The Gangster And The Hacker

Chapter 49

Jasper's PoV

We were outside the gate, as Mac had messaged us that she got everything needed and would meet us here. Right now, we're waiting for her for what feels like hours and she hasn't even showed up.

"Where the fuck is she?"

"Jasper, for once just believe in her." Yeah, this was Mark, saying things in the favour of the person who just yesterday fucking accused him of betraying me and pointed her gun at on his head. Honestly, if he thinks Venere is his lost sister Natasha, he has obviously lost it.

"Just yesterday she threatened to murder you and today you are taking her side?" I raised one of my eyebrows while I asked that question?

"Something tells me that out of all the people around us, we can trust only her. IF you still want to then she can be your- OUR way out of all this bullshit."

I chuckled bitterly thinking about that wishful thinking of mine when I was 14 anni vecchio. When I actually had a fucking ambition. And that was before father got to know about them and manipulated me into thinking that this is what I have to be the mafioso, the king of this empire.

"Se avessimo quell'idea 17 anni fa, I would have said 'let's go through it' without even thinking about it once. Now it's too late."

"Jasper, think about it. If we disappear, the mafioso won't stay still, they may find you or they might make Theo or even Riley take over. They were trained as well."

"Then why was I given the most harsh training? They are older than me, they were supposed to take over. But in that will/letter of his, whose name did he take? Mine. Because he wanted only his blood to take over. Because he wanted me to fucking SUFFER!"

"But if the mafia wanted to take over, they would have let you take it despite those conditions put forth. And even our rivals want you dead or else no one had dared to put the bounty on one of us." I realized something.

"What if, what Venere said is true? That someone from inside has given the order to kill?" He looked at me strangely.

"I mean think about it. Like you said, no one has dared to put a prize on any of our core member's heads. And it all started as soon as my father died. And-" I was saying something when something else sparked in my memory. Something that I forgot amidst all of this.

A few weeks before his death, the family lawyer said that the will would most probably announce that his heir would be Theo. Then why did the will say that I would be the one taking over? Things that have been happening in the past few days started to make sense in my head. This was all definitely Theo's plan. But he can't do this all alone, because his strengths were more inclined to brute force.

Now everything that Venere said was making sense. But I have a feeling that there is one or the other blindspot in all of this, because of which I'm missing one link. Who is helping him and why?

"Jasper?" Mark shook my shoulder. I looked at him and turned around to see a bunch of people a few meters away from us.

"Oh fuck, your administrators may be stupid but your security definitely... is... n't. They aren't a part of your security, are they?" Mark and I turned to our side to see Venere refreshed despite her hair sticking out of her head. Did she go for a quick workout session or what?

"Where the fuck were you?"

"Have your tea talks a few minutes later. In hell." An 'O' formed on her lips and by the looks of the expressions she was giving, I knew she was gonna piss those goons off even more.