VAERDA: La Grande Famiglia

⛓Il Mondo Sommerso⛓

Il Mondo Sommerso: The Underworld

Athena VAERDA
"That will be 27,000 USD ma'am, I'll go get the card r-"
"I will be paying by cash."
"I'm sorry? I mean yes of course ma'am."
"Leave the clothes on the hangers too."
"Yes Ma'am." With that I walked out of Louis V and into my car but just before I got in-

"Is it true that your father will give up his place as CEO of Vaerda shipping Co Ms. Vaerda?!"

"Can you confirm if you will take over Mr.Vaerda's position?"
"Your opinion on your father stepping do-"
"Is Vaerda Corp facing problems?"
"Will your brother take over Vaerda Shipping Co?"

No, I sure as hell am not taking over my father's position. Apollo, my brother will take over.

"I will have to ask you to step back and quite down or we will be suing each and every one of you." Mynt my head of security interrupts. God, Paris has always been a nuisance. The only reason I'm here is to shop and check on my warehouses. Racing down the road and onto the highway I speed back to the estate. I walk to the backyard taking of my clothes in the way and dive into the pool naked.

Lap after lap when my legs are numb, I climb out. Walking back into the house I am greeted by a very tempting, juicy beef burger on the kitchen counter. I moan at the taste, floating straight to 7th heaven savoring the flavor of an absolutely perfect burger pro'lly a gift from god. Oh, I must have saved a countr-

"Tuo fratello è qui, Signora." god fuck! Can a girl not a eat a burger in peace?

Your brother is here Ma'am

"Our shipment from Mexico arrived a week late and half of it is missing. It's either Santos or, yeah, it's got to be Santos."
"Who is Santos?"
"André Santos, is Tara Santos' nephew, the one who wanted to marry you. Do you seriously not remember?"
"Oh I know Tara, she opened a boutique in Portugal somewhere, right?"
"She is also married into the Portuguese Mafia and wasn't very pleased when you rejected her nephew."

"Well then find out who stole my shipment, and tell Apollo increase supervision at the docks." I instruct.
"I'm heading over to count what's come in. I'll mail you the loss."
"No, wait in the study I'll dry off and meet you."

With that I walk upstairs and hop in the shower, quickly washing up and I walk back down and into the study.

"Ares, Siediti." I move to sit on the plush emerald armchair near the window. Ares sits opposite me.

Ares, sit down

"Ares, increase security at the warehouses and move anything worth more than $25,000 into my basement New York within this month"
"We are short on security because Apollo and Dad have been swarmed by pap all month. That is probably also why everyone's been slacking off. 15 days will do for us to move everything."
"you can move everything from all our warehouses across the world in 15 days?"
"You underestimate your men, sorella. I think we should make rounds through the docks tomorrow, keep everyone in check."
" E&C is having a board meeting tomorrow and Ace wants me to be present and not send a proxy."
"Then I'll go in the morning, Athena"
Ares gets up to leave giving me a quick peck on my cheek.
"Ares, if anything is lost again tell Apollo to step back and we'll handle it."
"Yeah, and I think we'll have to take over a few things until Apollo is set as CEO."

I watch as Ares speeds down my driveway. I walk into the kitchen to the remnants of my burger, cold and soggy. I call for a maid to clean it off and tell the chefs to bring in my dinner.

Sitting in bed I go through a few mails and make a few phone calls concerning the lost shipment and paperwork from my lawyers about our annual tax returns. I fall sleep reading the clauses I was going through.

My phone rings, thrashing in its place on the nightstand.
"Signora il magazzino sotto la statua dell'angelo è stato fatto irruzione. Stiamo contando sono perdite e ci sono pochi uomini che abbiamo preso per voi di mettere in discussione. Vuoi venire qui domattina ?"
" No Neo, mi dirigerò laggiù ora"

Ma'am the warehouse under the angel statue was raided. We are counting are loss and there are few men we caught for you to question. Will you come here in the morning?

No Neo, I will head over there right now

I drag myself over to be closet and slip on a hoodie and shorts over my naked form. Skipping down the stairs I already find Mynt waiting outside with a car ready.

He opens the door to the car for me to get in and we race down to the warehouse where Ares is already interrogating two men.

Neo, another trusted man in the organization runs towards me and rants a list of losses. I walk towards my brother and Neo follows behind. Everyone stops what they are doing and bow a full 90 degrees and I bow back in a short bow.

"They are apparently from Mexico they arrived on the ship which arrived today." Ares starts.
"The one that arrived with only half the cargo?"
"Yeah, they are Don Pérez' men, he must have sen-"

"He sent us as a warning, you gotta know better than to fuck with us." a man croaks in a thick accent. "He knows the stunt you pulled last month in San Diego. You really thought he wouldn't -"
"Oh come on, can't Pérez take a fun little joke."
"What joke?" Ares looks at me, lost.
"You think sending your men after our don's son and dropping him in the middle of a forest is fucking funny?" He talks again. God my ears are bleeding. He seems to be a leader of some sort.
"He was tucked safely back in bed by 5:00 in the morning without a scratch." I say giggling
" If you think yo-"
"Sta'zitto" my tone changes drastically.

Shut up

He immediately quiets down and mumbles something.

"Round it up, I want a report on the loss first thing tomorrow."
"Sì signora."

Yes ma'am

"Oh, Neo is the jet back from Warsaw?"
"Sì signora."
"I'll leave to Milan in an hour, arrange for a car to take me to the airport."
"Sì signora."

A car pulls up in front of to take me to the airport. We drive straight into the ramp and I get on the jet waiting for me. An air hostess greets me with a glass of champagne. Bending over into the cockpit I fist bump the pilots and move to my seat at the back.

We reach Milan at 6 in the morning. A car picks me up and takes me home to my brother's estate.
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