Since they separated he was back to being the playboy. He had women coming to him anyway so why stop. He needed more however. He was getting bored with the same game every night. He did miss hearing Violet's shrill voice giving orders in the house. She was extremely entertaining that way. He had lost it when she had asked about them expanding the family. He wondered if she was crazy to say that when they were already having issues. She was not ready to be a mother, not to his children. She was more interested in shopping sprees and partying. When would she find time to care for a child? He had also found out that she liked drugs. That was the last nail in the coffin for him.
They had gone back and forth over the baby debate until he had completely lost it. She ended up leaving the home and going to get high on a coke binge. After that she went out for a joyride while she was still high and she crashed her Ferrari and got arrested. He was livid as the police was looking for any opportunity to search even one of his premises. He had to send Lucio to get her as he was not going to be the one to go get her so he could be held on some jacked up charge. He had more sense than that.
When she came home, they had really started arguing. Gian was not one to shout and he was not one to keep on arguing with no end in sight. He gave orders and people complied. It was as simple as that to him. Violet was different. She loved the confrontation and sometimes did it just to get him upset. She was always screaming at him about the baby and he was steadfast in his answer. No! Pretty soon she realized that it just wasn't going to work out. She had gone too far and he had lost interest in her. She had taken off her ring and left.
After a couple of days he heard from her again. She wanted to make amends. She was insisting that they could find a way to work it all out. He was not interested but he did not have the time to spend hackling with divorce lawyers. He opted instead to just spend time apart. Take a break from each other and come to some sort of compromise later on. That seemed to satisfy her. He soon missed the noise thought, everything was peaceful again and there was no friction. He was bored. He needed something to spice up his life.
Lucio lined up his pool stick and aimed for a ball. He missed it.
"Fuck!" He said.
Gian took over and clears all his balls and sunk the eight ball to finish the game. He handed his cue stick to Paola.
"Wait Gian, let us play one more round here. Give me a chance to make a comeback."
Gian stooped and thought about it and took back his pool stick.
"Lucio, you sure love to lose don't you?"
They were both over six feet tall but Lucio was fatter. He loved to eat and his wife was a fantastic cook. Gian did eat but he was always at the gym. When he was not at the gym or overseeing his operations he was having sex. He loved that. It was a great way to get rid of stress.