•Family•
/ˈfɛmɪli/
a. the basic unit in society traditionally consisting of two parents rearing their children
b.any of various social units differing from but regarded as equivalent to the traditional family
Third Person
The special troops of the Italian Mafia reached the somewhat deserted house where the French base was situated. For a Mob base it was quite small, unprotected and obvious with tiny lights lighting up the outside as well as the inside of the house and the not so subtle row of cars behind the broken fence.
With a sign of his right hand Kaden ordered them to move forward. Now. They had to use the perfect moment to attack
Everything happened so fast, at first they were fighting about seventy men, then the head of the French was captured by Kaden and after he had beaten the man unconscious, Kaden was pounced on out of nowhere. The French Mob Leader had really no preparation for a sudden, unplanned hand-to-hand combat fight.
Kaden and his attacker stilled for a moment when they heard steps followed by Alessia's voice crying out for one of them.
When she had reached the end of the steps that lead to the basement a second later, the first thing her eyes caught was her brother and the love of her life fighting each other. The second thing was more than surprising-
"Papa!" She yowled in shock when the battered and beaten man entered her view.
The Italian man's muscles went rigid, that could not have been right could it? The leader of the Mob- rival Mob, was his woman's father?
That old salaud he thought kept himself hidden with another name. To Kaden this man had proved to be more of a coward then he had originally thought.
(Bastard)
"Lucien!" She yelped. "What is- Why is-"
It clicked and she accidentally let the man fall to the floor.
"You mean that- you mean that papa is-is too? That's why you were so extremely angry when I talked back at Kaden for you."
She paused, taking a deep breath and organizing her thoughts. When she had begun to speak the latter part of her sentence, realization came crashing down on her.
"You were afraid that you would lose our fath- his respect. Wh-what rank are you?"
He stared into her eyes with an expression that one just could have put a finger on. "Il est le chef." Lucien motioned his head to their father.
(He's the boss)
"Please tell you are joking." She asserted, her mind was slowly going into overdrive. Stop asking questions you really do not want an answer to, her subconscious reprimanded her. Alessia felt the bile rising up in her stomach and her throat, this was too much for a time span of no more than five minutes. "Please be joking."
But judging by the look on his face, he had definitely not been playing around.
"Does mom know?"
"She's the femme, of course she does."
(Woman{female head of Mob})
Alessia was barely blinking. Her family had had a second life all of her existence, how had she not been able to notice? She was suddenly angered at the fact that her family practically lied to all her the entire time. "And you guys-you guys were not going to tell me? What the fuck?"
Lucien only snorted in response. "See? This is a reason why. You are too sensitive to be part of this." What he said and the manner he said it in caused Kaden to desire seeing his head off his shoulders more than ever before.
Not even mere moments later, the heir to the French Mob went back to the task at hand; killing the head of the Italian Mafia. Alessia was outright ignored by her brother as the tears in her eyes welled and hurt spread out in her heart. Maybe he was right, she was too soft and could not have bared living such a life.
No, that was not it. She could have handled it, how else would she have been able to be with Kaden? It took some time, it would still have taken some time to get entirely comfortable with the idea of being in an organization of organized crime, but she managed , Kaden would have made sure of that. Otherwise he would not have chose Alessia as his Donna.
At that moment though, as much as she wanted, there was no strength left in her that she could have gathered to jump her brother. She didn't do anything but watch as the two grown men fought each other. Surely it would have ended with her being murdered. The skills she possessed were nowhere as the two men's. She pressed her arms tightly to her chest as her eyes twitched observing the two with tears blurring her vision.
Her heart pounded in her ears as she felt the blood running thickly in her veins. Lucien had gained the upper hand and that was exactly the moment when she took heart.
"NO! YOU CAN'T TAKE HIM AWAY FROM ME!" Alessia screamed, sobbing. Stop crying. Stop crying. Stop crying.
"LUCIEN STOP! PLEASE! Please..." She whimpered, her heart breaking into thousands of pieces. The death of the love of her life would have been at the hands of her brother.
He didn't, he didn't stop. His finger itched to pull the trigger completely but before he could have, there were two guns pressed to his temples.
"Put it-" Giuliano began.
Hayes finished. "-the fuck down."
Lucien breathed heavily, so heavy that spit came flying out of his teeth-bared mouth. Kill him, but risk my life? He pushed the barrel harder onto Kaden's forehead.
"Do it." Kaden commanded in a loud tone. "DO IT, MOREL!"
All four of their backs were turned to Alessia. Consequently, it was a huge shocker for everyone when she smacked her brother in the head with a rostering pipe after she had crept up behind them.
A thud sounded throughout the basement, Lucien's body falling unconsciously to the floor. She instantaneously pounced onto Kaden and hugged the living daylights out of him while Hayes checked for a pulse on her brother. The tears had come back as soon as his arms enclosed around her body on his.
The rush of adrenaline she felt had been like no other, her reaction was instinctive. She could not have bared the thought of the source of her happiness being taken away, let alone by her own brother. Kye was the light to her although he was the exact opposite.
His brows snapped together, he did not want her to cry at all. "Stop Alessia. Stop crying, I'm fine, amore mio."
(My love)
"I love you so much." She murmured softly in his ear making him smile a bit, "I love you too, now come on, mia donna, we are going home,"
(My woman)
It all made sense now, the constant intrusive thoughts about him and the feelings she could not comprehend. Alessia had never been in love before, and everything that had happened made her fall for him. Saying it to him came so naturally, she was stunned that it slipped out of her mouth in the first place.
They stood up from the floor and Alessia went to embrace Hayes and Giuliano fo a short second. On the way home, Alessia's mind wandered off to the man she loved, the very man she despised at first, whilst thinking about the man, she subconsciously snuggled closer to him. He glanced down at his love and pressed her into him tighter, his fingertips grazing a soft pattern on her skin beneath her top.
The house in Ridgewood was one of the places no one except the close circle knew of, so when they arrived and walked inside the group was more than bewildered to see Aaliyah holding a nine millimeter hand gun to Winter's head.
"Put the fucking gun down, Aaliyah-" Hayes demanded, concern rumbling in his whole body.
Aaliyah's hand twitched. "THIS IS YOUR FAULT!" She screamed at Alessia. "YOU TOOK HIM AWAY FROM ME!"
"I didn't take him away from you if he was never yours Russo, now let her go."
She laughed manically. Like Lucien had done earlier, pushing the cold steel of the barrel at the snout of the gun harsher into the side of Winter's head. "So this is really your friend eh?" Aaliyah turned to Winter. "At least you found somebody now, but she's going to leave you like everyone else, if it wasn't for her stealing the love of my life making me want to kill her, SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN THE NEXT ONE I STOLE YOU. I mean come on nobody wanted to be friends with you but with Lee. You are a nobody, a waste of space!"
Winter kept her eyes shut tightly, the shaking felt in her bones as silent tears streamed down her face.
"It's okay, she's right, I'm just a burden, let go Aaliyah kill me but make it fast please," She looked Hayes in the eyes. "I love you, and Alessia you too, even you Kaden. And Giuliano of course, I love you guys, mia familia." She stated before one single deafening gun shot rang through the air.