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"๐ด ๐๐๐๐ ๐ค๐๐๐๐..... ๐ด ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐..... ๐ด ๐๐๐ก๐โ ๐กโ๐๐ก ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐๐..."KatherineThat organ in my body that pumps blood and keeps my whole blood warm somersaulted and I took a step back.Alexander Tyrone leaned on the door in all his glory.He was putting on a booraldo suit, a well-ironed body-shaped suit that made him look more like God.I was in deep shit today and I was very sure about that."Do you have something to say, Miss Thawne?" He raised a brow and I took another step back, and my leg came in contact with the table that had a gun on top. A gun?I twirled around so quickly and grabbed the gun."Wooah...Easy there cupcake." Blondie muttered and stood up as well.Alexander ticked his tongue."You've been a bad girl, Thawne." He clicked his tongue and shoved off the door, coming close to me."Don't you dare come closer to me, I'm not the one you're looking for," I mumbled."Miss Katherine Thawne. A little bitch that stabbed me in the leg and run off with my money.." He chuckled as if that amused him."She's the girl?" Blondie looked me up and smiled. "No wonder, I thought she was good. Fuck! I want to grab those legs..ouch!" He turned and glared at the other one who was still seated."Where is my money, little Thawne?" I snapped my eyes back to the Handsome...Did I say handsome?When I left Snow Hill for New York, I found out a secret. On my dead father wanted to hide forever. He had used me as collateral. He borrowed some money from Alexander Tyrone, a man who was known all over the streets and probably the whole world. A Mafia Leader, not just any Mafia. The Italian Mafia as a whole.When he visited me one day, I stabbed him in the leg and ran off with just a measly fifty dollars."Money?" I played it cool. "I don't know what you're talking about," I said. "Are you sure? You better think twice if you want to lie to me again, Cara Mia." He frowned as if I had upset him.The door opened and Jones walked in with a bottle of whiskey."I guess you'll all have to manage this till Mr..." He stopped in his track and looked around the room."Kathy?" He called. "Jones," I answered. Jones dropped the bottles on the table and gave a slight bow to the mafia leader shit!No wonder he was so respectful to those two."Uhm, Sir. I'm very sorry if Kathy has insulted you. She has a big mouth and spews just anything that comes to mind... Kathy put the gun down." He turned towards me and snorted."Tell this Mafia Leader shit..to leave me alone!" I half yelled, holding the gun firmly."I'm very sorry sir, I'm very very sorry sir," Jones said, brushing past him to reach out to me but Alexander Tyrone had a lot of plans.He grabbed Jones by the neck and pushed him down with one hand and pulled out a gun from his pants. I gasped."Let's end this shit, sweetie. I hate to play games, Miss Thawne." Alexander said, his gun pointed toward Jones's head."Please don't do that, leave me alone," I begged this time but didn't lower the gun."Where is my money, baby?"He smirked like he had just been waiting for my breakdown. "It was just fifty dollars. I saw many but just took that." I tried again.He scoffed, dropped his gun, and moved so fast, you'd think he was flash. I gasped, as he grabbed the head of the gun and pulled it out of my hands."Sir, please just spare her life.. she's..""Out." Was the only response he got and he stood up as quickly as he could and left the room. Blondie sighed, collecting his gun and dropping it back to the table. "I know that you're hot, sweetie but please don't do that again." He said, flatly.'๐บ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐ข๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐ก ๐ โ๐๐ก.' I glared."Where the fuck is he?" Alexander turned around and bellowed like a madman. I scooted far from him. The man looked like he could rip something apart with his hands. His hands. Those beautiful long tattooed hands made me swallow..."What the fuck are you looking at?!" His harsh words snapped me out and I chuckled and looked away. I was in a room with the Leader of the Italian Mafia and his mafioso shits and I had the guts to laugh? God help me! I need another brain."What's going to happen to me?" I asked, looking around the room. "You look at me when you talk." He hissed and that was it...I snapped as well."I don't owe you anything you Italian spaghetti sauce, I wasn't the one who showed up at your fucking business to get Loan..so stop yelling at me and tell me what the fuck you want..so we get this shit over, you ๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ง๐." (asshole)That was the only Italian I knew and I used it pretty well.His eyes widened for a little while, before a frown broke out, a deep scowl that didn't look like he appreciated my little tantrum.He took a step closer, and another till he was backing me up the wall. His masculine scent made me want to sniff again. He had that sweet scent of citrus and strawberry. A man using strawberries? Was it a woman's scent? Had he been with a woman before coming here?"I hate it when women talk in my presence let alone yell, Miss Thawne. I'll let that go for just today but if you were to try that again, baby....you won't like me." His deep voice made the threat more suffocating that I shifted my weight to another leg. He noticed that and looked down, a smirk on his beautiful mouth.I couldn't help it anymore, so I did what I knew I could, what every woman does to protect themselves.I kicked him in between his legs and ran out...when he crouched to the ground, holding his dick!"๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ง๐!"TBCChapter 49 The City of New York ~Katherine Two weeks later, I was standing in front of Grandma, Enzo, and Dante as Cherry and Amy pushed my bag into the car.You'd be surprised to know that Luna is the pink van we'll be driving to the airport and she'll be transporting with us, I don't know how but Cherry and Amy got that covered. And Dexter is Amy's chihuahua. You heard me right, a chihuahua.God help me!"Don't forget to call and send me messages," Grandma said as she pulled me into a long hug.She looked so small in my arms and so tired, I felt like comforting her but I really needed to go. If I were to stay any minute, I'll damn everything and go back upstairs."And you can grow these on your farm." She said, dropping a small bag of seeds in Cherry's Van."It contains a seed of melon, maize, a seed of pawpaw, and also kiwi and many other things. I labelled them differently, you won't get confused. Take good care of Katherine for m
Chapter 48 Everything ~Katherine I was done working for the day and Cherry, another worker who happens to really like me, dropped her bag on the chair and took a seat.I don't know why she does but we've never had a conversation that lasted for five minutes before.It was just our normal Hi and heys but whenever I pass by, she gives me the best smile there ever is and pleads to be my friend."Are you done working?" I asked and she nodded."I don't know why the whole place is so busy today. I hate it, really. Thank God I'm off, I can't say the same for Amy though." "You mean the redhead?" I asked."Yes. She's my roommate. But we're planning to relocate to New York. Italy is beautiful, yes but New York would be better for us. Amy has an Aunt over there who owns a building and since we don't have money for rent..I think it's best we go back and lay low for a while." "Oh. But I thought the payment was huge.""Of course it is. But w
Chapter 47 Deal~Alexander The Irish bastards laughed too loudly. Their voices filled the private suite of my hotel, smoke curling in the air, whiskey glasses clinking against the polished mahogany table. The meeting was meant to be clean, business-only, but Iโve been in this game long enough to know: when the Irish gather, thereโs always some filth clinging to the edges.I hate them, but this business is one I've been betting on for a long time, and I wouldn't let it slip away.I was already calculating the angles, weighing every word as Seamus OโDonovan droned on about percentages, shipments, the necessity of an โunderstandingโ between his family and mine. My mind, as always, was five steps ahead. If this deal slipped, the Colombians would taste blood and demand a share in quarter four, something I would never bend for them.Three years, I reminded myself. Three years of this charade until the contract dissolved and s
Chapter 46 Breaking Point ~KatherineI didn't go to work today. Reese came to get me and when she saw my pale face, she demanded I stay home and continue next week.I stayed in my room most of the day, reading the books I had taken from the library upstairs.I didn't eat anything at breakfast this morning, I couldn't stomach anything at all. My mouth felt greasy and bitter.I picked up the iPad and began to scroll through some ideas I had gotten from Reese and her department. I was now known as the genius configuration master. Ask me how I got to do that and I wouldn't even know how to explain. "Hey, guys." I waved at the group.We were having a video call on how to analyse and decode a series of data."I don't know this, so please, I just called to learn. I really love doing this." I said with a smile and Josh nodded."Okay, here's how we're going to decode this and-"Time went by till it was noon.I sighed, dropping the p
Chapter 45 Silence ~KatherineI woke to the sound of silence.That kind of silence that isnโt really quiet, but presses against your ears so heavily it feels like the ocean is holding its breath.It wasn't even up to forty minutes.The faint glow of the moon filtered through the blinds of my window. My pillow was still damp from the tears I had spilled hours ago, the salt of it clinging to my lips when I dragged my tongue across them. My chest ached so hard, I'm not sure there's a medicine for it.I sat up slowly, hugging my knees to my chest, staring at the faint steam curling from the abandoned mug of tea on my nightstand. It was cold now, forgotten, much like me.The thought made me smile sadly. Forgotten. Maybe thatโs what I had been all along, just a thing until something better came along.A knock startled me. It was firm, like whoever was behind the door had been standing there for a while, debating whether to com
Chapter 44 Like Before ~Katherine The small party continued as slow music tuned through the air.Grandma said it's like a ritual, holding a party in the beach once a while. She said it makes them look..... different somehow. I don't know how but it sure did.To every other eyes, they were like a big family, coming together after a nasty week."Do you want another?" Grandma asked and I shook my head.She's been asking me that for over thirty minutes. I didn't know she liked me that much but after my little emotional drainage, she's been everything I never had while growing up. It felt...good to finally have someone who cared for me truly."Hi." Dante smiled, taking a seat with us.Grandma and I were seated at the farthest place, away from the crowd and I liked it. I like the silence and I loved the clashing of waves, sweeping off the shores of the beach and leaving silence at it's wake. It made me feel... peaceful."Hey." I sm