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"Boss, please please I'm begging you, I didn't mean to shoot the young lady, she just popped out of nowhere." The idiot begged profusely. Saliva oozing out of the corner of his mouth, irritating the shit out of me.

Cocking the gun, I placed the metal on his skull and spat without remorse. "Say your last prayers."

"Boss, please... I'm begging you with everything I own. You know I've been serving you for quite a while now and I won't just slack off, but the whole thing was a miss calculation. I had my gun out for Luciano. I was aiming for his chest as you instructed before she emerged out of nowhere and got in the middle of it all." He cried helplessly.

My chest tightened.

How could this idiot ruin the plan I've been strategizing for months? Months! What was so difficult in shooting someone? Aim, pull the trigger, fire. And down, the person goes.

Fucking asshole, I cussed at him.

These past few months, I have spent it, cooped up in my hole, strategizing on ways to make Luciano crumble. I intended on making his life miserable until death even became too honorable for him.

Alas, that's what birthed my plan.

So earlier today, I picked him out of the rest of my henchmen to execute the plan. When it came down to smartness and swift calculations, I shouldn't have. But then, he was useful in being my eyes and ears in reporting everything going on in Luciano's life.

He was part of Luciano's henchmen, and also mine.

So when I went to pick him up today from Luciano's villa, the plan was to trail Luciano down to wherever he was going and then, he'd shoot.

Not that I couldn't do it myself. In fact, I'd love to be the one behind the trigger of rendering Luciano lifeless but now wasn't the time.

For now, I planned to render him incapacitated for months, just so I could use that to my leverage. First, I'd intercept his cargo coming next week and cart away all his goods. Second, I intended on infiltrating some of my henchmen into Luciano's, just so we could gradually take them down and I'd make his Empire, mine. However, this idiot ruined it.

As early as 4 a.m. this morning, I was eager to see to my plan, but he called, saying Luciano wasn't out of the house yet, until around noon. That was when we started trailing him and the young lady, that has caught his fancy for the past couple of months.

We drove at a safe distance, knowing fully well that Luciano was a smart ass, and he could notice when anything was amiss in a matter of seconds. Eventually, they pulled up in front of a florist shop, and I was fucking excited.

I instructed this dimwit to get his ass out of the car and shoot Luciano twice. One on his shoulder, the other on his chest, then we'd speed off and watch our plan unfold as Luciano becomes bedridden, but what did he do?

He fucking shot a lady.

And I hate killing ladies. Especially a pretty one at that.

"Boss, Please." He choked on his tears while I smirked.

"So you don't want to die?"

"N-o, no..... I don't." His voice trembled.

Relishing the way his whole body was quivering like a fat ass lady undergoing orgasm, my smirk deepened.

"So how am I sure you won't flop the next plan?" I asked him and he immediately brought his finger to his tongue.

"I swear on my grave, Boss. Nothing will go wrong this time."

I cackled. Not because of his response, but alas, as another ingenious plan coupled itself in my mind. Somehow, the fact that he shot Luciano's Bimbo instead was also a plus for me.

So I removed the gun from his head and ordered him to stand up.

"Boss?" His voice rolled out in a shocked whisper.

"Why? You really want to die?" I threw at him and he immediately shuffled to his feet.

"No, Boss. I don't want to."

"Good." Making my way back to the chair considered my throne, I plopped on it and crossed my leg on top of the other, then narrowed my gaze at him. "I have another plan."

He nodded eagerly. "Please let me know what is all about."

And I raised a hand in the air to shut him up. "Note, there are no second chances this time. Understood?"

"Hundred percent, Boss."

Leaning into my chair, I muttered. "Good. Now listen attentively. Right now, Luciano would think Ramos Ashton has something to do with the shooting of his whore. And that's the perfect mechanism to use against the both of them."

His eyes narrowed, showing that he obviously didn't understand a single word I said.

Fucking dimwit!

I then began to buttress my point comprehensively just so he would grab it this time.

"Now that Luciano's girl is in a serious situation, he will be distorted, aggravated, and very much vengeful. Right now, there is a hundred percent possibility that he thinks Ramos Ashton did it to him. Thus, we both know that the only reason Luciano hasn't struck Ramos Ashton's villa yet is because he doesn't know his hideout. The two nutjobs he sent as spies, ended up getting themselves killed. So I'm going to make it easy." I explained.

"Make what easy, Boss?"

My gaze narrowed into mere slits.

"Come here," I commanded authoritatively and he scrambled over.

The moment he stood in front of me, I balled my fist and collided it with his jaw, making him stagger backward.

He grunted in pain and began to cough, spitting out a few broken teeth from his now bloody mouth on the floor.

A snideful smirk crept to the corners of my lip. If there was something I loved seeing, it had to be blood. And more blood.

"Are you being stupid or you are just born that way?" I roared.

If it wasn't that sending someone else to blend with Luciano's men would slow my plan, I'd have done that a long time ago. Plus, Luciano had become too wary these past few months and he doesn't help people as much as he previously did.

Tears gathered in his eyes. "I—I sorry, Bo-oss." His broken teeth made it difficult for him to speak clearly.

I drummed my fingers against the arm of the chair I was seated on before continuing. "I have the map of Ramos Ashton's hideout. Now, you are going to devise a plan to deliver it to him. Because giving him just like that would let him suspect you." raising a finger, I added. "Let me make it easier. Now you are going to deliver a parcel containing this map to him. If he asks how you came across it, tell him a delivery man sent it. At first, he might be suspicious when he notices it's Ramos's hideout map, and he might not want to go all in, but after he has confirmed this, I'm sure he will attack. You see, I want to kill two birds with one stone. I want both of them dead, but in this fight, it's either Luciano dies, or Ramos does. Either one is favorable for me and I'll take down the other one left myself."

"That's an ingenious plan, Boss."

With my head swelling with a sense of pride, I chuckled. "Of course, it is. Now take this." I said, handing out the map to Ramos Ashton's Villa.

He stepped forward to take it from me before doubling two steps backward.

"You can leave." I dismissed him with the wave of my hand, but as soon as another idea came across my mind, I called out to him.

"And yes....." He whirled around to face me. "Keep an eye on the girl. While this whole chaos is about to ensue, she might be yet another ticket to unleashing my other plan."

"I will, Boss."

With a wave of my hand again, I dismissed him and he strutted out of my throne room, his slabby feet making one hell of a noise as he trudged his way out.

Who even hired this one as a henchman, I thought to myself.

Luciano ought to do better.

Drifting my mind away from the scum and rethinking my plan again, I cackled devilishly to myself. I cannot wait to see Luciano unleash his fury on Ramos Ashton and also get the biggest shock of his life.

My laughter intensified as I rose to my feet and walked out of my throne room, to check on the men arranging the new factory for our incoming cargo.

Luciano, Ramos.....they should just wait. It was only a matter of time before I surfaced to either one of them and whoever it turned out to be I won't hesitate to tear him apart, from limb to limb.

******IT'S MY BIRTHDAY! So I decided to release a new chapter ahead of my schedule. Kindly leave a birthday message in the comment section. It would make my day brighter. Thank you ❤️❤️