Chapter 13: Selling your daughter to the devil...

October 24, 20XX (Sunday)

H Hotel,

It was the next day after Vittoria came and visit Luciella, they went on a shopping spree with Vittoria paying for everything. Vittoria had sent her all the information she had with the dealings in the eastern port, the money was also transferred to her.

Luciella did not take up the job offer for helping her aunt, and for her to get the money only. She had plans of her own for taking up the offer, it was just that she did not explained.

Luciella who had woke up pretty early that day, was seating by the floor to ceiling window, her eyes was deep and lonely. Her figure that was sitting by the window looked extremely estranged from the world. Looking outside, the rain had clouded the view of the city. It was slightly foggy, while it continues to pours heavily.

She was deep in thought, while smoking. But the silence was broken when her phone started to ring, she picked up restlessly before placing it on speaker mode. "Xuan, you there?"

Luciella sighed, "Speak"

"Are you free next weekend?"

"I'm out of the city, is there something wrong?" Luciella hardly spoke to the man on the phone, they would casually meet up occasionally.

"Its fine, when you are back then I will tell you." The man did not want to tell her that soon, afraid the woman would straight out reject him.

"hmm." She hummed before hanging up the call, not wanting to speak any further.

Sometimes she could not fathom her meaning in life, her heart always felt empty. It was like a void that can never be fill up, and abyss of nothingness. Sometimes it dawn on her that no one would be by her, not even her family.

Since her family were in the dark side, their lives were always on the line. In the mafia world, the strong rules, but it does not mean they would for eternity. She did not want to know what her family did to get to this point, but she could already guess what it takes to get there.

Even if she do not want to be meddled into her family affairs, she could not avoid it. From the first day she was born, she was already destined to be chased by endless death threats and responsibilities.

However powerful they are now, but with a wrong step. Everything can be come tumbling down, for her. She do not care about what it takes to get to the end goal, since human nature was evil from the start.

Being soft hearted would mean bringing harm to herself, wherever she goes. It was like the president of the nation strolling in the streets, secretly there were many trained guards surrounding her every move.

She knew it all, and that was also the reason she could not sleep well. Since she knew how many people were guarding her, it equals to how many people wanting the head of hers.

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In a European Villa, London

"Boss, this time round we located a reaper lurking around the eastern port." John informed Alessandro.

Alessandro wore a sweatpants with a robe over him as he went to his study, "Credible?"

"Yes, our man had been eyeing on the reaper. It seems like a new batch of shipment is being watched very closely by them, since there are many spiders there."

Alessandro sat down on his swivel chair, before turning on his tablet. There was a map shown on the tablet, with many red dots. "Track the order." he briefly instructed, wanting to know who was dealing with the reapers.

"The dots shown the many base they had built there, our man is still trying to find out exactly how many are in the eastern port." John hurriedly explained while jotting down the instructions given to him.

"Stay low and keep watch for now, until we know the exact timing the are going to move." Alessandro hung up after, his eyes had a glint of evilness. Catching a reaper was very hard, as they were as slimy as a worm.

Spotting one, equals to a big catch. The De Luca Familia had a very deep hatred with them. Though he was the golden merchant, a well-known business man, he was still a De Luca. Which made him hate the reapers, which was an eyesore in his business.

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"How's my princess doing?"

"Troublesome." Alessandro replied in a careless tone, not minding who he was speaking to.

"Haha!" On the other side of the call, the man was laughing at the indifferent man.

"When?" Alessandro asked in a solemn tone.

There was a dead silence in the other line, the man heavy breathing could be heard. A sigh could be heard on the other end, "It's better to not get her into this mess, the best is for her to live innocently like she is now."

"Ha, innocent?" Alessandro thought that the man may be in a denial or was he just clueless how his daughter was, he did not know but he felt funny thinking about it.

"I don't think she is at the least innocent at all, you should keep a tight leash on her."

"I can keep a tight leash on her, but you can. If on...."

"That means selling your daughter to the devil." Alessandro had on a cold look, he knew how he was. If he ever sets his eyes on someone, he would want to own that person.

"Not a bad idea, Luca." The man honestly felt it was not a bad idea, 'If she was a devil herself' he thought though he did not say it out.

Both man were very powerful being, in the same line of work. Anytime as long as they were not careful, they may be dead in a second. Their relationship could be said as business partners or more so like a father and son relationship.

Though it was like a double edge sword, it would hurt if they were too close. No one was powerful than the other, unless they take over their business. "Let's not tell her anything for now, keep her in check."

"Keeping her in a cage may not necessarily be a good thing." Alessandro had a gut feeling that the woman was not simple, this niece of his was for sure hiding something. He could see in the eyes of hers, she had a fearless and deep unfathomable eyes.

"Anyway, look out for the red demon. Do not let your guard down, it is a very cruel being." The man informed before sending Alessandro the intel he got from investigating the red demon.

The assassin that suddenly went to different triads to kill the spiders and reapers, the one being the annihilated clans after clans. Nobody know whether it was a he or a she, a human or a demon. The said demon was always wearing a mask, only the eyes could be seen.

Nobody knew who it was as those who saw was long dead, rumors has it that it was the master behind all reapers. The Azazel, the one syndicate that rules all reapers and spiders. The Azazel has their own masters which was the highest of rank, after the reapers.

It was hard to decipher whether the red demon was in cahoots with the Azazel, though it kills the reapers. It may be a insider thing, that made red demon kill the reapers. But no one could tell the tale, as they wished they never meet with the red demon.