Abandoned
V A L E R I U S ' P O V :
Blood, gun, dead. Simple explanation.
Although, it's not simple at all.
No one has claimed this woman which means she was sent in by an outsider. Or used as a prop, an average person forced to kill herself at the sake of harming my daughter. No doubt their intention was something more.
Commotion isn't stopping all around me. People arguing, shouting.
Something more has to be here. This has to connect with something. Is this another gift? Is he back?
A flicker of gold catches my eye, a glimpse against the light. I bend down and pull the blonde haired woman's black, wool coat sleeve up. A bracelet lies underneath.
I bend down and feel the chill of her pale skin when my fingers graze her wrist. A gold bracelet with the name of Katerina sits there.
Of course. I haven't heard from Ivan in a long time. This is him getting back on me for handling some of his men. This is the third gift now, I don't assume that means anything good.
I slip the bracelet off her wrist and put it in my pocket. My eyes have a hard time drifting from the dead woman.
I command two guards to come deal with the body. John and the man who let me know about the Russian rats, his name I now know for sure. He's Leon. He's been working with John, I thought it'd be nice to give Ellie more close protection. Though, he's not met Ellie yet, it too soon for me to completely trust him.
"Can we get out of here now!?" The eighteen-year-old heir to the Irish throne shouts out. His mother quickly shames him for yelling out.
My cold stare flickers to him, he visibly shifts under my stare. He wobbles a step backward.
When my fingers snap, two of my guards take him forcefully out of the room. The loser screams the whole time. Clearly his father has some work to do with him.
No one dares to say another word.
Truly, I won't kill the kid. He'll just be taught a lesson by my guards. No one questions me.
After a few moments pass, my guards finishing the body and blood cleanup, two approach me.
"Don." The bows her head. "We found a woman with a bloody knife trying to flee. She's in our custody."
"She's in the back with John and Leon." The other chimes in.
I wait a moment to think.
This entire night has been a setup. Someone has to have had this planned from the start.
If Ivan wanted Ellie dead, he could have done it. If he wanted my brother dead tonight, he could have done it as well. A planted suicide as a distraction. A woman just so happens to be fleeing the scene with a bloody knife after my daughter's arm was sliced.
If he wants to play games. Then game on.
"Escort everyone out." I command. They nod without another word.
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Finding Her
General FictionBook One At the age of twenty five, the Mafia would be handed down to Valerius Armani from his father. Knowing what is soon to come.. he knows he has to finally admit his secret to the one he loved. The woman he hoped to marry. Although, Katerina W...
