RAPHAEL
Leila jerked and I could see confusion webbed over her face at the sudden cock of my gun.
"Raphael..is something wrong?" Leila asked in such a gentle tone, coming over to me.
She noticed the stares we gave her and her brows deeply creased into a frown.
"What's wrong Raphael?" She asked once more, veering her eyes from my capos and back to me.
She placed her hand on my shoulder and I slapped it off immediately causing Leila to let out a shriek.
My eyes burned with so much anger that it tightened my chest.
My rage was dangerous, murderous and blood thirsty.
My fist balled immediately and I yanked Leila by her pony tail, causing her to scream.
"Raphael!" She yelled as my hands fisted into her scalp.
"I am capo dei capi to you got it? I never want to hear my name from that filthy lying mouth of yours" I gritted threateningly at Leila.
"Ouch. Ra---I mean capo dei capi, what's going on? Why are you guys standing there watching him do this to me?" Leila threw a question at Lorenzo, Marco and Thomas.
"Because he is our capo" Marco replied nonchalantly.
Leila had her mouth at agape at his reply and her chest heaved a thousand times.
"And we always obey our capo" Lorenzo replied with a smirk.
"Let go off my hair please" Leila pleaded, trying so hard to free herself from my grip.
I pushed her to the floor and she fell with a thud.
"What's going on?" She frantically cried for an answer, spurning around to face us all.
"Leila how long did you think you could hide your true colours from me?" I snarled, taking slow and dangerous steps towards her.
Leila had her mortified eyes stationed at my gun and she crawled backwards the more I approached her.
"I--I don't understand you capo. What do you mean? I mean...why are you being so animalistic towards me? It's me Leila" she panted with her gaze still positioned at my gun.
I so much loved the fear evoking out of her right now.
Nicole went through all these shits when she had the spare flash drive the whole time.
Nicole was starved for it and now she is in there battling for her life.
I will not spare Leila for this betrayal.
"Of course I know who you are. You are a betrayal and a backstabber" I growled, yanking her up in such a fierce grip.
"I--I am not..."
My hands connected to Leila's cheek in a resounding and fierce slap, cutting her short.
Leila faced me, her eyes widening in horror.
"You just slapped me" she whispered, holding on to her cheek with tears brewing up in her eyes.
"You deserve even more than a slap you lying bitch" I jeered.
"How am I the lying bitch? I didn't even do anything. Nicole is the lying one...."
I gave her another slap causing Leila to fall to the ground. I yanked her up by the hair, my rage burning and the veins in my neck throbbing.
"Don't you ever mention my wife's name with your filthy mouth" I balefully warned.
Leila was robbed off her speech, her lips quivering. I guess by now she knew that her game was over and she could no longer hide under the guise of being a loyal friend.
"Leila how dare you? You knew all along that Nicole was saying the truth and you choose to lie about it. You saw how helpless Nicole was that day. She looked at you pleadingly to back her up but you lied to her face and to us all even when you knew that you had the spare drive. Leila you took advantage of my trust!"
"You belonged to me in the first place!" Leila shot back, tears streaming down her eyes.
"I gave you my body, I risked my life a thousand times for you and I love you a thousand times more than she loves you yet you chose her. You travelled to Africa and brought her back out of the blue. You tossed me away like a piece of rag. What was I expected to do? Be happy with your decision?!" Leila yelled back at me.
Everywhere was dead silent, our emotions rocking the air and creating an ambience of uncertainty.
"Leila I vividly remember telling you even before we began our consensual sexual affairs that I don't fall inlove and so you shouldn't expect any thing of that sort from me. You accepted it did you not?" I brutally asked her.
I wasn't ashamed to voice out my sexual relations with this bitch in the presence of everyone. Hell I wish we never even fucked in the first place.
"I did but I thought I could change you to love me but you broke my heart capo" Leila cried bitterly.
"And you took it out on poor Nicole didn't you? You hid the spare drive she made and connived with Ivan's son Maxim, to trap my wife in your web of plots. This was a plan against my marriage and mafia! Yet you speak of loving me?"
Leila laughed maniacally, cleaning her tears. "Listen to your own words capo. You speak of loving Nicole but you didn't think two seconds before doubting her intentions. We are both guilty capo. And as for Miles, I never knew he was Ivan's son. I was as shocked as you were on discovering it" Leila scoffed.
Her bravery amused me.
"Capo look I'll forgive you for everything you did. It's clear that you aren't meant for Nicole. She will never forgive you after all you did to her. Just send her back to Africa" Leila said sweetly to me.
"Leila you must be insane. How could you put this mafia in jeopardy all because of your crazy obsession for Raphael?!" that was Marco's bitter voice. He hardly spoke but whenever he did, he never failed to speak his thoughts.
"You are the insane one Marco. You all. Fuck you!" Leila seethed.
Leila's words pierced me like a knife. It was a question I dreaded the answer to.
Would Nicole ever be able to forgive me? Would she ever love me?
I was ready to go to the moon and back just to win her love. I needed that woman so much. Nothing else mattered to me right now than her.
My soul was empty without her. She was my light and my passion.
Leila's voice snapped me out of my disheartening thoughts.
"Look let's just forget all these and start over ok..."Leila tried holding on to my hand but I shot her a hard glare making her flinch.
"Are you insane!? You have no atome of remorse. You disgust me Leila. Fuck I hate you so much. You watched me torture an innocent pregnant woman. You beat her up in the cellar! You beat up my pregnant wife and she lost her baby yet you have the audacity to tell me these?! Leila I swear I'll kill you today!"
Leila gasped and her body trembled.
"You don't have to do this capo. Ok fine just give me one more chance please. I accept my mistakes"
"Where is my drive?" I savagely asked.
"It's in my car. I t--take it e-everywhere I go" Leila stuttered in tears, her pain and terror evident in her eyes.
"The keys" I ordered in a dire tone at Leila.
She quaked and handed them to me.
I motioned for one of my men to get the drive, tossing the keys to him.
In a couple of minutes, Marco sauntered back with my drive. Handing it to me, I scrutinised it with a devilish glint and tucked it into my pocket.
Drifting my eyes back to the terrified optics of Leila's, I enjoyed the fear radiating off her.
"You've gotten your drive now. Just give me another chance please. Don't kill me please" Leila pleaded frantically.
"So you are scared of death and you were ready to watch me kill Nicole for doing absolutely nothing? I'm sorry Leila but I'm done playing games. You are a threat to my mafia and my marriage. I am eliminating all my threats starting from you"
Before Leila could say any more words, I pulled the trigger three consecutive times, embedding bullets into her chest.
I watched her fall to the ground, her lifeless body oozing out blood.
I swiftly pivoted to face my capos. None had a look of regret on their features----as expected.
She backstabbed and fooled us all.
I won't handle such anymore.
"Thomas does Lev suspect you of monitoring him?" I questioned.
Thomas shook his head at my question. "Not even a little bit"
A beam shone in my eyes.
"Good. We are at the upper hand now. Tell Lev I need him to go to Moscow for a business arrangement.
He would be more than happy to go. Do not disclose the details of the business. Just tell him cryptically. I'm sure he would send words to Maxim that he is no longer in Italy and the fool will come over to meet him in Moscow.
Let them lead us to Ivan.
Lorenzo, Marco and Thomas, I need you three in Russia. Take about two hundred of the underbosses under your various divisons each with you to Russia and monitor their movements.
When we've gotten Ivan's location, kill them all. I want each and every one of them dead. Not a single soul must be spared" I ordered.
"Including his daughter Alina?" Marco questioned.
I nodded my head. "Kill her too. I will eliminate them down to the last Fedorov. Ivan has no idea of what I am capable of doing"I replied before dashing back upstairs.
"Someone dispose of that trash" I made reference to Leila's body.
I will make sure to kill anybody who dares stand in my way ever again.