Halsey ~ Now or Never.
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The moment the dining hall doors closed behind me, Ghost appeared by my side. Just like her name implies, stealthily and fast. Her birth name is Tiana, she's been by my side since I was born, so I was told. It was said that my dad hid her mother in the estate away from an underground gang while she was still in the womb.
Rumors say they were secret lovers but whatever it was they had. He protected Tiana's mother even after her mother's death, he took her in as one of his own. Thus, she became my elder sister.
Tiana earned the name Ghost because of her network and coding skills, a very good hacker. One of the best we've owned in the mafia.
She can breach any high-tech security without being noticed and when it comes to combat skills, she's just the same, stealthy and fast. She'd kill in a blink of an eye and so she was also the best personal bodyguard I could ever wish for alongside Butcher. A job she had Personally requested from my father as an act of repaying his kindness.
We walk side by side to the elevator as she feeds me the information I've been yearning to get since the unexpected visit of Mr. Dimitri.
We got into the elevator and she pressed in my floor number.
She hands me a clear file and I instantly begin to brief through it, whilst listening to her speak.
"If we're both thinking the same thing then yes, he is the man your Father spoke about. Papa doesn't trust easily but for him to trust his beloved daughter to a dangerous frenemy makes me wonder if there is something your father wants you to know" She rushed out her hypothesis. Always straight to the point. I shook my head slowly, still going through the documents.
"His father and your father were really close" She added, taking her hair out from the bun and hand brushing it back over her shoulders.
My eyebrows raised at her last statement.
"close?" My father wasn't "close" to anyone that wasn't his wife and daughter. He always kept to himself. A trait I got from him.
"Hmm," Tiana nodded in affirmation to what she said earlier.
"It is true that the Russians don't partner or socialize with other mafias but Alexi Dimitri and your father were close since childhood. They both spent their teenage years in Russian prison" Her silvery voice blends with the night breeze as she speaks.
I nod my head slowly, still briefing through the file. The last page was filled with pins on images of my dad with another man who shares a close resemblance with Rolan. They both had sincere smiles on their hardened faces.
A pained smile slowly crept its way to my lips at the same time sight of my father's smile. Papa always smiled with his eyes, they'd glisten and his ears would perk upward.
Yeah, he was close with Rolan's Father.
I closed the file and handed it back to Tiana. Papa had always wanted what was best for me. I really don't mind a fixed marriage but what does Rolan get from this union?
"It says here in his file that he was married," My shoulders rolled in rotation. "What happened?"
"She was murdered. Cut into pieces and sent to Rolan in a packaged box on his birthday"
My expression flattered, and my chest tightened in pain. Someone he cares about had been taken away from him just like how papa had been taken away from me. We've both lost something very precious. I looked at Tiana. Her chestnut brown eyes met my jade green ones.
Our eyes spoke for us.
"The Irish were responsible for her death"
I squinted my eyes, she smiled coyly.
"What do you think dissolved the Irish mafia to nothing?"
I raised my left brow.
"He destroyed the mafia slowly and painfully, taking down their establishments and revenues. Took away a special person from each of the people involved in his wife's death. Sealed the Boss and underboss in an iron coffin alive and threw them in the Antarctic ocean " She answered her question vacantly.
Both my eyebrows raised and my head tilted to the side. He must have loved his wife so much to take down a whole empire as an act of vengeance.
Now I'm curious to know more about Rolan Niklavo Dimitri.
The elevator stopped and we walked into my office. It was my dad's before he died but now it's mine.
The lights turned on automatically and brightened the place. The only thing I changed in this office is the mini library I had built in it.
I was a lover of books before I became boss, I still love them but I hardly have time to read anything that isn't related to the mafia business.
Tiana made herself comfortable on my plush Grey leather loveseat. While I sat on my desk with my feet crossed and my arms folded.
I stared at the "the lady in gold" painting by Gustav Klimt. A gift my uncle gave me to decorate the office.
"What's the plan?" I asked, my voice above a whisper.
"What do you want to do?"
"To avenge papa"
"Then you know what to do" we locked gazes. Her eyes held a promise.
A promise to stay by side and avenge papa's death. He wasn't just a boss to her, he was also a father to her.
There is just one problem.
"Your Mother"
"Mother" we blurted out at the same time.
Mirth played on her lips, teasing me.
My head fell back and I let out a frustrated groan.
I wondered how she'll take it. What if she knows about it? She'd gladly agree to marry me off to a total stranger. Any means to get me out of her life.
Thinking of her no longer makes my heart ache. I've gotten over it, over the years, as the Boss of the Italian, you have to have a cold heart and a strong mind.
It didn't take me long to possess those attributes.
My life is about to take an interesting twist.
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