Heart Darkness
Chapter 32 Love Looks Pretty On You ....

"Mr Lucas?!" call Reinha again. The old man looked distant.

"Oh Miss, it's nothing. Go back to work!"

Mr. Lucas' words to the man holding the lighter are inflamed, he doesn't look so happy.

"Isn't anything you said?! You borrowed 20,000 Euros from us and didn't pay off for a year, you say it's okay?"

Reinha nodded. Everywhere money is the main source of problems. Money is not everything, but without money, everything is complicated. Exactly now.

"Give us some time, Mr. .. we're improving the sales system and will pay the debt soon."

Reinha spoke as a helpless-looking Mr. Lucas, shrinking his voice down to the most basic volume to attract mercy. The man folded his forehead, hearkened to Reinha's offer and weighed. Apart from that, the man watched Reinha Durante as if he had seen him somewhere. Similar to Young Miss Durante, a troublemaker at Luciano's residence some time ago.

"Is that so? Can I trust you?"

"Yes, I promise. Give us time, we will pay off 20,000 Euros soon - "

"Added 10% interest," cut the man.

"A - WHAT?! 10 %?!" Reinha. It is unfortunate, why did Mr Lucas borrow from loan sharks?

"You blackmailing old men? Oh my God, all right! You guys can go. We will pay 20,000 Euros and pay off the interest but it cannot be together" Reinha exclaimed, unsure if the store could make that much money. This store is dying without money even just to buy a can of paint. He was still curious, how could Mr Lucas owe 20,000 Euros to this greedy loan shark?

"You should leave immediately because I have to clean up. If you stay here, people won't come because of your bouncer's looks!" Reinha's intonation rises an octave in each sentence. He shook his head outside the shop, driving them away. For a long time he began to growl.

"How's Boss?!" The man asked the man who was reading the book Love Looks Pretty on You.

The one called Boss did not reply, he was still flipping the book sheet and when speaking the voice was heavily shaking.

"The strange fate. Look who is this?! Wonder girl of this city .. interesting," hiss mocked, but tucked in an excited tone. He had been watching Reinha since then, imagine the angelic look of the girl from behind the book, enjoy the crisp voice of the girl, grateful that Reinha was not aware of her presence from the beginning.

Reinha simultaneously turned around and found Lucky Luciano leaning against a shelf pole, watching him enthusiastically with one eyebrow raised high. Reinha took a few steps back until she stuck to the bookshelf. His lips suddenly tickled as if he had just been infested by termites. He was amazed at the man who liked prose, came early to the bookstore to read a collection of poems, but if the man ... Lucky Luciano ..., he hesitated.

"Can you take that old man out, Francis? I want to talk to this girl who bit me."

Lucky talks his eyes away from Reinha back to the book. He read the first prose page of the book full of passion.

Love looks pretty on you.

Makes you soft, tender, proud.

Make you sit up and take notice.

Gives you a home to set down your things.

"Mr Lucky, I beg for your mercy. Don't bother Miss Reinha. Let me just ...."

"Come out, Mr. Lucas, don't make me look evil in his eyes!" lucky said coldly. He continued reading the prose entitled At Last.

What a blessing it is, to have music and dancing and poetry.

Reinha stared softly at master Lucas begging the old man to trust him. Mr. Lucas seemed unwell to face Reinha in the shop's complicated situation, on his first day of work.

"Mr Lucas, don't worry. I know him and go out! Besides, I'm gonna have to clean the 'lady of the termite' and wipe it out until her ears are cut off. You just wait outside, yeah."

Reinha said as she squinted at a termite that happened to be passing by on the shelf closest to her. That attitude makes Lucky Luciano smile funny, though you know, he's the termite that Reinha Durante meant. While someone called Francis, a man who burned the sheet, pushed Mr. Lucas out of the store without much objection.

Inside The Windows, between Reinha's books are on standby. He can face Lucky like he did last time and Augusto can fight Lucky's bodyguards. It's just that the store room is too full of books and if he does not act out, the books can be damaged while Mr. Lucas is in debt. It's impossible to add to Mr. Lucas' problems.

"Well .. I didn't expect the world to be as wide as a sheet of paper. You want to hear the last verse of this prose?!"

I'm so happy to have found you

– at last, at last, at long, long last –

you're here's.

"A very good project. I read this book every time I come here."

Lucky closes the book go to Reinha in a slow tempo, spreading charm. It won't work on Reinha because the girl in front of him is stubborn and considers her a womanizer.

Unlike if he knew, his actions this time made a difference because he read Reinha's favorite prose book. The girl gulped while devising the best assault strategy on Lucky without damaging the store. Reinha. Don't act! It is better not to provoke Lucky's anger especially if the man's grudge has not subsided due to his attack a few days ago.

Reinha's bite marks still tasted Lucky's masculine face even though it was only faint. Lucky narrows the distance between them without any alertness, something that should exist, considering Reinha had taught her a lesson and it was still marked around her nose and lips.

Reinha looked at the cynical Lucky. What makes it so attractive that half the women in this city are valued? Maybe because he was handsome, nothing more; lucky Luciano was just a loser.

"I didn't expect either, you came to this old shop and were thrilled that your men were collecting debts. You run out of money or what? You're more of a jerk than I thought. Have the women in this town run out you're bothering? You glancing at the old man now?"

"You're thinking of me, Enya?" search Lucky deep, "That's very thrilling."

Reinha rolled her lazy eyeballs, "I thought of how a jerk a termite was perforating a book!"

Lucky's laughter broke. He leaned in and threw a direct gaze at Reinha's eyeballs. This time Lucky's eyes, for some reason, managed to make Reinha agitated. The man's face was quite close to her that was stuck on the bookshelf. Lucky raised his hand and put the book back on the shelf next to Reinha's head without removing his eyes from Reinha. The scent of perfume sniffed and Lucky's breath whirled Reinha's vocabulary. The girl spoke irritatedly as she was slightly affected by Lucky's charm. Really sucks.

Wake up Reinha!

"Stay away from me!" furious Reinha.

"You can bite me if you want to."

Lucky pursed his lips and looked at Reinha deeply. The girl's angelic face and pliable eyelashes in the shade of her naturally curved brows, which in silence had spoken more than words about the beauty of its owner. Lucky clucked, he was actually interested in Reinha.

"You're nervous near me. Do you like this accidental meeting? You like men who like to read prose and poetry?"

Reinha. He is not afraid of Lucky but is more worried about himself who sometimes react beyond reason. He is overly expressive in a state of anger and that can be detrimental.

"Can we talk outside?"

"Why is it here? You don't like delinquents like me sleeping with a lot of women, so why are you nervous?"

"We will pay the debt soon" Reinha said without further ado. There's no place in his heart for a perverted fucking Lucky Luciano model.

"How is it? Ask Elgio? Claire used to ask me if I was desperate."

"No, we'll increase sales and and and ...." His tongue was sprained and the connection was severed. He was distracted at Lucky's gentle gaze.

"Dam." Reinha cursed when the heart defeated its logic.

"Don't think about paying Mr. Lucas' debt, Enya. How about you just persuade him to sell me this shop?" lucky likes Reinha's anxiety. To conquer Reinha must be with gentleness. The trick worked.

"We will pay off the debt. You can go and bring your men, too. You guys are making me sick. You short of money or what? I'll ask Elgio to help you" Reinha said. Where could Elgio help Lucky? "As long as you get out of here and don't bother Mr Lucas!"

Lucky laughed again. In an adjacent position, Lucky's eyes stared at him lingering without a blink. Lucky's attitude sends a message that he admires beauty and wants to see Reinha slowly to keep the girl's face in memory.

"Will you be my girlfriend, Enya?"

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