Hey guys! So I put a song at the top and I'll tell you later on when to start playing it.

"Hello?" he answered.

"I'm sorry, wrong number!" I said, as I quickly hung up.

I freaked out, he picked up and I freaked out. I was supposed to talk to him and ask him to come back. I was supposed to tell him how much I missed him, and that I have to see him again, and that Lia can't live without her father anymore. Why did I freak out!?

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"Lia, wake up" I said, as I walked into her room.

"What do you want mummy?" she asked.

"Come on get up, we're going" I said.

"Going where?" she asked, rubbing her eyes.

"I have a surprise for you and you're going to love it, now get up and let's go" I said, taking off her blankets.

"Surprise!? Yay, let's go!" she shrieked, getting down from her bed and quickly changing herself.

"Come on, I already packed everything" I said.

"Woohoo!" she yelled, running downstairs, as fast as her little legs could take her.

"Lia, wait!" I shouted, running after her, to see my her in my father's arms.

"Grandpa, mummy has a surprise for me!" she shrieked.

"Mhm, what is it?" my father asked her.

"I don't know, but I'm so excited!" she shrieked.

"Lia, go wait in the car, I'll be right out" I said.

"Okay, mummy" she said, as my dad put her down and she ran outside.

"So, what's the surprise?" he asked, looking at the suitcase.

"I'm taking her back to Italy" I said.

"But, what about Marco? Isn't he still a threat to you?" my dad asked.

"Yes, but I miss Dante too much and Lia needs her father. And I think seeing him will make her change her ways and act a lot better, and she obviously misses him and so do I, and I can't keep living like this anymore. I can't keep living in fear- of him" I said.

"Well then, please be careful" my dad said, as he hugged me tightly.

"I promise dad. And how about you get yourself a plane ticket and come to Italy with us, it's almost Lia's fifth birthday" I said.

"Of course, I'll book plane ticket and come visit as soon as I can for Lia's birthday" he said.

"I really have to go now, before we miss our flight" I said, grabbing my suitcase.

"Do you need help with that?" he asked.

"No, I'll be fine" I said, as I started walking towards the door.

"Au revoir, et je t'aime" he said, as he waved goodbye. (Goodbye and I love you)

"Je t'aime aussi, papa" I said, closing the door behind me. (I love you too dad)

~~~

"Mummy, can you tell me the surprise now?" Lia asked, as I got into the car and started driving to the airport.

"I'm sorry Lia, but it wouldn't be a surprise if I told you" I said, looking at her from the mirror.

"How long till we get to the surprise?" she asked, playing with her stuffed animal.

"Long, really long" I replied.

"Oh, well then I'm going to sleep" she said, resting her head against the window and closing her eyes.

"Sleep tight, my little angel" I said, with a smile.

~~~

"Why are we on a plane mummy?" Lia asked me.

"It's all part of the surprise, angel" I said.

"Do you think daddy still wears his necklace?" Lia asked, touching her necklace.

"Of course he does, we made a promise to never take it off" I said, touching my own necklace.

Cara mia...

"Do you think he still loves us?" Lia asked me.

"I hope so..." I mumbled, staring out of the window.

"What? I didn't hear you mummy" Lia said.

"You should get some rest Lia" I said, avoiding her question.

"Ok, mummy. And you still didn't answer my question" she said, closing her eyes and falling asleep again.

~~~

"I would like to book a room for the night" I said to the receptionist.

"Of course, just you and your daughter?" she asked.

"Yep, just me and her" I said, as Lia was still asleep in my arms.

"Here you are, your room is room number eight" she said, handing me the key.

"Thank you" I said, making my way to the room.

I opened our room and locked it behind me. I put our suitcase by the door and left it there because I was too tired to put it anywhere else and with Lia in my arms, I couldn't do anything as easy. I walked into the bedroom and placed Lia on the bed, I took her jacket off and pulled the blankets over her, so she could get some sleep.

I had booked a hotel room not too far from Dante's mansion, so we could walk to his mansion the next morning. I'm nervous and excited at the same time to see Dante tomorrow, I have no idea what to say to him, that's for sure. Well, right now I don't have to worry about that because all I want to do right now is go to sleep.

I took my jacket off as well and headed to the bathroom. I put my hair down and brushed it through. I walked back outside and laid down next to Lia, I pulled the blankets over me too and closed my eyes. Suddenly I heard a loud noise, from outside my room, like someone was trying to break in. I quickly got up to my feet and crept into the mini kitchen we had and slowly opened the drawer and pulled out a knife. I crept towards the door and looked through the little hole we had on the door and saw no one, but darkness. So I slowly and carefully opened the door. I looked around but there was no one there, not a person in sight. Was I just imagining everything? Was I that tired that I imagined someone trying to break in? I closed the door and made my way back to bed. I put the knife on my nightstand and got into bed. I closed my eyes and fell asleep.

"Mummy, wake up, wake up! I want my surprise now!" Lia yelled, jumping on the bed.

"Lia, stop jumping on the bed!" I said.

"Whatever, come on get up, I want my surprise now!" she shrieked, jumping off of the bed.

"Ugh, what time is it?" I asked myself, looking at my phone.

"I don't know, all I know is that I want my surprise!" Lia whined.

"It's only half past eight, can't you wait and let me sleep a little more?" I asked.

"You wish, get up, lazy pants!" Lia said, pulling me by my arm.

"Lia!" I said.

"What?" she giggled.

"Ugh, come on let's go" I said.

"Mummy why is there a knife there?" she asked, pointing to my nightstand.

"Because I uh- Listen do you want your surprise or not?" I asked, picking her up.

"Yes!" she yelled.

"Good, then get dressed while I go and do my hair" I said, putting her back down and heading to the bathroom.

"Okay, but don't take too long, because I want my surprise, you know" she said.

"Yeah, yeah" I said, rolling my eyes as she giggled.

"Mummy?" she called after a minute.

"What is it, Lia?" I asked.

"Why is there a man pointing a gun at me, in our bedroom?" she asked.

"Mhm, nice joke, I know you're just saying that so I can hurry up and I can give you your surprise" I said.

"No, no, mummy, I'm serious!" she said.

"Okay, can you please stop it now, I'm getting sick and tired of your stupid jokes-" I said, walking out of the bathroom to the bedroom.

"Mummy, do something" she said, running behind me.

"Oh my god-" I said, in utter disbelief as I saw who was standing in our room.

"You made a big mistake coming back to Italy, Ella" Marco said.

"Lia, stay calm, he won't actually shoot us" I said, as Lia started crying uncontrollably.

"Oh, let's test that theory, shall we" he said, as he pulled the trigger.

I quickly picked Lia up and dodged the bullet. I ran to the knife that was on my nightstand and attacked Marco. I grabbed the arm that he was holding the gun with and pulled it down and elbowed him in the stomach, making him drop the gun. I grabbed all his body weight from his arm and pulled down and he came crashing down from over my shoulder to the ground. I kicked the gun away so he couldn't reach it and twisted the arm that I was still holding and held the knife to his neck with the other one.

"Didn't know you could still fight" he said, with a smirk.

"Don't underestimate me Marco, especially when you just tried to shoot my daughter" I said, with fury in my eyes.

"I made a promise to Dante, and I am going to keep it. I will kill you or Lia, it may not be today, or tomorrow, or next month, but I will kill you one day or another, and I will live up to my promise" he said.

"Lia, grab the room key and run out to the main reception, now!" I said.

"But mummy, what about you?" she asked.

"Now Lia!" I shouted.

Lia did as I said, she grabbed the room key and ran out the door. I got off of Marco with the knife still in my hand and ran after Lia, and closed the door behind me, giving myself some more time. All I could do now was get to Dante's mansion and let him handle Marco, I may know how to fight but I stand no winning chance against Marco. I ran down to the reception to see Lia waiting for me by the doors, I grabbed her hand and ran out the doors. I could see that Marco was still running after us, and he was closer than I expected him to be. Does this guy ever give up!?

"Mummy, he's so close to us!" Lia shouted.

She was right, he was too close to us.

"Lia, you know where daddy lives, go we're only two minutes away from where he lives, go and get help" I said.

"But what about you, what if he shoots you?" she asked.

"I'll try and slow him down, I promise I'll be just fine, now go, I love you so much my angel" I said, with a smile, I turned around and threw the knife and hit his left leg, as he fell to the floor, I turned back around to face Lia.

You can start the song now:

"Mummy, look out!" she said.

Suddenly I felt a sharp pain in my back. He had shot me... He finally did it... He got me after years of trying. He got me and I was about to die right here right now, without even seeing Dante one last time. He must have pulled the trigger exactly after I threw the knife. I fell to my knees and blood started seeping out of my mouth. I could see the horror on Lia's face as she saw me get shot and fall to my knees.

"Lia, r-run" I stuttered, as my eyes welled up with tears.

"N-no, I'm not l-leaving you" she stuttered, as tears rolled down her cheeks.

"Lia, go!" I said.

"Wait- what was your surprise?" she asked.

"I wanted to bring you here, to see daddy again" I said

"W-what?" she stuttered.

"Lia, you asked me if daddy still loves us, I know he does and he'll love you forever, just not me. I want you to tell daddy that I love him so much and that there wasn't a day where I didn't think about him, and that I wanted to see him one last time, to talk to him one last time, to hear his laugh one last time, to kiss him one last time, to call him toi idiot one last time, that I would give everything in this world just to see him smile. And that I'm so glad that I met him, that I married him, that we went through so much together, and we got through it all because we had each other. Tell him that he saved me..." I said, as I grabbed for my necklace and gave it to her.

"M-mummy" she stuttered, as she took my necklace and held my hand.

"I love you my sweet angel" I said, as I closed my eyes.

Lia POV:

I kissed her cheek one last time, and I ran, I ran so fast. I had tears running down my cheeks, I could barely see anything, but I kept going, I ran, I had to get to daddy to tell him everything that happened, so he could save mummy and I. The man got back up and started limping towards me as fast as he could, but I was a lot faster than he was. I finally got to daddy's mansion, and I ran inside.

"DADDY!" I yelled as loud as I could.

"Is that Lia?" someone asked as the man that shot mummy came running in.

"DADDY, HELP!" I yelled even louder.

"What the hell is he doing here?" Alessandro said, as he grabbed Marco, but Marco didn't fight back for some reason, he dropped his gun and let Alessandro grab him.

"DADDY!" I yelled, as everyone stared at me cluelessly.

"What the hell is all this yelling about!?" my dad said, coming down the stairs.

"DADDY!" I yelled, as I ran up to him and he picked me up with open arms.

"Lia, what are you doing here? And where's mummy?" he asked, with a huge grin on his face.

"D-daddy" I stuttered, as he put me down.

"Lia?" my dad asked.

"She's dead," Marco said. "I finally did it, I killed her"

"W-what?" my dad stuttered.

"She told me to run, to tell you to help her, to save her, to save us... But he s-shot her... He s-shot mummy" I stuttered, as tears ran down my cheeks.

"D-dead? S-shot?" my dad stuttered, as tears filled his eyes.

"She wanted to bring me here as a surprise to see you, so she booked us a hotel room for the night, so we could come here today, but that man came to our room, but mummy fought him and we ran, but he followed us and mummy told me to run here and get you to help her, but h-he s-shot h-her..." I stuttered.

"I told you Dante, that one day or another I was going to kill her and today I finally did, after years of failing, I did it, I killed her Dante. She's gone, you're never going to see her again, you're never going to talk to her again, or kiss her, or hug her. She's dead because of you" he said, with a chuckle.

"N-no, she can't be d-dead" my dad stuttered as tears rolled down his cheeks.

"K-kill him!" Camilla yelled, as she ran to Marco, with tears running down her cheeks and fury in her eyes.

"I agree, let's fucking kill him!" Alessandro yelled.

"N-no" my dad stuttered.

"What!?" Camilla yelled.

"I'm not going to fucking kill him, I'm going to torture him till all his bone are broken, till all his blood has been spilled, till he begs for me to kill him. Take him to the warehouse Alessandro!" my dad yelled.

It was so scary; I never saw daddy this mad before. He looked like the devil himself. He had fury in his eyes. All his sadness had turned into anger and fury in a split second. I was even scared to talk to him, so I stepped out of his way as he made his way to Marco. He punched him once, twice, three times, four times, he kept punching him till even his fist was bloody. He was stopped by a few men, who grabbed him by his arms and Alessandro walked out with Marco in his arms.

"BURN IN HELL!" My dad yelled.

"Oh I will, and I'll even say hello to your dear wife for you" Marco said, with a smirk.

My dad let out a scream as he fell to his knees. I ran over to him and hugged him tightly. We both cried for what felt like hours, but it was only a few minutes. We stood there in each other's arms, crying as everyone else stood in silence and watched us.

"D-daddy" I said, as he looked up at me with broken eyes.

"Mummy wanted me to tell you that she loved you and that there wasn't a day that went by where she didn't think about you. She wished to see you one last time, to see you smile one last time, to hear your laugh one last time, to hug you one last time, to kiss you one last time. And that she doesn't regret meeting you or marrying you. She said that she will love you forever, and that you saved her..." I said, as I showed him her necklace in my hand.

"She kept it too..." he said, with a small smile.

"Mhm, and I kept mine too. We were actually talking about if you still wore yours on the flight here" I said, showing him my necklace.

"I never took it off" he said, showing me his.

"D-daddy, what are we going to do without her?" I asked, as tears filled my eyes again and he just hugged me.

"I don't know angel... I don't know..." he mumbled, so only I could hear it.

~~~

Dante POV:

"Lia, are you ready to go?" I asked, walking into our bedroom.

"Mhm, do I look nice?" she asked.

"You look great" I said, walking up to her.

"Can you braid my hair? Mummy always did it for me and I still don't know how to do it" she said.

"Of course I can, angel" I said, as I started doing her hair as gently as I could.

"Do you know what you're going to say at mummy's funeral?" she asked.

"Not even a clue..." I replied.

She reminded me so much of her, she had her aura, her big green eyes, everything about her reminded me of her, everything expect for her hair. She had my curly brown hair. I didn't know if it hurt me even more that she reminded me of her or not. It hurt knowing that she was gone, and that Lia reminded me of her every day, but at the same time, it gave me hope. Hope that I still had Lia, and that I haven't lost everything. But it still hurt, losing Ella hurt so bad, worse than when my mother abandoned us, worse than when my father abused me, worse than my first kill, this hurt more than anything I have ever felt before. It was like my light to the darkness was gone, she was the only hope I had in this cruel and awful world, she was my light bringer, the reason I woke up every morning, the reason I kept fighting. She was my light, and I was the darkness. We equalled each other; we were two halves. The light and the dark, the devil, and the angel...

"Daddy, are you ok? You have been staring into nothing for so long" Lia said, snapping me from my thoughts.

"Oh yeah, I'm fine. Let's go" I said, picking her up and heading to the main lounge.

"Who's that?" Lia asked pointing to a little boy in Camilla's arms.

"That's your baby cousin" I said.

"I have a cousin!?" Lia shrieked.

"Yep, his name is Elias" I said.

"Kind of sounds like mummy's name" Lia said.

"Yes, we named him after your mother, because I found out I was having a baby a week after you left, and we wanted to name the baby something to remind us of your mum" Camilla said.

"Oh, that's nice" Lia said, as we all walked out to the car.

"Yes, now we should get going, or we're going to be late for the funeral" I said, as we got into the car, and I started driving.

~~~

Dante POV:

"Would anyone like to share a few words for Ella?" the priest asked.

I walked in silence as I made my way to the coffin. I stood in front of it for a minute, still trying to wrap my head around the fact that Ella was gone forever...

"Ella, the first day I met you, I was supposed to marry you to keep the mafia going, so our name wouldn't be forgotten, so that I could keep my title as the most powerful mafia leader. I thought that it was a waste of time, that marriage was pointless, and that love didn't exist, but when I met you, I knew you were going to change it. I fell in love with you so quickly, I didn't even think it was possible to fall in love that quickly, but I did, and I fell in love with you. I decided to marry you for love and not for the mafia. Then we had our little angel, but you had to go away from me because of a bastard who ruined our lives. He took you away from me, but I promise you he will pay for what he did. I love you so much Cara mia, and I will never ever fall in love with someone else. Because now I know that... two souls don't find each other by mistake, destiny brings them together..." I said, as I felt my eyes well up with tears again.

"Can I say something to mummy?" Lia asked, running up to me.

"Of course Lia" I said.

"Ok. Mummy w-why did you l-leave us?" she stuttered.

"Lia" I whispered.

"WHY!?" she screamed, as tears rolled down her cheeks.

"I NEED YOU!" Lia screamed again.

"Lia, stop, please" I asked, as I placed my hand on her shoulder.

"I love you so much, mummy" Lia said.

"And I promise to love you forever and ever and ever" she continued.

"And I promise to take care of daddy for you" she said, as she kissed the coffin.

"Come on Lia" I said, as I took her hand and led her away from the coffin.

The funeral had ended in the blink on an eye, and it was only Camilla, Alessandro, Lia, and I that remained around her gravestone. We all stood at her grave in silence as we paid our respects. Suddenly I heard my name being called. I turned around to see Gabriel- Ella's father.

"Could I talk to you alone?" he asked.

I nodded and we walked away from the rest of my family.

"I don't even know what to say" he started.

"I lost her..." I said.

"I'm so sorry, I know what it's like to lose your wife, I've been through it. Don't give up Dante, Lia needs you, your whole family needs you. It might seem hard at first but if I did it, then you'll get through it too" Gabriel said.

"I miss her so much" I said, with a voice so broken it could barely be heard.

"I know, I miss her too..." I said, as I hugged him.

"Before she left, she told me to book a plane ticket and come for Lia's sixth birthday, but this is definitely not the reason I thought I would come back for- not for her funeral..." I said.

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Dante POV:

"I fucking hate you, you bastard" I yelled, burning him again.

"Do you think all this torture is going to bring her back?" Marco asked.

"No, but I'm making you fucking pay for what you did!" I yelled, punching him.

"You know that this is your fault, you had this coming for you" he said.

"It isn't, it never was!" I yelled.

"You killed my parents in cold blood!" he shouted.

"Your father was the cold blooded killer, and your mother was a fucking slut!" I yelled.

"They aren't!" he yelled in pain as I stabbed him in the leg.

"Your father raped, abused and killed an innocent woman!" I yelled.

"And you seriously believe Ella's father?" he asked.

"I believe anyone over you!" I yelled.

"Well he's lying" he yelled.

"And how do you know that?" I asked, stabbing him in the other leg.

"And how do you fucking know that he did!?" he yelled in pain again.

"Daddy!" Lia said, running in.

"What is it, angel?" I asked.

"I want to fight!" she said.

"What?" I asked.

"I want to start training so one day I can take over the mafia!" she said.

"But you're only five" I said.

"So?" she asked.

"Fine, I'll get Alessandro to start training you" I said.

"Can I do something?" she asked.

"Depends, what are you going to do?" I asked.

"This!" she said, as she kicked Marco in the leg, hard.

"What the fuck, child!?" he yelled.

"That's for taking my mummy away!" Lia yelled, as she stuck out her tongue at Marco.

"Lia, can you go and ask the bodyguard to take you back home, please?" I asked.

"Ok, daddy" she said, as she skipped out of the room.

"That's it, I've been torturing you for months now, I think enough is enough" I said, pulling out my gun.

"I'll say hello to your wife" he said, with a smirk.

"You won't because you're going straight to hell!" I shouted as I shot him.

Once.

Twice.

Three times.

Four times.

Five.

Six.

Seven.

Too many times to count.

His blood was all over the hard wood floor, I lowered my gun and took a step closer to him and put the gun directly at his head. He was long gone but just to make sure I pulled the trigger one last time...

Lia POV:

"Elias, I'm going to catch you!" I said, as I ran after Elias in the garden.

"Nuh uh" he said, as he ran as fast as he could.

"Elias, sit down on the grass with me" I said.

"Okie" he said, as he stumbled down and fell on his butt.

"Elias, what are you doing?" I giggled.

He just shrugged, I mean he's only three, I don't think he can answer me just yet.

"I'm getting so good at fighting, daddy finally let me start and it's so much fun!" I said, as I fell onto my back.

He just giggled.

"When I grow up, I want to be just like daddy! Scary and powerful!" I said.

"Mhm" he nodded.

"But I'm only six so I still have to wait a long time, but I can wait" I said.

"Hey baby" Alessandro said, picking up Elias.

"Where's daddy?" I asked, standing up.

"He just got back" Alessandro replied.

"Was he hurting Marco again?" I asked, with a smirk on my lips.

"No, I killed him" my dad said, picking me up from behind.

"Daddy!" I shrieked, as I hugged him.

"Hey angel" my dad said, kissing my forehead.

"Did you actually kill him?" I asked.

"Yep, he's finally dead" my dad said, as he carried me inside.

"Like really dead?" I asked.

"Mhm, he's buried six feet underground, so I'd say he's pretty dead" my dad said, with a smirk as if to show that he finally won after years and years of their ongoing rivalry.