1 Snake's Trap

"Wake up!"

Someone splashed a bucket of cold water on an unconscious man, who was sitting on a chair. His hands and feet were bound with iron chains, while his mouth was gagged with a dirty rag.

The man slowly opened his eyes. He looked at his surroundings in a daze, his head still felt dizzy, but he was trying his best not to faint again.

He awake immediately when he realized that he was in a strange place, more precisely, in an old warehouse filled with dust and cobwebs.

"Oh, my handsome Don[1] has finally woken up from his sleep!"

A woman's shriek echoed through the old warehouse, causing the man, who was still tied to the chair—Dante Moretti—to wince in annoyance.

"Mmm… mmm…." Dante was ready to spit out his harsh words to the woman but stopped because he only realized that his mouth was still stuffed with a rag.

Scarlett Lombardi laughed happily when she saw Dante frowning in disgust with the dirty rag in his mouth.

If Scarlett had to told other people what she loved the most in the world, she would answer enthusiastically that Dante's misery was the source of her happiness.

"I suggest you don't open your mouth wide. Because the rag in your mouth is used to clean the floor under your feet."

Dante immediately lowered his head. When he saw that the floor beneath him was covered in crusty dirt, he immediately tried to pull his hands out of the chains so he could remove the rag in his mouth.

However, the chains were too strong, so he lifted the chair he was sitting on instead.

Scarlett laughed. "Hahahaha … Dante, my Dante, you really such a clean freak. Since then, you didn't try to escape, but you immediately tried to run away when you found out that your mouth was stuffed with a dirty rag."

"Mmmm! Mmm!"

Dante cast a sharp glare at Scarlett, who was leaning her back against the wall.

Buk!

One of Scarlett's subordinates smacked Dante on the back of his head and forcibly lowered his head. "Watch your gaze! Don't look at Donna[2] with such disdain!"

Scarlett then straightened her back. She tied her red hair back as she walked, revealing her sharp gray eyes. When Scarlett was standing in front of Dante, she put a cigarette in her mouth and lit a match.

"Easy, boy, you're not going to die just from eating shit," Scarlett said as she blew smoke into Dante's face.

After the fire almost wholly burned the cigarette, Scarlett dropped the cigarette stub and crushed it with her foot.

"Dante, let's talk about something serious," Scarlett said as she pulled the rag over Dante's mouth.

After the gag in his mouth came off, Dante immediately exclaimed, "You motherfucker! You've set me up!"

Scarlett gave Dante a mocking look. She even put her index finger in front of Dante's lips and said, "Tch … tch … watch your mouth, Darling. Besides, I didn't set you up. You ended up here because of you trying to blow up my precious warehouse."

Dante growled, "I wouldn't have done that if you weren't trying to steal my loyal client."

"Why are you blaming me again?" Scarlett lifted Dante's chin with her index finger. "If any of your clients switch to another seller, it means that the product you provide has worse quality than the product I produced."

Dante moved his head to the side to avoid Scarlett's finger. His two eyes stared intently at Scarlett as if he wanted to skin her with his gaze.

"Don't act stupid, Scarlett. Lombardi always likes to work in a dirty way. You will do anything to make a profit, including threatening my clients."

Scarlett suddenly laughed. She laughed loudly while holding her forehead. "Dante … my darling Dante, fellow carcasses mustn't throw insults at each other."

"Isn't Moretti as rotten as Lombardi? You act as if you care about your client's life. But, to tell you the truth, you want to destroy me because you feel like your self-worth is being trampled on by me, right?"

Last night, Dante Moretti and his subordinates from the Moretti Familia attempted to infiltrate the Lombardi Familia's drug warehouse.

Dante did that because he was annoyed with Scarlett, who had snatched Dante's loyal client. Scarlett's actions leave a massive loss to Dante, especially because Scarlett seized his client right on the day of the Moretti Familia's drug delivery.

At first, Dante wanted to make calculations for his client, but his client was under the strict guard of the Lambordi Familia, so he ultimately chose to take revenge on Scarlett.

Because Scarlett has already made him lose, then Dante also wants to give Scarlett a massive loss by blowing up his drug warehouse.

Unfortunately, Dante's well-thought-out plan out to have been guessed by Scarlett as if she could easily dissect Dante's thoughts.

The warehouse was empty when Dante came, so Dante realized that he had fallen into Scarlett's trap. When the man wanted to escape, all access to the warehouse's exit was locked from the outside, and suddenly sleeping gas was sprayed into the warehouse.

Within seconds, Dante and his subordinates immediately fell unconscious and woke up tied up in the old warehouse the next day.

"Enough with chit-chatting." Dante snorted, "What do you want from me?"

Scarlett, "Oh, how come you think I have other business with you."

"Scarlett, we've known each other for a long time. I know you're not the type to do things in vain. You've worked so hard to devise a plan to trap me here, so you must have something to talk about, right?" Dante replied.

According to Dante, it feels weird when Scarlett steals his clients for fun. Because even though their two organizations have competed for a long time, they both have the self-awareness of not bothering each other.

A venomous snake will not entangle a strong jaguar if it doesn't want to be bitten.

Scarlett smiled faintly, then asked her subordinates to bring another chair in front of Dante. As Scarlett sat across from the man, she said, "Our handsome Don is amazing and clever. Too smart to the point where I want to dissect your brain."

Scarlett then pulled the black jaguar badge from Dante's collar. Then play it between her slender fingers.

"Are you aware of our fathers' secret contract when they were still alive?" Scarlett asked seriously.

Dante leaned back against the chair, distancing himself from Scarlett. "Which contract?"

"You know very well which one," Scarlett huffed.

"No, I don't know. My father has already signed too many contracts, so how do I know which contract you mean."

Scarlett huffed in annoyance, then kicked Dante's chair until it backed off a little. "Contract about our arrange marriage!"

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Explanation:

[1] Don, a nickname was originating from Italy, which means Head of the Family.

[2] Donna, is the same as Don but the female Head of the Family.

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