ASHLYNN'S Pov-

After the whole incident, the both of us rested at the bench for a while. My head was throbbing and mind was getting cloudy by all the pain.

I was pretty sure my shoulder wound had reopened and if my ankle was just dislocated before, it was definately broken now.

My already damaged ribs were worsening by the second and it hurt to take every breath.

There was a comfortable silence between Alfie and I but I could sense his eyes on me, even though mine were closed.

A few minutes later, we decided to walk back to the mansion as it was getting really late.

So we walked for 15 minutes in the cold and windy November night before reaching the house and walking in.

It was around midnight when we reached and thankfully, nobody was up. I really didn't have the energy to face any of them at the time.

I headed straight towards my room and got into the hot shower. After rubbing all the dirt off and just standing there in the shower thinking -and overthinking- about everything that had happened and could have happened, I got dressed into a comfortable night suit and walked out of the bathroom.

I opened the bathroom door slightly and saw a figure sitting on my bed. I quickly grabbed the knife I kept in my bathroom for emergencies and quietly got out of the bathroom while the figure was facing the other way.

I sneaked up behind them only to find out that the person was none other than my brother himself, Alfie.

I sighed a quickly slipped the knife into my pocket before he could see it.

He turned around to face me and asked if I was okay when he saw the alert state I was in.

I nodded and narrowed my eyes at him.

"What if I had walked out of there naked"

"You didn't." Was all he said.

"Do you seriously have no respect for privacy at all?" I asked, a bit annoyed, while brushing my wet hair.

"Well, as long as you're not the next super secret president America never knew it had, I don't think there's much more that you're hiding" he replied sarcastically but as a matter of fact.

"Don't be so confident" I replied in the same tone while smirking slightly and giving him a side glance.

He let out a soft breathy chuckle and pointed in front of him towards the bowl full of Mac and cheese. My favourite.

"Thought you should eat something other than....... coffee before you go to bed"

"Thanks" I nodded.

We both ate in silence and he didn't ask any questions, nor did he bring up anything about his car going up in flames because of a freaking bomb. And I was extremely grateful for that.

Turns out I was actually really hungy so I quickly finsihed my food and he went back to his room after saying our goodnight's.

After brushing my teeth, I finally went to bed and passed out the moment my head hit the pillow.

*Ring*

*Ring*

*Ring*

I groaned when I was bought out of my peaceful sleep by the continuous annoying ringing of my phone.

I pinched my left eye open and saw it was Ace who decided to interrupt my dreams of living in a house made of coffee and chocolate.

He's lucky I actually like him. Not at this moment though.

I had a mental argument with myself of wether I should pick it up or just go back to sleep, but decided to answer it when it continued ringing.

"Oh THANK GOD" his voice gloomed from the other side while I kept the phone on speaker besides me, my head still on the pillow and my eyes still closed.

"Geez calm down" I cringed at his yelling.

"Are you still sleeping ?" He asked in an uncertain voice after a good thirty seconds of silence.

"Well I was. Untill SOMEBODY decided to interrupt my joyful slumber by calling me like a billion times." I replied, very annoyed with him at the moment.

"Ash. Do you realize what the time is? You almost had me believing that you were kidnapped all over again." He sighed on the other end and I opened my eyes to look at the time.

The moment I did, my eyes widened and I immediately threw the blanket off of me and got up, but fell back down on the bed because of a stupid headrush.

"HOLY cow" I exclaimed. It was three in the freaking afternoon. I had a meeting with one of my company's CEO at 1.

"Well geez. Now YOU calm down. I already covered for you. Just wanted to check if you were still alive" he chuckled.

"Thanks. And how SWEET of you" I rolled my eyes.

"I know. Your welcome. Well, I gotta run. Are you coming by later?"

"Yeah, I'll come by later. We need to discuss a few things." I replied. I needed to tell them about the Spanish attack so all of us could be more cautious and plan our attack on them.

After scrolling through Instagram for a while, I got into the shower and changed into my baggy pants along with a plain black sweater.

Yes, I'm capable of wearing other clothes than my leather jackets. I know. Shocker.

I slowly walked downstairs, taking my sweet time and preparing myself for the shit show that's about to happen the moment one of them sees me.

I heard a heated conversation going on in the kitchen and headed towards it. The moment I walked in, they all quickly stopped talking and everybody's eyes turned on me.

And by everybody, I mean EVERYBODY. All the uncles, older cousins, Alexander, Lucian, Jeremy, Alfie and even the grandfather.

Basically, all the men in the family.

All of them were seated at the dining table and were watching my every move like a hawk.

I ignored them all and walked towards the counters to make myself some coffee.

I really wanted to see how long they could keep their mouths shut for.

I could see a few of them shift uncomfortably in their seats and pale while the others looked at eachother, unsure of what to do or say from the corner of my eye

Me on the other hand, was enjoying this way too much and had to bite the insides of my cheek to stop myself from smirking and bursting out into laughter.

The teenage girl, who might I mention is younger than all of them, who they all thought to be weak and helpless actually turned out to be the person the whole world fears and who also just saved their assess.

And that person is me. I was enjoying that moment way more that I should have.

After about 7 minutes, my coffee was ready and I turned around and leaned on the counter, waiting for the heavenly drink to cool down so I could drink it.

"How the fuck is this even possible" The grandfather- Carlos - Spat angrily.

I'm pretty sure the question was directed towards me but I refused to look at him and sipped on my coffee while scrolling on my phone and acted like I didn't hear him.

If he wants to talk, he's gonna have to get his head out of his ass and talk properly and show some god damn respect.

"Oh, and she's mannerless. Ofcourse she is" He scoffed.

I finally looked up from my phone and glanced at all of them, with a huge smirk on my face behind the cup.

All of the cousins were sitting there wide eyed and looked nervous. The older people also looked pretty uncomfortable and kept looking at eachother.

Alexander and Lucian looked at me with adoration, proudness and sweetly which made me gag on the inside.

Jeremy looked pale and as if he wanted to be anywhere but here.He avoided any eye contact with me and kept fidgeting his fingers. Ha. Not so cocky now, are we?

Alfie was the only one who wasn't on the edge like everybody else here, and passed me a small smile when I looked at him.

Dear grandpa on the other hand was shooting daggers at me.

Okay, I'll admit he looked a bit intimidating, but no where even close to how deadly I can look.

He looked like he wanted to punch me in the face and then shoot me with his pistol which he had hidden in the pocket of his trousers.

I rolled my eyes at him and sighed. "I know I'm pretty, but did no one ever tell y'all that staring is just rude?"

All of them blinked, as if I'd just broken them out of a spell and glanced around the room, terrified to make eye contact with me.

"Princess, we'd like to talk to you about what happened. I hope you can answer some questions we have and hear us out" Alexander nodded after clearing his throat and looked at me expectantly.

I raised my eyebrows at him, but when he didn't get the hint, I spoke up. "Well I don't exactly have cotton in my ears. So speak. I don't have all day."

"Are you really The Black Flower?" One of the cousins asked. He looked to be about nineteen to twenty years, but I didn't ask. Neither do I care.

This is a huge ass family and memorizing each and everybody's name is the last thing I give a shit about.

"Are you stupid?" I replied in the same tone causing him to furrow his eyebrows in confusion as if he didn't get what I was saying.

"The answer is Yes." I sighed and rolled my eyes when he didn't get it.

"How-...." One of the uncle's stuttered.

I didn't know how to answer that, so I just simply smirked at him - an evil and I'll enjoy destroying you- kind of smirk.

A shiver ran down his spine and he immediately looked away, not daring to look in my direction which made me chuckle.

"ENOUGH. YOU WILL ANSWER TO US PROPERLY. WE ARE YOUR FAMILY AND YOU DARE NOT MISBEHAVE" Grandpa dearest yelled, damn near busting my eardrums.

Who the fuck does this guy think he is? Just because he's gotten his way through life and everybody respects him, doesn't mean he can just go around yelling.

He's got way too much of an ego and it's gonna be the fall of him.

"No I won't and I'll behave however I like" I shrugged simply and took a sip of my coffee, keeping myself as calm and cool as ever.

Carlos on the other hand, his fists were clenched and his face was tomato-red.

I could totally imagine the smoke coming out of his ears.

The others looked at me bewildered like they couldn't believe I had just said that to the eldest member of their family.

"I don't know how you got the fame, but I bet you aren't even anything special. You, young lady, are just a cocky little teenager who's way too overconfident for her own good" He spat while giving me a look that clearly said 'do-not-mess-with-me'.

But me being me, obviously had to mess with him.

I smiled at him and took out a knife from my pocket and twirled it around in my fingers.

All of them looked skeptically at the sharp object in my hand whereas Alfie was looking at me in amusement.

He himself had experienced it when he tried to sneak up on me several times to know what I was gonna do.

After a few seconds of twirling the knife in my fingers, I threw it right at Carlos in a swift motion, not even aiming it beforehand.

Before anyone could register anything, the knife had already pierced into the wall right behind Carlos, missing his ear by half an inch.

Just like I intended it to.

I heard gasps all over the table and some of them rushed over to see if he was ok, but he ushered them off.

The knife was close enough that he could have felt it, but not actually carve into his skin.

He's lucky I wasn't in the mood to murder anybody right now.

"You sure about that?" I asked innocently, a huge dark smile on my face.

He gave me a murderous glare in return but didn't dare to speak another word.

"Yeah, that's what I thought" I muttered, but loud enough so everybody could hear it.

These fuckers should know better than to mess with ME.

After a few minutes of the torturous awkward silence, -for them. I was enjoying every moment of their misery- I was done with my coffee.

I took an apple from the fridge and was about to walk out when Jeremy's voice cut through the room, stopping me.

"What happened to William?" He asked slowly.

"His filthy ass stepped in Heaven" was all I answered.

All of their heads -except Alfie- snapped towards me and everybody had a look of disbelief plastered on their ugly faces.

"Okay, who am I kidding. He's in hell obviously" I rolled my eyes at my own stupidity and shrugged.

"My boy" I heard Carlos whisper under his breath in the silent room. It looked like he was having a hard time processing what I had just said and he was fighting the urge to break down right now in front of everybody.

Out of everybody in the family, he was the closest one to him.

William's parents passed away when he was just a toddler and he had been living with Carlos since then.

They both were practically each other's world and loved eachother to the maximum.

Well, until William became a psychotic monster and kidnapped him and his family to possibly kill them that is.

But do I feel bad?

Nope. Not one bit.

With that, I left the room, munching on my apple, leaving them all stunned to the news I had just delivered.

You know how in movies the grandparents are always the most understanding and supportive ones, even when the whole family is against the child?

How they're always the sweetest and kindest thing around their grandkids? Well, now we know that that just happens in movies and not in real life

For me atleast.

I walked towards the couch to sit down for a bit before going to the safe house.

My ribs were still hurting really bad, if not worse. My ankle hurt whenever I walked and the throbbing headache I still had didn't help a lot.

The deep wound in my shoulder didn't allow me to carry anything heavy or make accessive movement with my arm.

I'm pretty sure a few of my stitches had opened, but obviously I was too stubborn to go to a freaking hospital again.

Hospital and I are not friends.

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(A/N)

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