Angelo Vander

"What happened?" I asked as I got into the ILLICIT headquarters in Italy. I got a call earlier that there's something wrong with my current project.

"It won't stop, there's must been an error in the program, Mr. De Luca." Vinzo said and he was the main researcher in this project.

"I checked the program and I double checked it already." Patrice said and I nodded. I gestured some people to get out except Patrice and Vinzo. I put on my safety gear and looked at the car in front of me that beeps like crazy.

I gestured one of the people to raise the car up so we can see the battery. I gestured Vinzo to bring all the tools that we have.

"Mr. De Luca, it's dangerous since don't know that the battery might be the problem." Patrice said and I ignored her.

"Turn off all electricity in this room." I said and Vinzo gestured the people outside. I started to take off the battery out of the car and it looked like it's going to explode any minute.

I pressed the safety button on the battery and it shut itself right away. I grabbed some tools to open the battery and suddenly the important part that held that battery together fell and it cut my arm.

People started to panic for me and they started to call the medical team immediately. Even Vinzo and Patrice were speechless but I gestured them to coam down. It was a long cut on my lower arm.

"Take everything off and let's try other material tomorrow. Change the whole machine too." I said as I gestured the car. Suddenly the medical team rushed in and I looked down to the blood dripping on the white floor.

"Mr. De Luca, please sit down." The doctor said and suddenly I heard someone laughing and it was Dean.

"Nice cut." He said and I rolled my eyes. He checked the car and the battery that I took out.

"What did I tell you?" Dean walked under the car to check the machine. People started to panic that he walked there without safety gears. They started to give him one.

"How's Silware going? Is it fun?" He asked in a sarcastic tone and I scoffed.

"All of them are shitheads." I hissed as I turned to the doctor that treat my wounds since he pour straight alcohol to it.

"Really? I bet that.. except Dakota." Dean said as he gestured them to lower down the car and he walked to the back of the car and opened the trunk. He started to ask for tools.

"Dean, what the hell are you doing here?"

"I'm signing a contract with Steve here, he's in Milan with his mistress." Dean said and then he pulled out something. He threw it towards me and another bloated battery from the back.

"This is why you need Chance, you're such a rockhead." Dean said and I ignored him. I turned to the doctor to treat my wounds quicker.

"Chance is busy fucking Aria around, he has not time and besides.. that idiot won't-"

"That idiot won't what?" I turned and saw the idiot came.

"He signed with Steve too." Dean said as he kept looking at the trunk. As Chance walked in, he started to give a long speech about how I didn't trust him and what kind of material that I should use. He laughed at my cut and called me an idiot for it just like Dean.

Instead of being in that room, I went out to take care of something else. Dean and Chance started to work in the lab with other people.

I walked into my office and sat down. I checked two contracts that Stanley already prepared for me last night and went through it. I signed the contract and leaned back to my seat.

Words that Dakota said rang again in my ears. Her words were not wrong but I just don't want to admit it. I have to save my face from that shit or else, they won't respect me anymore.

I grabbed my phone from my pocket and dialed Diaz's number. He is the man that I trust to take care of Silware in France and I think he could start tomorrow. I called my friend Jax too to rent his office for a temporary place for Silware in Italy.

I got up from my seat planning to go check on some of my newest projects upstairs but Dean came in.

"What? What's with that eyes?" I looked at him in disgust.

"I'm sending you to New York next weekend." He said as he threw a file to me.

"I have a lot of-"

"I... have a lot of surgeries, Vander. We don't want to see people die right?" He smirked and I rolled my eyes.

"You always talk like you never fucking kill people before." I hissed and he chuckled.

"By the way, I suggest you give that Silware shit to someone else. It's badluck to fuck the same girl again for the second time." He said in a sarcastic tone as he closed the door with an evil smirk on his face.

I looked down to the file that he gave me earlier. I opened it and my eyes widen. I smiled looking at the red and black car on that file. I closed the file and immediately tells Stanley that we will going to New York next weekend.

My phone rang and this time.. it's Dakota.

I picked it up and put her on loudspeaker. "Tell me your address." I raised my eyebrows when she said that right after I pick up the call.

"I'm in Italy and I have no place to stay.. give me your address."

"There's a place called hotel." I said in a cold tone.

"I know.. but I don't have any money and credit card with me.. I just got robbed." She said in a pissed tone.

"Where are you?"