Worshiping Her

chapter twelve

            
              Francesca Romero

"Li, I told you and dad that I was done with the mafia shit." I fold my arms. "And why the fuck is Nico here, no offense but what is he gonna do? Fight?." I glance over at Nicolai.

"Ask your ex-boyfriend what I can do."  He scoffs

"My bad." I throw my hands in the air.

"I'm going to explain to you dumbasses one more time. This is Jake Anderson." She points at a picture of the guy on the table. "He's been following dad around for the past two weeks. I wanna know why. He always hangs out at Club 48 every Thursday night."

"My problem how?" I move my neck.

"You don't care about your fucking dad?" She rolls her eyes. "I need you to get information on him." She throws a file on the table in front of me.

I open the file and examine it slowly.

Jake Anderson. White male, 27 years old, recently divorced, and no kids. He has a shit load of felonies and misdemeanors. "Does dad know about this? I lifted my eyebrow at Lilura.

"No, and he doesn't need to know. I don't want anyone that works with or for dad knowing."

"Shouldn't he know that someone is following him?" I questioned her and closed the file.

"I don't want him worrying about this. You in or not?"

Why the fuck not. "What do I have to do?" I hesitated.

"I want you to seduce him."

Of course.

"Excuse me, what?" Nicolai clears his throat.

"She's gonna go to the bar, get him sloppy drunk, and gather information from him." She hands me a tiny bag with white powder in it. "After you find enough information, I want you to pour this into his drink." She walks over to Nico and gives him a small black earpiece. "That's where you come in. I want you to listen in case shit goes south."

"So let me just get this straight." I looked at the bag filled with white powder. "You want me to "seduce" and possibly drug a guy that could be extremely dangerous all because you think he's following dad. Especially when this could all be avoided if you just told him. Am I correct?" She nods her head. "Estoy Abajo." (I'm down)

"Why can't you do it yourself?" Nico's voice cracks. "She's more experienced." She shrugs.

"I- what's that supposed to mean?"

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"Are you sure you wanna do this?" Nicolai puts his hand in his pocket. We've been waiting in the bathroom of the club for the ok from Li.

"Yeah, Why?" I bend over in the mirror to put on lipstick and caught Nico staring then quickly looking away. "Stop being weird." I stared at Nicolai in the mirror."

"You stop being weird." He began. "And this is dumb, I don't like it."

"And why is that?" I turned around to face him. Most would say he's jealous which he could be but Nico he has always been protective of me, hence what happened with him and Noah.

"It could end just end badly. You know?" He starts scratching the back of his head.

"I can handle my own and you know that, plus you'll be listening to everything. Okay?" I gave him a small smile. "Okay."

"You still haven't told me how your date went." It was getting awkward okay?

"We just didn't click." He shrugged his shoulders.