Adelina's POV

Our brother's arrival home seems to have surprised our family members talking to us but I knew they arrived home at this time every day unless they had sports or another obligation. The older boys also like to stop working in the early afternoon so they come home all together often. I take out one of my daggers and spin it as I wait for the show to begin. We had our hoods and masks off so it will be easy for our other brothers to identify who we are just like it was for the others. Their voices drift into the kitchen and a few of the boys argue about some pranks and complaints about school. Everyone in the living room was silent, seemingly waiting to see what would happen.

It is obvious that they didn't tell the younger boys all of their plans so their reaction to us casually sitting in their living room will be interesting however we will need to leave soon. The longer we stay the higher the chance someone will figure out our connection to our family and if The Roses are the lost kids of the mafia then The Aces will automatically be the focus of suspicion for being the other three missing kids. The Nightmares and many other people in our world are aware of the closeness of our two teams and the people who trained with us know we are related in some way.

Unseen Nightmares can not disclose any information about other members however if questions come up they can insinuate things or if they are told to kill The Roses family without any further clarification they can interpret it any way they wish.

When their voices get louder and closer to the room I look at the door I knew they would walk through on their way to the gaming room where they all like to hang out. They don't seem to notice everyone in the living room for a few moments, still caught up in their own conversations. Leone was the first to notice us all and froze, setting off a chain reaction from all the boys all freezing staring at us. Valentino is the first to snap out of his shock and he runs towards Santiago like he was going to hug him however before he could Santiago grabs him and forces him down onto his knees and places a dagger at his neck.

I couldn't blame him. These responses to people running towards us were ingrained into our minds. We were trained to act first and think about it never. To be the perfect soldiers. Everyone froze again staring at Santiago who didn't even seem to notice he has one of his brothers in a position where he could be killed easily through various different ways.

Luka sighs as the silence grows, "Santiago let him go." He does after a second and slides his dagger away, looks over everyone, and then shifts back against the wall. Valentino looks at him and then stands up and shifts away back to where our other brothers stood. No one else tries to hug us or anything and my father motions for the boys to sit down which they hesitantly do with their focus still centered on me, Luka, and Santiago.

"What did you mean by danger?" Enzo picks up where the conversation left off which is as expected with him from what I know.

"We're The Roses and Emma, Emilio, and Ezequil are The Aces. We all have lots of enemies we've made over the years. Not to mention the other Unseen Nightmares, while no one would risk harming another Nightmare, other than The Aces, they wouldn't hesitate to take a job from a scorned person whose loved one was killed by us at one point or another." My tone was emotionless and so was I. We would leave before we would have to deal with any shit our presence may bring.

My father looks at us as if trying to piece something and we wait, "Do you-" he takes a second and glances around the room. "Are you able to get out of your," he pauses, "job?" Interesting word for killing people.

I spin my dagger, they were naive about so many things. "To put it simply, no. We can't leave no Unseen Nightmare has ever left. Even now we will have to leave here and continue to work."

"But that leader, Nacht, likes you, you three know them just explain to them and ask to get out along with Emma, Emilio, and Ezequil."

Luka smirks a bit because of their stupidity, "We guard Nacht we're not their friends. They are the leader, it's professional. We ask to leave, we will be allowed to, however when requests come to the Unseen Nightmares for a job-killing the three of us it will go through, and if requests don't target us they will target you."

"So you've stayed away from us?" Sophia murmurs, seeming to understand what we are saying.

I nod, "Plus The Aces wouldn't want to quit. They love what they do, killing people. They aren't the little kids who were taken from you. None of us are, but those three kill whoever they want for the fun of it. When we told you if you went to their room they would have most likely attacked you. The only reason they get away with all the people they kill is because the Nightmares make more than they lose with them."

Luka shrugs, "They would also just kill anyone who tried to control what they did too closely. Especially Emma."

I hum in agreement and my mother looks at me, "What happened to them?"

"We told you they were taken for special training after that they were completely different people." One minute they were the kind-hearted kids who found ways to love everyone then they came back and killed for fun.

I spin the dagger again and my phone goes off, Luka and Santiago don't react however everyone else seemed to have an avid interest in who was messaging me. I slide my dagger back into its sheath and slide my phone out to see a message from The Aces asking to talk in thirty minutes.

I text back and tell them we can talk in forty-five minutes. It was a good reason to get out of here anyway. "We have to go." Telling them we were leaving to go talk to their other three stolen family members would just leave them insisting we let them talk to The Aces and considering The Aces don't acknowledge any kinship with them as they do us it would just leave them planning unnecessary violence against our family.

I stand and Luka and Santiago follow my lead, "Wait!"

I turn to look at my father, "We aren't going to disappear on you and we will make contact with you again; however you need to stay away from situations like today it only puts you in danger."

He sighs but seems to back down with a nod, "Stay safe."

I lock eyes with him for a second and feel some sort of emotion attempt to show up but as soon as it appears it is gone and I turn with a wave, "Safety has never been a guarantee for us but we'll try."

We walk out the back door and into the woods behind their house. We easily avoid all the cameras and go to where there is a blind spot in their fence to get out. We would have to inform them about that later. We travel through the streets quickly avoiding cameras and people the way we have been trained. Once back in the car we go to the apartment we rented out and pull out one of the laptops.

Luka takes over setting it all up so that we can talk to The Aces in five minutes. We would use a secure video chat we've used in the past but he has to make sure everything is truly safe to use without anyone else listening in.

Soon enough the screen is taken over by The Aces faces. Emmy beams when she sees us, "You went on a mission, lucky ducks." She pouts then brightens again, "How many people did you kill?"

I ignore my baby sister's question, "We met our family today."

Emmy gives us a questioning look, "You're wasting valuable time where I could be testing poisons to talk about some fantasy shit."

I roll my eyes, "It's not fantasy they are our family and we can give you proof if you wish. The point is we want you three to meet them."

"Can we kill them?"

"They are our family, Emmy!"

"So detectable poison then?"

"Emmy!"

"We could just slit their throats," Ezequil hums.

"Or shoot them," Emilio murmurs.

Emmy sighs, "You're right we can do so many different things, how many members are in this family?"

"A family isn't some team you eliminate Emmy."

"Oh, but their blood might be quite pretty."

I hear Luka mumble something that sounds a lot like 'for fucks sake' but I don't acknowledge him.

I shift the topic onto something that doesn't make me see images of my family's mutilated bodies. "Where are you three anyway?"

Emilio shrugs, "One of our houses, we'll be leaving to go complete that French mafia's mission though."

We continue talking about work for another few minutes but soon end the call not having all that much we could talk about. We all split off to change and then we spend time setting up a messaging room we can invite our family to so they don't go off and do something idiotic again. Considering they are a mafia they are very stupid. Although it makes sense as one of the biggest mafias, many people are too afraid to go against them and that is why they are truly weaker than some other organizations.

The first thing we'll have to do is seal all their cracks if we want to have any sort of relationship with them.

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Another shorter chapter but I liked where it ended off and the next one will start with the family's POV and I will do my best to make it longer

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