The Asmara Jugar the Mafia
Matteo's Shadow

Adriano takes Mia back to her residence. It's the safest place there is for a woman who looks as messed up as Mia. After parking his car on the side of the road, Adriano then took the widow of Matteo de Luca to get off. They walked several meters through an alley wide enough, until finally arrived in front of a white-painted building with blue doors.

Immediately, the black-coated man opened the gate measuring about eighty to ninety centimeters. After closing the wooden fence again, they then climbed a row of stairs that amounted to about nine steps. A moment later, the two arrived in front of the main entrance.

Adriano unlocked the door. He invited Mia to come in. The woman returned to a place she did not want to go to anymore. However, the frightening incident had made him change his mind.

“Let's eat first,” take Adriano while opening the package he brought.

The package contained the food he bought in the tavern, along with Mia who was trying to escape secretly. Adriano was already sitting at a small dining table made of rattan. There are only three chairs. Meanwhile, Mia was still standing. He doesn't seem to know what to do.

“Come here, Mia,” take Adriano again while looking at the woman who has not even taken off her coat.

Mia turned her head and returned Adriano's gaze for a moment. He finally complied, as Adriano gestured for a second time, for the woman to immediately sit at the small dinner table.

Still with a flat look and silent action, Mia sat on one of the dining table chairs directly opposite Adriano.

“Thank you,” he said slowly, as Adriano thrust food in front of him. He just opened his mouth and let out a sound even though it was just a little.

“Eat and spend. I don't like to see your thin looking body like that,” tell Adriano to calm down. The man looked without any burden at all when he said that.

“Beauty or fat, it has nothing to do with you,” said Mia flat and slow, so Adriano had to sharpen his hearing.

“Indeed there is no. However, it was very disturbing my vision,” reply Adriano sounded so light. He began to put one mouthful into his mouth.

Meanwhile, Mia has not touched the food. Looking at Mia's attitude, Adriano stopped her mouthful and then let out a long sigh, then slammed down slowly. Fortunately, he has a fairly high level of patience, so he can still look calm over all the strange attitudes Mia feels quite dizzying.

“Eat while it's still warm, Mia. You should be grateful, because there are millions of people out there who are starving every day. Never waste anything God has given you. Including this food,” said Adriano, issuing a suggestion with rather annoyance. He was like a father advising his daughter.

“I don't know if you are a very wise and religious person,” silenced Mia subtly, still with the same tone of speech.

Adriano just laughed softly at Mia's words. He sipped his drink. “This is not about how wise and religious I am, Mia. You just can't understand it for now,” said the blue-eyed man slowly, making Mia more silent. It again made Adriano feel unable to reprimand him. “Why just shut up? Come eat or do you want me to steam?”

“You want me to steam, How to mia?” Matteo's voice was heard so clearly in Mia's ears. The woman nodded slowly while opening her mouth. He chews slowly, as if he wants to enjoy the taste of the food he is eating.

“How, Mia? Do you like her? This food is called Moussaka.” Adriano's voice instantly resuscitated Mia's daydream, who had unknowingly accepted the man's bribe. Mia received Adriano's treatment, because she was busy thinking about Matteo.

Adriano again thrust another mouthful near Mia's mouth. For this time, the pale-faced woman immediately took her spoon. “I can eat by myself,” refuse Mia slowly.

Meanwhile, Adriano only smiled a little. She stared for a moment at Mia, then turned to the spoon she had just used to feed the beautiful woman. Adriano returned with a faint smile. He then put the spoon on his lips.

Just now that Adriano was about to continue the unfinished evening meal, the ringing of the cell phone had already gone off. Not wanting to disturb Mia who was eating, Adriano immediately answered a call that was from one of the trust staff at his resort.

“Continue eating, Mia. I have to answer this call for a minute." After saying so, Adriano passed by and slightly moved away from Mia.

Sayup-sayup, heard the man speaking in Greek which Mia did not understand at all. I don't know what she's talking about on the phone, because Mia doesn't really care. He continued his dinner until it was over. Unexpectedly, Mia liked the country's special food.

After a while, Adriano returned to the table. His smile returned, when he saw Mia who had finished her food. The black-haired man then sat and looked at the woman who for the past few years had always filled his heart and mind meaningfully. He put the cell phone on the table.

“Tomorrow I will attend the inauguration of the resort, because the day after tomorrow I will return to Monaco. Finally, after a long time of construction, the place was finished as well. Are you ready to come? You will definitely like it,” bargain the beautiful man with a little hope.

“Why should I come with you?” Mia asked without looking at Adriano.

“Because I want to impress you,” Adriano replied calmly. “How about my previous invitation? If you have no intention of returning to Italy, then come with me to Monaco. There's a lot you can do there. We can go to France and enjoy the beauty of the Eiffel Tower, or maybe you want to take a cruise and feel a different sensation. Watching horse races, or ..” Adriano did not continue his words. He just stared fixedly at Mia, “or I'd better take you to Casa de Luca and reimagine your life for Miabella's sake,” she continued slowly, deeply, meaningfully.

Mia did not answer or respond to any of Adriano's words, even with a gesture. The woman was again silent and seemed confused to determine her decision. Moments later, Mia turned her gaze the other way, at the blue wooden window. After that, Mia's gaze then returned to the handsome face of the man before her. “Did you come here often and stay here long?” tanyakanya.

“I go wherever I want, because I have not felt attached to the one place that made me have to stay there for a long time and probably do not want to leave that place,” answers that sounded a little awkward to Mia, made the woman link her eyebrows together.

“Why can that be? You already have a dwelling that is more than just comfortable in Monaco,” he asked curiously.

“Because no one is waiting for me to go home,” Adriano replied flatly, but it sounded quite painful.