ZEMEN ACÉTTA:

"Long time no see, Charleston."

I looked up front and saw him tied up against the wall with only a few chains holding him up with their screws drilled into his skin.

"F-fu-ck y-o-ou"

I tsked and went closer to him picking up the drill back.

I turned to him and saw his eyes widened with seeing my favorite torture device in my hand.

"Can't even speak shit right, you're all botched up." I went closer to him and looked him directly in the eyes.

"Patético." (Pathetic)

"What are you here for? J-just kill me already....please"

"Your pleads mean shit to me. But....I can grant your wish."

His head snapped up and he looked at me.

I motioned Santino to come over to where I was standing and he did.

"Dile todo lo que necesita saber sobre su libertad." (Tell him everything he needs to know about his freedom.)

I chuckled when I saw Santino nodding and left the room but not before looking at the disheveled hunged up dog on the wall.

Alejandro, you filthy rat, you won't know what hit you.

~~~~~~~~~~

"He's off, boss. What's the plan now?"

"Now.....we wait."

Santino nodded and left my office room making me slump back and spin my chair to the beautiful view of the skyscraper from my office window.

I let him. Charleston leave. Why?

Hmm. Maybe cause Iam a filthy motherfucker who knows how to get business well done.

I felt my pant pocket, taking out the lighter that had been in my pocket. Opening and closing it's lid.

A smirk made it's way to my face when I turned my head to look at the screen which showed a green dot running around the streets just wanting to get to his destination.

His destination. Alejandro.

"You're letting him go?!"

"Ofcourse not"

"But- you just-"

"Levi, Levi. What have I told you? This is a business, a mafia, all it for me. And I know what Iam doing. Trust your boss, would you?"

"I-I do! But Iam confused. You let- Charleston- the Charleston. THE one whom we made up a whole ass plan to capture, free?!"

I sighed and plopped down on the club couch, swirling my drink around in the glass and chugging it down, slamming the glass back on the table.

"Iam not. Cause the moment he steps a foot outside the mansion. He's dead."

"Are you fucking slow, Levi?!" Santino screeched, annoyed when Levi pouted not understanding what we were talking about.

"Boss let Charleston out, basically declaring his death already, because we all know the only one Charleston can run to is Alejandro. And once Alejandro sees Charleston, he'll kill him. He won't want a useless person taking space on his team now. We have his tracker on, he knows where Alejandro is. We'll know where he is. Problem solved."

"But what if this plan fails?"

"It won't. Look-" I pointed to the screen and they closed in.

~◌~✤✤~◌~

CHARLESTON MORETTI:

I don't know for how long I ran with my dislocated leg, but I ran, as far away from those bitch of devils.

I reached the building I hadn't seen in months and a smirk made it's way to my face.

Zemen Acétta, you're done for.

I entered the building with a huge grin on my bruised face but that was the least of my worries as I saw the guard standing inside the building.

"Charles?!" He exclaimed once he saw me.

Ahh. Feels good to be back.

"Tell James, Charleston is here. Hurry up now."

The person I expected to bow before me and run to my orders just stood there now looking at me with pure disgust.

"I said! Bring. Me. James!"

He didn't move from his place and just eyed me.

"I don't take orders from you no more. We serve Alejandro now."

"The fuck you on about?" I lunged forward and punched the fucker right on his face and heard multiple cracks echoing in the empty, abandoned building.

"Talk shit back, and I'll do you worse." I spat on his face and kicked his ribs once more before taking my charge towards James.

"They serve him now? Huh? I'll see about that."

I banged on Alejandro's door feeling it blocked on the other side. I immediately kicked the door down and saw him with a girl on his desk, sprawled out with tears running down her face, with her face all shades of purple.

I rolled my eyes.

Can't believe he's having all fun without me.

Alejandro's face snapped towards the sound of the broken lock and his eyes widened for a mere second before he scoffed and picked the girl up from his desk but not before kissing her for the last time making weird ass noises, annoying me.

"Go on baby, I'll be with you tonight."

"No. Plea-"

"Tell others to be ready too. Let's go all full tonight. Hmm?"

The girl was shaking in her skimpy, torn outfit and had hot tears streaming down her face.

"Please. Let me kids go. I-I will serve you. I will enslave you. J-just let my daughters go!" She cried and I rolled my eyes.

Iam fucking standing here!

"Baby. Get the fuck out before I shoot a bullet through you and give your dead body to my men to feed off of."

The woman looked scared and immediately scurried off with her back all visible due to the torn outfit.

"Charleston-"

"That fucking slut. Where do you find these cuties? Have my fair share?"

Alejandro looked at me and sat down on his desk.

"How'd you escape Acéttas?"

I came back after all this time and THIS is what he asks?

I sighed and licked my teeth before answering with a smirk. "He let me go."

A deep chuckle escaped him and he looked at me again to see if I was serious, chuckling again.

"He. Let you. Go?"

"Ye-"

"Fucking bullshit. Acétta doesn't let his captives get away. The fuck you did he'd let you get away?"

"After torturing me, drilling me with screws and taking my insides, out. He's left me with nothing. You don't know the amount of times I pucked through the way, to get here. Just for you to ask me how I fucking escaped those damned fucks."

Alejandro came close to me and hugged me.

"That's not it brother, I missed you."

I laughed and tried to pry him off me but he didn't budge.

"Get off you, what you trying to do? Make a gay fucked show here?"

"Nah. Just missed you....enough to kill you"

A gun's cock and a shrill of a bullet was heard as I felt immense pressure against my abdomen, feeling being ripped apart.

"You shouldn't have came back, brother. There's no place here for you. Your people, they worship me now. Your seat, is mine now. Your people, your girls. Are mine now."

I groaned and spat out blood as my body went into a series of fritz, as my body shook violently.

I turned my gaze up to the betrayer's face and saw a wicked grin on his face.

"You lost." He whisper and with those words I felt my hands twitching as I felt my heart beat fasten.

~◌~✤✤~◌~

ZEMEN ACÉTTA:

"Annnnd he's dead. Finally after seeing him for the past months, I couldn't bare it no more."

I turned my attention away from the screen as Santino and Levi blabbled away with their victories, enjoying his death while I typed away the address to where the sick fuck had been hiding after brutally killing my mother.

"Men. Here. Get the codes ready, get the team ready. It's a level 10 emergency and we'll need all equipments and my most skilled men and women for this."

"Level 10? Are you sure boss? We can take him down with just some mere weapons? Why do we need the big guns and above 50 men?"

"We are ending his raine once and for all."

"What will be left of the Italian Mafia if he is killed?"

I banged my hand against the table at the stupid question asked by Levi.

"..... we'll take over, Levi."

" Oh- yeah- right, shit sorry."

I rolled my eyes and collected my coat from the seat.

"Get the team ready by tonight, we lunge, tonight."

"Tonight?! Boss there's not even barely 7 hours!"

"Y? Que quieres que haga al respecto?" (And? What do you want me to do about it?)

He said nothing more and just nodded before looking at Santino, silently begging him to arrange everything according to the team.

I opened my office door, with my boots clicking over the marbled floors, I went ahead to my room, to Aera.

I entered in and saw her still sleeping peacefully with her hair sprawled out and her clutching my pillow in her hands as if her life depended upon it.

A soft chuckle went past my lips when I soothed her hair and she hummed and mumbled something in her sleep, enclosing my hand in her hands that once held the pillow.

She kissed my knuckle and slowly opened her eyes, smiling at me.

"Morning"

I looked at the clock and then back at her.

"Evening, you say."

She jumped up and her head snapped towards the clock and then back at me.

"Why didn't you wake me up?!"

"I thought you'd need your beauty sleep."

I grinned at her and saw her roll her eyes and yawn.

"I missed breakfast, Iam hungry."

"And lunch too. Now come on, I'll fix you something."

"No, I'll just ask Quen about it."

"I let Quen go home early, as we have a mission tonight. Now go get ready, while I make you something."

"Mission?" Her eyebrows furrowed.

Fuck.

"Ah, yeah. Now go on" I tapped her hip with my fingers, indicating for her to get up while I did the same.

But she hung her hands around my neck and like the koala she is,  she hung on me, hugging me tightly as her legs wrap around my torso.

"What mission? Do I get to go on this mission? Are we killing or warning? Threatening? Can I be the snipper? I am better than Santino? Promise. Can I hack the cameras? I-"

I placed my finger on her lip which was going off all excited about this mission which shouldn't even exist for her.

"You're not going. Stop dreaming."

Her smile dropped.

"Excuse me, what?"

I didn't say nothing and just kept my hand underneath her ass to support her before she lands on the floor.

"Zemen you said we'll go together."

I descend the stairs and spoke, "you don't even know where we're going"

"We used Charleston as a bait and he took us to Alejandro, he's in an abandoned building-"

"-we are going there tonight, level 10."

Santino and Levi spoke with Jade nodding while looking at me.

"Everyone fucking out!"

"But we are eatin-"

"I said fucking! Out of my sights!"

Aera's eyes widened as I clicked my gun shooting up the ceiling making everyone scatter and shut the room of their doors, some even locking their doors.

"Zemen! The hell?!" She spoke but I just placed her down on the counter and she hissed feeling the cold marble under her thighs which were bare from her shorts giving me something to look at, at the beautiful beauty in front of me.

"Zemen. You pierced a hole through the ceiling"

"No I didn't" I took out some eggs from the fridge and turned to her, "the ceiling's bullet proof. It reflected and is there now." I pointed towards the glass vase which had the bullet laying beside it right with a distance of a few inches.

She shook her head and took the spatula from my hands, turning my body towards her.

"You found Alejandro, you're taking revenge. All without me?"

I sighed and looked away from her gaze but she didn't let me and held my chin, puckering my lips, close to her face.

"It's not about you anymore, he held me captive for months, almost killed me, snatched my dignity and almost sold me off to some pervert, killed my dad, your mom and don't know how many more families he has destroyed. It's not just you, Zemen. It's about me too. And I want an equal part in this mission, which is level 10"

She emphasized on the word level 10 as she knew it will be the second time I'll ever be using level 10, the first being when Alejandro attacked our newly built empire and maa had us going level 10 to fight against Alejandro's gang.

"Did you listen to what I said?" She spoke, anger and irritation clear in her voice.

I just shook my head, loosening her hold on my chin and just kept flipping eggs and transferring them on her plate with some ham and broccoli.

"Zemen"

I sighed and kept her plate on the counter with her favorite orange juice beside it.

"What?"

"I'll be going to this mission whether you like it...or not."

My eyes darkened and narrowed in on hers.

"I'll lock you up don't test me."

She jumped off the counter and in a second was in front of me looking at me with her bolding gaze.

"The fuck is wrong with you?! This. Isn't. About you! I want to go and that's final. I told you I'd be there with y-"

"Iam not allowing it, and as a mere team member you don't get to make decisions, you listen to me or you get thrown off the mafia. Entendido?" (Got it?)

I saw as her mouth slightly hung open and her eyes focused in on mine, moving left to right in a speed. She clicked her tongue and slightly nodded, before looking down on the floor.

"Okay... Alright. Got it mister mafia."

She didn't wait for me to say anything and stormed up the stairs and into our bedroom, slamming the door shut.

Fucking hell.