Chapter 42

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(An error had occured earlier due to which the chapter got unpublished.)

Recap

I look around the cell to contemplate my next move but it would alert them if I tried to enter and there is too much distance between Lorenzo and me, which is why he will get to know before I reach there. I look at Lorenzo whose fingers reach the trigger and suddenly, as I open the door, a gunshot is heard followed by a scream.

Third-Person POV:

Pain shoots through Lorenzo's shoulder as he clutches it. Everyone else goes still for a moment except for Andrea who goes behind Lorenzo and puts the gun on his head which she had taken from one of his men.

"Hands in the air and turn around slowly," says Andrea in a cold voice making everyone flinch at the tone, the guards try to come but her voice stops them, "Take one more step and I pull the trigger,"

As he turns around complying, she puts her free hand in the front asking for the gun. Taking the gun, she shoots both the guards without even looking at them while still keeping the other gun pointed toward her brother.

"Wow" Lia mumbles unconsciously,

"Andrea, look we can talk," he says in a calm yet pleading tone,

"I will give you one chance to talk," she says,

"I did all this because Maxim truly loves you," as Andrea just scoffs and gives a cold glare saying in an authoritative tone, "Speak the truth because right now all of my men have surrounded this building and that precious girlfriend of yours would be dead in the next 15 minutes if you don't comply," while placing the other gun pointing at his lower body making his body go still for a moment.

"No, I... I will tell you. I wanted the position of Don," he said urgently, "I want the position of Alessandro,"

"You are betraying your brother too," she says with a raised eyebrow, as Lorenzo picked up the distaste in her tone and gets irked by it.

"Don't judge me when you are not in my shoes. I am always the second, dad's second choice, the second in command, the second choice for don, and even the second choice of the girl I love because the first one is Alessandro," in a defensive tone, "Do you know how it is like living in someone's shadow no matter how good you are? Even the girl I loved approached me because she wanted to get close to Alessandro. Even though I know this, I can't leave her because I love her,"

"Sad sob story? Got it but I can't relate because I have always been the best," to which Lia mutters 'cocky bitch', "And seriously what does it have to do with me again?" Andrea says in a bored tone,

"Maxim and I had made a deal that when I give you to him, he will blackmail Alessandro to give the position to me which he will because he is fucking weak when it comes to the family, especially you. Another reason for him to not be the Don," as Andrea's hands clench around the gun due to anger but her expression does not betray even a single emotion.

"You were about to kill Ares, Lia, and Rhett?"

"I will not kill Rhett, he is my brother but I do need to kill Ares and Lia," looking towards Andrea with a look that is asking for validation,

"You are disgusting,"

"Look, I know this may seem bad but if you think about it, everything will turn out good. I am your older brother and you won't kill me so how about," as his hand lowers a bit but Andrea presses the gun on his forehead with force making him groan,

"You seem to be more delusional than I thought. What made you have this stupid thought?"

"Andrea, you and I both know that you won't kill me or Alessandro will never forgive you and others will not look at you the same. We have been living together since we were all born as family, you came just now,"

As another voice cuts their conversation him to it, "I can't believe it, you would do something like this," as he still had a few tears running down his face, "You could have simply talked about it,"

Lorenzo scoffs, "Talk about it? Rhett you don't know how things work in Mafia since you have never been a part of it but let me tell you, if you want something then it won't be handed to you on a silver platter, you have to take it forcefully,"

Andrea just sighs and says, "I am done with this shit. Seriously tho, out of all people you could have chosen as your enemy, it had to be me?"

"I was-" he is unable to finish his sentence as a bullet pierces through his head to which Rhett lets out a gasp. A few more bullets are fired to make sure he is dead.

Andrea finally looks to the side to find her brother trembling with heavy breathing looking terrified as his gaze is on the dead body of their older brother. Lia immediately goes to him and tries to calm him down. Andrea looks at the unconscious body of Ares as she taps the earpiece and says, "Come to the cell,"

"Yes ma'am," Angelo enters with a stoic face but it wavers for a second seeing the scene in front of him. He looks at Andrea like he meet his idol and gives her a thumbs up after seeing the dead body.

"Take Ares to the hospital and don't leave his side. I will be behind you,"

"Yes ma'am," as he picks Ares up and leaves the cell. Andrea looks at Rhett who is still shaken up by everything. She tries to take a step to see his reaction but seeing that he is still in a trance, she moves forward and reaches out for him. He is broken from the trance that had trapped him as soon as Andrea sits down and touches his hand.

He looks at her with a blurred gaze and tears fall, making Andrea's gaze soften but they go blank again. He throws his arms around her and starts apologizing with hiccups caused by crying, "I am so sorry. I seriously did not know about this. Please don't hate me, please don't," hearing this her fist clench on the side as Lia takes Andrea's hands and places it around Rhett.

Andrea glares at her but Lia simply waves with a grin on her face and leaves the cell. "Calm down," to which Rhett pulls away and tries to even out his breathing which is the most difficult task after crying. Andrea's gaze fell on blood coming out of a gash on his hand as she grabs it to which he hisses, "How did this happen?"

"A guard did this with his knife," he says while looking down,

She stands up and says, "We are going to the hospital," while giving him a hand to stand up. She taps on the earpiece and says, "Take care of the body,"

"Yes ma'am," as she leaves with Rhett, who gives a last glance at his brother warily before following his sister.

As they reach the car, Lia is already seated in it. All three of them go to the hospital and after the doctors start attending Lia and Rhett, she straight goes toward Ares's room.

She sees two men from Angelo's team standing there who greet her as she enters the room to find the doctor discussing something with Angelo. Both of their heads snap towards her, "Why is he not awake by now?"

"The amount of drug given to him was high," the doctor from the last time says, "And he was not taking the medicines prescribed by me but rather they were some drugs which makes his body weaker," handing her the reports which she goes through properly.

"How long will it take for him to wake?"

"He can wake up anytime now but I should warn you that if he would have taken those drugs for a few more weeks, it might have had life-threatening results, "

"I will keep that in mind,"

"His hand," Angelo suddenly shouts pointing at Ares, "His hand moved,"

As Ares opens his eyes slowly. They adjust to the light, only to find a buff Afro guy hovering over him. Seeing this, he screamed and the Afro also jumped back.

"Damn it, Angelo," Ares says clutching his chest with accusatory eyes, "What the fuck are you trying to do?"

"Don't give me those eyes, damsel in distress," Angelo says with a smirk,

"Don't call me that," Ares says with gritted teeth,

"What? Damsel in distress? Well, I am the one who saved your ass, more like the boss did but still, I assisted her. Me," Angelo says with a stupid smirk while pointing at himself, "Not you,"

Ares was going to retort as Andrea cut them off, "Cut it out both of you," to which both of them straighten. "You can go," she says to the doctor as he checks his condition and leaves.

"Are you okay?" as soon as he sees her nod, he fires another set of questions in a worried tone, "Where is Lia? Did she get hurt? What about Rhett?"

Andrea crosses her hands in front of her chest and looks at him with narrowed eyes, "They both are fine but we are going to talk about you," hearing her tone Ares gulps which make Angelo smirk.

"You can go, Angelo," she says nodding at Angelo,

"Yes boss," as he leaves the room after winking at Ares, and in response, Ares flips him off,

"Why did you choose him out of all?" Ares makes a face while looking at the closed door.

"Because your stupid self decided to blindly trust everyone around you and get kidnapped," she said in a bored tone.

"I am sorry," he says looking down at his hands, on his lap,

"Do you know that if I was late, you would have been dead," at this Ares flinches, "Yes, dead along with Lia? I understand that Lia may have swayed because of this but how could you? I told you to not get too comfortable with them, didn't I?" her deadly calm voice was scaring him.

"It was not Rhett's fault. He is not like Lorenzo. He is still innocent,"

"Still, you got kidnapped because Lorenzo used him as a means. Rhett has always been way too ignorant for his good and Lorenzo put the drugs in your food which you ate without paying much attention. How could you be so careless?"

"It is not that much of a big deal," Ares shrugs nonchalantly,

"Not a big deal?" Andrea says in a cold voice which makes Ares go rigid knowing he fucked up, "Do you realize the severity of the fucking situation?" she is met with silence as she continues, "Your medicines were switched and something could have happened to you if you kept taking it," she says with a clenched fist.

This makes Ares look at her as he sees the anger, the pain, and all the emotions that she is trying so hard to hold inside her. "Can you come here?" Ares requests in a quiet tone as she takes a few steps ahead, sit on the side of the bed, and asks, "What?"

Ares hugs her tightly to which she goes still for a second but relaxes. She doesn't reciprocate the hug even after a few moments as Ares asks, "What is it? What is it that you are not telling me? Why were you acting like that for a past few days?" she shakes her head, "Please Andrea, I am worried as hell. I am thinking of the worst scenarios in my mind, and I want none of them to be true,"

The door opens as they both pull away and see Lia, who sighs in relief and comes onto the bed hugging both of them making all three of them fall on the bed. "You are finally awake?" she says in a relieved tone with a wide smile on her face.

"Ya, but if you both don't get off me, I might not be able to wake up," they both get up as Lia apologizes.

"Ares, you won't believe what happened," Lia says in a happy tone looking at Andrea to which she just gives her a bored look in return,

"We got kidnapped?"

"No, you idiot. Nix shot Lorenzo," Lia announces with a stupid grin,

Hearing that Ares snaps his head towards Andrea in shock, "You shot someone? Did you have any flashbacks?"

"No, I did not even think about it at that time," Andrea just shrugs nonchalantly,

"I am so proud of you," Ares says with a wide smile,

"Not a big deal," she says in a dismissive tone,

"Not a big deal? I hate to admit it, but you made me question my sexuality when you shot the guards without looking at them. I mean that was just hot," to which Andrea just rolls her eyes.

"Okay, so she was saying about the reason for the past day's cold shoulder," Ares suddenly says after remembering,

"It is just about Katherine," Andrea says.

"What about her?"

As she shortly explains it to them to which both are silent as she says, "I did not know how to tell you both about this,"

"It is my fault for not checking on it,"

"I told you not to,"

"As if I have ever listened to you," Ares says with a snort,

Lia is unusually quiet as both of them look at her. She looks at both of them trying to find words but stutters in between due to disbelief, "All of that was just an act?"

So she also wanted something from me just like everyone else, Lia thinks.

"I will give you both some time alone," Andrea says with a rare understanding look.

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I DON'T WANNA DIE OR KILL MYSELF,

I JUST WANT TO DISAPPEAR

UNTIL I FEEL LIKE MYSELF AGAIN

(So, Lorenzo is dead!!! Do you think what Andrea did was wrong? What do you think would happen between Rhett and Andrea now? How will the others react?)


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