NEMESIS

secret that still buried inside

In fact, playing with Theodore was not easy, let alone playing to plan her revenge because she had no time. The four leaders of The Orphic keep her busy every day and she barely sleeps. She works when the leaders sleep and works when they work too. For almost twenty-four hours per day, she does the job if the work has piled up and the problems he has to deal with. She was so busy, sometimes she felt twenty-four hours in a day was not enough for her — she needed more in order to be more totality in doing her job.

It's hard for her to just take a rest.

It's tiring.

While Paolo, her right-hand man as Consigliere, always looks relaxed and doesn't do heavy and tiring work because everything has been done by her and Sebastian.

Sebastian, who had accompanied her faithfully since day one, was now checking the papers and files on the screen of his MacBook — every day he made love to papers and files. Of course, it was very tiring, but he knew very well that he couldn't stop now.

One of the members of The Orphic is in the middle of a court case, and she is the one who is responsible for taking care of them all — it all started with the stupidity of their members who killed civilians who were not even integrated with any mafia and eventually ended up with those who were in court. .

It was easy to get them all to shut up, she could give her an infinite amount of money. But if there was a hard way, why did she have to make it easy?

Every now and then she has to show her existence as a famous lawyer in the world and not just focus on her work as a consigliere of a large organization called The Orphic, which is now gaining popularity and spreading widely as a replacement for Cosa Nostra.

“Cosa Nostra.” She mumbled, “the organization has been around for a long time, ever since I was a kid and I've never stopped liking them — the little girl inside of me cheered with joy at finding so many of them were so handsome on television, but when I found out the truth, they weren't all like that. ”

Hearing that made Sebastian chuckle with his busyness, his head slowly shook and he looked at her in disbelief. “Your inner child is very different, but well, I have to admit that villains are always more interesting — let me guess, you became a Consigliere because of that?”

Yes, she always found the villains so hot and tempting.

"Yeah, but not all." She also has her own reason too.

True, not all. Because sometimes they are just physically handsome, but their behavior is freaky and unlike what she had ever imagined. It made her a little disappointed at first, but the long time spent in this world made her understand very well why they were like that.

“Yes, but Theodore Lorelai is one of them.”

“W—what?!” Why is her right hand suddenly saying disgusting things like that?

She must admit that Theodore was attractive, but he was not even near every character she'd fallen in love with in a novel or a movie she watched. Ew, Theodore couldn't possibly be like the villain she wanted to be when he was little. That was so disgusting.

“Theodore Lorelai is the hot villain you've always adored.” He continued without fear with an amused chuckle, “I'm pretty sure that your inner child is always dreaming about someone like him — oh, or Mason Lorelai? He's not bad either."

He knows perfectly that one of their councillors had fancied her, but it seems that she blinded her eyes and ignored it. Even though everything was very clear and was proven by her always asking how she was, taking her to lunch, and even placing one of his men to make sure she was alright all the time.

“Shut your mouth and do your job properly, Sebastian.” She hissed and threw a pillow at his head, “if I lose the trial tomorrow, I will skin you alive.”

Ah, little did she know — Sebastian knew that Mason Lorelai had already pulled some strings to make her win the case.

"You won't lose, Miss Giuliana."

Since the beginning, The Orphic has played a lot behind the scenes by bribing the police, prosecutors, and even the higher-ups. So it is certain that Giuliana will always win, even if she does not make enough effort to win it.

What he needed was a defense that was reasonable and not suspicious, so it wouldn't be suspicious if they won and luckily Giuliana was capable of doing that compared to Paolo.

"You're too confident, too sure when they could turn the tables."

"No, they can't." there is no way a mere person could beat The Orphic who had everything in their hands. "They can't ever beat The Orphic as long as they have you."

Her cheeks were burning red with embarrassment. "Stop, you don't praise me too much by talking sweetly to me like that - I won't melt just because your mouth is covered in honey."

Really, Sebastian always praises her too much and sometimes it annoys him, and also makes him even more arrogant.

While he was smiling widely at her, "I'm not lying, they're lucky that they have you."

Lucky, huh?

What on earth made them lucky to have someone so damned like him in their organization? There aren't any. There is only the misfortune of losing much more than what they gained.

"They're cursed, Sebastian." Cursed for having someone like her, who was so loyal but had no heart even to them all. "If they knew the ultimate reason why I joined the underworld, they might be surprised to death."

Yeah, she can make sure of it and that is why she'd keep everything a secret.