🔪 BABYSITTING THE LITTLE MOBSTER🔪
🍧From nanny, to mummy… 🍧
📖📖 Chapter Nineteen.1️⃣9️⃣
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🍷A SHOOT TO BE SHOT🍷
GENRE: Dark romance & Thriller
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Setting: New York City 21st century
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Lord Dom lead the way and Celia followed quietly behind him until they got to the Archery range and Celia looked around wondering his reasons for taking her there.
“Why… why’re we here?” she asked, but he ignored her.
He shot an arrow and she found herself clapping when he hit the bullseye.
“Do you want to try it?” he asked, and she gasped.
“Me? Really? Can I try it?” she said in excitement.
She might not be excited about shooting guns, but she enjoys Archery a lot — although she was never able to try it but watching others hit thier targets always excites her.
“You can’t reply with a question,” he said, and she scoffed.
For a moment, she totally forgot that he was the same mafia boss that she was always intimidated by.
She picked the arrow and after so many shots she didn’t make any progress.
“Actually, this is my first time trying…” she said, batting her lashes nervously.
“That’s good enough to deal with him yourself,” he said.
“Deal with who?” she asked, and looked at him.
He swung his fingers in the air, and Jake joined them dragging Rick who was tied up with sealed mouth.
“Gosh. That motherf¥cker!” she found herself cursing him.
“Deal with him,”
“I should deal with him? Am I allowed to hit him?”
“I thought of feeding him to c0wards, or exiling him to the countryside, but I changed my mind and decide to make you punish him yourself. Shoot him, shoot the arrow at him,” he said, and her eyes widened in fear.
“What? I… I… should shoot him? With the arrow?”
“Why? Should I do it?”
“But… why? Why do we have to shoot him?”
“Because he hurt you, you’re the Little lady’s nanny, he shouldn’t have,”
“I believe there was a misunderstanding, we were both drunk, and… I was wrong, I shouldn’t have trust him,”
“Why? You can’t shoot him? It’s an arrow, not a gun,”
“I think there is a misunderstanding here…” she trembled
Lord Dom took his gun and pulled the trigger , “There is no misunderstanding, you’re here to live for Aria, whoever hurt you is also aiming at her. It’s either you shoot him, or I shoot you,” he said, and she gasped, when he aimed the gun at her.
“What? You’re going to shoot me?!”
“You’ve no use to be by my daughter’s side if you’re a weakling, so I’ve to get rid of you now to prevent any future harm,” he said.
“I… I’ll shoot him,” with that she aimed the arrow at him.
“Unseal his mouth,” Lord Dom ordered, and Jake unsealed Rick’s mouth.
“Please, don’t shoot me. I was drunk that night, I could never hurt you. Boss, give me another chance,” Rick pleaded.
“Shoot him,” Lord Dom muttered, pointing the gun at her.
Her hands trembled as she tried to shoot, and she closed her eyes the moment the arrow fell off her hand.
Sounds of gun was heard, and she held her breath with eyes closed. She opened her eyes when she heard a loud scream and looked around searching for her body: with thoughts that she became a ghost after he shot her but the blood she saw from Rick legs alerted her. He shot Rick’s manhood.
“Next time, you’ll learn to control yourself when you’re drunk. Exile him to the countryside,“ with that, Lord Dom left.
Celia held her chest trying to breathe properly, thankful for the gift of life as she stared at Rick who was in pains.
“I really need to get out of here,” she cried.
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Lord Dom get to the hallway and Mr. Cason walked up to him.
“Boss, why’re you being so hard on the nanny?”
“She’s too weak,”
“She’s just a nanny,”
“My daughter’s nanny! Your Lady’s nanny!” he lashed.
“Boss, she has a lot of bodyguards, you even sent your most capable guard to her, I believe she is on safe hands. So relax,”
“Mr. Cason, do you think I’m overreacting?”
“No, you’re obviously overreacting, whatever I think doesn’t matter that’s why you need to take a break. Go somewhere and live an ordinary life, get over your fear, your burden, everything,”
“I should. But why must I take her with me?”
“Because you have unfinished business with her, and that’s the reason behind your sudden aggression,”
“Aren’t you curious about it?”
“If I should be curious, I’m more curious about what you discussed with Lady Bianca after the funeral,”
“There is nothing to be curious about,”
“I doubt. It seems like a serious conversation. Is it about the nanny?” he asked, and Lord Dom shot him a glare wondering how he could easily guess.
As expected, Mr. Cason isn’t an ordinary man, there was a reason why he successfully became his father’s consigliere, and have always walked through the enemies camp fearlessly.
He walked past him without uttering a word, remembering his conversation with Bianca.
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FLASHBACK***
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Lord Dom retreated to a garden to smoke after leaving the funeral. He had to leave early to avoid causing a chaos when envoys from the East arrived. Thanks to Mr. Cason he was able to control himself.
His cigarette smoke dled, and he threw it away in frustration.
“You shouldn’t take your anger out on the cigarette, you can always light the fire again,” he heard Bianca said approaching him.
“Why are you here?”
“You know that I would find yoy. Thanks to Mr. Cason, you were able to control your temper and I really appreciate that. I truly hope for the funeral to go peacefully and it did,”
“Why was the East here? You know I would be here!”
“They know you would be here, but they still send their envoys on purpose which means they aren’t joking when they propose the truce,”
“So?”
“I told you before now, that the East proposed a truce. They want us to join hands with them and I heard that they traveled to the North as well although I know Lord Santos is not as greedy as my father so he won’t entertain them but that’s as much as he is still the Boss over there,”
“What are you really getting at?”
“As the Lady of the West, I hate the truce, I was aware of the East revolt so the thought of being like them irritates me, but the welfare of the company is what’s more important. For the last time, I’ll propose restoring our engagement. Let’s be strong together, then West and the South suk be all yours. Our team will baffle the North and they won’t be able to revolt. Together, we will take the East. You once told me that it’s not about what we want but what we can gain,”
“Is that why you kllled your father?”
“He’s my father, you told me I’m the only one that can get rid of what’s mine,”
“You’ve full authority over the West, use it wisely, don’t try to defy me. But at the end, the choice is yours to make,” he said, and spun around r o leave.
“What if the East is not your only enemy?!” she shouted, and he turned to look at her.
“Should I start to regard you as an enemy now?”
“You were attacked in Chicago,”
“Are you willing to confess to your wrongdoings?”
“You think it was me?”
“You can answer that better,”
“Then you’ve a larger puzzle to solve because one of my men spotted that nanny with Luca in Chicago,”
“What are you implying?”
“You’re right , I can’t defy you but you’ve to know that you need me, because the East isn’t your only enemy,” with that, she left.
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FLASHBACK ENDS***
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He has been thinking about what Celia could really be since then, so he decided to test her with Rick but she was just that fragile nanny that can’t even harm her enemy and his suspicions quell. Her meeting with Luca might be a coincidence or an allegation portrayed by Bianca.
“I really need to get a lot of things off my head, and understand my meeting with her,” he muttered in determination, and picked his phone to call Mr. Cason.
📞*Prepare all the necessary things needed for the vacation, I’ll check my schedule and adjust it,*
📲*With the nanny?*
📞*Yes,* with that, he dropped the call.
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Mr. Cason dropped the call and emptied his glass of wine. He put his phone away and chuckled before taking his burner phone.
“What are you really, nanny?” he thought sent a message to someone with his burner phone.
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Celia tossed and turned on her bed still perplexed by everything that happened.
“Why are they all doing this to me?” she lament in tears and she wrapped herself in the blanket.
She left her room in the middle of the night later to take a stroll and was startled to see Jake lurking around the hallway.
“You’re still up,” she said.
“Same goes to you,”
“Hun. I couldn’t sleep,”
“Good. Then come with me,”
“To where?” she grumbled, but he didn’t reply.
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She trialed behind him, wondering where he was taking her to and they entered a training hall.
“What are we doing here?”
“To train. To make you stronger,”
“What? In the middle of the night?”
“The Boss gave me the order,”
“But… isn’t it too late in the night?” she grumbled, and he gave her an outfit to change to.
“There is a dresser over there,” he pointed and she exhaled heavily.
“I never said I am in,”
“Celia, if you want to survive in this mansion, you’ve to be strong. The Boss might decide to exile you at anytime if you’re too weak to protect the Little Lady, he might decide to exile you or even make the Lady do it,”
“Then—“
“‘Then it will be a relief?’ No! When I said exile, they will get rid of you,” he said, and kicked her unaware.
“Arggh!” she screamed.
“Even if your friend read between the lines, she won’t be able to save you,” he said, she gasped.
Before she could utter a word, he knocked her down.
“You should try to dodge it, else, you’ll keep getting hit,”
“You saw all my messages?” she asked, and he hit her again.
He tried to hit her again and she successfully dodge it which amazed her but before she could jubilate, he attacked her again.
She found herself enjoying the moment that seemed fun to her and she tried to attack him first but failed in all attempts.
“Wait. Let’s take a break,” she said, breathing heavily, and he obliged.
He relented and she kicked bis leg and almost fell in the process but he was quick to catch her.
“Are you ok?” he asked.
She blinked nervously and trued to overthrow him but they both fell in the process.
“Why is he so strong?” she grumbled.
“What’s going on here?” they heard Lord Dom asked from behind and they both stood up.
“Boss, I was training her, as you ordered,”
“That won’t be necessary anymore. She’s coming with me for a short break, so I’ll sort out everything myself,”
“What break?” Ceila asked.
“I told you, we’ve a lot of unfinished business together. So the break is enough time to settle it,”
“Boss, you can have the room. Let’s go Celia,” Jake said, and held Celia’s hand leading her away.
“When did they became so close?” Lord Dom grumbled, staring at their retreating back until they were out of sight.
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TO BE CONTINUED…
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