Malaina's POV

"Not to be rude or anything, but why are you here and what are you wearing?" Is the first thing I said when I laid my eyes upon Cèsar. His mocha skin and disheveled black hair was in a clean clad pink Armani suit, with a matching pink tie. He looked ridiculous in my opinion but he somehow pulled it off in his own special way.

"I'm wearing a suit. And besides I was bored at my place, so I thought," He says tapping his chin. "Why not go bother my favorite Italians and their hostage?" With a shrug, he sits on Bella's bed.

"I'm not even a hostage," I whisper. "Anymore."

"Mhm, ok." Leaning his head on my lap he asks, "Where's Adriano and the rest of his followers anyway?"

"Spying on Roman and the Dobrev brothers" Bella replies.

Jerking upward, Cèsar gives us a face full of shock. "What? Without me?"

"Um, apparently." Sofía says rolling her eyes.

"Wow."

Getting up from the bed, Cèsar makes his way to the door. Before he could take a step out the door, I asked,

"And where you going?"

"To kick Adriano's ass for not including me on this 'spying'."

"Maybe he didn't include you because he doesn't like you." Bella says giving him a blank look.

"Doesn't like me? Sweetheart, everyone likes me. I mean why would he not like me?" Pushing his hair back, he leans against the wall with a smirk.

"Because you're annoying." Bella states.

"You're loud" Sofía continues.

"You're always here." Bella states in a obvious tone while pointing at him.

"You talk a lot" Sofía says chiming in again.

"You're freakishly tall" Bella says pointing at him again.

"Oh, and you smirk like a pedophile" Sofía finishes off.

"Ok, that was uncalled for" I say giggling at the two girls on either side of me.

"Since you guys want to be so hurtful, I'm leaving." Cèsar says dramatically walking out of the room.

"Wait! You're still going to look for Adriano, right?" I shout, trying to get to the door before he gets too far down the hallway.

"Yes, not that it's any of your business" He stops, turning around.

"Take me with you" I plead.

I need to see Adriano. I have to know he's okay.

"Fuck no." He says pointing at me. "Not happening"

"Please!"

"No! Do you want me to die?" He asks bewildered.

"Do you really want me to answer that?" Sofía says from behind me.

"Sofía!" Bella snaps.

"Cèsar please!" I plead one more time.

Scratching his neck, he looked to be having an internal debate within his head. Giving me a quick glance over, I give him puppy dog eyes and a slight pout. "Ugh! Fine. Hurry up and change so we can go."

"Yes!" I shout excitedly.

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"I can't believe I let you guys talk me into this?" He says exasperatedly while holding the steering wheel.

After the conversation in the hallway, we all went back to our respected rooms and got changed. Bella said for shit like this -her words, not mine- we had to wear dark colors so we're not caught. So I decided to put on a black crop top and black jeans, making sure to pair it with a black leather jacket and black boots. Now Cèsar's pissy because we made him wear black as well. I mean he can't fight crime in an pink Armani suit, right?

"We didn't talk you into anything" I told him blankly.

"She's not wrong." Bella comments.

"Liars! You all forced me to wear black. Black doesn't suit me! I mean look at me, do I look like the type to wear black? It's so criminal like." He says pulling at his collar in disgust.

"Aren't you a criminal?" Sofía asks.

"What? No."

"But you own a Mafia..."

"That doesn't make me a criminal. It makes me a businessman, get it right sister."

"How the fu-" Sofía begins."You know what? I'm not about to argue with a child." She says getting irritated.

"A child? I am not a child. You're a child. How old are you, 12?" Cèsar says looking at her through the rear view mirror.

"20, asshole."

"You don't act like it."

"I'm abo-" Sofía spats getting ready to take off her seat belt.

"Ladies, ladies. You're both beautiful. Can you guys calm down now?" I say annoyed with their bickering.

"Where are we going anyway?" Bella asks Cèsar.

"To an abandoned building." He answered.

"And how exactly did you find them so quickly?" I ask giving him a glance considering I was in the passenger seat while Bella and Sofía were in the back seat.

"With a tracking device, duh."

"How did you manage to put a tracking device on Adriano?" Bella asks with a face full of shock.

"I didn't. He would kill me. So I put a tracking device on the dumbest one." He says releasing a bubbly laugh.

"And who was that?" Sofía chuckles.

"Matteo."

Releasing out a gasp, Sofía shouts out, "Hey! My boyfriend is not dumb!"

"You sure, babygirl? Your boyfriend is about as dumb as a sack rocks." He says in an obvious tone.

"No he isn't."

"Yes he is. I put the tracking device in his drink."

"No one would be able to know that."

"It was flashing red and green. His drink was clear."

"Ok, he's got a point." I chime in.

"Yeah, yeah whatever"

Pulling into a creepy parking lot, Cèsar stops the car a good 10ft away from the abandoned building.

"Ok, we're here. This the plan,"Pulling out an iPad from the glove compartment, he shows us a map with a blue dot and a red dot. He explains that the blue dot was us and the red dot was Matteo, of course. "It shows here that this is where they are. We are going to run from the opposite direction, and up this hill. It gives us a better view of everything without being caught. Got it?"

"Yep" We said in unison.

"Ok, we move on my signal. Here, take a gun just incase things get messy." Pulling out guns left and right, he suddenly stops when it comes to my turn getting a gun. "Mal you know how to shoot a gun right?"

"Yes. My dad use to take me to the gun range when I was younger."

"Great. Let's go." Passing me two black hand guns, we got out the car and waited on Cèsars signal.

"Okay, let's go" Running across the parking lot, we make it to the building.

Cèsar looks down at his iPad and starts to follow it, taking that as a signal to keep moving we follow closely behind him. Walking around the building, we follow him up a hill that's supposedly going to keep us hidden but also give us a clear view of what's going to be happening. Laying on our stomachs now in the tall grass, we watch from above for any signs of the guys.

"Now we have to stay quiet, or Adriano's going to know we're here." Cèsar whispers.

"Where are they?" I asked

"Right there. Look." Pointing to the left of me, we watch the guys as they are crouched down behind a giant wall.

"That's where they chose to watch Roman?" Bella whispers aggressively.

"Yes, now hush. Someone's here." He says quickly dismissing her.

We watch as two limousines pull up side by side. Getting out of the limos were Roman and the Dobrev brothers. I couldn't see the Dobrev's faces due to the darkness but I could tell they were tall and very muscular.

Looking down at everything we're able to see what's going on but not what's being said. They talk for a good 10 minutes when I see Adriano and the guys start moving.

"What the fuck are they doing?!" Sofía whispers.

"Are they trying to get caught?!" Bella says looking at Cèsar with eyes as big as saucers.

"Shit, shit, shit. Let's go. We gotta follow them." Cèsar says getting up.

Before we even got the chance to follow them we began to hear the sound of gun shots ring out from different directions.

Shit!

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Up above is Malaina and her outfit.

So, shots have fired? I wonder who started it first.

What do you think?

- Amur