In The Shadows ✔

[39] Trentanove - Madam President

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fratello = brother 

subito = immediately 

sorellina = little sister

dios mio = my god

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Scorpia is working on her new laptop and checking out some buildings with potential that Dino sent her. She looks at the pictures of an empty hotel, not that far from the hospital.

Logan is still in bed,  slightly snoring and she watches him with a smile on her face. Ciro comes in and she places her index finger against her lips and nods at the bed. She follows Ciro into the hallway and he hugs her, before giving her a questioning look.

Scorpia says, short and simple: "Mine. Forever." Ciro smiles and says the doctor is waiting for them in his office. They walk over there together and find Dino and Ricardo in the office already. They both get up to hug her.

She sits down and the doctor looks at her with excitement in his eyes. She waits patiently for him to talk and realizes pretty soon that Dani worked all night. The entire research plan is written up in detail and there are contracts to sign.

Dino hands her a folder and points at the contract on top that says; Research Team Leader. She pulls it out of the folder and hands it to Ricardo without a word. 

He reads through it until he sees his own name on it. 

"What is this?" 

He reads it a few more times and looks at Scorpia with eyes full of tears. 

"Is this real?"

Scorpia nods and says: "There's only one person I trust with this research. And that's you. You can put your own team together and I will speak about my experiences whenever you need me to." 

He covers his face with his hands and starts to cry. 

Scorpia gets up and wraps her arms around him.

He calms down and says: "Noone has ever had this much faith in me."

Scorpia says: "Well that's pretty stupid of them. Because you're worth it. Just sign already. We need to get the ball rolling." 

Ricardo signs and looks at her all dazed. 

She giggles and says: "Pleasure doing business with you. I'm leaving now because I have a lot more work to do."

She walks out into the hallway and Ciro and Dino follow her. She looks into Dino's eyes and he says: "Everything is arranged. The gym is Bruno's, the hair salon Lexy's, and the cafe is Logan's. All without mortgage. That is if you can get them to sign. The contracts are in your folder."

The doctor opens the door and makes eye contact with Scorpia. "You can go home, girl. But if you want to use this hospital as your office a bit longer, you're welcome to do so." He winks at her and she gives him a smile in return. He goes back into the office and closes the door.

They walk into the hospital room and sit down at the table. Scorpia points at the screen of her laptop and asks Dino for more details about the hotel. Dino starts telling about it quietly and says that the hotel would be perfect. Everything's there and it has been empty for only a month now. 

Scorpia nods and says: "Buy it. And what about the security/bodyguard course?" 

Dino slides another folder her way and she reads the text on it with a smile on her face.