"PATETICO." The man spat bitterly while he slowly paced around in circles, facing me with a smirk as I'm tied up.
"I'm surprised you're not giving up yet. Quite impressed." He stops in his tracks and pays full attention to me.
Animosity crawled through me. I want him to pay for doing harsh things to innocent children.
This prick has no idea that I purposely let him kidnap me.
I'm Gabriella Sangriento, the most feared woman in Italy. Known as the Mafia queen and leader of the Leone d'Oro. It's not so easy to capture me. If the fucking police force can't do it why would a disgusting child molester easily capture me.
Hilarious.
Lorenzo has been torturing me into giving him information about the Furvus eques and even if I did have information about them why would I tell this idiotic bastard.
I hate to admit this but I have no information about that gang.
This isn't any ordinary gang we are talking about, we're dealing with the Furvus eques. My fucking rival and we've been competitors for almost five years now. He's either sabotaging my business or vice versa.
A game of chess, I must say.
I've been trying to find him ever since the beginning but whenever I'm close-
Boom.
He randomly disappears. All the data, location, and hideouts just vanish in seconds. He's fucking good I tell you that. But I'm better.
I must admit, I hate the teasing. It's like torture and not the good kind.
It's difficult to be a female leader in the Mafia world, everyone sees you as a vulnerable woman, you need guts and confidence to be a leader. I've worked hard to reach the top and now everyone fears me.
They don't call me The Mafia queen for no fucking reason. Right?
"Any last words before I end you, principessa." He says with pride.
Staring into those depressive brown eyes makes me want to laugh in his face.
Clueless men, always intimidated by a woman who is capable of anything.
I chuckled. "You think you got away with this? I'm embarrassed for you."
He doesn't say a word. I feel his palm against my right cheek then a slight sting irritates my skin. Tasting a bit of bitterness in my mouth.
Blood drips out my mouth as I tilt my head to the side, a few strands of hair sweeping across my face, my lips curling into a loathsome grin.
"You slap like my grandmother...she's dead." I snickered watching as his smile slowly fades.
"Ncoo, not a fan of dark humor?" I pout. "What a shame because I was looking forward to cracking jokes about my dead relatives, want to know why?" I asserted.
He remains silent.
"Because you will relate to them really soon." I added.
"Now," I whisper, glaring into Lorenzo's eyes with no emotion
Within seconds a massive explosion occurs, a strong force that pushes my body against the wall. I find myself on the ground with massive cuts and scrapes "Boss!" I hear someone call out from a distance.
"Boss is injured, I need medical attention now!" The voice sounds familiar. I think it's Oscar. "Is he dead?" I questioned. Pushing myself to sit up.
"Check his pulse," Oscar demands. "I told you this plan was too risky." He says now paying full attention to me.
"But it was worth it and I didn't die." I calmly respond as Oscar cuts the rope that was still tying me up.
When he's done he carefully helps me up, he removes his black coat and hands it to me. I take it and put it on so that it can cover my half-naked body.
"The gun," I say without hesitation
Oscar doesn't say a word as he hands me my beloved gold in color Beretta 92FS
I call her Rose, she's my baby.
I slowly approach Lorenzo who's helplessly laying on the ground.
"Lorenzo tsk tsk tsk," I drawled out, slowly shaking my head side to side while I pointed the gun at his head. "Like you said, Patetico." I smile, raising one eyebrow teasingly.
"You fucking used me." He whispers with his weak voice.
Of course, I used you.
"Wasn't it obvious?" I snickered.
I mean no one ever captured me as their prisoner. The people that did are all dead. I let them capture me on purpose so that I can gain input about their gang or underground business. By doing that I have to place a rat in every single gang, and they are experts, I'm surprised they haven't been caught yet.
One thing about being the Queen. You need eyes and ears everywhere.
"Mercy me, please I beg." He wimps, a slight chuckle escapes my lips. "Mercy you?" I repeat as if it's my first time hearing those words.
"Mercy you, after the shit you've pulled with all those underage girls?" I snarled.
"They were already done for, I did them a favor." Lorenzo replies.
My stomach twisted in disgust.
"And I'll be doing the world a favor by killing you." I chirped.
Lorenzo swung his arm aiming for my face, but I stepped back dodging his punch.
"Oh, sweetheart if only you knew how stupid you look right now." I say, snatching him by his hair.
"Besides, you're useless to me now," I added, crouching down and leaning closer to his ear. "Never underestimate me."
"Like they say." Pausing for a second.
"The most dangerous animal in the world is a silent smiling woman."
I cocked my gun and shot him in the balls. The sound of his voice screeching in the air made me smile. Rising to my feet again I let him go and stepped back, tilting my head to the side as I watched the blood dripping between his legs. "I gave you your first period. How does it feel Lorenzo?" I joked.
Lorenzo, ignores me as he is too focused on the pain. "You know, I'm in a good mood and that makes me want to be generous and little Rose over here has been starving for some action so..."
Stretching out my arm, I aim for his dick and pull the trigger. "Two bullets for your two balls." I say before waving my hand to Oscar. He quickly rushes to me. "Stab him in the eyes and feed it to him, then chop off all his limbs and finally. Kill him." I ordered, my facial expression closed up as I stared at Lorenzo. His eyes wide with fear overhearing what I said. He slowly gasps for air glancing deep into my eyes with fear. I turned to face Oscar. "One more thing. I want you to record it. We should send a messages to all sick fucks like him that are out there."
"You can count on me." He says and I pat him on the shoulder before walking away. My parents taught me that before they were killed. Especially my father if it wasn't for him I don't know where I'd be now. Probably rotting in jail or dead.
As I stepped outside hissed when I felt a sharp pain in my gut. Shit, I didn't notice how much blood I'm losing from my injuries.
One of my soldiers, Dan, rushed over to me. "Boss, are you alright?" he inquired worriedness clouding his features. I caught his brown eyes and nodded. "I'm alright."
"Just-just a headache," I added, noticing that I'm becoming light-headed.
"Boss." I hear Dan mumbling. "I'm fine." When I tried to walk, my legs betrayed me and I stumbled from the weakness of my body, I'm caught in large arms not a second later all I saw was darkness.
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It's cold, why am I cold? I flutter my eyes and I start to blink rapidly to gain back my vision. "Gabriella?" I hear someone beside me gasp in shock. Wincing in pain I pull myself up then a sharp pain in my lower abdomen makes me bite down on my lip. "Where am I? And why am I cold?" I questioned taking in my surroundings.
"You're in the medical room, you were asleep for about four days." Amelia informed me as she rose from the couch. "You lost a lot of blood. Good thing Dan was there to help." She adds walking up to me.
Her auburn eyes soften. "I was worried about you." She says in a soft voice. "I'm still cold." I quickly changed the subject. "Oh, crap yeah. Hold on." She shortly replies then quickly rushes to her bag and pulls out a blanket.
She hands me a soft blue blanket and I thank her quietly, the words leaving my mouth like a soft breath.
"Did anything happen while I was asleep?" I inquired as she helped me wrap the blanket around me. "No, not really but we have good news." She utters with a smile stepping back.
"What is it?" I declare, my brows furrowed eager to hear the next words that are about to leave her lips.
"We got new information about the Furvus eques."
It's been three months ever since we tried to get information about the Furvus eques.
"Are you serious?" I declared, almost jumping out of the bed. Amelia giggles and responds. "Easy now." She asserted, gently pushing me back down.
I rolled my eyes and carefully laid my head back on the pillow. Amelia nods at me then grabs her tablet on the table beside my bed.
She typed in her passcode and turned the screen to face me and showed me an ID picture of him. The first thing I noticed was his titan shoulders as he wore a black turtleneck. He had a defined jawline and a light peppered stubble neatly groomed on his face. His full dark brows made his upturned shape eyes pop. The color of hazel staring back at me as the hues of brown, gold and green blended as it gleamed with danger and screamed power. His full lips relaxed on his features, drooling with sin.
"Damn." I hear her mummer under her breath.
Damn indeed. Fuck he's hot.
I clear my throat to remind myself this is business. Even if he I want him to-
Focus.
"Tell me," I demand.
"His name is Giovanni Carson." She simply says.
Giovanni Carson, hmm.
He's thirty-three-years-old and has been the leader of the Furvus eques after his father stepped down. So for about nine years now. He owns about three Clubs and they are pretty successful. He has a company for tech called the Caron Meta but that's a cover-up for his underground business."
"So that's his tragedy of laundering his money. Smart." I uttered. "That's not all."
"His sister supplies him with weapons, and the Carson's produce some high quality shit. His drug suppliers are from the Americans. Including illegal gambling, tax fraud and my personal favorite connection with corrupt politicians and police."
"So that's all the information?" I recall correctly.
"Yes. That's all we've got so far." This is good, far from good. "How many days should I rest?" I ask Amelia
"About a week. Why?" She questions with curiosity.
"Gather everyone." I declare.
"I might have a plan to make everyone forget who the Carson's are."
AUTHORS NOTE
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