~WILLIAM'S POV~ "Leave me! Let me go you..."I didn't let her finish before I slap her hard on the cheek. She really has some guts and it's starting to annoy me. She loses her balance and falls on the bed. Angrily, I move on top of her and start to tear off her clothes. Since she proves to be so bold, let's see how bold she is going to be now. She still struggles with me trying to push me off and I instinctively raise my hand up to hit her again but the sound of my phone ringing tone stops me. I move off from her, and pull out the phone from my pocket. The name'Capo George' displays on my screen and I slide to answer. "Yes George, speak." "Consigliere, the underboss wants to see you." I clench my fist in anger as I hear him say that. "I'm busy with something right now!" "He says to come see him quickly, he's got urgent message from the boss for you." F**king brother! Always on my nerves! I clench my fist harder. "Fine, I'm coming now." I hang up and throws the phone to the floor. "F**k! The f**king brother of mine! Who does he think he is to order me around?" I curse loudly. It pisses me off when he always gets the upper hand. The fact that he's the underboss doesn't give him the right to order me around, that position was supposed to be mine. I turn back to the girl and points at her, "You better f**king stay in here and don't do anything stupid, don't even make a noise or I will kill you" If she isn't too beautiful and captivating, I could have taught her a bitter lesson. She can be very annoying. I walk over to the couch to collect my jacket before leaving the room. Strangely, this is the first time ľ'm being patient with any woman, I don't even take such nonsense írom my wife and this girl just keeps surprising me. When I saw her that day at the restaurant, I knew at once that I have to get her. I asked my informant to do a research on her and in no time, I found out where she is from and that her father is a wretched gambler. I paid a gambler to lure her father to my casino at Dankaka and it worked perfectly but my f**king brother, Lexis, almost ruined my plan. Lexis never goes out except it's something very important;I was surprised to see him at my casino that day. Our father runs the mafia family under disguise as the chairman of THE LAWAL INDUSTRY in Lagos. I am 35 and 7 years older than Lexis but father still did not see me fit to be the under boss of the mafia but he chooses Lexis instead. With the support of the other members of the mafia, he became the underboss and will become the new mafia leader after father. Everyone fears and respects him and most times, father lets him make all decisions concerning the mafia without even seeking my opinion, the consigliere. True, he has defeated many of our rivals and has earned lots of money for the family but that doesn't mean that I can't do same. I have dedicated all my life to this family but it feels like Lexis is the only recognized one. Well soon enough, I will get what's mine. I just need to get enough powerful people on my side and the throne would be mine. George has been a capo under father for a long time and he has pledged his loyalty to him, which means that he would also serve Lexis if he becomes the boss. I would have to get him on my side for my advantage but that won't be easy because he is like a loyal dog and though he might be my friend but I don't trust that he has my side.  I already have a plan for Kemi andI hope she would be very useful. I step out of the elevator on the fifth floor. I see George walk towards me with his right in his pocket. "He's in his meeting room, consigliere." "You haven't said anything about the girl have you?" I furrow my eyebrows at him. He huffs, "Oh come on consigliere, and I wouldn't do something that childish. The underboss has his ways though. you should know better." He sighs, "You know the underboss would have already known you brought in someone right? He would probably think she's one of those girls you bring for the auction though." He's right; Lexis would have already known I brought in someone so he would be expecting me to bring her to the auction. "You weren't trying to hide it obviously." He smiles. "I'm sure you have your reasons." I smile at him, "You catch on quickly George." I frown. "Why did you ask Erica to bring the girl to me earlier?" He looks at me apologetically, "The boss sent me an errand and so I pleaded with her to help me out." "You know very that she is Lexis's capo, you could have asked people under you înstead." He chuckles, "True but the men are not allowed to go up and my soldiers are unto assignments. No one expected a new arrival that's why. Anyways, I apologize for asking Erica. I didn't think deep about it." I squint my eyes at him, "You haven't grown fond of her already, have you?" He shakes his head, "That girl doesn't even have a heart, how can one be fond of her?" I smirk at him, "And you count yourself among the people that have hearts?" He smiles cockily, "I do have a heart, right here.." He places his hand on the left side of his chest. "You're the one lacking one." I laugh and shake my head. "I have been trying to reach my assistant for a while now but cannot, I wonder where in the world he is." George opens his mouth as if he's about to say something but doesn't say anything. "Is there a problem?" I ask him. He shakes his abruptly,. "No no, there's no problem." "Let's go now before the underboss starts growling." I say with sarcasm. He nods and we make our way to the third door by the left. Erica steps out of the room and she bows to me. "He's inside consigliere." She says to me. I nod at her and walk into the room before the door slides close. He's standing by the window with a cigarette in his right hand. He waves his left hand gesturing for me to sit. I feel anger rushes through my vein. I have been putting up with him a long time now and it just gets harder every day. He doesn't even have any regards for me as a consigliere or even his older brother. He turns to me and walks to where I am sitting and leans on the table smoke curling out from his nose and mouth. "Alhaji Bawa is going to be at this auction and father says we have to impress him..." He rolls his eyes as he says that. He doesn't hide his hatred for the Alhaji. "Father says I should leave it to you this time.." He looks at me, his face displaying no emotions as usual. "So you should prepare a great package brother, in two weeks time before the auction." I scoff, "You could have simply sent the message to my assistant." He smirks, "Your assistant? I don't think you have one anymore." I furrow my eyebrows in confusion, what does he mean by that? "And what's that supposed to mean Lexis?" He places his cigarette back in his mouth before putting it out. "There's no cause for alarm you see. I only interrogated him a bit but he was just too loyal to you, that it irritated me and I decided to teach him a little lesson." He smiles. "What the f**k? I spring up and slam my hands angrily on the table. "What the f**k did you do to my man Lexis? Did you kill him?" I am already raging inside and the smirk on his face shows that he's enjoying it. I'm gonna kill this motherf*ker! "I ask what you did to Fred, Lexis!" He sighs and shrugs but doesn't answer my question. He suddenly turns serious. "The girl you took from the old man I gambled with, where is she?" Oh, he found out already? Always quick, I see. "I don't know what you're talking about and besides, haven't the money been paid to you already?" He frowns and plays with the piercing on his bottom lip. What you told me was that you were going to handle the man yourself and that's why I let him go. I only wanted to have fun that day but you decided to play nice and I allowed you. You never told me that your way of dealing with him is by f**king his daughter?" "That's not it. I have other reasons for taking her." "Where is she now? I look at him puzzle; doesn't he already know I brought her in? "Are you bringing her for the auction then?" He asks further without waiting for me to answer. I had no intention to anyways. This isn't the way I want things to go, I never planned to auction her but it isn't a bad idea anyway. I can make her do my biddings before tthen so she can carry out my plan for me. "Do I need to bring her?1 have other girls too, even virgins." I suggest but the idiot smiles. His f**king devious smile. "Then what do you intend to do with that girl, dear brother?" He furrows his brows, "You are not planning on marrying her as a second wife, are you? Your wife will kill her." He laughs. I groan in annoyance, "You told me father said I should handle it, so stop poke nosing and mind your business while I do mine." "That's correct. I will leave you to it but your assistant will pay the price for you deceiving me." I clench my fist, "And what does he have to do with this? Come at me and let him go." "Someone has to pay the price brother, just like how that girl is paying for a dept she did not owe." He smirks. F**k! Fred has been my assistant for a long time and has been very faithful to me. He's one of my best trusted people and f**king Lexis knows that. "Let him go Alexander or Ill make you pay." He feigns a frightened look, "Really? And how is that, I'm so scared right now." He says with sarcasm. "F**king let the boy go Lexis! He's done nothing wrong" I slam my hands on the table again. He turns to the table and frowns. "At this point, you will break the table William." I bit my lips in anger, "You want to use him to blackmail me?" "Blackmail you? Of course not, I know very well that you cannot stoop low for a subordinate, no mafia member can." "So what do you want then?" "Nothing, I'm bored, just wanna have fun." He smiles. "You can have fun with anyone you want and I don't care but if you kill my assistant, I won't let it go this time, Lexis." He shakes his head and walks away from me back to the window. "You know me very well brother, I don't fear shit. So do want you want and I will do want I want." He turns to me. "Don't be delusional that you can pull me down, you're not smart enough." I fight the urge to take out my gun and blow off his skull right now. "We're supposed to fight our famly rivals together but it seems that you will be willing to join them instead." I grit my teeth, "I never said that, I have pledged my loyalty to father and will not go back on it." He rolls his eyes, "Just make sure father doesn't find out about that girl. She's supposed to be with the other girls at the slave quarters but you have kept her in your room.." He shakes his head. F**kng Erica! I get it, its fine; but please reserve a little of her for Alhaji Bawa." He grins. "I never said I am bringing her to the auction." He turns fully to me leaning on the window. "So what's her use then? Your play toy?" "If that's all, I'll take my leave."I walk towards the door but pauses. "Send my assistant back to me." I hear him chuckle, "You don't tell me what to do consigliere, I do what I want." I turn to him with a smirk, "I understand that you crave a mother's love, that's why you're like this. It must be so lonely right?" I see his smile fades away and his face becomes serious again. "I may not be the underboss or one everyone fears, but at least, I have a mother." I smile. "It's less lonely that way."I move to walk away but his voice stops me. "The dead doesn't come back brother, do you expect me to cry a river because l don't have a mom? You talk like a child brother." He slowly walks to me with his hands in his pocket and smiles. "Seeing how lonely and sad your mother is every day, don't you think she should just die as well? It's really sad you know." He shakes his head at me. "Isn't she a burden to you? Should I help you get rid of her? It would be painless and fast, I promise." He smirks. Bloody motherf**ker! I pull my gun out and point it at his head. "Repeat what you said, you son of a bitch!" The unaffected look on his face makes melose it the more. He just stares at me smiling and I turn around to see Erica pointing a gun to my head alongside five men. Lexis sighs and waves his hands at them. "It's just a disagreement between step brothers, its fine, you may go. Erica hesitated for a while before she reluctantly lowers her gun and leaves with her men. With me still pointing my gun at his head, he reaches for my shoulder and pats me. "You know very that the instant you pull that trigger, you're not going down alone but your dear mother as well right?" I clench my fist in anger and lower the gun putting back into my pocket. The door slides open and I'm about to leave when he says something. "Be careful bro so you don't fall for that girl from the slums, it's not safe to have too many weaknesses." I scoff, "You watch out as well." That's the problem, he doesn't have a weakness. If there's anyone who follows the rules of the mafia more keenly, it's him. He doesn't care about anybody but himself, he kiled his own mother anyway. I exit the room in anger and frustration. He never fails to provoke the hell out of me, son of a b*tch. Xoxo