A visit to Catherinas father and the story behind the gold island
Was something that Marco was desperately looking forward to, mostly because he felt like it had become something that seemed to be eating Catherina up from inside out.
Normally he would have ignored all of it cause there was so much already on his plate and adding something so huge was definitely not a part of his plans for a very long time to come.
The gold island was the most complex thing in the entire underground, no one knew exactly what to expect because there had been so many stories behind the concept. Most people believed it was an island in the middle of nowhere, others believed it was a safe house that belonged to the founding fathers of the Norwegian cartel, some others thought it was just a myth that started out just to satisfy the greed of power thirsty men and women like the Maliz matriarch, right now he was unsure of what to actually believe.
Somewhere deep down he felt like Catherina knew every detail there was to know as regards it and from the much he grasped from her words he figured that it was a place, what sort of place and what to find there was what he had no clue about.
"What are you thinking so hard about brother"
Luca asked. Earning a sigh from a mentally exhausted Marco who turned and stared at Catherina whose gaze had been focused outside the jet since they boarded.
"The head in the package was obviously a threat, a threat that only surfaced the moment Catherina came back into the picture"
He sighed and looked over at Soph and Luciana who were facing each other and whispering between themselves.
"She knows something about the infamous gold island and for the life of me I can't seem to wrap my mind around it, the last thing I need is a bullet to anyone's head all for something I would rather not know anything about"
He stopped cause he felt the anger bubbling deep in his heart, now that he was thinking about it, he wondered how anyone would dare have the temerity to walk into his home and deliver a gift wrapped head to him and his family, all for something they had absolutely no clue about its true form or nature, things were escalating faster than he liked and it wasn't leaving good feelings on its wake.
"Have you tried asking her about it?"
Luca asked curiously.
"I have, and all I got was that she could tell me much for she didn't understand much either"
He replied rather exasperated.
"Then why didn't you just dig into it, I mean we've got the manpower and resource it would require and at the end point we would have a clearer idea of what we are about walking into."
Luca adviced before tapping his shoulder and walking away,
It's not that there was anything stopping him from actually doing that but he chose not to.
Catherina was the link between him, the gold island and the other cartels regardless of his place as king, in the end he was choosing to respect Catherina by letting her come clean about what she knew about everything.
Besides, he had better things to worry about like how to get Catherina to marry him before they met her father again, unfortunately he had made a trip to Norway right around the time he found Catherina, it was plain business in the beginning till he made the mistake of visiting the sick Mr Maliz in the hospital, right there he had sworn to the sick man that no matter what happened he would make sure to put a ring on her finger by the time he brought her back home.
At first it seemed quite simple to do, after all how hard could it be to ask the woman you love to spend the rest of her life with you but now that everything seemed to be happening at the same time he saw how difficult it could truly be.
"There's something I want to talk to you about Babe"
He heard her voice beside him but that wasn't what caught his attention, it was the fact that she just called him babe, obviously she wanted something. It's not that she never called him babe it's just it was never in such a sultry manner and that truly made him suspicious.
"What do you want Catherina?"
He asked before pulling her to his lap and kissing her cheek earning a glorious giggle from her, he wondered how anyone could be so beautiful in this world.
"Oh come on, it's not that bad"
She tried to reason but Marco knew this tactic too well, she was stalling and whatever it was that she had to say was serious.
"I love you Catherina, time and distance has been the most disturbing aspect of our relationship and regardless of how much it kept us away from each other we still managed to make it back to each other, I will give you the world if you said the word so never hold back when you want anything because you should believe that I'll do it in a heart beat."
Very rarely did he express his love in words because he always found it difficult to do, except of course if it involved Catherina, for this woman he would shed tears and he would happily express vulnerability before her.
"I'm glad you think that way Baby and I want you to know that I love you to the moon and back so I want you to know that I'm only asking this cause it's what I want with you before we land and it's the reason I brought Silvano along with us cause we all know that apart from being the best ghost in the team he's also our priest and I want you to know that I would never do anything to hurt you and - "
Marco captured her lips in a deep kiss to end her rambling,
Did this woman not hear a word of anything he said before?
"What do you want Catherina?"
He asked again, although he had a lot of things in mind he didn't expect what she said next.
"Let's Get Married"
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AND THUS IT BEGAN
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