Deadly Poison ( Book 1 Of Mafiuso Series #1) ✔️

9. Boxing

1 week later……

I am engrossed in sleep trying to get some extra winks. Out of nowhere my idiot brother comes into my rooms and tries to shake the sleep off me. He tries again, this time I push him and turn my face to the other side. He does nothing for the next few seconds, before proceeding to drag me to the bathroom, shove me in and put the shower on.

I am fully awake, even though I don’t want to be thanks to the forced cold shower, courtesy my asshole brother.
I come outside drenched and ask “what was that for?”

He answers without a pause “because it’s time to teach you something new! All you want to do is sleep late”

I wanted to murder him then and there.
“You already know Kung-fu and karate, time to teach you boxing. Get ready and I want to see you in the gym in the next ten minutes.” He walked away saying so.

I was peacefully sleeping with my little baby Cara snuggling in my arms like a teddy bear, a picture of serenity and perfection and my stupid brother had to ruin it, like he ruins all good things. No wonder the fool is still single!
My sleep was already ruined so no point sulking around, I put on my training gear, shorts and crop top and joined him in the gym.

I do some warm up exercises to get my body ready for the strenuous workout that would follow.

I learned a few basics of punching and defending and worked a lot on my footwork.  Basically it was a 2 hour session here Adriano taught me for one hour and the next hour we practiced it. I was sweating buckets by the end of the session and needed a good bath to cleanse my body.

I took a long 30 minute bath. I used a special flowery soap, which was a mixture of amazing aromas of four different soaps to cleanse my body. I felt really fresh and relaxed after the shower, all the anger of my morning ordeal disappeared.

I wore a white high waist jeans and a yellow turtleneck sweater and went downstairs.

The place was deserted no signs of Emilia or Adriano. I found from the maids that Adriano was in his study.
I knocked on the door. No answer. I knocked a few more time and the irritated face of Adriano appeared as the door opened slightly. He was surprised to see me there.”What are you doing here?, I am having an important meeting”.

“Ohh I did not know. I just wanted to eat breakfast with you.” I said.

On hearing us converse, Lorenzo walked up and whispered something in Adriano’s ears and he let me in.
I saw a packet of cocaine on the table with the mark of the Sinaloa cartel. “Well this is the shipment that came from Mexico”, I blurted out. My habit of throwing facts could bit me in the ass this time.

“How do you know little sis? Have you started using?” Adriano asked me in jest.
“I hacked through their system and I have all the details of the shipments that came through recently and that are why I recognized this one.” I said
“Well then can you also tell me the dates so that I can verify if this is the stuff that Giovanni takes?” Lorenzo asked hopefully.

“Sadly that’s hard to determine there are so many factors are involved in this that I cannot say for sure that Giovanni takes the Mexican supply. To be frank he supply which Giovanni takes could be from anywhere and it’s hard to determine the source.” I said.

“Alright. I also have something else to talk about. Adriano can you excuse us for a moment” Lorenzo said.
“sure bro” Adriano left the room.
I was alone with Lorenzo and he went straight to the point.

“I wont mince my words. My family is really grateful for what you have done for us, we can never repay it. I believe you are the perfect candidate to be Giovanni’s caretaker, only you can help him heal.”
I took a few moments to process his request and give my response. “You can hire a fleet of doctors and nurses for that purpose. I feel I am not qualified enough for this task” I said tactfully.

“You don’t understand. I need someone who is just like family and someone I can really trust. You perfectly fit the bill.” He said.
“ What do I get from this, where is my reward?” I said cheekily.

“You are just like your brother. Always looking at the profit margin. Well officialy you can become my hacker; since my guy has gone missing I need someone to take his place. I will pay you 100,000 Euros per annum. Sounds good enough?” he said.

“You have got yourself a deal.” I said and shook his hands.
“You can start your duties from Monday, I will take care of the other formalities and give you all the stuff you need to stay here then. In the meanwhile you can take care of the resignation from your month long internship at the rehab.” Lorenzo said.

I smiled at him and he moved outside and I followed suit.
He said goodbye to Adriano and they hugged each other.
After he was gone,Adriano asked “whats cooking?”
I told him everything about the conversation. Adriano was surprised I had agreed and decided to leave my life in London behind.

“Brother I don’t want to stay away from my roots forever. Also I am really passionate about hacking and helping Giovanni so I want to do this, whether you like it or not.” i said
“Okay okay I wont force you to do anything against your will.” He smiled and left for work.

These new developments early in the morning remind me of an amazing poem I had read some eons ago.
For hours, the flowers were enough.
Before the flowers, Adam had been enough.
Before Adam, just being a rib was enough.
Just being inside Adam’s body, near his heart, enough.
Enough to be so near his heart, enough
to feel that sweet steady rhythm, enough
to be a part of something bigger was enough.
And before the rib, being clay was enough.
And before clay, just being earth was enough.
And before earth, being nothing was enough.
But then enough was no longer enough.
The flowers bowed their heads, as if to say, enough,
and so Eve, surrounded by peonies, and alone enough,
wished very hard for something, and the wish was enough
to make the pinecone grow wings; the wish was enough
to point to the sky, say bird, and wait for something to sing.anted to eat breakfast with you.”