Entangled With The Mafia Lord

Auden’s POV.

I raced out of the conference room while digging my phone out of my pocket to call home, my heart slowing down and beating fast in a second. A quick glance at the Rolex watch on my wrist says the time was 08:40am.

I got to work this morning by some minutes to eight and I had to apologize to the people I was scheduled to have a meeting with by 07:30am. I didn’t even bother going to the highest floor where my office was located at this morning, I just stopped the elevator at the conference room and had since then been immersed in the meeting. The meeting was almost coming to an end with a very positive result when a sniper flew from nowhere and embedded itself into the Spain company’s owner’s neck.

The phone only rang once before Tristan answered just as the elevator door slid shut.

“Check the whole house again, make sure everywhere’s extremely secured. And check Lily. I think someone’s trying to kill me but missed by an inch and killed someone else. I’ll come home as soon as I can.” I tapped my foot on the ground while willing the elevator to move faster than it is at the moment.

“Shit. You alright?” Tristan demanded, worrying weaving it way into his voice.

“I am. Keep an eye on the guards too, and keep Nicole safe. Is she awake yet?”

“Yeah, she drank a little water and vomited everything in the next instant. I’m worried, Auden.” Tristan’s voice went shaky at the end of the sentence.

I felt my heart constrict painfully in my chest at the thought of Nicole suffering due to this dangerous part of our lives. I’d bury this part of our life in a second if it was that easy. Only it wasn’t possible.

It was already in our blood and no matter how bad we want it willed away from us, it just isn’t possible. Anywhere we go, we attract enemies to ourselves without even trying.

“She’s sleeping now?”

“Yeah, she asked of you and Nicolas. I told her y’all were going to be back tonight.” Tristan paused before continuing. “Auden… what if…?”

“No ‘what ifs, I’ll come back soon then I’ll go get Nicolas. Alright?” I said, forcing my voice to go harder and firmer.

“Alright, yeah. Talk to you later.” Tristan finally mumbled before the line went dead.

The elevator doors slid open on my floor and I briskly walked quickly, keeping a wide eye on every single detail of the walls and offices. I stopped beside my door and felt my heart skip a beat on seeing the door to my office as well as my secretary’s left wide open. Digging my fingers into the belt on my jeans, I pulled out one of the guns nestled in there and uncorked it before turning on the silencer.

Ensuring the coast was clear, I slid into the room and pulled the door shut before locking it, if anyone was inside, we’re either dying together. No one was leaving here alive.

The first, smaller room which belonged to my secretary was empty, my mind drifted down to my secretary for a moment, making me pause in my tracks without dropping my alertness.

Is she alright? I haven’t seen her this morning, she was scheduled to another meeting with her former team where she got recently transferred from… she’s definitely still in the meeting, which means she might be the one who had left the door open either because she forgot to close it while running late to her scheduled meeting or something else entirely.

I paused behind the adjoining door leading into my office and stalled for a heartbeat before pushing the door open a little, the sight of a sweaty and nervous looking Aria greeted my very alert eyes. Only this time, she was seated in my seat, a forced smile spread across her face.

I knew immediately that something was wrong when the hairs on my body started to prickle all over again, feeling a strong urge to duck, I ducked low only to miss the swipe of a knife aimed for my neck.

“Shit.” I cursed as I kicked up my leg from my ducked position and watched as the knife flew from the grasp of the dude who was dressed in black from head to toe. The dude who was obviously hell bent on killing me dug out another knife from his jacket but I was ready this time.

Jumping to my feet and kicking my gun to a safe side, I wrestled the knife of the dude who was trying extremely hard to stab me but I was dodging each stab for all I was worth. I finally had a strong grasp on his right hand which was welding the knife flawlessly a moment ago. Using all my strength, I bent his hand with all the purpose of breaking it and didn’t stop until a loud snap echoed in the room, followed by the pained scream of the now wounded dude. Kicking him in his stomach and in behind his two knees, I watched with satisfaction as he dropped face down on the hard, cold tiles of the office, his cry of probably his newly broken nose muffled by his mouth which was pressing into the cold tiles.

A sudden scream from my back made me turn around and slide to the floor. A knife flew and got embedded deep into the wall in the spot where I was standing, a moment ago. Digging out my second gun, I pushed to my feet and groaned when two more men in black slid into the office from the opened window.

Crap.

Dodging a bullet, I fired a shot at one of the two men. The one who got shot fell to the floor dead while the second one ran towards me all the while firing shots at me, I dodged a lot but one wayward bullet got into my left arm and I felt the burn spread into all of my left arm immediately. In no time, the second man’s bullets got finished and before he could dig out another one, I grasp the man by his throat when he finally stopped before me with my wounded left arm, I kneed him hard in his stomach before shooting him in his ear.

His whole weight settled in my left grasp which was still suffocating him before I pulled away and watched as he dropped dead at my feet. Glancing towards a tears stricken Aria who had her hands over her mouth to muffle her cry, I breathed out a long sigh.

The fuck is this now?

A slicing sound made me whirl back towards the window to see another man in black throwing a knife towards Aria.

“Fucking duck, Aria!” I screamed without turning back as I shot the man in his forehead. He wasn’t fully in the office yet, which made his body drop halfway into the office while the rest hung outside. It seems like he planned to just throw a knife at Aria and jump back out the window… too bad, bro.

“Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, people are dead… men are dead, one- two- three-…” Aria started to mutter hysterically while her cries started to increase.