AlceoMy relationship with Marianna had gone back to normal, the first phase of our lives; where all we had to do was plan our lives and play and have sex. I had gone home a few times to pick up some of my things, like my credit cards and clothes. Money wasn't a problem in any way, she had me and she had Rosco; both of us were more than enough for her. He made sure to drop by the house at least twice a week to make sure Marianna was okay. He still didn't trust me with her and I couldn't blame him for that; knowing the feud between our families, it was normal he behaved like that.My ringing tone jolted me out of our lovey-dovey, the caller ID on the screen was Aleksi. I silenced the phone and went back to her. It was what we had always wanted, a life where killings weren't involved.The call came in again, she stood up this time and looked at it. “You should pick that up? I'm pretty sure that they are worried sick about where you are.”I picked the call and excused myself to the corne

NinaI stared outside the window of the hotel, alternating my look between the wall clock and the air outside. My scarf was wrapped above my head in a way that would conceal my identity. I was running out of patience, waiting to meet my lover. No one knew about him; if they knew, if Alceo knew, my head was going to be next on the stake. The door suddenly opened, with his head popping out first.I dropped my scarf, going to welcome him with a kiss. “You are late, I've been waiting for close an hour now.”“Sorry about that love,” Javier Bezzio said, the great Italian mafia leader. “I've missed you so much.”“Me too,” we went for a deeper kiss and ended up on the bed.I was about taking my clothes off and getting ready for a steamy round of sex, but then he suddenly pulled down my clothes and sat me straight.“You said it was urgent Nina, what about it?”“Well,” I drawled. “There's some bad news Javier. I know that the initial agreement was that I would marry Alceo and then we would fini

TRIGGER WARNING ⚠️ JavierI barged into the house, staring at all of them with disdain mixed with suspicion. They all sat with much uprightness, acting like they had something planned for me.I walked briskly to my seat, waiting for them to state the reason why I was summoned like a goat.A pin drop silence followed for almost close to a minute. I banged my hands on the table, capturing their attention at once.“If nobody is saying anything, why is my presence summoned like that,” I shouted. I cared less if they were old enough to be my father, if they knew me when I could barely walk myself. I was their leader now, they needed to start bowing for me.My eyes went over to my father, his head was bent down and from the way he sat, I could see his eyes closed. The last conversation we had in my house replayed itself in my head. How disappointed was he in me. But as usual, I was not interested in him being proud of his son.“You,” I pointed to the forefather. “You run your mouth at ever

AlceoImmediately I stepped into the room, every eye turned at me. Uri's situation was worse, it wasn't up to 48 hours since he was proclaimed the new leader that a death happened in the family. And it was more suspicious, because it was Nina's. Someone he was closer with.Frustration and worry resided deep in Uri's eyes, for a moment I wanted to sympathize with him but I decided against it.“I thought you weren't going to come around,” Aleksi said in a low voice to me, coming closer.“I could still turn back and return to the love of my life, it's not too late,” I replied to him in a straight and sharp tone.“Now is not the time to do all these, let's figure out what happened first. Then we'd sort the rest out ourselves.”“There's nothing to sort out, just let me be.”I went straight to the body and pulled the cloth covering her face. She was stone cold and dead by now, her face was pale and hard. I examined further, lowering the cloth again. I saw the spot where she was stabbed, it

AlceoThere was no amount of consoling that I could do for Marianna. First of all, I was glad that the Russians had no hand in Diego's death; maybe a little but not totally. And his Russian spy is dead as well. All the pieces of the puzzle were falling in place. Before I could return back to the surface of the earth, I heard screeching of a car outside in the compound.I had zoned out and forgotten that Marianna asked us to call Rosco. She sat by the phone and kept crying her eyes out, holding the phone like her life depended on it.The door flew open and I met with Rosco's bloodshot eyes. He searched for Marianna with his eyes and came straight for me. There was no time to tell him that I didn't cause her tears. 2 heavy punches hit me in the face and he held me by my neck, choking me. I tried to break free, but he was just too strong. Marianna ran from her position and tightened her grip on him.“I told you if she shed a single tear, I'd kill you,” he reached for the gun in his pock