Ineffable

8

Ivanna pov

"We finally meet, Luca Alessandro," I say confidently. He turns around and looks at me. "Well it's a pleasure, miss Stawarski" I look at him surprised.

"A lot of people know my name but not my face, how did you know it was me?" I ask. He chuckles "you're not the only one who's been trained to be an assassin, and you should know, observing comes with the job" he replies. "Ah! Yes of course."

"I've heard a lot of rumors about you, you are quite the dangerous man aren't you?" I say while picking up a glass of champagne. "Well it depends on who stands before me, now doesn't it? Some people want to be my enemy some beg for my help" he states arrogantly.

I roll my eyes, what's he trying to say? I scoff.

"Hey, Brotha!" A man comes and slaps his back and then looks at me and says "talking to a woman I see" he says. "Introduce me," he says with confidence and a smirk on his face

He sighs deeply "this is not my brother but he is Xavier, Xavier jones. The man who can't handle my sister" he introduces while glaring.

"Don't mind him, my lady, he's a bit of grumpy pants, and it's a pleasure to meet you, miss..?" He asks for my name. "Ivanna Stawarski"

"Ivan-'' a look of realization comes across his face before he could finish his sentence. "Holy sheesh kebabs, you're the most dangerous effing assassin in the world!" He exclaims. I chuckle at his expression.

Luca looks at him weird "what's wrong with you? Why are you speaking like that?" Luca asks him. "Like what? What're you talking about?" He replies.

"Like a child who can't swear" Luca snaps at him. "Well, it's a bad thing to swear so, I'm stopping." He says innocently.

I look at him confused "You want to stop swearing because it's bad? You in the mafia, everything you do is bad" I say as a matter of fact. "Well yes, my lady. I want to stop because I may be in the mafia but I can stop swearing right?" He asks. Both Luca and I shake our heads as a 'no'.

he sighs "oh! Fuck you! Just forget about it!" He snaps and walks away like a child. I let out a slight laugh at his behavior, he's still a fucking child.

"He's still a fucking child. Sometimes I wonder how he is the don of the American mafia and my friend" Luca speaks as he shakes his head. "Why? Is the mafia king picky about his friends?" I tease him lightly.

"Baby, if you think I'm picky about my friends, you should know, I'm way pickier about my women" he states arrogantly with a smirk.

I roll my eyes at him and scoff. "You shouldn't roll your eyes too much, they'll get stuck there" he states before taking a sip of champagne. I scoff again. "You know, I don't mean disrespect to your highness but I fucking hate people with arrogance like yours, you act like the fucking world revolves around you"

He comes close to my ear. "and what about yours? What should I do about your arrogance? Hmm?" He whispers in my ear with his husky voice.

My breathing picks up. His breath fanning my cheeks. Say something! You fucking hate him! Say something! Say something!

"Fuck you" I breathe out. He lets out a chuckle before he moves away. "there's no use saying you hate me, it'll only make you want me more" he winks and walks away.

I look at him slightly confused before I realize. Shit! I said it out loud, not in my mind!

FUCK HIM! FUCK HIM! FUCK HIM!

"Deep breaths Ivanna, deep breaths. You don't want to get angry and kill him right? After all, he is the don of the Italian mafia" I try to calm myself down.

"Anyeonghaseyong my bitch" an excited voice comes behind me. Wait for what?

I slowly turn around to see- "TAE-EUL?????" I look at her in astonishment. "Yesss my bitch! It's me! I missed you so fucking much" she says while jumping up and down.

"You here?" I say while looking at my best friend. "Yes ma'am!"

" your bestie is here! Now you can cry on my shoulder, you can scream, you can annoy me, you can do whatever the funk you want with me! Cause I'm here! It was planned and I wanted to surprise you and I knew you were coming to this party, so I arranged something and I begged for appa and eomma to let me come and when they finally did, but then my fucking brother said no but I said fuck him and still came here to surprise you and I'm probably going to be in trouble, but I'm so happy I could see you again! And I want to do-'' I cut off her rambling and say "would you shut the fuck up?". "Sorry," She says sheepishly.

I chuckle at her. " you're still the same, can't stop talking can you?" She shakes her head as a no while smiling like a kid.

"It's been a fucking year I saw you," I say to her. "I know bitch, I missed you too but we had a lot of problems in the mafia because the government in Korea was trying to come against us, all of us were so stressed and we couldn't put ourselves in danger just in case. We finally got out of that situation when the Italians helped as and in return they wanted our alliance." She says seriously

I nod. The Italians huh? Did he help them?

"Well it was a good deal if you ask me, I mean it could do the Italians pretty well if we were on their side" she states. I look at her, wait did I speak out loud again? What is it with me?!?!

"Btw I have to ask, I saw you talking with the Italian king, what's up with that?" She asks while taking a glass of champagne. I roll my eyes "nothing, just a snobby rich guy acting fucking arrogant" I say annoyed at his mention.

She smirks wide. I raise my right eyebrow "what?" I ask her. "I didn't say anything," she says innocently. "You didn't say anything but your face sure is," I tell her.

"You're annoyed by him" she states. I look at her confused "yes I am, so??" I ask her. "Oh my lord, whatever just forget about it," she says.

I look at her again questioningly it gives up when she doesn't budge. Well, whatever ill find out whatever it was later anyway.

"Hey, you wanna get out of here? I just changed into a party dress in the flight, I wanna go and freshen up" tae-eul says exhausted. I shake my head "no can do, dad asked me to stay throughout the party" I tell her.

"Alright, then can I have your car keys so I can go home and change?" She asks me with puppy dog eyes. "I don't give my car to anyone and you know that," I tell her not budging.

"I know, but your bestie is tired from the long flight, and you don't have any reason to not let me borrow it" she tries to act cute again "You're a chaotic driver" I start simply. "And how will I go if you take my car?" I add.

"You can just go with your fam, can't you?" Now she's going a little overboard with the puppy dog eyes. I huff "alright fine! Take it!" I grab the keys from my purse and give them to her.

she squeals and says "thank you!!!" I roll my eyes at her. "One scratch and I mean just ONE scratch and I swear to god you are dead" I threaten her. She nods "Okie-Dokie, Yesss I'm finally gonna drive it!" And with that, she runs off.

The moment she passed through the doors I regretted it, I wish I didn't give the keys to her! I mentally hit myself in the head.

"Oh well, I guess ill just have to get another car," I say to myself while grabbing yet another glass of champagne. I've been drinking way too much, I shouldn't get drunk at such a formal party. I put the glass back.

"Restraining ourselves, are we?" A cold Mexican voice interrupts. I turn around to look at a person who is probably in the Mexican mafia. "Hello, miss Ivanna Stawarski" he grabs my hand and kisses it. I immediately take my hand back and wipe it with a tissue. Ew, disgusting! Who the fuck does he think he is to touch me without my permission?!