Claimed by the Mafia King

“Where do you think he might be?” Scar asked after a while breaking the comfortable silence we had been walking inConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

I forced a smile on my face. “He could still be at his brothers house.”

“Family. That’s weird for gang leaders to have. They usually don’t have family around and when they do, Its well hidden.”

“You seem to know a lot about gangs?”

“I’m well informed thank you.” He replied, freely.

Scar held on to my wrist stopping me from moving. I turned around to face him. He had an apologetic smile on his face that was so damn cute.

“I hope you don’t mind me asking you these questions about him?” He asked.

I cleared my throat as I tried to steady by heart beat. I was starting to feel nervous and I didn’t know why.

His eyes were so temp__

I shook my head.

“So we are going to check his Aunt’s house. He might be there.” Scar spoke, breaking the silence that soon enveloped us after he had let me go.

“He won’t be there.” I said thoughtfully

“I bet my eyes that he is. He is probably pretending to be a saint over there. If what I suspect is true then I give him a thumbs up, his cover up is quiet good. Do they have police escort’s?”

“No they don’t, I mean she doesn’t_my mothers friend I mean__ who is married to his brother. His brother does though, his wife on the other hand hates body guards for reasons best known to her.” I stuttered.

“Let’s hope that her husband would be around when we go then. Although I can take him down myself, but then having the police there would be nice.”

“Sure you can.” I scoffed, rolling my eyes.

We soon got to my gate and I turned around to discharge him fast before my mum sees him. She might be quite the understanding mother but no mother would want to see her teen girl child walking back home late at night with a man let alone a man like Scar.

“So I am home now so we can say bye for the night or maybe not. You can just resume your stalking now.”

“Being sarcastic does not suit you. I can’t make out a word of what you just said.” His face contorted into a half smile. “You should really learn to keep quiet sometimes too.”

I giggled. “You should too. Anyway good night.”

I didn’t let him reply before I walked into my compound and closed the gate behind me.

I was about to climb upstairs when someone started to bang on the gate. Without thinking I rushed to open the door suspecting the person to be Scar.

“Open the door Mira now!” Scar yelled. I opened the gate and let him come in. He stepped into the compound with glaring eyes darting everywhere

“I smell something, What’s that?” He asked no one in particular. He touched the wall and brought his hands to his nose. “Fuel”

“Are you out of your mind Scar! You almost broke down my gate because you smelled fuel? Get out of here and stop causing a scene.” I fumed pointing at the gate. “Now!”

He eyed the finger I was pointing at him and ignored me.

“You are so unnecessarily stubborn. Can’t you smell fuel or you just don’t want to?”

“Stupid you! The smell is obviously coming from our neighbors generator. Are you so daft or can you not see that everyone in this compound uses generator at night because of the power outage. Leave! Don’t make this a big deal. I cant have my neighbors coming out of their houses to_”

“Shh.” He hushed me. “Keep quiet and hear me out. If what you say was what it was, the smell of fuel would be concentrated in one place. The whole compound wreaks of it. I mean the whole freaking compound wreaks of fuel!”

“But_” My voice trailed off. I was stupefied. I didn’t know what else to say. Now that I kept quiet I could smell it_the fuel_the odour was everywhere .

It was as if someone deliberately poured fuel all over the place even on the goddamn damn flowers that grew on the wall of the compound and around it.

“Someone is trying to start a fire Mira, the dragon gang are known to kill with fire_it all makes sense now. They didn’t want to take you with them, they wanted to distract you so you would come just in time to watch your family burn.”

“Ken doesn’t want to kill you, he wants to break you.” Scar added.

I stood still as a statue watching him run to the back of the compound.

“The fire will start from here.” He yelled.