The billionaire's only desire-Chapter 104: friends can’t be trusted part 2

"You have been warned, Natalia. Stay away from my baby boo, or else. You’re going to get burned." Valentina snapped her fingers, tossed her hair like a diva, and staggered to the door, walking out.

"Whoa, that’s some K-drama stuff right there," Haven remarked.

"What dirty little secrets is my sister talking about, Natalia?" Maya peered into Natalia’s eyes. She could tell that Natalia was hiding something.

Natalia stared back at her in silence. ƒгeewebnovёl_com

Maya’s stomach knotted. Her trust in Natalia was wavering as the seconds passed, and Natalia still hadn’t answered her question.

"I don’t want to talk about it. Maybe later. I will be going to Milan with Marcello, my boss, so I need to go home and pack my suitcase." She picked her coat from the hanger, draped it over her shoulders, and hurried out.

Maya fell onto the couch, unsure of what to think.

"Don’t worry, Maya. Natalia will share her dirty little secrets when she’s ready," Laura assured Maya.

Maya simply nodded, lost in her tangled thoughts.

"I’m leaving now. Thank you for inviting me over for dinner; the food was great."

"I think I will also take my leave too. I’ll pay you a visit at work. See you then, girlfriend! Muah!" Haven kissed Maya on the cheeks.

"Bye, girls. The next time we meet, I want to meet your fiancé, Laura," Maya requested.

"Sure, see you later!" Laura blew Maya a kiss and walked out.

Maya curled up into a ball on the couch as her tipsiness turned into drowsiness. But, a question lingered at the back of her mind as her eyes fluttered closed: Is Natalia trustworthy?

***

In the study, Dalton opened a bottle of whiskey and shared it with Aiden and Marcello. The twins have gone to bed because Oliver has to perform surgery early tomorrow, and River was just feeling sleepy.

"What the hell are you doing with Valentina?" Aiden strikes. "And don’t give me that ’I love you, mia cora’ nonsense."

Marcello laughed at the absurdity of it. "I’m just having fun with Valentina. She’s good company, airheaded, childish, and easy to keep a leash on. Cheers to that!" He lifted his glass, swirled it, and gulped the Whiskey down in one go.

"Next time, don’t bring her to my house," Dalton firmly warns. "Her presence upset Maya."

Marcello swirled playfully in the seat Behind the desk. "I could see that, she was really reel up. I won’t bring Valentina anywhere near Maya."

"How did Natalia become your personal assistant?" Dalton asked. This question had been on his mind throughout dinner.

"You know I have been a patron of Venus City longer than you two. I loved watching Natalia dance, and we formed a friendship. When Vico took over and replaced the girls, leaving Natalia without a job, she came to me for help. To make a long story short, she is now my personal assistant."

Dalton grunted in displeasure. Why did he have an itchy feeling that Marcello was lying?

He pushed his doubts aside. "We need your help, Marcello."

"Shoot," Marcello tossed an imaginary basketball.

"Venus City is now the base for Vico’s operations. That’s where he manufactures narcotics, keeps the underage girls he is sex trafficking and engages in organ harvesting," Dalton explained, outlining Vico’s crimes.

"So, you want me to help you infiltrate that place?" Marcello deducted.

"I want to burn Venus City to ashes," Dalton reveals his plans the rage in his eyes is like flames

"Wow, that’s quite ambitious, Dalton."

"Not only that," Aiden chimed in. "We want to chase him back to the hole he crawled out of." He slammed his fist into the wall aggressively. "I can blow off Venus on my own, but we just want you to get those innocent girls out of there before the time bomb reaches 0:0."

"Whoa," Marcello shuddered. "You are so diabolical, Aiden. You’re going to bomb Venus City gentlemen’s club." He grins deviously. "Count me in."

".I’d better get going; I have a flight to catch." Marcello slipped out of the chair.

"I’ll get in touch with you after I rescue the girls," Marcello assured before closing the door behind him.

"I think Natalia is working for Vico," Aiden retorted to Dalton.

Dalton wasn’t surprised; he had suspected it for a while.

"Do you have any evidence to support that?"

Aiden nodded vigorously. "Yes. While Maya was away from the mansion, Natalia came to the mansion under the pretense of picking up Maya’s medication. However, Haven had already come for it a week earlier. I found out from the maids. Before you fired the maids, I interrogated them. One of them mentioned that they saw Natalia in Maya’s room shutting one of the drawers when they went in to clean."

Aiden fidgeted with a pen lying on the desk. "So, what do you want us to do about Natalia?"

"Nothing," Dalton replied. "We just need to tighten Maya’s security whenever she is around Natalia. For the time being, until I find a way to make her disappear from Maya’s life by finding hard evidence to convince Maya, that Natalia is Vico’s accomplice "

"Yes, that’s the best option," Aiden agreed. "You should have seen how Maya reacted when I tried to question Natalia’s loyalty by using the video Vico used to threaten her as evidence. Oh, poor girl, nearly was on the verge of tears when I mentioned that Natalia is at the top of the list of suspects I think is working with Vico. And I’m sure she will come up with another excuse for Natalia being in her room while she was away."

Dalton pinched the skin of his throat, a wave of gloom surging in his chest when he pictured the heartbreak Maya would experience when she finds out about Natalia’s betrayal.

"So we can never tell Maya about Natalia’s betrayal in the meantime. She is too fragile; her heart won’t survive the betrayal"

"Okay," Aiden yawns. "Sleep is calling. I need to wake up early to get some stuff to build the bomb." He said it so casually as if building a bomb was a normal thing to do.

"Get some sleep."

Adrenaline shot through Dalton as he stared at the calender on the desk. Next week, on this day. Vico will feel his wrath.

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