Adelina's POV

I hear our hotel door shut and turn to Luka who was watching both me and Santiago cautiously. Neither one of the two of us was mad. I don't think we can actually get mad. But we weren't okay with what he did. None of us were okay when someone goes and does something unplanned and he went against a plan we made years ago.

"Luka, what were you thinking?" I know he was only thinking about our family and being with them again but we can't. He also promised to contact them again and we couldn't do that. As Unseen Nightmares, it is prohibited to associate with mafias and other underground groups. The leaders of the organization don't want us to be biased and want to make sure no information is spread about the organization to outsiders. It would also put them in too much danger.

"You saw their faces, how could I let them walk away. I can't keep doing this."

I sigh at Luka's words, "It's what's best Lu. They stay safe as long as we stay away." As usual, Santiago watches us silently.

"We are one of the best teams of assassins in the world, we can protect them."

"We don't even know who is after us and therefore them," Santiago tries to remind him of the countless times we've had this argument.

Luka throws a vase across the room and starts pacing a hand gripping his hair, "I know that. But I can't. We've killed hundreds, maybe even thousands of people for what? Money? There's no point to this. I want to go home to our family and you guys do too."

"Of course we do Luka but we know all the reasons we can't do what we want." I sigh and pull him into an awkward hug, I've lost any ability I had to comfort over the years. "Let's just get some sleep and figure it out tomorrow, okay?" He nods as he pulls away and heads to one of the rooms.

I glance at Santiago who was already looking at me, "In some ways, he's right Addy but we can't let any feelings get in the way of this. We do what's best and that means staying away."

I nod, Santiago may often stay quiet however when he talks he always has something to say. "How are we going to get Luka to understand that?"

"I don't know Ads," He looks as conflicted as I am. We both love Luka and want to protect him and forcing him away will hurt him but reuniting with our family has far too many risks. We both head to our rooms to get some sleep for the night, however, I doubt any of us would sleep much. We never did.

At five I gave up on the notion of sleep and got up to get some work done. We didn't have a plan for our next job considering that we just completed a mission and then worked the ball however as one of the more popular assassin teams we had to stay on top of requests sent to us and also keep an eye on the general missions board to make sure we don't miss anything. As an Unseen Nightmare team, we are required to take a certain amount of jobs and a majority of the required jobs are ones that requested your team specifically. General jobs were just that; general missions to keep us busy and for the smaller assassin teams; jobs to help boost name recognition and income.

Our team always had a lot of requests, not that we minded, so I had to go through and decide which ones we weren't interested in. Those jobs would then be either put on the general mission board or assigned to a different team. The rest of the jobs would have to be spaced out and planned to give clients a timeline however most people who hire us know that missions take a while to plan and complete so they give us missions that are months away so we can complete them on time. The last-minute missions always have to pay more to get a team to sacrifice their time to fast-track a mission. That's why so many liked hiring The Aces, they always sped through missions so they were always taking the last-minute jobs.

Many of the jobs given to us were the ordinary hits on the dark web. People wanting spouses killed. Or revenge kill requests. Then our favorite type of request: mafia hits. Every mafia used The Unseen Nightmares because the jobs can never be tracked. Typically hiring an assassin is risky nowadays but The Unseen Nightmares specialize in anonymous hits. Which means many target the assassin team who took out their loved ones or workers because only they know who hired them for the hit. However many targeted The Aces because of the extremes they often go to for their hits.

Our hits requests were all fairly boring, one from the French mafia was interesting but it was a request that was sent to The Aces first so we can only take it if they decline it and I wasn't going to hold my breath on that chance.

I was about to close down my laptop when a new request loaded in and I swear under my breath. Of course, they wouldn't fucking listen to us and are trying to force a meeting. We would have to take the request if we didn't want any shit from Nacht because turning down a big mafia request would damage the image of the Unseen Nightmares. Rule one in our organization is to keep the mafias happy.

I close my laptop and go to find Luka and Santiago. We need a plan for this and Luka will need to get his head straight. We are not going to be putting them in any more danger than they are already in through their business.

We were planning on leaving Paris soon so I am not surprised to find the guys packing when I came out of my room. We didn't have a mission but people knew we were in Paris and that was not a good thing because unlike The Aces we were not looking for a fight.

"The Italian, Russian, and Spanish mafia have sent a mission request for us to complete." The one thing that is sure to grab any of our attention every time is the mention of our family. With both of their attention on me, I continue, "We have to take out a small gang causing them problems in Italy."

"A problem they can surely handle on their own so it's a ploy to meet us again." I nod in agreement with Santiago and look to Luka who hasn't reacted yet.

When he didn't make a move to speak I look to Santiago, "We need a plan, and Luka can't be around them." It was for the best it was cruel but he needs to move on. All of us do.

"What the fuck do you mean I can't be around them? Fuck that they are our family! We should be with them fuck this bullshit assassin crap." I sigh his emotions are going to get him killed and us too if we're not careful.

"Luka calm the fuck down. We all know this is for the best."

Santiago watches the two of us, out of the three of us he is the most assured that staying away is the best course of action to keep everyone safe. I don't know his exact reasons but I agree with him even though watching our family from afar is the worst torture I've been through.

"That's bullshit Addy and you know it. Emotions are fucking normal not something to be trained away." If we were truly human that would be true however we weren't.

"Have you ever considered the fact that people will hire other Unseen Nightmares to attack our family in revenge for what we do?" I never put much thought into it but it was true most people avoid targeting mafias and you need a lot of justification to put a hit in against a mafia to the Unseen Nightmares and a revenge kill is a perfect reason. We may be one of the best, but hundreds of assassins are capable of killing our family and can't protect them all the time.

Luka pauses for a second then seems to brush it off, "It will be fine guys come on we all want this."

"It won't 'be fine' Luka we can't put them at risk." He looks angry but didn't continue arguing. "Santiago, can you make the plans me and you are doing this then we'll have to make it clear we're cutting ties with them."

Santiago nods, "What if they go after The Aces as well?"

If they were coming after us they were probably going to go after them soon, "Right now they are working so there's no danger but we can talk to them about when we next talk to them." He nods and heads off to get the rest of his stuff and I go and pack up mine. We should eat but I know none of us are actually hungry. We never were. One of the many fucked up things about us.

We walked out of the hotel we were staying at soon after without speaking to one another. Everything we did was rehearsed so it wasn't needed. Luka is probably mad at Santiago and me and Santiago was always quiet so the lack of conversation wasn't a big deal. We were heading back to one of the many apartments we owned throughout the world, this one was in Geneva, a nice neutral location for us as we take a break before completing our next mission.

We arrive at the airport without any issue, not as if we expected there to be an issue. Most people who saw us assume that we are rich kids on some daddy's money-funded trip. With our mothers all being related we had a few common characteristics so many could tell we were family and Santiago looks older than he actually is so we don't attract much attention from others.

Luka was uncharacteristically quiet which should throw us off but it didn't. I wasn't sure if we could be thrown off by anything anymore. We work while on the plane talking to Nacht when they checked in about our missions and attempted to contact The Aces. We then continued all the plans for our upcoming missions that we will work on in a few months. Unlike The Aces, everything we do is carefully planned which takes us a while to do.

Our apartment was on the more lavish side due to the fact that it wasn't a place we associated with our jobs and we all split up as we walked into the main foyer. I wasn't worried about what the others were doing as I headed to my room, well the room I used while we stayed here there was no personalization to it. It had its purpose and that was it.

Typically we would hang out together and maybe play a board game or try and watch a movie while we work but with Luka being in his mood I know that would not be happening. I look up when I hear a knock on the door and call out to tell Santiago to come in.

He walks in and glances at the book I was holding but not reading, "Luka?" I ask not wanting to leave him out or risk him overhearing depending on what this conversation is.

"In his room." I nod and wait for him to continue, "We have to tell Nacht about our family."

As Unseen Nightmares family isn't a common concept it is well known that all of us are orphans. Some of us have family but they are almost always also part of the organization. When children are brought in they are trained out of thinking about family. Emotions and sentimental shit gets you killed fast so it's the first thing they get rid of in the new trainees. Harsh but effective. "And why do we need to do that?"

He gives me one of his infamous looks and rolls his eyes, "We are too close to this to take the job and Luka revealed his identity." He wants Nacht to put a restraint on our family contacting us or The Aces. It's been done before but it would also have drawbacks.

I shake my head, "Let's get the job done first. You can go and get the first drop of money. We'll complete the mission easily and then decide who collects the rest. We tell them Luka has been switched out of our team and there is a new Čornyj on our team and leave it at that."

"You sure you want to do this?"

"We both know that it's what we have to do."

"Luka?"

I shrug, "Keep him away from it. Worst case scenario we tell Nacht and let them handle it but it's risky." Any involvement with a mafia is risky for us. Unseen Nightmares are assassins, not people any problems that can't be solved are eliminated. It's risky for us to associate with our family the only thing that would save us from being killed is keeping our assassin identities under wraps and continuing on as assassins. Those who try and leave die. Simple as that. And a lot of people want to hurt us so we would be thrown to the wolves. Our family would just be collateral damage from people we've hurt in the past.

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