Emily was sitting with her group at the Cafeteria, filling some papers forms with Ashley,

"Emily, can you tell me what to write here", Tyler said tried to have small talk with her, but she deadass ignored him,

"I can help you tell me Where?", Ashley asked

" Nowhere", he whispered coldly,
Ashley shrugged and turned back to her form,

"Em, you didn't take signature of the guardian?"
Ashley frowned.

"Ahh! I forgot but no worry I will take them Later.What about you two, you love birds?", Emily asked teasingly to Rose and Peter,

"We are almost done", Rose said while filling both forms, her and Peter's who was her new boyfriend.

They all got up.

"we have to submit this forms today", Ashley stated pointing towards the deadline written in block letters. They noded and said theirs bye.

Emily grabbed her belongings, turned around and startled by Tyler, she glared him and about to walked away but he grabbed her wrist, she gasped,

"Leave me Tyler!", Emily fumed.

"I'll let you go but please listen to me first", Tyler begged

"leave me first" Emily whispered through gritted teeth.

He sighed and let go of her hand looking down.

"Speak fast, I don't have time", Emily said. His eyes lit up, She looked away,

" thanks Em, I just want to apologise to you for my rough act, I don't know what happened to me, what I said was true but it- its fine if you don't love me back... But please don't cut the only relation between us which is friendship.", Tyler said, hesitation cleared in his tone.

"Really Tyler! I am offended not just by your rough act to me but to my friends too, why you have to be so rude ass... It's useless to keep our friendship now... It won't be the same.", Emily replied.

" Just one more chance Emily please, I will prove myself worth to our friendship, I'll interact with others too, please", Tyler said.

'He need one chance Emily', She closed her eyes thinking hard,

"Fine but one chance Tyler, if you ever go crazy again, I swear I won't forgive you", she stated firmly.

He stepped forward wanted to hug her but she stopped him with her palm.

"Easy Tyler, it takes time to get back to normal you know".
He looked hurt first, but gave her tight smile in understanding and walked away.

She sighed loud and made her way towards her car, on the way she called Amanda, after some rang she picked up,
" what happened Em," Amanda asked in a hurry tone,

"What happened to you?, you sounds hurry?" Emily asked concerned,

" I am all fine, a bit too busy. now state why you call" Amanda huffed

" so you still at work?", Emily asked getting in car.

"Yeah"

"Is brother at home?", Emily asked frowning,

" No, we both will come home late. Why are you asking want something?", Amanda asked checking some employes papers

"Umm yeah I want guardian signatures on a university form... Only one needed... They need to be submit today otherwise the authority won't accept", Emily replied,

'Shit', Amanda cursed as she printed out wrong documents

" what happened?"

"Ahh nothing... I talked to him an hour ago,he was in his office why don't you go there and take his signs", Amanda said,

"sure, but I never visit his of- " Amanda hung up.

Emily sighed

'Maybe i should make a call to inform him about my coming', she thought and called him, but he didn't received.

'Fuck it and go', Emily started her car drove away towards the Davis Inc.

She parked her car in front of the huge glass building and got out once she arrived.

She walked inside and cold crisp air of A.C hit her face. she nervously walked towards the reception desk ignoring weird and suspicious looks everyone giving her as they passed by her because of her clothing,
'I look like an alien wearing dark hoodie, skinny jeans and worn out sneakers eating doritos while each and every person here are in business suit' Emily thought and cleared her throat to grabbed blonde receptionist's attention who was busy typing on computer with her manicured fingers. without turning away she asked in a professional tone,

"How can I help you?"

"I want to meet James.", Emily answered nervously, she never said his name before. prefered calling brother,

She stopped working and and stared Emily up and down, gave her disgusting look and asked,

"You mean Mr.Davis?"

"Yeah James Davis. tell him Emily is here", Emily said eating.

"Really, bitch What do you think huh? James Davis will going meet you? You? Just look at yourself!", The blonde receptionist jibed.

"Mind your fucking language Lady, I am his Sister In Law Emily Whitely...!" Emily chided.

The girl gasped in horror, cleared her throat and said in one breath,
"sorry, sorry Ma'am, I don't know you are boss' sister... We never saw you here befor-",

"It doesn't matter who I am, the only thing is and always matters is your behaviour." Emily stated

" It won't happen again", the girl whispered.

"I'll expect the same because if you ever talk to someone in that manner, then I am going to have words with brother about you and trust me you will get in a deep fried shit!" Emily warned. she noded

"Now please tell me where is brother?"

"Ma'am, Boss is not here right now, he went to see some new working sites", The girl responded

"Don't call me Ma'am. its Emily. by the way, have any idea when he come back?"

" He must be on his way back, because his another meeting going to start in few hours. You can wait in a waiting lounge. I can call him and tell about your waiting if you suggest?", she said politely

"No, don't, I can wait. don't disturb him tell him when he come back", she said and walking towards the deserted waiting area. She dropped her bag on the maroon couch and aimlessly roamed around watched luxury paintings.A painting of three horses caught her attention.she pulled out her phone and start taking pictures of it and making video of other painting,
she turned around and startled,phone slipped from her hands and fell on the floor as some bald, bulky Man standing few feet away watching her with cold expression, she placed her hand on her heart trying to calm herself.

She gulped and picked her phone nervously, he walked towards her and asked with a aggressive frown, pointing at the phone

"What are you recording huh?"

"Nothing", Emily said trying not to show him her fear,
He gave her suspicious look,
she had a bad feeling in her stomach, without another second she grabbed her bag and tried to walked past him. She walked a few feet away from him,

she gasped when she felt a hand grabbed her from behind and tried to put dump cloth on her nose, she wiggled under his grip tried so hard to fight back, not to smelled but soon the scent of chloroform filled her nostrils and darkness took over her...

She woke up feeling all dizzy, a groan escaped her lips. she softly opened her eyes and saw herself in a complete dark room.

'Where am I?', she thought and gasped when she remembered what happened to her, 'kidnap? no no it's not happening' she tried to move but something was firmly holding her in her place, In a haste, she screamed but it came in muffles. The bulb above her head flickered on. She looked down and saw herself tied to a chair with robes and duct tape on. Footsteps heard, Some Men entered in the room. It was still pretty dark there. A chair screeched, someone sat on the chair, strong scent of perfume hit her nostrils, 'I smelled this scent before but wher- and his face came in the view, all the blood drained from her face when she saw who was sitting infront of her,

King Vincent was sitting in front of her. He frowned and thought 'she looked familiar' and harshly removed duct tape from her mouth. She hissed in pain. He looked surprised first but quickly recovered it with cold, stoic look,

"So, she was spying on us?", King asked his Men.
"yes Don, when I asked her, she lied, I think she send by your Enemies in Mafia", his men reported. She frowned in confusion.'Don?, Spying, M-afia? He is Mafia lor-rd? Oh Jesus please save me' she thought scared, He hummed, his demeanor changed, and suddenly yelled on her face,

" Who send you!!!", King bellowed on her face, she flinched and screamed in a mid, fresh tears burned her eyes, she took a deep breath, her heart beating fast,

"I-i am-m not spy-ing an-nyone, please let m-me go", Emily stuttered in fright.

He clenched his jaw closed his eyes trying to calm himself and opened them. He leaned closer to her she wiggled trying to get far away from him, but all in vain

She stopped struggling, when his face was few inches from her, she was breathing hard, his breath hit her lips, making them dried, she gulped and unconsiously wetted her lips, he got lost in her nervous movement just like the first time, he sighed and stated in a cold, gruffy tone,

" I hate lies so, let's do this again beauty, because if you don't answer me then, I will torture you till death..."

Shiver ran down her spine, tears slipped from her eyes rapidly,

"Please I am not lying I swear, I was here to met my brother... I am not in some damn Mafia. Please don't kill me, let me go", Emily begged scared.

He stared her unimpressed, she bite her lip and quickly added,
" I will not tell anyone please just let me go. "

He chuckled darkly,

'He look scary'

" Oh thats so generous of you Madam", he said sarcastically.

"Pleas-e don-t ki-ll me", her voice broke down into cries,

" Some decision are hard to make, see I don't want to kill you because If I have to kill you, you were dead a long ago but you are making hard for yourself just say his name and I will give you painless death, or if you wanna play hard then get ready because I am going skin you alive", he whispered menacingly playing with the shiny blade,

He looked up at her, his heart shattered when he saw her face; terrified, nervous afraid, panicked, petrified and all the words which define how scared she was.

He softly tugged her hair behind her ear, caressed her soft cheeks and jaw with his rough knuckles. she trembled from his touch and closed her eyes tight.
The door opened, she opened her eyes
And saw someone entered and closed the door behind him, its looked like a manly figure,
King got up and walked toward the silhouette, in far corner,
"My men caught the beautiful spy in your organization. Damn this girl took my heart away when I first met her. As much as I don't want to kill her I have to, But leave it. It's frustrating!. so I was saying that I was here to met you, but you were not here, so I waited for you and in the same time, they caught her, so I come here to see who she is", King said to his bestfriend and his business partner and trusted alley.

" yeah I was stuck in a meeting, so, do you find out who she is or who send her?", The Man asked,

"No, I was playing with her, she was the same girl who was present at the Mcdonald's Meeting, but don't worry I am done palying with her. She is a weak case, just some hurting and bleeding and she will speak like a parrot", King said lighting his cuban cigar

The man hummed listening intensity,

" After we will know who send her, We will kill her in a gruesome way and send the chunks of her back to them as a warning not to mess with us... King added,

" Now let see who she is, the one who took your stone heart away", The Man said frankly while coming towards her,

Emily heard their faint voices grew louder, her breath was getting irregular, mouth went dry when she heard what they both were talking about. She looked up as the Man's face came into the view, his sinister smile dropped, her eyes widened when she saw who was standing in front of her,

"Brother you...", Emily whispered shocked, he cursed under his breath abruptly came towards her, bent, grabbed a knife and freed her, he carefully rested his large palm on her cheek in a ressuring way while whispered,

" Kid, listen to m-"

but she slapped it away roughly and got up looked at him in disappointment more than in anger,

"You lie to me, you lie to my sister, your whole life is a lie!!! , the brother, the saint I used to know turned out to be a devil in disguise!!! You are a monster a ruthless mafia just like him!!! I won't forgive you", Emily yelled in anger, tears were streaming more rapidly, he clenched his jaw,
" let's go outside", he whispered grabbed her by her arm, and dragged her towards the exist.

"I don't want to listen to you brother leave me", She was wiggling and protesting, on the way he said loud to King, who was watching them amused.

"I'll explain later King",

he nodded in understanding. James softly pushed her outside and closed the door behind him, he took her upstair through the different kind of dark lifts and turns after the last turn he opened the door and they got back in an fully brightened office hall. He let go of her. She rubbed her arm glaring him.

"Are you okay? did he hurt you?" he asked softly,

" No"

He sighed in relief and confessed pinching the bridge of his nose,

"I know you have lots of question in your mind, and I want to answer them but can we just go home, sat and sort things out.. I know you are scared, pissed off at me, thats why I want you to calm down first"

She looked away and nodded. He smiled and led her outside towards his car. They sat inside and drove home.

the whole ride was dead silent, Emily sat pissed off, and scared assuming different theories of could happened to her if brother don't come on time. 'That King guy, is a holy ruthless Mafia Lord. How candidly he discussed the gory plan of my murder', she thought looking out of the window. While on the other hand, James was thinking of some story for Emily. How he is going to handle this twisted situation. Once they arrived, they both got out, walked inside the house, Amanda came out of the kitchen,

"Where the hell both of you were?", Amanda said worried, James turned to Emily,
"Kid, why don't you go, wait for me in the living room"

She nodded and left.

"What happened?" Amanda came closer, rested her head on his chest and whispered,

"She know everything", James breath out caressing her waist. She pulled away lightly and frowned,

"About the Mafia",

"How!", She gasped, he told her everything happened here.

" lets go, Emily must be waiting...", James said walking towards the living room. He cleared his throat, Emily pulled out of her thoughts. He sat in front of her with Amanda near the fireplace,

"Emily, tell me one thing first, do you trust me?", James asked,

" Not anymore", she replied with the cold face.

"Fair enough", he sighed

" So you want to know about me being the mafia?",

"Yes everything..."

"It was all start when I was in sophomore year studying for business degree, being an orphan living all alone on your own was very difficult, at the same time, I worked as a waiter in some five star hotel, I always tried my best to obtained higher marks so, the school issued me scholar ships. But due less funding and charity, our school stopped scholar ship program, that's when I need money for my education, I used to do caged fight for extra money, one day a rich man offered me a deal that he will bear my all educational expensive and pay me much more all I need to do is work in his secretive organization which I didn't know was a mafia organization. all I did was delivered some bags... After some years, I got to know about the Mafia shit. When I tried to resigned, he threatened to kill me, thats when I know that I stuck in this mess forever. since then, I work for him, and when he died, I take over his seat, and run the mafia organisation...", he confessed,

Emily flabbergasted by his shocking confession. Hot tears welled up in her eyes, she blinked rapidly,

" Brother, I don't know what to say... I am so sorry-"

Do you still see me as a culprit or devil in disguise", he asked

"Please don't say this...I can't find a word which describe how much I am regretting that I didn't trust you in the first place. I thought you were like him. he is so scary, he could kill me.You know he threatened to torture m-"
her breath became ragged as she recalled his words, he shook her by her shoulder, brought her out of the panicked state,

"Emily, its fine.. You are fine. just focus on your breathing. He is not here", she nodded inhaled and exhaled. After repeating this process several time, Her breathing got back to normal.

"Are you okay Em?", Amanda asked.

"Yeah, I am fine but I have some questions" she wiped her tears and smiled

"Ask"

"Amanda knew about this?"

"Yeah I knew", Amanda replied

"Why you kept me in the dark then",Emily asked hurt. He smiled softly caressed her hair and said,

"We don't want to worry you".

"Bu-"

"No ifs and buts, remember one thing Emily, whatever we do is for your good, we want you to be safe. You don't know how cruel our world is, and you don't belongs to it..."

"Fair enough, but one last question,
How you know him?",

" Who?", they both frowned

"The devil in suit... The Do-nn", Emily said shivering,

"You are talking about King... Well he is my childhood friend.... Wait, first tell me why you came to met me in office ", He answered. She sighed and explained everything.

They got up.
"come lets eat something", Amanda said, Emily's stomach growled loudly in hunger. They both chuckled. she laughed flushing hard....

After the dinner, they headed to their respective room, Emily stripped her clothes and took hot, steamy bath rinsed away tiredness from her aching muscles, aggressively rubbed her cheeks where the monster touched. after the bath she wore her PJs plopped down on her bed before closing her eyes. she prayed under her breath, 'please Jesus, the only pray I do is never let me meet that monster ever again Amen..'

James was laying on the bed, staring at the ceiling looking deep in thought, Amanda softly rested her head on his warm bare chest...

He looked worried. She planted a kiss near his jaw, he looked down and smiled at his loving wife.

"what are you thinking?", she asked.

" so many things happens today, wrong kidnapping, truth revealing nothing worry me this much but one thing?"

She frowned,
"And what is it?"

"When King was telling me about the sp- I mean about Emily, his words surprised me he says, that girl took his heart away..." he said,

"So, our Emily is beautiful. Anyone fall for her", Amanda said,

" you don't get it wifey, I grew up with King, he never talked, dated any girl, now he is falling for her. our Emily... Together, we both builded a huge wall between her and the mafia world.. We tried her best to gave her normal life. far away from gruesomes and guns but it's seems like, her life is everything but normal.", he confessed.

"Why are you thinking so hard, he didn't ask for her hand did he?", she said.

" Not yet, but I have a feeling, what do you thi-",

Deep breathing caught his attention, he looked down at his wife who was softly snoring. 

He sighed and turned off the light,

" let's sleep." He whispered to himself pulled her more closer and closed his eyes...