Quiescent Storms

~TWENTY EIGHT~

Mr.Ivano's POV

"Alert every organization of Ivano empire to constantly check their CCTV footage both inside and surrounding area.And quickly mark and watch over the suspected ones."I stoically ordered David as he nodded his head getting started on his laptop.

Turning around, I found Gabriel standing near the edge of the multi monitor desk looking over me for the instruction.I silently walked towards him standing a distance away from him.

"Gabriel,place more bodyguards and forces in the family mansion and for my siblings.Be sure to check their whole bio-data and capabilities before letting them come near my family."I spoke out with an unnatural force which is sounding foreign from my normal calm one.

My voice is getting an edge for the anxiety of repeat of past.

"I'll get on it Don."He immediately responded as we both give our respective nods. He moved towards the couch of the room followed by the other members as I turned towards the monitor screen stiffly standing by the edge of desk.

In this room,everyone is looking at my usual unreadable facade mask.

But,one look at Azaleas and I know she's picking up my every changes in behavior. Then again,I can also pick up her constant movement of eyes.Or the rubbing of her palms after a while.

Something is going through her mind.

And as much I want to go through her mind maze,a specific rotten ass is not letting me get any mental serenity.My muscles tensed again realising the total ploy that traitor was displaying for this long.

He was literally wasting my time.He was preparing for something more ominous.Because he knew,who I am. He recognise me.But being the satan he is,he never informed that to the Russians.Why will he? He wanted to feel like the superior one knowing who's the mythical Don of the underworld.And he himself wanted the sick satisfaction of dramatically exposing me after shaking my empire and destroying me.

No wonder he sent those Russian hypnotisers.Because he knew,if they're caught or not,both are a win-win situation for him.I'll act like their puppet if they were successful. Or if they get caught,those spineless one's will lead me towards Kivance and as per, I'll go after him leading me to know about this trafficking when it'll be too late to do anything.

But somehow, fate again shows mercy over me like ten years ago,which did happened by the existence of another girl like it had been at the past.

The irony of twisted history repeating.

I thought not letting my mind dive into the memory lane of those mirage like burning honey orbs which occasionally manage to pave it's way on my storming mind.

Funnily enough,a familiar pair of brown eyes flashed infront of me just as I managed to make those honey eyes disappeared into oblivion.

Without command,my eyes automatically shifted over the owner of those familar eyes founding her standing in the middle of seated Chris and David looking over Kivance's information in a monitor screen as she processed the whole wicked mind ploy.

Kivance was a mere collector and informer whose task was to collect these girls and instructed some people of his lower range about their task. That traitor leech was sure that even though I'll get kivance,I'll be too late to gather Intels and news about their shady business which will get it's endgame before my action of retrieval.He was dumbly confident to outsmart me by trafficking them in underway process before I can get to know about his contribution or those girl getting disappeared.

He wanted me to find about his existence after making me taste a bitter failure.By showing me that he's coming to show me more than that failure.

But guess what,he never anticipated Azaleas.