Jason said his goodbyes to his family in a very obvious and public manner. After spending two more days in Dengal, he took both Celia and Mia out shopping. Despite Celia's protests while Mia dragged them from store to store, Jason could see that she enjoyed the outing. It was just like the old days. Their conversations were easy and there was laughter.He took them out to eat and he announced that he would be leaving the next day. Mia's exclamation of "Ah ah, so soon?" as she dropped her fork, could be heard by everyone in the restaurant. She looked back at the customers with an apologetic, embarrassed smile before she nudged Jason's leg with an accusation of "Look what you made me do" this time done in a whisper.Jason laughed quietly as he nodded "Yes, I know. I am sorry, princess""Don't "I am sorry, princess" me like you are talking to Jas" she said as she made a face at him."Says the person, who is acting just like that little girl right now," Celia said with a chuckle."Mum!

“This is not the time for unnecessary thoughts,” Jason thought to himself before he cleared his throat and told Isabella “Please, make the kids come to the pho…” he was still talking when he heard. “Isabel, we turned the soil the way Millie taught us. I did most of it!” Alex’s voice rang through the house. “Liar!” Jasmine’s voice followed. “I did too!” “You only did small!” “I did more than you!” “Kids, kids. Enough of that now. Chairman wants to speak to you” “Daddy!” Jason heard the rush of feet as the kids’ voices got closer to the phone. He switched to video calls and spoke to them. Seeing their soil-smudged faces made his heart swell. It was a feeling that he would never get tired of. The wonder that these brilliant kids belonged to him. To Charlotte and him. After chattering away for a while, they said their goodbyes and called Isabella. “Sir? Miss Dimitrios. She would like to speak to you” Isabella said with a peculiar smile. Jason still had no idea why she was always h

Jason got the message just as he was setting out. He thought of the ten-hours time difference between Bulgaria and Dengal. He couldn’t believe that they took action in the early hours of the day. There was no longer any doubt in his heart that the deal was Rafael’s doings. He must have been monitoring them just as they were monitoring him too. After giving orders to his men. He called Don. The call was picked on the first ring “Hey there, leader” Don said with a mocking inflexion in his tone. “I didn’t know you have it in you, boy. I am sure you must know how much of a loser you are by now. Now if you are calling for another little meeting of yours, I am sorry but I will have to decline, son. You are going down. Should have stayed in Montreau, enjoying your little plush company and minding your business. Now? You are going down” Jason was taken aback by his absolute shamelessness “I just have a question. Why? Why Master’s son? Why the hospital hit? Why Andre?” Don laughed on the ot

Jason's confrontation with Don was not what the mafia Lord was expecting. Jason's plans were so extensive that he beat Don at his own game. His men countered Don's men at all the points they intended to get at Jason. Apart from the casualty at Sofia, every other part was controlled with little or no injury to their men. Some were shot and some were knocked unconscious but there were no body counts. The men assigned to attack his home did not even get within a thousand miles of his home before they were disarmed. The same thing applied to those sent to Celia's home. Mia and Matteo were almost attacked due to the change in their routine but it was eventually avoided. Jason faced Don head on and the mafia lord refused to listen to reason. Until he was killed. Or so Jason thought until it was discovered otherwise when they turned the deaf body over. The man Jason had been facing off with wasn't Don after all. It was a different man entirely with the life-like mask of Don's features. I

Stronzo or no stronzo, it was not hard to see how much the retired Capomandamento, Alvarez Alvero loved his daughter. The man had tears in his eyes whenever the talk of Marianne’s incident came up in conversation. Though Jason and the Deadly Duo honoured the family’s invitation a week after Marianne had been taken home, they could still see how much the man was terrified of the thought of losing his daughter. “She favoured her mother” he would say many times when they were having a conversation with him. One could see that The man had a great love for his late wife. The fact that he retired to the home they shared in Palermo, where he dedicated himself to cultivating his wife’s rare variety of pink and white roses and tending to her pet rhinos was a testament in itself. Jason was humbled by the affection that the most revered man in Italy had with his wife and he wondered if he would ever have something like that. A thing he had once thought he would have with Sonia before she betray