Chapter Twenty

Rosalina's POV

I stare at Christian and Alexa who are practically eating each other mouths off. We are at the mall. Alexa had earlier been invited by Christian to accompany her to a colleague wedding so we decided to go shopping. Just for her. I am not here to shop. I wasn't invited.

"You guys should please get a room" I say with disgust written on my face.

"You are just jealous that you don't have a love life" She smirks.

"I am not jealous. I am not just into PDA" I defend walking into the mall.

"Yeah. Yeah whatever" she laughs and kiss Christian goodbye. He has somewhere to be so he can't come shopping with us, he only offered to drop us off.

"Wait for me" she calls out behind me but I just continue to walk further without looking back. She is so into Christian. It's not like the Alexa I used to know. It's been two weeks now. I mean just two weeks and she is already into him . Never have I seen her like this. I just wished my life wasn't as complicated as it was. I haven't seen Jacob for two weeks now. In fact I haven't even heard a thing from him. Imagine him calling Anna to ask how far I had gone in the designs of Eulalia's house. Why couldn't he just get in touch with me directly. I thought we had something. I really thought so.

"What do you think about this?" Alexa holds up a baby pink dress. This is dress number 10 that she is showing me. she just can't decide.

"Whatever you pick will look good on you" I say and directs my gaze back to the fashion magazine in my hands. She snatches the magazine off my hand flinging it away.

"What did you do that for!" I exclaim.

"You are here to help me find a dress not to read a god-damned magazine" she yells into my face. I move away from her wiping her spit off my face.

"Lexy, you have enough clothes at home. You don't need this " I say pointing to all the clothes she had earlier picked out. She stares at me as if considering my idea. How wrong was I?

"No. I am getting a new dress. end of story and you are going to help me pick out a beautiful dress" She says authoritatively and enters the dressing room with new set of clothes. We are going to spend the whole day here.

It's Friday and while I get to go to work, Lexy has a wedding to attend with her boyfriend or as I would always call him, her fiancee. I am sitting in front of my desk. I just added some finishing touches to a new project and I am really feeling my work. It looks so good. I just need to get Anna and submit it to her so she can in return send it over to Jacob. Jacob already moved his office to the 11th floor and since everyone here has been prohibited from entering the 11th and 12th floor except Anna of course who has executive access to the rooms because Luca is her boyfriend. I saw Jacob for the first time in almost three weeks just yesterday and when he passed by me I bet I saw him wink. I do not know if I was only imagining, but it felt real.

I took the elevator down to the lobby to get Anna but I can't find her. It's just Andres who is here and as usual he is glued to his iPad doing god knows what..

"Hey Andres" I walk up to him and tap his shoulder. He looks up from the phone and gives me a fake smile.

"Where's Anna?" I ask with a scowl on my face.

"I don't know" He replies returning his gaze back to his phone. I snatch the iPad from his hand to gain his attention. He glares angrily at me.

"I will ask again. ¿dónde está Anna?"(Where is Anna)

"No sé. But you can check around, she is probably in the 11th floor with Luca"(I don't know). He says the Luca as if he was irritated by just pronouncing the name or maybe it was the thought of what Luca and Alexa were probably doing that irritated him.

"Can I have my phone back?" he stretches his palm forward to retrieve his hijacked phone. I stare at his hand and instead of placing it on his palm, I drop it on the table and walk away.

I enter the elevator and pressed on 11. I know I am not supposed to break the rules but what could they possibly be hiding. Maybe we are not just allowed to go there because it was an executive office. I mean nothing is so special. Anna herself told me that we were not allowed on floor 12 because that is where Jacob stays.

Narrator's POV

Meanwhile, Jacob, Kelvin, Andrea, Luca, Anna and some other men were all in the only room on the 11th floor. It is a large room where some of their dangerous weapons were kept in case of urgent situations. Many a times, drug deals were concluded in the room. The entire room was filled up with unsold drugs, weapons and a board that Luca personally owns. The board contains pictures of people that he had killed. On another board was a picture of the Scott family that had Tyler, his parents and his grandfather pinned to show they were dead. On the large table in the center of the room lies a man's heart in a bag. The heart belonging to no other person but Marco.

"It was not a hard job to do after all"Jacob says admiring the transparent bag.

"non è stato facile ucciderlo" Simon says. (It wasn't easy killing him).

"What difference does it make now that he's dead"Luca asks Jacob.

"It makes a lot of difference. He knows too much secrets about us. I don't trust people much. Not even you" The Don says and drags the cigar in his mouth. They are all so confident. Not even the heart of a man on the table feared them but they fail to forget that not everybody has vile hearts

like theirs. Especially not innocent Rosalina who unknown to them was currently making her way up to that same floor they were. What will the poor girl do once she sees her family picture on the wall or the bloody heart of a man on the table.

The elevator dings and they all turn to see who it was. And they didn't believe their eyes because at that moment even the Don was lost of words.

The elevator opens and Rosalina can't believe what is actually before her eyes.