Billionaire Mafia's Manny
Chapter 40

Chapter 40: Chapter 40

Zeno didn’t understand what Sebastian was angry about, they never knew that Mr. Glen had any partner, and neither Lucia nor the twins had mentioned anything of the sort to them.

"We’re sorry, boss. We were careless," Ida apologized, his head lowered.

Punch!

Sebastian landed a heavy punch on Ida’s jaw. "Am I paying you to be careless?!" He barked, his eyes narrowed in anger.

Ida didn’t move an inch, he maintained a straight face and lowered his head in submission, "No, boss. We are wrong," Ida replied.

Cody, who was standing behind Ida, moved forward and held his hand from behind, secretly consoling him.

Zeno felt anger boil within him as he saw how Sebastian was talking to them; he saw the girls huddling up in fear beside the van, and he almost felt like swinging right back at their fucking boss.

What a psycho.

"Did you see their faces?" Sebastian asked Ida, referencing the message he had sent him earlier.

"No, boss. They were all masked," Ida replied.

Zeno understood that Sebastian was asking about the plate number Ida had sent in the van.

"We have to apply extra caution. His partner is not happy that we took down his main supplier. I will find out who this mysterious partner is," Sebastian said, his tone serious.

"Yes, boss," Ida replied.

"You better do the research and give me a reply before morning," Sebastian ordered.

"Yes, boss," The guards replied.

Sebastian was about to walk away when Lucia spoke up from a corner.

"I think I know who this partner could be," She said and walked over to stand beside the guards.

"Permit me to speak, boss?" She bowed her head to him.

Sebastian was more than interested in hearing what she had to say. He wanted to know who it was that had the guts to attack his people so openly like that.

He was never one to be messed with; whoever it was, was about to follow the same path as their partner, Mr. Glen.

"Speak, Lucia," He slowly turned to face her, a hand in his pocket.

Everyone was curious to know, too; they all focused on Lucia, waiting to hear her reply.

"He calls himself ’The Prince.’ But his real name is Darren," Lucia said and fished out her phone from her pocket.

"I’ve seen him a few times when he came over to pick girls from Mr. Glen’s house; this is his picture," Lucia turned her screen to Sebastian.

Sebastian moved closer and took the phone from Lucia, zooming in on the face of a young man with blonde hair who would be about his age too. He scoffed and returned the phone to Lucia.

The Prince? Good thing he called himself that. He put himself in his rightful place; he was the Prince, but Sebastian was the king of the underworld. And he would make everyone understand that once a king, always a king, they can’t uproot him.

"What does this Darren do?" He asked.

"I believe he’s the owner of Vibez Media. It’s a movie producing industry and-"

"I know him," Bunny suddenly spoke from the corner of the van, between the girls.

Sebastian’s attention was now drawn to the girls; he recognized Julia but not these two. What were they doing in his house?

Zeno bit his lips as he saw Sebastian looking over at the girls; he hadn’t had the time to explain the situation to him; how was he going to manage him if he blew up?

"Who are you?" He questioned.

"I’m sorry, boss. I brought them with me," Zeno quickly replied before Sebastian faced the poor girls with his rage.

Sebastian slowly turned to Zeno; this was the first time he’d spoken to him since today, he had thought that Zeno was going to keep ignoring him the whole day.

He ignored Zeno and turned away from him.

"Ida, Lucia, you," He pointed at Bunny, "What’s your name?" He asked.

"Bunny, sir," Bunny replied.

"Good. Follow me," He said and immediately turned and walked toward his mansion.

"I’m sorry if I’ve caused you trouble, Zeno," Bunny said quietly.

"Please, forgive us for the trouble," Julia pleaded.

Zeno shook his head at them, "Don’t worry, you guys did nothing wrong. It’s just the tension in the atmosphere," Zeno replied.

"Let’s go," Ida said to Lucia and Bunny.

"Hey, I..." Cody started but paused, not knowing what he wanted to say to Ida.

Ida smiled and lowered his head beside Cody’s face, "I’ll find you when I’m out?" He asked in a whisper.

Cody nodded, turning his face away from Ida shyly.

"Okay," Ida replied with a smile and walked away.

Cody returned to the bodyguard’s quarter with the rest and the two girls while Ida, Lucia, and Bunny headed into the mansion.

Zeno stood behind for a while, contemplating whether he should go in or not. He didn’t hear Sebastian call his name when he was asking them to follow him inside, so he didn’t know how if Sebastian wanted him inside his house at that moment.

On second thought, he moved forward and headed inside the house.

He can’t keep standing out there like a fool. He had to get some rest too.

He entered the house and couldn’t find the others anywhere. He wondered where they might have gone, did they follow Sebastian up to his room? He knew that was impossible so he couldn’t help but wonder where in the world they were.

He knew this house had places he had never explored as it was so large, but he had expected them to be in the living room.

"Zeno, the boss has asked you to join the conversation in his study," Butler Nicole appeared behind Zeno who was standing at the center of the living room.

"Oh, where is that?" Zeno asked, looking around the house.

"Come," Butler Nicole said.

He followed the Butler and walked past the stairs that led to their rooms. Then the Butler pushed open a white door that Zeno had believed to be a wall all those while.

"The first door," Butler Nicole stood beside the door, holding it open for Zeno to enter the white passage.

Zeno nodded and walked into the passage and softly knocked on the door.

"Come in," Lucia was the one who opened the door.

Zeno walked into a large office that had every single thing in white.

He never knew Sebastian loved white this much since most of his things were in dark shades.

He saw the others sitting on a long sofa and went to join them.

"You stand, Zeno," Sebastian spoke, his tone indifferent as he stared at Zeno with an unreadable expression.

Zeno halted in his movements and went to stand beside the sofa, his fists clenched behind him.

"Bunny, what do know about Darren?" Sebastian asked, skillfully rotating a pen with his fingers, ignoring Zeno once again.

"I know that he’s a fake communist and an evil man," Bunny frowned as if she were recalling a bad experience.

"He had bought me from Mr. Glen for a short-term service. He lied to me that I’ll be acting in his new movie because he needed an extra, but, when I got there, he forced me into, into..." Bunny paused, feeling ashamed to say what she wanted to say.

"He forced you into pornography?" Lucia asked directly.

Bunny bit her lips and slowly nodded her head.

Sebastian scoffed, "Asshole," He muttered.

Zeno heard Sebastian and couldn’t help but steal a glance at him. These last few days had really made him question Sebastian’s motive in life.

He had thought because he was a mafia king, he’d be the one doing all the shady and dirty business, but it turned out he was the one stopping them. Was that why he was the king? Because he dared to go against those dangerous men who claimed to be unapproachable and powerful.

He had even successfully made the most dangerous men to cower in his name.

Just how big was this man?

"That’s what he does, boss. He portrays Vibez Media as a film industry to the world while he secretly uses under-aged girls to produce explicit films anonymously," Lucia informed.

"Good, we have a witness. Bunny, do you have access to the video?" Sebastian knew his question was inappropriate, but he had to; he needed all the evidence he could get.

"No, sir, but I do know where he stores all his videos in his company," Bunny replied.

"Hmm, so we have to retrieve it then, Ida?" He called.

"Yes, boss," Ida replied.

"You and Zeno shall be going to retrieve these video files. I don’t care how you get it, even if it meant starring in his video, do it and make sure you get me the video files," Sebastian ordered.

"Yes, boss," Ida replied.

"Yes, boss," Zeno reluctantly replied.

Was Sebastian crazy? He was literally sending them to become porn stars!

"Good, Bunny, provide them with all the information they’d need," Sebastian said.

***

Zeno was lying on his bed in his comfy PJ, thinking about everything that had happened.

He wondered what else he would experience in this next adventure with Ida.

From the car attack that happened earlier, he believed that Darren was more dangerous than Mr. Glen.

He just hoped retrieving those damned files would be easy.

He couldn’t sleep, he was forcing his mind not to think about Sebastian. He should be glad that he had decided to drop the issue of wanting to sleep with him, but he still wanted to know what caused his sudden change of mind and attitude.

He sighed and climbed down from the bed, going to the toilet to pee.

He had just finished watching his hands when he heard his door being opened and then locked.

He quickly rushed out of his bathroom to check on the sound when he was suddenly pushed up against the wall.

"Boss?" He asked. He was shocked to see Sebastian’s handsome face as he caged him between the wall.

"Tonight, it’s Seb," Sebastian whispered huskily into his ear, slowly tracing his fingers from Zeno’s hand up to his upper arm.

Zeno couldn’t believe this was happening; he thought this Chapter was long closed; if it wasn’t, he wasn’t going to do it without having him sign the contract.

"I-I thought we agreed on-"

"Signed," Sebastian slammed a laminated document against Zeno’s chest.

Zeno was in disbelief; he was angry that his heart was already racing excitedly. He wasn’t gay!

"Get on the bed, Cutie," Sebastian whispered seductively against Zeno’s neck and grabbed his ass behind him simultaneously