After that night, I woke up feeling fresh from my mind. I woke up, and he was gone, it was as if he was some wind that would gently touch me and then pass away . I still had my questions in my mind, I asked him but he did not reply or so I remembered.
The next few days had been unproductive, including myself: sleeping in Kaden's empty bed and waking up to an Empty bed, eating with the little boy, kaison, who seemed a little comfortable with me, watching some TV and just singing random melodies in these empty rooms called home. I hadn't heard about Adrian for a while, nor did Taylor show up after the incident. Watching movies with kaison, jinellia would often come to ask if I needed anything but I only asked for some CD's, snacks and for some board games for kaison . She brought ludo, chess and snakes and ladders board games for us, which we would play, sometimes Matthews would come and take kaison with him for some training and kaison would return back at 8. It had been 4-5days , I haven't seen the world for a while so i asked jinellia if I could go for shopping grocery items and some cloths for me, Jinellia had called Matthews and he took me to a mall with some other five men who were disguised as normal civilians. I just wore a simple white summer dress with some high top shoes and my free flowing hair. Looking around I was confused where should I go, all around were shops: dior, Gucci, Chanel, Versace and the other known brands, I was contemplating because I haven't spent so much ever. Maybe right now my bank account balance would be 30 or 40 million, my mafia never let us spend it, infact mafia women didn't earn, but I did because I was trained like an assassin, I killed people when told, the difference made was that they were brought to our torture cell and I was told to 'operate' them, first thier organs with just a Swiss knife. My precision had become so perfect that if I wasn't in the mafia I would've taken up biology and had become a doctor side by side as a singer. Then I saw a rather cheaper shop where I began to walk when Matthews called me out gently and and came close enough to me to lowly say with a gentle smile that I could never decipher,
"Signora, you're signore Esposito's wife, you could perquisite."
Something in my mind told me, he was almost surprised by the fact that I was being so 'plane Jane' even though I was kaden's whatever.... wif--fiancée .

While matthews smile widened as he motioned his head towards , dior and Chanel, I looked at him with a gulp and then proceeded in those shops. Here matthews had dressed up as my relatives with a t-shirt and pants. Matthews was old, he would've been in 45 or 50 maybe.
I shopped perfumes which had rather a very sweet scent, Vanilla and coconut being my main aim, I shopped clothes , shirts , t-shirts and dresses for outing.
And then came the embarrassing part....

I walked into 'Victoria's secret'.

While I walked inside trying to look nonchalant,  I felt Matthew's stop behind me outside of the store, and I knew the reason. So I proceeded to by lingerie and more perfumes and essentials from Victoria secret, I felt independent giving the cashier
'my credit card' , I felt as if i was living a better life but then again I had to go back into those closed walls again. On the way, I asked matthews if he could buy pork and chicken from the butchers store and by some Ingredients I had jotted down in a list. Finally I was in the elevator, on my way to the penthouse. I removed my shoes near the rack and called out to kaison, asking if he was hungry and if i should cook him something, but I heard nothing, the TV was still open, kaison's favorite cartoon was open but he wasn't here, Weird. Living with this boy, he had become a part of my life, we had gotten very close, I treated him like my own little brother and took care of him like my son. But not being able to find him made me feel scared.
I called out his name multiple times and started searching up the rooms, I checked for kaden's office room but he had locked the door already, I checked in the guest bedroom, still, he wasn't there then I finally checked kaden's bed room, not there as well, I checked the bathroom but then i walked into the closet room , I looked around the big space when I heard a vase fall from the living room, and my heart started thumping violently, matthews would've called out to me so would have jinellia, then is it Kaden? No but when I asked jinellia she said,
"Signore Esposito is visiting a relative In France, signore didn't tell about his whereabouts but he will be back in 2 or 3 days."
When I was about to leave the room, someone grabbed my foot and in shock I yelped but had kept my hand on my mouth , but the sound was enough to make someone know, when I looked down,  I saw kaison, he motioned me to stay quiet and beneath the thick coat rack he motioned Me to follow him, something was wrong otherwise kaison wouldn't have been hiding like this, he looked genuinely scared. Behind the thick coat rack was trap door made to trick the intruders eyes , it had a sliding door and just in time when I heard someone's foot steps,  I got in the space after kaison and quietly shut the sliding door shut. the space was small but big enough for 4 people to fit in, a small bulb glowing in the corner and i saw kaison desperately trying not to shake out of fear, his face showed pure terror, a very quiet whimper left his hand when i immediately , gently picked him up and placed him on my laps and held onto his mouth with my hand and kept my finder on my lips to tell him to stay quiet and he gently nodded . I gave him a kiss on his forehead and stroked his hair to calm him , and it seemed to be working . But my anxiety increased when I heard the metal clinging on the racks indicating someone was moving the coats to find us out . The footsteps were close, my heart was beating skeptically hard that for a second i thought the intruder would hear it . The tension was so thick , but immediately I breathed the breath I was holding in, when someone called the person out while saying,

"ho trovato una botola dall'aspetto strano qui!"
(I found a weird looking space here.)
The voice came from the hallway. The number of voices coming from the other side indicated that there were only three people and they seemed to be wanting to harm us. A very scared and shivering kaison whispered in my ears and told me about kaden's compartment for his weapons. It was the drawer infront of the coat rack,  so I snuck out of the space before hiding behind the coats to make sure if anyone was coming, I was so scared at this moment but I knew I had power and strength in me to attack anyone coming my way , after making sure , I gently opened up the drawer kaison was talking about and saw many weapons , including, blades , guns and nozzles,  what caught my eyes were the two golden guns above every other weapon.

I immediately hid behind the closet door when I heard footsteps coming this way,

"I swear I heard something. "
The person retaliated. As he entered the closet room , I didn't give him enough time to think and swiftly but with vigour, twisted his head. a broken neck, he died almost immediately. No noise, no sound left his mouth. I held him when he was about to fall on the ground which would've created a loud thud. I gently dragged him towards the behind of the room and lay his dead body their. I gripped the gun and proceeded towards the room, it was clear and the voices came from the main space, I slowly peaked through the door frame, clear.
Once I was walking in the corridor , I had to stay very quiet , or else they would know about my presence .

On my target , I saw one of the men standing near the sofa and talking through a wireless communicator in Italian, he held a machine gun in his arms while I swiftly appeared infront of him  and he saw me, but before he could say anything , I shot him at the temples. His blood poured all over the white and black marble, his eyes laid open , while I looked at him, I saw an exposed part of his neck, which I exposed and saw a tattoo.

I didn't have much knowledge about the tattoo for different mafia's but this was clear he was sent to kill kaison and me, because they knew we were alone at the penthouse, but would've told them the whole setting of the security in the building? Only one name came to my mind: Adrian.

I turned around when I heard a whimper and immediately held the gum for a shot, my heart picked up the pace when I saw kaison being held onto , harshly, by the third man. He first looked at the dead body and then at me,

"Fighting, doesn't suit you baby."

My mind filled with the putrid thought of him calling me baby.

"Now put the gun down , or the kid dies."
He warned as he poked the nozzel of the gun further into kaison's temples, he closed his eyes, and he didn't seem to breath for a second, his face was red and his face showed the tears he had cried of fear.
The man had put a finger to the trigger when I had to put the gun down on the floor and raise my hands to show I surrendered, the man left kaison and pointed the trigger at me and started nearing me, fool.

He laid unable to move, with a broken neck and limbs. But it wasn't over yet, the Glass window exploded and the glass shards came flying towards us, but in time I covered kaison while facing my back towards it and hugging kaison, small cuts on my skin started bleeding immediately. more men came in while handing through ropes and entering the open space, the air flew violently up here. As soon as I saw the men climbing down from the rope that were tied up  from the terrace of the building, I quickly picked up the guns from the floor and shoved kaison back into the closet and shoved him down the trap door again. I opened the same drawer from which I picked up the guns, I picked duo blades and knives and a machine gun. The thumps of men came flooding in through the living room, while I gathered my courage and hid behind the closet door again and waited for then to enter , as soon one of them entered I fired back at him and the others followed suit after hearing the gun shots, I was surrounded by them, but luckily they didn't get a clue for kaison's hiding place. As I saw one of them charging towards me , I kicked him into the gut and shot him down.

She was busy holding the men down when one of them hit her with the gun stock on her head, as she held her head with pain, they immediately caught hold of her arms and one of them punched her in the face as her lip busted and her cheeks turned red, a man grabbed her hair pulled it back while dragging her to the living room and hitting her face in arm rest of the sofa, her nose immediately bled and she started loosing conscience .

"Bitch, I'm going to fucking kill you!"
He yelled.

She tried to stay awake , somewhat she tried and it worked, but her strength wasn't giving her enough, her thighs felt like they couldn't stand , her arms ached like they couldn't raise themselves, the blood flow in her legs and hands wasn't helping. She could see the blur within her eyes , her head felt a buzz that didn't help her with her decision making.
Almost giving up, she left a breathe she held in for long, a long breathe. Until through her blurred vision , she saw the men fall while blood splattered on the floor through thier body's.

The elevator opened , revealing kaden's men rushing in and shooting the rest of the intruders, but the one Holding onto neffré remained gripping her hair and her arms behind her.

her eyes opened wide when she saw him, pointing gun towards her, as if her blood had started running all around her body, she felt like a corpse trying to move her body , she felt weak and exhausted but she managed to elbow the distracted man behind while holding his wrist and twisting it backwards as she twirled and stood behind him, holding his arm behind him as his chest was a clear shot for Kaden.

His blood splattered on her face , as he laid dead on the floor, the white and black marble mopped with a deep red, everything smelt like metal, with a final breath she dropped to her feet while looking at him with thankful eyes, tears brimming through them and a heavy breathe heaving her mouth, she was exhausted , but what kept her awake was him standing infront of her.

For the first time she saw an emotion in his eyes...

For the first time he felt scared for someone's life, for the first time he didn't want someone to die, for the first time he wanted to be with someone.

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