FRANKIE

I had learned a lot a couple of years ago when that all had gone down and I shot and killed a bad man. The one who was really responsible for my father's death.

I've lost many good people I had held so dear to me for so long.

When I met Raiden, my whole world was turned upside down. Then when all of that happened with Giovanni and them, I don't know how to explain what came over me but, something inside of me changed.

After shit hit the fan that day, we headed back home and Raiden had contacted a few doctor's he has had come to help him and or his men out whenever needed and whenever they were wounded for many many years.

That night while cleaning up all the guys, I had started to ask Raiden about what Giovanni meant when he told my Uncle Frank about his sister and that both him and my father were responsible for her death.

He told me he had heard that she snuck into one of the bars they did business with the owners and she was underage and supposedly also had a crush on my father. They were young and this was before I was born and he met my mother.

According to what he had been told, many heard and even saw what went down that night and supposedly my Uncle Frank was trying to explain to Giovanni, before being shot at, that both him and my father had tried getting her to leave since they knew it wasn't a good place for a good and young attractive female to be in a place like that, but she had insisted on staying.

Somebody slipped her some drugs in the bathroom and she downed them with whiskey then soon after, overdosed and ended up dieing there on the floor of the woman's bathroom.

I couldn't believe how that whole thing was a huge misunderstanding and would lead Giovanni to seek revenge. There had to have been more to the story, but like Raiden told me, nobody knows if there was anything else and if so then all three of the guys including my father took it to their graves.

The only family I had ever known really since I was born were either dead from that gunfight or they just fell off the face of the earth. Which even if that was true I still am a little alert and cautious that at any moment they will pop out of nowhere and try to take me down.

Especially my cousin I had shot. But I feel safe with Raiden and besides, we left the states and are staying in a place he had let me pick out in London, England.

It's a beautiful Victorian home and I instantly fell in love with it and since he knew one of the best real estate agents in town, he got a deal on it also.

It has only been two years since all that bullshit happened but we have been pretty good at moving on.

Raiden doesn't really do much 'deals' that are dangerous like he used to and I myself have decided to open up my own little barbershop right here in London and have it set up real inviting and nice looking.

Things I feel couldn't be any better. I can finally see a great future between the both of us and can't wait for it neither.

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RAIDEN

I am one of the luckiest men in the world and am so happy to have found somebody who never has judged me and has accepted me for what I am. Not to mention has also been really good at making me want to be a better man.

I never knew women like that ever truly existed but she has shown me otherwise. She is an amazing woman and I have her all to myself.

I was glad she had chosen to move here to England because so many more people I know here that aren't so into the life as much that I was back in the states and so here it will become a lot easier for me to get on a better track for my life than if we were still in the states.

Speaking of getting my life on a better track, today Markus and a few of my men had planned to surprise Frankie at her barbershop. We even had her staff get in in my plan.

Today it was a very busy day in the barbershop but I knew she wouldn't mind a brief interruption.

So everything was set up and I got a text from one of her employees stating that now was a good time. So I then got out of my car and headed inside where she turned and looked at me and smiled as always, real big at me.

"Hey babe! I will be with you in a minute." She says as she finishes up with her client.

I didn't want to wait anymore. We both have waited long enough and there was no more time to waste. So I began walking up towards her and as soon as she turned around to face me, I was on one knee already.

"Baby, I..." She started saying but stopped as she saw I was on one knee. "Oh my god."

"Frankie, I've been wanting to do this for a long time now and just can't wait any longer. We have been through enough already and I'm sure will go through even more but, there's nobody I would rather grow old with than you. I want you to be the mother of my kids and the one our grandchildren learn from. My God, I'm no good at this so I will just ask....Will you marry me?" I finish.

It takes a moment as I notice her eyes have filled up with tears and are about to fall down her face before she finally answers.

"Yes." She struggles to say and smiles, sniffles then I place the ring on her finger and stand up before we wrap our arms around one another and kiss each other.

It was just like a scene from a movie and knew that she would love that. I am so glad she said yes and couldn't be any happier than she just now made me.

                      
                           The End!