Beautiful Assassin (4 page)

 The Assassin

I heard the big boss man giving out his orders, he didn't know I
was listening, sniggers, what he doesn't know won't hurt him.

 He thought I was tucked away nice and comfy in bed. Of
course he'd done his best to see to that, but as amazing as the sex was, he
hadn't quite achieve his goal of knocking me out.

I was waiting to hear my name called, to see what he expected them
to do where I'm concerned, but he was playing it safe. 

He'd obviously called them as soon as he left the room and since
they were now stationed on the same floor in a room set up no doubt to spy on
me, I needed all the info I could get.

I was enjoying their frustration as to what was the best course of
action though I did take offense to being called a little rascal, until he
mentioned his ex skank, and what he had to say made me see red.

 Now I've been ignoring that bitch all this time, all the
snide remarks and bitchy looks and all the other bullshit she pulled when I was
at the club. I'd let it all slide, after all it wasn't my place...then, but
since Don Umberto thinks he owns me, threatens me with his kid and all manner
of things, what's his is mine. 

Plus the three old meddling ya yas decided to sell us out,
building their own little empire on our backs, so to speak. Sheeeeiiiiiit,
we're a team made in mafia hell.

That said, mob boy can't get mad at me for what I'm about to do,
we're partners after all.

Right?

Prince of The City

"She's gone."

"What?" 

"Arianna, she's not in the apartment." 

"How do you know, you didn't even leave the room." 

"I just know, we're like connected or some shit. 

I pulled out my phone to call her other detail out on the street,
she'd fooled me once, not gonna happen again plus I knew her hardheaded ass
wouldn't stay still for too long.

I'd known she was feigning sleep when I left her well fucked ass
in my bed, what I didn't know is where the hell she was off to now.

"You got her?" 

"Yeah, right on her, I don't think she made us... yet, if she
does what do we do?"

"Nothing, you stay on her until she's back here. Where's she
off to anyway?"

"It looks like she's heading to the club, she's walking kind
of fast, looks kinda pissed."

"I'm heading out, keep her in your sights at all times, you
guys got the picture of this Joey fingers fuck right so be on the lookout for
him.

I hung up with them and turned to Alec and Zane. 

"Let's go round up my little hellion, I doubt she's going to
the club to work so Lord knows what she's up to."

They looked like they were fighting laughter, fuck, I'm surrounded
by comedians, first the two sisters in law, now these two. 

My phone beeped just as we jumped into my car.

 My boy Dominic calling me with the news that Mouth had
indeed entered the club; I was only about three minutes behind her.

I didn't see her anywhere on the floor and no one mentioned her as
I exchanged greetings with the staff as I passed them.

I didn't bother asking anyone if they'd seen her, If she'd wanted
to be recognized they would've noticed her entrance, not knowing why she was
here I thought it prudent to keep her presence a secret just in case.

Alec and Zane brought up the rear as we headed towards the offices
in the back.

We heard her before we saw her.

I held my hand up for them to stop and wait; we crept forward towards
the door of Ricci's office that was slightly cracked open giving us enough room
to see the two women inside.

"So what was your plan skank, get me out of the way so you
can have him, how stupid can you be, if he'd wanted your psychotic ass he would
be with you, not me."

Damn my baby was being all female, didn't know she had it in her.
So that's what she was doing, I'll have to be more careful in the future if I
had something I wanted kept from her, like drugging her ass to sleep so I could
have a conversation in peace. Little sneak.

"Well if you hadn't shown up and thrown yourself at him we
would be together now."

"Do you even hear yourself, what kind of fucked up shit are
you on, seriously if he loved you it wouldn't matter who came on the scene he'd
still be with you, besides didn't he drop your ass long before I came
along?" 

"That was just temporary..." 

"What the fuck ever Alex Forrest."

 "Who?" Ricci looked lost as fuck, that'll happen
if you got caught up in conversation with the mouthy one.

"You ever seen Fatal Attraction?"

"You're so juvenile, I don't know what he could possibly see
in you, in fact I bet if your father wasn't some big time mobster he'd never
have given you the time of day."

She clapped her hand over her mouth as if to pull the words back
in. 

Too late.

"How did you know that? No one here knows about that so how
do you?" 

"I don't know what you're talking about of course everyone
knows I must've heard it from one of the others.

"No you didn't, who've you been talking to about me what else
you've been up to? That James guy is an easy mark for a tramp like you, who
else did you trap with your funky coochie?"

"How dare you, you little bitch." 

"We can't all be Amazons lurch; now back to how you knew
about my dad."

Teresa suddenly was all smiles, like she knew something that no
one else did. I didn't like that shit.

"We found it out James and I, we also found out that your old
man is dead and you're his heir but there are some who want you dead. So I
placed some calls and let it slip, anonymously of course, that you're here, but
it looks like I didn't need their fancy hit man after all, I'll get to do you
in myself and collect the money anyway, nice bonus."

She pulled a silver semiautomatic glock from her drawer and
pointed it at Mouth.

What the fuck?

I moved quickly into the room but Mouth was faster.

 She moved so fast it was like a blur, her hands and feet in
constant motion, when it was all said and done Teresa laid on the floor with a
broken neck, the gun was in Mouth's hand and I still didn't know what had
happened. Fuck me I'm so screwed.

 My crazy fucking fiancé looked down at the no longer
breathing woman on the floor and said "Oh by the way, you're fired."

"Fuck boss where did you find her, Moussad?"

 "What?" I turned to Alec and Zane who I'd somehow
forgotten was there, I was still trying to get my breathing back under control
and my heart to go the fuck back where it belonged. This girl was going to be
the death of me no joke.

"That's Krav Maga, I think we need to renegotiate boss, how
long did you say you needed us on her?"

"Oops."

This from the nut who just realized that she had company.

"Oops? Oops? That's it mouth, for fucks sake you just took
ten years off my fucking life. I'm locking your ass away somewhere, somebody
somewhere must've made something that can keep your ass secured"

 The Assassin

At first I thought he was just pissed and I was about to let him
have it, until I saw the real fear in his eyes, he was terrified.

"I was never in any danger Shane." 

I ran my hand up and down his back soothingly; I could feel the
pounding of his heart through his jacket.

Fuck, I'd really scared him.

"Take care of that."

He ordered his team before dragging me out of the room.

We took the emergency exit out the back and he had his phone to
his ear as we went around the side of the building.

"Any sign of this fuck yet?"

I guess that was a negative because he hung up the phone with a
furtive 'fuck'.

I was gently placed in the front seat of the car he had waiting, my
seat belt buckled for me before he climbed into the driver's side.

All this was done with not one word to me, I kept watching him out
the side if my eye as we drove through the empty streets.

We drove into the underground garage; I was once again helped
out of the car, all the way up in the elevator he kept his hand in the small of
my back but he didn't look at me and didn't speak.

"Shane..."

"Ssh...."

He kissed me then like I was his last link to life, like he needed
me more than air, it was a toe curling, and heart consuming kiss and it scared
the crap out of me.

He was not acting the way I expected him to.

Back in the apartment he walked straight to the en suite bathroom
and ran a bath.

I sat on the side of the bed confounded. What the hell was going
on?

He undressed me and led me into the bathroom, still not a sound.

Helping me into the tub, he got undressed and climbed in behind
me, drawing me back against his chest.

His hands came under my arms to rest on my stomach and with a deep
sigh, he laid his head back.

My Body stayed stiff for all of two minutes more before I relaxed.

As we got ready for bed, still in total silence I kept calling his
name, he kept kissing me into silence. 

In bed he drew my body under his, his lips traveling from my neck
down to my nipple, where he licked and sucked me until it was rock hard before
moving onto the other one.

His large hand made its way down between my thighs, two big
fingers moving in and out of me as he made love to my breasts with his mouth.

Lifting his head he took my lips in a kiss as his fingers
quickened their pace inside me. When I came, it was long and soft and sweet.

When he climbed on top of me and entered me with our eyes held, it
was beautiful magic.

"I love you Arianna."

"I love you too Shane."

Our bodies moved together in perfect sync, his hands on my body
bringing me to fever pitch, his softly whispered words of love going straight
to my heart.

"There's no one more beautiful or more desirable than you,
there never will be."

"Oh..." I felt myself tighten around him.

"I'm going to love you forever beautiful. Will you marry
me?"

He took my finger and the ring into his mouth and bit down as he
thrust faster into me. I had to wait until I could breathe again before I could
give him my answer.

"Yes...yes I'll marry you."

Prince of The City

"You're an assassin aren't you?"

It was morning; I had laid awake half the night thinking about
what I'd seen. The guys had called in to report that Ricci's body had been
disposed of. 

We'd had someone pretending to be Teresa call upstairs to say she
wasn't feeling well and that I was sending a replacement, I had one of my
other managers go in to finish out the shift. 

No one was any the wiser, after a few days I'd plant the rumors
that she left because of my engagement to Mouth I'm sure it wouldn't be too
hard to believe.

Now here we are still in bed, still wrapped around each other and
I have no idea how to deal with this shit.

There's no way you can cloister that shit, it's inside of her, I
saw it with my own fucking eyes. No matter how much she claims she never wanted
to be a part of this life, it was as much a part of her, as it was I. 

"Are you.........an assassin?"

 She looked at me for a long time until tears formed in her
eyes and rolled down her cheeks.  

"Dad thought I should know all the ways to protect myself,
there was always someone after us so from the age of five I've been trained in
most hand-to-hand combat starting with Tae kwon do. I know most of the Eastern
arts, I can dismantle and put a gun back together in under a minute and a half
but I'm still working on that.

 My specialty is the bow and arrow; I started taking archery
classes when I was about eight or nine.

My first kill was at fifteen; one of dad's enemies sent one of his
goons after me. He tried to get me at school. I broke his neck with my bare
hands then got sick all over him, dad and uncle Al came as soon as I called
them with the cleaner.

They took me home and took care of me until my aunt Charlotte got
there then she took over. We never talked about it, only at night when the
nightmares chased me from sleep; dad would hold me and rock me until I calmed
down again.

After that I made a promise, I'd only kill to protect myself or my
own, I don't like it Shane, I hate it, every time I've done it I've lost a part
of myself, but there's something inside me that whenever one of my loved ones
are in danger, I go into this other place in my head.

I lost my mom I won't lose anyone else I won't lose you."

She hugged me tightly as I put together the words she'd said.
Fucking killing machine, what the fuck?

 I wonder if she realized she'd just described a stone cold
killer? The zone she was trying to describe, that place she went to in her
head, the kill zone.

And it was my job to tame that shit, fuck my life, I'd rather take
on the fucks who were out to get me than try to keep this one chained.

Fucking Mouth, she looked so fucking innocent too, the girl barely
reached my chin, but what I'd seen last night, fuck, if I wasn't getting out of
the business I'd hire her. I wasn't telling her that shit though she was a
handful already no sense in encouraging her murdering ass.

I wonder if Poppy knew about her special talents? I wouldn't put
it past him, with her being a silent killer and me being the fuck the
morherfuckers type, they had a match made in mafia heaven.

One thing was for damn sure, I had to hurry up and get my shit
together before mouth killed off half the fucking city.