Vittoria cocks her gun and shoots straight towards the closet I'm in.

I manage to duck just in time, but that bullet is followed by a couple more.

It's silent for a while.

'How dare you come into my house and do shit like this!' Mimi screams.

Vittoria shoots at the closet again and this time a bullet hits my arm and I grunt in pain.

The doors swing open and I kick out at Vittoria standing before me.

She stumbles back and I take out the knife at my waistband.'

'You piece of shit.' She snarls.

Adriano steps forward and I turn my knife to him.

'Try to get involved and I'll stab you.' I snap.

Vittoria runs into me and my back hits the frame on the wall and it drops, glass shattering everywhere.

I head butt her and take the gun out of her hand. Throwing our weapons far away, I swing and land a punch on her jaw.

'Can't you all see she's manipulating you!' Vittoria yells.

'You and dominico sent Cora to kill me!' I yell. She grabs me and I floor her, sitting on top of her.

'Jasmine got murdered in the process.' I snarl.

'The bitch had it coming.' She laughs. 'She betrayed Dominico just like you did.'

I grab a fist full of her clothes and slam her back down to the ground, causing her to start coughing.

'Don't you dare speak about her like that.' I snap.

'Jasmine was a weak motherfucker who died like a pussy.' She spits, her voice laced with venom.

'You bitch!' Matteo cocks his gun.

Before I can say anything I feel a pain sear through my side and I let go of Vittoria.

I look down and see she's stabbed me with a shard of glass that came from the picture.

She pushes me back and my head hits the wall.

'How did you know she was here?' Zoya asks.

'Christianto?' Adriano replies.

'No,' Vittoria looks down at me. 'You have a rat within yourselves.'

Matteo throws me his gun and I shoot at Vittoria as she stumbles out of the house.

A bullet hits her thigh and her back.

She disappears and everyone turns towards me.

'You have a rat within yourselves?' Terzo repeats.

'What the fuck does that mean?' Alessandro raises his voice.

'She means that one of us is feeding her information.' Adriano crosses his arms.

'Can we talk about this when I don't have six inches of glass shoved in my stomach.' I snap.

'Oh shit yeah,' Zoya says. She looks through the draws and pulls out a first aid kit.

Adriano doesn't look my way once and a feeling creeps into my stomach.

I slowly pull out the shard of glass and breathe heavily once it's out.

'Wow she really knows how to shove it in there.' I mutter.

Zoya cleans me up and I look at Matteo's stone cold face.

'I need to kill her.' He mutters. 'I want her gone.'

'Who's the rat?' Terzo asks. 'Who could be the rat?'

'Fouzia?' Mimi asks.

As much as the girl hates me, ratting us out wouldn't do her any favours. Her divorce has already been filed, getting us caught would only result in the death of her ex husband.

'No,' I reply. 'I think we need to pay Christianto another visit.'

'Are you sure?' Adriano asks, still not looking at me.

'Yes,' I say. 'He might know something, even if it's small.'

'I'm visiting Eliza tomorrow.' Matteo says. 'My mom.' He doesn't leave any room for argument.

We all nod silently and Alessandro and Zoya help me up.

'Inform Lorenzo, Xuan, Alora and Amira about what's happened.' Adriano says. 'We'll figure everything out in the morning.'

I'm helped up to my room, all of today's events running through my head.

*********** 'So she said that there's a rat between us?' Amira says.

'Exactly,' Terzo replies.

'Do we know who it could be?' Lorenzo asks.

'Not yet.' Zoya replies.

Alora is quiet and Xuan puts a comforting hand over hers.

'It could be Xuan,' Adriano says tonelessly.

'For fucks sake, how much do I need to prove that I'm on your side!' He slams his hands down on the table.

'I don't trust you, and I never will.' He replies.

'We need to all trust each other if we're going to figure this out.' Zoya sighs, rubbing her temple.

'Alora's been awfully quiet,' Zoya says. 'Don't you have anything to say?'

'Excuse me?' She asks.

'You heard me.' She narrows her eyes. 'You've barely been around.'

'That's because Vittoria has been keeping us both busy.' Amira replies. 'First with the diamond Dilara brought to us, and with the captives, then Vittorias own nonsense.'

'Then it only makes sense for it to be Fouzia.' Alessandro crosses his arms.

I look at Adriano who clenches his jaw and doesn't look me in the eyes.

What's wrong with him?

'Terzo, Zoya, Alessandro, Alora and Matteo when he's back will take care of preparing the funeral.' Adriano commands.

'Me, Amira, Dilara, Lorenzo and Xuan will go see if Christianto knows something.'

Everyone gets out of their seats and does as he says. Amira comes next to me and gives my arm a small squeeze.

'How are you holding up?' She asks.

'As well as I can,' I reply.

We leave Mimi's house and get into Adriano's Range Rover and drive to where we've kept Christianto and Eliza.

We spot Matteo coming out of one of the huge double doors and I shoot him a small smile which he returns.

We walk into the base, this one has less soldiers than the others.

Adriano walks further in-front of us.

'How do we know none of these people ratted us out?' I ask.

'They're all under Adriano's lead.' Lorenzo explains. 'They don't know about Vittoria.'

'What we're to happen if Adriano died?' Xuan asks. 'Who would take on the heir?'

'Ultimately it would have to be his child,' Amira says, pausing and looking at me. 'But because no one knows about the biological situation here, it has to be Matteo.'

Matteo can break under pressure, he's not ready. Either that or he'll be the most unhinged and psychotic leader there is.

We follow Adriano down to the basement and see Christiant in his cell.

'Dilara,' he smiles, his eyes bruised. 'Miss me already?'

'No.' I glare at him.

He looks past me and at Xuan.

'Well, well,' he smirks. 'Xuan Liu, good to see you again.'

'Can't say the same here.' Xuan replies coldly.

'Vittoria told us that there's a rat within us.' I start. 'Do you know anything about that.'

'Why would I help you?' He asks.

'I'd give you better living arrangements.' I reply.

'You can't do anything.' Adriano snaps.

I narrow my eyes.

'He will give you better living arrangements.' I correct myself.

Christianto looks up at me from the mattress he's sitting on.

'Vittoria was right, you do have a rat.' Christianto says. 'But they're not currently in this room.'

*AUTHORS NOTE* Guys pls don't hate me but this is the last time I'm going to update until June. After that I'm free from school so I'll be writing a lot. Love u all and thank u so much for all the support.

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