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Chapter 5

Author: Tiana Edwin
last update Last Updated: 2022-11-03 06:32:06

"How's your thigh?" Lorenzo asked.

"It's fine, thanks to you. You should be a doctor" I joked, laughing a little bit

"I wish I was" he chuckled

Lorenzo and I spent the night together, we chatted for a while, had a few drinks, and danced until we became bored hence we decided to leave. I left a text for Bianca informing her I wouldn't end the night with them.

"Tell me about yourself" Lorenzo broke the silence between us. We were walking down the street, the street was lonely and the air was cold, luckily I had worn a jacket but it wasn't of much help

"I'm just an ordinary girl" I answered simply, shoving my hands into the pockets of my trousers. "Tell me about yourself" I threw the statement back to him

"I'm just an ordinary boy" he copied my answer. None of us said anything, we kept walking in silence.

"Lorenzo Hernandez" A male figure appeared in front of us from nowhere, I couldn't see his face clearly until he walked closer to us.

"Alessandro De Luca" I spoke under my breath, shocked to see him. Alessandro was a man in his mid-twenties, he was the leader of 'Vipers' one of our biggest rivals but how does he know Lorenzo?

Lorenzo turned to me in shock, he heard me and was probably surprised how I knew this man's name.

"Oh look who we have here, It's Jacqueline Cattaneo... Just perfect" Alessandro smirked at me. I loathed this man.

About four men came out from unknown places, we were surrounded.

"Seeing you here gives me joy Jacqueline" Alessandro walked up to me, he held my jaw and pushed my face upwards so that my eyes would meet his.

"I can't say the same thing about you Alessandro" I spoke bitterly.

Vipers and Scarface were to pledge an alliance and Alessandro wanted to seal it by getting married to me. I never wanted to marry him but my uncle persuaded me to date him for a few months and I did and that gave me more reasons not to marry him. Alessandro was a controlling man with a terrible temper. I remembered when I was five minutes late to his event, he almost slapped me in front of everyone but I held his hand just in time and ended the relationship right there. Alonso didn't scold me for ending the relationship nor did he force me to get back with Alessandro like other mafia leaders would do, instead, he supported me, he was the closest thing to a father.

"That's no way to talk to your ex" he planted a kiss on my neck. I got angry and pushed him off me in disgust, then I threw a heavy punch on his face causing him to lose two of his teeth. His mouth was bleeding.

"Big mistake" Alessandro's eyes were full of rage, he could kill me in an instant but I wasn't scared of him. He got up from the ground and walked up to me angrily, before he could do anything to me, Lorenzo landed a heavy blow on his face. The men which surrounded us brought out their guns and aimed at us.

Lorenzo acted fast. He grabbed Alessandro from the floor, wrapped his arm around his neck, brought out a gun from his pocket and pointed at Alessandro's tempo. "If you make any move, your leader is gone" Lorenzo's voice became scary, this was the side of Lorenzo I never knew. He signalled me to get behind him and I did.

"Don't listen to him, kill this fucker" Alessandro ordered his men.

"Don't be foolish" Lorenzo stared at the confused men while moving backwards with Alessandro slowly.

"What are you waiting for? Kill him! he can't do anything, he's a coward" Alessandro spoke loud for his men to hear him.

"This is Lorenzo we're talking about, he can do anything" one of the men spoke in fear.

"And we're scared we might hit you" another man spoke.

"Cowards!!!!" Alessandro screamed as Lorenzo dragged him far away from his men, he struggled to release himself from Lorenzo's grip but failed at it.

Lorenzo pushed Alessandro away from him.

"you'll pay for this" Alessandro spoke bitterly as he tried to bring a gun out of his pocket.

"I won't, you will" A smirk flickered across Lorenzo's face, he brought another gun from his pocket and pointed both guns at him. "See you in hell Mother fucker and say hello to your dad for me" Lorenzo fired both guns at Alessandro's chest without any mercy until his lifeless body fell on the floor.

I stood there in shock staring at Alessandro's lifeless body. Finally, he was dead. I dated this cruel man when I was seventeen years old. We were supposed to get married on my birthday when I turned eighteen, but I couldn't handle a man like him, he wanted someone to do as he says without asking questions. You don't get to have a say, someone who will stand by him steadfastly and completely loyal and you're easily taken advantage of. You know... The perfect mafia wife and that wasn't my kind of personality. I refuse to be treated as garbage.

"What just happened? I can't believe he's finally gone" I spoke, my voice mixed with fear and excitement.

"Good riddance" Lorenzo put his guns at each side of his pockets.

"You have a lot of explanation to do Enzo" I looked at him straight in the eyes, dead arse serious.

"So do you" his face became serious too.

We heard some noises coming from afar, before I could open my mouth to speak, Lorenzo held my hand tightly "I know you have a lot of questions, but for now, we have to run away from here" He dragged me to run along with him.

"Who are you?" I questioned as we were running but he didn't answer although the last name Hernandez was very familiar

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