The Prototype

13. Him: Vincenzo

MARCELLUS POV

Every year that I have hosted my business banquets, I have never wanted to end one early until tonight. My mind could not focus on anything else and only on Vincenzo being fixated on Tempest and he could say it was because of her beauty and that be reasonable but I know Vincenzo.

I have known him since I was young, if we were to have a sit down about it, he'll deny and maneuver his way around without telling me the actual reason he either knows Tempest or wants Tempest and he will not make me look like a fool especially over a woman.

But because it has been said from the beginning that Tempest is not some hopeless and helpless woman as we thought and as she first tried to portray. She is this woman who attended the same event that I got intel on when a few Mafia peers of mine mentioned that some of them was going to Washington D.C where the company Zyus is located due to a breach in their data.

From what my agents informed me and explained to me what happened and how it happened, it just seems as though so much has gotten left out.

They didn't mention if Vincenzo was there. So I don't fully know what all lead to the catastrophe that happened at that event.

What I do know is, Tempest was the last woman standing and surrounded by eight men who wanted her and I still do not know why specifically did they want her.

Maybe it is because she is a woman who sleeps, eats, and breathes technology. So maybe those men wanted Tempest to do something for them but why would it take eight of them was my concern.

Tempest is also a woman that had the government to restrict all of her files on everything of her life. Not only was it restricted, but it also had a self-destruct coding attached to it if breached.

I have not ever come across a woman that I could not figure out. I have not ever come across a woman that I could not get detail on. I have not ever come across a woman that wouldn't tell me who she was and made me go through all the shit that Tempest made me go through.

On top of that, Tempest signed an NDA and refuse to break that NDA and will take it to the grave even though the government don't know whether she is alive or not but I would not be surprise if they are hoping she's alive somewhere.

They need Tempest. Not only do the government need and want Tempest. So do the Federal agents and detectives who are probably working restlessly day and night to figure out what happened at the event and why can't they find a woman who was clearly at the event but can not find her, reach her nor has her body been found.

Now Vincenzo wants Tempest. That won't happen. The skills that she has would be extremely useful to him and the Sicilian Mafia.  Who knows what that would turn into.

There were Fifteen minutes left of the banquet, everyone was back mingling and exchanging any contact information of those they have just met or are looking to do business with.

Unfortunately and because I know that Vincenzo had an ulterior motive when doing it, word got around through the banquet that I was in a relationship with Tempest.

I know Tempest probably wanted to kill herself as people had started to make their rounds to us as some of them first apologize to Tempest and me for previously flirting with her.

They didn't necessarily admit or called it flirting but I knew that is what they meant as they didn't want to disrespect me nor did they want to ruin their opportunity of having a membership at the estate or any opportunities with me so they thought.

The rest were coming to formally introduce themselves to Tempest and since I was right beside her, I was able to lead the conversation and limit any more lies that shouldn't have been told in the first place.