Sonia kept quiet for a while creating suspense in the room between herself and the men. Everyone listened keenly to ascertain the truth from her about her pregnancy, if she was then that would be great news for Damon which as he said would change everything.After much pretence and a pitiful look, she finally responded to him. “I'll tell you when you get back from your mission.” Sonia looked him in the eyes, touching his face with her hands as she gave him her response.The tension died down a little but the confusion only heightened, she just played another one on him and she was good at it. “Get serious, Sonia. Are you pregnant?” Damon held her hands away from her face and asked her the question again.“You'll find out when you get back. So, come back safe.” Her tone lowered more but intentionally and hardened on the response she had given him. They looked on, staring at each other with Damon wishing there were other ways he could find out the truth from her. He had suddenly become
A swift suspense swept through the room as Damon and his group walked in to meet the men who were already seated. On the part of Damon, they were unaware of the Ambassador's presence at the Villa while on the part of the Ambassador, he wasn't expecting Damon to bring Sonia into the room. Although he was aware of her presence in Italy to carry out the assignment he gave to her, he didn't expect them to meet at President Balbano's office. Sonia shrunk in fear for a second as she held Damon's arm tight, she quickly recomposed herself so as not to raise suspicion.“Your Highness,” everyone greeted him as he walked into the office, “And you brought a pretty lady with you. Who is she?” President Balbano who was stunned by the beauty of Sonia immediately asked about her identity from the man who brought her in.Damon walked towards him with Sonia still holding onto his arms, “Mr. President, here is my lady. Sonia.” He presented her to him as he made the introductions, “Darling, meet Preside
The meeting with Damon, Ambassador Justin Barnes, and their Italian counterparts ended well as they all agreed to the laid out plan and also to the new plot introduced into it by Damon which was a demand for the Ambassador to join him during the meeting.The meeting was scheduled to be held later that night and everyone went on to prepare for it. The intelligence agencies of both nations were alert and set, trying everything possible to keep the information from leaking to the media. Mr. Barnes had called up Sonia to get the answers from the assignment he gave her, and just as Damon asked her to, she told Mr. Barnes everything she was told. He had a solid plan in place and now understood what Damon was planning with this whole schtick. He informed his mafia counterparts and they took necessary actions to counter his plan. Brandley and Damon held a meeting with the team as they all wished him success, Damon left them with some instructions to act on according to his plans. They were
“What?” Mr. Barnes asked Damon as he saw the stunned look on his face. “You're shocked, right? I understand.” He said to him.Damon tried to walk closer to the man but was held back by Borito. He shook off the man's hand on his shoulder and looked straight at the traitor sitting before him with a wicked smile on his face. “So, you've been involved with the mafias all this while? Everyone thinks of you as the most patriotic nationalist in our country but you're just a pretentious wolf in sheep's clothing.”Mr. Barnes smiled at him, “You see, boy. The world works differently from how you know it. And people like us are the ones who make it work.” He answered Damon.“What exactly are people like you? Traitors and pretenders?” Damon asked him in fury and disappointment at the man's backstabbing action.Mr. Barnes laughed out loud at Damon's naivety before responding to him, “I need you alive and well otherwise, I would have ordered them to beat you up brutally.” “And what exactly do you
Damon had several plans in mind to use against the mafias including revealing some dirty information about them to make them turn against each other, using the Russian mobs and Tokyo mafias against them, and offering to buy their empires to legitimise it. But neither of those plans could work now with Mr. Barnes as the mafia boss. Damon stilled himself, rethinking what he should do. Don Gustavo mentioned something about their own offer and if Damon was interested in hearing about it. “Tell me about your offer then,” he said to them.The men laughed at him, “He can't even make his plan work anymore. I see we scattered everything for you, this is the real world.” Mr. Barnes said to mock him for now being confused. “Give him the offer, gentlemen.” He instructed the mafia lords to go ahead with their offer to Damon.Don Castro cleared his throat and leaned forward, “You see, the Italian mafias were a joke before now, nobody took us seriously not even the authorities. We were so weak and
Damon braced himself for what Mr. Barnes was about to reveal to him, with how he introduced the revelation Damon knew it had to do with the secrets his grandfather was keeping from him. Especially after learning of Mr. Barnes’ role in everything that has been going on.Mr. Barnes rose from his seat and walked around it gently then he turned to Borito with an instruction. “Get us drinks, it's going to be interesting.” Borito bowed to the man's instruction and fetched some bottles of highly expensive drinks. He placed the drinks on the table for the men and poured them each a glass.The men all sipped their drinks as they listened to Mr. Barnes. “This is a story long before you and even I was born.” He said to Damon and the hearing of others, “It is the story of who is the rightful King of the Kingdom and how you are your grandfather are nothing but thieves.”In his mind, Damon thought to himself, ‘This is deeper than I ever thought.’ Mr. Barnes’ accusation of Damon and his grandfather
The young prince listened attentively as his father educated him on the ways of a wise and gracious king. “Nobody here is your friend,” he dropped the first ironic thought on the prince and it startled the young man who couldn’t understand why his father said that.“Of course there are, I have Juliet over there who I love, Mark too is there, Brie Larson also…” his father waited patiently for him to list out all his friends as he did one after the other. By the time he was down, he had mentioned about half the guests.“Good. Again, nobody here is your friend and…” the King said and paused to allow the young man to grasp what he had just said to him, “Nobody here is your enemy.” He landed and waited for the prince to take it all in.“So, what are they?” The young prince asked, his heart was now raised in curiosity to find out what his father meant. The king remained silent for a while before speaking, “They are all what their interest and agenda makes them to be. If you or the Kingdom
King Bernard didn't expect Hannah to come around the palace probably because of some arrangements they made together but here she was, defiling whatever arrangement they had and doing so comfortably. Hannah ignored his question and fixed her sights on the young man with him, Richard.“Hannah,” he called to her again, “I said, what are you doing here?” He asked her but the lady maintained her gaze on the young prince whom she wasn't so excited about.“Why is she looking at me like that? What do I have to do with her?” The Prince asked his father. The lady's look was weird to him and he couldn't understand why she fixed her gaze at him rather than answer his father's question.The King walked up to her where she sat and stared down on her with anger, “I'll ask you for the last time, why are you here?” His words came out quietly but strong and serious.Hannah scoffed at the King, raising her head to look at him but remained seated. “I am here to challenge your fatherhood.” She said to hi