Filed to story: Bring It On My Mafia Life Novel (Rhea & Lukas)
Lukas couldn’t move. He couldn’t lift a muscle, his body refusing to cooperate having pushed it to the limit. The clamors were loud, the crowd frenzy with a taste for blood, his blood. He was lying on the floor with his knee raised only for Richardo to hover over him with a menacing smile. He was satisfied to see him in this condition, helpless and weak. While he hated to admit it, Richardo won this round.
“Oh, how the mighty falleth,” Richardo had a dark grin, right before he lifted his feet and stomped down on his knee.
A scream tore from Lukas’s throat as Richardo stomped hard on his knee the second time till the cracking sound was heard. The asshole just broke his knee! Hot tears coated his forehead while it took everything in him – his nails crawling into the bare floor- not to cry and moan out instead.
Lukas didn’t know how much pain he could take and it seemed to come from all over. Drool dropped from his mouth as he panted hard, dragging himself away from Richardo. If the bastard wanted to bring him to his lowest, he succeeded.
Richardo’s laughter reverberated across the walls, taking delight in Lukas’s pain. They were in the hotel’s conference room, not that anyone would come to his rescue since normal people have been forced to evacuate. Not even the staff remained.
However, one of his men rushed into the room and came over to Richardo, hurriedly whispering something into his ear.
“They found us already?!” He did not seem pleased by the news and turned to Lukas with a deadly look.
“I guess it’s time to end this once and for all even though I would have loved to extend our foreplay a little longer,” He gestured to his second in command to hand him a gun.
Lukas did not react. At this point, he had accepted his fate that he was going to die here. Moreover, death was a big mercy than to continue to suffer like this.
Richardo tilted his head, the gun pointed at him, “Any last word, Lukas?”
Lukas managed to lift his face and spat, “I will be waiting in hell for you.”
Richardo snorted, “Sad thing you are going without me.”
He then shot at him.
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Richardo shot at him. Or so he thought because aside from the jerk from the gun when he pulled the trigger, nothing happened. As for Lukas, he already shut his eyes tight having accepted his fate and that this was the end for him.
But then, when nothing happened for a while, he peered up at Richardo to see what was happening in case this was a cold prank and he ended up shooting him instead with his eyes open. But then, all he saw was the befuddlement on Richardo’s face as he checked his gun and he opened his other eyes as well. A deep furrow crossed his expression, what was going on?
Dumbfounded and embarrassed was how Richardo felt when he discovered that there wasn’t a round in the chamber in the first place. He then recalled who had given him the gun, it was his second in command – Konstantine’s second in command.
Richardo whirled around with rage, about to ask him why he had given him a gun that wasn’t loaded to fire only for Daniel to appear before him with a dark grin and in a blur of movements, hit him with the butt of the gun.
Dots flew behind his vision as he staggered from the impact but above all the cold taste of betrayal stung him hard. He straightened up and commanded his men at once while pressing a hand to his aching jaw where Daniel hit him,
“Take him! Get a hold of him right now! He was never with me in the first place.”
But then, something surprising happened. Instead of his men to capture Daniel as he had instructed, the Bratva turned on him instead. It happened in a twinkle of an eye because they shut his hired guns knowing they were currently the ones loyal to him, having lost their own loyalty. That is if they were even loyal in the first place.
Richardo watched with shocked eyes as the mercenaries he had bought over their services with the money gathered from ending the Basil family were being gunned down one after the other. A few managed to escape, but Richardo was under no illusion that they were coming back for him. That was the thing with mercenaries, after the money, it was their own life. To help with their contractor, especially in a life-threatening situation like this one.
It took a few minutes for the chaos to calm down and when it did, Richardo was a ruined man. There was no one on his side. But then he should have known. Instincts warned him. Lukas even warned him. Daniel was not to be trusted, but then he was so absorbed in his vengeance against Lukas that he even made a deal with the devil.
Lukas was stunned. While the pain in his leg – his entire body – hurt like a bitch, he was quite numb to feel anything after the scene that played out in front of him. He couldn’t believe what was happening. Did his father just save him? No, he didn’t want to raise his hopes too high. But then, he was not going to say a word either. If his father wanted to destroy Richardo first before him, then he was all in.
“You-!” Richardo hissed, looking around cautiously as if finding a way to escape after discovering that this is a setup.
“Yes, me, is anything new?” Daniel drawled, as if bored out of his men.
With the whole of his strength, Richardo took off and tried to dive into the gathering, intending to use Konstantine’s men as cover and escape Daniel. At least, he tried to because the next he heard was a gunshot and pain raced up his leg.
He crumbled to the floor and Konstantine’s men cleared the way for him, so he fell all by himself. Richardo raised his affected leg, cradling it to his chest and moaning in pain. It hurt too much. While he was still suffering from the pain, Daniel walked over to him till he was standing over him.
“Why?!” He hissed at him with nothing but contempt in his eyes, “You said you hated Lukas! He even took away your authority in the family and yet you are standing for him. I guess you are as weak as him anyway, like father, like son!”
But Daniel answered calmly, “If you’re trying to goad me into making a mistake, then you’re wasting your breath. I have been biding my time quietly for the past two days, why should I lose control now when victory has been granted to me.”
A chill washed over Richardo when he realized that Daniel had never been with him in the first place and this had only been a trap. The enemy has been with him all this while.
“And yes,” He continued,” I do hate my stupid son, Lukas. However, no one has the right to punish my son, except me. But then, you dare to torture him right in front of me.” He licked his lips, “Young people have no respect nowadays.”
He shot his thigh and Richardo released an inhumane scream, thrashing around on the ground like a worm set on fire. His voice became hoarse from screaming and sweat beaded his forehead, but his torturer squatted down in front of him, looking as relaxed as ever.
A chill washed over Lukas, he knew his father was cruel, but Daniel handing himself with great composure while torturing a soul as if he was in his element scared him most. Of course, this was what Daniel loved most anyway, torturing and inducing fear into people. And Lukas feared that he was the next in line.
“Please….” Richardo was begging him now, crawling away and dragging his unresponsive lower body with him. He was so scared now. Having been sure of eliminating Lukas, it was poetic justice to see him begging for his life instead.
“Please? Really?” Daniel laughed until it gurgled to a halt and he said in a low and menacing voice, “Did you think the same when you shot her?”
“What?” Richardo was confused. What was he talking about? He heaved, “I don’t know -?”
“Angelica!” Daniel shouted in his face, his body shaking with the amount of anger surging through his veins. No one knew how much it took him to mask his expression. To pretend that he was okay and enjoying this nonsense when all he wanted to do the most was to check up on her.
He was greatly relieved to hear that she was okay until the news came that Angelica was paralyzed from the incident. That piece of information had hit him so hard that he stumbled in his position, the shock stealing the breath from his lungs. Daniel has never cared about his actions, believing that whatever happened was meant to be. But this time, it dawned on him that he stole Angelica’s future.
She was never going to walk again and it was because of him – because of Richardo! Oh, how much he couldn’t wait to spill his blood and carve his revenge deep in his heart. So Daniel bided his time carefully. The greatest form of revenge was to deceive an enemy into thinking that he was winning only to remove the scale from his eyes at the last minute and unleash his terror on him.
That was what he was doing.
Daniel had so many plans for Richardo but it was too bad that he had no more time. He didn’t want to be here when his son’s minions would be here. At the moment, they wouldn’t recognize him as an ally. Nor does he want to find out what happens anyway. It was better safe than to be sorry.
Also unlike his foolish son, he would make sure that Richardo dies and remains dead. His son, Lukas was a fool to have let him go the first time he had him in his palm and gave the bastard the opportunity to grow into a serpent that has now bitten him. Look at his weak self, if it wasn’t for him, he would be dead anyway. Whether Lukas liked to admit it or not, he needed someone by his side to clean up his mess and that was him!
“I still don’t -” Richardo wanted to cry out, but it dawned on him that Daniel didn’t want such an ignorant answer. Richardo was smart – yet foolish – and he was able to guess that the men he sent to bring him here must have harmed the woman he cherished or something. No wonder Daniel was doing this.
So he said instead, “I never gave such orders. All I told them was to bring you here. Please, you have to believe me. No, please, spare my life.” Richardo begged and would have been on his knees right now if he could.
But all Daniel did was sneer, “Really? It didn’t cross your mind that your men might experience some obstacle in the process?”
Richardo could not answer, he swallowed a lump in his throat instead. Daniel would tell if he was lying and let’s face it, he knew deep down that a few would be killed while fetching him. The mission was never meant to be easy in the first place. Even if Lukas withdrew his father’s authority, he was never going to leave him defenseless.
“Ah, the silence answers it all.” Daniel stood up, “Goodbye Richardo. “
“H-how?!” Richardo cried out.
Daniel lifted a brow, “How what?”