(20 minutes later)

Elijah POV:

She has been on the shitter for a long time. Maybe she has explosive diarrhea or maybe she doesn't want to be with me and our families. Either one is a valid reason.

"I'll go see why Val is taking so long," I say.

"I'll go too." Luca said. We both went over to the ladies room and knocked. "Val... Why are you taking so long." I say. She doesn't answer. It's starting to worry me, we continue to shout until Luca just goes in.

"What the fuck... VALENTINA!". He screams. I run in after hearing him shout. I see blood splattered all over the floor. "That can't be Valentina's blood, right? RIGHT?" I shout.

"You go out and tell our parents of the situation and I'll search in here. Don't alarm anyone else out there" Luca says.

I nod and walk out of the bathroom. I go over to the table where they are all sitting. I just stand there, I don't know what to say. All conversation stopped. "Where is Valentina?" Stefano asked. I sigh and hesitate to talk.

"SPIT IT OUT!" He says.

"We can't find her. You better come" I say. They all rise, her brothers, my parents and her parents. We enter the bathroom and everyone gasps.

"WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED HERE?!" Giovanni said.

Giovanni's POV:

Elijah came over to us and told us that they can't find Valentina. I met her 2 weeks ago! She can't just disappear like this!

We get up and walk into the bathroom. There is blood splatter all over the floor.

"WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED HERE?!" I say out of rage.

"We don't know. She wouldn't just have let this happen." Elijah says. I see faint shoe prints of blood leading to one of the stalls.

"Check that stall!" I point to the one farthest away. Luca goes in "There is a very large vent that leads to an alleyway in here, Valentina could probably have been dragged through here."

"So she was definitely kidnapped.." I say.

"WHO COULD DO THIS?!" My father yells. It seems like a light came on in his head at that moment. "The Russians," He mumbled under his breath. He sprinted out.

"What did he say?" I ask. "I don't know," Luca says. Alessandro is in shock. He hasn't said a word. He just stands there staring at the blood with tears in his eyes.

"We are leaving. Happy birthday Elijah." Luca says father, me, Luca and Alessandro leave the restaurant.

(2 days later)

Stefano's POV: We have confirmed it was the Russians, most likely Anton Lebedevs doing. I'd love to kill him with my own two hands. One of my workers comes in with all the clues and witness accounts. It's kind of a better police. Police give up if there isn't anything obvious, but we continue until we find it.

Everything leads to one place, their warehouse a few hours away from venezia.

All I could think about now was how I was going to murder that fucker. I want him to have a slow and extremely painful death. I don't even consider there to be a chance that this is a set up. We've been observing them and their guard change is at 10 o'clock.

It's already 9. I run down the stairs.

"Go time" I say. Now everyone was full of energy and got everything at a moment's notice.

Me, Luca and Giovanni are the only ones that are going since Elijah would just shoot everyone including Lebedev, which is not what we want today. He will die of course, just slowly...

We get there at 10 and easily get in. I am in full on battle mode. We search every room in the warehouse. There doesn't seem to be any cameras which is very weird if you're not stupid to the core.

We get to the last room in the hallway. I open the door and see Valentina's hands and feet tied up to a chair. I just want to go hug her. Then I see her head shake vigorously. I suddenly noticed a vest, a bomb vest.

Valentina's POV:

I wake up to this horrible smell of trash and blood. I cannot believe my eyes. I look down in shock as I see the bomb around my chest. I see the door swing open and the bastard Lebedev enters. I knew it.

"I could get you out of this if you would only be mine".

"No, you are delusional Anton" I say calmly trying to keep my emotions inside. He could blow me up at any time if he wanted to.

"Wrong answer, принцесса(Princess)"

" I'll give you one more chance to say yes," He says.

"No." I say.

"Bitch" He mumbles. My face starts twitching for blood, particularly his blood. He leaves through the back door. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH HIM.

Well, I can't say I was expecting any compassion either. I suddenly see the door again. This time it's none other than my father and two of my brothers. At least they care for me. But I can't let them die here with me either. I start shaking my head, I can't find any words to explain this.

"LEAVE" I scream at them. They're shocked that I would tell them to leave as I am tied to a chair. They think this lowly of me I see. Good to know.

"What?!" My father says.

"Are you all fucking blind or just morons? Can't you see I have a fucking bomb strapped around my chest?!" I say. They are dumbfounded.

"No." They say.

"Do you really want to die here with me or do you want revenge?" I ask.

"Revenge of course." Giovanni says.

"Why the fuck do you think you can get revenge from the grave?" I ask again. They don't say anything.

"He went out the back door. There is nothing more you can do for me except catch that dirtbag" I say.

It seems like I am quite convincing. They're all whimpering though. They run through the backdoor.

Alright. Straight to work, they could have untied me... Huh... I start laughing. I see it's just a simple bomb. I thought it would be more sophisticated. I guess this so-called mafia doesn't know how to assemble a bomb that is a little more difficult than this one.

I can just about reach the knife I hid in a pocket in the back of the dress. Always prepared. I free myself easily and continue to cut the wires like a pro. I am a pro. Great I am free. I leave the front door. As I do that I hear a loud screeching sound and light so bright I can't see. I am thrown into the ground.



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