BISERKA'S APARTMENT

Biserka's apartment, Shanghai, at 9 am.

"Pavlo, please set up an appointment on behalf of my company with the CNY Company." Benvolio was busy with the files in his hands while drinking the hot coffee prepared for him.

"Okay, Ben, I'll take care of it soon." Pavlo agreed to Benvolio's request and immediately contacted the corporate center of BC International Finance, commonly abbreviated as BCIF, Benvolio's leading company in Italy, which is engaged in a global finance corporation.

"How long will it take Pav to agree on the appointment?" asked Benvolio as he lit the lighter to light the cigarette that was in his mouth.

"It didn't take long to get approval from the central company, about 15 minutes after I sent my email," Pavlo replied as he ate the snack he took from Biserka's refrigerator.

While the two of them talked, they heard the door opening sound, and a beautiful woman still wearing her pajamas came out.

The woman is Biserka.

She just woke up from her sleep and stepped out of the bedroom into the living room connected to the kitchen.

She was surprised to see two men sitting in her living room and occupying her apartment.

***

*Flashback on*

Mint, Shanghai at 2.30 am.

"Okay, I'll ask for an appointment with your sister on behalf of my company, and it must be hard for your sister to refuse," Benvolio said to Biserka as he sipped the cocktail in Mint.

"It's up to you, I want Verasha to come back, and my sister doesn't know her identity. I don't care about anything else, including how you met my sister," Biserka replied curtly at Benvolio and immediately stepped out of the Mint.

Pavlo, who saw Biserka wanting to get out of Mint, immediately stopped the girl and pulled her hand away.

"Wait a minute, Miss, you can't go anywhere without our supervision." Pavlo immediately removed his hand from Biserka and gave her an explanation.

"What do you mean?! I'm so sleepy and want to go back to my apartment to rest. I've been stuck in this place for hours."

"And there's no way I should also stay in a place like this with a bunch of guys?!" Biserka looked at Pavlo lazily.

"It's not like that, I mean-"

"You may return to your apartment as long as Pavlo and I come with you," said Benvolio, who also cut off Pavlo's unfinished words.

Pavlo and Biserka's eyes widened. They were both surprised to hear the statement that came out of Benvolio's mouth.

"Ben.. do we need to go to her apartment too? I mean, we have to keep an eye on him, but if you come to her apartment, isn't it a huge violation of her privacy?" asked Pavlo, doubtful about Benvolio's decision to want to keep an eye on Biserka to her residence.

"Listen to your assistant, Pavlo, Mr. Mafia. Don't you have any shame in stalking me to the apartment? Your assistant seems saner." Biserka, on her hips, couldn't understand Benvolio's request.

"Not stalking, but watching. Please pay attention to the order of your language and the diction you say, Miss. Please don't make people who hear it misunderstand. Besides, I'm not interested in a woman like you." Benvolio answered Biserka with a cynical look, but it didn't diminish his handsome charm.

"You have to choose. Do you want to sleep in your apartment quietly and take us with you or sleep here with a bunch of boisterous guys?" he continued.

"Fuck off with you fucking mafia! All right, you guys come with me to the apartment. I also have a lot of questions I want to ask you guys."

After reached the agreement, the three of them headed out of the Mint to Biserka's apartment.

Before leaving the Mint, Benvolio asked his mobsters to return to base and learn more about the 'monster lair' and their following plans.

*Flashback off*

***

After successfully remembering what happened that early morning, Biserka sighed.

"Ah shit, how can I forget about them." Biserka walked towards the two men.

But she was surprised because there was a smell of cigarettes and there were lots of food packages lying on the table in her kitchen.

"Oh my God, what are you guys doing with my apartment?!" Biserka immediately walked over to the two of them quickly.

"Hey, please put out your cigarettes! No smoking in this room! Your cigarette smoke makes this room stuffy and smells!" Biserka scolded Benvolio and asked him to put out the cigarette immediately.

"Rumoroso sai!" Benvolio replied, annoyed, and immediately put out the cigarette.

"Hey, use language I understand, asshole. What did Benvolio say, Pav?" Biserka said and asked Pavlo about Benvolio's words in a foreign language that Biserka didn't know what it meant.

Pavlo, who was drinking a glass of water, was choking when Biserka suddenly asked him and called him by the name Benvolio used to use because Pavlo is called Pavlo more often than just Pav by people who know him except Benvolio.

"Ah…you're asking me, Miss?" Pavlo replied, stammering a little in surprise.

"Hey, who do you think Pavlo is in this room besides you? And can you just call me by my name? You don't have to call me Miss, because it sounds more like you are my slave." Biserka shook her head, confused and dizzy by Pavlo's behavior.

"Ah, fine. What Benvolio said earlier meant that you were noisy, Miss- I mean Biserka."

"You bastard mafia, it's fortunate that I let you stay in my apartment," Biserka grumbled after learning the meaning of what Benvolio said earlier.

Benvolio, who heard Biserka's chatter, did not even pay attention to it. He was not interested in continuing an unimportant conversation with the Moroccan woman, let alone waiting for him to argue. His primary mission was to capture the 'monster lair' and not to guard Biserka. So he didn't care about Biserka.

Biserka, who saw Benvolio indifferent to him, got angry with Benvolio and decided to take the food in her refrigerator before her emotions exploded.

Unlike Mataya, her sister or twin sister, whose emotions are explosive and difficult to control, Biserka can control her feelings and distract her with food.

But when she opened the refrigerator, she did not find her favorite food there. She was confused because she remembered that she had bought quite a lot of the product in stock.

"Hey, have any of you two seen the food-" Biserka looked at the kitchen table where there were a lot of food wrappers and realized that the food wrappers were all her favorite food products.

"Damn it! Who ate all my food?!" shouted Biserka with fiery eyes wanting to immediately beat up the person who had eaten all of her favorite food without leaving it.

Pavlo, who heard Biserka's scream, immediately panicked and felt guilty. Because he was the culprit, he was crazy about eating the food because the food product was also his favorite snack. He didn't realize he had eaten all the snacks until he was not leaving them at all in the refrigerator.

"Ah, I'm sorry, Biserka. I ate all your favorite foods, but don't worry. I'll buy them right away to replace all your food I've eaten." Pavlo apologized to Biserka. He got up from his seat and closed his laptop, intending to go to the nearest supermarket.

"Tch, never mind. You don't have to change it. I'll buy it later," Biserka replied, stopping Pavlo, who wanted to leave.

Pavlo looked at Biserka confused and said, "Okay, if that's what you want."

Pavlo sat back down and opened his laptop to resume his work.

Benvolio, who had been silently listening to Pavlo and Biserka's conversation, began to feel uncomfortable and disturbed by the two of them.

"Can't you two be quiet? It's so noisy, you know!" Benvolio snorted in annoyance.

-to be continued-