Chapter 74

*POV: ANTONELLA*

Hanna hid the phone as soon as she heard the door open, she threw me on the floor and pointed the gun at me, so fast that I didn't even see her action properly, it even scared me

   "She killed Ivan and you didn't do anything, I'm going to kill her!"  Hanna said, looking at me seriously and pointing her gun at me.

   Amanda pushed her away angrily, helped me up, and then turned fiercely to Hanna

  "I told you, she's my business, get out of here! If I'd killed her, I'd have killed you myself!"  Amanda said, "Get out of here!"  Hanna looked at me and then left

I put my clothes back on, and Amanda laughed.

  "Blondie, it's that impact you have on people - they either love you or hate you, and to your misfortune, I feel both ways about you!" she said.

  "You hate me because I rejected you... maybe if you'd been kinder I might have liked you!" I said softly and saw the surprised look on her face.

  "Are you serious?" she asked looking at me

  "I said maybe, you and your friends have always been so scary, I'd approach you like that!" I continued to speak softly

  "You're trying to trick me with that sweet little blonde voice!" she said smiling at me, I almost rolled my eyes in disgust but stopped myself.

  "I'm telling you the truth!" I continued

  "If you change, you'll go to the cremation of the idiot's body with me!" she said seriously

  "Do I have to go?

  "Be quick!"  Amanda said seriously, and I went to the closet and got some cold clothes "You're crazy Antonella, put on a dress, it's not that cold!

   "Yes, it is, I hate the cold!" I said, getting dressed "Besides, it's your uncle and you have to be well dressed!"

   "That idiot was too late. If he'd known it was so easy to kill him, he'd have done it before and taken that shit over a long time ago!" she laughed.

  I looked at her with disgust, that girl was crazy and cruel, she didn't feel a shred of remorse when she talked about her uncle's death, which she had killed by herself, what have I gotten myself into, she was far crazier than anyone I'd ever met and my life was full of crazy people.

  "You're going to look great for my coronation with a scantily clad woman by your side, even though you're so infernally beautiful that you'll look good in anything!" she said "Hey, I'm going to be the queen of the mafia and you're going to be by my side to receive that title!

  I couldn't help but think that it was all so unreal that it made me think that being with the four brothers was so good that I should have enjoyed it more, I should have enjoyed the bodies and the pleasure they knew how to give me, much more than I did.

I could die at any moment and this regret made me frustrated, dying away from them and with this psychotic woman was something terrible.

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*POV: DANIEL*

I was furious with myself for not answering my blonde's call, if I'd known it was her I would have picked it up straight away. Hearing your blonde's voice was so good

But despite this, I'm really happy and relieved to know that she's okay and we're going to go and get her as soon as possible, bring our blonde back, and surround her with protection on all sides so that no one else has the idea of taking her away from us

Missing her was eating me up, that little creature waking up every day with that beautiful smile, to explore me and cook for her, was something that drove me crazy with longing.

  My brothers and I loved her too much and we weren't going to leave her unprotected ever again

  "I can't believe I didn't answer my blonde!"  Gabriel said, as frustrated as I was

  "At least we know she's okay, we can go and be sure we'll find her all right!"  Antonni said happily

  "My blonde, she's coming back to us and we won't let anyone near her, anyone who looks at her is dead before they get any absurd ideas!"  Adrian said nervously

  "Absolutely!" I said and my cell phone rang, I saw that number again and smiled as I answered "Hi, love!

   "Although I loved hearing that and you're a cat, that love wasn't for me!" I heard a woman's voice with a strong accent.

  "Who are you?" I asked

  "I'm Hanna, I was Ivan's security guard, we met a few times!" she said.

   "What do you want?" I asked without patience

   "You want the Brazilian, don't you?" she said

   "We'll have her anyway!" I said

   "I can help!" she said, "I can help you get her out of here!

   "And what would you get out of helping us for free?

   "It won't be free, I want the bitch who killed Ivan, and if you help me the girl will be free!" she said.

   "We'll get her anyway!

   "It won't be easy, Amanda has a lot of power here now, I can make it easier for you, as long as you help me get her!" the woman said.

   "We can make a deal and if you try anything you'll be killed along with everyone who crosses our path to our woman!" I said.

   "I'll be in touch soon!" she said

   "Don't let that crazy woman do anything to our blonde until we get there," I asked, almost begging.

  "I'll do my best!" she said, "In a weird, crazy way, she likes the girl!

   "What do you mean she likes her?" I asked without understanding, and the woman laughed

  "The same way you like the Brazilian!" she said and I was shocked and furious, this blonde of ours not only made us worry about the men on top of her but now the women too

   I turned off my cell phone and thought, if this woman is up to something, I'm not going to let it go.

  "Who was that?"  Daniel asked

   "A possible ally, or a dead person!"

I was getting ready for Amanda's coronation, she was euphoric, thinking she was a real mafia queen, it seemed like she was the owner of the world and that everyone owed her obedience

Amanda was falling right into my soft and understanding talk with her, it was torture to be nice to that bitch, but I would do it, so I could escape. If Hanna managed to get back at her, it would be my salvation and I hoped she'd make a mockery of that crazy bitch.

"Blondie, you look so beautiful!"  Amanda said, walking in. She gave me a strange look and I hated it. She had hoped that one day I would accept her as a partner and I would rather die than have anything to do with that crazy woman.

"We're the same, you're forcing me to wear the same dress as you!" I said, smiling, pretending that there was no friendship between me and this crazy woman.

"You're a thousand times prettier!" she said as she approached me, I stepped back and she laughed "You should be a bit more receptive to me, we could be the queens of the mafia, me and you blonde, what do you think?" she asked with a look of joy and satisfaction.

"I don't know if I'm ready for that!" I said, trying to maintain the soft tone I used to use with her these days, but inside I wanted to scream that I would never be anything to her and that I hated her with all my might, that she was a sadistic lunatic and deserved to die in the worst way.

"Well, at least you didn't reject me again!" she said, touching my hair, and I almost rolled my eyes in disgust.

"Since you're keeping me here, there's no reason to reject you!" I said and Amanda hugged me. I almost had an attack of anxiety with that crazy woman so close. Touching me as if we were girlfriends, I preferred death.

The two days that had passed since she had spoken to the four brothers had been very strange. Amanda had been kind to me and seemed to believe in my sudden change of heart with her.

She seemed very happy about it, she took me out and always wanted me to have dinner with her, it was horrible having to pretend to be so happy with someone who had done me nothing but harm and who was completely crazy.

When we arrived at the place where her coronation was to take place, it was in a place that looked like an old castle, there were lots of people, the sound was loud, the band was playing and the red lights gave the party a sinister tone. It was so crowded that it was difficult to walk

She was received like a queen, everyone greeted her and treated her with respect. Everyone wanted the attention of Ivan's replacement and she seemed to love all that attention

I didn't see Hanna, and the times I managed to talk to her were very quick as Amanda wouldn't let go of me, she told me that today would be the day she would take her revenge on Amanda, but I didn't know how or when it would happen, she didn't have time to tell me, Amanda spent almost twenty-four hours with me, she wouldn't let me breathe, everything she did she wanted me around, she was more clingy than the four brothers put together.

We went to a place that looked like an arena, we sat on a stand and Amanda took the microphone and started speaking in Russian and the people around her started shouting euphorically, I didn't understand a word.

"Sorry blonde, I need to prove that I punished the woman who killed my uncle!" she put a holster on me with two guns and magazines for the weapon." It's just a show, no one down there is going to kill you, but they will beat you, kill everyone only you will have a gun, don't waste bullets.

"What are you talking about Amanda?" I asked without understanding anything, I kept looking at the arena and I saw some men entering the arena, the place had some walls where the men stood.

"I'm the queen of the mafia and Ivan's niece, if I don't punish the person who killed my uncle I'll be judged, you'll be fine and I'll look after you if you get hurt.

"I'm not going to fight these men, let alone kill them!" I said, shocked by the whole thing

"Then you'll make everyone here happy, they can't kill you but they're allowed to beat you!" she said as if that was a favor she was doing for me.

"I didn't kill Ivan!" I said angrily

"Everyone here thinks you did!" she said

I stared at her in disbelief. That daughter of a bitch was crazier than I could have imagined. I'd be forced to fight several men twice my size, with a bunch of people I'd never seen before in my life, hoping that I'd get beaten up a lot or even die.