhausting for me to speak to you without acting on the intense urge to slit your throat. Goodbye”
With that, Alessandro walked away leaving a dumbfounded Fabiano gaping.
“You-you- you foolish child, Niccolo”. He was at a loss of words as he pointed a finger at me.
“Me what? What did I do? Fine! I’ll leave then”
I left him standing there like a complete idiot as I walked away.
Reaching further into the hall, I craved silence and space away from the noise created by the guests here tonight.
As I walked to the spare room to have some peace and quiet, I opened the door to see that it was already occupied.
By people.
Two people.
Two people I knew all too well.
Victoria and Valentino were kissing inside the spare room.
Scratch that.
Alessandro’s wife was making out with Alessandro’s brother at Alessandro’s party while carrying Alessandro’s baby.
This is not going to end well.
Regardless of the fact that Alessandro was a serial cheat and everyone knew that including the mosquitoes, but still if he finds out that Victoria is cheating on him with Valentino, this will not end well.
Everything is wrong.
They didn’t even notice me as I slowly closed the door and tried not to make a sound.
My brain immediately got to work as I thought of what best to do now.
Do I alert them? Do I let them be?
No.
I need to make sure Alessandro isn’t around this area.
My legs moved fast as I was inside the ballroom in no time and I headed straight for Bianca.
“Hey, B where is Alessandro?”
She gave a sassy look as she continued scrolling through something on her phone nonchalantly.
“Good evening to you too, Valentino. Alessandro walked out of the room a while ago and hasn’t returned.
That’s all I know. You’re welcome. You can leave now. Byee”. She tried to get rid of me as she went back to whatever she was doing on her phone.
I rolled my eyes at her attitude before going straight back to where I came from.
The love nest.
As I marched to that place to give them a piece of my mind, especially Valentino, I came face to face with a very familiar figure.
Jasmine.
How did she get here?
I hid between the pillars as I listened to their conversation.
Valentino was ordering her to hand over the phone she had taken a picture of them with but typical Jasmine was proving to be quite stubborn.
Victoria pleaded with her to give the phone to Valentino but she refused and instead body shamed her for being….. pregnant?
That’s very mean and rude not to talk of offensive and downright a horrible thing to do to anyone especially your fellow woman who is brave and strong enough to do something you obviously can’t do.
How deep did I fall into this rabbit hole?
How did I fall for such a horrible person as Jasmine?
How blind have I been?
They were still on the back and forth thing when she started rambling on and on about how she was going to give the photos to the press and Alessandro.
At that point I knew I had to stop her.
I knew what I had to do.
I pulled my gun from the holster and slowly made my way towards her back hoping that I wasn’t making a sound.
I turned the safety off and aimed it straight at her head before pulling the trigger.
BANG!
I saw her body fall to the floor as the phone fell out of her hand and to the floor as Victoria swiftly picked it up and immediately began to go through it, probably trying to delete the photo Jasmine took.
“Is it gone?”. Valentino asked her
“Yes, I’ve deleted it”
“Thank you”
“Don’t thank me! What the hell were you thinking, Valentino! The both of you! Have you lost your mind?!”
“Calm down, Nic. You’re yelling”
“Well, damn right I’ll yell! Since when has this affair been going on?!”
“Not too long ago”
“Answer me!”
“For two weeks now and can you bring your damn voice down! You’re practically attracting attention!”
“Do you have any idea what this means?”. I spoke with a lower tone to prevent anybody from hearing.
“You’re scaring her. It’s not like Alessandro is innocent. He’s a cheater. Are we forgetting that?”
“But he never fucked Victoria’s sister! Do you have a sister?”. I asked Victoria.
“No. I’m an only child”
“You see? He’s winning this one! This is wrong for you two! He’s really gonna be mad when he finds out!”
“I’ve never fucked her, you idiot!”
“Still doesn’t matter”
“And you plan on telling him?”
I gestured to Jasmine’s bleeding corpse staining the expensive floor. “Well, what do you think?!”
“Sorry”
“Geez! You both couldn’t find another place to shag?! Why here? Were you planning to shame him? Alessandro’s total and utter humiliation?!”
Victoria clung onto Valentino’s side and didn’t reply as Valentino looked at me with a strange expression.
“What?!”
“Have you taken your meds, Niccolo?”. He asked me warily.
“Don’t start with me, Valentino. This isn’t the time”
“Bro, you’ve literally been waving that gun around carelessly for a while now. You’re making her uncomfortable”
I looked at the gun before realizing he was right and the gun was still in my hands. I tucked it into my holster and placed my empty hands forward.
“See? No gun”
“But what do we do about the body?”. Victoria asked in a voice that sounded like squeaking.
I watched her point to Jasmine’s body before realizing something.
“Fuck she’s ruined the dress! What now?”. I said while pulling my hair in frustration.
This whole thing is stressing me out.
“What the fuck is going on here?”
Shit.