XANDER
"I CAN'T BELIEVE IT. YOU HAD ONE FUCKING JOB TO DO, ONE FUCKING JOB AND YOU FAIL AT THAT AS WELL" I realised I was loosing control but everything that u have built till now was all about to cxome crashing down all because of these three fuckers.
Pointing my gun at one of them, I shot him in his knee. The guy fell down on the floor screaming in pain but I couldn't give two fucks about it. He almost ruined my entire fucking plan. Pointing my gun at the other two, I said
"Tell me what happened before the next bullet that comes out of this gun is aimed at your fucking brain"
"Boss, the shipment was received. We did receive it, boss, I swear. But by the time we reached there all our men were dead. Some of the men went inside the cargo to look but...
... it was an ambush, boss. We were in the car. It was Pedrova. Someone told him about the shipment"
This only meant one thing. We had a rat. Someone was betraying me. FUCK.
"Leave. GET THE FUCK OUT. NOW" I ordered and soon the three men went scrambling out of the room. Turning around I saw my men looking at me, shock clearly evident on their faces. I trusted my men. The closed circle.
After Damien, Ivan, Dimitri and Egor were the first ones I recruited. None of them could betray me. They all had lost their families to the existing mafia's. They all wanted revenge. If I did care for the sentiments and the labels, I could almost call them family. But after what my own family did to me, I lost faith in the word.
"Boss, what are we going to do?" Ivan asked "That shipment was the final, the last piece. We were going to fucking..."
He didn't even finish the sentence. He simply grabbed the lamp next to him and threw it against the wall. Ivan had a problem controlling his anger. After me, he is probably the worst when it comes to anger. Ivan had an anchor though. He had a woman. Someone who, let me quote, 'painted his demons with a smile on her face'. He was 18 when he found her, ran right into her, splashing her paints all over him.
While she screamed profanities at him, he was busy staring at her. I still remember his words,
'It was the first time I didn't want to kill someone for breathing'
That girl accepted him the way he was. All of him and everything was going fine until one night some men bashed his head and kidnapped his woman. We don't know where they took her. All he remembers is the Pedrova symbol on one man's hand. That's all. That's all he needed. Eight years and he has been working with us to find her. We even told him that she could be dead but all he said was,
'She could also be living. I know I won't find the same woman I lost, but she is the only that held me like I would break. She is still the only one who touched me even after everything she saw. I won't give up on us. I won't give up on my Aylin. She is my anchor. My sanity'
"WE WERE THIS CLOSE. THIS FUCKING CLOSE" He screamed again. He was hurting but now was not the time.
"Ivan. Calm down. Go out. Clear your head. Come back when you can finally speak without destroying the damn house" I ordered
"No"
"Excuse me" I felt my monsters irk with the disrespect. He might be in pain but I wasn't going to stand and be disrespected
"No boss. I want to be here. Pedrova has taken too much from me. No more. Let's end this boss. Once and for all. You need to let me, boss. Please" All the anger was gone. Sheer desperation. His only weakness and Pedrova hurt exactly there.
It remined me of Thea. What if Pedrova gets to her as well.
'NO' My monsters screamed. A loud buzzing sound followed that spread pain in my head. My monsters have taken a liking for the kitten. This was not going to end well. I still had men following Thea. Just a little more time and I can finally get my kitten where I want.
"Then you control your damn emotions, Ivan or you are out" He knew I was his best shot for getting Aylin. He wasn't going to cross me and loose that chance. A slight nod from him indicating that he will control his emotions and we got to work.
Pedrova was going down and he was going down for good.
(TIME SKIP)
THEA'S POV
After that night when I confronted Lila, she had practically been home all week. She even went to the bakery and let me tell you, I was happy but Alex was happy on a whole new level. I still burst into giggles when I think of the next day after the confrontation. When Lila entered the bakery, Alex did not see her. He was in the storage room, listing all the new supplies. Lila was just chilling near the counter when Alex came running to me with a huge jar of milk and said,
"I think the milk has gone bad. Do you think Lila can come and arrest it?"
"Yeah sure. Hey Lila, you think you could arrest the milk. Apparently it's gone... bad" I whispered the last part as if I was reporting a crime without alarming the rest of the people.
Alex turned around and saw Lila sitting there and boy it was like he lost his damn mind. He dropped the jar of milk which caught the attention of the people in the bakery. Apologizing to them, I lightly scolded Alex but he was too busy staring at Lila who had walked to us
"NO. YOU WILL HURT YOURSELF" Alex screamed when he finally realized that Lila was picking the broken jar pieces with her bare hands. He grabbed her hand and checked for any injuries and let me tell you something...
... Lila blushed.
Lila never blushes. Not when we saw two of our teachers kissing in one of the classrooms back in high-school or when we caught some having couple sex during one of the parties. I, however was dying out of embarrassment.
Well since then Alex has been extremely happy because Lila has been coming everyday to the bakery and she and Alex have been talking a lot more than usual. I would totally ship them.
Tonight we just had one customer who had been sitting in the bakery for a while now. He was a very old man who frequently visited the bakery. We were waiting for him to finish his food so we could try this new cake that Alex had made.
"Hey honey, why don't you ask that man if he needs anything else, while we make coffee for us. Then we could try the cake. Okay?" Lila asked. Nodding I walked up to the man,
"Sir, is there anything else you would like?"
"No. Thank you dear" He smiled looking at me, "But if you could be so dearly and pick my stick. I dropped it and my old bones don't really allow such movements"
"You are still young, Mr. Harris" I giggled and dropped down to pick his stick up. Right as my hand touched the stick, a loud deafening sound filled the room.
"GET DOWN THEA" a distant voice screamed but only a loud ting voice buzzed in my ear.
"DON'T GET UP THEA. DON'T MOVE" It was Lila. She was screaming. She was screaming for me to not move. And I didn't. Loud sounds kept filling the room.
They were bullet sounds. Someone was firing at us. Oh my god, Mr.Harris. Did he get hurt? Was he okay? I wanted to move, but I could hear Lila begging me to not move. I didn't move. I didn't move even when the bullets stopped. I don't know how long I stayed like that, crouched on my hands and knees, praying that no one was hurt. Praying that Mr. Harris didn't get hurt.
The only time I moved was when I felt Lila hold my shoulders and pulled me to my feet. Forcing myself to get up, I used the table to support my weight but I felt the ground slipping from below my feet when I was met with the sight of Mr.Harris tattered with bullets and his blood which covered almost the entire booth in which he sat.
I was going to be sick. I was going to be si...
"THEA. THEA. LOOK AT ME. HEY, HEY, LOOK AT ME" Lila's hands grabbed my face and made me look at her
"You are okay. You are safe. You are okay" I heard her chant again and again. I don't know if it was me she was reassuring or herself.
"Are you hurt? Do you feel any pai..." Before she could finish her sentence, we heard the sirens from the police car.
"God dammit. Why the fuck are they so late" Lila growled as she dragged me to the entrance of the bakery. I saw the bakery. The windows were shattered and the walls had bullet holes. The place looked like death but my thoughts went back to Mr. Harris. The blood, the blood, the blo...
"Lila I think I am going to be sick" I said as loud as I could but I doubt it came anything more than a whisper. I tried again but it seemed like I had lost my voice.
I couldn't breathe. I couldn't...
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AUTHOR'S NOTE
So hey guys, firstly thankyou so much for reading the book till now. You have no idea how much each and every vote and comment gets me motivated to write.
I know this chapter is extremely small but I am been very busy with college work. I do have a week long holiday coming up so I promise to update frequently with longer chapters. I promise.
Also I hope you have been enjoying the plot so far. Any plot twists that you might want to see, please let me know. I would love to know what my readers are thinking.
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NOTE TO SELF: Stop making Thea faint so much. She isn't you -_-