The Grand Mistress

"I\'m not certain where the master can be found at this moment," The maid replied cautiously. "Does the madam need anything else? If none then please excuse me,"

"Alright. Thank you," Simione replied as she watched the girl leave. For a moment she was tempted to eat the food that was splattered in the coffee table nearby but chose to rather gather herself in bed and dropped her face in the soft pillows. 

"Oh God, what the heck is happening? What am I to do here?" The girl held a deep sigh as she succumbed to the emotions that went rushing into her.

***

Primo just alighted from his car. He was on the foot of Allegria penthouses then trying to visit Gabriella, hoping that this time she can give her just a little time. Weeks had passed and her anger hadn\'t dissipated yet, making Primo upset than he ever was. However, no matter what he does, he cannot  just let go of his woman like that and so even when Gabriella slammed the door in his face all the time when he makes a visit, he still patiently goes there almost everyday before he heads home.

With hands in his pocket and a bouquet of fresh flowers in his right hand, he walked steadily towards the entrance. His men were nearby, guarding every movement in the ground and was ready to give the young lawyer a backup in case he needed one. With his recent intrusion with Hawk Monsanto\'s affairs, he knew he should be careful as the latter would not spare what he did and so he had doubled his men and security. Right then, there was no alarming thing happening on the ground and so everyone was on steady.

Primo held onto the bouquet he brought with the hopes that Gabriella would like it. He even gave it a glance and brought the flower in front of his face with the intention to smell it. He wondered how fragrant it was and if Gabriell would like it when she saw it. As the young lawyer was doing so, he somehow heard a little fuss and when he felt the danger, it was already too late.

Psw!

Just in  a split second, he felt something hit him and when he looked at his chest, blood gushed in. Immediately, the bouquet he was holding fell and was tainted by his blood.

"Sniper!" Someone warned and everyone moved accordingly. Primo himself stayed alert for a moment and took his gun as he dragged himself to a corner to take cover. He tried to locate the sniper and cued his men to go to his location—a building, a block away from alegria apartment.

With what happened and how Primo was attacked in the middle of the day, a commotion took place in front of Allegria penthouses. People panicked and ran freely toward every direction while Primo tried to get a hold of himself, pushing himself not to pass out despite his fatal injury.

***

Primo was taken into the hospital to have his wounds tended. Fortunately, the bullet missed his heart and only hit his right arm. It seemed that the sniper had missed killing him, or perhaps he did not intend to kill him. What was rather suspicious was that, despite their immediate response and abruptness, Primo\'s men were not able to catch the culprit and so until then they were wondering who did it. However, because of his recent intervention with Hawk Monsanto\'s affairs, he was sure it had something to do with it. Did M Conglomerate President order him to be killed?

"Don\'t worry sir, we\'ll keep looking," His subordinate promised him. They ultimately felt incompetent for failing to protect the El Tigre but was determined to seek revenge for him. It had been a while when nothing like this had ever happened and so this incident was immediately labeled as red.

"Check out the activities of the Monsanto\'s," El Tigre suggested. "See if this is something related to them. We had launch a surprise attack on them and though we failed to take the girl, I\'m very sure Hawk Monsanto knew it was us,"

"That had already been taken care of sir," the man before him answered. "I\'ll make sure nothing is left unturned. I will find who did this to you,"

"Oh look who\'s here…" A woman\'s voice cut off their conversation. When Primo gathered his eyes toward the voice, a beautiful raven haired woman in doctor\'s attire came in. She was carrying a tray in her hand as she smiled beautifully at her patient.

"Mariam," Primo smiled back at ease with her. He was her colleague in the military and so they had been on missions together before. However, when he went to law school, the girl went to med school instead and pursued a career in medicine to advance her rank in the military. Primo right then was brought to a military hospital so it was not surprising that she was there.

"I thought you were immune to bullets," She teased and dragged herself toward his bed. 

"I shall take my leave sir, salute," Primo\'s subordinate excused himself as he wanted to give the two some time together. He knew they were good friends, everybody in the military was aware of that.

"Salute," Primo answered and while the girl gave him a que. 

"Let me check your wounds, the nurse reported that it bled again," Mariam started checking and saw that indeed it needed to be taken care of.

"You should have just asked the nurse to do it," Primo replied. "No need to come here to do it yourself,"

"Are you pushing me away?" She pouted while Primo only smirked at it. Mariam was the only girl in their class before and so she was used to all of the men\'s admiration and respect. Primo however was neutral with her but they still ended up being good colleagues.

"How\'s work?" Mariam started being chatty as she carefully unbanded his wound while Primo decided to grab some newspaper nearby and held it on his left hand to read it.

"Same," He replied in an uninteresting tone. Mariam however looked at him wondering if he was indeed uninterested or he was just trying to be mean to her. When he saw that he had his eyes focused on the newspaper, she just rolled her eyes and continued her job.

"I heard you got yourself a woman," Mariam tried to make the conversation more interesting.

"A girlfriend," He replied bluntly. "I\'ll send you a wedding invitation in case, don\'t worry,"

"As if you are getting married, If I know…"

"I\'m getting married one of these days, that\'s for sure," Primo was confident about it even though he knew his bride until that time was still ignoring him. The thought gave him a little displeasure and so his face grimaced a bit. Mariam saw this and giggled silently at such an interesting expression.

"I said I want to come in!" A woman\'s voice outside the door disturbed the two\'s conversation and they both turned to the closed door surprised.

"Miss, I\'m sorry but this is a restricted area. How did you even managed to come—"

The door swung open and Gabriella\'s angry expression came in full view upon Primo\'s face. He was immediately delighted to see it even when she was smoking angry, already ready to grab and bite the officer at the door.

When her emerald eyes landed on Primo and the woman doctor who was attending to him, her already red face went more crimson in annoyance.

"Miss, only family is allowed—"

"I\'m his fiancee!" She spat out at the officer\'s face. Lucy actually made it possible for Gabriella to sneak into the military ground and be able to roam around the hospital. However, Primo\'s room was guarded by officers and so she had to deal with them unfortunately.

"Hahahah…" Mariam laughed at the woman\'s audacity to claim such a title. She had no doubt she was one of Primo\'s women. She might have come here to check out the famous El Tigre. "Well…El Tigre\'s fiancee, please wait outside, I\'m not yet done tending to him,"

"Leave," Gabriella glared at her, which the woman doctor met head on. Gabriella didn\'t like her confidence and so she turned to Primo instead. "Primo, make her leave. I don\'t like her,"

"Hahahah…" Mariam laughed even more and turned to the office. "Officer kindly drag this woman out,"

"I\'m sorry doc," The officer went and tried to grab Gabriella out but Primo cued him not to. El tigre wasn\'t done looking at her woman\'s beautiful angry face and his amusement of her entrance was still giving him some sort of a heavenly haze.

"Primo…" Mariam confronted him but the latter only had his eyes on the woman that came.

"Just go," He dismissed the doctor and cautiously leaned on the headboard and invited his woman. "Dulzura, come my love, will you tend to my wound please?"