Rain splattered against the window of Giovanni's car and he activated the wipers before hitting his gas once again and driving down the dirty road. Geraldo had texted a location to him just as he was about to go to bed. One of the secret sites holding an illegal laboratory had been found on an unidentified site. They had located it right after they unlocked the boxes from Harvey and the Aikawa, aka. Ichimura. The first box contained a hoard of files and it had been handed to one of the trusted members to go through it. The second box contained serums. Blue iridescent fluids that they had no idea about. Although they had tracked it to the location it was being taken to, they had no idea what it contained or what it was used for. Giovanni was used to covering his tracks up but tonight, it wasn't so. He'd noticed he was being tailed by a SUV for the last hundred kilometres he had driven. Diverting him wasn't even an option because he had to arrive at the location in less than two hours
Carbon. That was the name of the lab. This was the mother branch and it had birthed several others around the country. But a few weeks ago, they were all shut down, all thanks to Giovanni's board members who had sent out information in regards to how much toxins they vomited into the environment. It had taken a lot of lawsuits and appearances to finalise their closure and Giovanni had given a lot for this cause. But he knew this wasn't the end of it all. The mother lab was very much functional and it had been birthed with deaths and bloodshed and a whole lot of government embezzlement. His father had been swallowed up by this place. He had believed that Carbon was being built for the greater good of the masses; production of toxic-free materials for building, eating and even cosmetics. But that had been a cover and in fact, Carbon laboratories only built weapons and the faux products were almost like placebos, a combination of chemicals that did nothing but wors
"Did you hear? He changed the party's theme to a bikini themed one because of that lady sitting right there. Roderick is such a perverted fuck. I hope she knows what he has planned out." A disdainful feminine voice came. Serafina tried not to move an inch or act like she was hearing the ladies. Infact, she remained seated on the lounge, her waist wrapped with a black silk shawl as she slathered sunscreen all over her body. She'd been sitting here for the last ten minutes and the ladies had just joined in moments after Roderick left to get a drink for her. She wondered what was taking his time. "I heard he wants to shag her. I wonder why he never puts his dick in one place. Always looking for where to stick it in. Last week it was Sloane and this week, it's this mysterious lady we've never seen." They immediately went quiet when Roderick made his way towards them, smiling and waving at him as he passed. This irked Serafina and she wondered how people could speak ill
"Carefully pick up your gun, keeping your finger outside the trigger guard, extended straight and flat on the side of the guard." Dante spoke gently, guiding Marcia's hand as she raised the gun into the air. He smiled at her and ruffled her hair, planting a kiss on her forehead in the process. "That's a good girl." Then he took the gun from her. "I'll teach you the rudiments of shooting ranges on our next day out." "Mum! I got it the first time," She yelled as she tore into the house, her father tailing behind her with a proud smile on his face as he gently placed the gun by the door. "I can hold a gun perfectly well." Carla was in the kitchen, whipping cream. "You're going to kill her before she even has a boyfriend, Dante." "She will kill anyone who tries to harm her. I am teaching her to protect herself when neither of us are around." "You are teaching her how to be a killer, honey." Two days later, she made her first shot at the dummy on the othe
Giovanni's eyes flew open as a very cold bucket of water was doused on his unconscious body. His first instinct was to run but he realised that he'd been bound hands and foot and was finding it really hard to move. He thrashed wildly against his hold, his eyes not fully open to take in his environment and when he did, he realised that he was tied to a chair. He pulled again, this time, harder as he looked around him. The room was bathed in light but his vision was still very blurry. Someone was seated before him but he couldn't make out who it was. "You were given carisoprodol, a muscle relaxant and you've been out for," the man lifted his hand, pulled the hem of his shirt adorned with chrome cufflinks as he checked the time on his wrist watch. "Ten hours and seventeen minutes." A cough escaped Giovanni's throat and like it helped clear his sight, he could properly see who was seated before him. He jerked immediately, eyes wide in anger. "You fucker!" He hissed, thra
"Do you think we can break in without a trace ?" Xavier whispered from behind Serafina as she cocked her gun. They were standing at the entrance of the facility now, Serafina at the forefront as she'd been assigned to lead them all. She hadn't wanted to do it but Geraldo, seeing how she'd taken Daneesha— who was one of the best fighters— down, asked that she lead the team. "That's not possible," Geraldo replied from the one way link in their ears. He was on the control tower, taking care of whatever needed to be taken care of with a few dead men laying around him in a pool of blood. "Which is why someone needs to create a distraction while the others sneak in." "And how do we make that work?" Teyanna asked. Rolling her eyes, Serafina chose to reply. "By actually creating a distraction." "You weren't asked to—" "That doesn't matter," Serafina cut her short rudely. "I am the leader here and you either listen to me or fuck off." This infuriated Teya
No way was Uncle Jaime standing before her. It had to be a dream. She blinked a few times to be sure that it wasn't. That grin. That sinister pair of blue eyes that matched hers. Her hands trembled as she walked into the room and she tried hard to remain in composure. She fell back into her native language as she spoke. "What are you doing here?" "Too afraid to speak English so they don't hear you?" Jaime laughed. "He can hear everything you're saying." "Does it matter?" She asked. "What the hell are you doing in America?!" "Sweet, sweet niece. It is absolutely none of your concern. I mean, if you had chosen to remain with me, maybe life wouldn't have taken a bad turn for you." "You!" She hissed. "You took everything from me! You gave me no option!" "I did," He took a few steps close towards her. "I asked if you wanted to be adopted." "At eighteen?!" She screamed. "Are you fucking for real right now? At eighteen, I had every access to my parents pr
"Where the fuck is the doctor, Geraldo?!" Giovanni yelled at the top of his voice as he lifted Serafina's unconscious body out of the car. "In here!" Geraldo called out from where he stood at the side of the door. Giovanni hadn't panicked this badly in his whole life. Seeing her bleed out had stirred something in him and he wished he had taken the bullet instead of her. The doctor was waiting when he got into the ward. A nurse rushed in right after she was placed on the bed, a tray filled with sterile instruments in her hand. "How long will it take for this procedure to happen?" Giovanni asked. "I'll have to see how severe the wound is before I can tell," The doctor said as he began to inject IVs into her hand. They worked on the machines and moments after, he turned to Giovanni. "We need her stabilised first. She lost so much blood and she might need a transfusion." "Okay. How does that work? Do I donate my blood or something?" "We'd have to check her