Ace's POV

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I got her back.

I did it.

I don't know how in hell I got her to take me back, but I'm never letting her go again. I meant every word I said to her. I would give it all up without a second thought if I got to have her by my side.

It feels so surreal. Never in my life did I think I would be willing to give up my world for love. Hell, I never even thought I'd find love. Yet, as I look down at her, letting out little mews as she sleeps in my arms, it all seems so simple.

I always thought, if I ever found love, it would be all about giving. I'd be giving my wife flowers, or money, or gifts. Now I know it's not about giving, its about sacrifice. It's about sacrificing my good days when she has bad ones, sacrificing my work to lay here with her, sacrificing the world for just one of her kisses.

Now, when the sun rose, we were going to Santorini and ending this war. We were ending it so I could spend all of my time on her. For all I care, she is never going out of arms reach again.

Before the Capos went to bed, I had to talk with them and Oliver. Surprising both them, and myself, I apologized. I think it was safe to say I've been more of an asshole than usual, lately. While I was going to Santorini, the others were going home, to Italy. 

Hannah was, obviously, coming to live with me. Even though the compound was being rebuilt, I was finally ready to move out for good and turn my house into an actual home, with her. Ben and Sarah decided they wouldn't be moving into the new compound either, he actually found a home five minutes away from mine, that they decided to buy. Antony and Vinnie found an apartment in town and invited Oliver to move in with them.

Now that I was the Don, and back in everyones good graces, I needed to establish my team. Like all Don's, I needed an advisor, my concierge. Seeing as Ben loves to play therapist for every aspect of my life, and he's been my best friend since I could walk, he was the clear choice.

Don's have superiority over all soldiers and Capos, but they also have three main Capo's who are right under them and the advisor. They also deal with more important missions and aren't burdened with training soldiers. Antony and Vinnie were a clear choice, but now that Ben was no longer a Capo, I needed one more.

I have many Capos that have been here much longer than Vinnie and Antony combined, but none of them were the right fit. Oliver has only been a soldier for three years but, in these past few months, he's shown great initiative and it's clear he could be a great leader with more training. He isn't always the brightest but he was, after all, one of the few soldiers I picked. When I asked him to take the position he almost cried. He also asked me if this meant he would start getting paychecks, which immediately made me question my decision.

Hannah was pissed when I woke her up. When I told her we were leaving again in a few hours, I don't think she realized I was being literal. She was also freaking out about packing everything, and then got mad at me for laughing.

"Amore, I'm the Don of the Sicilian mafia, I have people to pack for us." I laughed, which only earned me a glare.

We all rode to the airport together and, honestly, I was worried. I wasn't worried about the war, per se, but more of the fact that Ben and I had to physically pry the girls apart on the runway and I thought a couple limbs might be lost in the process.

When we got on the plane, Hannah and Annika went to the back room and slept the whole way there, while Cixi and I stayed in the front and answered emails and other work we've gotten behind on.

"Ace?" Cixi asked from the seat across from me. I noticed she wasn't looking at her laptop but looking out of the window. I looked up at her signaling I was listening, before she responded.

"Do you think I would make a good mother?" I froze.

"Cixi, please don't tell me..." She quickly looked at me and frantically shook her head before laughing. I immediately let out a breath of relief. I thought I was going to have a heart attack.

I used to not want kids but I would be wrong if I said I hadn't been thinking about it. However, when I had been, I pictured Hannah as their mother, not Cixi. If Cixi was pregnant, I have no clue what I'd do. I would want to be apart of the kids life, but I also would feel guilty for bringing Hannah into a mess like that.

"Relax, Ace, I'm on the pill."

"Thank god." I sighed. "Why do you ask?" I mean, don't get me wrong, but doesn't it take two? I'm with Hannah and Kai is in the lowest realm of hell.

"Well, I don't want to remarry, but I've always thought about having a child. I never wanted to have one with Kai because what type of kid would be okay with their parent having an open marriage, plus he probably would've denied it was his. Now that I'm rid of him though, I can't help but wonder if I would be a good mother to a child, if I should even bring one into this world."

"Well, even I don't know about bringing a child into this world. For what it's worth though, I think you would make an amazing mother."

We got off the plane after three and a half hours. Hannah and Annika were slowly starting to wake up, but both of them were pissed when they found out we still had to take a ferry to get to Santorini. Interesting fact I learned, Annika has really bad motion sickness.

Each family has a home on the island, since this is where majority of the conferences are held. Cixi and Annika went their separate ways while Hannah and I went to ours. Since all of the homes are alongside a volcano, they aren't as big as most of our safe houses. They are however, one of our most beautiful places.

We decided we would freshen up and eat before we went to the meeting, which would be held at 2:00pm. Hannah showered without me, much to my displeasure. She said it was because it would take too long, which I took as a compliment.

By the time we were ready to leave, I was wearing one of my suits, without a blazer because it was way too hot here. Hannah looked gorgeous though. She was dressed in a business casual fashion with cropped black pants and a skintight white shirt that was tucked in. She did her hair and makeup herself which, the thought of it scared me, but it turned out really beautiful as well.

We ate at a tiny cafe and got delicious sandwiches and soup, which I was going to be sure to ask my chef to make when we got home. By the time 2:00 came around we met Cixi and Annika at the conference hall. In actuality, it was a church. What the church goers weren't aware of, was the meeting room upstairs where all of the mafias in the world negotiated.

The four of us arrived before Jack. Annika and Cixi were the ones that convinced him to show up while I was in Italy. He was very hesitant, especially because of my recently acclaimed title, but sure enough, he came.

"Ace." Jack said, standing at the end of the table close to the exit.

"Jack." I said from the other end. Hannah was seated on my right and Annika and cixi were sitting across from each other in the middle of the long table.

Even though I trusted the heiresses, we were all spread out equally. This wasn't us having a meeting at my safe house anymore, this was four mafias discussing how to end a war, all hoping to benefit. Everyone had their own interests to negotiate.

"Ready to end this so quickly?" jack smirked, sitting down. He looked around the table before his eyes landed on Hannah. "Well hello there, Hannah."

"It's Donna to you." I angrily spoke out, surprising everyone at the table. "As for the war, I am. I see no need for us to lose any more men and no need to the Americans to lose their last heir."

"Is that a threat?"

"It's a promise. If you do want it to come down to that, may god have mercy on you, because I sure as hell won't." Jack was silent as he tapped his finger on the edge of the table, thinking.

"If we do end this, what are you willing to negotiate? As of right now, I don't see anything that can compare to the loss of my brother. My brother who was murdered at your hands."

"Your brother came after me!" I quickly answered. Hannah gently put her hand on my thigh under the table, attempting to calm me down.

"Honestly, Ace, what the hell can you give me?" I was silent as I thought. Even though I never had siblings, I couldn't imagine losing one.

"I remember seeing you at the compound." Hannah spoke up, causing everyones eyes to turn to her. "You seemed angry, but there was also a twinge of sadness, misery even." 

"She's right, Jack." Annika spoke up, causing him to quickly turn to her. "I'm not saying you aren't qualified for the job, but this was never your job. The oldest sibling always takes over, the others get to live a mostly normal life. Hell, my sister has a part time job. Don't you miss your old life?"

"That's not important. My brother is dead, this is my job."

"Yeah, your job at sixteen, that you've never had to try and balance with your ordinary life before." Cixi added. "Don't you think ending this war would make things a hell of a lot easier for you?"

"Before I killed your brother, he said the Chinese were stealing your cargos. It was a lie, he was actually stealing theirs. What was in it?" I spoke up.

"Guns."

"Guns." Jack and Cixi answered at the same time.

"Why the hell did you need guns?" Jack was silent as wel looked at him and his eyes frantically met ours.

"Well?" Annika pushed.

"Because he was angry!" Jack shouted out, slamming his hand on the table. "All throughout high school you three were at the top, the best of friends. We had money, but James was seen as the outcast. When you guys graduated, he hoped things would be different. They weren't. You three still had an alliance like iron and barely talked or traded with my brother. When he graduated, he swore he would make you all pay. There are four top mafias, so why the hell was one excluded from the little friend group?!" 

"Wait..." Hannah spoke slowly. "He started all of this...because he was jealous?"

"It does make sense. The jealousy part is stupid but the rest of it is actually smart. He was stealing Chinese guns, then he tried to get me to go to war with him against Cixi, but how the hell is Annika involved?" Annika was dead silent as Jack looked to her expectantly.

"Do you want to tell them, or should I?" He asked her. The held eye contact for a moment before she guiltily turned to us.

"Do you guys remember our senior year?"

"Wait...are you talking about?" Cixi asked. Our senior year, Annika and Ben messed around without protection. She found out she was pregnant but she had a miscarriage before the child was born.

"Yeah." She mumbled. "I lied. It wasn't Ben's...It was James'." Cixi and I were both shocked, we never talked to James in high school, we definitely didn't know she slept with him. "I never told him it was his, but he did the math and figured it out. When he did, he wanted me to marry him, form an alliance, and raise our heir together. I told him no. He was so mad, he swore that he would destroy me and everything I held a title to. Before he died, he tried to get me to align with him." She paused, guiltily looking at Cixi. "We hadn't spoken in years and I didn't know what to believe. I considered forming an alliance and going to war with him, but then I found out the truth. He wanted to align with Ace to take out Cixi. He was going to have Ace so focused on that, that he wouldn't even realize James was undermining him to take out me."

We were all silent, all shocked. Annika should've told us everything from the beginning, but I can also see why she didn't. In the end, it didn't matter. James was dead before he started a war. If I never killed him, this war wouldn't have been as easy and he very well could've accomplished everything he wanted.

"See, my brother and I were never the bad guys, just the outcasts. All he wanted was to get revenge for his unborn child."

"So what do you want Jack?" Cixi asked. I noticed she gently reached across the table and squeezed Annika's arm, reassuring her that everything was okay. "Is this your way of saying you don't want to be an outcast?"

"Please, you guys can make all of the promises you want, you know that things would never change."

"Your right, you will never be anywhere close to being my friend after you took Hannah." I told him honestly. "However, to assure that doesn't happen again, I'm willing to be civil. I'm also willing to form and sign a contract with all of you that negotiates an equal and fair trade deal."

"I can agree to that." Annika spoke up.

"As can I." We all looked to Jack, waiting on his answer.

Truthfully, I don't think he knew what to do. What I offered was a fair deal, the only fair deal he would be getting. Jack doesn't know how to negotiate though. He also doesn't know his mafia's imports and exports. He isn't as well versed in this job as the rest of us.

"What if we gave you a representative?" Hannah asked, gaining his attention. "Someone of your choice that could help you to decide and negotiate things fairly for your mafia."

"Fine."

"Then it ends?" I asked, looking at him. He held eye contact with me for as long as he could before looking down at the table in defeat.

"It's over."

Cixi and Annika left a few hours after we adjourned the meeting. We decided that I would draft a contract, everyone sending me their desires, and then we could make changes if needed. It was going to be a lot of work, but it would all work out it in the end. It would also come to benefit everyone now that we're trading more with the Americans. We'd be lying if we said they didn't have some good exports.

By the time we left, it was already evening time and I decided to take Hannah to one of my favorite restaurants here. They served everything from olives to octopus to burgers. It was probably too much food, but I decided to order one of everything. 

We got it to go and I took Hannah to the roof of our house, where a picnic blanket and candles had been set up at my request. She was entranced by the sunset over the beautiful island. It was definitely a sight to see, but it didn't even come close to comparing to her beauty. 

While she was looking over the ledge, I walked up behind her, wrapping my arms around her waist as I placed a gentle kiss on her neck. She instinctively leaned into me. She looked up at me, smiling, before she pulled my face down to hers. To her lips that tasted heavenly, that I could kiss forever.

"I'm proud of you." She whispered as she pulled away.

"For what?"

"For being smart today, wise. I'm also proud of you for pulling that large stick out of your ass and coming after me." She laughed.

"I'll always come after you."

She slowly turned around before kissing me again, this time with much more ferocity. I welcomed it, I would always welcome it. I could never get tired of the way she kissed me, leaned into me, consumed me.

I carefully walked us over to the picnic blanket before shoving the food out of the way and laying her down. Thank goodness this was a private roof, away from the view of others. Even if it wasn't, I don't know that I could stop. 

I trailed kisses from her jawline to her neck, sucking on one spot that caused her to breath out my name as she gripped my hair. I kissed my way to her breasts, those breasts that have been teasing me ever since she put this shirt on. Before I could remove it, Hannah was quick to get on top of me, taking it off herself before she started unbuttoning mine.

She kissed her way down my torso after each button she removed. When my shirt was off I quickly flipped up over, getting back on top. 

"What would you say if I told you I wanted an heir?" I whispered, just above her lips. 

She smiled a big goofy grin before pulling her lips to mine.

I've always been one to cross the lines of right and wrong, even though it's come back to bite me in the ass many times. I've always thrown ethics and morals out the window, never giving them a second thought.

The only line I made sure to never cross, was the line between love and hate. I swore to myself I would never find love, never marry. Yet, here I am, with the love of my life. No matter how hard I tried, I ended up crossing the line. 

Things will never be perfect between Hannah and I, and I don't ever expect them to be. After all, there's a thin line between love and hate. 

I will always love her...

Just as we, and everyone else, will always be crossing the lines.

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