Even though I told her about the punishment that she has to do 10 rounds in the rain, I did not pressure her. She could have refused to do that but it was strange that she didn't.

Earlier, when I had told her to do only five rounds of the ground, she started arguing with me by saying I was torturing her. But now, it was herself who wanted it and also accepted it. Boldly.

I also agree that it was not right to send someone in such dangerously heavy rain as she may fall sick but in reality, I felt like she provoked me to give her only that one punishment. Which was quite strange.

Then I was also worried that she would have a problem, but then I also heard Carlo saying that she was afraid of thunder. If that's the case then why would she be so excited to be out in the rain with the thunder she is so afraid of?

That question settled in my mind.

Putting aside all the questions I had in my mind about that strange excitement of Alora, I held a meeting with all my men. Before everyone came to the meeting room, I had called my friends a little earlier to talk to them about this matter.

Carlo was a little angry with me and also worried for Alora. Maybe, today I scolded her too much. But it was her fault that she tried to provoke Max to come out of his discipline. It's not that I left Max. I scolded him as much as Alora. Because if Alora had made the mistake, then Max had also done it together with her. He started feeling guilty as well for letting her take the punishment herself alone.

I had earlier told Carlo that these rules were a matter of personal agreement between me and Alora. Then I did the opposite, I told all four of them about those rules. Not all the rules but just a few.

All four of them were angry and disappointed in me after hearing the whole matter, but no one said anything. To be honest, I was also worried about her and what if anything happened to her or if she started getting scared of lightning.

The time for the meeting started and we all settled in our places and started discussing the reason for which this meeting was held.

"Domenico started howling like a dog." Rome said as he started laughing in his own words.

"So, it means that at last, he has come to know that we have spoiled his plan." Max said, trying to cover his upset face with a serious one.

Domenico had called me early in the morning and shouted and threatened me that he would ruin me, not leave me, all this.

It was a treat to my ears to hear him wail like that being ruined. But on the other hand, none of his threats should be ignored. He was definitely planning his next move as to how to take his revenge.

And my mistake was that before dealing with Domenico, I had called Alora to my office, and in the tension of that work, I gave her a bad suffering punishment.

Don't know how she will be able to complete it. Should I get up and check on her once? No. Who knows, seeing me, she will get angry thinking that I have come to see her whether she was cheating or not.

Can't say anything about this girl.

I glanced through the room to see why they were so quiet, then I noticed that all of them were already staring at me with a confused face. Only then I realized that I was continuously rubbing my forehead and banging my hand on the table.

I cleared my throat in embarrassment at the way they were smiling at me.

"Any update from Feleti?" I asked, facing all of them.

Feleti was a secret newsman. He worked for my father, so after I became a boss, I also hired him to keep an eye on my enemies for their news. He was very well at his job, yet no one gotta know his real identity except the ones he worked for.

The mafia boss of Russia had also kept him for the news of Italy, so that if any of his enemies do anything, he will get information.

"Well, he said they are planning on sending their men to attack our place." Galen replied this time.

"Essi?" I asked, narrowing my eyes in confusion. (They?)

"SÌ. Ha detto che Domenico si è unito a William perché sa che anche William è dietro a distruggerci." Rome replied. (He said Domenico joined hands with William because he knows William is also after destroying us.)

"Lascia che facciano quello che vogliono fare." (Let them do what they want to do.)

If he thinks that by joining hands with William, he will get the power to destroy me, then he should be allowed to remain in his misconception.

We ended our meeting and everyone stepped out of the room before us five.

They all stood in front of the door and started chattering. We five went to the door to see what was the matter. Only then the first thing my eyes led on was her.

She was drenched as expected. Obviously, she will get soaked, it was raining outside, not windy so she will remain dry.

I felt guilty. I shouldn't have let her go outside.

Carlo called her name and ran towards her. I couldn't get the courage to stand in front of her so I stayed a few distance away from her. Max also did the same and I could say he was also disappointed in himself just like me.

Even after all this, there was a smile on her face.

As she was going upstairs with the help of Carlo, she stopped right in front of me and fixed her eyes on mine.

Her eyes were like a flame, which could burn anyone just by a glance. It was even burning me. A shiver made its way to my entire body as she kept staring at me with a smirk on her lips.

What was she up to?

"Henceforth, I will take care that your men do not face any problem because of me. I will also keep in mind that no rules should be broken by me in future." She stated.

I just nodded to her in response.

~~~~~

Basically, my men always guard around the mansion whether it was inside or outside. The security system has also been working fine with the help of Galen. The main door would always be locked up most times with more than two securities. So, it couldn't be possible for any outsider to break into my mansion. Yet, they did.

The security men were found unconscious by the attack of the knife which was used on them by the hooligans of our enemies.

We found these seven men lying injured near the entrance. Very badly. It was not that those men were lying injured, they were tied. And most importantly they were Domenico and William's men.

A sigh of relief got out of me by the thought that Alora was safe even though she was outside that time when these goons broke inside. These goons might not have seen her there because of the heavy rain and that was the best thing. I was thankful to God for that.

I had already asked my men if any of them did that, but the answers made me even more shocked. They all said that they didn't do it as they were in the meeting as expected. And the hooligans came at that time while we were inside our meeting room. Then who had beaten those seven so badly and even tied them together so that they couldn't escape?

Someone helped us. Whoever did that, it was smooth.

To know the answers and also to deal with these seven men, me and my friends came to the underground room where we dealt with people like them.

It's more like a torture room.

They all looked like they were in their mid-thirties, even if they looked big and muscular, they didn't have any power though. Someone had beaten them in such a way that even after having these big muscles, they were lying unconscious after being beaten up. I also noticed the cuts on their bodies, on all of them. The marks of knives, the same knives which were also lying around their unconscious bodies.

Pathetic goons.

As you would expect from Domenico.

It wasn't funny that my men failed to notice them breaking in, and I don't blame them though, but a strange unknown person did that for free. Who would be that individual?

"Ahh! Even though I am not a doctor and I do not have any experience in this work..." Carlo spoke by holding the surgical equipment in his hand. We basically used these on our patients who dared to harm us in businesses.

"...but it would probably be fun to use these weapons, I guess." He finished his words by looking at those goons. They started sobbing, sniffing, growling and all that they could do at this time.

"Come on, Carlo! These are all equipment and these are surgical equipment, which is only used on patients while performing surgery." Galen said by fakely correcting him while joining him in his game of making them scared.

It was a game invented by Carlo. We applied this process to our patients. Make them scared first and take out every information from their mouth before killing them. Although we did take out information from our patients, this way it became easy and fast.

"Nah! These are weapons. And I am thinking of using them on these creatures." Carlo said, pointing at those seven.

Their eyes widened with shock and fear.

"Why would you do that? They all seem fine." Rome said while smirking playfully.

"They are not fine. If these people were fine, they would not have dared to enter our place, and that too to kill Enzo." Carlo stated irritatingly.

Earlier when I had threatened them to do every brutal thing to them, one of them spit out that they were here to kill me and my family.

"So, what do you want to do with them?" Max asked him.

"I want to open their skulls and look through their brains to find whether they really have anything in their brains or not. I want to see how they thought they would be able to kill Enzo." He said with anger in his voice.

They were the reason themselves as why they were my close friends.

"I agree with Carlo. I am joining in his surgery." Max stated as he came walking towards him while raising his hand as a voting point.

"I am also in." Galen said.

"Me too!" Rome shouted to fear those men a little more.

"What about me guys?" I asked, gesturing my hand as a question.

They looked at me and grinned big. Then Carlo came to me and handed me a plate of the types of equipment.

"You will be in charge of handing us these during the surgery when we will ask for it." He said as he patted me on my shoulder and grinned like a monkey.

I stared at him annoyingly and huffed.

They took it as my love language.

"Wait– I think we should do this tomorrow. It's almost dinner time and I don't want to get my hands dirty before eating." Galen said, wrinkling up his nose.

"Yeah...you are right. Then, for now, let's just play with the real weapons." Rome gestured towards the guns, knives and blades.

"Knife or gun?" Carlo asked while holding a sharp knife in one hand and a gun in the other hand.

The goons started shaking together by lurking their eyes left and right around the room and staring at those weapons we were going to use on them.

"Let's make it balanced. There are seven right? So...we will first use the knife on the three and the gun on the other three." I replied playing along with this trick to scare them so that they spit out everything.

First, torture them mentally.

A view of total fear formed on all the seven men's faces bringing a cruel grin onto my face.

"Then what about the one who will be remaining?" Max asked, raising an eyebrow playfully.

"He will get the opportunity of both the knife and the gun." An evil smirk played on my lips.

"N-no! Please! Don't kill us." One of them stuttered.

"Are you team Domenico or team William?" Rome asked that man to torture him mentally even though we knew all their information.

"I...I am Domenico's man." He replied hesitatingly.

"Mmm....then you are a team gun." Galen said, looking down, making a thoughtful face.

"W-what does that mean?" The other man asked with full of fear in his eyes.

"Well, it means he is going to be killed by the gun." Rome responded to him boringly.

All of their eyes widened with the fear of death.

"And...w-what if I say that I am William's man?" The other one asked.

Max released a frustrated sigh and replied, "Then you are a team knife, you idiot!"

"Please forgive me! We will never–"

"Who beat up all of you?" I asked, cutting off his unnecessary pleasing.

His brows furrowed as he tried to recollect his memories.

"We-we really...don't know...who was he." The other one responded instead of the one I asked.

"What does he look like?" Carlo asked in a serious tone.

"I told you...we don't know who he was. He was all covered up."

"By what?" Galen asked.

"He was just wearing a black long hoodie, it was long enough which was helping him cover his face with the cap of the hoodie."

Long Black hoodie? Why would someone help us by catching our enemy's men? And what was that by being covered up?

Now kill them brutally.

"You all must be tired of do

ing so much work. Let us give you a free long vacation."

The sounds of gunshots filled the room leaving a river of drops of blood everywhere on the floor.

I hope they enjoy their vacations.

*****