"I am officially proposing a trade. Your Byon... for Inter's new vice-captain."
For a full ten seconds, Leon's brain was a blue screen of death. The logic simply did not compute. He had been so focused on the absurdity of Briatore wanting to trade for Biyon that he had completely missed the beautiful, diabolical, and utterly insane twist. He wasn't trading a player for Byon. He was trading Byon... for him. He was trying to get him back.
The sheer, magnificent, 24-karat audacity of it was so breathtaking that Leon didn't feel anger or fear. He just felt a strange, almost impressed, sense of awe. He flopped back onto his bed and let out a single, sharp, and slightly hysterical laugh. His life was officially a soap opera, and Flavio Briatore was the guest star who had just shown up to flip a table and reveal a secret twin.
